Jonathan Wright

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BI2044 Ethology - course leader

BI3040 Behavioural Ecology - course leader

BI8044 Evolutionary Behavioural Ecology - course leader

BI8083 Advanced Evolutionary Biology

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RESEARCH INTERESTS

Social evolution, the evolution of cooperation and conflict, parental care, parent-offspring conflict, cooperative breeding in birds. Individual variation, phenotypic plasticity, life-history evolution and adaptations to environmental stochasticity.

See: Evolutionary Behavioural Ecology

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PUBLICATIONS (.pdf files available on request)

Pélabon, C., Agudelo-Cantero, G.A., Araya Ajoy, Y., Bolstad, G.H., Cheng, C., Galis, F., Guillaume, F., Haaland, T.1, Hallgrimsson, B., Hansen, T.F., Holstad, A., Houle, D., Hunt, G., Isaksen, A., Milocco, L., Nuno de la Rosa, L., Orzack, S.H., Porto, A., Reid, J.M., Sztepanacz, J., Undheim, E., Villegas, C., Voje, K.L., Walling, C. & Wright, J. (2025) Evolvability: progress and key questions. Bioscience 75, 1042-1057.
Araya-Ajoy, Y.G., Murray, M., Engen, S., Sæther, B.E. & Wright, J. (2025) Decomposing frequency dependence on selection and population growth: implications for carrying capacity and maladaptation. Ecol. Lett. 28, e70219.
Fjelldal, M.A., Wright, J., Lilley, T.M., Søras, R. & Stawski, C. (2025) Female brown long-eared bats (Plecotus auritus) delay roost emergence at elevated natural light conditions. Ecol. & Evol. 15, e71699.
Ranke, P.S., Le Pepke, M., Søraker, J.S., David, G., Araya-Ajoy, Y.G., Wright, J., Rønning, B., Pärn, H., Holand, H., Ringsby, T.H., Jensen, H. & Sæther, B.-E. (2024) Long-distance dispersal in the short-distance dispersing house sparrow (Passer domesticus). Ecol. & Evol. 14, e11356.
Murray, M., Wright,J. & Araya-Ajoy, Y.G. (2024) Evolutionary rescue from climate change: male indirect genetic effects on lay dates and their consequences for population persistence. Evol. Lett. 8, 137-148.
Araya-Ajoy, Y.G., Westneat, D.F., Dingemanse, N.J. & Wright,J. (2023) The evolutionary ecology of behavioral variation and the expected evolutionary change of its among- and within-individual components. Evolution 77, 2246-2256.
Søraker, J.S., Wright,J., Hanslin, F.Ø. & Le Pepke, M. (2023) The evolution of extra-pair paternity and male contributions to different forms of parental care in birds. Behav. Ecol. 34, 780-789
Pick, J.L., Kasper, C., Allegue, H., Dingemanse, N, Dochtermann, N.A., Laskowski, K., Schielzeth, H., Westneat, D., Wright, J. & Araya-Ajoy, Y.G. (2023) Describing posterior distributions of variance components: problems and the use of null distributions to aid interpretation. Methods in Ecol. & Evol. 14, 2557-2574.
Fjelldal, M.A., Muller, S., Ratikainen, I.I., Stawski, C. & Wright, J. (2023b) The small-bat-in-summer paradigm: energetics and adaptive behavioural routines in bats investigated through a stochastic dynamic model. J. Anim. Ecol. 92, 2078-2093.
Le Pepke, M., Kvalnes, T., Wright, J., Araya-Ajoy, Y.G., Ranke, P.S., Boner, W., Monaghan, P., Sæther, B.-E., Jensen, H.& Ringsby, T.H. (2023) Longitudinal telomere dynamics within natural lifespans of a wild bird. Scientific Reports 13, 4272.
Carlsen, A.A., Wright, J., LorentsenS.-H. & Lea S.E.G. (2023b) Prey predictability may explain preparation versus recovery strategies in the surface durations of European shags diving in two different habitats. Ethology 129, 301-311.
Carlsen, A.A., Lorentsen,S.-H., Mattisson, J. & Wright, J. (2023a) Exploring the temporal non-independence of foraging dive and surface duration sequences in the European shag Phalacrocorax aristotelis. Ethology 129, 254-268.
Fjelldal, M.A., Stawski, C., Søras, R. & Wright, J. (2023a) Determining torpor entries and arousals from skin-temperature data of bats. J. Therm. Biol. 111, 103396.
De Groot, C., Ratz, T., Wijnhorst, R., Murray, M., Araya-Ajoy, Y.G., Wright,J. & Dingemanse, N.J. (2023) The importance of distinguishing individual differences in ‘social impact’ versus ‘social responsiveness’ when quantifying indirect genetic effects on the evolution of social plasticity. Neurosci. & Biobehav. Rev. 104996.
Wright, J., Haaland, T.R., Dingemanse, N.J. & Westneat, D.F. (2022) A reaction norm framework for the evolution of learning: how cumulative experience shapes phenotypic plasticity. Biol. Rev. 97, 1999-2021.
Le Pepke, M., Kvalnes, T., Ranke, P.S., Araya-Ajoy, Y.G., Wright, J., Sæther, B.-E., Jensen, H.& Ringsby, T.H. (2022) Causes and consequences of variation in early-life telomere length in a bird metapopulation. Ecol. & Evol. 12, e9144.
Ranke, P.S., Araya-Ajoy, Y.G., Ringsby, T.H., Pärn, H., Saatoglu, D., Rønning, B., Jensen, H., Wright, J. & Sæther, B.-E. (2021) Spatio-temporal variation in dispersal in a house sparrow metapopulation: effects of population size and habitat type. J. Anim. Ecol. 90, 2767-2781.
Fjelldal, M.A., Wright, J. & Stawski, C. (2021) Nightly torpor use in response to weather conditions and individual state in an insectivorous bat. Oecologia. 197, 129-142.
Bonner, S., Kim, H.-N., Westneat, D., Mutzel, A., Wright, J. & Schofield, M. (2021) Dalmatian: a package for fitting double hierarchical linear models in R via JAGS and nimble. J. Statl. Software. 100, 1-25.
Parthasarathy, B., Somanathan, H. & Wright, J. (2021) Long-term behavioural syndrome in subadult Indian social spiders, but not over the short-term or in juveniles. Ethology 127, 1064-1073.
Araya-Ajoy, Y.G., Niskanien, A., Ranke, P.S., Kvalnes, T., Rønning, B., Jensen, H., Ringsby, T.H., Sæther, B.-E. & Wright, J. (2021) Variation in generation time reveals density regulation as an important driver of individual pace of life in a bird metapopulation. Ecol. Lett. 24, 2077-2087.
Carlsen, A.A., Lorentsen, S.-H. & Wright, J. (2021) Recovery, body mass and buoyancy: a detailed analysis of foraging dive cycles in the European shag. Anim. Behav. 178, 247-265.
Haaland, T.R., Wright, J., & Ratikainen, I.I. (2021) Individual reversible plasticity as a genotype-level bet-hedging strategy. J. Evol. Biol. 34, 1022-1033.
Wetzel, D.P., Mutzel, A., Wright, J., & Dingemanse, N.J. (2020) Multivariate mixed models reveal novel sources of (co)variation in nestling begging behavior. Behav. Ecol. 31, 960-970.
Dingemanse, N.J: & Wright, J. (2020) Criteria for successful studies of animal personality and behavioural syndromes. Ethology (editorial) 126, 865-869.
Haaland, T.R., Wright, J., & Ratikainen, I.I. (2020) Generalists versus specialists in fluctuating environments: a bet-hedging perspective. Oikos 129, 879-890.
Engen, S., Wright, J., Araya-Ajoy, Y. & Sæther, B.-E. (2020) Phenotypic evolution in stochastic environments: the contribution of frequency- and density-dependent selection. Evolution 74, 1923–1941.
Araya-Ajoy, Y.G., Westneat, D.F. & Wright, J. (2020) Pathways to social evolution and their eco-evolutionary feedbacks. Evolution 74, 1894–1907.
Wright, J., Solbu, E.B. & Engen, S. (2020) Contrasting patterns of density-dependent selection at different life stages can create more than one axis of life-history variation. Ecol. & Evol. 10, 3068-3078.
Haaland, T.R., Wright, J., & Ratikainen, I.I. (2019) Bet-hedging across generations can affect the evolution of variance-sensitive strategies within generations. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 20192070.
Mutzel, A., Olsen, A-L., Mathot, K.J., Araya-Ajoy, Y.G., Nicolaus, M., Wijmenga, J.J., Wright, J., Kempenaers,, B. & Dingemanse, N.J. (2019) Effects of manipulated levels of predation threat on parental provisioning and nestling begging. Behav. Ecol. 30, 1123-1135.
Einum, S., Ratikainen, I.I., Wright, J., Pélabon, C., Bech, C., Jutfelt, F., Stawski, C. & Burton, T. (2019) How to quantify thermal acclimation capacity? Global Change Biol. 1-2.
Araya-Ajoy, Y.G., Ranke, P.S., Kvalnes, T., Rønning, B., Holland, H., Myre, A. M., Pärn, H., Jensen, H., Ringsby, T.H., Sæther, B.-E & Wright, J. (2019) Characterizing morphological (co)variation using structural equation models: body size, allometric relationships and evolvability in a house sparrow metapopulation. Evolution 73, 452-466.
Haaland, T.R., Wright, J., Tufto, J. & Ratikainen, I.I. (2019) Short-term insurance versus long-term bet-hedging strategies as adaptations to variable environments. Evolution, 73, 145-157.
Wright, J., Bolstad, G.H., Araya -Ajoy, Y.G. & Dingemanse, N.J. (2019) Life history evolution in a changing world and the adaptive alignment of pace-of-life syndromes. Biol. Revs. 94, 230-247.
Araya-Ajoy, Y.G., Bolstad, G.H., Brommer, J., Careau, V., Dingemanse, N.J. & Wright, J. (2018) Individual measures of pace of life: fecundity, longevity, generation time or what? Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 72, 75.
Berdal, M.A., Rosenqvist, G. & Wright, J. (2018) Innovation as part of a wider behavioural syndrome in the guppy: the effect of sex and body size. Ethology 124, 760-772.
Ratikainen, I.I., Haaland, T. & Wright, J. (2018) Differential allocation of parental investment and the trade-off between offspring size and number. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 285, 20181074.
Raunsgard, A., Opedal, Ø.H., Ekrem, R.K., Wright, J., Bolstad, G.H., Armbruster, W.S. & Pélabon, C. (2018) Intersexual conflict over seed size is stronger in more outcrossed populations of a mixed-mating plant. PNAS 115, 11561-11566.
Westneat, D.F., Mutzel, A., Bonner, S., & Wright, J.. (2017) Experimental changes in brood size alter several levels of phenotypic variance in offspring and parent pied flycatchers. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 71, 91.
Mathot, K.J., Olsen, A-L., Mutzel, A., Araya-Ajoy, Y.G., Nicolaus, M., Westneat, D.F., Wright, J., Kempenaers,, B. & Dingemanse, N.J. (2017) Variance-sensitive provisioning tactics in the great tit (Parus major) in response to a long-term brood size manipulation. Behav. Ecol. 28, 1402-1413.
Haaland, T., Wright, J., Kuijper, B. & Ratikainen, I.I. (2017) Differential allocation revisited: when should mate quality affect parental investment? Am. Nat. 190, 534-546.
Wright, J. & McDonald, P G. (2016) Kin selected helping decisions of the bell miner. In: Cooperative Breeding: Studies of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior. (Ed by Koenig, W. & Dickinson, J.) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Westneat, D.F., Wright, J. & Dingemanse, N.J. (2015) The biology hidden within residual phenotypic variance. Biol. Rev. 90, 729-743.
Botero, C.A., Weissing, F.J., Wright, J. & Rubenstein, D.R. (2015) Evolutionary tipping points in the capacity to adapt to environmental change. PNAS 112, 184-189.
Pélabon, C., Albertsen, E., Falahati-Anbaran, M., Wright, J. & Armbruster, W.S. (2015) Does multiple paternity affect seed size in angiosperms? An experimental test in Delachampia scandens. J. Evol. Biol. 28, 1719-1733.
Ratikainen, I.I. & Wright, J. (2013) Adaptive management of body mass in Siberian jays. Anim. Behav. 85, 427-434.
Westneat, D.F., Schofield, M. & Wright, J. (2013) Parental behavior exhibits between-individual variance, plasticity and heterogeneous residual variance. Behav. Ecol. 24, 598-604.
Mutzel, A., Blom, M.P.K., Spagopoulou, F., Wright, J., Dingemanse, N.J. & Kempenaers, B. (2013) Temporal trade-offs between nestling provisioning and defence against nest predators in blue tits. Anim. Behav. 85, 1459-1469.
Dingemanse, N.J., Barber, I., Wright, J. & Brommer, J. (2012) Quantitative genetics of behavioural reaction norms: genetic correlations between personality and behavioural plasticity vary across stickleback populations. J. Evol. Biol. 25, 485-496.
Mathot K.J., Wright, J, Kempenaers, B., & Dingemanse, N.J. (2012) Adaptive strategies for managing uncertainty may explain personality-related differences in behavioural plasticity. Oikos 121, 1009-1020.
Ratikainen, I.I., Henøen, L.R., Wright, J. & Kazem, A.J.N. (2012) Private and public information by foraging groups of wild Siberian jays. Anim. Behav. 83, 1243-1251.
Briga, M., Pen, I. & Wright, J. (2012) Care for kin: within-group relatedness and allomaternal care are positively correlated and conserved throughout the mammalian phylogeny. Biol. Lett. 8, 533-536.
Burger, C., Belskii, E., Eeva, T., Laaksonen, T., Mägi, M., Mänd, R., Qvarnström, A., Slagsvold, T., Veen, T., Visser, M.E., Wiebe, K.L., Wiley, C., Wright J., and Both, C. (2012) Climate change, breeding date and nestling diet: how temperature differentially affects seasonal changes in pied flycatcher diet depending on habitat variation. J. Anim. Ecol. 81, 926-936.
Wright, J. (2011) Honest begging: signals of need, quality and/or hunger. Behav. Ecol. 22, 920-921.
McDonald, P. G. & Wright, J. (2011) Bell miner provisioning calls are more similar among relatives and are used by helpers at the nest to bias their effort towards kin. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 278, 3403-3411.
Réale, D., Dingemanse, N.J., Kazem, A.J.N. & Wright, J. (2010) Evolutionary and ecological approaches to the study of personality. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. B., 365, 3937-3946.
Ratikainen, I.I., Wright, J. & Kazem, A.J.N. (2010) Social class influences degree of variance-sensitivity in wild Siberian jays. Behav. Ecol. 21, 1067-1072.
Wright, J. & Radford, A.N. (2010) Risk-sensitive green woodhoopoes: a new explanation for sex-specific differences in preferred foraging techniques. Ethology 116, 941-950.
Rollins, L.A., Holleley, C.E., Wright, J., Russell, A.F., & Griffith, S.C. (2010) Isolation and characterization of polymorphic tetranucleotide microsatellite loci in the Apostlebird (Struthidea cinerea). Cons. Gen. Resour., 2, 229-231.
Wright, J., Karasov, W.H., Kazem, A.J.N., Goncalves, I.B. & McSwan, E. (2010) Begging and digestive responses to differences in long-term and short-term need in nestling pied flycatchers. Anim. Behav. 80, 517-525.
Dingemanse, N.J., Dochtermann, N. & Wright, J. (2010) A method for exploring the structure of behavioural syndromes to allow formal comparison within and between datasets. Anim. Behav. 79, 439-450.
Dingemanse, N.J., Kazem, A.J.N., Réale, D. & Wright, J. (2010) Behavioural reaction norms: animal personality meets individual plasticity. TREE 25, 81-89.
McDonald, P.G., Ewen, J.G. & Wright, J. (2010) Brood sex ratio does not affect helper effort in a cooperative bird, despite extreme sex-biased dispersal. Anim. Behav., 79, 243-250.
Wright, J., McDonald, P.G., te Marvelde, L., Kazem, A.J.N. & Bishop, C.M. (2010) Helping effort increases with relatedness in bell miners, but ‘unrelated’ helpers of both sexes still provide substantial care. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 277, 437-445.
Lykkja, O.N., Solberg, E.J., Herfindal, I., Wright, J., Rolandsen, C.M. & Hanssen, M.G. (2009) The effects of human activity on summer habitat use by moose. Alces 45, 109-124.
Griesser, M., Barnaby, J., Schneider, N.A., Figenschau, N., Wright, J., Griffith, S.C., Kazem, A..J.N. & Russell, A.F. (2009) Winter ranging behaviour and the organization of cooperative breeding groups in the apostlebird. Ethology 115, 888-896.
Russell, A.F. & Wright, J. (2009) Avian mobbing: by-product mutualism not reciprocal altruism. TREE 24. 3-5.
van de Pol, M. & Wright, J. (2009) A simple method for distinguishing within- versus between-subjects effects using mixed models. Anim. Behav. 77, 753-758.
te Marvelde, L., McDonald, P.G., Kazem, A.J.N. & Wright, J. (2009) Do helpers really help? Biomass of different food types delivered and nestling growth rates in the cooperatively breeding bell miner. Anim. Behav. 77, 727-735.
McDonald, P.G., Kazem, A.J.N. & Wright, J. (2009) Cooperative provisioning dynamics: fathers and unrelated helpers show similar responses to manipulations of begging. Anim. Behav. 77, 369-376.
Dall, S.X.R. & Wright, J. (2009) Rich pickings near large communal roosts favor 'gang' foraging by juvenile common ravens, Corvus corax. PLOS ONE 4(2), e4530. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004530.
Dingemanse, N.J., Van der Plas, F., Wright, J., Réale, D., Schrama, M., Roff, D.A., Van der Zee E., & Barber I. (2009) Individual experience and evolutionary history of predation affect expression of heritable variation in fish personality and morphology. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 276, 1285-1293.
McDonald, P.G., Kazem, A.J.N., Clarke, M.F. & Wright, J. (2008b) Helping as a signal: does removal of potential audiences influence helper provisioning behaviour in the cooperative bell miner? Behav. Ecol. 19, 1047-1055.
Sæther, B-E, Engen, S., Grøtan, V., Bregnballe, T., Both, C. Tryjanowski, P., Leivits, A., Wright, J., Møller, A.P., Visser, M. & Winkel, W. (2008) Forms of density regulation in (quasi-) stationary distributions of population sizes in birds. Oikos 117, 1197-1208.
McDonald, P.G. & Wright, J. (2008) Provisioning vocalizations in cooperative bell miner: more than a simple stimulus for nestling begging? Auk, 125, 670-678.
Smiseth, P.T., Wright, J. & Kölliker, M. (2008) Parent-offspring conflict and co-adaptation: behavioural ecology meets quantitative genetics. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 275, 1823-1830.
Pacheco, M.L., McDonald, P.G., Wright, J., Kazem, A.J.N. & Clarke, M.F. (2008) Helper contributions to anti-parasite behaviour in the cooperatively breeding bell miner (Manorina melanophrys). Behav. Ecol. 19, 558-566.
Wright, J. & Russell, A.F. (2008) How helpers help: disentangling ecological confounds from the benefits of cooperatively breeding. J. Anim. Ecol. 77, 427-429.
Budden, A.E. & Wright, J. (2008) The effect of food availability on begging performance and digestive efficiency. Ibis 150, 234-241.
McDonald, P.G., te Marvelde, L., Kazem, A.J.N. & Wright, J. (2008a) Helping as a signal and the effect of a potential audience during provisioning visits in a cooperative bird. Anim. Behav. 75, 1319-1330.
Wright, J. (2007) Cooperation theory meets cooperative breeding: exposing some ugly truths about social prestige, reciprocity and group augmentation. Behav. Proc. 76, 142-148.
Dingemanse, N.J., Wright, J., Kazem, A.J.N., Thomas, D., Hickling, R., & Dawnay, N. (2007) Behavioural syndromes differ predictably between 12 populations of three-spined stickleback. J. Anim. Ecol. 76, 1128-1138.
McDonald, P.G., Kazem, A.J.N. & Wright, J. (2007b) A critical analysis of ‘deceptive’ or ‘false feeding’ behaviour in a cooperative bird: disturbance effects, satiated nestlings or deceit? Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 61, 1623-1635.
Sæther, B-E, Engen, S., Grøtan, V., Fiedler, W., Matthysen, E., Visser, M.E., Wright, J., Adriansen, F., van Balen, H., Balmer, D., Mainwaring, M.C., McCleery, R.H., Pampus, M. & Winkel, W. (2007) The extended Moran effect and large-scale synchronous fluctuations in the size of great tit and blue tit populations. J. Anim. Ecol. 76: 315-325.
McDonald, P.G., Heathcote, C., Clarke, M.F., Wright, J. & Kazem, A.J.N. (2007a) Provisioning calls in the cooperatively breeding bell miner Manorina melanophyrs encode sufficient information for individual discrimination J. Avian Biol. 38, 113-121.
McDonald, P.G., Kazem, A.J.N., Clarke, M.F. & Wright, J. (2006) Altruistic acts as indicators of quality in a cooperative bird: are helpers-at-the-nest ‘showing off’? J. Ornith. 147, 9-10 (IOC Abstract).
Both C., Sanz J.J., Artemyev A.A., Blaauw B., Cowie R.J., Dekhuijzen A.J., Enemar A., Järvinen A., Nyholm N.E.I., Potti J., Ravussin P.-A., Silverin B., Slater F.M., Sokolov L.V., Visser M.E., Winkel W., Wright J. & Zang H. (2006) Pied flycatchers travelling from Africa to breed in Europe: differential effects of winter and migration conditions on breeding date. Ardea 94: 511-525.
Edelaar, P. & Wright, J. (2006) Potential prey make excellent ornithologists: adaptive flexible responses towards avian predation threat in Arabian babblers Turdoides squamiceps living in a migration hot-spot. Ibis 148, 664-671.
Wright J., Markman S. & Denney S.M. (2006) Facultative adjustment of pre-fledging mass in swifts. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 273, 1895-1900.
Yom-Tov, Y., Yom-Tov, S., Wright, J., Thorne, C.J.R. & du Feh, R. (2006) Recent changes in body weight and wing length in some British passerine birds. Oikos 112, 91-101.
Budden, A.E. & Wright, J. (2005) Evidence for learning during competitive positioning within the nest: do nestlings use ‘ideal free’ foraging tactics? Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 58, 227-236.
Leader, N., Wright, J. & Yom-Tov, Y. (2005) Acoustic properties of two urban song dialects in the orange tufted sunbirds (Nectarinia osea). Auk 122, 231-245.
Both, C., Artemyev, A.V., Blaauw, B., Cowie, R., Dekhuizen, H., Gustafsson, L., Järvinen, A., Kerimov, A., Metcalfe, N., Potti, J., Ravussin, P-A, Sanz, J.J., Silverin, B., Slater, F., Török, J., Winkel, W., Wright, J., Zang, H., Visser, M.E. (2004) Large-scale geographical variation confirms that climate change causes birds to lay earlier. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 271, 1657-1662.
Walling, C.A., Dawnay, N., Kazem, A.J.N. & Wright, J. (2004) Predator inspection in sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus): body size, local predation pressure and cooperation. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 56, 164-170.
Markman, S., Pinshow, B., Wright, J. & Kotler, B.P. (2004) Food patch use by parent birds: to gather food for themselves or for their chicks. J. Anim. Ecol. 73, 747-755.
Wright, J., Stone, R.E. & Brown, N. (2003) Communal roosts as structured information centres in the raven, Corvus corax. J. Anim. Ecol. 72, 1003-1014.
Blount, J.D., Houston, D.C., Møller, A.P. & Wright, J. (2003) Do individual branches of immune defence correlate? A comparative study of scavenging and non-scavenging birds. Oikos. 102, 340-350.
Martins, T.L.F., Blakey, J.K. & Wright, J. (2002) Low incidence of extra-pair paternity in the colonially-nesting common swift Apus apus. J. Avian Biol. 33, 441-446.
Markman, S., Pinshow, B. & Wright, J. (2002) Manipulation of food resources reveals sex-specific trade-offs between parental self-feeding and offspring care. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 269, 1931-1938.
Kokko, H., Johnstone, R.A. & Wright, J. (2002) The evolution of parental and alloparental effort in cooperatively breeding groups: when should helpers pay-to-stay? Behav. Ecol. 13, 291-300.
Wright, J., Hinde, C., Both, C. & Fazey, I. (2002) Begging signals more than just short-term need: cryptic effects of brood size in the pied flycatcher. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 52, 74-83.
Karasov, W.H. & Wright, J. (2002) Nestling Digestive Physiology and Begging. In: The Evolution of Begging: Competition, Cooperation and Communication (Ed by Wright, J. & Leonard ML), pp-199-219, Kluwyer Academic Press, Dordrecht, NL.
Wright, J. & Leonard, M.L. (2002) The Evolution of Begging: Competition, Cooperation and Communication. (edited proceeding from Begging Workshop, Gregynog 2000), Kluwyer Academic Press, Dordrecht, NL.
Leader, N., Wright, J. & Yom-Tov, Y. (2002) Dialect discrimination by male orange tufted sunbirds (Nectarinia osea): reactions to own versus neighbor dialects. Ethology 108, 367-376.
Karasov, W.H., McSwan E.L. & Wright, J. (2001) Begging and digestion by nestling pied flycatchers in relation to short- and long-term nutritional need. Am. Zool. 41, 1490-1490 (SIBC abstract).
Wright, J., Berg, E., de Kort, S., Khazin, V. & Maklakov, A. (2001c) Cooperative sentinel behaviour in the Arabian babbler. Anim. Behav. 62, 973-979.
Wright, J., Berg, E., de Kort, S., Khazin, V. & Maklakov, A. (2001b) Safe selfish sentinels in a cooperative bird. J. Anim. Ecol. 70, 1070-1079.
Wright, J., Maklakov, A. & Khazin, V. (2001a) State-dependent sentinels: an experimental study in the Arabian babbler. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 268, 1-6.
Denny, A.J., Wright, J. & Grief, B. (2001) Foraging trail efficiency in the wood ant Formica rufa: is time of the essence? Anim. Behav. 62, 139-146.
Budden, A.E. & Wright, J. (2001b) Falling on deaf ears: the adaptive significance of begging in the absence of a parent. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 49, 474-481.
Budden, A.E. & Wright, J. (2001a) Begging in Nestling Birds. Current Ornithology 16, 83-118.
Budden, A.E. & Wright, J. (2000) Nestling diet, chick growth and breeding success in the southern grey shrike (Lanius meridionalis). Proc. 3rd Int. Shrike Symp. Gdansk 1999. The Ring 22, 165-172.
Leader, N., Wright, J. & Yom-Tov, Y. (2000) Microgeographic song variation in the orange-tufted sunbird (Necterinia osea). Behaviour 137, 1613-1637.
Yom-Tov, Y., Wright, J. & Both, C. (2000) Intraspecific nest parasitism and nest guarding in the pied flycatcher, Ficedula hypoleuca. Ibis 142, 331-332.
Whitehead, S., Wright, J. & Cotton, P.A. (1999) Patterns of winter field use by starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) - how important is prey depletion? Bird Study 46, 289-298.
Wright, J. (1999b) Adaptive versus non-adaptive helping in cooperative breeders. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 46, 437-438.
Johnstone, R.A., Woodroffe, R., Cant, M.A. & Wright, J. (1999) Reproductive skew in multi-member groups. Am. Nat. 153, 315-331.
Wright, J., Parker, P., & Lundy K. (1999) Relatedness and chick-feeding effort in the cooperatively-breeding Arabian babbler. Anim. Behav. 58, 779-785.
Wright, J. & Dingemanse, N. (1999) Parents and helpers compensate for experimental changes in the provisioning effort of others in the Arabian babbler. Anim. Behav. 58, 345-350.
Cotton, P.A., Wright, J. & Kacelnik, A. (1999) Chick begging strategies in relation to brood hierarchies and hatching asynchrony. Am. Nat. 153, 412-420.
Wright, J. (1999a) Altruism as a signal: Zahavi’s alternative to kin selection and reciprocity. J. Avian Biol. 30, 108-115.
Markman, S., Pinshow, B. & Wright, J. (1999) Orange-tufted sunbirds do not feed nectar to their chicks. Auk 116, 257-259.
Wright, J., Both, C., Cotton, P.A. & Bryant, D. (1998) Quality versus quantity: energetic and nutritional trade-offs in parental provisioning strategies. J. Anim. Ecol. 67, 620-634.
Wright, J. (1998c) Paternity and Paternal Care. Chapter In: Birkhead, T.R. and Møller, A.P. Sperm Competition and Sexual Selection. Academic Press, London pp. 117-145.
Wright, J. (1998b) Helpers-at-the-nest have the same provisioning rule as parents: experimental evidence from playbacks of chick begging. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 42, 423-429.
Wright, J. (1998a) Helping-at-the-nest and group size in the Arabian babbler (Turdoides squamiceps). J. Avian Biol. 29, 105-112.
Markman, S., Pinshow, B. & Wright, J. (1998) Quality of food eaten by parent sunbirds directly affects their brood-care effort. Ostrich 69, 196 (IOC abstract).
Wright, J. (1997) Helping-at-the-nest in Arabian babblers: signalling social status or sensible investment in chicks? Anim. Behav. 54, 1439-1448.
Bradbury, R.B., Cotton, P.A., Wright, J., & Griffiths, R. (1997) Nestling sex ratios in the European Starling Sturnus vulgaris. J. Avian Biol. 28, 255-258.
Cotton, P.A., Kacelnik, K. & Wright, J. (1996) Chick begging as a signal: are nestlings honest? Behav. Ecol. 7, 178-182.
Whitehead, S., Wright, J. & Cotton, P.A. (1996) Measuring the impact of parental foraging by starlings, Sturnus vulgaris, on soil invertebrates: an exclosure experiment. Oikos 76, 511-521.
Markman, S., Yom-Tov, Y. & Wright, J. (1996) The effect of male removal on female parental care in the Orange-Tufted Sunbird. Anim. Behav. 52, 437-444.
Markman, S., Yom-Tov, Y. & Wright, J. (1995) Male parental care in the Orange-Tufted Sunbird: behavioural adjustment in provisioning and nest guarding effort. Anim. Behav. 50, 655-669.
Whitehead, S., Wright, J. & Cotton, P.A. (1995) Winter field use by the European Starling Sturnus vulgaris: habitat preferences and the availability of prey. J. Avian Biol. 26., 193-202.
Kacelnik, K., Cotton, P.A., Stirling, L. & Wright, J. (1995) Food allocation among nestling starlings: sibling competition and the scope of parental choice. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 259, 259-263.
Wright, J. & Cotton, P.A. (1994b) Song versus food: trade-off decisions in a breeding colony of European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris). Bird Study 41, 95-101.
Wright, J. & Cotton, P.A. (1994a) Experimentally-induced sex differences in parental care: an effect of certainty of paternity? Anim. Behav. 47, 1311-1322.
Yom-Tov, Y. & Wright, J. (1993) The effect of heating nestboxes on egg laying in the Blue Tit, Parus caeruleus. Auk 110, 95-99.
Martins, T.L.F. & Wright, J. (1993c) Patterns of food allocation between parent & young under differing weather conditions in the Common Swift (Apus apus). Avocetta 17, 147-156.
Martins, T.L.F. & Wright, J. (1993b) The cost of reproduction and the allocation of food between parent and young in the common swift (Apus apus). Behav. Ecol. 4, 213-223.
Martins, T.L.F. & Wright, J. (1993a) Brood reduction in response to manipulated brood sizes in the common swift (Apus apus). Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 32, 61-70.
Wright, J. (1992) Certainty of paternity and parental care. Anim. Behav. 44, 380-381.
Wright, J. & Cuthill, I. (1992) Monogamy in the European starling. Behaviour 120, 262-285.
Wright, J. & Cuthill, I. (1990b) Biparental care: short term manipulation of partner contribution and brood size in the starling Sturnus vulgaris. Behav. Ecol. 1, 116-124.
Wright, J. & Cuthill, I. (1990a) Manipulation of sex differences in parental care: the effect of brood size. Anim. Behav. 40, 462-471.
Wright, J. & Cuthill, I. (1989) Manipulation of sex differences in parental care. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 25, 171-181.
Hailey, A., Wright, J., & Steer, E. (1988) Population ecology and conservation of tortoises: the effects of disturbance. Herp. J. 1, 294-301.
Wright, J., Steer, E., & Hailey, A. (1988) Habitat separation in tortoises and the consequences for activity and thermoregulation. Can. J. Zool. 66, 1537-1544.

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ABRIDGED CV

Professor in Biology (Ethology), NTNU, Norway (2003-present)

Senior Lecturer in Animal Ecology UWB, UK (2002-2003)

Lecturer in Animal Ecology, UWB, UK (1996-2002)

NERC Research Fellowship, Cambridge, UK (1993-1996)

Post-doc Research Assistant, Oxford, UK (1990-1993)

D.Phil (Oxon) Zoology, Oxford, UK (1986-1990)

BSc (Hons) Ecology, 1st Class, UEA, UK (1983-1986)

Supervisor of 12 PhD students, 70 masters student og 51 honours student theses, more than 150 peer-reviewed scientific papers, >90 seminars og >150 international conference presentations, obtained >75 million NOK in research funds, editor for Ethology, J.Anim. Ecol. and Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. B., referee for funding bodies in ten different countries, and for manuscripts for all international journals in behaviour, evolution and ecology.

Evolution

Publications

2026

Hansson Frank, Tor; Araya Ajoy, Yimen Gerardo; Wright, Jonathan; Sæther, Bernt-Erik; Jensen, Henrik. (2026) Density-dependent evolutionary demography in a small passerine – from the metapopulation level to life-history traits. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral thesis
Hansson Frank, Tor; Ranke, Peter Sjolte; Burnett, Hamish Andrew; Acker, Paul; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Wright, Jonathan; Jensen, Henrik; Sæther, Bernt-Erik; Araya Ajoy, Yimen Gerardo. (2026) Spatial heterogeneity in density dependence across life-history stages drives the dynamics of a bird metapopulation. Ecology
Academic article

2025

Pélabon, Christophe; Agudelo-Cantero, Gustavo Adolfo; Araya Ajoy, Yimen Gerardo; Bolstad, Geir Hysing; Cheng, Changde; Galis, Frietson; Guillaume, Frederic; Haaland, Thomas Ray; Hallgrímsson, Benedikt; Hansen, Thomas Fredrik. (2025) Evolvability: progress and key questions. BioScience
Academic article
Araya Ajoy, Yimen Gerardo; Murray, Myranda; Engen, Steinar; Sæther, Bernt-Erik; Wright, Jonathan. (2025) Decomposing Frequency Dependence on Selection and Population Growth: Implications for Carrying Capacity and Maladaptation. Ecology Letters
Academic article
Fjelldal, Mari A.; Wright, Jonathan; Lilley, Thomas M.; Sørås, Rune; Stawski, Clare. (2025) Female Brown Long‐Eared Bats Plecotus auritus Delay Roost Emergence at Elevated Natural Light Conditions. Ecology and Evolution
Academic article

2024

Ranke, Peter Sjolte; Pepke, Michael Le; Søraker, Jørgen Skavdal; David, Gabriel; Araya Ajoy, Yimen Gerardo; Wright, Jonathan; Nafstad, Ådne Messel; Rønning, Bernt; Pärn, Henrik; Ringsby, Thor Harald. (2024) Long-distance dispersal in the short-distance dispersing house sparrow (Passer domesticus). Ecology and Evolution
Academic article
Murray, Myranda; Wright, Jonathan; Araya Ajoy, Yimen Gerardo. (2024) Evolutionary rescue from climate change: male indirect genetic effects on lay-dates and their consequences for population persistence. Evolution Letters
Academic article

2023

Pick, Joel; Kasper, Claudia; Allegue, Hassen; Dingemanse, Niels J.; Dochtermann, Ned A.; Laskowski, Kate L.; Lima, Marcos R.; Schielzeth, Holger; Westneat, David F.; Wright, Jonathan. (2023) Describing posterior distributions of variance components: Problems and the use of null distributions to aid interpretation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Academic article
Groot, Corné de; Wijnhorst, Rori E.; Ratz, Tom; Murray, Myranda Elizabeth; Araya Ajoy, Yimen Gerardo; Wright, Jonathan; Dingemanse, Niels J.. (2023) The importance of distinguishing individual differences in ‘social impact’ versus ‘social responsiveness’ when quantifying indirect genetic effects on the evolution of social plasticity. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
Academic literature review
Pepke, Michael Le; Kvalnes, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Araya Ajoy, Yimen Gerardo; Ranke, Peter Sjolte; Boner, Winnie; Monaghan, Pat; Sæther, Bernt-Erik; Jensen, Henrik; Ringsby, Thor Harald. (2023) Longitudinal telomere dynamics within natural lifespans of a wild bird. Scientific Reports
Academic article
Fjelldal, Mari Aas; Muller, Amandine Sophie; Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Stawski, Clare; Wright, Jonathan. (2023) The small-bat-in-summer paradigm: Energetics and adaptive behavioural routines of bats investigated through a stochastic dynamic model. Journal of Animal Ecology
Academic article
Araya Ajoy, Yimen Gerardo; Dingemanse, Niels J.; Westneat, David F.; Wright, Jonathan. (2023) The evolutionary ecology of variation in labile traits: selection on its among- and within-individual components. Evolution
Academic article
Carlsen, Astrid A.; Lorentsen, Svein-Håkon; Mattisson, Jenny; Wright, Jonathan. (2023) Temporal non-independence of foraging dive and surface duration sequences in the European shag Gulosus aristotelis. Ethology
Academic article
Fjelldal, Mari Aas; Stawski, Clare; Sørås, Rune; Wright, Jonathan. (2023) Determining the different phases of torpor from skin-or body temperature data in heterotherms. Journal of Thermal Biology
Academic article
Søraker, Jørgen Skavdal; Wright, Jonathan; Hanslin, Fredrik Øglænd; Pepke, Michael Le. (2023) The evolution of extra-pair paternity and paternal care in birds. Behavioral Ecology
Academic article
Carlsen, Astrid A.; Wright, Jonathan; Lorentsen, Svein-Håkon; Lea, Stephen E.G.. (2023) Prey predictability and preparation versus recovery breathing strategies in European shags Gulosus aristotelis (L.) diving in different habitats. Ethology
Academic article

2022

Søraker, Jørgen Skavdal; Jensen, Henrik; Sæther, Bernt-Erik; Wright, Jonathan; Ranke, Peter Sjolte; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen G.. (2022) Disentangling the age-dependent causal pathways affecting multiple paternity in house sparrows. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Master thesis
Wright, Jonathan; Haaland, Thomas; Dingemanse, Niels J.; Westneat, David F.. (2022) A reaction norm framework for the evolution of learning: how cumulative experience shapes phenotypic plasticity. Biological Reviews
Academic article
Pepke, Michael Le; Kvalnes, Thomas; Ranke, Peter Sjolte; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Wright, Jonathan; Sæther, Bernt-Erik; Jensen, Henrik; Ringsby, Thor Harald. (2022) Causes and consequences of variation in early-life telomere length in a bird metapopulation. Ecology and Evolution
Academic article

2021

Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2021) Individual reversible plasticity as a genotype-level bet-hedging strategy. Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Academic article
Bonner, Simon; Mutzel, Ariane; Kim, Han-Na; Westneat, David F.; Wright, Jonathan; Schofield, Matthew. (2021) dalmatian: A Package for Fitting Double Hierarchical Linear Models in R via JAGS and nimble. Journal of Statistical Software
Academic article
Muller, Amandine Sophie; Jensen, Henrik; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Husby, Arild; Kvalnes, Thomas; Lundregan, Sarah; Niskanen, Alina Katariina; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Wright, Jonathan. (2021) Effects of inbreeding on lay date in house sparrows (Passer domesticus). Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Master thesis
Carlsen, Astrid A.; Lorentsen, Svein-Håkon; Wright, Jonathan. (2021) Recovery, body mass and buoyancy: a detailed analysis of foraging dive cycles in the European shag. Animal Behaviour
Academic article
Wetzel, Daniel P.; Mutzel, Ariane; Wright, Jonathan; Dingemanse, Niels J.. (2021) Novel sources of (co)variation in nestling begging behavior and hunger at different biological levels of analysis. Behavioral Ecology
Academic article
Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Niskanen, Alina Katariina; Froy, Hannah; Ranke, Peter Sjolte; Kvalnes, Thomas; Rønning, Bernt; Pepke, Michael Le; Jensen, Henrik; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Sæther, Bernt-Erik. (2021) Variation in generation time reveals density regulation as an important driver of pace of life in a bird metapopulation. Ecology Letters
Academic article
Fjelldal, Mari Aas; Wright, Jonathan; Stawski, Clare. (2021) Nightly torpor use in response to weather conditions and individual state in an insectivorous bat. Oecologia
Academic article
Parthasarathy, Bharat; Somanathan, Hema; Wright, Jonathan. (2021) Long-Term Behavioural Syndrome in Subadult Indian Social Spiders But Not Over the Short-Term or in Juveniles. Ethology
Academic article
Ranke, Peter Sjolte; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Pärn, Henrik; Rønning, Bernt; Jensen, Henrik; Wright, Jonathan; Sæther, Bernt-Erik. (2021) Spatial structure and dispersal dynamics in a house sparrow metapopulation. Journal of Animal Ecology
Academic article
Pepke, Michael Le; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Jensen, Henrik; Kvalnes, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan. (2021) The ecological and evolutionary role of telomere length in house sparrows. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral thesis

2020

Lundin, Thorbjørn; Wright, Jonathan; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen. (2020) Network analysis of genetic relatedness using population dynamic simulations. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Master thesis
O'Shea, Myranda; Wright, Jonathan; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen. (2020) The Role of Indirect Genetic Effects in Evolutionary Rescue. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Master thesis
Wetzel, Daniel P.; Mutzel, Ariane; Wright, Jonathan; Dingemanse, Niels J.. (2020) Multivariate mixed models reveal novel sources of (co)variation in nestling begging behavior. Behavioral Ecology
Academic article
Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Westneat, David F.; Wright, Jonathan. (2020) Pathways to social evolution and their eco-evolutionary feedbacks. Evolution
Academic article
Dingemanse, Niels J.; Wright, Jonathan. (2020) Criteria for successful studies of animal personality and behavioural syndromes. Ethology
Editorial
Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2020) Generalists versus specialists in fluctuating environments: a bet-hedging perspective. Oikos
Academic article
Engen, Steinar; Wright, Jonathan; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Sæther, Bernt-Erik. (2020) Phenotypic evolution in stochastic environments: The contribution of frequency- and density-dependent selection. Evolution
Academic article
Wright, Jonathan; Solbu, Erik Blystad; Engen, Steinar. (2020) Contrasting patterns of density-dependent selection at different life stages can create more than one fast–slow axis of life-history variation. Ecology and Evolution
Academic article

2019

Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2019) Bet-hedging across generations can affect the evolution of variance-sensitive strategies within generations. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences
Academic article
Carlsen, Astrid Anette; Wright, Jonathan; Lorentsen, Svein Håkon; Bech, Claus; Moe, Børge. (2019) Tests of the Marginal Value Theorem in diving bouts of foraging trips in pairs of breeding European shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis). Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Master thesis
Mutzel, Ariane; Olsen, Anne-Lise; Mathot, Kimberley J; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Nicolaus, Marion; Wijmenga, Jan J; Wright, Jonathan; Kempenaers, Bart; Dingemanse, Niels J.. (2019) Effects of manipulated levels of predation threat on parental provisioning and nestling begging. Behavioral Ecology
Academic article
Lilleng, Simen; Wright, Jonathan; Jensen, Henrik; Rønning, Bernt. (2019) Individual variation and indirect social effects in producer-scrounger behaviour in groups of house sparrows, Passer domesticus. NTNU
Master thesis
Wright, Jonathan; Jutfelt, Fredrik; Finnøen, Mette Helene; Morgan, Rachael; Brusevold, Tine Elisabeth Dahl. (2019) Behavioural traits correlate in zebrafish (Danio rerio) selected for high and low upper thermal tolerance. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Master thesis
Haaland, Thomas; Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Wright, Jonathan. (2019) Adaptive responses to environmental stochasticity on different evolutionary time-scales. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral thesis
Wright, Jonathan; Bolstad, Geir Hysing; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Dingemanse, Niels J.. (2019) Life-history evolution under fluctuating density-dependent selection and the adaptive alignment of pace-of-life syndromes. Biological Reviews
Academic article
Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Ranke, Peter Sjolte; Kvalnes, Thomas; Rønning, Bernt; Holand, Håkon; Myhre, Ane Marlene; Pärn, Henrik; Jensen, Henrik; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Sæther, Bernt-Erik. (2019) Characterizing morphological (co)variation using structural equation models: Body size, allometric relationships and evolvability in a house sparrow metapopulation. Evolution
Academic article
Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Tufto, Jarle; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2019) Short‐term insurance versus long‐term bet‐hedging strategies as adaptations to variable environments. Evolution
Academic article
Einum, Sigurd; Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Wright, Jonathan; Pelabon, Christophe; Bech, Claus; Jutfelt, Fredrik; Stawski, Clare; Burton, Tim. (2019) How to quantify thermal acclimation capacity?. Global Change Biology
Academic article

2018

Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Bolstad, Geir Hysing; Brommer, Jon; Careau, Vincent; Dingemanse, Niels J.; Wright, Jonathan. (2018) Demographic measures of an individual's "pace of life": fecundity rate, lifespan, generation time, or a composite variable?. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Academic article
Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan. (2018) Differential allocation of parental investment and the trade-off between size and number of offspring. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences
Academic article
Raunsgard, Astrid; Opedal, Øystein Hjorthol; Ekrem, Runa K; Wright, Jonathan; Bolstad, Geir Hysing; Armbruster, William Scott; Pelabon, Christophe. (2018) Intersexual conflict over seed size is stronger in more outcrossed populations of a mixed-mating plant. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)
Academic article
Berdal, Monica Anderson; Rosenqvist, Gunilla; Wright, Jonathan. (2018) Innovation as part of a wider behavioural syndrome in the guppy: The effect of sex and body size. Ethology
Academic article
Talal, Mohammad; Wright, Jonathan; Jensen, Henrik; Ringsby, Thor Harald. (2018) Individual variation and indirect social effects in Producer-Scrounger behavior in the House Sparrow, Passer domesticus. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Master thesis

2017

Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Kuijper, Bram; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2017) Differential allocation revisited: When should mate quality affect parental investment?. The American Naturalist
Academic article
Pettersen, Nils Håkon; Wright, Jonathan; Jensen, Henrik; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Rønning, Bernt. (2017) Indirect social effects of the individual strategy in producer-scrounger foraging interactions. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Master thesis
Mathot, Kimberley J; Olsen, Anne-Lise; Mutzel, Ariane; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Nicolaus, Marion; Westneat, David F.; Wright, Jonathan; Kempenaers, Bart; Dingemanse, Niels J.. (2017) Provisioning tactics of great tits (Parus major) in response to long-term brood size manipulations differ across years. Behavioral Ecology
Academic article
Rye, Kristian; Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Haaland, Thomas. (2017) Differential Allocation in Parental Care - as a Strategy to Retain High Quality Partners. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Master thesis
Westneat, David F.; Mutzel, Ariane; Bonner, Simon; Wright, Jonathan. (2017) Experimental manipulation of brood size affects several levels of phenotypic variance in offspring and parent pied flycatchers. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Academic article

2016

Hammerås, John; Wright, Jonathan; Jensen, Henrik; Pärn, Henrik; Rønning, Bernt. (2016) Covarying Behaviours and Innovation in a House Sparrow Metapopulation. MSc Thesis, NTNU
Master thesis
Wright, Jonathan; McDonald, Paul G.. (2016) Kin selected helping decisions of the bell miner.
Non-fiction chapter
Wright, Jonathan; Finnøen, Mette Helene; Jensen, Henrik; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Rønning, Bernt. (2016) Personality and pace-of-life behavioral syndromes in a model species, the House Sparrow (Passer domesticus). Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Master thesis
Olsen, Mirja Carola; Wright, Jonathan; Jensen, Henrik; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Rønning, Bernt. (2016) Linking variation in personality and behavioural syndromes to social foraging and producer-scrounger effects in house sparrows (Passer domesticus). Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Master thesis

2015

Wright, Jonathan; Jensen, Henrik; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Pärn, Henrik; Rønning, Bernt; Sommerli, Sindre Lysfjord. (2015) Personality and Innovation in House Sparrows - Evolutionary and Demographic Consequences of Individual Phenotypic Differences. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Master thesis
Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Haaland, Thomas Ray. (2015) A General Stochastic Dynamic Model of the Differential Allocation Hypothesis. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Master thesis
Wright, Jonathan; Rosenqvist, Gunilla; Berdal, Monica Anderson. (2015) Distinguishing animal personality and innovation in the guppy - the effect of sex and body size. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Master thesis
Botero, Carlos A.; Weissing, Franjo J.; Wright, Jonathan; Rubenstein, Dustin R.. (2015) Evolutionary tipping points in the capacity to adapt to environmental change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)
Academic article
Westneat, David; Wright, Jonathan; Dingemanse, Niels J.. (2015) The biology hidden inside residual within-individual phenotypic variation. Biological Reviews
Academic article
Pelabon, Christophe; Albertsen, Elena; Falahati-Anbaran, Mohsen; Wright, Jonathan; Armbruster, William Scott. (2015) Does multiple paternity affect seed mass in angiosperms? An experimental test in Dalechampia scandens. Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Academic article

2014

Wright, Jonathan; Humstad, Anne-Lise Haugdahl. (2014) Linking animal personality and innovation. MSc Thesis, NTNU
Master thesis

2013

Sørheim, Maja Dineh; Wright, Jonathan; Linnell, John Durrus. (2013) Effekten av sosiale forstyrrelser på arealbruk og territoriestabilitet hos en aktivt forvaltet populasjon av gaupe (Lynx lynx). Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Master thesis
Mutzel, Ariane; Blom, Mozes P. K.; Spagopoulou, Foteini; Wright, Jonathan; Dingemanse, Niels J.; Kempenaers, Bart. (2013) Temporal trade-offs between nestling provisioning and defence against nest predators in blue tits. Animal Behaviour
Academic article
Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Wright, Jonathan. (2013) Adaptive management of body mass by Siberian jays. Animal Behaviour
Academic article
Westneat, David; Schofield, Matthew; Wright, Jonathan. (2013) Parental behavior exhibits among-individual variance, plasticity, and heterogeneous residual variance. Behavioral Ecology
Academic article

2012

Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Wright, Jonathan; Kazem, Anahita N.J.. (2012) Foraging in a variable world: Adaptations to stochasticity. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral thesis
Dingemanse, NJ; Barber, I; Wright, Jonathan; Brommer, JE. (2012) Quantitative genetics of behavioural reaction norms: genetic correlations between personality and behavioural plasticity vary across stickleback populations. Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Academic article
Wright, Jonathan; Fliflet, Henrik Rasmussen; Solberg, Erling Johan; Van Moorter, Bram F. A.; Rolandsen, Christer Moe. (2012) Spatial and Temporal Variation in Moose (Alces alces) Road Crossings. MSc Thesis. NTNU
Master thesis
Briga, Michael; Pen, Ido; Wright, Jonathan. (2012) Care for kin: within-group relatedness and allomaternal care are positively correlated and conserved throughout the mammalian phylogeny. Biology Letters
Academic article
Mathot, KJ; Wright, Jonathan; Kempenaers, B; Dingemanse, NJ. (2012) Adaptive strategies for managing uncertainty may explain personality-related differences in behavioural plasticity. Oikos
Academic article
Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Sødal, Liv Randi Henøen; Kazem, Anahita J.N.; Wright, Jonathan. (2012) Private and public information use strategies by foraging groups of wild Siberian jays. Animal Behaviour
Academic article
Burger, Claudia; Belskii, E; Eeva, T; Laaksonen, T; Mägi, M; Mand, Raivo; Qvarnström, Anna; Slagsvold, Tore; Veen, Thor; Visser, Marcel E.. (2012) Climate change, breeding date and nestling diet: how temperature differentially affects seasonal changes in pied flycatcher diet depending on habitat variation. Journal of Animal Ecology
Academic article

2011

Wright, Jonathan. (2011) Honest begging: signals of need, quality, and/or hunger?. Behavioral Ecology
Editorial
Berne, Erlend; Wright, Jonathan. (2011) Safe, selfish, state-independent mobbing in the cooperatively breeding apostlebirds. NTNU
Master thesis
McDonald, Paul G.; Wright, Jonathan. (2011) Bell miner provisioning calls are more similar among relatives and are used by helpers at the nest to bias their effort towards kin. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences
Academic article

2010

Wright, Jonathan; McDonald, PG; Marvelde, Luc te; Kazem, Anahita N.J.; Bishop, Charles M. (2010) Helping effort increases with relatedness in bell miners, but 'unrelated' helpers of both sexes still provide substantial care. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences
Academic article
Sødal, Liv Randi Henøen; Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2010) An experimental test of optimal sampling behaviour in Siberian jays (Perisoreus infaustus). Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Master thesis
Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Wright, Jonathan; Kazem, Anahita N.J.. (2010) Social class influences degree of variance sensitivity in wild Siberian jays. Behavioral Ecology
Academic article
Dingemanse, NJ; Dochtermann, N; Wright, Jonathan. (2010) A method for exploring the structure of behavioural syndromes to allow formal comparison within and between data sets. Animal Behaviour
Academic article
Dingemanse, Niels; Kazem, Anahita N.J.; Reale, D; Wright, Jonathan. (2010) Behavioural reaction norms: animal personality meets individual plasticity. Trends in Ecology & Evolution
Editorial
Wright, Jonathan; Radford, AN. (2010) Variance-Sensitive Green Woodhoopoes: A New Explanation for Sex Differences in Foraging?. Ethology
Academic article
Wright, Jonathan; Karasov, William H.; Kazem, Anahita N.J.; Goncalves, Ines Braga; McSwan, Emma. (2010) Begging and digestive responses to differences in long-term and short-term need in nestling pied flycatchers. Animal Behaviour
Academic article
Réale, Denis; Dingemanse, Niels J.; Kazem, Anahita J.N.; Wright, Jonathan. (2010) Evolutionary and ecological approaches to the study of personality. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences
Editorial
McDonald, Paul G.; Ewing, John G.; Wright, Jonathan. (2010) Brood sex ratio does not affect helper effort in a cooperative bird, despite extreme sex-biased dispersal. Animal Behaviour
Academic article
Rollins, L.A.; Holleley, C.E.; Wright, Jonathan; Russell, AF; Griffith, Simon C.. (2010) Isolation and characterization of 12 polymorphic tetranucleotide microsatellite loci in the apostlebird (Struthidea cinerea). Conservation Genetics Resources
Academic article

2009

Van de Pol, Martijn; Wright, Jonathan. (2009) A simple method for distinguishing within- versus between-subject effects usung mixed models. Animal Behaviour
Academic article
Benestad, Lars; Wright, Jonathan; Kazem, Anahita N.J.. (2009) Does interest from the opposite sex influence mate choice in a speedd-dating context?. NTNU, Institutt for biologi
Master thesis
Grøntvedt, Trond Viggo; Wright, Jonathan. (2009) Flexible aspirations in a mutual mate choice system: does courtship interest received influence partner preferences?. NTNU, Institutt for biologi
Master thesis
Dall, Sasha XR; Wright, Jonathan. (2009) Rich pickings near large communal roosts favor 'gang' foraging by juvenile common ravens, Corvus corax. PLOS ONE
Academic article
Lykkja, Odd; Solberg, Erling Johan; Herfindal, Ivar; Wright, Jonathan; Rolandsen, Christer Moe; Hanssen, Martin Georg. (2009) The effects of human activity on summer habitat use by moose. Alces
Academic article
McDonald, PG; Kazem, Anahita N.J.; Wright, Jonathan. (2009) Cooperative provisioning dynamics: fathers and unrelated helpers show similar responses to manipulations of begging. Animal Behaviour
Academic article
Marvelde, LT; McDonald, PG; Kazem, Anahita N.J.; Wright, Jonathan. (2009) Do helpers really help? Provisioning biomass and prey type effects on nestling growth in the cooperative bell miner. Animal Behaviour
Academic article
Aksnes, Leif Haraldson; Wright, Jonathan; Kazem, Anahita N.J.. (2009) "False-feeding" helping behaviour in the cooperative apostlebird, Struthidea cinerea. NTNU, Institutt for biologi
Master thesis
Vestues, Gro; Wright, Jonathan. (2009) The mating system of the Svalbard reindeer. Effects of male age and antler size on harem size, behaviour during the rutting season and reproductive effort. NTNU, Institutt for biologi
Master thesis
Olsen, Anne-Lise; Wright, Jonathan; Kazem, Anahita N.J.. (2009) Provisioning dynamics in the cooperative apostlebird Struthidea cinerea. NTNU, Institutt for biologi
Master thesis
Austad, Tor Martin; Wright, Jonathan; Kazem, Anahita N.J.. (2009) Influence of sex ratio and perceived competition upon mate choice decisions in a speed-dating context. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Master thesis
Russell, AF; Wright, Jonathan. (2009) Avian mobbing: byproduct mutualism not reciprocal altruism. Trends in Ecology & Evolution
Commentary
Dingemanse, NJ; Plas, F Van der; Wright, Jonathan; Reale, D; Schrama, M; Roff, DA; Zee, E Van der; Barber, I. (2009) Individual experience and evolutionary history of predation affect expression of heritable variation in fish personality and morphology. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences
Academic article
Griesser, Michael; Barnaby, Jonathan; Schneider, Nicole A; Figenschau, Nina; Wright, Jonathan; Griffith, Simon C.; Kazem, Anahita N.J.; Russell, AF. (2009) Influence of Winter Ranging Behaviour on the Social Organization of a Cooperatively Breeding Bird Species, The Apostlebird. Ethology
Academic article

2008

Budden, AE; Wright, Jonathan. (2008) Less is more: the effect of food availability on begging performance and digestive efficiency. IBIS
Academic article
McDonald, PG; Kazem, Anahita N.J.; Clarke, MF; Wright, Jonathan. (2008) Helping as a signal: does removal of potential audiences alter helper behavior in the bell miner?. Behavioral Ecology
Academic article
Pacheco, ML; McDonald, PG; Wright, Jonathan; Kazem, Anahita N.J.; Clarke, MF. (2008) Helper contributions to antiparasite behavior in the cooperatively breeding bell miner. Behavioral Ecology
Academic article
Figenschau, Nina; Wright, Jonathan; Kazem, Anahita N.J.. (2008) Nest site selection and habitat saturation in the cooperatively breeding Apostlebird Struthidea cinerea. NTNU, Institutt for biologi
Master thesis
McDonald, PG; Marvelde, LT; Kazem, Anahita N.J.; Wright, Jonathan. (2008) Helping as a signal and the effect of a potential audience during provisioning visits in a cooperative bird. Animal Behaviour
Academic article
Smiseth, PT; Wright, Jonathan; Kolliker, M. (2008) Parent-offspring conflict and co-adaptation: behavioural ecology meets quantitative genetics. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences
Academic literature review
Wright, Jonathan; Russell, AF. (2008) How helpers help: disentangling ecological confounds from the benefits of cooperative breeding. Journal of Animal Ecology
Editorial
McDonald, PG; Wright, Jonathan. (2008) Provisioning vocalizations in cooperative Bell Miners (Manorina melanophrys): More than a simple stimulus for nestling begging?. The AUK: A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology
Academic article
Hanssen, Martin Georg; Wright, Jonathan; Solberg, Erling Johan; Herfindal, Ivar. (2008) Summer movement patterns of moose (Alces alces) in central Norway. NTNU, Institutt for biologi
Master thesis
Lykkja, Odd N.; Wright, Jonathan; Solberg, Erling Johan; Herfindal, Ivar. (2008) The Limiting Effects Of Human Infrastructure And Activity Centers On Moose (Alces alces) Habitat Use During The Summer Season. NTNU, Institutt for biologi
Master thesis
Sæther, Bernt-Erik; Engen, Steinar; Grøtan, Vidar; Bregnballe, Thomas; Both, Christiaan; Tryjanowski, Piotr; Leivits, Agu; Wright, Jonathan; Møller, Anders Pape; Visser, Marcel E.. (2008) Forms of density regulation and (quasi-) stationary distributions of population sizes in birds. Oikos
Academic article

2007

McDonald, PG; Kazem, Anahita N.J.; Wright, Jonathan. (2007) A critical analysis of ‘deceptive’ or ‘false feeding’ behaviour in a cooperative bird: disturbance effects, satiated nestlings or deceit?. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Academic article
Dingemanse, Niels; Wright, Jonathan; Kazem, Anahita N.J.; Thomas, Dawn; Hickling, Rachael; dawney, n. (2007) Behavioural syndromes differ predictably between 12 populations of three-spined stickleback. Journal of Animal Ecology
Academic article
Wright, Jonathan. (2007) Cooperation theory meets cooperative breeding: exposing some ugly truths about social prestige, reciprocity and group augmentation. Behavioural Processes
Editorial
Sæther, Bernt-Erik; Engen, Steinar; Grøtan, Vidar; Fiedler, W; Matthysen, E; Visser, ME; Wright, Jonathan; Moller, AP; Adriaensen, F; Balen, H Van. (2007) The extended Moran effect and large-scale synchronous fluctuations in the size of great tit and blue tit populations. Journal of Animal Ecology
Academic article
McDonald, PG; Heathcote, CF; Clarke, MF; Wright, Jonathan; Kazem, Anahita N.J.. (2007) Provisioning calls of the cooperatively breeding bell miner Manorina melanophrys encode sufficient information for individual discrimination. Journal of Avian Biology
Academic article

2006

Wright, Jonathan. (2006) Altruistic acts as indicators of quality in a cooperative breeder: Are helpers-at-the-nest 'showing off'?. Journal of Ornithology = Journal fur Ornithologie
Conference abstract
Edelaar, P; Wright, Jonathan. (2006) Potential prey make excellent ornithologists: adaptive, flexible responses towards avian predation threat by Arabian Babblers Turdoides squamiceps living at a migratory hotspot. IBIS
Academic article
Yom-Tov, Y; Yom-Tov, S; Wright, Jonathan; Thorne, CJR; Feu, R Du. (2006) Recent changes in body weight and wing length among some British passerine birds. Oikos
Academic article
Wright, Jonathan; Markman, S; Denney, SM. (2006) Facultative adjustment of pre-fledging mass loss by nestling swifts preparing for flight. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences
Academic article

2005

Wright, Jonathan. (2005) A natural history of families. Nature
Book review
Leader, N; Wright, Jonathan; Yom-Tov, Y. (2005) Acoustic properties of two urban song dialects in the Orange-tufted Sunbird (Nectarinia osea). The AUK: A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology
Academic article
Budden, AE; Wright, Jonathan. (2005) Learning during competitive positioning in the nest: do nestlings use ideal free 'foraging' tactics?. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Academic article

2004

Both, Christiaan; Wright, Jonathan. (2004) Large-scale geographical variation confirms that climate change causes birds to lay earlier. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences
Academic article
Markman, Shai; Pinshow, Berry; Wright, Jonathan; Kotler, Burt. (2004) Food patch use by parent birds: to gather food for themselves or for their chicks. Journal of Animal Ecology
Academic article
Walling, Craig; Dawnay, Nick; Kazem, Anahita; Wright, Jonathan. (2004) Predator inspection in sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus): body size, local predation pressure and cooperation. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Academic article
Wright, Jonathan. (2004) A report on long-term UK population trends in thepied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca). Countryside Council for Wales (CCW)
Research report

Journal publications

Hansson Frank, Tor; Ranke, Peter Sjolte; Burnett, Hamish Andrew; Acker, Paul; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Wright, Jonathan; Jensen, Henrik; Sæther, Bernt-Erik; Araya Ajoy, Yimen Gerardo. (2026) Spatial heterogeneity in density dependence across life-history stages drives the dynamics of a bird metapopulation. Ecology
Academic article
Pélabon, Christophe; Agudelo-Cantero, Gustavo Adolfo; Araya Ajoy, Yimen Gerardo; Bolstad, Geir Hysing; Cheng, Changde; Galis, Frietson; Guillaume, Frederic; Haaland, Thomas Ray; Hallgrímsson, Benedikt; Hansen, Thomas Fredrik. (2025) Evolvability: progress and key questions. BioScience
Academic article
Araya Ajoy, Yimen Gerardo; Murray, Myranda; Engen, Steinar; Sæther, Bernt-Erik; Wright, Jonathan. (2025) Decomposing Frequency Dependence on Selection and Population Growth: Implications for Carrying Capacity and Maladaptation. Ecology Letters
Academic article
Fjelldal, Mari A.; Wright, Jonathan; Lilley, Thomas M.; Sørås, Rune; Stawski, Clare. (2025) Female Brown Long‐Eared Bats Plecotus auritus Delay Roost Emergence at Elevated Natural Light Conditions. Ecology and Evolution
Academic article
Van de Pol, Martijn; Wright, Jonathan. (2009) A simple method for distinguishing within- versus between-subject effects usung mixed models. Animal Behaviour
Academic article
Budden, AE; Wright, Jonathan. (2008) Less is more: the effect of food availability on begging performance and digestive efficiency. IBIS
Academic article
McDonald, PG; Kazem, Anahita N.J.; Wright, Jonathan. (2007) A critical analysis of ‘deceptive’ or ‘false feeding’ behaviour in a cooperative bird: disturbance effects, satiated nestlings or deceit?. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Academic article
McDonald, PG; Kazem, Anahita N.J.; Clarke, MF; Wright, Jonathan. (2008) Helping as a signal: does removal of potential audiences alter helper behavior in the bell miner?. Behavioral Ecology
Academic article
Pacheco, ML; McDonald, PG; Wright, Jonathan; Kazem, Anahita N.J.; Clarke, MF. (2008) Helper contributions to antiparasite behavior in the cooperatively breeding bell miner. Behavioral Ecology
Academic article
Wright, Jonathan; McDonald, PG; Marvelde, Luc te; Kazem, Anahita N.J.; Bishop, Charles M. (2010) Helping effort increases with relatedness in bell miners, but 'unrelated' helpers of both sexes still provide substantial care. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences
Academic article
Dingemanse, Niels; Wright, Jonathan; Kazem, Anahita N.J.; Thomas, Dawn; Hickling, Rachael; dawney, n. (2007) Behavioural syndromes differ predictably between 12 populations of three-spined stickleback. Journal of Animal Ecology
Academic article
Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2021) Individual reversible plasticity as a genotype-level bet-hedging strategy. Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Academic article
Both, Christiaan; Wright, Jonathan. (2004) Large-scale geographical variation confirms that climate change causes birds to lay earlier. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences
Academic article
Markman, Shai; Pinshow, Berry; Wright, Jonathan; Kotler, Burt. (2004) Food patch use by parent birds: to gather food for themselves or for their chicks. Journal of Animal Ecology
Academic article
Walling, Craig; Dawnay, Nick; Kazem, Anahita; Wright, Jonathan. (2004) Predator inspection in sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus): body size, local predation pressure and cooperation. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Academic article
Wright, Jonathan. (2007) Cooperation theory meets cooperative breeding: exposing some ugly truths about social prestige, reciprocity and group augmentation. Behavioural Processes
Editorial
Botero, Carlos A.; Weissing, Franjo J.; Wright, Jonathan; Rubenstein, Dustin R.. (2015) Evolutionary tipping points in the capacity to adapt to environmental change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)
Academic article
Westneat, David; Wright, Jonathan; Dingemanse, Niels J.. (2015) The biology hidden inside residual within-individual phenotypic variation. Biological Reviews
Academic article
Bonner, Simon; Mutzel, Ariane; Kim, Han-Na; Westneat, David F.; Wright, Jonathan; Schofield, Matthew. (2021) dalmatian: A Package for Fitting Double Hierarchical Linear Models in R via JAGS and nimble. Journal of Statistical Software
Academic article
Pick, Joel; Kasper, Claudia; Allegue, Hassen; Dingemanse, Niels J.; Dochtermann, Ned A.; Laskowski, Kate L.; Lima, Marcos R.; Schielzeth, Holger; Westneat, David F.; Wright, Jonathan. (2023) Describing posterior distributions of variance components: Problems and the use of null distributions to aid interpretation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Academic article
Groot, Corné de; Wijnhorst, Rori E.; Ratz, Tom; Murray, Myranda Elizabeth; Araya Ajoy, Yimen Gerardo; Wright, Jonathan; Dingemanse, Niels J.. (2023) The importance of distinguishing individual differences in ‘social impact’ versus ‘social responsiveness’ when quantifying indirect genetic effects on the evolution of social plasticity. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
Academic literature review
Dingemanse, NJ; Barber, I; Wright, Jonathan; Brommer, JE. (2012) Quantitative genetics of behavioural reaction norms: genetic correlations between personality and behavioural plasticity vary across stickleback populations. Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Academic article
McDonald, PG; Marvelde, LT; Kazem, Anahita N.J.; Wright, Jonathan. (2008) Helping as a signal and the effect of a potential audience during provisioning visits in a cooperative bird. Animal Behaviour
Academic article
Smiseth, PT; Wright, Jonathan; Kolliker, M. (2008) Parent-offspring conflict and co-adaptation: behavioural ecology meets quantitative genetics. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences
Academic literature review
Wetzel, Daniel P.; Mutzel, Ariane; Wright, Jonathan; Dingemanse, Niels J.. (2020) Multivariate mixed models reveal novel sources of (co)variation in nestling begging behavior. Behavioral Ecology
Academic article
Pepke, Michael Le; Kvalnes, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Araya Ajoy, Yimen Gerardo; Ranke, Peter Sjolte; Boner, Winnie; Monaghan, Pat; Sæther, Bernt-Erik; Jensen, Henrik; Ringsby, Thor Harald. (2023) Longitudinal telomere dynamics within natural lifespans of a wild bird. Scientific Reports
Academic article
Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Wright, Jonathan; Kazem, Anahita N.J.. (2010) Social class influences degree of variance sensitivity in wild Siberian jays. Behavioral Ecology
Academic article
Mutzel, Ariane; Blom, Mozes P. K.; Spagopoulou, Foteini; Wright, Jonathan; Dingemanse, Niels J.; Kempenaers, Bart. (2013) Temporal trade-offs between nestling provisioning and defence against nest predators in blue tits. Animal Behaviour
Academic article
Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Westneat, David F.; Wright, Jonathan. (2020) Pathways to social evolution and their eco-evolutionary feedbacks. Evolution
Academic article
Wright, Jonathan. (2011) Honest begging: signals of need, quality, and/or hunger?. Behavioral Ecology
Editorial
Dingemanse, Niels J.; Wright, Jonathan. (2020) Criteria for successful studies of animal personality and behavioural syndromes. Ethology
Editorial
Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2020) Generalists versus specialists in fluctuating environments: a bet-hedging perspective. Oikos
Academic article
Wright, Jonathan; Russell, AF. (2008) How helpers help: disentangling ecological confounds from the benefits of cooperative breeding. Journal of Animal Ecology
Editorial
Dall, Sasha XR; Wright, Jonathan. (2009) Rich pickings near large communal roosts favor 'gang' foraging by juvenile common ravens, Corvus corax. PLOS ONE
Academic article
Lykkja, Odd; Solberg, Erling Johan; Herfindal, Ivar; Wright, Jonathan; Rolandsen, Christer Moe; Hanssen, Martin Georg. (2009) The effects of human activity on summer habitat use by moose. Alces
Academic article
Dingemanse, NJ; Dochtermann, N; Wright, Jonathan. (2010) A method for exploring the structure of behavioural syndromes to allow formal comparison within and between data sets. Animal Behaviour
Academic article
Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Wright, Jonathan. (2013) Adaptive management of body mass by Siberian jays. Animal Behaviour
Academic article
McDonald, PG; Wright, Jonathan. (2008) Provisioning vocalizations in cooperative Bell Miners (Manorina melanophrys): More than a simple stimulus for nestling begging?. The AUK: A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology
Academic article
Briga, Michael; Pen, Ido; Wright, Jonathan. (2012) Care for kin: within-group relatedness and allomaternal care are positively correlated and conserved throughout the mammalian phylogeny. Biology Letters
Academic article
Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2019) Bet-hedging across generations can affect the evolution of variance-sensitive strategies within generations. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences
Academic article
Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Kuijper, Bram; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2017) Differential allocation revisited: When should mate quality affect parental investment?. The American Naturalist
Academic article
Fjelldal, Mari Aas; Muller, Amandine Sophie; Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Stawski, Clare; Wright, Jonathan. (2023) The small-bat-in-summer paradigm: Energetics and adaptive behavioural routines of bats investigated through a stochastic dynamic model. Journal of Animal Ecology
Academic article
Carlsen, Astrid A.; Lorentsen, Svein-Håkon; Wright, Jonathan. (2021) Recovery, body mass and buoyancy: a detailed analysis of foraging dive cycles in the European shag. Animal Behaviour
Academic article
McDonald, PG; Kazem, Anahita N.J.; Wright, Jonathan. (2009) Cooperative provisioning dynamics: fathers and unrelated helpers show similar responses to manipulations of begging. Animal Behaviour
Academic article
Marvelde, LT; McDonald, PG; Kazem, Anahita N.J.; Wright, Jonathan. (2009) Do helpers really help? Provisioning biomass and prey type effects on nestling growth in the cooperative bell miner. Animal Behaviour
Academic article
Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Bolstad, Geir Hysing; Brommer, Jon; Careau, Vincent; Dingemanse, Niels J.; Wright, Jonathan. (2018) Demographic measures of an individual's "pace of life": fecundity rate, lifespan, generation time, or a composite variable?. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Academic article
Sæther, Bernt-Erik; Engen, Steinar; Grøtan, Vidar; Fiedler, W; Matthysen, E; Visser, ME; Wright, Jonathan; Moller, AP; Adriaensen, F; Balen, H Van. (2007) The extended Moran effect and large-scale synchronous fluctuations in the size of great tit and blue tit populations. Journal of Animal Ecology
Academic article
McDonald, PG; Heathcote, CF; Clarke, MF; Wright, Jonathan; Kazem, Anahita N.J.. (2007) Provisioning calls of the cooperatively breeding bell miner Manorina melanophrys encode sufficient information for individual discrimination. Journal of Avian Biology
Academic article
Wright, Jonathan. (2006) Altruistic acts as indicators of quality in a cooperative breeder: Are helpers-at-the-nest 'showing off'?. Journal of Ornithology = Journal fur Ornithologie
Conference abstract
Araya Ajoy, Yimen Gerardo; Dingemanse, Niels J.; Westneat, David F.; Wright, Jonathan. (2023) The evolutionary ecology of variation in labile traits: selection on its among- and within-individual components. Evolution
Academic article
Mutzel, Ariane; Olsen, Anne-Lise; Mathot, Kimberley J; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Nicolaus, Marion; Wijmenga, Jan J; Wright, Jonathan; Kempenaers, Bart; Dingemanse, Niels J.. (2019) Effects of manipulated levels of predation threat on parental provisioning and nestling begging. Behavioral Ecology
Academic article
Wetzel, Daniel P.; Mutzel, Ariane; Wright, Jonathan; Dingemanse, Niels J.. (2021) Novel sources of (co)variation in nestling begging behavior and hunger at different biological levels of analysis. Behavioral Ecology
Academic article
Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan. (2018) Differential allocation of parental investment and the trade-off between size and number of offspring. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences
Academic article
Dingemanse, Niels; Kazem, Anahita N.J.; Reale, D; Wright, Jonathan. (2010) Behavioural reaction norms: animal personality meets individual plasticity. Trends in Ecology & Evolution
Editorial
Raunsgard, Astrid; Opedal, Øystein Hjorthol; Ekrem, Runa K; Wright, Jonathan; Bolstad, Geir Hysing; Armbruster, William Scott; Pelabon, Christophe. (2018) Intersexual conflict over seed size is stronger in more outcrossed populations of a mixed-mating plant. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)
Academic article
Wright, Jonathan; Radford, AN. (2010) Variance-Sensitive Green Woodhoopoes: A New Explanation for Sex Differences in Foraging?. Ethology
Academic article
Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Niskanen, Alina Katariina; Froy, Hannah; Ranke, Peter Sjolte; Kvalnes, Thomas; Rønning, Bernt; Pepke, Michael Le; Jensen, Henrik; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Sæther, Bernt-Erik. (2021) Variation in generation time reveals density regulation as an important driver of pace of life in a bird metapopulation. Ecology Letters
Academic article
Wright, Jonathan; Bolstad, Geir Hysing; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Dingemanse, Niels J.. (2019) Life-history evolution under fluctuating density-dependent selection and the adaptive alignment of pace-of-life syndromes. Biological Reviews
Academic article
Fjelldal, Mari Aas; Wright, Jonathan; Stawski, Clare. (2021) Nightly torpor use in response to weather conditions and individual state in an insectivorous bat. Oecologia
Academic article
Pelabon, Christophe; Albertsen, Elena; Falahati-Anbaran, Mohsen; Wright, Jonathan; Armbruster, William Scott. (2015) Does multiple paternity affect seed mass in angiosperms? An experimental test in Dalechampia scandens. Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Academic article
Ranke, Peter Sjolte; Pepke, Michael Le; Søraker, Jørgen Skavdal; David, Gabriel; Araya Ajoy, Yimen Gerardo; Wright, Jonathan; Nafstad, Ådne Messel; Rønning, Bernt; Pärn, Henrik; Ringsby, Thor Harald. (2024) Long-distance dispersal in the short-distance dispersing house sparrow (Passer domesticus). Ecology and Evolution
Academic article
Wright, Jonathan. (2005) A natural history of families. Nature
Book review
Carlsen, Astrid A.; Lorentsen, Svein-Håkon; Mattisson, Jenny; Wright, Jonathan. (2023) Temporal non-independence of foraging dive and surface duration sequences in the European shag Gulosus aristotelis. Ethology
Academic article
Mathot, Kimberley J; Olsen, Anne-Lise; Mutzel, Ariane; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Nicolaus, Marion; Westneat, David F.; Wright, Jonathan; Kempenaers, Bart; Dingemanse, Niels J.. (2017) Provisioning tactics of great tits (Parus major) in response to long-term brood size manipulations differ across years. Behavioral Ecology
Academic article
Fjelldal, Mari Aas; Stawski, Clare; Sørås, Rune; Wright, Jonathan. (2023) Determining the different phases of torpor from skin-or body temperature data in heterotherms. Journal of Thermal Biology
Academic article
Parthasarathy, Bharat; Somanathan, Hema; Wright, Jonathan. (2021) Long-Term Behavioural Syndrome in Subadult Indian Social Spiders But Not Over the Short-Term or in Juveniles. Ethology
Academic article
Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Ranke, Peter Sjolte; Kvalnes, Thomas; Rønning, Bernt; Holand, Håkon; Myhre, Ane Marlene; Pärn, Henrik; Jensen, Henrik; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Sæther, Bernt-Erik. (2019) Characterizing morphological (co)variation using structural equation models: Body size, allometric relationships and evolvability in a house sparrow metapopulation. Evolution
Academic article
Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Tufto, Jarle; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2019) Short‐term insurance versus long‐term bet‐hedging strategies as adaptations to variable environments. Evolution
Academic article
Westneat, David; Schofield, Matthew; Wright, Jonathan. (2013) Parental behavior exhibits among-individual variance, plasticity, and heterogeneous residual variance. Behavioral Ecology
Academic article
Engen, Steinar; Wright, Jonathan; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Sæther, Bernt-Erik. (2020) Phenotypic evolution in stochastic environments: The contribution of frequency- and density-dependent selection. Evolution
Academic article
Berdal, Monica Anderson; Rosenqvist, Gunilla; Wright, Jonathan. (2018) Innovation as part of a wider behavioural syndrome in the guppy: The effect of sex and body size. Ethology
Academic article
Mathot, KJ; Wright, Jonathan; Kempenaers, B; Dingemanse, NJ. (2012) Adaptive strategies for managing uncertainty may explain personality-related differences in behavioural plasticity. Oikos
Academic article
Murray, Myranda; Wright, Jonathan; Araya Ajoy, Yimen Gerardo. (2024) Evolutionary rescue from climate change: male indirect genetic effects on lay-dates and their consequences for population persistence. Evolution Letters
Academic article
Ranke, Peter Sjolte; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Pärn, Henrik; Rønning, Bernt; Jensen, Henrik; Wright, Jonathan; Sæther, Bernt-Erik. (2021) Spatial structure and dispersal dynamics in a house sparrow metapopulation. Journal of Animal Ecology
Academic article
Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Sødal, Liv Randi Henøen; Kazem, Anahita J.N.; Wright, Jonathan. (2012) Private and public information use strategies by foraging groups of wild Siberian jays. Animal Behaviour
Academic article
Burger, Claudia; Belskii, E; Eeva, T; Laaksonen, T; Mägi, M; Mand, Raivo; Qvarnström, Anna; Slagsvold, Tore; Veen, Thor; Visser, Marcel E.. (2012) Climate change, breeding date and nestling diet: how temperature differentially affects seasonal changes in pied flycatcher diet depending on habitat variation. Journal of Animal Ecology
Academic article
Russell, AF; Wright, Jonathan. (2009) Avian mobbing: byproduct mutualism not reciprocal altruism. Trends in Ecology & Evolution
Commentary
Søraker, Jørgen Skavdal; Wright, Jonathan; Hanslin, Fredrik Øglænd; Pepke, Michael Le. (2023) The evolution of extra-pair paternity and paternal care in birds. Behavioral Ecology
Academic article
Westneat, David F.; Mutzel, Ariane; Bonner, Simon; Wright, Jonathan. (2017) Experimental manipulation of brood size affects several levels of phenotypic variance in offspring and parent pied flycatchers. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Academic article
Einum, Sigurd; Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Wright, Jonathan; Pelabon, Christophe; Bech, Claus; Jutfelt, Fredrik; Stawski, Clare; Burton, Tim. (2019) How to quantify thermal acclimation capacity?. Global Change Biology
Academic article
Wright, Jonathan; Karasov, William H.; Kazem, Anahita N.J.; Goncalves, Ines Braga; McSwan, Emma. (2010) Begging and digestive responses to differences in long-term and short-term need in nestling pied flycatchers. Animal Behaviour
Academic article
Wright, Jonathan; Haaland, Thomas; Dingemanse, Niels J.; Westneat, David F.. (2022) A reaction norm framework for the evolution of learning: how cumulative experience shapes phenotypic plasticity. Biological Reviews
Academic article
Wright, Jonathan; Solbu, Erik Blystad; Engen, Steinar. (2020) Contrasting patterns of density-dependent selection at different life stages can create more than one fast–slow axis of life-history variation. Ecology and Evolution
Academic article
Sæther, Bernt-Erik; Engen, Steinar; Grøtan, Vidar; Bregnballe, Thomas; Both, Christiaan; Tryjanowski, Piotr; Leivits, Agu; Wright, Jonathan; Møller, Anders Pape; Visser, Marcel E.. (2008) Forms of density regulation and (quasi-) stationary distributions of population sizes in birds. Oikos
Academic article
Carlsen, Astrid A.; Wright, Jonathan; Lorentsen, Svein-Håkon; Lea, Stephen E.G.. (2023) Prey predictability and preparation versus recovery breathing strategies in European shags Gulosus aristotelis (L.) diving in different habitats. Ethology
Academic article
Réale, Denis; Dingemanse, Niels J.; Kazem, Anahita J.N.; Wright, Jonathan. (2010) Evolutionary and ecological approaches to the study of personality. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences
Editorial
McDonald, Paul G.; Ewing, John G.; Wright, Jonathan. (2010) Brood sex ratio does not affect helper effort in a cooperative bird, despite extreme sex-biased dispersal. Animal Behaviour
Academic article
Pepke, Michael Le; Kvalnes, Thomas; Ranke, Peter Sjolte; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Wright, Jonathan; Sæther, Bernt-Erik; Jensen, Henrik; Ringsby, Thor Harald. (2022) Causes and consequences of variation in early-life telomere length in a bird metapopulation. Ecology and Evolution
Academic article
Edelaar, P; Wright, Jonathan. (2006) Potential prey make excellent ornithologists: adaptive, flexible responses towards avian predation threat by Arabian Babblers Turdoides squamiceps living at a migratory hotspot. IBIS
Academic article
Yom-Tov, Y; Yom-Tov, S; Wright, Jonathan; Thorne, CJR; Feu, R Du. (2006) Recent changes in body weight and wing length among some British passerine birds. Oikos
Academic article
Dingemanse, NJ; Plas, F Van der; Wright, Jonathan; Reale, D; Schrama, M; Roff, DA; Zee, E Van der; Barber, I. (2009) Individual experience and evolutionary history of predation affect expression of heritable variation in fish personality and morphology. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences
Academic article
Wright, Jonathan; Markman, S; Denney, SM. (2006) Facultative adjustment of pre-fledging mass loss by nestling swifts preparing for flight. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences
Academic article
Griesser, Michael; Barnaby, Jonathan; Schneider, Nicole A; Figenschau, Nina; Wright, Jonathan; Griffith, Simon C.; Kazem, Anahita N.J.; Russell, AF. (2009) Influence of Winter Ranging Behaviour on the Social Organization of a Cooperatively Breeding Bird Species, The Apostlebird. Ethology
Academic article
Leader, N; Wright, Jonathan; Yom-Tov, Y. (2005) Acoustic properties of two urban song dialects in the Orange-tufted Sunbird (Nectarinia osea). The AUK: A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology
Academic article
Budden, AE; Wright, Jonathan. (2005) Learning during competitive positioning in the nest: do nestlings use ideal free 'foraging' tactics?. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Academic article
Rollins, L.A.; Holleley, C.E.; Wright, Jonathan; Russell, AF; Griffith, Simon C.. (2010) Isolation and characterization of 12 polymorphic tetranucleotide microsatellite loci in the apostlebird (Struthidea cinerea). Conservation Genetics Resources
Academic article
McDonald, Paul G.; Wright, Jonathan. (2011) Bell miner provisioning calls are more similar among relatives and are used by helpers at the nest to bias their effort towards kin. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences
Academic article

Part of book/report

Wright, Jonathan; McDonald, Paul G.. (2016) Kin selected helping decisions of the bell miner.
Non-fiction chapter

Report

Wright, Jonathan. (2004) A report on long-term UK population trends in thepied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca). Countryside Council for Wales (CCW)
Research report

Student thesis or dissertation

Hansson Frank, Tor; Araya Ajoy, Yimen Gerardo; Wright, Jonathan; Sæther, Bernt-Erik; Jensen, Henrik. (2026) Density-dependent evolutionary demography in a small passerine – from the metapopulation level to life-history traits. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral thesis
Lundin, Thorbjørn; Wright, Jonathan; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen. (2020) Network analysis of genetic relatedness using population dynamic simulations. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Master thesis
O'Shea, Myranda; Wright, Jonathan; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen. (2020) The Role of Indirect Genetic Effects in Evolutionary Rescue. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Master thesis
Wright, Jonathan; Jensen, Henrik; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Pärn, Henrik; Rønning, Bernt; Sommerli, Sindre Lysfjord. (2015) Personality and Innovation in House Sparrows - Evolutionary and Demographic Consequences of Individual Phenotypic Differences. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Master thesis
Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Haaland, Thomas Ray. (2015) A General Stochastic Dynamic Model of the Differential Allocation Hypothesis. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Master thesis
Benestad, Lars; Wright, Jonathan; Kazem, Anahita N.J.. (2009) Does interest from the opposite sex influence mate choice in a speedd-dating context?. NTNU, Institutt for biologi
Master thesis
Wright, Jonathan; Rosenqvist, Gunilla; Berdal, Monica Anderson. (2015) Distinguishing animal personality and innovation in the guppy - the effect of sex and body size. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Master thesis
Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Wright, Jonathan; Kazem, Anahita N.J.. (2012) Foraging in a variable world: Adaptations to stochasticity. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral thesis
Sørheim, Maja Dineh; Wright, Jonathan; Linnell, John Durrus. (2013) Effekten av sosiale forstyrrelser på arealbruk og territoriestabilitet hos en aktivt forvaltet populasjon av gaupe (Lynx lynx). Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Master thesis
Grøntvedt, Trond Viggo; Wright, Jonathan. (2009) Flexible aspirations in a mutual mate choice system: does courtship interest received influence partner preferences?. NTNU, Institutt for biologi
Master thesis
Sødal, Liv Randi Henøen; Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2010) An experimental test of optimal sampling behaviour in Siberian jays (Perisoreus infaustus). Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Master thesis
Figenschau, Nina; Wright, Jonathan; Kazem, Anahita N.J.. (2008) Nest site selection and habitat saturation in the cooperatively breeding Apostlebird Struthidea cinerea. NTNU, Institutt for biologi
Master thesis
Wright, Jonathan; Humstad, Anne-Lise Haugdahl. (2014) Linking animal personality and innovation. MSc Thesis, NTNU
Master thesis
Muller, Amandine Sophie; Jensen, Henrik; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Husby, Arild; Kvalnes, Thomas; Lundregan, Sarah; Niskanen, Alina Katariina; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Wright, Jonathan. (2021) Effects of inbreeding on lay date in house sparrows (Passer domesticus). Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Master thesis
Wright, Jonathan; Fliflet, Henrik Rasmussen; Solberg, Erling Johan; Van Moorter, Bram F. A.; Rolandsen, Christer Moe. (2012) Spatial and Temporal Variation in Moose (Alces alces) Road Crossings. MSc Thesis. NTNU
Master thesis
Hanssen, Martin Georg; Wright, Jonathan; Solberg, Erling Johan; Herfindal, Ivar. (2008) Summer movement patterns of moose (Alces alces) in central Norway. NTNU, Institutt for biologi
Master thesis
Carlsen, Astrid Anette; Wright, Jonathan; Lorentsen, Svein Håkon; Bech, Claus; Moe, Børge. (2019) Tests of the Marginal Value Theorem in diving bouts of foraging trips in pairs of breeding European shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis). Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Master thesis
Lilleng, Simen; Wright, Jonathan; Jensen, Henrik; Rønning, Bernt. (2019) Individual variation and indirect social effects in producer-scrounger behaviour in groups of house sparrows, Passer domesticus. NTNU
Master thesis
Wright, Jonathan; Jutfelt, Fredrik; Finnøen, Mette Helene; Morgan, Rachael; Brusevold, Tine Elisabeth Dahl. (2019) Behavioural traits correlate in zebrafish (Danio rerio) selected for high and low upper thermal tolerance. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Master thesis
Haaland, Thomas; Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Wright, Jonathan. (2019) Adaptive responses to environmental stochasticity on different evolutionary time-scales. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral thesis
Søraker, Jørgen Skavdal; Jensen, Henrik; Sæther, Bernt-Erik; Wright, Jonathan; Ranke, Peter Sjolte; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen G.. (2022) Disentangling the age-dependent causal pathways affecting multiple paternity in house sparrows. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Master thesis
Lykkja, Odd N.; Wright, Jonathan; Solberg, Erling Johan; Herfindal, Ivar. (2008) The Limiting Effects Of Human Infrastructure And Activity Centers On Moose (Alces alces) Habitat Use During The Summer Season. NTNU, Institutt for biologi
Master thesis
Pettersen, Nils Håkon; Wright, Jonathan; Jensen, Henrik; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Rønning, Bernt. (2017) Indirect social effects of the individual strategy in producer-scrounger foraging interactions. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Master thesis
Rye, Kristian; Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Haaland, Thomas. (2017) Differential Allocation in Parental Care - as a Strategy to Retain High Quality Partners. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Master thesis
Berne, Erlend; Wright, Jonathan. (2011) Safe, selfish, state-independent mobbing in the cooperatively breeding apostlebirds. NTNU
Master thesis
Aksnes, Leif Haraldson; Wright, Jonathan; Kazem, Anahita N.J.. (2009) "False-feeding" helping behaviour in the cooperative apostlebird, Struthidea cinerea. NTNU, Institutt for biologi
Master thesis
Vestues, Gro; Wright, Jonathan. (2009) The mating system of the Svalbard reindeer. Effects of male age and antler size on harem size, behaviour during the rutting season and reproductive effort. NTNU, Institutt for biologi
Master thesis
Olsen, Anne-Lise; Wright, Jonathan; Kazem, Anahita N.J.. (2009) Provisioning dynamics in the cooperative apostlebird Struthidea cinerea. NTNU, Institutt for biologi
Master thesis
Austad, Tor Martin; Wright, Jonathan; Kazem, Anahita N.J.. (2009) Influence of sex ratio and perceived competition upon mate choice decisions in a speed-dating context. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Master thesis
Pepke, Michael Le; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Jensen, Henrik; Kvalnes, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan. (2021) The ecological and evolutionary role of telomere length in house sparrows. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral thesis
Hammerås, John; Wright, Jonathan; Jensen, Henrik; Pärn, Henrik; Rønning, Bernt. (2016) Covarying Behaviours and Innovation in a House Sparrow Metapopulation. MSc Thesis, NTNU
Master thesis
Wright, Jonathan; Finnøen, Mette Helene; Jensen, Henrik; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Rønning, Bernt. (2016) Personality and pace-of-life behavioral syndromes in a model species, the House Sparrow (Passer domesticus). Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Master thesis
Olsen, Mirja Carola; Wright, Jonathan; Jensen, Henrik; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Rønning, Bernt. (2016) Linking variation in personality and behavioural syndromes to social foraging and producer-scrounger effects in house sparrows (Passer domesticus). Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Master thesis
Talal, Mohammad; Wright, Jonathan; Jensen, Henrik; Ringsby, Thor Harald. (2018) Individual variation and indirect social effects in Producer-Scrounger behavior in the House Sparrow, Passer domesticus. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Master thesis

Teaching

Courses

Outreach

2022

Conference poster

Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2022) Individual reversible plasticity as a genotype-level bet-hedging strategy. ESEB 2022
Conference lecture

Søraker, Jørgen Skavdal; Ranke, Peter Sjolte; Wright, Jonathan; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Sæther, Bernt-Erik; Jensen, Henrik; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen G.. (2022) Disentangling the age-dependent causal pathways affecting multiple paternity in house sparrows. IX Hole-Nesting Bird Conference
Conference poster

Pepke, Michael Le; Kvalnes, Thomas; Boner, Winnie; Monaghan, Pat; Ranke, Peter Sjolte; Lundregan, Sarah; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen G.; Wright, Jonathan; Sæther, Bernt-Erik; Jensen, Henrik. (2022) Causes and consequences of variation in early-life telomere length in a bird metapopulation. 5th Conference of Nordic Society OIKOS 2022
Conference poster

Pepke, Michael Le; Kvalnes, Thomas; Boner, Winnie; Niskanen, Alina Katariina; Lundregan, Sarah; Ranke, Peter Sjolte; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen G.; Wright, Jonathan; Monaghan, Pat; Sæther, Bernt-Erik. (2022) The ecological and evolutionary role of early-life telomere length in wild house sparrows. Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology 2022

2021

Lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2021) Somatic investment: an unresolved issue in life-history theory. Zoology On-Line Colloquium

2020

Conference lecture

Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2020) Phenotypic plasticity as a bet-hedging strategy. EvoDemo

2019

Conference lecture

Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2019) Bet-hedging affects the evolution of variance-sensitive strategies. ASAB Summer 2019
Conference poster

Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2019) Bet-hedging affects the evolution of variance-sensitive strategies. ESEB 2019
Conference poster

Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2019) Bet-hedging affects the evolution of variance-sensitive strategies. Modelling Ecology and Evolution in Zürich

2018

Conference poster

Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Tufto, Jarle; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2018) Variable environments and the evolution of bet-hedgers, generalists and specialists. Evolution 2018
Conference lecture

Botero, Carlos A.; Haaland, Thomas; Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Wright, Jonathan. (2018) Life history determines vulnerability and capacity to adapt to more frequent and intense extreme weather events. Evolution 2018
Conference lecture

Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Tufto, Jarle; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2018) Variable environments and the evolution of bet-hedgers, generalists and specialists. OIKOS 2018
Conference lecture

Wright, Jonathan; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen. (2018) Characterizing morphological (co)variation using structural equation models: body size, allometric relationships & evolvability in house sparrows. SEM & Path Anaylsis Workshop
Conference lecture

Wright, Jonathan; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen. (2018) Life History Evolution in a Changing World: r- versus K-selection & Pace-of-Life Syndromes. Life History Theory course on Schiermonnikoog, NL

2017

Conference lecture

Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2017) Social decision making in a fluctuating world: A simulation model of a Producer-Scrounger foraging game. NØF 2017
Conference lecture

Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Tufto, Jarle; Botero, Carlos A.; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2017) Adaptations to uncertainty: Asymmetric fitness functions and fluctuating environments. ESEB 2017
Conference lecture

Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan. (2017) Partner quality effects on optimal parental investment. Departmental seminar
Conference poster

Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Wright, Jonathan; Tufto, Jarle; Botero, Carlos A.. (2017) A simulation model of the evolution of transgenerational plasticity in fluctuating environments. ESEB 2017
Conference lecture

Wright, Jonathan; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen. (2017) Student workshop on: The hierarchical nature of evolution in natural populations: a mixed model approach. Graduate Student Workshop
Conference lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2017) Life History Evolution in a Changing World & the Adaptive Alignment of Pace-of-Life Syndromes. CSIC Seminar Series
Conference poster

Pedersen, Michael Pepke; Kvalnes, Thomas; Rønning, Bernt; Boner, Winnie; Jensen, Henrik; Wright, Jonathan; Sæther, Bernt-Erik; Monaghan, Pat; Ringsby, Thor Harald. (2017) Telomere dynamics of wild house sparrows under artificial body size selection. 8th International Hole-Nesting Birds Conference
Conference poster

Pedersen, Michael Pepke; Kvalnes, Thomas; Rønning, Bernt; Boner, Winnie; Jensen, Henrik; Wright, Jonathan; Sæther, Bernt-Erik; Monaghan, Pat; Ringsby, Thor Harald. (2017) Consequences of opposing body size selection regimes on telomere dynamics in wild house sparrows. 16th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB)

2016

Lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2016) Study design and sampling decisions in mixed-effect model analyses. CBD SQuID Study design and sampling decisions in mixed-effect model analyses
Lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2016) Modelling POLS. Towards a general theory of the pace-of-life syndrome
Conference lecture

Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan. (2016) Differential parental allocation to offspring size vs number. ISBE 2016
Conference lecture

Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2016) A General Stochastic Dynamic Model of the Differential Allocation Hypothesis. ISBE2016
Conference lecture

Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2016) Differential Allocation - A New Theoretical Framework. EMPSEB22 - European Meeting of PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology

2015

Conference lecture

Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Haaland, Thomas Ray; Wright, Jonathan. (2015) A general stochastic dynamic model of the differential allocation hypothesis. Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution 2015
Lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2015) The conceptual context of characterizing multivariate phenotypes, genotypes and functional units. Workshop on Statistical Approaches to Multivariate Phenotypes
Lecture

Wright, Jonathan; Bolstad, Geir Hysing; Ajoy, Yimen Araya; Dingemanse, Niels J.. (2015) Life History Evolution in a Changing World & the Adaptive Alignment of Pace-of-Life Syndromes. Towards a general theory of the pace-of-life syndrome

2014

Conference lecture

Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Wright, Jonathan. (2014) Adaptations to stochasticity at multiple levels. CBD Workshop on 'Evolution in Stochastic Environments'
Lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2014) Evolution in Stochastic Environments. CBD Workshop on 'Evolution in Stochastic Environments'
Conference lecture

Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Wright, Jonathan. (2014) Variance sensitivity and other adaptations to variable environments. Visit to the "Modeling Animal Decisions" group
Conference lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2014) Sex, Showing-Off & Relatedness in Helping Decisions of the Cooperatively Breeding Bell Miner. Max Plank Institute for Ornithology

2012

Interview

Wright, Jonathan; Nordahl, Marianne. (2012) En trekkfugls beslutninger.
Conference lecture

Wright, Jonathan; McDonald, Paul G.. (2012) Sex, Showing-Off and Relatedness in Helping Decisions of the Cooperatively Breeding Bell Miner. Departmental Seminar
Conference poster

Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Wright, Jonathan. (2012) Adaptive Management of Individual Body Mass in Wild Groups of Siberian Jays. 14th Congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology
Conference lecture

Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2012) Adaptations to Environmental Stochasticity. Departmental Seminar
Conference lecture

Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2012) Adaptations to Environmental Stochasticity. Departmental Seminar
Conference lecture

Warrington, M; McDonald, Paul G.; Russell, AF; Wright, Jonathan; Griffith, Simon C.. (2012) All Signals are not Equally Informative: Acoustic Signalling of Kinship and Social Membership in the Apostlebird. 14th Congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology
Conference lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2012) Alternative Reproductive Tactics: A Behavioural Reaction Norms Approach. CUSO Inter-University Doctoral Program in Ecology and Evolution
Conference lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2012) Artificiality in Cognition Experiments - Are We Asking The Right Questions?. Pre-ISBE Conference Symposium on 'Corvids as model systems for combining cognitive ethology and behavioural ecology'
Conference lecture

Wright, Jonathan; Dingemanse, Niels; Dochterman, Ned. (2012) Correctly Characterising Phenotypes(Characterising Behavioural Traits, Personalities & Syndromes). CEES Late Lunch
Conference lecture

Dingemanse, Niels; Dochterman, Ned; Wright, Jonathan; Barber, Iain. (2012) Genetic Constraints Imposed by Personality Structure. 14th Congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology
Conference lecture

Warrington, M; McDonald, Paul G.; Russell, AF; Wright, Jonathan; Griffith, Simon C.. (2012) All signals are not equally informative: acoustic signalling of kinship and social membership in the cooperatively breeding Apostlebird, Struthidea cinerea. ASSAB Conference
Conference lecture

Wright, Jonathan; McDonald, Paul G.. (2012) Sex, Showing-Off and Relatedness in Helping Decisions of the Cooperatively Breeding Bell Miner. CEES Seminar
Conference lecture

Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2012) Adaptive Responses to Environmental Stochasticity. Departmental Seminar
Conference lecture

Wright, Jonathan; McDonald, Paul G.. (2012) Sex, Showing-Off and Relatedness in Helping Decisions of the Cooperatively Breeding Bell Miner. Departmental Seminar
Conference lecture

Wright, Jonathan; Ratikainen, Irja Ida. (2012) Adaptive Responses to Environmental Stochasticity. 14th Congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology
Conference lecture

Wright, Jonathan; Dingemanse, NJ; Dochterman, Ned. (2012) Correctly Characterising Phenotypes (Characterising Behavioural Traits, Personalities & Syndromes). Hasli Research Station
Conference lecture

McDonald, Paul G.; Wright, Jonathan. (2012) Bell miner call similarity correlates positively with both fine-scale kinship and helper effort. ASSAB Conference

2011

Conference lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2011) Characterising behavioural traits, personalities and syndromes. Departmental Seminar

2010

Conference lecture

Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Sødal, Liv Randi Henøen; Wright, Jonathan; Kazem, Anahita J.N.. (2010) Optimal sampling, private and public information use in foraging by wild Siberian Jays. ISBE 2010
Conference lecture

Wright, Jonathan; McDonald, Paul G.. (2010) Sex, Showing-Off and Relatedness in Helping Decisions of the Cooperatively Breeding Bell Miner. Max Planck Institute Research Seminar
Conference poster

Wright, Jonathan; Berne, Erlend; Wascher, Claudia, A.F.; Morrison, Erin; Wordley, Claire; Griffith, Simon C.. (2010) Safe, selfish state-independent mobbing behaviour in a cooperatively breeding bird?. ISBE 2010
Conference lecture

Wascher, Claudia, A.F.; Palme, Rupert; Morrinson, Erin; Wordley, Claire; Berne, Erlend; Wright, Jonathan; Griffith, Simon C.. (2010) Social behaviour, stress and faecal glucocorticoid metabolites in a cooperatively breeding bird. ISBE 2010
Conference lecture

McDonald, Paul G.; Tripovich, Joy; Wright, Jonathan. (2010) Mew calls at the nest encode relatedness: providing a mechanism for the fine-scale effect of kinship on help. ISBE 2010

2009

Conference lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2009) Information sharing at communal roosts: strategies of recruitment and defence of food bonanzas by ravens. Institute Seminar
Conference lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2009) Sex, Showing-Off & Relatedness in Helping Decisions of the Cooperatively Breeding Bell Miner. Departmental Seminar
Conference lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2009) Sex, Showing-Off & Relatedness in Helping Decisions of the Cooperatively Breeding Bell Miner. Departmental Seminar
Conference lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2009) Sex, Showing-Off & Relatedness in Helping Decisions of the Cooperatively Breeding Bell Miner. Institute Seminar
Conference lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2009) Information sharing at communal roosts: strategies of recruitment and defence of food bonanzas by ravens. KLIVV Seminar
Conference lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2009) Sex, Showing-Off & Relatedness in Helping Decisions of the Cooperatively Breeding Bell Miner. EGI Seminar

2008

Conference lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2008) Sex, Showing-Off & Relatedness in Helping Decisions of the Cooperatively Breeding Bell Miner. University of Göteborg
Conference lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2008) Sex, Showing-Off & Relatedness in Helping Decisions of the Cooperatively Breeding Bell Miner. KLIVV
Conference lecture

Wright, Jonathan; Kazem, Anahita N.J.. (2008) What is ‘interesting’ about personality? Some less-explored themes and their implications. European Conference of Behavioural Biology
Conference lecture

Wright, Jonathan; McDonald, PG; Kazem, Anahita N.J.. (2008) Effects of Helper Sex, Relatedness and Brood Sex Ratio on Cooperative Provisioning Effort in Bell Miners. British Ecological Society Annual Meeting
Conference lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2008) Sex, Showing-Off & Relatedness in Helping Decisions of the Cooperatively Breeding Bell Miner. KLIVV Grünau
Conference lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2008) Sex, Showing-Off & Relatedness in Helping Decisions of the Cooperatively Breeding Bell Miner. University of Bern
Conference lecture

McDonald, PG; Wright, Jonathan; Kazem, Anahita N.J.. (2008) Effects of Helper Sex, Relatedness and Brood Sex Ratio on Cooperative Provisioning Effort in Bell Miners. Australian Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour Conference
Conference lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2008) Sex, Showing-Off & Relatedness in Helping Decisions of the Cooperatively Breeding Bell Miner. University of Zurich
Conference lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2008) Sex, Showing-Off & Relatedness in Helping Decisions of the Cooperatively Breeding Bell Miner. University of Basel
Conference lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2008) Sex, Showing-Off & Relatedness in Helping Decisions of the Cooperatively Breeding Bell Miner. University of Uppsala
Conference lecture

Bednekoff, Peter; Kazem, Anahita J.N.; Wright, Jonathan. (2008) The Evolution Of Cooperative Mobbing Effort: A Dynamic Modelling Approach. ISBE 2008
Conference poster

Barnaby, Jonathan; Griesser, Michael; Wright, Jonathan; Griffith, Simon C.; Russell, AF. (2008) The social consequences of winter ranging behaviour in the Apostlebird (Struthidea cinerea). ISBE 2008
Conference lecture

Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Wright, Jonathan; Kazem, Anahita N.J.. (2008) Social class influences variance-sensitivity in wild Siberian jays: gambling to survive vs to reproduce?. ISBE (12th congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology)

2006

Conference poster

Marvelde, Luc te; Wright, Jonathan. (2006) Do helpers really help? Detailed analysis of prey types delivered and nestling growth rates in the cooperatively breeding bell miner. ISBE
Conference poster

Pachedo, Maria; Wright, Jonathan. (2006) Anti-parasite nest sanitation behaviour in a cooperative bird: helpers do their share of the work. ISBE
Conference poster

Schmaltz, Gregory; Wright, Jonathan. (2006) Influence of yolk hormones and nestling testosterone levels on chick begging behaviour in the plural-breeding joint-nesting smooth-billed ani. ISBE
Conference lecture

Kazem, Anahita; Bednekoff, Peter; Wright, Jonathan. (2006) Cooperative mobbing as a selfish state-dependent mutualism. ECBB/ASAB
Conference lecture

McDonald, Paul; Wright, Jonathan. (2006) Helping as a signal versus investment in brood fitness in the cooperatively breeding bell miner. ISBE
Conference lecture

McDonald, Paul; Wright, Jonathan. (2006) Altruistic acts as indicators of quality in a cooperative breeder: Are helpers-at-the-nest ‘showing off’?. IOC
Conference lecture

Kazem, Anahita; Wright, Jonathan. (2006) Protean punishment of the risk-averse: why unpredictable social behaviour is adaptive. RuG
Conference lecture

Dingemanse, Niels; Wright, Jonathan. (2006) Constraints on the evolution of behavioural syndromes?. SEQBC
Interview

Wright, Jonathan. (2006) Swifts do push-ups to get flight fit.
Interview

Wright, Jonathan. (2006) Weight loss on the wing.
Interview

Wright, Jonathan. (2006) How chubby young birds lose fat to fly.
Interview

Wright, Jonathan. (2006) Birds go on diets to avoid dropping.
Interview

Wright, Jonathan. (2006) Fugler på diett før jomfrutur.
Interview

Wright, Jonathan. (2006) Mauersegler: Schlank durch Liegestütze.

2004

Conference lecture

Wright, Jonathan; Radford, Andrew. (2004) Risk-sensitive woodhoopoes: a new explanation for sex-specific differences in preferred foraging techniques. 10th International Congress of the International Society for Behavioural Ecology
Conference lecture

Kazem, Anahita; Wright, Jonathan; Kokko, Hanna. (2004) Protean punishment of the risk-averse: why unpredicatable social behaviour is adaptive. 10th International Congress of the Society for Behavioural Ecology
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Dingemanse, Niels; Thomas, Dawn; Wright, Jonathan; Hickling, Rachael; Dawnay, Nick; Kazem, Anahita. (2004) Correlations between behavioural traits differ between selective environments in three-spined stickleback. 10th International Congress of the International Society for Behavioural Ecology
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Kazem, Anahita; Wright, Jonathan. (2004) Protean punishment of the risk averse: the adaptive significance of unpredictable social behaviour. University of Melbourne
Conference lecture

Wright, Jonathan. (2004) Risk sensitive woodhoopoes. University of La Trobe

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