Comprehensive List of Lab's Publications

2023

Zanette, L. Y., Frizzelle, N. R., Clinchy, M., Peel, M. J. S., Keller, C. B., Huebner, S., & Packer, C. (2023). Fear of the human "super predator" pervades the South African savanna. Current Biology, 33, doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.08.089 [PDF]

Potash, A. D., Conner, L. M., Clinchy, M., Zanette, L. Y., & McCleery R. A. (2023). Prey species increase activity in refugia free of terrestrial predators. Oecologia, 201, 661–671. [PDF]

2022

Allen, M. C. A., Clinchy, M., & Zanette, L. Y. (2022). Fear of predators in free-living wildlife reduces population growth over generations. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 119, e2112404119. [PDF]

Rigoudy, N. L. A., Clinchy, M., Peel, M. J. S., Huebner, S., Packer, C., & Zanette, L. Y. (2022). Hierarchy of fear: experimentally testing ungulate reactions to lion, African wild dog and cheetah. Behavioral Ecology, 33, 789–797. [PDF]

Widén, A., Clinchy, M., Felton, A. M., Hofmeester, T. R., Kuijper, D. P. J., Singh, N. J., Widemo, F., Zanette, L. Y., & Cromsigt, J. P. G. M. (2022). Playbacks of predator vocalizations reduce crop damage by ungulates. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 328, 107853. [PDF]

Crawford, D., Conner, M., Clinchy, M., Zanette, L. Y., & Cherry, M. (2022). Prey tells, large herbivores fear the human ‘super predator’. Oecologia, 198, 91–98. [PDF]

2021

Epperly, H. K., Clinchy, M., Zanette, L. Y., & McCleery, R. A. (2021). Fear of large carnivores is tied to ungulate habitat use: evidence from a bifactorial experiment. Scientific Reports, 11, 12979. [PDF]

2020

 

Zanette, L. Y. & Clinchy, M. (2020). Ecology and neurobiology of fear in free-living wildlife. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 51, 297–318. [PDF] [Media] [Media 2]

2019

 

Zanette, L. Y., Hobbs, E. C., Witterick, L. E., MacDougall-Shackleton, S. A., & Clinchy, M. (2019). Predator-induced fear causes PTSD-like changes in the brains and behaviour of wild animals. Scientific Reports, 9, 11474. [PDF] [Media] [Media 2] [Media 3]

 

Suraci, J. P., Clinchy, M., Zanette, L. Y., & Wilmers, C. C. (2019). Fear of humans as apex predators has landscape-scale impacts from mountain lions to mice. Ecology Letters, 22, 1578–1586. [PDF] [Media] [Award Winner]

 

Suraci, J. P., Smith, J. A., Clinchy, M., Zanette, L. Y., & Wilmers, C. C. (2019). Humans, but not their dogs, displace pumas from their kills: An experimental approach. Scientific Reports, 9, 12214. [PDF]

 

Zanette, L. Y. & Clinchy M. (2019). Ecology of fear. Current Biology, 29, R301–R316. [PDF]

 

Santema, P., Valcu, M., Clinchy, M., Zanette, L. Y., & Kempenaers, B. (2019). Effects of predator call playbacks on reproductive success and extrapair paternity in blue tits. Animal Behaviour, 155, 97–109. [PDF]

 

Santema, P., Valcu, M., Clinchy, M., Zanette, L. Y., & Kempenaers, B. (2019). Playback of predator calls inhibits and delays dawn singing in a songbird community.  Behavioral Ecology, 30, 1283–1288. [PDF]

2018

 

Dudeck, B. P., Clinchy, M., Allen, M. C., & Zanette, L. Y. (2018). Fear affects parental care which predicts juvenile survival and exacerbates the total cost of fear on demography. Ecology, 99, 127–135. [PDF]

2017

 

Smith, J. A., Suraci, J. P., Clinchy, M., Crawford, A., Roberts, D., Zanette, L. Y., & Wilmers, C. C. (2017). Fear of the human ‘super predator’ reduces feeding time in large carnivores. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284, 20170433. [PDF] [Media] [Media 2]

 

Walters, B. T., Cheng, T. N. N., Doyle, J., Guglielmo, C. G., Clinchy, M., & Zanette, L. Y. (2017). Too important to tamper with: predation risk affects body mass and escape behaviour but not escape ability. Functional Ecology, 31, 1405–1417. [PDF] [Award Nominee]

 

Zanette, L.Y. & Clinchy, M. (2017). Predator–prey interactions: integrating fear effects. In, Call, J., Burghardt, G.M., Pepperberg, I.M., Snowdon, C.T., Zentall, T. (Eds.), APA handbook of comparative psychology: Basic concepts, methods, neural substrate, and behavior (pp. 815–831). Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association. [PDF]

 

Suraci, J. P., Clinchy, M., Roberts, D. J., & Zanette, L. Y. (2017). Eavesdropping in solitary large carnivores: Black bears advance and vocalize toward cougar playbacks. Ethology, 123, 593–599. [PDF]

 

Suraci, J. P., Clinchy, M., & Zanette, L. Y. (2017). Do large carnivores and mesocarnivores have redundant impacts on intertidal prey? PLoS ONE, 12, e0170255. [PDF]

Suraci, J. P., Roberts, D. J., Clinchy, M., & Zanette, L. Y. (2017). Fearlessness towards extirpated large carnivores may exacerbate the impacts of naïve mesocarnivores. Behavioral Ecology, 28, 439–447. [PDF]

Suraci, J. P., Clinchy, M., Mugerwa, B., Delsey, M., Macdonald, D. W., Smith, J. A., Wilmers, C. C., & Zanette, L. Y. (2017). A new Automated Behavioural Response system to integrate playback experiments into camera trap studies. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 8, 957–964. [PDF]

2016

 

Clinchy, M., Zanette, L. Y., Roberts, D., Suraci, J. P., Buesching, C. D., Newman, C., & Macdonald, D. W. (2016). Fear of the human “super predator” far exceeds the fear of large carnivores in a model mesocarnivore. Behavioral Ecology, 27, 1826–1832. [PDF] [Media]

 

Suraci, J. P., Clinchy, M., Dill, L. M., Roberts, D., & Zanette, L. Y. (2016). Fear of large carnivores causes a trophic cascade. Nature Communications, 7, 10698. [PDF] [Media] [Media 2]

 

Wang, X., Zanette, L. Y., & Zou, X. (2016). Modelling the fear effect in predator–prey interactions. Journal of Mathematical Biology, 73, 1179–1204. [PDF]

 

Zanette, L. Y., & Clinchy, M. (2016). Fear of predators as an ecosystem service. PeerJ Preprints. 4, e2353v1. [PDF]

2015

 

Swan, D. C., Zanette, L. Y., & Clinchy, M. (2015). Brood parasites manipulate their hosts: experimental evidence for the farming hypothesis. Animal Behaviour, 105, 29–35. [PDF]

 

Zanette, L. Y., & Sih, A. (2015). Gordon Research Conference on Predator–Prey Interactions: from genes, to ecosystems to human mental health. The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 96, 165–173. [PDF]

2014

Suraci, J. P., Clinchy, M., Zanette, L. Y., Currie, C. M., & Dill, L. M. (2014). Mammalian mesopredators on islands directly impact both terrestrial and marine communities. Oecologia, 176, 1087–1100. [PDF]

 

Zanette, L. Y., Clinchy, M., & Suraci, J. P. (2014). Diagnosing predation risk effects on demography: can measuring physiology provide the means? Oecologia, 176, 637–651. [PDF]

2013

 

Clinchy, M., Sheriff, M. J., & Zanette, L. Y. (2013). Predator‐induced stress and the ecology of fear. Functional Ecology, 27, 56–65. [PDF]

 

Decaire, R., Zanette, L. Y., & Clinchy, M. (2013). Brood parasitism causes female‐biased host nestling mortality regardless of parasite species. Ibis, 155, 367–376. [PDF]

 

Newman, A. E. M., Zanette, L. Y., Clinchy, M., Goodenough, N., & Soma, K. K. (2013). Stress in the wild: chronic predator pressure and acute restraint affect plasma DHEA and corticosterone levels in a songbird. Stress, 16, 363–367. [PDF]

 

Zanette, L. Y., Hobson, K. A., Clinchy, M., Travers, M., & Williams, T. D. (2013). Food use is affected by the experience of nest predation: implications for indirect predator effects on clutch size. Oecologia, 172, 1031–1039. [PDF]

2012 - 1990

 

Zanette, L. Y., Clinchy, M., Leonard, M. L., Horn, A. G., Haydon, D. T., & Hampson, E. (2012). Brood‐parasite‐induced female‐biased mortality affects songbird demography: negative implications for conservation. Oikos, 121, 1493–1500. [PDF]

 

Clinchy, M., Schulkin, J., Zanette, L. Y., Sheriff, M. J., McGowan, P. O., & Boonstra, R. (2011). The neurological ecology of fear: insights neuroscientists and ecologists have to offer one another. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 5, 21. [PDF]

 

Clinchy, M., Zanette, L. Y., Charlier, T. D., Newman, A. E., Schmidt, K. L., Boonstra, R., & Soma, K. K. (2011). Multiple measures elucidate glucocorticoid responses to environmental variation in predation threat. Oecologia, 166, 607–614. [PDF]

 

MacDougall-Shackleton, E. A., Clinchy, M., Zanette, L. Y., & Neff, B. D. (2011). Songbird genetic diversity is lower in anthropogenically versus naturally fragmented landscapes. Conservation Genetics, 12, 1195–1203. [PDF]

 

Zanette, L. Y., White, A. F., Allen, M. C., & Clinchy, M. (2011). Perceived predation risk reduces the number of offspring songbirds produce per year. Science, 334, 1398–1401. [PDF] [Media] [Media 2] [Media 3]

 

Travers, M., Clinchy, M., Zanette, L., Boonstra, R., & Williams, T. D. (2010). Indirect predator effects on clutch size and the cost of egg production. Ecology Letters, 13, 980–988. [PDF] [Media]

 

Zanette, L., & Clinchy, M. (2010). Food supplementation leads to bottom‐up and top‐down food–host–parasite interactions. Journal of Animal Ecology, 79, 1172–1180. [PDF]

 

Zanette, L., Clinchy, M., & Sung, H.-C. (2009). Food-supplementing parents reduces their sons' song repertoire size. Proc. R. Soc. B, 276, 2855–2860. [PDF] [Media]

 

Pagnucco, K., Zanette, L., Clinchy, M., & Leonard, M. L. (2008). Sheep in wolf's clothing: host nestling vocalizations resemble their cowbird competitor's. Proc. R. Soc. B., 275, 1061–1065. [PDF] [Media]

 

Kempster, B., Zanette, L., Longstaffe, F. J., MacDougall-Shackleton, S. A., Wingfield, J. C., & Clinchy, M. (2007). Do stable isotopes reflect nutritional stress? Results from a laboratory experiment on song sparrows. Oecologia, 151, 365–371. [PDF]

 

Pfaff, J. A., Zanette, L., MacDougall-Shackleton, S. A., & MacDougall-Shackleton, E. A. (2007). Song repertoire size varies with HVC volume and is indicative of male quality in song sparrows (Melospiza melodia). Proc. R. Soc. B., 274, 2035–2040. [PDF] [Media]

 

Zanette, L., Haydon, D. T., Smith, J. N., Taitt, M. J., & Clinchy, M. (2007). Reassessing the cowbird threat. The Auk, 124, 210–223. [PDF]

 

MacDonald, I. F., Kempster, B., Zanette, L., & MacDougall-Shackleton, S. A. (2006). Early nutritional stress impairs development of a song-control brain region in both male and female juvenile song sparrows (Melospiza melodia) at the onset of song learning. Proc. R. Soc. B, 273, 2559–2564. [PDF] [Media]

 

Rastogi, A. D., Zanette, L., & Clinchy, M. (2006). Food availability affects diurnal nest predation and adult antipredator behaviour in song sparrows, Melospiza melodia. Animal Behaviour, 72, 933–940. [PDF]

 

Zanette, L., Clinchy, M., & Smith, J. N. (2006). Food and predators affect egg production in song sparrows. Ecology, 87, 2459–2467. [PDF]

 

Zanette, L., Clinchy, M., & Smith, J. N. (2006). Combined food and predator effects on songbird nest survival and annual reproductive success: results from a bi-factorial experiment. Oecologia, 147, 632–640. [PDF]

 

Zanette, L., MacDougall-Shakleton, E., Clinchy, M., & Smith, J. N. (2005). Brown‐headed cowbirds skew host offspring sex ratios. Ecology, 86, 815–820. [PDF] [Media]

 

Clinchy, M., Taylor, A. C., Zanette, L. Y., Krebs, C. J., & Jarman, P. J. (2004). Body size, age and paternity in common brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula). Molecular Ecology, 13, 195–202. [PDF]

 

Clinchy, M., Zanette, L., Boonstra, R., Wingfield, J. C., & Smith, J. N. (2004). Balancing food and predator pressure induces chronic stress in songbirds. Proc. R. Soc. B., 271, 2473–2479. [PDF] [Media]

 

Smith, J. N., Taitt, M. J., Zanette, L., & Myers-Smith, I. H. (2003). How do Brown-headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater) cause nest failures in song sparrows (Melospiza melodia)? A removal experiment. The Auk, 120, 772–783. [PDF]

 

Zanette, L., Smith, J. N., van Oort, H., & Clinchy, M. (2003). Synergistic effects of food and predators on annual reproductive success in song sparrows. Proc. R. Soc. B, 270, 799–803. [PDF]

 

Smith, J. N., Taitt, M. J., & Zanette, L. (2002). Removing Brown-headed cowbirds increases seasonal fecundity and population growth in song sparrows. Ecology, 83, 3037–3047. [PDF]

Zanette, L. (2002). What do artificial nests tells us about nest predation? Biological Conservation, 103, 323–329. [PDF]

Clinchy, M., Haydon, D. T., & Smith, A. T. (2002). Pattern does not equal process: What does patch occupancy really tell us about metapopulation dynamics? The American Naturalist, 159, 351–362. [PDF]

Clinchy, M., Krebs, C. J., & Jarman, P. J. (2001). Dispersal sinks and handling effects: Interpreting the role of immigration in common brushtail possum populations. Journal of Animal Ecology, 70, 515–526. [PDF]

 

Zanette, L. (2001). Indicators of habitat quality and the reproductive output of a forest songbird in small and large fragments. Journal of Avian Biology, 32, 38–46. [PDF]

 

Zanette, L. (2000). Fragment size and the demography of an area‐sensitive songbird. Journal of Animal Ecology, 69, 458–470. [PDF]

 

Zanette, L., Doyle, P., & Trémont, S. M. (2000). Food shortage in small fragments: evidence from an area‐sensitive passerine. Ecology, 81, 1654–1666. [PDF]

 

Zanette, L., & Jenkins, B. (2000). Nesting success and nest predators in forest fragments: a study using real and artificial nests. The Auk, 117, 445–454. [PDF]

 

Leonard, M. L., & Zanette, L. (1998). Female mate choice and male behaviour in domestic fowl. Animal Behaviour, 56, 1099–1105. [PDF]

 

Zanette, L. Y. (1997). Predation of an eastern yellow robin nest by a small bird, the brown-headed honeyeater. Australian Field Ornithology, 17. [PDF]

Clinchy, M. (1997). Does immigration “rescue” populations from extinction? Implications regarding movement corridors and the conservation of mammals. Oikos, 80, 618–622. [PDF].

 

Leonard, M. L., Zanette, L., & Clinchy, M. (1996). The effect of early exposure to the opposite sex on mate choice in white leghorn chickens. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 48, 15–23. [PDF]

 

Herz, R. S., Zanette, L., & Sherry, D. F. (1994). Spatial cues for cache retrieval by black-capped chickadees. Animal Behaviour, 48, 343–351. [PDF]

 

Zanette, L., & Ratcliffe, L. M. (1994). Social rank influences conspicuous behaviour of black-capped chickadees, Parus atricapillus. Animal Behaviour, 48, 119–127. [PDF]

Clinchy, M., & Barker, I. K. (1994). Effects of parasitic infections on clutch size of lesser snow geese from a northern breeding colony. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 72, 541–544. [PDF]

Clinchy, M., & Barker, I. K. (1994). Dynamics of parasitic infections at four sites within lesser snow geese (Chen caerulescens caerulescens) from the breeding colony at La Pérouse Bay, Manitoba, Canada. The Journal of Parasitology, 80, 663. [PDF]

Leonard, M. L., Zanette, L. Y., & Fairfull, R. W. (1993). Early exposure to females affects interactions between male white leghorn chickens. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 36, 29–38. [PDF]

 

Leonard, M. L., Zanette, L. Y., Thompson, B. K., & Fairfull, R. W. (1993). Early exposure to the opposite sex affects mating behaviour in white leghorn chickens. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 37, 57–67. [PDF]

Giraldeau, L. A., Hogan, J. A., & Clinchy, M. (1990). The payoffs to producing and scrounging: What happens when patches are divisible? Ethology, 85, 132–146. [PDF]