Publications

Academic

  • Kerr, J., Gordon, S., Chen, I-C., Ednie, G., Foden W., Newbold, T., Reynolds, A., Suiggit, A., Treblanche, J., & Watson, M. (2025) Effects of microclimate variation on insect persistence under global change. Nature Reviews Biodiversity 1: 532–542. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44358-025-00067-4

  • Watson, M., & Kerr, J. (2025) Climate-Driven Body Size Changes in Birds and Mammals Reveal Environmental Tolerance Limits. Global Change Biology 31:e70241. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70241

  • D’Addario, A., Postma, H., LeBrun, P., Meeker, M., Mackenzie, C., Watson, M., Landsman, S., Schiller, L., Cooke, S., (2025). Assessing United Nations conservation-oriented days, years and decades through the lens of a change model. Environmental Conservation 52: 79-88. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0376892925000074

  • Doucette, S., Potvin, D., Slade, J., Watson, M., MacDougall-Shackleton, E. (2025). Assortative mating at the innate immune locus TLR3 in song sparrows: opposites do not attract. Animal Behavior 224(123188) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123188

  • Slade, J., Watson, M., and MacDougall-Shackleton, E. (2019). “Balancing” balancing selection? Assortative mating at the major histocompatibility complex despite molecular signatures of balancing selection. Ecology and Evolution 9(5): 146–5157 https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5087

  • Slade, J., Watson, M., and MacDougall-Shackleton, E.A. (2017). Birdsong signals individual diversity at the major histocompatibility complex. Biology Letters 13(11): 20170430 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2017.0430

  • Slade. J., Watson. M., Kelly, T., Gloor, G., Bernards, M., and MacDougall-Shackleton, E. (2016). Chemical composition of preen oil encodes information on MHC similarity in breeding songbirds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 283(1842) https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.1966

  • Kelly, T., MacGillivray, H., Sarquis-Adamson, Y., Watson, M., Hobson, K., and MacDougall-Shackleton, E. (2016). Seasonal migration distance varies with natal dispersal and predicts parasitic infection in song sparrows. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 70: 1857-1866 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-016-2191-2

  • Watson, M., Wilson, D., and Mennill, D. (2016). Anthropogenic light is associated with increased vocal activity by nocturnally migrating birds. The Condor 118(2): 338-344 https://doi.org/10.1650/CONDOR-15-136.1

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