Dr Catherine Sheard
Interdisciplinary Fellow
- About
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- School/Department
- School of Biological Sciences
Biography
I am an evolutionary biologist who studies how innovations in behaviour shape trait distributions across broad swaths of space and time, particularly in birds and mammals. I frequently collaborate with linguists and anthropologists to translate methods developed in biology and palaeobiology to the study of human language/cultural evolution.
My Google Scholar page can be found here and more information about my research can be found here.
Qualifications
- DPhil Zoology2016 - University of Oxford
- BS Mathematics, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology2012 - Yale University
External Memberships
- Associate Editor, Global Ecology and Biogeography
- Deputy Chair, BES Macro SIG
- Equality and Diversity Advisory Group Member, British Ecological Society
- Diversity Committee Member, American Society of Naturalists
- Research
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Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Biological and Environmental Sciences.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Biological and Environmental Sciences
Accepting PhDs - Publications
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Usage frequency and lexical class determine the evolution of kinship terms in Indo-European
Royal Society Open Science, vol. 6, no. 10, pp. 191385Contributions to Journals: ArticlesTempo and timing of ecological trait divergence in bird speciation
Nature Ecology & Evolution, vol. 2, no. 7, pp. 1120-1127Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0570-y
The macroecological dynamics of species coexistence in birds
Nature Ecology & Evolution, vol. 2, no. 7, pp. 1112-1119Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0572-9
Flight range, fuel load and the impact of climate change on the journeys of migrant birds
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences, vol. 285, no. 1873, 20172329Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAvian egg shape: Form, function, and evolution
Science, vol. 356, no. 6344, pp. 1249-1254Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaj1945
Professional medical writing support and the reporting quality of randomized controlled trial abstracts among high-impact general medical journals
F1000Research, vol. 6, pp. 1489Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.12268.2
Quantifying species contributions to ecosystem processes: a global assessment of functional trait and phylogenetic metrics across avian seed-dispersal networks
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences, vol. 283, no. 1844Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.1597
Territoriality, Social Bonds, and the Evolution of Communal Signaling in Birds
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 4, 74Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2016.00074
Ecological traits reveal functional nestedness of bird communities in habitat islands: a global survey
Oikos, vol. 124, no. 7, pp. 817-826Contributions to Journals: ArticlesLoan and inheritance patterns in hunter-gatherer ethnobiological systems
Journal of Ethnobiology, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 195-227Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2993/0278-0771-34.2.195
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