Wikelski M, M Quetting, J Bates, T Berger-Wolf, G Bohrer, L Börger, T Chapple, M Crofoot, SC Davidson, DKN Dechmann, D Ellis-Soto, L Ellwood, W Fiedler, A Flack, B Fruth, N Franconi, RW Havmøller, J Hirt, NR Hussey, F Iannarilli, M Landwehr, ME Müller, T Müller, U Müller, R Oliver, J Partecke, L Pokrovskaya, DR Rubenstein, C Rutz, K Safi, A Santangeli, L van Schalkwyk, A Sequeira, T Ramesh, P Viljoen, K Wasik, S Yanco and R Kays. Introducing a unique animal ID and digital life history museum for wildlife.
Falk JJ, MS Webster and DR Rubenstein. The maintenance of adaptive polymorphism.
Chan S-F, DR Rubenstein, T-W Wang, Y-Y Chen, I-C Chen, D-Z Ni, W-K Shih and S-F Shen. Allee effects mediate the impact of land-use change on the thermal niche of social species. PREPRINT
Mai J, J-P Huang, DR Rubenstein, Y-H Wen, M Liao, J-C Lin, S Wu, M Liu and S-F Shen. The rise of morphological diversity in butterflies and moths. PREPRINT
2024
Shah SS and DR Rubenstein. 2024. Intraspecific variation in the social structure of a cooperative breeder arises due to fine-scale environmental conditions governing directional dispersal. Journal of Animal Ecology Provisionally accepted.
Siller Wilks SJ, BJ Heidinger, DF Westneat, J Solomon and DR Rubenstein. 2024. The impact of parental and developmental stress on DNA methylation in the avian hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. Molecular Ecology 00:e17291. PDF
2023
Rubenstein DI and DR Rubenstein. 2023. Social behavior and animal societies. In Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, 3rd Edition (Scheiner, S, ed.). Elsevier. PDF
Shen S-F, HK Reeve, ST Emlen, M Liu and DR Rubenstein. 2023. Group size and the resolution of insider-outsider conflict in animal societies. Animal Behaviour 205:107-116. PDF
Siller Wilks SJ, DF Westneat, BJ Heidinger, J Solomon and DR Rubenstein. 2023. Epigenetic modification of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis during development in the house sparrow (Passer domesticus). General and Comparative Endocrinology 341:114336. PDF
Lin Y-H, Y-Y Chen, DR Rubenstein, M Liu and S-F Shen. 2023. Environmental quality mediates the ecological dominance of cooperatively breeding birds. Ecology Letters 26:1145–1156. PDF
Chan S-F, M Liu, DR Rubenstein, I-C Chen, Y-M Fan, Y-W Zheng and S-F Shen. 2023. Higher temperature variability in deforested mountain regions impacts the competitive advantage of nocturnal species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 290:20230529. PDF
Halupka L, D Arlt, J Tolvanen, A Millon, P Bize, P Adamík, P Albert, WJ Arendt, AV Artemyev, V Baglione, J Bańbura, M Bańbura, E Barba, RT Barrett, PH Becker, E Belskii, M Bolton, EK Bowers, J Bried, LBrouwer, M Bukacińska, D Bukaciński, L Bulluck, KF Carstens, I Catry, M Charter, A Chernomorets, R Covas, M Czuchra, DC Dearborn, F de Lope, AS Di Giacomo, VC Dombrovski, H Drummond, MJ Dunn, T Eeva, LM Emmerson, Y Espmark, JA Fargallo, SI Gashkov, EY Golubova, M Griesser, MP Harris, JP Hoover, Z Jagiełło, P Karell, J Kloskowski, WD Koenig, H Kolunen, M Korczak-Abshire, E Korpimäki, I Krams, M Krist, SC Krüger, BD Kuranov, X Lambin, MP Lombardo, A Lyakhov, A Marzal, AP Møller, VC Neves, JT Nielsen, A Numerov, B Orłowska, D Oro, M Öst, RA Phillips, H Pietiäinen, V Polo, J Porkert, J Potti, H Pöysä, T Printemps, J Prop, P Quillfeldt, JA Ramos, P-A Ravussin, RN Rosenfield, Alexandre Roulin, DR Rubenstein, IE Samusenko, DA Saunders, M Schaub, J Senar, F Sergio, T Solonen, DV Solovyeva, J Stępniewski, PM Thompson, M Tobolka, J Török, M van de Pol, L Vernooij, ME Visser, DF Westneat, NT Wheelwright, J Wiącek, KL Wiebe, AG Wood, A Wuczyński, D Wysocki, M Zárybnická, A Margalida and K Halupka. 2023. The effect of climate change on offspring production in 201 avian populations: a global meta-analysis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 120:e2208389120.PDF
Shah SS and DRRubenstein. 2023. Group augmentation underlies the evolution of complex sociality in the face of environmental instability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 120:e2212211120. PDF
Rubenstein DR and J Solomon. 2023. Target-enriched enzymatic methyl sequencing: flexible, scalable and inexpensive hybridization capture for quantifying DNA methylation. PLOSONE 18:e0282672. PDF
2022
Chak STC, SE Harris, KM Hultgren, JE Duffy and DR Rubenstein. 2022. Demographic inference provides insights into the extirpation and ecological dominance of eusocial snapping shrimps. JournalofHeredity113:552-562. PDF
Falk JJ, DRRubenstein, A Rico-Guevara and MS Webster. 2022. Intersexual social dominance mimicry drives female hummingbird polymorphism. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 289:20220332. PDF
Firman RC, DR Rubenstein and BA Buzatto. 2022. The spatial and temporal distribution of females influence the evolution of testes size in Australian rodents. Biology Letters 18:20220058. PDF
Little J, DR Rubenstein and S Guindre-Parker. 2022. Plasticity in social behaviour varies with reproductive status in an avian cooperative breeder. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 289:20220355. PDF
Shah SS and DR Rubenstein. 2022. Prenatal environmental conditions underlie alternative reproductive tactics that drive the formation of a mixed-kin cooperative society. Science Advances 8:eabk2220. PDF
Chen Y-Y, DR Rubenstein and S-F Shen. 2022. Cooperation and lateral forces: moving beyond bottom-up and top-down drivers of animal population dynamics. Frontiers in Psychology 13:768773. PDF
2021
Liu M, DR Rubenstein, SA Cheong and S-F Shen. 2021. Antagonistic effects of long- and short-term environmental variation on species coexistence. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 288:20211491. PDF
Falk JJ, MS Webster and DR Rubenstein. 2021. Male-like ornamentation in female hummingbirds results from social harassment rather than sexual selection. Current Biology 31:4381-4387. PDF
Guindre-Parker S and DR Rubenstein. 2021. Long-term measures of climate unpredictability shape the avian endocrine stress axis. The American Naturalist 198:394-405. PDF
Mazzei R and DR Rubenstein. 2021. Larval ecology, dispersal and the evolution of sociality in the sea. Ethology 127:808–820. PDF
Chak STC, SE Harris, KM Hultgren, NW Jeffrey and DR Rubenstein. 2021. Eusociality in snapping shrimps is associated with larger genomes and an accumulation of transposable elements. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 118:e2025051118. PDF
RubensteinDR, A Corvelo, MD MacManes, R Maia, G Narzisi, A Rousaki, P Vandenabeele, M Shawkey and J Solomon. 2021. Feather gene expression elucidates the developmental basis of iridescence in African starlings. Journal of Heredity 112:417-429. PDF
Diamant ES, J Falk and DR Rubenstein. 2021. Male-like female morphs in hummingbirds: the evolution of a widespread sex-limited plumage polymorphism. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 288:20203004. PDF
2020
Liu M, B-F Chen, DR Rubenstein and S-F Shen. 2020. Social rank modulates how environmental quality influences cooperation and conflict within animal societies. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 287:20201720. PDF
Antonson ND, DR Rubenstein, ME Hauber and CA Botero. 2020. Ecological uncertainty favors the diversification of host use in avian brood parasites. Nature Communications 11:4185. PDF
Tsai H-Y, DR Rubenstein, B-F Chen, M Liu, S-F Chan, Y-M Fan, D-P Chen, S-J Sun, T-N Yuan and S-F Shen. 2020. Antagonistic effects of intraspecific cooperation and interspecific competition on thermal performance. eLife 9:e57022. PDF
Guindre-Parker S and DR Rubenstein. 2020. Survival benefits of group living in a fluctuating environment. The American Naturalist 195:1027-1036. PDF
Liu M, S-F Chan, DR Rubenstein, S-J Sun, B-F Chen and S-F Shen. 2020. Ecological transitions in grouping benefits explain the paradox of environmental quality and sociality. The American Naturalist 195:818-832. PDF
Tsai H-Y, DR Rubenstein, Y-M Fan, T-N Yuan, B-F Chen, Y Tang, I-C Chen and SF Shen. 2020. Locally-adapted reproductive photoperiodism determines population vulnerability to climate change. Nature Communications 11:1398. PDF
Firman RC, DR Rubenstein, JM Moran, KC Rowe and BA Buzatto. 2020. Extreme and variable climatic conditions drive the evolution of sociality in Australian rodents. Current Biology 30:691-697. PDF
Chen B-F, M Liu, DR Rubenstein, S-J Sun, J-N Liu, Y-H Lin and S-F Shen. 2020. A chemically triggered transition from conflict to cooperation in burying beetles. Ecology Letters 23:467-475. PDF
2019
Chak STC and DR Rubenstein. 2019. TERAD: Extraction of transposable element composition from RADseq data. Molecular Ecology Resources 19:1681-1688. PDF
Liu M, DRRubenstein, S-A Cheong and S-F Shen. 2019. A continuum of biological adaptations to environmental fluctuation. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 286:20191623. PDF
Wu S, C-M Chang, DR Rubenstein, C-M Yang, Y-T Huang, H-H Lin, L-C Shih, S-W Chen and S-F Shen. 2019. Artificial intelligence reveals environmental constraints on colour diversity in insects. Nature Communications 10:4551 PDF
Siller SJ and DR Rubenstein. 2019. A tissue comparison of DNA methylation in the glucocorticoid receptor (Nr3c1) gene promoter in the European starling. Integrative and Comparative Biology 59:264-272. PDF
Rubenstein DR, JA Ågren, L Carbone, NC Elde, HE Hoekstra, KM Kapheim, L Keller, CS Moreau, AL Toth, S Yeaman and HA Hofmann. 2019. Coevolution of genome architecture and social behavior. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 34:844-855. PDF
Cheng Y-R, DR Rubenstein and S-F Shen. 2019. Nest predation predicts infanticide in a cooperatively breeding bird. BiologyLetters 15:20193014. PDF
Chak STC and DR Rubenstein. 2019. Social transitions in sponge-dwelling snapping shrimp. Current Opinion in Insect Science 34:33-39. PDF
Lin Y-H, S-F Chan, DR Rubenstein, M Liu and S-F Shen. 2019. Resolving the paradox of environmental quality and sociality: the ecological causes and consequences of cooperative breeding in two lineages of birds. The American Naturalist 194:207-216. PDF
Rubenstein DR. 2019. Animal society. In Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior (Vonk, J and TK Schelford, eds.). Springer, New York, pp. 1-3. PDF
Ellis VA, EHR Sari, DR Rubenstein, RC Dickerson, S Bensch and RE Ricklefs. 2019. The global biogeography of avian haemosporidian parasites is characterized by local diversification and intercontinental dispersal. Parasitology 146:213-219. PDF
Shen S-F and DR Rubenstein. 2019. Environmental uncertainty and social behavior. In Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, 2nd Edition (Choe, J, ed.). Elsevier, New York, Volume 4, pp. 807-815. PDF
2018
Guindre-Parker S and DR Rubenstein. 2018. No short-term physiological costs of offspring care in a cooperatively breeding bird. Journal of Experimental Biology 221:jeb186569. PDF
Guindre-Parker S and DR Rubenstein. 2018. The oxidative costs of parental care in cooperative and pair-breeding African starlings. Oecologia 188:53-63. PDF
Liu M, DR Rubenstein, S-A Cheong and S-F Shen. 2018. Multitasking and the evolution of optimal clutch size in fluctuating environments. Ecology and Evolution 8:8803–8817. PDF
Guindre-Parker S and DR Rubenstein. 2018. Multiple fitness benefits of alloparental care in a fluctuating environment. Royal Society Open Science 5:172406. PDF
Pikus AE, S Guindre-Parker and DR Rubenstein. 2018. Testosterone, social status and parental care in a cooperatively breeding bird. Hormones and Behavior 97:85-93. PDF
2017
Gaynor KM, JW Solomon, JE Duffy, L Jessell, S Siller and DR Rubenstein. 2017. Development of genome- and transcriptome-derived microsatellites in related species of snapping shrimps with highly duplicated genomes. Molecular Ecology Resources 17:e160-e173. PDF
Brooks KC, R Maia, JE Duffy, KM Hultgren and DR Rubenstein. 2017. Ecological generalism facilitates the evolution of sociality in snapping shrimps. Ecology Letters 20:1516-1525. PDF
Dantzer B and DR Rubenstein. 2017. Introduction to symposium: the developmental and proximate mechanisms causing individual variation in cooperative behavior. Integrative and Comparative Biology 57:560-565. PDF
S-F Shen, ST Emlen, WD Koenig and DR Rubenstein. 2017. The ecology of cooperative breeding behaviour. Ecology Letters 20:708-720. PDF
Chak STC, JE Duffy, KM Hultgren and DR Rubenstein. 2017. Evolutionary transitions towards eusociality in snapping shrimps. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1:0096. PDF
Cornwallis CK, CA Botero, DR Rubenstein, PA Downing, SA West and AS Griffin. 2017. Cooperation facilitates the colonization of harsh environments. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1:0057. PDF
Rubenstein DR and P Abbot. 2017. The evolution of social evolution. In Comparative Social Evolution (Rubenstein DR and P Abbot, eds.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 1-18. PDF
Hultgren KM, JE Duffy and DR Rubenstein. 2017. Sociality in snapping shrimps. In Comparative Social Evolution (Rubenstein DR and P Abbot, eds.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 224-249. PDF
Rubenstein DR and P Abbot. 2017. Social synthesis: opportunities for comparative social evolution. In Comparative Social Evolution (Rubenstein DR and P Abbot, eds.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 427-452. PDF
2016
Hofmeister NR and DR Rubenstein. 2016. Environmental variability and the evolution of the glucocorticoid receptor (Nr3c1) in African starlings. Ecology Letters 19:1219-1227. PDF
Hofmann HA, SCP Renn and DR Rubenstein. 2016. Introduction to symposium: new frontiers in the integrative study of animal behavior: nothing in neuroscience makes sense except in the light of behavior. Integrative and Comparative Biology 56:1192-1196. PDF
Rubalcaba JG, V Polo, R Maia, DR Rubenstein and JP Veiga. 2016. Sexual and natural selection in the evolution of extended phenotypes: the use of green nesting material in starlings. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 29:1585-1592. PDF
Jeffrey NW, KM Hultgren, TCS Chak, TR Gregory and DR Rubenstein. 2016. Patterns of genome size variation in snapping shrimp. Genome 59:393-402. PDF
Maia R, DR Rubenstein and MD Shawkey. 2016. Selection, constraint and the evolution of coloration in African starlings. Evolution 70:1064-1079. PDF
Rubenstein DR, CA Botero and EA Lacey. 2016. Discrete but variable structure of animal societies leads to the false perception of a social continuum. Royal Society Open Science 3:160147. PDF
Keen SC, CD Meliza, JA Piloswky and DR Rubenstein. 2016. Song in a social and sexual context: vocalizations signal identity and rank in both sexes of a cooperative breeder. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 4:46. PDF
Rubenstein DR, HE Skolnik, A Berrio, F Champagne, S Phelps and J Solomon. 2016. Sex-specific fitness effects of unpredictable early life conditions are associated with DNA methylation in the avian glucocorticoid receptor. Molecular Ecology 25:1714-1728. PDF
Rubenstein DR. 2016. Superb starlings: cooperation and conflict in an unpredictable environment. In Cooperative Breeding in Vertebrates: Studies of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior (Koenig WD and JL Dickinson, eds.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 181-196. PDF
2015
Chak TCS, DR Rubenstein and JE Duffy. 2015. Social control of reproduction and breeding monopolization in the eusocial snapping shrimp Synalpheuselizabethae. The American Naturalist 186:660-668. PDF
Pollack LJ and DR Rubenstein. 2015. The fitness consequences of kin-biased dispersal in a cooperatively breeding bird. Biology Letters 11:20150336. PDF
Chak TCS, JE Duffy and DR Rubenstein. 2015. Reproductive skew drives patterns of sexual dimorphism in sponge-dwelling snapping shrimps. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 282:20150342. PDF
Apakupakul K and DR Rubenstein. 2015. Bateman’s principle is reversed in a cooperatively breeding bird. Biology Letters 11:20150034. PDF
Taborsky M, HA Hofmann, AK Beery, DT Blumstein, LD Hayes, EA Lacey, EP Martins, SM Phelps, NG Solomon and DR Rubenstein. 2015. Taxon matters: promoting integrative studies of social behavior. Trends in Neuroscience 38:189-191. PDF
Weinman LR, J Solomon and DR Rubenstein. 2015. A comparison of single nucleotide polymorphism and microsatellite markers for analysis of parentage and kinship in a cooperatively breeding bird. Molecular Ecology Resources 15:502-511. PDF
Botero CA, FJ Weissing, J Wright and DR Rubenstein. 2015. Evolutionary tipping points in the capacity to adapt to environmental change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 112:184-189. PDF
Rubenstein DR and HA Hofmann. 2015. The integrative study of animal behavior. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 6:v-viii. PDF
Rubenstein DR and HA Hofmann. 2015. Proximate pathways underlying social behavior. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 6:154-159. PDF
2014
Hofmann HA, AK Beery, DT Blumstein, ID Couzin, RL Earley, LD Hayes, PL Hurd, EA Lacey, SM Phelps, NG Solomon, M Taborsky, LJ Young and DR Rubenstein. 2014. An evolutionary framework for studying mechanisms of social behavior. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 29:581-589. PDF
Sun S-J, DR Rubenstein, J-N Liu, M Liu, B-F Chen, S-F Chan, W Hwang, P-S Yang and S-F Shen. 2014. Climate-mediated cooperation promotes niche expansion in burying beetles. eLife 3:e02440. PDF
Shen S-F, E Akçay and DR Rubenstein. 2014. Group size and social conflict in complex societies. The American Naturalist 183:301-310. PDF
2013
Keen SC, CD Meliza and DR Rubenstein. 2013. Flight calls signal group and individual identity but not kinship in a cooperatively breeding bird. Behavioral Ecology 24:1279-1285. PDF
Meliza CD, SC Keen and DR Rubenstein. 2013. Pitch- and spectral-based dynamic time warping methods for comparing field recordings of harmonic avian vocalizations. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 134:1407-1415. PDF
Seddon N, CA Botero, JA Tobias, PO Dunn, H MacGregor, DR Rubenstein, A Uy, JT Weir, LA Whittingham and RJ Safran. 2013. Sexual selection accelerates signal evolution during speciation in birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 280:20131065. PDF
Maia R, DR Rubenstein and MD Shawkey. 2013. Key ornamental innovations facilitate diversification in an avian radiation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 110:10687-10692. PDF
Mark MM and DR Rubenstein. 2013. Physiological costs and carry-over effects of avian interspecific brood parasitism influence reproductive tradeoffs. Hormones and Behavior 63:717-722. PDF
Pilowsky JA and DR Rubenstein. 2013. Social context and the lack of sexual dimorphism in song in an avian cooperative breeder. Animal Behaviour 85:709-714. PDF
Rubenstein DI and DR Rubenstein. 2013. Social behavior. In Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, 2nd Edition (Levin, SA, ed.). Elsevier, Volume 6, pp. 571-579. PDF
Duffy JE, KS Macdonald, KM Hultgren, TCS Chak and DR Rubenstein. 2013. Decline and extinction of Caribbean eusocial shrimp. PLOSONE 8:e54637. PDF
Creel S, B Danzter, W Goymann and DR Rubenstein. 2013. The ecology of stress: effects of the social environment. Functional Ecology 27:66-80. PDF
2012
Rubenstein DR. 2012. Family feuds: social competition and sexual conflict in complex societies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 367:2304-2313. PDF
Rubenstein DR. 2012. Sexual and social competition: broadening perspectives by defining females roles. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 367:2248-2252. PDF
Lovette IJ, BS Arbogast, RL Curry, RM Zink, CA Botero, JP Sullivan, AL Talaba, RB Harris, DR Rubenstein, RE Ricklefs and E Bermingham. 2012. Phylogenetic relationships of the mockingbirds and thrashers (Aves: Mimidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 63:219-229. PDF
Botero CA and DR Rubenstein. 2012. Fluctuating environments, sexual selection and the evolution of flexible mate choice in birds. PLOS ONE 7:e32311. PDF
2011
Rubenstein DR. 2011. Spatiotemporal environmental variation, risk aversion and the evolution of cooperative breeding as a bet-hedging strategy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 108:10816-10822. PDF
Jetz W* and DR Rubenstein*. 2011. Environmental uncertainty and the global biogeography of cooperative breeding in birds. Current Biology 21:72-78. *contributed equally PDF
2010
Rubenstein DR and JA Kealey. 2010. Cooperation, conflict, and the evolution of complex animal societies. Nature Education Knowledge 1:47. WEB
Blumstein DT, LA Ebensperger, LD Hayes, RA Vásquez, TH Ahern, JR Burger, AG Dolezal, A Dosmann, G González-Mariscal, BN Harris, EA Herrera, EA Lacey, J Mateo, L McGraw, D Olazabal, M Ramenofsky, DR Rubenstein, SA Sakhai, W Saltzman, C Sainz-Borgo, M Soto-Gamboa, ML Stewart, TW Wey, JC Wingfield and LJ Young. 2010. Towards an integrative understanding of social behavior: new models and new opportunities. Frontiers in Neuroscience 4:1-9. PDF
2009
Rubenstein DR and IJ Lovette. 2009. Reproductive skew and selection on female ornamentation in social species. Nature 462: 786-789. PDF
Rubenstein DR and S-F Shen. 2009. Reproductive conflict and the costs of social status in cooperatively breeding vertebrates. The American Naturalist 173:650-661. PDF
2008
Rubenstein DR and ME Hauber. 2008. Dynamic feedback between phenotype and physiology in sexually selected traits. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23:655-658. PDF
Rubenstein DR, AF Parlow, CR Hutch and LB Martin. 2008. Environmental and hormonal correlates of immune activity in a cooperatively breeding tropical bird. General and Comparative Endocrinology 159:10-15. PDF
Vitousek MN, K Nelson, DR Rubenstein and M Wikelski. 2008. Are hotshots always hot? A longitudinal study of hormones, behavior, and reproductive success in male marine iguanas. General and Comparative Endocrinology 157:227-232. PDF
Lovette IJ, BV McCleery, AL Talba and DR Rubenstein. 2008. A complete species-level molecular phylogeny for the “Eurasian” starlings (Sturnidae: Sturnus, Acridotheres, and allies): recent diversification in a highly social and dispersive avian group. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47:251-260. PDF
Rubenstein DR, BV McCleery and JE Duffy. 2008. Microsatellite development suggests evidence of polyploidy in the social sponge-dwelling snapping shrimp Zuzalpheus brooksi. Molecular Ecology Resources 8:890-894. PDF
Martin LB and DR Rubenstein. 2008. Stress hormones in tropical birds: patterns and future directions. Ornitologia Neotropical 19 (Suppl.):207-218. PDF
2007
Rubenstein DR and IJ Lovette. 2007. Temporal environmental variability drives the evolution of cooperative breeding in birds. Current Biology 17:1414-1419. PDF
Rubenstein DR. 2007. Territory quality drives intraspecific patterns in extrapair paternity. Behavioral Ecology 18:1058-1064. PDF
Rubenstein DR. 2007. Female extrapair mate choice in a cooperative breeder: trading sex for help and increasing offspring heterozygosity. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 274:1895-1903. PDF
Rubenstein DR. 2007. Temporal but not spatial environmental variation drives adaptive offspring sex allocation in a plural cooperative breeder. The American Naturalist 170:155-165. PDF
Lovette IJ and DR Rubenstein. 2007. A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of the starlings (Aves: Sturnidae) and mockingbirds (Aves: Mimidae): congruent mtDNA and nuclear trees for a cosmopolitan avian radiation. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 44:1031-1056. PDF
Sachs JL and DR Rubenstein. 2007. The evolution of cooperative breeding; is there cheating? Behavioural Processes 76:13-137. PDF
Rubenstein DR. 2007. Stress hormones and sociality: integrating social and environmental stressors. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 274:967-975. PDF
Vitousek MN, DR Rubenstein and M Wikelski. 2007. The evolution of foraging behavior in the Galápagos marine iguana: natural and sexual selection on body size drives ecological, morphological, and behavioral specialization. In Foraging Behavior in Lizards (Reilly SM, DB Miles and LD McBrayer, eds.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 491-507. PDF
prior to 2007
Rubenstein DR, DI Rubenstein, PW Sherman and TA Gavin. 2006. Pleistocene Park: does re-wilding North America represent sound conservation for the 21st century? Biological Conservation 132:232-238. PDF
Lovette IJ, DR Rubenstein and WN Watetu. 2006. Provisioning of fledgling conspecifics by males of the brood-parasitic cuckoos Chrysococcyx klaas and C. caprius. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 118:99-101. PDF
Rubenstein DR. 2005. Isolation and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite loci in the plural cooperatively breeding superb starling, Lamprotornis superbus. Molecular Ecology Notes 5:739-744. PDF
Rubenstein DR and M Wikelski. 2005. Steroid hormones and aggression in female Galápagos marine iguanas. Hormones and Behavior 48:329-341. PDF
McRae SB, ST Emlen, DR Rubenstein and SM Bogdanowicz. 2005. Polymorphic microsatellite loci in a plural breeder, the grey-capped social weaver (Pseudonigrita arnaudi), isolated with an improved enrichment protocol using fragment size-selection. Molecular Ecology Notes 5:16-20. PDF
Royle JA and DR Rubenstein. 2004. The role of species abundance in determining breeding origins of migratory birds with stable isotopes. Ecological Applications 14:1780-1788. PDF
Rubenstein DR and KA Hobson. 2004. From birds to butterflies: animal movement patterns and stable isotopes. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19:256-263. PDF
Rubenstein DR and M Wikelski. 2003. Seasonal changes in food quality: a proximate cue for reproductive timing in marine iguanas. Ecology 84:3013-3023. PDF
Rubenstein DR, CP Chamberlain, RT Holmes, MP Ayres, JR Waldbauer, GR Graves and NC Tuross. 2002. Linking breeding and wintering ranges of a migratory songbird using stable isotopes. Science 295:1062-1065. PDF
Rittschof D, J Sarrica and DR Rubenstein. 1995. Shell dynamics and microhabitat selection by striped legged hermit crabs, Clibanarius vittatus (Bosc). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 192:157-172. PDF
other articles
Rubenstein DR. 2021. Social evolution. Henry Stewart Talks. WEB
Rubenstein DR. 2021. Darwinian puzzles: from natural to sexual to kin selection. AMNH Sminars on Science. PDF
Rubenstein DR and DI Rubenstein. 2016. From Pleistocene to trophic rewilding: a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 113:E1. PDF
Rubenstein DR, H Hofmann, E Akçay, S Alonzo, E Archie, A Beery, R Calisi-Rodríguez, K Carleton, B Chow, J Dubnau, C Grozinger, E Ketterson, A Leifer, T Linksvayer, M MacManes, L Martin, K McGraw, L McGraw, T Mendelson, L O'Connell, A Ophir, L Remage-Healey, S Renn, T Roth, J Tung and S Woolley. 2014. New frontiers for the integrative study of animal behavior. National Science Foundation White Paper. WEB
Rubenstein DR. 2012. The Flexible Phenotype: A Body-Centered Integration of Ecology, Physiology, and Behaviour (Book Review). The Quarterly Review of Biology 87:264. PDF
Rubenstein DR and JE Duffy. 2012. Scientists at work: notes from the field in Belize. The New York Times July 18-27, 2012. WEB
Rubenstein DR. 2011. From the big city to the bush. Mpala Memos July:7. PDF
Rubenstein DR. 2010. Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology (Book Review). The Quarterly Review of Biology 85:504. PDF
Rubenstein DR. 2010. Scientists at work: notes from the field in Kenya. The New York Times July 12-28, 2010. WEB
Rubenstein DR. 2009. The secret lives of starlings. Natural History 118:28-33. PDF
Rubenstein DR. 2009. Why I do science: the freedom to explore. SEED 21:34. PDF
Rubenstein DR, PW Sherman, DI Rubenstein and TM Caro. 2007. Rewilding rebuttal. Scientific American October:12. PDF
Rubenstein DR. 2006. Searching for starlings. Travel News April:58. PDF
Rubenstein DR. 2006. Chasing starlings, chased by a lion. Living Bird 26:26-32. PDF
Rubenstein DR. 2005. The uncommon lifestyle of the superb starling. BirdScope 19:20. PDF
Rubenstein DR. 2001. The places you can go. Dartmouth Alumni Magazine May/June:24-25. PDF
edited volumes
Rubenstein DR and HA Hofmann. 2015. New frontiers for the integrative study of animal behavior. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 6:1-182. WEB
Rubenstein DR, RO Prum and M Levandowsky. 2012. Sexual selection, social conflict and the female perspective. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 367:2248-2375. WEB
