Ben Sheldon - Selected Publications#

1. Aplin, L.M., Farine, D.R., Morand-Ferron, J., Cockburn, A., Thornton, A. & Sheldon, B.C. 2015. Experimentally induced innovations lead to persistent culture via conformity in wild birds. Nature 518, 538-541.

2. Vedder, O., Bouwhuis, S. & Sheldon, B.C. 2013. Quantitative assessment of the importance of phenotypic plasticity in adaptation to climate change in wild bird populations. PLOS Biology 11, e1001605.

3. Aplin, L.M., Farine, D.R., Cole, E.F., Morand-Ferron, J., Cockburn, A. & Sheldon, B.C. 2013. Individual personality predicts social behaviour in wild social networks of great tits (Parus major). Ecol Lett. 16, 1365-1372.
4. Charmantier, A., McCleery, R.H., Cole, L., Perrins, C.M., Kruuk, L.E.B. & Sheldon, B.C. 2008. Adaptive phenotypic plasticity in response to climate change in a wild bird population. Science 320, 800-803.

5. Charmantier, A., McCleery, R.H., Perrins, C. & Sheldon, B.C. 2006. Quantitative genetics of age at reproduction in the mute swan: support for antagonistic pleiotropy models of senescence. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103, 6587-6592.

6. Garant, D., Kruuk, L.E.B., Wilkin, T.A., McCleery, R.H. & Sheldon, B.C. 2005. Evolution driven by differential dispersal within a wild bird population. Nature 433, 60-65.

7. West, S.A. & Sheldon, B.C. 2002. Constraints in the evolution of facultative sex ratio adjustment. Science 295, 1685-1688.

8. Veen, T., Borge, T., Griffith, S.C., Sætre, G.-P., Bures, S., Gustafsson, L. & Sheldon, B.C. 2001. Hybridization and adaptive mate choice in flycatchers. Nature 411, 45-50.

9. Sheldon, B.C., Andersson, S., Griffith, S.C., Örnborg, J. & Sendecka, J. 1999. Ultraviolet colour variation influences blue tit sex ratios. Nature 402, 874-877.

10. Sheldon, B.C. & Verhulst, S. 1996. Ecological immunology: costly parasite defences and trade-offs in evolutionary ecology. Trends Ecol. Evol. 11, 317-321.

Google Scholar Profile

Sheldon's work has been cited >27 000 times (Google Scholar) with an h-index of 92, and has been influential in the field, as judged from citation analysis: he has been recognised as an ISI/Clarivate Highly-cited researcher for the last three years in the field of Animal & Plant Sciences in 2017, and in the Cross-field category in 2018 and 2019.

His work has attracted numerous profiles (e.g. News & Views and Editor Choice in Nature and Science) as well as 15 Faculty of 1000 recommendations, including 5 exceptional ratings).