Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

George Bernard Shaw


PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS:

  • Pick JL, Kasper C, Allegue H, Dingemanse N, Dochtermann NA, Laskowski K, Lima MR, Schielzeth H, Westneat DF, Wright J & Araya-Ajoy Y (2023) Describing posterior distributions of variance components: Problems and the use of null distributions to aid interpretation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14, 2557-2574. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.14200

  • Pick JL, Khwaja N, Spence MA, Ihle M & Nakagawa S (2023) Counter culture: Causes, extent and solutions of systematic bias in the analysis of behavioural counts. PeerJ, 11, e15059. doi:10.7717/peerj.15059

  • Ivimey-Cook ER, Noble DWA, Nakagawa S, Lajeunesse MJ & Pick JL (2023) A framework for improving the reproducibility of data extraction for meta-analysis. Research Synthesis Methods, 14, 911-915. doi:10.1002/jrsm.1663

  • Macphie, KH, Samplonius JM, Pick JL, Hadfield JD & Phillimore AB (2023). Warmer Springs Lead to Earlier and Higher Peaks of Arboreal Caterpillars. Functional Ecology, 37, 3015-3026. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.14436

  • Ivimey-Cook ER, Pick JL, Bairos-Novak K, Culina A, Gould E, Grainger M, Marshall BM, Moreau D, Paquet M, Royauté R, Sánchez-Tójar A, Silva I & Windecker SM (2023) Implementing Code Review in the Scientific Workflow: Insights from Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 36, 1347-1356. doi:10.1111/jeb.14230

  • Nakagawa S, Ivimey-Cook E, Grainger MJ, O’Dea RE, Burke S, Drobniak SM, Gould E, Macartney EL, Morrison K, Martinig AR, Paquet M, Pick JL, Pottier P, Ricolfi L, Wilkinson DP, Willcox A, Williams C, Wilson LAB, Windecker SM, Yang Y & Lagisz M. (2023)Method Reporting with Initials for Transparency (MeRIT) promotes more granularity and accountability for author contributions. Nature Communications, 14, 1788. doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37039-1

  • Pick JL, Lemon H, Thomson C, & Hadfield JD (2022) Decomposing phenotypic skew and its effects on the predicted response to strong selection. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 6, 774-785. doi:10.1038/s41559-022-01694-2 Preprint available

  • Gauzere J, Walling CA, Pick JL, Watt K, Jack P, Morris A, Morris S, & Pemberton, JM. (2021) The role of maternally transferred antibodies in maternal performance in red deer. Ecology Letters, 24, 2065-2076. doi:10.1111/ele.13834

  • Pick JL, Hatakeyama M, Ihle KE, Gasparini J, Haussy C, Ishishita S, … & Tschirren B (2020) Artificial selection reveals the role of transcriptional constraints in the maintenance of life history variation. Evolution Letters, 4, 200–211. doi:10.1002/evl3.166

  • Pick JL, Postma E & Tschirren B (2019) The more you get, the more you give: Positive cascading effects shape the evolutionary potential of prenatal maternal investment. Evolution Letters, 3, 412–423. doi:10.1002/evl3.125

  • Pick JL, Nakagawa S & Noble DW (2019) Reproducible, flexible and high throughput data extraction from primary literature: The metaDigitise R package. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 10, 426–431. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13118

  • Ihle M, Pick JL, Winney IS, Nakagawa S & Burke T (2019) Measuring up to reality: Null models and analysis simulations to study parental coordination over provisioning offspring. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7, 1–15. doi:10.3389/fevo.2019.00142

  • Ihle M, Pick JL, Winney IS, Nakagawa S, Schroeder J & Burke T (2019) Rearing Success Does Not Improve With Apparent Pair Coordination in Offspring Provisioning. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7, 1–9. doi:10.3389/fevo.2019.00405

  • Pick JL, Hutter P & Tschirren B (2017) Divergent artificial selection for female reproductive investment has a sexually concordant effect on male reproductive success. Evolution Letters, 1, 222–228. doi:10.1002/evl3.21

  • Nakagawa S, Kar F, O’Dea RE, Pick JL & Lagisz M (2017) Divide and conquer? Size adjustment with allometry and intermediate outcomes. BMC Biology, 15, 107. doi:10.1186/s12915-017-0448-5

  • Giraudeau M, Ziegler AK, Pick JL, Ducatez S, Canale CI & Tschirren B (2017) Interactive effects of yolk testosterone and carotenoid on prenatal growth and offspring physiology in a precocial bird. Behavioral Ecology, 28, 31–38. doi:10.1093/beheco/arw127

  • Pick JL, Ebneter C, Hutter P & Tschirren B (2016) Disentangling genetic and prenatal maternal effects on offspring size and survival. American Naturalist, 188, 628–639. doi:10.1086/688918

  • Pick JL, Hutter P, Ebneter C, Ziegler AK, Giordano M & Tschirren B (2016) Artificial selection reveals the energetic expense of producing larger eggs. Frontiers in Zoology, 13, 38. doi:10.1186/s12983-016-0172-y

  • Pick JL, Hutter P & Tschirren B (2016) In search of genetic constraints limiting the evolution of egg size: direct and correlated responses to artificial selection on a prenatal maternal effector. Heredity, 116, 542–549. doi:10.1038/hdy.2016.16

  • Nakagawa S & Pick JL (2016) House sparrows. Current Biology, 26, R1171–R1173. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2016.07.047

  • Ebneter C, Pick JL & Tschirren B (2016) A trade-off between reproductive investment and maternal cerebellum size in a precocial bird. Biology Letters, 12. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2016.0659

  • Tschirren B, Ziegler AK, Pick JL, Okuliarová M, Zeman M & Giraudeau M (2016) Matrilineal inheritance of a key mediator of prenatal maternal effects. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 238. doi:10.1098/rspb.2016.1676

  • Crane JMS, Pick JL, Tribe AJ, Vincze E, Hatchwell BJ & Russell AF (2015) Chestnut-crowned babblers show affinity for calls of removed group members: a dual playback without expectancy violation. Animal Behaviour, 104, 51-57. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.02.022

  • Giordano M, Costantini D, Pick JL & Tschirren B (2015) Female oxidative status, egg antioxidant protection and eggshell pigmentation: a supplemental feeding experiment in great tits. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, 69, 777-785. doi:10.1007/s00265-015-1893-1