User:SwanAmelia/Jessica Meade

Jessica Meade is the Behavioural Studies Unit administration assistant at Taronga Conservation Society Australia, in the Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH). Background

Jessica’s PhD on pigeon navigation at Oxford University lead on to research work tracking Manx shearwaters foraging off Skomer Island in Wales (UK). Following this she held a post-doc position at the University of Sheffield investigating parental and alloparental care in the cooperatively breeding long-tailed tit. Jessica moved to Australia in 2012 to work at the Univeristy of New South Wales on a dataset of satellite tracked Leopard seals. Jessica currently works half time in the Behavioural Studies Unit at Taronga Conservation Society, and the rest of the time is a visiting fellow at the University of Western Sydney working with Dr Justin Welbergen investigating climate change in the Wet Tropics.

Total citations: 369. H index: 9.

Peer Reviewed Papers


 * Mann, R., Armstrong, C., Meade, J., Freeman, R., Biro, D., Guilford, T. (2014) Landscape complexity influences route-memory formation in navigating pigeons. Biology letters. 10, 20130885.
 * Armstrong, C., Wilkinson, H., Meade, J., Biro, D., Freeman, R., Guilford, T. (2013) Pigeon navigation in sight of home: Solar cues and landscape guidance combine at the same scale. PLOS ONE. 8, e63130.
 * Meade, J., Hatchwell, B. J., Blanchard, J. L., Birkhead, T. (2013) The population increase of Common Guillemots on Skomer Island is explained by intrinsic demographic properties. Journal of Avian Biology. 44, 055-061.
 * Hatchwell, B. J., Sharp, S., Beckerman, A., Meade, J. (2013) Ecological, demographic and social correlates of helping in a cooperatively breeding bird. Journal of Animal Ecology. 82, 486-494.
 * Meade, J., Nam, K.-B., Lee, J.-W., Hatchwell, B. J. (2011) An experimental test of the information model for negotiation of parental care. PLOS ONE. 6 e19684.
 * Nam, K.-B., Meade, J., Hatchwell, B. J. (2011) Do parents and helpers adjust their provisioning effort in relation to nestling sex in a cooperatively breeding bird. Animal Behaviour. 82, 303-309.
 * Nam, K.-B., Meade, J., Hatchwell, B. J. (2011). Brood sex ratio variation in a cooperatively breeding bird. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 24, 904-913.
 * Meade, J., Hatchwell, B. J. (2010) No direct fitness benefits of helping in a cooperative breeder despite higher survival of helpers. Behavioural Ecology. 21, 1186-1194.
 * Meade, J., Nam, K.-B., Beckerman, A., Hatchwell, B. J. (2010) Consequences of ‘load-lightening’ for future indirect fitness gains by helpers in a cooperatively breeding bird. Journal of Animal Ecology. 79, 529-537.
 * Mann, R., Freeman, R., Osborne, M., Garnett, R., Armstrong, C., Meade, J., Biro, D., Guilford, T., Roberts, S. (2010) Objectively identifying landmark use and predicting flight trajectories of the homing pigeon using Gaussian processes. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 8, 210-219.
 * Paiva, V. H., Guilford, T., Meade, J., Geraldes, P., Ramos, J. A., Garthe, S. (2010) Flight dynamics of Cory’s shearwaters foraging in a coastal environment. Zoology. 113, 147-56.
 * Guilford, T., Meade, J., Willis, J., Phillips, R. A., Boyle, D., Roberts, S., Collet, M., Freeman, R., Perrins, C. M. (2009) Migration and stopover in a small pelagic seabird, the Manx shearwater Puffinus puffinus: insights from machine learning. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 276, 1215–1223.
 * Mann, R., Freeman, R., Osborne, M., Garnett, R., Meade, J., Armstrong, C., Biro, D., Guilford, T., Roberts, S. (2009) Gaussian Processes for Prediction of Homing Pigeon Flight Trajectories. AIP Conf. Proc. 1193, 360.
 * Guilford, T., Meade, J., Freeman, R., Biro, D., Evans, T., Bonadonna, F., Boyle, D., Perrins, C. M. (2008) GPS tracking of the foraging movements of Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus breeding on Skomer Island, Wales. Ibis. 150, 462-473.
 * Biro, D., Freeman, R., Meade, J., Roberts, S., Guilford, T. (2007) Pigeons combine compass and landmark guidance in familiar route navigation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 104, 7471-7476.
 * Meade, J., Biro, D., Guilford, T. (2006) Route recognition in the homing pigeon, Columba livia. Animal Behaviour. 72, 975-980.
 * Biro, D., Sumpter, D. J. T., Meade, J., Guilford, T. (2006) From Compromise to Leadership in Pigeon Homing. Current Biology. 16, 2123-2128.
 * Biro, D., Meade, J., Guilford, T. (2006) Route recapitulation and route loyalty in homing pigeons: Pilotage from 25 km? Journal of Navigation. 59, 43–53.
 * Lau, K. K., Roberts, S., Biro, D., Freeman, R., Meade, J., Guilford, T. (2006) An edge detection approach to investigating pigeon navigation. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 239, 71-78.
 * Meade, J., Biro, D., Guilford, T. (2005) Homing pigeons develop local route stereotypy. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B. 272, 17-23.
 * Biro, D., Meade, J., Guilford, T. (2004) Familiar route loyalty implies visual pilotage in the homing pigeon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 101, 177440-17443.