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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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  • Deterministic assembly and anthropogenic extinctions drive convergence of island bird communities

    Triantis, K. a., Rigal, F., Whittaker, R. j., Hume, J. p., Sheard, C., Poursanidis, D., Rolland, J., Sfenthourakis, S., Matthews, T. j., Thébaud, C., Tobias, J. a.
    Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 31, no. 9, pp. 1741-1755
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  • Morphological adaptations linked to flight efficiency and aerial lifestyle determine natal dispersal distance in birds

    Weeks, B. c., Claramunt, S., Sheard, C., Tobias, J. A., O'Brien, B. K., Chu, J. J.
    Functional Ecology, vol. 36, no. 7, pp. 1681-1689
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  • Avonet: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds

    Tobias, J. A., Sheard, C., Pigot, A. L., Yang, J., Sayol, F., Alioravainen, N., Barber, R. A., Walkden, P. A., MacGregor, H. E. A., Jones, S. E. I., Vincent, C., Marples, N. M., Claramunt, S., Darski, B., Bregman, T. P., Hughes, E. C., Capp, E. J. R., Varley, Z. K., Friedman, N. R., Korntheuer, H., Trisos, C. H., Weeks, B. C., Hanz, D. M., Töpfer, T., Remeš, V., Nowak, L., Matysioková, B., Daly, B. G., Sorensen, M. C., Ford, M. A., Kelly, D. J., Annorbah, N. N. D., McEntee, J. P., Jamie, G. A., Zyskowski, K., Crates, R., Hosner, P. A., Stiles, F. G., Chibesa, M., Mashao, M., Mlamba, E., Päckert, M., Derryberry, E. P., Urriza, R. C., Brzeski, K. E., Prawiradilaga, D. M., Rayner, M. J., Bowie, R. C. K., Lafontaine, R., Scofield, R. P., Somarathna, L., Lepage, D., Illif, M., Neuschulz, E. L., Templin, M., Dehling, D. M., Pauwels, O. S. G., Analuddin, K., Fjeldså, J., Seddon, N., Sweet, P. R., Naka, L. N., Aleixo, A., Böhning-Gaese, K., Rahbek, C., Thomas, G. H., Schleuning, M., Devenish, A. J. M., Neate-Clegg, M. H. C., Weeks, T. L., Phillips, A. G., Montaño-Centellas, F. A., Leandro-Silva, V., Freeman, B. G., Cooney, C. R., Corrales-Vargas, A., Bravo, G. A., Carneiro, L. S., Moncada R., A. J., Baldassarre, D. T., Martínez-Salinas, A., Wolfe, J. D., Chapman, P. M., Neu, A., Mayhew, R. J., Silveira, L. F., Pollock, H. S., Grabowska-Zhang, A. M., Gonzalez, J. C. T., Meneses, C. G., Muñoz, M. C., Powell, L. L., Matthews, T. J., Johnson, O., Brito, G. R. R., Harvey, M. G., Zevallos, M. J., Bradfer-Lawrence, T., Bradfer-Lawrence, T., Maley, J. M., Lima, H. S., Provost, K. L., Howard, J. T., Chua, M. A. H., Gómez, M. I., Li, B., García, N. C., Fuchs, J., Ali, J. R., Carlson, M. L., Miller, E. T., Lou, Y., DeClerck, F. A. J., Cooper, J. C., Brawn, J. D., Fritz, S. A.
    Ecology Letters, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 581-597
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  • The Evolution of Australian Kin Terminologies: Models, Conditions, and Consequences

    Sheard, C., Jordan, F. M.
    Current Anthropology, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 60-61
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  • Ecological and behavioural drivers of offspring size in marine teleost fishes

    Vanadzina, K., Phillips, A., Martins, B., Laland, K. n., Webster, M. m., Sheard, C.
    Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 30, no. 12, pp. 2407-2419
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  • Aposematism in mammals

    Howell, N., Sheard, C., Koneru, M., Brockelsby, K., Ono, K., Caro, T.
    Evolution, vol. 75, no. 10, pp. 2480-2493
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  • Tempo and mode of morphological evolution are decoupled from latitude in birds

    Drury, J. P., Clavel, J., Tobias, J. A., Rolland, J., Sheard, C., Morlon, H.
    PLoS Biology, vol. 19, no. 8, e3001270
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  • CHIELD: the causal hypotheses in evolutionary linguistics database

    Roberts, S. g., Killin, A., Deb, A., Sheard, C., Greenhill, S. j., Sinnemäki, K., Segovia-Martín, J., Nölle, J., Berdicevskis, A., Humphreys-Balkwill, A., Little, H., Opie, C., Jacques, G., Bromham, L., Tinits, P., Ross, R. m., Lee, S., Gasser, E., Calladine, J., Spike, M., Mann, S. f., Shcherbakova, O., Singer, R., Zhang, S., Benítez-Burraco, A., Kliesch, C., Thomas-Colquhoun, E., Skirgård, H., Tamariz, M., Passmore, S., Pellard, T., Jordan, F.
    Journal of Language Evolution, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 101-120
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  • Pama-Nyungan grandparent systems change with grandchildren, but not cross-cousin terms or social norms

    Sheard, C., Bowern, C., Dockum, R., Jordan, F. M.
    Evolutionary Human Sciences, vol. 2, e30
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  • Ecological drivers of global gradients in avian dispersal inferred from wing morphology

    Sheard, C., Neate-Clegg, M. H., Alioravainen, N., Jones, S. E., Vincent, C., MacGregor, H. E., Bregman, T. P., Claramunt, S., Tobias, J. A.
    Nature Communications, vol. 11, no. 1, 2463
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