Behavioural & Sensory Ecology
The Barnett Lab @ Trinity College Dublin
Publications
† Postgraduate led research
* Equal contributions
2022
Yeager J & Barnett JB. 2022.
Frontiers in Ecology & Evolution, 10: 803996.
2021
Barnett JB, Varela BJ, Jennings B, Lesbarrères D, Pruitt JN, & Green DM J. 2021.
Habitat disturbance alters color contrast and the detectability of cryptic and aposematic frogs.
Behavioral Ecology, 32: 814-825.
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Yeager J & Barnett JB. 2021.
Ecology & Evolution, 11: 13633-13640.
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Barnett JB *, Michalis C *, Scott-Samuel NE, & Cuthill IC. 2021.
Colour pattern variation forms local background matching camouflage in a leaf-mimicking toad.
Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 34: 1531-1540.
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Anderson HM †, Fisher DN, McEwen BL, Yeager J, Pruitt JN, & Barnett JB. 2021.
Episodic correlations in behavioural lateralisation differ between a poison frog and its mimic.
Animal Behaviour, 174: 207-215.
2020
Yeager J & Barnett JB. 2020.
Ultraviolet components offer minimal contrast enhancement to an aposematic signal.
Ecology & Evolution, 10: 13576-13582.
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Culbert BM †, Talagala S, Barnett JB, Stanbrook E, Smale P, & Balshine S. 2020.
Context-dependent consequences of color biases in a social fish.
Behavioral Ecology, 31: 1410-1419.
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Barnett JB, Michalis C, Anderson HM, McEwen BL, Yeager J, Pruitt JN, Scott-Samuel, & Cuthill IC. 2020.
Imperfect transparency and camouflage in glass frogs.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117: 12885-12890.
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Doering GN †, Sheehy KA, Barnett JB, & Pruitt JN. 2020.
Colony size and initial conditions combine to shape reunification dynamics.
Behavioural Processes, 170: 103994.
2010s
Barnett JB, Michalis C, Scott-Samuel NE, & Cuthill IC. 2018.
Distance-dependent defensive coloration in the poison frog Dendrobates tinctorius, Dendrobatidae.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115: 6416-6421.
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Barnett JB, Cuthill IC, & Scot-Samuel NE. 2018.
Royal Society Open Science, 5: 171396.
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Barnett JB, Cuthill IC, & Scot-Samuel NE. 2017.
Distance-dependent pattern blending can camouflage salient aposematic signals.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 284: 20170128.
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Barnett JB, Redfern AS, Bhattacharyya-Dickson R, Clifton O, Courty T, Ho T, Hopes A, McPhee T, Merrison K, Owen R, Scot-Samuel NE, & Cuthill IC. 2017.
Stripes for warning and stripes for hiding: spatial frequency and detection distance.
Behavioral Ecology, 28: 373-381.
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Barnett JB, Scott-Samuel NE, & Cuthill IC. 2016.
Aposematism: balancing salience and camouflage.
Biology Letters, 12: 20160335.
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Barnett JB & Cuthill IC. 2014.
Distance-dependent defensive coloration.
Current Biology, 24: R1157-R1158.
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Barnett JB, Benbow RL, Ismail A & Fellowes MDE. 2013.
Herpetological Bulletin, 125: 1-9.
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Barnett JB. 2011.
Pigmentation loss and regeneration in a captive wild type axolotl, Ambystoma mexicanum.
Herpetological Bulletin, 115: 17-18.
Latest
Research
McEwen BL †, Yeager J, Kinley I, Anderson HM, & Barnett JB.
Body posture and viewing angle reverse relative detectability and alter mimic fidelity in poison frogs.
In Revision.
Barnett JB, Ford J, Guerra-Grenier E, Jreidini N, Benbahtane J, & Green DM. 2023.
Animal Behaviour, 198: 33-46.
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Culbert BM †, Barnett JB, Ligocki IY, Salena MG, Wong MYL, Hamilton IM, & Balshine S. 2023.
Colourful facial markings are associated with foraging rates and affiliative relationships.
Current Zoology, Advanced access.
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Barnett JB, Yeager J, McEwen BL, Kinley I, Anderson HM, & Guevara J. 2023.
Size-dependent colouration balances salient aposematism and camouflage.
Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 36: 1010-1019.
2023
