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Background
In 2007-8 I completed my Honours at the ANU
with my main supervisor as
Patricia Backwell,
with co-supervision by Michael Jennions. I was also involved in
a number of side projects on crickets with Jean Drayton. I started a PhD in 2008,
again with my main supervisor as Patricia Backwell and co-supervision by Michael Jennions. We
spent three
months in 2008 doing fieldwork on fiddler crabs in Mozambique, followed up
by two months more of fieldwork in Darwin. In 2009 I
did a full field season in Darwin. In 2010 we headed off to
Zanzibar to work on yet another species of fiddler crab. We
completed several projects that are now written up.
I then went back in Darwin to complete the 2010 field season. In
2011 I wrote up my thesis and ensured it was all published before
submission.
NEWS: Superstitious? PhD Thesis was
submitted on Friday 13th, 2012.
Publications
14. Milner RNC.
2012.Everybody needs good neighbours: coalitions formation influences floater
fight choice.
Ethology
13. Milner RNC, Jennions MD, Backwell PRY.
2011. Keeping up appearances: male fiddler crabs wave faster in a crowd.
Biology Letters
[PDF of online version]
12.
Milner RNC, Jennions MD, Backwell PRY.
2011. Know thine enemy's neighbour: neighbour size affects floater's choice of
whom to fight.
Behavioural
Ecology
22:947-950
[PDF]
11.
Milner RNC, Jennions MD, Backwell PRY.
2011. Non-independent mate choice in a fiddler crab: a case of stimulus
enhancement.
Behavioral
Ecology and Sociobiology
65:1419-1424
[PDF]
10.
Drayton JM, Milner RNC, Hall M, Jennions MD. 2011.
The effect of inbreeding on courtship calling in the cricket Teleogryllus
commodus.
Journal of Evolutionary Biology
24:47-58 [PDF]
9. Milner RNC, Jennions MD,
Backwell PRY.
2010.
Eavesdropping
in crabs: an agency for ladies detection.
Biology Letters
6:
755-757
[PDF]
8. Drayton JM,
Milner RNC, Hunt J, Jennions MD.
2010. Inbreeding and advertisement calling in the cricket
Teleogryllus commodus: laboratory and field experiments.
Evolution 64: 3069-3083
[PDF]
7.
Milner RNC, Booksmythe I, Jennions MD, Backwell PRY.
2010. The battle of the sexes? Territory
acquisition and defence in male and female fiddler crabs.
Animal
Behaviour 79:735-738 [PDF]
6. Milner RNC, Detto T, Jennions MD, Backwell
PRY. 2010. Experimental evidence for a seasonal shift in the
strength of a female mating preference.
Behavioural
Ecology
21:311-316
[PDF]
5. Milner RNC, Jennions MD, Backwell PRY. 2010. Safe
sex: male-female coalitions and pre-copulatory mate guarding in a
fiddler crab.
Biology Letters
6: 180-182 [PDF]
4. Booksmythe I, Milner RNC, Jennions MD, Backwell PRY. 2010.
How do weaponless male fiddler crabs avoid aggression?
Behavioral
Ecology and Sociobiology
64:485-491 [PDF]
3.
Milner RNC, Detto T, Jennions MD, Backwell PRY. 2010. Hunting and predation
in a fiddler crab.
Journal of Ethology 28: 171-173
[PDF]
2.
Milner RNC, Jennions MD, Backwell PRY. 2008. Does the environmental
context of a signaling male influence his attractiveness?
Animal
Behaviour 76:1565-1570
[PDF]
1. Reaney LT, Milner RNC, Detto T,
Backwell PRY. 2008. The effects of claw regeneration on territory
ownership and mating success in the fiddler crab, Uca mjoebergi.
Animal
Behaviour 75: 1473-1478
[PDF]
Contact
Email:
richard.milner@anu.edu.au
Photos from Inhaca (Mozambique, 2008) Click
thumbnails for full size pictures
Ignore: The files below
are just sound files to run a robotic crab!
Expt1a (synchro fast)
Expt1b (synchro medium)
Expt2a (fast vs medium)
Expt2b (fast vs slow)
Expt2c (medium vs slow)
EXpt31 (strong leader)
EXpt3b (not needed?)
Hopefully the id's
correspond, but obviously look and see. You owe me a LOT of beer. |
