Publications of Mihai Valcu

Schlicht, L.; Girg, A.; Loes, P.; Valcu, M.; Kempenaers, B.: Male extrapair nestlings fledge first. Animal Behaviour 83 (6), pp. 1335 - 1343 (2012)

Valcu, M.; Dale, J.; Kempenaers, B.: rangeMapper: A platform for the study of macroecology of life-history traits. Global Ecology and Biogeography 21 (9), pp. 945 - 951 (2012)

Yohannes, E.; Lee, R. W.; Valcu, M.; Kempenaers, B.: Feather deuterium as an indicator of age-class in the Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos. Ibis 154 (4), pp. 868 - 873 (2012)

Valcu, M.; Valcu, C.-M.: Data transformation practices in biomedical sciences. Nature methods 8 (2), pp. 104 - 105 (2011)

Jacot, A.; Valcu, M.; Kempenaers, B.: Within-season divorce in Blue Tits (Cyanistes caeruleus). Journal of Ornithology 151 (2), pp. 477 - 482 (2010)

Kempenaers, B.; Borgstroem, P.; Loes, P.; Schlicht, E.; Valcu, M.: Artificial night lighting affects dawn song, extra-pair siring success, and lay date in songbirds. Current Biology 20 (19), pp. 1735 - 1739 (2010)

Valcu, M.; Kempenaers, B.: Spatial autocorrelation: An overlooked concept in behavioral ecology. Behavioral Ecology 21 (5), pp. 902 - 905 (2010)

Valcu, M.; Kempenaers, B.: Is spatial autocorrelation an intrinsic property of territory size? Oecologia 162 (3), pp. 609 - 615 (2010)

Yohannes, E.; Valcu, M.; Lee, R. W.; Kempenaers, B.: Resource use for reproduction depends on spring arrival time and wintering area in an arctic breeding shorebird. Journal of Avian Biology 41 (5), pp. 580 - 590 (2010)

Jacot, A.; Valcu, M.; van Oers, K.; Kempenaers, B.: Experimental nest site limitation affects reproductive strategies and parental investment in a hole-nesting passerine. Animal Behaviour 77 (5), pp. 1075 - 1083 (2009)

Muck, C.; Kempenaers, B.; Kuhn, S.; Valcu, M.; Goymann, W.: Paternity in the classical polyandrous black coucal (Centropus grillii) - A cuckoo accepting cuckoldry? Behavioral Ecology 20 (6), pp. 1185 - 1193 (2009)

Yohannes, E.; Krizanauskiene, A.; Valcu, M.; Bensch, S.; Kempenaers, B.: Prevalence of malaria and related haemosporidian parasites in two shorebird species with different winter habitat distribution. Journal of Ornithology 150 (1), pp. 287 - 291 (2009)

Steiger, S. S.; Fidler, A. E.; Valcu, M.; Kempenaers, B.: Avian olfactory receptor gene repertoires: Evidence for a well-developed sense of smell in birds? Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 275 (1649), pp. 2309 - 2317 (2008)

Valcu, M.; Kempenaers, B.: Causes and consequences of breeding dispersal and divorce in a blue tit, Cyanistes caeruleus, population. Animal Behaviour 75 (6), pp. 1949 - 1963 (2008)

Kempenaers, B.; Lanctot, R. B.; Gill, V.; Hatch, S.; Valcu, M.: Do females trade copulations for food? An experimental study on kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla). Behavioral Ecology 18 (2), pp. 345 - 353 (2007)

Valcu, C.-M.; Valcu, M.: Reproducibility of two-dimensional gel electrophoresis at different replication levels. Journal of Proteome Research 6 (12), pp. 4677 - 4683 (2007)

Foerster, K.; Valcu, M.; Johnsen, A.; Kempenaers, B.: A spatial genetic structure and effects of relatedness on mate choice in a wild bird population. Molecular Ecology 15 (14), pp. 4555 - 4567 (2006)

Valcu, M.: Seasonal changes in bird species diversity at the interface between forest and reed-bed. Biodiversity and Conservation 15 (11), pp. 3459 - 3467 (2006)

Cogălniceanu, D.; Valcu, C.-M.; Valcu, M.; Găldean, N.; Staicu, G.: Seasonal variability of temperature in alpine lakes from Retezat National Park, Romania. Annals of Bacău University 9, pp. 152 - 157 (2004)

Valcu, C.-M.; Valcu, M.: Sources of experimental variation in 2-D maps: The importance of experimental design in gel-based proteomics. In: 2-D PAGE map analysis. Methods and protocols, Vol. 1384, pp. 3 - 37 (Eds. Marengo, E.; Robotti, E.). Humana Press, Clifton, N.J. (2016)

Commentary on: Vojtěch Kubelka, Miroslav Šálek, Pavel Tomkovich, Zsolt Végvári, Robert P. Freckleton, Tamás Székely, Global pattern of nest predation is disrupted by climate change in shorebirds, Science 362 (6415), pp. 680-683. (2021)