David W. Stephens

Affiliations: 
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 
Area:
behavioral ecology
Website:
http://nash.cbs.umn.edu/lab/
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Parents

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John R. Krebs grad student Oxford (Terrestrial Ecology Tree)
Eric L. Charnov post-doc University of Utah (Evolution Tree)

Children

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Jennifer Marie Dolan-Livengood grad student 2002 Emory
Jeffrey R. Stevens grad student 2002 UMN
Colleen Megan McLinn grad student 2006 UMN
Aimee Sue Dunlap grad student 2003-2009 UMN
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Stephens DW, Heinen VK. (2018) Modeling nonhuman conventions: the behavioral ecology of arbitrary action Behavioral Ecology. 29: 598-608
Polnaszek TJ, Rubi TL, Stephens DW. (2017) When it's good to signal badness: using objective measures of discriminability to test the value of being distinctive Animal Behaviour. 129: 113-125
Marcus M, Burnham TC, Stephens DW, et al. (2017) Experimental evolution of color preference for oviposition in Drosophila melanogaster Journal of Bioeconomics. 20: 125-140
Rubi TL, Stephens DW. (2016) Should receivers follow multiple signal components? An economic perspective Behavioral Ecology. 27: 36-44
Dunlap AS, Stephens DW. (2016) Reliability, uncertainty, and costs in the evolution of animal learning Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 12: 73-79
Heinen VK, Stephens DW. (2016) Blue jays, Cyanocitta cristata, devalue social information in uncertain environments Animal Behaviour. 112: 53-62
Rubi TL, Stephens DW. (2016) Does multimodality per se improve receiver performance? An explicit comparison of multimodal versus unimodal complex signals in a learned signal following task Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 1-8
Burnham TC, Dunlap A, Stephens DW. (2015) Experimental Evolution and Economics Sage Open. 5: 215824401561252
Dunlap AS, Stephens DW. (2014) Experimental evolution of prepared learning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 111: 11750-5
Polnaszek TJ, Stephens DW. (2014) Why not lie? Costs enforce honesty in an experimental signalling game. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 281: 20132457
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