Teaching

196.205 Ecology and Evolution
196.207 Biological Evolution
199.312 Behavioural Ecology

Research Interests
• Animal communication
• Sexual selection, sexual size dimorphism and mating systems
• Hormonal basis to behaviour
• Evolution of avian life history strategies

More information is available about my research and postgraduate
student opportunities on my lab website.

Selected Publications

Tibbetts, E.A. & Dale, J. 2007. Individual recognition: it is good to be different. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 22, 529-537.

Dale, J., Dunn, P.O., Figuerola, J. Lislevand, T., Szekely, T. & Whittingham, L.A. 2007. Sexual selection explains Rensch’s Rule ofallometry for sexual size dimorphism. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B, 274, 2971-2979.

Dale, J. 2006. Intraspecific variation in coloration. In: Bird Coloration, Volume 2: Function, and Evolution (Hill, G.E. & McGraw, K.J., eds.). Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. pp. 36-86.

Tibbetts, E.A. & Dale, J. 2004. A socially enforced signal of quality in a paper wasp. Nature, 432, 218-222.

Dale, J., Lank, D.B., Reeve, H.K. 2001. Signaling individual identity vs. quality: a model and case studies with ruffs, queleas, and house finches. American Naturalist, 158(1), 75-86.

Dale, J. 2000. Ornamental plumage does not signal male quality in red-billed queleas. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B, 267, 2143-2149.

Dale, J., Montgomerie, R., Michaud, D., and Boag, P. 1999. Frequency and timing of extrapair fertilization in the polyandrous red phalarope. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 46, 50-56.