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Dr. David Kelly
Visiting Research Fellow, Zoology

Publications and Further Research Outputs

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Kelly, D. J., Robertson, A., Murphy, D., Fitzsimons, T., Costello, E., Gormley, E., Corner, L. A. L., Marples, N. M. , Trophic enrichment factors for blood serum in the European badger (Meles meles), PLoS ONE, 7, (12), 2012, pe53071 Journal Article, 2012 DOI TARA - Full Text

Kelly, D. J., Corner, L. A. L., Gormley, E., Murphy, D., Costello, E., Aldwell, F. E. & Marples, N. M. , Evaluation of attractant flavours for use in oral vaccine baits for badgers (Meles meles), European Journal of Wildlife Research, 57, (4), 2011, p767 - 774 Journal Article, 2011 DOI URL

Kelly SBA, Kelly DJ, Cooper N, Bahrun A, Analuddin K, Marples NM, Molecular and Phenotypic Data Support the Recognition of the Wakatobi Flowerpecker (Dicaeum kuehni) from the Unique and Understudied Sulawesi Region, PLoS ONE, 9, (6), 2014, e98694- Journal Article, 2014 TARA - Full Text URL DOI

Marples N.M. & Kelly D.J., Neophobia and dietary conservatism: two distinct processes? , Evolutionary Ecology , 13, (7-8), 1999, p641 - 653 Journal Article, 1999 DOI URL

Marples, N.M., Kelly, D.J. & Thomas, R.J. , Perspective: The evolution of warning coloration is not paradoxical, Evolution , 59, 2005, p933 - 940 Journal Article, 2005 DOI URL URL

Parnell, A.C., Phillips, D.L., Bearhop, S., Semmens, B.X., Ward, E.J., Moore, J.W., Jackson, A.L. & Inger, R., Bayesian stable isotope mixing models, Environmetrics, 24, (6), 2013, p387 - 399 Journal Article, 2013 TARA - Full Text DOI

Kelly, D.J. & Marples, N.M. , The effects of novel odour and colour cues on food acceptance by the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata). , Animal Behaviour, 68, 2004, p1049 - 1054 Journal Article, 2004 DOI URL

Healy, K. Finlay, S., Guillerme, T., Kane, A., Kelly, S.B.A., McClean, D., Kelly, D.J., Donohue, I., Jackson, A.L. & Cooper, N., Ecology and mode-of-life explain lifespan variation in birds and mammals, Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B, 281, (1784), 2014, p20140298 Journal Article, 2014 DOI

Ruxton, G.D., Speed, M.P. & Kelly, D.J., What, if anything, is the adaptive function of countershading?, Animal Behaviour , 68, 2004, p1049 - 1054 Journal Article, 2004 DOI URL

Speed MP, Kelly DJ, Davidson AM, Ruxton GD, Countershading may be more effective with some species of birds than with others., Behavioural Ecology , 16, 2005, p327 - 334 Journal Article, 2005 DOI URL

Mullen EM, MacWhite T, Maher PK, Kelly DJ, Marples NM, Good M, Foraging Eurasian badgers Meles meles and the presence of cattle in pastures. Do badgers avoid cattle? , Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 143, 2013, p130-137 Journal Article, 2013 URL URL DOI

Marples, N.M., Quinlan, M., Thomas, R.J. and Kelly, D.J., Deactivation of dietary wariness through experience of novel food., Behavioral Ecology , 18, 2007, p803 - 810 Journal Article, 2007 URL DOI

Bird Populations of the Wakatobi in, editor(s)Clifton, J., Unsworth R. and Smith, D.J. , Marine conservation and research in the Coral Triangle: the Wakatobi Marine National Park, New York, Nova Science Publishers, 2010, pp149 - 170, [Kelly, D. J. & Marples, N. M.] Book Chapter, 2010 URL

David J. Kelly, Nicola M. Marples, Annual survival rate and mean life-span of Lemon-bellied White-eyes Zosterops chloris flavissimus on Kaledupa island, Wakatobi, south-east Sulawesi, Indonesia, Forktail, 28, 2012, p148 - 149 Journal Article, 2012

Thomas, R.J., Bartlett, L., Marples, N.M., Kelly, D.J. and Cuthill, I.C. , Prey selection by wild birds can allow novel and conspicuous colour morphs to spread in prey populations, Oikos , 106, (2), 2004, p285 - 294 Journal Article, 2004 DOI URL

Kelly, D.J., Marples, N.M. & Singer, H. A. , A population of Lemon-bellied White-eye Zosterops chloris from the south-eastern peninsula of Sulawesi., Forktail, 26, 2010, p138 - 139 Journal Article, 2010 URL

Thomas, R.J., Drewitt, E.A., Marples, N.M., Kelly, D.J. and Semple, S. , Nocturnal playbacks reveal hidden population differences in singing behaviour, Bird Study, 50, (1), 2003, p84 - 87 Journal Article, 2003 DOI

Thomas, R.J., Kelly, D.J. & Goodship, N.M., Eye design in birds and visual constraints on behaviour, Ornitologia Neotropical , 15, 2004, p243 - 250 Journal Article, 2004

Kelly D.J. and Marples N.M, Olive-backed sunbird (Cinnyris jugularis) in south eastern Sulawesi, BirdingASIA, 15, 2011, p15 - 16 Journal Article, 2011

Robinson-Dean, J.C., Willmott, K.R., Catterall, M.J., Kelly, D.J., Whittington, A., Phalan, B., Marples, N.M. and Boeadi, D.R.S. , A new subspecies of Red-backed Thrush Zoothera erythronota kabaena subsp. nov. (Muscicapidae: Turdidae) from Kabaena island, Indonesia, Forktail , 18, 2002, p1 - 10 Journal Article, 2002

T. E. Martin, D. J. Kelly, N. T. Keogh, D. Heriyadi, H. A. Singer & G. A. Blackburn, The avifauna of Lambusango Forest Reserve, Buton Island, south-east Sulawesi, with additional sightings from southern Buton, Forktail, 28, 2012, p107 - 112 Journal Article, 2012

Mainwaring, M.C., Rowe, L.V., Kelly, D.J., Grey, J., Bearhop, S. & Hartley, I.R., Hatching asynchrony and growth trade -offs within barn swallow broods., The Condor , 111, (4), 2009, p668 - 674 Journal Article, 2009 DOI

Nigel Cleere, David J. Kelly, Charles W. T. Pilcher, Two new bird species in Kuwait, Sandgrouse, 22, 2000, p9 - 12 Journal Article, 2000

Mullen, E. M., MacWhite, T., Maher, P. K., Kelly, D. J., Marples, N. M. and Good, M. , The avoidance of farmyards by European badgers Meles meles in a medium density population., Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 171, 2015, p170-176 Journal Article, 2015 DOI URL

Corner, L. A. L., Stuart, L. J., Kelly, D. J. and Marples, N. M. , Reproductive biology including evidence for superfetation in the European badger Meles meles (Carnivora: Mustelidae). , PLoS ONE , 10, (10), 2015, pe0138093- Journal Article, 2015 URL TARA - Full Text DOI

C. O'Reilly, D. J. Kelly, N. M. Marples and N. Harte , Quantifying difference in vocalizations of bird populations, Proceedings of Interspeech 2015, 2015, 2015, p3417 - 3421 Journal Article, 2015

Gaughran A, Kelly DJ, MacWhite T, Mullen E, Maher P, Good M, Marples, NM, Super-ranging. A new ranging strategy in European badgers., PLoS ONE , 13, (2), 2018 Journal Article, 2018 DOI TARA - Full Text

O'Reilly, C. and Analuddin, K. and Kelly, D.J. and Harte, N., Measuring vocal difference in bird population pairs, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 143, (3), 2018, p1658-1671 Journal Article, 2018 DOI

O'Connell, D. P., Sealy, S., Ó Marcaigh, F., Karya , A., Bahrun, A., Analuddin, K., Kelly, D. J. & Marples, N. M. , The avifauna of Kabaena Island, South-east Sulawesi, Indonesia, Forktail, 33, 2018 Journal Article, 2018 URL

Martin T.E., O'Connell DP, Kelly DJ, Karya A, Analuddin K, & Marples NM, A new record of Dwarf Sparrowhawk Accipiter nanus in south-east Sulawesi, Indonesia: is it only restricted to upland forests? , BirdingASIA , (29), 2018, p103 - 104 Journal Article, 2018 URL

O'Reilly C, Marples N.M, Kelly D.J, Harte N, YIN-bird: Improved pitch tracking for bird vocalisations, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, 2016, 08-12-September-2016, 2016, pp2641 - 2645 Conference Paper, 2016 URL DOI

O'Connell DP, Kelly DJ, Lawless N, Karya A, Analuddin K & Marples NM , Diversification of a 'great speciator' in the Wallacea region: differing responses by closely related resident and migratory kingfisher species (Aves: Alcedinidae: Todiramphus), Ibis, 2019 Journal Article, 2019 DOI

O'Connell D, Kelly DJ, Kelly SBA, Sealy S, Karya A, Analuddin K and Marples NM., Increased sexual dimorphism in dense populations of Olive-backed Sunbirds on small islands: morphological niche contraction in females but not males., Emu - Austral Ornithology, 2019 Journal Article, 2019 DOI URL

Fionn Ó Marcaigh, Darren P. O'Connell, Kangkuso Analuddin, Adi Karya, Naomi Lawless, Caroline M. McKeon, Niamh Doyle, Nicola M. Marples, David J. Kelly, Tramps in transition: genetic differentiation between populations of an iconic "supertramp" taxon in the Central Indo-Pacific, Frontiers of Biogeography, 14, (2), 2022, pe54512 Journal Article, 2022 URL TARA - Full Text DOI

Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

David J. Kelly, Aoibheann Gaughran, Enda Mullen, Teresa MacWhite, Peter Maher, Margaret Good and Nicola M. Marples, ETE frequencies dataset, pre-publication upload, the authors, 2019 Dataset, 2019 DOI TARA - Full Text

David J. Kelly, Aoibheann Gaughran, Enda Mullen, Teresa MacWhite, Peter Maher, Margaret Good and Nicola M. Marples, ETE distances dataset, pre-publication upload, the authors, 2019 Dataset, 2019 TARA - Full Text URL