Selected Science Writing
Temperature, Friendships and Foraging in Winter Birds
Using FeederWatch Data to Create a Dominance Hierarchy, Winter Bird Highlights, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Percentage of Seabird Species Ingesting Plastic Expected to Reach 99 Percent by 2050, Shark Research and Conservation Program
Exploitation and Cooperation by Cleaner Wrasse, Shark Research and Conservation Program
Selected Personal Essays
On Girls in the Boy Scouts – 15 Years Too Late if You Ask Me
Academic Writing
Vander Meiden, L.N., Shizuka D., Hoppe, I.R., Johnson, A.E. In Revision. Flexibility and Selectivity in Mixed-Species Flocks. Animal Behaviour.
Vander Meiden, L.N., Shizuka, D.S., Johnson, A.E. 2023. Studying individual-level interactions can transform our understanding of avian mixed-species flocks. Ornithology. 140:2.
- Editor’s Choice, Wesley Lanyon Award Finalist
Bangal, P., Sridhar, H., Shizuka, D., Vander Meiden, L. N., Shanker, K. 2022. Flock-species richness influences node importance and modularity in mixed-species flock networks. Oecologia. 198:431-440.
Madsen, A., Vander Meiden, L. N., Shizuka, D. 2021. Social partners and temperature jointly affect morning foraging activity of small birds in winter. Behavioral Ecology. 32:407-415.
Leighton, G. M., Vander Meiden, L. N. 2016. Sociable weavers increase cooperative nest construction after suffering aggression. PLoS ONE 11:e0150953.
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