Mennill, Daniel - University of Windsor - Department of Biological Science

研究领域

Research in the Mennill Sound Analysis Lab focuses on the ecology and evolution of communication and mating systems of wild animals. My students and I study the interaction between animal communication and reproductive strategies, and the influence of natural selection and sexual selection on vocal behaviour and mating behaviour. We focus heavily on the behavioural ecology of birds but we also study frogs and mammals. I am a field biologist; my students and I combine our laboratory-based research with an intensive field-based approach to study the behavioural ecology of animals in their natural environment. Together with a variety of collaborators, I maintain ongoing studies of chickadees and sparrows in Canada, and wrens, manakins, and toads in Costa Rica.

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Araya-Salas M, Wojczulanis-Jakubas K, Phillips EM, Mennill DJ, Wright TF (2017) To overlap or not to overlap: context-dependent coordinated singing in lekking long-billed hermits. Animal Behaviour 124:57-64. [PDF] Foote JR, Fitzsimmons LP*, Lobert LM, Ratcliffe LM, Mennill DJ (2017) A population-level analysis of morning song: exploring the implications for point counts. Canadian Field-Naturalist in press. Graham BA*, Sandoval LA*, Dabelsteen T, Mennill DJ (2017) A test of the Acoustic Adaptation Hypothesis in three types of tropical forest: degradation of male and female Rufous-and-white Wren songs. Bioacoustics 26:37-61. [PDF] Moser-Purdy CE*, MacDougall-Shackleton EA, Mennill DJ (2017) Enemies aren't always dear: male song sparrows adjust dear enemy effect expression in response to female fertility. Animal Behaviour in press. Moser-Purdy CE*, MacDougall-Shackleton S, Bonier F, Graham BA*, Boyer A, Mennill DJ (2017) Male song sparrows have elevated testosterone in response to neighbors versus strangers. Hormones and Behavior accepted pending revisions. Rehberg-Besler N*, Doucet SM, Mennill DJ (2017) Overlapping vocalizations produce far-reaching choruses: a test of the signal enhancement hypothesis. Behavioral Ecology online first. [PDF] Roach SP, Mennill DJ, Phillmore L (2017) Operant discrimination of relative frequency ratios in black-capped chickadee song. Animal Cognition accepted pending revisions. Sandoval L*, Epperly K, Klicka J, Mennill DJ (2017) The biogeographic and evolutionary history of an endemic clade of Middle American sparrows: Melozone and Aimophila (Aves: Passerellidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution in press. Sosa-López JR*, Mennill DJ, Renton K (2017) Sexual differentiation and seasonal variation in response to conspecific and heterospecific acoustic signals. Ethology in press. Hahn AH, Hoeschele M, Guillette LM, Hoang J, McMillan N, Congdon JV, Campbell KA, Mennill DJ, Otter KA, Grava T, Ratcliffe LM, & Sturdy CB (2016) Black-capped chickadees categorize songs based on features that vary geographically. Animal Behaviour 112:93-104. [PDF] Harris AJ*, Wilson DR*, Graham BA*, Mennill DJ (2016) Estimating repertoire size in a songbird: A comparison of three techniques. Bioacoustics 1-14. [PDF] Hick KG*, Doucet SM, Mennill DJ (2016) Tropical wrens rely more on acoustic signals than visual signals for inter- and intraspecific discrimination. Animal Behaviour 118:153-163. [PDF] Masco C, Allesina S, Mennill DJ, Pruett-Jones S (2016) The Song Overlap Null model Generator (SONG): a new method for distinguishing between random and non-random song overlap. Bioacoustics 25:29-40. [PDF] Moser-Purdy CE*, Mennill DJ (2016) Large vocal repertoires do not constrain the dear enemy effect: a playback experiment and comparative study of songbirds. Animal Behaviour 118:55-64. [PDF] Rehberg-Besler N*, Doucet SM, Mennill DJ (2016) Vocal behaviour of the explosively breeding Neotropical yellow toad, Incilius letkenii. Journal of Herpetology 50:502-508. [PDF] Roach SP, Lockyer AC, Yousef T, Mennill DJ, Phillmore LS (2016) Vocal production and playback of altered song do not affect ZENK expression in black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus). Behavioural Brain Research 298:91-99. [PDF] Sandoval L*, Méndez C, Mennill DJ (2016) Vocal behaviour of White-eared Ground-sparrows (Melozone leucotis) during the breeding season: repertoires, diel variation, behavioural contexts, and individual distinctiveness. Journal of Ornithology 157:1-12. [PDF] Sosa-López JR*, Martinez Gomez J, Mennill DJ (2016) Divergence in mating signals correlates with genetic distance and behavioural responses to playback. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 29:306-318. [PDF] Watson MJ*, Wilson DR*, Mennill DJ (2016) Anthropogenic light is associated with increased vocal activity by nocturnally migrating birds. Condor: Ornithological Applications 118:338-344. [PDF] Wilson DR*, Ratcliffe LM, Mennill DJ (2016) Black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) avoid song overlapping: evidence for the acoustic interference hypothesis. Animal Behaviour 114:219-229. [PDF] Baldo S*, Mennill DJ, Guindre-Parker S, Gilchrist HG, Love OP (2015) The oxidative cost of acoustic signals: testing steroid versus aerobic-activity hypotheses in a wild bird. Ethology 121:1081-1090. [PDF] Battiston MM*, Wilson DR*, Graham BA*, Kovach KA*, Mennill DJ (2015) Rufous-and-white Wrens (Thryophilus rufalbus) do not exhibit dear enemy effects towards conspecific or heterospecific competitors. Current Zoology 61:23-33. [PDF] Caselli CB*, Mennill DJ, Bicca-Marques JC, Setz WZF (2015) Playback response of socially monogamous black-fronted titi monkeys to simulated solitary and paired intruders. American Journal of Primatology 77:1135-1142. [PDF] Hick KA*, Doucet SM, Mennill DJ (2015) Interspecific vocal discrimination in neotropical wrens: responses to congeneric signals in sympatry and allopatry. Animal Behaviour 109:113-121. [PDF] Maynard DF*, Ward K-AA, Doucet SM, Mennill DJ (2015) Male vocal behaviour attracts females in lekking Long-tailed Manakins: vocal output, duet performance, and diel variation. Behavioral Ecology 26:65-74. [PDF]