Sean Rands

Publications

• Nectar discovery speeds and multimodal displays: assessing nectar search times in bees with radiating and non-radiating guides
• Consensus and experience trump leadership, suppressing individual personality during social foraging
• Using an Animal Group Vigilance Practical Session to give Learners a 'Heads-up' to Problems in Experimental Design
• Floral epidermal structure and flower orientation: Getting to grips with awkward flowers
• The effects of dominance on leadership and energetic gain: A dynamic game between pairs of social foragers
• The influence of pigmentation patterning on bumblebee foraging from flowers of Antirrhinum majus
• We must consider dynamic changes in behavior in social networks and conduct manipulations: Comment on Pinter-Wollman et al.
• Dominance rank is associated with body condition in outdoor-living domestic horses (Equus caballus)
• The effects of rainfall on plant–pollinator interactions
• Using physical and computer simulations of collective behaviour as an introduction to modelling concepts for applied biologists
• Inclusion of policies on ethical standards in animal experiments in biomedical science journals
• Bumblebees can discriminate between scent-marks deposited by conspecifics
• Leaving safety to visit a feeding site: is it optimal to hesitate while exposed?
• Non-forest matrix crossing in the blue-eyed black lemur Eulemur flavifrons (Gray, 1867)
• Phylogenetic signal in floral temperature patterns
• Foraging efficiency, social status and body condition in group-living horses and ponies
• Floral infrared emissivity estimates using simple tools.
• Neonicotinoids disrupt memory, circadian behaviour and sleep.
• Behavioural synchrony between fallow deer Dama dama is related to spatial proximity.
• A commentary on: ‘Divergence in floral scent and morphology, but not thermogenic traits, associated with pollinator shift in two brood-site-mimicking Typhonium (Araceae) species’
• Black-headed gulls synchronise their activity with their nearest neighbours
• Book review
• Using Physical and Computer Simulations of Collective Behaviour as an Introduction to Modelling Concepts for Applied Biologists
• Erratum to “Dominance rank is associated with body condition in outdoor-living domestic horses (Equus caballus)” [Appl. Anim. Behav. Sci. 166 (2015) 71–79]
• Obesity prevalence and associated risk factors in outdoor living domestic horses and ponies
• Mobbing and sitting tight at the nest as methods of avoiding brood parasitism
• Assessing the seasonal prevalence and risk factors for nuchal crest adiposity in domestic horses and ponies using the Cresty Neck Score
• Field margins, foraging distances and their impacts on nesting pollinator success
• Landscape fragmentation and pollinator movement within agricultural environments: A modelling framework for exploring foraging and movement ecology
• Approximating optimal behavioural strategies down to rules-of-thumb: Energy reserve changes in pairs of social foragers
• Social structure, vigilance and behaviour of plains zebra (Equus burchellii): A 5-year case study of individuals living on a managed wildlife reserve
• Nearest-neighbour clusters as a novel technique for assessing group associations
• A technique for measuring petal gloss, with examples from the Namaqualand Flora
• Red deer synchronise their activity with close neighbours
• The dynamics of honesty: Modelling the growth of costly, sexually-selected ornaments
• State-dependent foraging rules for social animals in selfish herds
• Flower iridescence increases object detection in the insect visual system without compromising object identity
• Colour as a backup for scent in the presence of olfactory noise: testing the efficacy backup hypothesis using bumblebees ( Bombus terrestris )
• The diversity of floral temperature patterns, and their use by pollinators
• The evolution of floral guides: using a genetic algorithm to investigate the evolution of floral cue arrangements
• Bumblebees distinguish floral scent patterns, and can transfer these to corresponding visual patterns
• Reporting of thermography parameters in biology: a systematic review of thermal imaging literature
• Cross-modal transfer in visual and nonvisual cues in bumblebees
• Floral temperature patterns can function as floral guides
• Red deer Cervus elaphus blink more in larger groups
• The Neonicotinoid Insecticide Imidacloprid Disrupts Bumblebee Foraging Rhythms and Sleep
• Phylogenetically-controlled correlates of primate blinking behaviour
• Correction to: Floral temperature patterns can function as foral guides
• Bumblebees can detect floral humidity
• Using radio frequency identification and locomotor activity monitoring to assess sleep, locomotor, and foraging rhythmicity in bumblebees
• Effects of pollinator density-dependent preferences on field margin visitations in the midst of agricultural monocultures: A modelling approach
• Measurement of mass change in breeding birds: a bibliography and discussion of measurement techniques
• Explaining individual variation in patterns of mass loss in breeding birds
• Social foraging and dominance relationships: The effects of socially mediated interference
• State-dependent foraging rules for social animals in selfish herds
• Considering Adaptation and the “Function” of Traits in the Classroom, Using Wiki Tools
• Non-random mating in the beetle Cryptocephalus hypochaeridis
• Measurement of mass change in breeding birds: A bibliography and discussion of measurement techniques
• Floral temperature and optimal foraging: Is heat a feasible floral reward for pollinators?
• Group-movement 'initiation' and state-dependent decision-making
• Prey processing in central place foragers
• Sexual selection and condition-dependence
• The emergence of leaders and followers in foraging pairs when the qualities of individuals differ
• The impact of parasite manipulation and predator foraging behavior on predator-prey communities
• Statistical measures for defining an individual's degree of independence within state-dependent dynamic games
• Separating the effects of predation risk and interrupted foraging upon mass changes in the blue tit Parus caeruleus
• Quantifying the costs and benefits of protective egg coating in a Chrysomelid beetle
• Self-improvement for team-players: The effects of individual effort on aggregated group information
• The interaction of temperature and sucrose concentration on foraging preferences in bumblebees
• Optimal parasite infection strategies: A state-dependent approach
• Unusual honey pot building behaviour in captively reared bumble bees Bombus terrestris
• Spontaneous emergence of leaders and followers in foraging pairs
• Explaining individual variation in patterns of mass loss in breeding birds
• Measurement of mass change in breeding birds: A bibliography and discussion of measurement techniques
• Ethical policies on animal experiments are not compromised by whether a journal is freely accessible or charges for publication
• Blinking as a measurement of group vigilance in red deerCervus elaphusand fallow deerDama dama
• Personality variation is eroded by simple social behaviours in collective foragers
• The cuticular wax compositions and crystal coverage of leaves and petals differ in a consistent manner between plant species
• The behavioural responses of bumblebeesBombus terrestrisin response to simulated rain
• Personality variation is eroded by simple social behaviours in collective foragers
• The Ability of Bumblebees Bombus terrestris (Hymenoptera: Apidae) to Detect Floral Humidity is Dependent Upon Environmental Humidity
• Flower sharing and pollinator health: a behavioural perspective
• The role of petal transpiration in floral humidity generation