DPhil student at the University of Oxford.
Studying local adaptation and phenology in the winter moth 🦋🌿
Rona Learmonth
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Planning a nestbox temperature manipulation experiment in birds? We’ve just published a preprint that may be useful! 🪺🪶
We review 46 studies and also share our own blue tit pilot experiment from Wytham Woods, highlighting some very real practical challenges doi.org/10.32942/X25387
Devi Satarkar
This week has been one of the warmest on record in Oxford. This heatwave has also been recorded by the thermologgers we have in @wythamwoods.bsky.social. The period between 23rd and 28th May has been ~8°C (+2.6 SDs) warmer in 2026 than the same period between 2023 and 2025.
1/🧵My first preprint!🐛🌡️
We examine how environmental effects experienced during one life-history stage persist and modulate environmental responses in later life-history stages.
With Lea Beaupere, @sheldonbirds.bsky.social, @rona-learmonth.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
New paper out in Biological Reviews📝🚨
When trying to explain why female birds engage in extra-pair copulations/paternity, we mostly focus on the benefits.
But what about the costs? Should we not consider the downsides of the behavior we try to understand? 🧵
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
www.biorxiv.org
Extra-pair behaviours – reproductive behaviours, including those related to copulation and paternity of offspring, amongst animals outside of a social pair bond – have long intrigued behavioural ecol...
Great talk by @rona-learmonth.bsky.social at #BES2025 on the absence of small scale local adaptation by winter moths to oak tree bud burst. Read more in this preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
