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Ashley Ward - Research Output
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Peer-reviewed journal publications

Chapman, B.B., Ward, A.J.W. & Krause J (in press) Schooling and learning: early social environment predicts social learning ability in the guppy Poecilia reticulate. Animal Behaviour (accepted 3/3/2008)

Ward, A.J.W., Sumpter, D.J.T., Couzin, I.D., Hart, P.J.B. & Krause, J. (2008) Quorum decision-making facilitates information transfer in fish shoals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105 6948-6953

Ward, A.J.W., Duff, A.J. Horsfall, J.S. & Currie, S. (2008) Scents and scents-ability: Pollution disrupts chemical social recognition and shoaling in fish. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 275 101-105

Webster, M.M., Ward, A.J.W. & Hart, P.J.B. (2008) Shoal and prey patch choice by co-occurring fish and prawns: inter-taxa use of socially transmitted cues. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 275 203-208

Webster, M.M., Atton, N, Ward, A.J.W. & Hart, P.J.B. (2007) Turbidity and foraging rate in threespine sticklebacks: the importance of visual and chemical prey cues. Behaviour 144 1347-1360

Webster, M.M., Goldsmith, J., Ward, A.J.W. & Hart, P.J.B. (2007) Habitat specific chemical cues influence association preferences and shoal cohesion in fish. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 62 273-280

Webster, M.M., Ward, A.J.W. & Hart, P.J.B. (2007) Boldness is influenced by social context in threespine sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Behaviour 144 351-371

Ward, A.J.W., Webster, M.M. & Hart, P.J.B. (2007) Social recognition in wild fish populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 274 1071-1077.

Ward, A.J.W., Webster, M.M., Hart, P.J.B. (2006) Intraspecific food competition in fish. Fish & Fisheries 7 231-261.

Wright, D., Ward, A.J.W., Croft, D.P. & Krause, J. (2006) Social organisation, grouping and domestication in fish. Zebrafish 3 141-155.

Ward, A.J.W., Duff, A.J. & Currie, S. (2006) The effects of a common environmental pollutant, 4-nonylphenol, on the behaviour of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 63 377-382.

Krause, J., Ward, A.J.W., Jackson, A., Ruxton, G.D., James, R. & Currie, S. (2005) The influence of differential swimming speeds on composition of multi-species fish shoals. Journal of Fish Biology 67 866-872.

Coolen, I., Ward, A.J.W., Hart, P.J.B. & Laland, K.N.. (2005) Foraging nine-spined sticklebacks prefer to rely on public information over simpler social cues. Behavioural Ecology 16 865-870.

Ward, A.J.W., Holbrook, R.I., Krause, J & Hart, P.J.B. (2005) Social recognition in sticklebacks: The role of direct experience and habitat cues. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 57 575-583.

Croft, D.P., James, R., Ward, A.J.W., M. S. Botham, D. Mawdsley & Krause, J. (2005) The structure of social networks and association patterns in fish. Oecologia 143 211-219.

Ward, A.J.W., Duff, A.J., Krause, J. & Barber, I. (2005) Shoaling behaviour of sticklebacks infected with a microsporidian parasite. Environmental Biology of Fishes 72 155-160.

Ward, A.J.W. & Hart, P.J.B. (2005) Foraging benefits of shoaling with familiars may be exploited by outsiders. Animal Behaviour 69 329-335.

Ward, A.J.W., Hart, P.J.B. & Krause, J. (2004) Assessment and assortment: how fishes use local and global cues to choose which school to go to. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B Biology Letters 271 S328-S330

Ward, A.J.W., Thomas, P., Hart, P.J.B. & Krause, J. (2004) Correlates of boldness in three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 55 561-568.

Ward, A.J.W., Hart, P.J.B. & Krause, J. (2004) The effects of habitat- and diet-based cues on association preferences in three-spined sticklebacks. Behavioral Ecology 15 925-929.

Ward, A.J.W., Axford, S. & Krause, J. (2003) Cross-species familiarity in shoaling fishes. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 270 1157-1161.

Ward, A.J.W. & Hart, P.J.B. (2003) The effects of kin and familiarity on interactions between fish. Fish & Fisheries 4 348-358.

Ward, A.J.W., Botham, M.S., Hoare, D.J., James, R., Broom, M., Godin, J.-G.J. & Krause, J. (2002) Association patterns and shoal fidelity in the three-spined stickleback. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 269 2451-2455.

Ward, A.J.W., Axford, S. & Krause, J. (2002) Mixed-species shoaling in fish: the sensory mechanisms and costs of shoal choice. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 52 182-187.

Ward, A.J.W., Hoare, D.J., Couzin, I.D., Broom, M. & Krause, J. (2002) The effects of parasitism and body length on positioning within wild fish shoals. Journal of Animal Ecology 71 10-14.

Hoare, D.J., Ward, A.J.W., Couzin, I.D., Croft, D.P. & Krause, J. (2001) A grid-net technique for the analysis of fish positions within free-ranging shoals. Journal of Fish Biology 59 1667-1672.

Ward, A.J.W. & Krause, J. (2001) Body length assortative shoaling in the European minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus. Animal Behaviour 62 617-621.

Krause, J., Hoare, D.J., Croft, D., Lawrence, J., Ward, A., Ruxton, G.D., Godin, J-G.J. & James, R. (2000) Fish shoal composition: mechanisms and constraints. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 267 2011-2017.


Peer-reviewed Book Chapters

Griffiths, S.W. & Ward, A.J.W. (2006) Learned recognition of conspecifics. In: Fish Cognition & Behavior (Edited by Culum Brown, Kevin Laland & Jens Krause). Chapman & Hall, Oxford.

Hart, P.J.B., Webster, M.M. & Ward, A.J.W. (in press) Foraging strategies in fish. In: Fish Behaviour (Eds: Magnhagen, C., Braithwaite, V., Forsgren, E. & Kapoor, B.G.). Science Publisher, Inc., Enfield, USA.

Krause, J., Ward, A.J.W., Croft, D.P. & James, R. (in press) Group living and social networks. In: Fish Behaviour (Eds: Magnhagen, C., Braithwaite, V., Forsgren, E. & Kapoor, B.G.). Science Publisher, Inc., Enfield, USA.