Complex Ecological and Evolutionary Systems

Andrew Jackson's publications

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Peer-reviewed publications

In press

Healy, K., McNally, L., Ruxton, G.D., Cooper, N. & Jackson, A.L. Accepted. Metabolic rate and body size linked with perception of temporal information. Animal Behaviour.

2013

McNally, L., Jackson, A.L. 2013 . Cooperation creates selection for tactical deception. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 280. Some associated media coverage: ABC Science

Viana, M., Jackson, A.L., Graham, N. & Parnell, A.C. 2013. Disentangling spatio-temporal processes in a hierarchical system: a case study in fisheries data. Ecography, 36(5), 569-578 doi

Donohue, I., Petchey, O.L., Montoya, J.M., Jackson, A.L., McNally, L., Viana, M., Healy, K., Lurgi, M., O’Connor, N.E. & Emmerson, M.C. 2013. On the dimensionality of ecological stability. Ecology Letters, 16, 421-429. doi

2012

McNally, L., Brown, S.P. & Jackson, A.L. 2012. Cooperation and the evolution of intelligence. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 279, 3027-3034. doi (Open Access). Some associated media coverage: Discovery News, Science News & Live Science.

Jackson, M.C., Jackson, A.L., Britton, J.R., Donohue, I., Harper, D.M. & Grey, J. 2012. Population-level metrics of trophic structure based on stable isotopes and their application to invasion ecology. PLoS ONE, 7(2), e31757. doi

Tanner, C.J., & Jackson, A.L. 2012. Social structure emerges via the interaction between local ecology and individual behavior. Journal of Animal Ecology, 81(1), 260-267. doi

2011

Tanner, C.J., Salalı, G.D. & Jackson, A.L. 2011. The ghost of social environments past: dominance relationships include current interactions and experience carried over from previous groups. Biology Letters, 23(7), 818-821. doi

Tanner, C.J., & Jackson, A.L. 2011. The combination of social and personal contexts affects dominance hierarchy development in shore crabs (Carcinus maenas). Animal Behaviour, 82(5), 1185-1192. doi

Dermody, B.J., Tanner, C.J. & Jackson, A.L. 2011. The evolutionary pathway to obligate scavenging in Gyps vultures. PLoS ONE 6(9) e24635. doi (Open Access)

Jackson, A.D., Daly, L., Jackson, A.L., Kelleher, C., Marhsall, B.C., Quinton, H.B., Fletcher, G., Harrington, M., Zhou, S., McKone, E.F., Gallagher, C., Foley, L. & Fitzpatrick, P. 2011. Validation and use of a parametric model for projecting cystic fibrosis survivorship beyond observed data: a birth cohort analysis. Thorax, 66, 674-679. doi (Open Access)

Jones, K., Jackson, A.L. & Ruxton, G.D. 2011. Prey jitters; protean behaviour in grouped prey. Behavioral Ecology, 22(4), 831-836. doi

Jackson, A.L., Parnell, A.C., Inger R., & Bearhop, S. 2011. Comparing isotopic niche widths among and within communities: SIBER – Stable Isotope Bayesian Ellipses in R. Journal of Animal Ecology, 80, 595-602. doi

Tanner, C.J., Salalı, G.D. & Jackson, A.L. 2011. Feeding and non-feeding aggression can be induced in invasive shore crabs by altering food distribution. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 65(2), 249-256. doi

Viana, M., Graham, N., Wilson, J.G. & Jackson, A.L. 2011. Fisheries discards in the Irish Sea exhibit temporal oscillations and trends reflecting underlying processes at an annual scale. ICES Journal of Marine Science 68(1), 221-227. doi

2010

Kirwan, P., Jackson, A.L., Asaolu, S.O., Molloy, S.F., Abiona. T.C., Bruce, M., Ranford-Cartwright, L., Neill, S.O. & Holland, C.V. 2010. Impact of repeated four-monthly anthelmintic treatment on Plasmodium infection in preschool children: a double-blind placebo-controlled randomized trial. BMC Infectious Diseases 10:277. doi (Open Access)

Jackson, A.L., Davies, C.A. & Leyland, A.H. 2010. Do differences in the administrative structure of populations confound comparisons of geographic health inequalities? BMC Medical Research Methodology, 10, 74. doi (Open Access)

Parnell, A.C., Inger R., Bearhop, S. & Jackson, A.L. 2010. Source partitioning using stable isotopes: coping with too much variation. PLoS ONE, 5(3), e9672. doi (Open Access)

Inger, R., McDonald, R.A., Rogowski, D., Jackson, A.L., Parnell, A., Preston, S.J., Harrod, C., Goodwin, C., Griffiths, D., Dick, Elwood, R.W. & Bearhop,S. 2010. Do non-native invasive fish support elevated lamprey populations? Journal of Applied Ecology, 47, 121-129 doi

2009

Donohue, I., Jackson, A.L., Pusch, M.T. & Irvine, K. 2009. Nutrient enrichment homogenizes lake benthic assemblages at local and regional scales. Ecology, 90(12), 3470-3477. doi

Kirwan, P., Asaolu, S.O., Abiona, T.C., Jackson, A.L., Smith, H.V., Holland, C.V. 2009. Soil-transmitted helminth infections in Nigerian children aged 0-25 months. Journal of Helminthology, 9, 1-6. doi

Kirwan, P., Asaolu, S.O., Molloy, S.F., Abiona, T.C., Jackson, A.L., Holland, C.V. 2009. Patterns of soil-transmitted helminth infection and impact of four-monthly albendazole treatments in preschool children from semi-urban communities in Nigeria: a double-blind placebo-controlled randomised trial. BMC Infectious Disease, 9:20. doi (Open Access)

Jackson, A.L., Inger, R., Bearhop, S. & Parnell, A. 2009. Erroneous behaviour of MixSIR, a recently published Bayesian isotope mixing model: a discussion of Moore & Semmens, Ecology Letters, 2008. Ecology Letters, 12, E1-E5. doi

2008

Jackson, A.L., Broderick, A.C., Fuller, W.J., Glen, F., Ruxton, G.D., Godley, B.J. 2008. Sampling design and its effect on population monitoring: how much monitoring do turtles really need? Biological Conservation, 141(12), 2932-2941. doi

Jackson, A.L., Ruxton, G.D. & Houston, D.C. 2008. The effect of social facilitation on foraging success in vultures: a modelling study. Biology Letters 4(3) 311-313. doi

2007

Ruxton, G.D., Jackson, A.L. & Tosh, C.R. 2007. Confusion of predators does not rely on specialist coordinated behaviour. Behavioral Ecology 18(3), 590-596. doi

Tosh, C.R.T., Jackson, A.L. & Ruxton, G.D. 2007. Individuals from different-looking animal species may group together to confuse shared predators: simulations with artificial neural networks. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. 274(1611), 827-832. doi

Jackson A.L., O'Neill H., Maree F., Böhmer B., Blignaut B., Carrillo C., Rodriguez L. and Haydon D.T. 2007. The mosaic structure of foot-and-mouth disease virus genomes. Journal of General Virology 88, 487-492. doi

2006

Inger R., Ruxton G.D., Newton J., Colhoun K., Robinson J.A., Jackson A.L. & Bearhop S. 2006. Temporal and intra-population variation in prey choice of wintering geese determined by stable isotope analysis. Journal of Animal Ecology 75(5), 1190-1200. doi

Jackson, A.L. & Ruxton, G.D. 2006. Toward an individual-level understanding of vigilance: the role of public information. Behavioral Ecology 17(4), 532-538. doi

Jackson, A.L., Beauchamp, G., Broom, M. & Ruxton, G.D. 2006. Evolution of anti-predator traits in response to a flexible targeting strategy by predators. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 273, 1055-1062. doi

Tosh, C.R.T., Jackson, A.L. & Ruxton, G.D. 2006. The confusion effect in predatory neural networks. American Naturalist 167, E52-E65. doi

A.C. Broderick, R. Frauenstein, T. George, F. Glen, G.C. Hays, A.L. Jackson, G. D. Ruxton & B.J. Godley. 2006. Are Green Turtles Globally Endangered? Global Ecology and Biogeography 15, 21-26. doi

2005

Jackson, A.L., Thompson, D.R. & Bearhop, S. 2005. Shape can influence the rate of colony fragmentation in ground nesting seabirds. Oikos 111, 473-478. doi

Jackson A.L., Brown S., Sherratt T.N. & Ruxton G.D. 2005. The effects of group size, shape and composition on ease of detection. Behaviour 142, 811-826. doi

Krause J., Ward A.J.W., Jackson A.L., Ruxton G.D., James, R. and Currie, S. 2005. The influence of differential swimming speeds on composition of multi-species fish shoals. Journal of Fish Biology 67, 866-872. doi

2004

Jackson, A.L., Humphries, S. & Ruxton, G.D. 2004. Resolving the departures of observed results from the Ideal Free Distribution with simple random movements. Journal of Animal Ecology 73, 612-622. doi

Jackson, A.L., Ranta, E., Lundberg, P., Kaitala, V. & Ruxton, G.D. 2004. Consumer – resource matching in a food chain when both predators and prey are free to move. Oikos 106, 445-450. doi