Ben Mocha Y, Dahan T, Zou Y, Griesser M§, Markman S§. Evidence for a reproductive sharing continuum in cooperatively breeding mammals and birds: consequences for comparative research. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 290: 20230607.
Ben Mocha Y, Scemama de Gialluly S, Griesser M, Markman S. 2023. What is cooperative breeding in mammals and birds? Removing definitional barriers for comparative research. Biological Reviews: doi: 10.1111/brv.12986.
Horn L, Bugnyar T, Griesser M, Hengl M, Izawa EI, Oortwijn T, Rössler C, Scheer C, Schiestl M, Suyama M, Taylor AH, Vanhooland LC, von Bayern AMP, Zürcher Y, Massen JMJ. 2020. Sex-specific effects of cooperative breeding and colonial nesting on prosociality in corvids. eLife 9: e58139.
Griesser M, Drobniak SJ, Nakagawa S, Botero CA. 2017. Family living sets the stage for cooperative breeding and ecological resilience in birds. PLoS Biology 15(6): e2000483.
Burkart J, van Schaik C, Griesser M. 2017. Looking for unity in diversity: cooperative childcare in humans in a comparative perspective. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 284: 20171184.
Drobniak SM, Wagner G, Mourocq E, Griesser M. 2015. Family living: an overlooked but pivotal social system to understand the evolution of cooperative breeding. Behavioral Ecology 26: 805-811.
Griesser M, Barnaby J. 2010. The role of nepotism and competition for the evolution of avian families. Nova Science Publishers New York. ISBN: 978-1-60876-867-7
Covas R, Griesser M. 2007. Life-history and the evolution of family living in birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 274: 1349-1357.
Ekman J, Dickinson JL, Hatchwell BJ, Griesser M. 2004. Delayed dispersal. In: Ecology and Evolution of Cooperative Breeding, pp 35-47. Ed. by Koenig W, Dickinson, J.L. Cambridge University Press.
Baglione V, Canestrari D, Marcos JM, Griesser M, Ekman J. 2002. History, environment and social behaviour: experimentally induced cooperative breeding in the Carrion Crow. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 269: 1247-1251.
Wagner G, Mourocq E, Griesser M. 2019. Distribution of experimentally increased costs of parental care among family members depends on duration of offspring care in biparental birds. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7:366.
Griesser M, Suzuki T. 2017. Naïve juveniles are more likely to become breeders after witnessing predator mobbing. American Naturalist 189: 58-66.
Griesser M, Suzuki T. 2016. Kinship modulates the attention of naïve individuals to the mobbing behaviour of role models. Animal Behaviour 112: 83-91.
Mourocq E, Bize P, Bouwhuis S, Bradley R, Charmantier A, de la Cruz A, Drobniak SM, Espie RHM, Herényi M, Hötker H, Krüger O, Marzluff J, Møller AP, Nakagawa S, Phillips RA, Radford AN, Roulin A, Török J, Valencia J, van de Pol M, Warkentin IG, Winney IS, Wood AG, Griesser M. 2016. Lifespan and reproductive cost explain interspecific variation in the optimal onset of reproduction. Evolution 70:296-313.
Griesser M, Ekman J. 2005. Nepotistic mobbing behaviour in the Siberian jay (Perisoreus infaustus). Animal Behaviour 69: 345-352.
Griesser M, Ekman J. 2004. Nepotistic alarm calling in the Siberian Jay, Perisoreus infaustus. Animal Behaviour 67: 933-939.
Griesser M. 2003. Nepotistic vigilance behavior in Siberian jay parents. Behavioral Ecology 14: 246-250.
Ekman J, Griesser M. 2002. Why offspring delay dispersal: Experimental evidence for a role of parental tolerance. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 269: 1709-1713.
Cognition - Brain Size Evolution
van Schaik P, Song Z, Schuppli C, Drobniak SM, Heldstab SA, Griesser M. 2023. Parental provisioning and variation in vertebrate brain sizes. PLoS Biology 21: e3002016.
Griesser M, Drobniak SM, Graber SM, van Schaik C. 2023. Parental provisioning drives brain size in birds. PNAS 120: e2121467120.
Uomini N§, Farlie J, Gray RD, Griesser M§. 2020. Extended parenting and the evolution of cognition. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. DOI: 0.1098/rstb.2019.0495.
Communication - Animal Linguistics
da Cunha FCR, Griesser M. Who do you trust? Wild birds use social knowledge to avoid being deceived. Science Advances 7: eaba2862.
Suzuki T, Wheatcroft D, Griesser M. 2019. The syntax-semantics interface in animal vocal communication. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375: 20180405.
Suzuki T, Griesser M, Wheatcroft D. 2019. Syntactic rules in avian vocal sequences as a window into the evolution of compositionality. Animal Behaviour: 151: 267-274.
Suzuki T, Wheatcroft D, Griesser M. 2018. Call combinations in birds and the evolution of compositional syntax. PLoS Biology: 16(8): e2006532.
Griesser M, Wheatcroft D, Suzuki T. 2018. From bird calls to human language: exploring the evolutionary drivers of compositional syntax. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences: 21: 6-12.
Suzuki T, Wheatcroft D, Griesser M. 2017. Wild birds use an ordering rule to decode novel call sequences. Current Biology: 27: 2331-2336.
Suzuki T, Wheatcroft D, Griesser M. 2016. Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird calls. Nature Communications 7: 10986.
Griesser M. 2013. Do warning calls boost survival of signal recipients? Evidence from a field experiment in a group-living bird species. Frontiers in Zoology 10.1: 49.
Griesser M. 2009. Mobbing calls signal predator category in a kin group living bird species. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 276: 2887–2892.
Griesser M. 2008. Referential calls signal predator behavior in a group-living bird species. Current Biology 18: 69-73.
Climate Change Adaptation
Halupka L, ... […] Griesser M, […] (101 other co-authors in alphabetical order), Halupka K. 2023. The effect of climate change on avian offspring production: a global meta-analysis. PNAS: 120, e2208389120.
Bradter U, Ozgul A, Griesser M, Lawton-Matthews K, Eggers J, Singer A, Sandercock B, Haverkamp P, Snäll T. 2021 Habitat suitability models based on opportunistic citizen science data - evaluating forecasts from alternative methods versus an individual-based model. Diversity and Distributions 27: 2397-2411.
Layton-Matthews K, Griesser M, Coste CDF, Ozgul A. 2021. Forest management affects seasonal source-sink dynamics in a territorial, group-living bird. Oecologia 196: 399-412
Layton-Matthews K, Ozgul A, Griesser M. 2018. The interacting effects of forestry and climate change on the demography of a group-living bird population. Oecologia: 186: 907-918.
Griesser M, Lagerberg S. 2012. Long-term effects of forest management on territory occupancy and breeding success of an open-nesting boreal bird species, the Siberian jay. Forest Ecology and Management 271: 58-64.
Griesser M, Nystrand M, Eggers S, Ekman J. 2007. Impact of forestry practices on fitness correlates and population productivity in an open-nesting bird species. Conservation Biology 21: 767-774.