Global phylogeographic limits of Hawaii's avian malaria JS Beadell, F Ishtiaq, R Covas, M Melo, BH Warren, CT Atkinson, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 273 (1604), 2935-2944, 2006 | 315 | 2006 |
Deep learning‐based methods for individual recognition in small birds AC Ferreira, LR Silva, F Renna, HB Brandl, JP Renoult, DR Farine, ... Methods in Ecology and Evolution 11 (9), 1072-1085, 2020 | 161 | 2020 |
Life history and the evolution of family living in birds R Covas, M Griesser Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274 (1616), 1349-1357, 2007 | 161 | 2007 |
Host associations and evolutionary relationships of avian blood parasites from West Africa JS Beadell, R Covas, C Gebhard, F Ishtiaq, M Melo, BK Schmidt, ... International journal for parasitology 39 (2), 257-266, 2009 | 143 | 2009 |
Helpers in colonial cooperatively breeding sociable weavers Philetairus socius contribute to buffer the effects of adverse breeding conditions R Covas, MA Du Plessis, C Doutrelant Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 63, 103-112, 2008 | 138 | 2008 |
Biogeography and history of the Mediterranean bird fauna R Covas, J Blondel Ibis 140 (3), 395-407, 1998 | 129 | 1998 |
Evolution of reproductive life histories in island birds worldwide R Covas Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279 (1733), 1531-1537, 2012 | 126 | 2012 |
The risk of flawed inference in evolutionary studies when detectability is less than one O Gimenez, A Viallefont, A Charmantier, R Pradel, E Cam, CR Brown, ... The American Naturalist 172 (3), 441-448, 2008 | 117 | 2008 |
Experimental evidence of a link between breeding conditions and the decision to breed or to help in a colonial cooperative bird R Covas, C Doutrelant, MA du Plessis Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 2004 | 82 | 2004 |
Stabilizing selection on body mass in the sociable weaver Philetairus socius R Covas, CR Brown, MD Anderson, MB Brown Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 2002 | 77 | 2002 |
Helping has signalling characteristics in a cooperatively breeding bird C Doutrelant, R Covas Animal Behaviour 74 (4), 739-747, 2007 | 69 | 2007 |
Kin associations and direct vs indirect fitness benefits in colonial cooperatively breeding sociable weavers Philetairus socius R Covas, A Dalecky, A Caizergues, C Doutrelant Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 60, 323-331, 2006 | 66 | 2006 |
Unexpected sex ratio adjustment in a colonial cooperative bird: pairs with helpers produce more of the helping sex whereas pairs without helpers do not C Doutrelant, R Covas, A Caizergues, M Du Plessis Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 56, 149-154, 2004 | 66 | 2004 |
Multistate estimates of survival and movement in relation to colony size in the sociable weaver CR Brown, R Covas, MD Anderson, MB Brown Behavioral Ecology 14 (4), 463-471, 2003 | 62 | 2003 |
Worldwide patterns of bird colouration on islands C Doutrelant, M Paquet, JP Renoult, A Grégoire, PA Crochet, R Covas Ecology Letters 19 (5), 537-545, 2016 | 61 | 2016 |
Nonparametric estimation of natural selection on a quantitative trait using mark‐recapture data O Gimenez, R Covas, CR Brown, MD Anderson, MB Brown, T Lenormand Evolution 60 (3), 460-466, 2006 | 56 | 2006 |
Breeding decisions and output are correlated with both temperature and rainfall in an arid-region passerine, the sociable weaver R Mares, C Doutrelant, M Paquet, CN Spottiswoode, R Covas Royal Society Open Science 4 (9), 170835, 2017 | 53 | 2017 |
Maternal effects in relation to helper presence in the cooperatively breeding sociable weaver M Paquet, R Covas, O Chastel, C Parenteau, C Doutrelant PLoS One 8 (3), e59336, 2013 | 52 | 2013 |
The thermoregulatory benefits of the communal nest of sociable weavers Philetairus socius are spatially structured within nests RE van Dijk, JC Kaden, A Argüelles‐Ticó, LM Beltran, M Paquet, R Covas, ... Journal of Avian Biology 44 (2), 102-110, 2013 | 51 | 2013 |
Antagonistic effect of helpers on breeding male and female survival in a cooperatively breeding bird M Paquet, C Doutrelant, BJ Hatchwell, CN Spottiswoode, R Covas Journal of Animal Ecology 84 (5), 1354-1362, 2015 | 43 | 2015 |