Publication List
 
Podos, J., and Moseley, D.L. (in press). Vocal communication in birds. To appear in: Squire, L. (Ed). The New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, 4th edition. Elsevier Press.
Foster, D., Podos, J., and Hendry, A.P. (in press). A geometric morphometric appraisal of beak shape in Darwin's finches. To appear in Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
Podos, J., and Warren, P. S. (2007). The evolution of geographic variation in birdsong. Advances in the Study of Behavior 37:403-458. PDF
Huber, S. K, De Leon, L. F., Hendry, A. P., Bermingham, E., and Podos, J (2007). Reproductive isolation of sympatric morphs in a population of Darwin's finches. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 274:1709-1714. PDF
Podos, J. (2007). Discrimination of geographical song variants by Darwin's finches. Animal Behaviour 73:833-844. PDF
Podos, J. (2006). Ethology's Ecologies; review of Burkhardt, R. W. Jr., Patterns of Behavior: Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and the Founding of Ethology, University of Chicago Press, Chicago IL, 2005 International Society for Behavioral Ecology Newsletter 18:38-41. PDF
Hendry, A. P., Grant, P. R., Grant, B. R., Ford, H. A., Brewer, M. J., and Podos, J. (2006). Possible human impacts on adaptive radiation: beak size bimodality in Darwin's finches. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 273:1887-1894. PDF
Huber, S. K., and Podos, J. (2006). Beak morphology and song features covary in a population of Darwin's finches. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 88:489-498. PDF
Rossi-Santos, M. R., and Podos, J. (2006). Latitudinal variation in whistle structure of the estuarine dolphin Sotalia guianensis. Behaviour 143:347-364. PDF
Podos, J. and Hendry, A. P. (2006). The biomechanics of ecological speciation. In A. Herrel, T. Speck and N. Rowe (Eds.) Ecology and Biomechanics: A Mechanical Approach to the Ecology of Animals and Plants, pp. 301-321. CRC Press, Boca Raton. LINK*
Podos, J. (2005). Keeping it in the family; review of Oller, DK & Griebel U, Evolution of Communication Systems: A Comparative Approach, MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 2004 BioScience 55:1008-1010 PDF
Herrel, A., Podos, J., Huber, S. K., and Hendry, A. P. (2005). Evolution of bite force in Darwin's finches: a key role for head width. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 18:669-675 PDF
Herrel, A., Podos, J., Huber, S. K., and Hendry, A. P. (2005). Bite performance and morphology in a population of Darwin's finches: implications for the evolution of beak shape. Functional Ecology 19:43-48 PDF
Podos, J. and Nowicki, S. (2004). Performance limits on birdsong. In Marler, P. and Slabbekoorn, H. (Eds.) Nature's Music: The Science of Birdsong, pp. 318-342. Academic Press: New York
Podos, J., Peters, S. and Nowicki, S. (2004). Calibration of song learning targets during vocal ontogeny in swamp sparrows (Melospiza georgiana). Animal Behaviour 68:929-940 PDF
Cox Fernandes, C., Podos, J., and Lundberg, J. G. (2004). Amazonian ecology: tributaries enhance the diversity of electric fishes. Science 305:1960-1962 LINK*
Cox Fernandes, C., and Podos, J. (2004). Sobre a descarga do orgão elétrico do sarapó Apteronotus hasemani (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae). In Cintra, R. (Ed.) Historia Natural, ecologia e conservação de algumas especies de plantas e animais da Amazônia, pp. 147-155. EDUA/INPA/FAPEAM: Manaus.
Podos, J., Huber, S. K. and Taft, B. (2004). Bird song: the interface of evolution and mechanism. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 35:55-87 LINK*
Podos, J. and Nowicki, S. (2004). Beaks, adaptation, and vocal evolution in Darwin's finches. BioScience 54:501-510 LINK*
Podos, J., Southall, J. A. and Rossi-Santos, M. R. (2004). Vocal mechanics in Darwin's finches: correlation of beak gape and song frequency. Journal of Experimental Biology 207:607-619 PDF
Podos, J., da Silva, V. M. F., and Rossi-Santos, M. R. (2002). Vocalizations of Amazon river dolphins, Inia geoffrensis: insights into evolutionary origins of delphinid whistles. Ethology 108:601-612 PDF
Nowicki, S., Searcy, W. A., Hughes, M. and Podos, J. (2001). The evolution of birdsong: male and female response to song innovation in swamp sparrows. Animal Behaviour 62:1189-1195 PDF
Podos, J. (2001). Correlated evolution of morphology and vocal signal structure in Darwin’s finches. Nature 409:185-188. PDF
Podos, J., and Nowicki, S. (2000). Mechanical limits and the evolution of vocalizations in birds. In Alves, M. A. S. (Ed.) A Ornithologia no Brasil: Pesquisa Atual e Perspectivas, pp. 251-266. EdUERJ: Rio de Janeiro.
Hoese, W. J., Podos, J., Boetticher, N. C., and Nowicki, S. (2000) Vocal tract function in birdsong production: experimental manipulation of beak movements. Journal of Experimental Biology 203:1845-1855. PDF
Podos, J., Nowicki, S., and Peters, S. (1999). Permissiveness in the learning and development of song syntax in the swamp sparrow. Animal Behaviour 58:93-103. PDF
Klopfer, P. and Podos, J. (1998). Behavioral ecology. In Greenberg, G. and Haraway, M. (Eds.) Comparative Psychology: a Handbook, pp. 81-87. Garland Publishing: New York.
Nowicki, S., Peters, S., and Podos, J. (1998). Song learning, early nutrition, and sexual selection in songbirds. American Zoologist 38:179-190. PDF
Podos, J. (1997). A performance constraint on the evolution of trilled vocalizations in a songbird family (Passeriformes: Emberizidae). Evolution 51:537-551. PDF
Podos, J. (1996). Motor constraints on vocal development in a songbird. Animal Behaviour 51:1061-1070. PDF
Podos, J., Sherer, J. K., Peters, S., and Nowicki, S. (1995). Ontogeny of vocal tract movements during song production in song sparrows. Animal Behaviour 50:1287-1296. PDF
Searcy, W. A., Podos, J., Peters, S., and Nowicki, S. (1995). Discrimination of song types and variants in song sparrows. Animal Behaviour 49:1219-1226. PDF
Podos, J. (1994). Early perspectives on the evolution of behavior: Charles Otis Whitman and Oskar Heinroth. Ethology, Ecology, and Evolution 6:467-480. PDF
Nowicki, S., Podos, J., and Valdez, F. (1994). Temporal patterning of within-song type and between- song type variation in song repertoires. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 34:329-335.
Nowicki, S. and Podos, J. (1993). Complexity, coupling, & contingency in the production of birdsong. In Bateson, P. P. G., Klopfer, P., and Thompson, N. (Eds.) Perspectives in Ethology, Vol. 10: Behavior and Evolution, pp. 159-186. Plenum Press: New York.
Podos, J., Peters, S., Rudnicky, T., Marler, P. and Nowicki, S. (1992). The organization of song repertoires in song sparrows: themes and variations. Ethology 90:89-106. PDF

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updated 17 October 2007