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Behaviour and Evolution
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In Press Ord TJ. Phylogeny. In: The Encyclopedia of Applied Animal Behaviour and Welfare (ed Mills D).CAB International: Wallingford, UK.    
2010 Ord TJ. Phylogeny and the evolution of communication. In: Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior (eds Breed M & Moore J). Elsevier.
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2010 Ord TJ & Martins EP. The evolution of behavior: phylogeny and the origin of present-day diversity. In: Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology (eds Westneat DF & Fox CW), pp 108-128. Oxford University Press: New York NY.
2009 Ord TJ & Stamps JA. Species identity cues in animal communication. American Naturalist 174:585-593
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2008 Ord TJ & Stamps JA. Alert signals enhance animal communication in 'noisy' environments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 105: 18830-18835.

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2008 Ord TJ. Dawn and dusk 'chorus' in visually communicating Jamaican anole lizards. American Naturalist 172: 585-592.
2007 Ord TJ, Peters RA, Clucas B & Stamps JA. Lizards speed up visual displays in noisy motion habitats. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 274: 1057-1062.
2006 Ord TJ & Martins EP. Tracing the origins of signal diversity in anole lizards: phylogenetic approaches to inferring the evolution of complex behaviour. Animal Behaviour 71: 1411-1429.
2006 Ord TJ & Stuart-Fox DM. Ornament evolution in dragon lizards: multiple gains and widespread losses reveal a complex history of evolutionary change. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19: 797-808.

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2006 Martins EP, Ord TJ, Slaven J, Wright JA & Housworth EA. Individual, sex, seasonal and temporal variation in the amount of sagebrush lizard chemical deposits. Journal of Chemical Ecology 32: 881-893.
2005 Martins EP, Ord TJ & Davenport SW. Combining motions into complex displays: playbacks with a robotic lizard. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 58: 351-360.
2005 Ord TJ, Martins EP, Thakur S, Mane KK & Borner K. Trends in animal behaviour research (1968-2002): ethoinformatics and the mining of library databases. Animal Behaviour 69: 1399-1413.
2004 Stuart-Fox DM & Ord TJ. Sexual selection, natural selection and the evolution of dichromatic coloration and ornamentation in agamid lizards. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 271: 2249-2255.

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2004 Ord TJ & Martins EP. Behavioral phylogeny: the evolutionary origins of behavior. In: Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior (ed Bekoff M), vol 1, pp 87-92. Greenwood Press: Westport CT.
2003 Ord TJ & Evans CS. Display rate and opponent assessment in the Jacky dragon (Amphibolurus muricatus): an experimental analysis. Behaviour 140: 1495-1508.
2003 Peters RA & Ord TJ. Display response of the Jacky dragon, Amphibolurus muricatus (Lacertilia: Agamidae), to intruders: a semi-Markovian process. Austral Ecology 28: 499-506.
2002 Ord TJ, Blumstein DT & Evans CS. Ecology and signal evolution in lizards. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 77: 127-148.
2002 Ord TJ & Evans CS. Interactive video playback and opponent assessment in lizards. Behavioural Processes 59: 55-65.
2002 Ord TJ, Peters RA, Evans CS & Taylor AJ. Digital video playback and visual communication in lizards. Animal Behaviour 63: 879-890.
2002 Ord TJ & Blumstein DT. Size constraints and the evolution of display complexity: why do large lizards have simple displays? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 76: 145-161.
2001 Ord TJ, Blumstein DT & Evans CS. Intrasexual selection predicts the evolution of signal complexity in lizards. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 268: 737-744.

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2001 Ord TJ & Dangerfield JM. Implications of paradoxomatid millipede density and dispersion for faecal pellet production in Eucalyptus woodland of eastern Australia. General and Applied Entomology 30: 1-10.
1999 Ord TJ, Evans CS & Cooper DW. The nocturnal behaviour of the Parma wallaby, Macropus parma (Marsupialia: Macropodoidea). Australian Journal of Zoology 47: 155-167.