Testing the greater male variability phenomenon: Male mountain chickadees exhibit larger variation in reversal learning performance compared with females CL Branch, BR Sonnenberg, AM Pitera, LM Benedict, DY Kozlovsky, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287 (1931), 20200895, 2020 | 21 | 2020 |
Elevation-related differences in annual survival of adult food-caching mountain chickadees are consistent with natural selection on spatial cognition LM Benedict, AM Pitera, CL Branch, DY Kozlovsky, BR Sonnenberg, ... Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 74, 1-9, 2020 | 19 | 2020 |
Elevation-related differences in the age structure of breeding birds suggest stronger selection at harsher elevations CL Branch, AM Pitera, DY Kozlovsky, BR Sonnenberg, LM Benedict, ... Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 73, 1-6, 2019 | 19 | 2019 |
Food discovery is associated with different reliance on social learning and lower cognitive flexibility across environments in a food-caching bird VK Heinen, AM Pitera, BR Sonnenberg, LM Benedict, ES Bridge, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288 (1951), 20202843, 2021 | 17 | 2021 |
Nest construction, ambient temperature and reproductive success in a cavity-nesting bird BR Sonnenberg, CL Branch, LM Benedict, AM Pitera, VV Pravosudov Animal Behaviour 165, 43-58, 2020 | 16 | 2020 |
Reproduction is affected by individual breeding experience but not pair longevity in a socially monogamous bird AM Pitera, CL Branch, BR Sonnenberg, LM Benedict, DY Kozlovsky, ... Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 75 (7), 101, 2021 | 12 | 2021 |
Specialized spatial cognition is associated with reduced cognitive senescence in a food-caching bird VK Heinen, AM Pitera, BR Sonnenberg, LM Benedict, CL Branch, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288 (1947), 20203180, 2021 | 10 | 2021 |
Information maintenance of food sources is associated with environment, spatial cognition and age in a food-caching bird LM Benedict, AM Pitera, CL Branch, BR Sonnenberg, VK Heinen, ... Animal Behaviour 182, 153-172, 2021 | 8 | 2021 |
Microclimate and summer surface activity in the American pika (Ochotona princeps) LM Benedict, M Wiebe, M Plichta, H Batts, J Johnson, E Monk, C Ray Western North American Naturalist 80 (3), 316-329, 2020 | 8 | 2020 |
Experimental manipulation of food distribution alters social networks and information transmission across environments in a food-caching bird VK Heinen, LM Benedict, BR Sonnenberg, ES Bridge, DR Farine, ... Animal Behaviour 193, 1-12, 2022 | 7 | 2022 |
Food-caching chickadees do not exhibit directional bias when learning a spatial task LM Benedict, VK Heinen, BR Sonnenberg, AM Pitera, ES Bridge, ... Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 77 (1), 4, 2023 | 5 | 2023 |
Food-hoarding and nest-building propensities are associated in a cavity-nesting bird BR Sonnenberg, CL Branch, AM Pitera, LM Benedict, VK Heinen, ... Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 76, 1-9, 2022 | 5 | 2022 |
Social dominance has limited effects on spatial cognition in a wild food-caching bird VK Heinen, LM Benedict, AM Pitera, BR Sonnenberg, ES Bridge, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288 (1963), 20211784, 2021 | 5 | 2021 |
Food-caching mountain chickadees can learn abstract rules to solve a complex spatial-temporal pattern LM Benedict, VK Heinen, JF Welklin, BR Sonnenberg, LE Whitenack, ... Current Biology 33 (15), 3136-3144. e5, 2023 | 2 | 2023 |
Complex relationships between climate and reproduction in a resident montane bird LE Whitenack, JF Welklin, CL Branch, BR Sonnenberg, AM Pitera, ... Royal Society Open Science 10 (6), 230554, 2023 | 2 | 2023 |
Sampling a pika's pantry: temporal shifts in nutritional quality and winter preservation of American pika food caches J Varner, ZJ Carnes‐Douglas, E Monk, LM Benedict, A Whipple, ... Ecosphere 14 (5), e4494, 2023 | 2 | 2023 |
Learning predictably changing spatial patterns across days in a food-caching bird LM Benedict, VK Heinen, BR Sonnenberg, ES Bridge, VV Pravosudov Animal Behaviour 196, 55-81, 2023 | 2 | 2023 |
Natural variation in developmental condition has limited effect on spatial cognition in a wild food-caching bird BR Sonnenberg, VK Heinen, AM Pitera, LM Benedict, CL Branch, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289 (1984), 20221169, 2022 | 2 | 2022 |
Food-caching chickadees with specialized spatial cognition do not use scrounging as a stable strategy when learning a spatial task VK Heinen, AM Pitera, BR Sonnenberg, CL Branch, LM Benedict, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B 290 (2002), 20230900, 2023 | 1 | 2023 |
Variation in Sampling Behavior is Associated with General Rather Than Local Environmental Conditions, Age and Cognitive Abilities LM Benedict, AM Pitera, CL Branch, BR Sonnenberg, VK Heinen, ... Spatial Learning and Memory, Cognitive Flexibility, and Rule-Learning in …, 2024 | | 2024 |