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Dr Catherine Sheard

Dr Catherine Sheard
Dr Catherine Sheard
Dr Catherine Sheard

Interdisciplinary Fellow

Accepting PhDs

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School/Department
School of Biological Sciences

Biography

I am an evolutionary biologist who studies how innovations in behaviour shape trait distributions across broad swaths of space and time, particularly in birds and mammals. I frequently collaborate with linguists and anthropologists to translate methods developed in biology and palaeobiology to the study of human language/cultural evolution, with a particular interest in the relationship between people and their natural environment.

My Google Scholar page can be found and more information about my research can be found .

Qualifications

  • DPhil Zoology 
    2016 - University of Oxford 
  • BS Mathematics, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 
    2012 - Yale University 

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships
  • Member, SBS EDI Committee
  • SBS Research Culture Lead
External Memberships
  • Senior Editor, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Chair, BES Macro SIG
  • Diversity Committee Member, American Society of Naturalists
Research

Research Areas

Accepting PhDs

I am currently accepting PhDs in Biological and Environmental Sciences.

Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.

Biological and Environmental Sciences

  • Accepting PhDs
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Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

I primarily teach on BI3505: Animal Behaviour and ZO4543: Behavioural Ecology & Conservation, as well as contributing various lectures and practicals in topics across evolution and statistics. I also supervise honours project students.

Publications

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  • Flight style and metabolism shape the tempo of genome evolution in birds

    Ji, Y., Wu, L., Li, D., Feng, S., Fang, Q., Xiong, Y., Chang, Y., Cooper, J. C., Yu, X., Zhang, K., Tang, S., She, H., Wang, H., Zhang, D., Song, G., Fan, P., Zhou, J., Ma, L., Qu, Y., Jia, C., Sheard, C., DeWoody, J. A., Tobias, J. A., Zhang, G., Zhai, W., Lei, F.
    PLoS Biology, vol. 24, no. 7, pp. e3003884
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  • The functional significance of striping in rodents

    Caro, T., Gellately, L., Howell, N., Keating, J. N., Sheard, C.
    Evolution, vol. 80, no. 7, pp. 1583-1591
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  • AVONICHE: A Global Dataset of Dietary and Foraging Niches for Birds

    Sayol, F., Neate-Clegg, M., Sheard, C., Pigot, A. L., Tobias, J. A.
    Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 35, no. 1, e70197
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  • A new time tree of birds reveals the interplay between dispersal, geographic range size, and diversification

    Claramunt, S., Sheard, C., Brown, J. W., Cortés-Ramírez, G., Cracraft, J., Su, M. M., Weeks, B. C., Tobias, J. A.
    Current Biology, vol. 35, no. 16, pp. 3883-3895
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  • Global incidence of female birdsong is predicted by territoriality and biparental care in songbirds

    Odom, K. J., Salas, M. A., Benedict, L., Lim, K., Dale, J., Webb, W. H., Sheard, C., Tobias, J. A., Ball, G. F., Hall, M. L., Langmore, N. E., Webster, M. S., Riebel, K.
    Nature Communications, vol. 16, 6157
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  • Some birds are left behind in a race to beat the heat

    Sheard, C.
    Nature Ecology & Evolution, vol. 9, no. 7, pp. 1092-1093
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  • Viewing conditions predict evolutionary diversity in avian plumage colour

    Dunning, J., Sheard, C., Endler, J. A.
    Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 292, no. 2044, 20241728
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  • Longer wing bones in warmer climates suggest a role of thermoregulation in bird wing evolution

    Weeks, B. C., Harvey, C., Tobias, J. A., Sheard, C., Zhou, Z., Fouhey, D. F.
    Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 34, no. 4, e70033
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  • Anthropogenic nest material use in a global sample of birds

    Sheard, C., Stott, L., Street, S. E., Healy, S. D., Sugasawa, S., Lala, K. N.
    Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 93, no. 6, pp. 691-704
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  • The Evolution of Rodent Tail Morphology

    Sheard, C., Skinner, N., Caro, T.
    American Naturalist, vol. 203, no. 6, pp. 629-643
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