List of Publications
Schlicht, E.; Gilsenan, C.; Santema, P.; Türk, A.; Wittenzellner, A.; Kempenaers, B. (2024) Removal of older males increases extra-pair siring success of yearling males. PLOS Biology 22, pp. e3002584 [PDF]
Schlicht, E.; Kempenaers, B. (2023) Age trajectories in extra-pair siring success suggest an effect of maturation or early-life experience. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 36, pp. 1213 - 1225 [PDF]
Schlicht, L.; Schlicht, E.; Santema, P.; Kempenaers, B. (2023) A dawn and dusk chorus will emerge if males sing in the absence of their mate. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 290, pp. 20232266
Schlicht, E.; Kempenaers, B. (2021) Origin and outcome of social polygyny in the Blue Tit. Ardea 109, pp. 91 - 118 [PDF]
Bambini, G.; Schlicht, E.; Kempenaers, B. (2019) Patterns of female nest attendance and male feeding throughout the incubation period in blue tits Cyanistes caeruleus. Ibis 161, pp. 50-65 [PDF]
Schlicht, E.; Kempenaers, B. (2018) The immediate impact of ringing, blood sampling and PIT-tag implanting on the behaviour of blue tits Cyanistes caeruleus. Ardea 106, pp. 39-98 [PDF]
Santema, P.; Schlicht, E.; Kempenaers, B. (2019) Testing the conditional cooperation model: What can we learn from parents taking turns when feeding offspring? Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7, 94
Jeronimo, S.; Khadraoui, M.; Wang, D.; Martin, K.; Lesku, J. A.; Robert, K. A.; Schlicht, E.; Forstmeier, W.; Kempenaers, B. (2018) Plumage color manipulation has no effect on social dominance or fitness in zebra finches. Behavioral Ecology 29, pp. 459-467
Santema, P.; Schlicht, E.; Schlicht, L.; Kempenaers, B. (2017) Blue tits do not return faster to the nest in response to either short- or long-term begging playbacks. Animal Behaviour 123, pp. 117-127
Schlicht, E.; Santema, P.; Schlicht, R.; Kempenaers, B. (2016) Evidence for conditional cooperation in biparental care systems? A comment on Johnstone et al. Behavioral Ecology 27, pp. e2-e5 [PDF]
Schlicht, E.; Kempenaers, B. (2015) Immediate effects of capture on nest visits of breeding blue tits, Cyanistes caeruleus, are substantial. Animal Behaviour 105, pp. 63-78 [PDF]
Da Silva, A.; Samplonius, J. M.; Schlicht, E.; Valcu, M.; Kempenaers, B. (2014) Artificial night lighting rather than traffic noise affects the daily timing of dawn and dusk singing in common European songbirds . Behavioral Ecology 25, pp. 1037-1047
Schlicht, E.; Kempenaers, B. (2013) Effects of social and extra-pair mating on sexual selection in blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus). Evolution 67, pp. 1420-1434 [PDF]
Schlicht, E.; Kempenaers, B. (2011) Extra-Pair Paternity and Sexual Selection. In: From Genes to Animal Behavior: Social Structures, Personalities, Comminication by Color, pp. 35-65 (Ed. Inoue-Murayama, M.; Kawamura, S.; Weiss, A.) [PDF]
Kempenaers, B.; Borgstroem, P.; Loes, P.; Schlicht, E.; Valcu, M. (2010) Artificial Night Lighting Affects Dawn Song, Extra-Pair Siring Success, and Lay Date in Songbirds. Current Biology 20, pp. 1735-1739
Kempenaers, B.; Schlicht, E. (2010) Extra-pair behaviour. In: Animal Behaviour: Evolution and Mechanisms, pp. 359-411 (Ed. Kappeler, P.). Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg [PDF]
Mettke-Hofmann, C.; Lorentzen, S.; Schlicht, E.; Schneider, J.; Werner, F. (2009) Spatial Neophilia and Spatial Neophobia in Resident and Migratory Warblers (Sylvia). Ethology 115, pp. 482-492
Johnsen, A.; Delhey, K.; Schlicht, E.; Peters, A.; Kempenaers, B. (2005) Male sexual attractiveness and parental effort in blue tits: a test of the differential allocation hypothesis. Animal Behaviour 70, pp. 877-888
