| AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds JA Tobias, C Sheard, AL Pigot, et al. Ecology Letters 25 (3), 581-597, 2022 | 555 | 2022 |
| Macroevolutionary convergence connects morphological form to ecological function in birds AL Pigot, C Sheard, ET Miller, TP Bregman, BG Freeman, U Roll, ... Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2020 | 419 | 2020 |
| Ecological drivers of global gradients in avian dispersal inferred from wing morphology C Sheard, MHC Neate-Clegg, N Alioravainen, SEI Jones, C Vincent, ... Nature Communications 11, 2463, 2020 | 349 | 2020 |
| Avian egg shape: Form, function, and evolution MC Stoddard, EH Yong, D Akkaynak, C Sheard, JA Tobias, L Mahadevan Science 356 (6344), 1249-1254, 2017 | 225 | 2017 |
| Territoriality, Social Bonds, and the Evolution of Communal Signaling in Birds JA Tobias, C Sheard, N Seddon, A Meade, AJ Cotton, S Nakagawa Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 4, 74, 2016 | 155 | 2016 |
| Quantifying species contributions to ecosystem processes: a global assessment of functional trait and phylogenetic metrics across avian seed-dispersal networks AL Pigot, T Bregman, C Sheard, B Daly, RS Etienne, JA Tobias Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 283 (1844), 20161597, 2016 | 88 | 2016 |
| Flight range, fuel load and the impact of climate change on the journeys of migrant birds C Howard, PA Stephens, JA Tobias, C Sheard, SHM Butchart, SG Willis Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285 (1873), 20172329, 2018 | 78 | 2018 |
| The macroecological dynamics of species coexistence in birds AL Pigot, W Jetz, C Sheard, JA Tobias Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2018 | 59 | 2018 |
| Ecology and allometry predict the evolution of avian developmental durations CR Cooney, C Sheard, AD Clark, SD Healy, A Liker, SE Street, CA Troisi, ... Nature Communications 11, 2383, 2020 | 56 | 2020 |
| Tempo and timing of ecological trait divergence in bird speciation JP McEntee, JA Tobias, C Sheard, JG Burleigh Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2018 | 52 | 2018 |
| CHIELD: the causal hypotheses in evolutionary linguistics database SG Roberts, A Killin, A Deb, C Sheard, SJ Greenhill, K Sinnemäki, ... Journal of Language Evolution, 2020 | 42 | 2020 |
| Ecological traits reveal functional nestedness of bird communities in habitat islands: a global survey. TJ Matthews, C Sheard, HEW Cottee-Jones, TP Bregman, JA Tobias, ... Oikos 124, 817–826, 2015 | 42 | 2015 |
| Morphological adaptations linked to flight efficiency and aerial lifestyle determine natal dispersal distance in birds BC Weeks, BK O'Brien, JJ Chu, S Claramunt, C Sheard, JA Tobias Functional Ecology, 2022 | 36 | 2022 |
| Evolution of avian egg shape: underlying mechanisms and the importance of taxonomic scale MC Stoddard, C Sheard, D Akkaynak, EH Yong, L Mahadevan, JA Tobias Ibis 161 (4), 922-925, 2019 | 35 | 2019 |
| Loan and inheritance patterns in hunter-gatherer ethnobiological systems C Bowern, H Haynie, C Sheard, B Alpher, P Epps, J Hill, P McConvell Journal of Ethnobiology 34 (2), 195-227, 2014 | 33 | 2014 |
| Aposematism in mammals N Howell, C Sheard, M Koneru, K Brockelsby, K Ono, T Caro Evolution 75 (10), 2480-2493, 2021 | 23 | 2021 |
| Global drivers of variation in cup nest size in passerine birds K Vanadzina, SE Street, SD Healy, KN Laland, C Sheard Journal of Animal Ecology 92 (2), 338-351, 2023 | 22 | 2023 |
| Deterministic assembly and anthropogenic extinctions drive convergence of island bird communities KA Triantis, F Rigal, RJ Whittaker, JP Hume, C Sheard, D Poursanidis, ... Global Ecology and Biogeography 31 (9), 1741-1755, 2022 | 20 | 2022 |
| Beak shape and nest material use in birds C Sheard, S Street, C Evans, K Lala, S Healy, S Sugasawa Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 378 …, 2023 | 15 | 2023 |
| Usage frequency and lexical class determine the evolution of kinship terms in Indo-European P Rácz, S Passmore, C Sheard, FM Jordan Royal Society Open Science 6 (10), 191385, 2019 | 14 | 2019 |
Joseph TobiasProfessor of Biodiversity & Ecosystems, Imperial College LondonVerified email at imperial.ac.uk
