Hodge, Sarah - University of Exeter - Disciplines of Biosciences

个人简介

2004: PhD University of Cambridge 1996: BSc University of Bristol Career 2012-present: Senior Lecturer, Centre for Ecology & Conservation, University of Exeter 2012 Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy 2010-2012: Lecturer, Centre for Ecology & Conservation, University of Exeter 2008-2010: NERC funded post doc, Centre for Ecology & Conservation, University of Exeter “Reproductive conflict in the cooperatively breeding banded mongoose” with Dr Mike Cant. 2004-2008: NERC funded post doc, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. “Intrasexual selection and reproductive strategies in cooperative meerkats” with Prof Tim Clutton-Brock. 2000-2004: PhD Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. “The evolution of cooperation in the communal breeding banded mongoose”

研究领域

My research interests centre on understanding the causes and consequences of conflict over reproduction in cooperative animal societies. In particular, I am interested in understanding how conflicts over reproduction are resolved, and the consequences that variation in reproductive skew has for the extent that individuals cooperate and compete. I investigate these issues using a combination of field experiments and long term life-history data in two cooperative mammal species, the high-skew meerkat (Suricatta suricata) and the low-skew banded mongoose (Mungos mungo). I also have an interest in conservation, and have a number of projects investigating the impacts of human activities on British mammal populations. These include projects studying the influence of habitat management on harvest mice, water shrews, hedgehogs and small mammal populations in general.

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Vitikainen EIK, Cant MA, Sanderson JL, Mitchell C, Nichols HJ, Marshall HH, Thompson FJ, Gilchrist JS, Hodge SJ, Johnstone RA, et al (2016). Evidence of oxidative shielding of offspring in a wild mammal. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution Full text. Article has an altmetric score of 114 Inzani E, Marshall HH, Sanderson JL, Nichols HJ, Thompson FJ, Kalema-Zikusoka G, Hodge SJ, Cant MA, Vitikainen EIK (2016). Female reproductive competition explains variation in prenatal investment in wild banded mongooses. Scientific Reports, 6 Abstract. Full text. Article has an altmetric score of 54 Thompson F, Marshall HH, Sanderson JL, Vitikainen EIK, Nichols HJ, Gilchrist J, Young AJ, Hodge SJ, Cant MA (2016). Reproductive competition triggers mass eviction in cooperative banded mongooses. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences Full text. Sanderson JL, Stott I, Young AJ, Vitikainen E, Hodge SJ, Cant MA (2015). The origins of consistent individual differences in cooperation in wild banded mongooses. Animal Behaviour Sanderson JL, Young AJ, Hodge SJ, Kyabulima S, Walker S, Cant MA (2014). Hormonal mediation of a carry-over effect in a wild cooperative mammal. Functional Ecology Cant MA, Nichols, HJ, Johnstone, RA, Hodge SJ (2014). Policing of reproduction by hidden threats in a cooperative mammal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA, 111, 326-330. Nichols HJ, Bell MBV, Hodge SJ, Cant MA (2012). Resource limitation moderates the adaptive suppression of subordinate breeding in a cooperatively breeding mongoose. Behavioral Ecology, 23(3), 635-642. Abstract. Bell MB, Nichols HJ, Gilchrist JS, Cant MA, Hodge SJ (2012). The cost of dominance: suppressing subordinate reproduction affects the reproductive success of dominant female banded mongooses. Proc Biol Sci, 279(1728), 619-624. Abstract. Author URL. Article has an altmetric score of 10 Hodge SJ, Bell MB, Cant MA (2011). Reproductive competition and the evolution of extreme birth synchrony in a cooperative mammal. Biol Lett, 7(1), 54-56. Abstract. Author URL. Article has an altmetric score of 22 Clutton-Brock TH, Hodge SJ, Flower TP, Spong G, Young AJ (2010). Adaptive suppression of subordinate reproduction in cooperative mammals. American Naturalist, 176, 664-673. Cant MA, Hodge SJ, Bell MB, Gilchrist JS, Nichols HJ (2010). Reproductive control via eviction (but not the threat of eviction) in banded mongooses. Proc Biol Sci, 277(1691), 2219-2226. Abstract. Author URL. Article has an altmetric score of 7 Nichols HJ, Amos W, Cant MA, MBV B, Hodge SJ (2010). Top males gain high reproductive success by guarding more successful females in a cooperatively breeding mongoose. Animal Behaviour, 80, 649-657. Hodge SJ, Thornton A, Flower TP, Clutton-Brock TH (2009). Food limitation increases aggression in juvenile meerkats. Behavioral Ecology, 20(5), 930-935. Abstract. Hodge SJ, Bell MBV, Mwanguhya F, Kyabulima S, Waldick RC, Russell AF (2009). Maternal weight, offspring competitive ability, and the evolution of communal breeding. Behavioral Ecology, 20(4), 729-735. Abstract. Thornton A, Hodge SJ (2009). The development of foraging microhabitat preferences in meerkats. Behavioral Ecology, 20(1), 103-110. Abstract. Hodge SJ, Manica A, Flower TP, Clutton-Brock TH (2008). Determinants of reproductive success in dominant female meerkats. J Anim Ecol, 77(1), 92-102. Abstract. Author URL. Spong GF, Hodge SJ, Young AJ, Clutton-Brock TH (2008). Factors affecting the reproductive success of dominant male meerkats. Mol Ecol, 17(9), 2287-2299. Abstract. Author URL. Clutton-Brock TH, Hodge SJ, Flower TP (2008). Group size and the suppression of subordinate reproduction in Kalahari meerkats. Animal Behaviour, 76(3), 689-700. Abstract. Hodge SJ (2007). Counting the costs: the evolution of male-biased care in the cooperatively breeding banded mongoose. Animal Behaviour, 74(4), 911-919. Abstract. Article has an altmetric score of 3 Hodge SJ, Flower TP, Clutton-Brock TH (2007). Offspring competition and helper associations in cooperative meerkats. Animal Behaviour, 74(4), 957-964. Abstract.