Patrick J. Weatherhead

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Miscellaneous Research

Occasionally I have taken advantage of opportunities to participate in research on taxa other than birds and snakes, simply because the questions were interesting. One never knows when a whole new research direction might present itself.

Refereed Publications

7. Cooke, S.J., D.P. Philipp, D.H. Wahl, and P.J. Weatherhead. 2006. Energetics of parental care in six synoptic centrarchid fishes. Oecologia 148:235-249. [PDF]

6. Cooke S.J., J.F. Schreer, D.P. Philipp, and P.J. Weatherhead. 2003. Nesting activity, parental care behavior, and reproductive success of smallmouth bass, Micropterus dolomieu, in an unstable thermal environment. Journal of Thermal Biology 28: 445-456. [PDF]

5. Cooke, S.J., D.P. Philipp, and P.J. Weatherhead. 2002. Parental care patterns and energetics of smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) and largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) monitored with activity transmitters. Canadian Journal of Zoology 80: 756-770.

4. Schalk, G., M.R. Forbes, and P.J. Weatherhead. 2002. Developmental plasticity and growth rates of green frog (Rana clamitans) embryos and tadpoles in relation to a leech (Macrobdella decora) predator. Copeia 2002: 445-449.

3. Yack, J.E., M.L. Smith, and P.J. Weatherhead. 2001. Caterpillar talk: acoustically mediated territoriality in larval Lepidoptera. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98: 11371-11375. (Featured in online news services of both Nature and Science, September 2001.) [PDF]

2. Mallory, M.L., P.J. Blancher, P.J. Weatherhead, and D.K. McNicol. 1994. Presence or absence of fish as a cue to macroinvertebrate abundance in boreal wetlands. Hydrobiologia 279/280: 345-351.

1. Weatherhead, P.J. 1986. How unusual are unusual events? American Naturalist 128: 150-154. (subject of Research News article, Science 233: 1385.) [PDF]