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David
B. McDonald, Ph.D.
Dept.
Zoology & Physiology Tel:
(307) 760-9360
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E-Mail
me dbmcd "at" uwyo.edu
NEW! Slow-motion clips of display of Golden-winged Manakins
See Long-tailed Manakin dance clip
Birding and natural history in Ecuador. Travel to the slopes of the Andes in Ecuador? Student courses, and non-student citizen trips
(birding, but also natural history)
open for January 2020 and onward.
Groups of 10-12 citizens or students. On the January 2019 trip we saw over 200 species of birds in 9 days.
Birding Ecuador is the best! Getting to know a place like the Tandayapa valley above Mindo well is even better.
Summary
of
research interests:
Behavioral ecology, social networks
(manakins, dominance from a network perspective), sexual selection,
cooperation;
previously, genetic markers, evolutionary
demography, phylogeography of montane and alpine animals.
Taxa: manakins (Aves, Pipridae), Black-and-chestnut
Eagles,
suckers (native fish), Wyoming pocket gopher (Thomomys clusius),
Oreohelix
snails,
Leucosticte rosy-finches, owls,
black-footed
ferrets, bears.
Go
to
lab/research interests page
Network
diagram
and graphics layout by Elizabeth
Rahel.
Banded
Golden-winged Manakin, Masius chrysopterus, on his display
log
at our field site in Ecuador. Beleza!
Dancing manakins from a painting by Julie
Zickefoose
http://www.juliezickefoose.com/index.php;
original owned by
St�phanie
Doucet of University of Windsor
Selected Publications: (most have download links for PDFs; for some,
click on underlined author list to see abstracts)
Click here for full
publication list
McDonald, D.B., and E.A. Hobson. 2018. Edge weight
variance: population genetic metrics for social network analysis.
Animal
Behaviour 136: 239-250. Download
PDF
Barocas A., Golden, H.N., Harrington. M., McDonald,
D.B., Ben-David, M. 2016. Coastal latrine sites as social information
hubs and
drivers of river otter fission-fusion dynamics. Animal Behaviour 120:
103-114.
Shizuka, D., and D.B. McDonald. 2015. The network
motif architecture of dominnce hierarchies. J. Roy. Soc. Interfac 12:
20150080.
Download
PDF
Edelman, A.J., and D.B. McDonald. 2014. Structure of
cooperation at long-tailed manakin leks. Anim. Behav. 97: 125-133. Download
PDF
McDonald, D.B. 2014. Studying lifelong male-male
partnerships in a tropical bird. Pages 99-120 In Animal
Behavior: How
and Why Animals Do the Things They Do, Vol. 3 (K. Yasukawa, editor).
Praeger,
Santa Barbara, CA.
Pinter-Wollman, N., E.A. Hobson, J.E. Smith, A.J.
Edelman, D. Shizuka, S. de Silva, J.S. Waters, S.D. Prager, T. Sasaki,
G.
Wittemyer, J. Fewell and D.B. McDonald. 2013. The dynamics of animal
social
networks: analytical, conceptual, and theoretical advances. Behav.
Ecol. 25:
242-255. Download
PDF
Parchman, T.L., Z. Gompert, M.J. Braun, R.T.
Brumfield, D.B. McDonald, J.A.C. Uy, G. Zhang, E.D. Jarvis, B.A.
Schlinger, and
C.A. Buerkle. 2013. The genomic consequences of adaptive divergence
and
reproductive isolation between species of manakins. Mol. Ecol. 22:
3304-3317. Download
PDF
McDonald, D.B., and D. Shizuka. 2013. Comparative
transitive and temporal orderliness in dominance networks. Behav.
Ecol. 24:
511-520.
Email me for R scripts used in network analyses of dominance data.
Download
PDF
Shizuka, D., and D.B. McDonald. 2012. A social
network perspective on measurements of dominance hierarchies. Anim.
Behav. 83:
925-934. Download
PDF
McDonald, D.B. 2010. A spatial dance to the music of
time in the leks of long-tailed manakins. Pp. 55-81 In Adv.
Study of
Behav. Vol. 42 (Regina Macedo, ed.). Burlington: Academic
Press. ISBN: 978-0-12-380894-3 Download
PDF of the Intro only (first three pages) email me to
request a PDF of
the entire chapter
McDonald, D.B. 2010. Behavioral ecology: social
networks for dullards. Curr. Biol. 20: R856-R857.
[Dispatch on a
network paper by Oh and Badyaev]. Download
PDF
McDonald, D.B. 2009. Young-boy networks without kin
clusters in a lek-mating manakin. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 63:
1029-1034. Download
PDF
(special issue on social networks). DOI 10.1007/s00265-009-0722-9.
McDonald, D.B., T.L. Parchman, M.R. Bower, W.A.
Hubert, and F.J. Rahel. 2008. An introduced and a native vertebrate
hybridize
to form a genetic bridge to a second native species. Proc. Natl. Sci.
USA. 105:
10842-10847. Download
PDF
(covered in the 26-Jul-08 issue of New Scientist)
Ryder, T.B., D.B. McDonald, J.G. Blake, P.G. Parker,
and B.A. Loiselle. 2008. Social networks in the lek-mating wire-tailed
manakin (Pipra
filicauda). Proc. R. Soc. B 275:
1367-1374. Download
PDF
Grenier, M.B., D.B. McDonald, and S.W. Buskirk.
2007. Rapid population growth of a critically endangered carnivore.
Science
317: 799.
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PDF
New
Scientist
overview
McDonald, D.B. 2007. Predicting fate from early
connectivity in a social network. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 104:
10910-10914.
Download
PDF
Doucet, S.M., D.B. McDonald, M.S. Foster, and R.P.
Clay. 2007. Plumage development and molt in Long-tailed Manakins, Chiroxiphia
linearis: variation according to sex and age. Auk 124: 29-43.
Download
PDF Download
jpeg of
cover painting Link
to
Stephanie Doucet's home page (University of Windsor,
Canada)
Trainer,
J.M., D.B.
McDonald, and W.A. Learn. 2002. The development of coordinated
singing in
cooperatively displaying long-tailed manakins. Behavioral Ecology 13:
65-69. Download
PDF
McDonald,
D.B., R.P.
Clay, R.T. Brumfield, and M.J. Braun. 2001. Sexual selection on
plumage and
behavior in an avian hybrid zone: experimental tests of male-male
interactions.
Evolution 55: 1443-1451. Download
PDF
McDonald,
D.B., W.K.
Potts, J.W. Fitzpatrick, and G.E. Woolfenden. 1999. Contrasting
genetic
structures in sister species of North American scrub-jays. Proc. Royal
Soc.
London B. 266: 1117-1125. Download
PDF
McDonald, D.B. 1999. Sartorial simplicity is knot
what it seems. Nature 398: 455. Download
PDF
McDonald,
D.B., J.W.
Fitzpatrick, and G.E. Woolfenden. 1996. Actuarial senescence and
demographic heterogeneity in the Florida scrub-jay. Ecology 77:
2373-2381. Download
PDF
Trainer, J.M., and D.B. McDonald. 1995. Singing
performance, frequency matching and courtship success of long-tailed
manakins (Chiroxiphia
linearis). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 37:
249-254. Download
PDF
McDonald,
D.B., and
W.K. Potts. 1994. Cooperative display and relatedness among
males in a
lek-mating bird. Science 266: 1030-1032. Download
PDF
McDonald,
D.B. 1993.
Delayed plumage maturation and orderly queues for status: a manakin
mannequin
experiment. Ethol. 94: 31-45. Download
PDF
McDonald,
D.B. 1993.
Demographic consequences of sexual selection in the long-tailed
manakin. Behav.
Ecol. 4: 297-309. Download
PDF
McDonald, D.B. 1989. Correlates of male mating
success in a lekking bird with male-male cooperation. Anim. Behav. 37:
1007-1022. Download
PDF (scanned)
McDonald, D.B. 1989. Cooperation under sexual
selection: age-graded changes in a lekking bird. Am. Nat. 134:
709-730. Download
PDF
Click here for full
publication list
Teaching pages (not really public, but since surfers seem to find
them
anyway......)
Population Ecology ZOO 4400/5400 (partially updated 2013)
Interested in social network models, but don't know where to start? Email me, and I can send you a glossary of terms and references.
Or see the book by Darren Croft, Dick James, and Jens Krause published by Princeton.McD's weird taste in music I-- some you may not (should not?) know
McD's weird taste in music II -- some you should know
McD's weird taste in music III -- sentimental favorites
McD's weird tastes -- Some acceptable (to me) words
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