Publications

Publications

This page presents selected scientific production across empirical, methodological, and evidence-synthesis research.

Empirical

  • Drummond, H., Rodriguez, C., and Ortega, S. (2025).
    Long-term insights into who benefits from brood reduction.
    Behavioral Ecology 36(4), araf050.
    https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/araf050

  • Ortega, S., Ramirez-Loza, J. P., Rodriguez, C., Perez-Morales, D., and Drummond, H. (2023).
    Extra-pair offspring of the blue-footed booby show no sign of higher fitness in the first 10 years of life.
    Animal Behaviour 200, 105–114.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.03.015

  • Ortega, S., Rodriguez, C., and Drummond, H. (2022).
    Seasonal weather effects on offspring survival differ between reproductive stages in a long-lived neotropical seabird.
    Oecologia 199(3), 611–623.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-022-05219-3

  • Ortega, S., Rodriguez, C., Mendoza-Hernandez, B., and Drummond, H. (2021).
    How removal of cats and rats from an island allowed a native predator to threaten a native bird.
    Biological Invasions 23(9), 2749–2761.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-021-02533-4

  • Ortega, S., Sanchez-Macouzet, O., Urrutia, A., Rodriguez, C., and Drummond, H. (2017).
    Age-related parental care in a long-lived bird: implications for offspring development.
    Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 71(9), 132.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-017-2364-7

Methodological / statistical

  • Nakagawa, S., Ortega, S., Gazzea, E., Lagisz, M., Lenz, A., Lundgren, E., and Mizuno, A. (2025).
    Location–scale models in ecology and evolution: Heteroscedasticity in continuous, count and proportion data.
    Methods in Ecology and Evolution 17(2), 554–566.
    https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.70203

Meta-analytic / evidence synthesis

  • Radchuk, V., Jones, C. V., McLean, N., Charmantier, A., Teplitsky, C., Alisauskas, R., et al. (2026).
    Changes in phenology mediate vertebrate population responses to temperature globally.
    Nature Communications 17(1), 479.
    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-68172-8

Preregistered protocols

  • Mizuno, A., Santos, E., Morrison, K., Ortega, S., Young, S., Hernandez, S., Lin, X., Culina, A., Lagisz, M., and Nakagawa, S. (2025).
    Systematic mapping of evidence syntheses on urbanisation impacts on organisms and biodiversity: A protocol.
    OSF preregistration / protocol.
    https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/PXGFH

  • Ortega, S., Mizuno, A., Hernandez, S., Lundgren, E., Lenz, A., Lagisz, M., and Nakagawa, S. (2025).
    The effects of music exposure on rodent anxiety- and depression-like behaviours: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.
    OSF preregistration / protocol.
    https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/MV78T

Under review

  • Nakagawa, S., Mizuno, A., Williams, C., Lagisz, M., O’Dea, R., Noble, D., Senior, A., Lundgren, E., and Ortega, S. (2026).
    A new effect size for meta-analysis of magnitude: lnM.
    Ecology Letters. Under review.

  • Lenz, A., Mizuno, A., Lundgren, E., Morrison, K., Ortega, S., Lagisz, M., and Nakagawa, S. (2025).
    A systematic map of systematic reviews and meta-analyses on anthropogenic noise impact on wildlife.
    Under review.
    https://doi.org/10.32942/X2435S

  • Nakagawa, S., Mizuno, A., Williams, C., Ortega, S., Drobniak, S., Lagisz, M., Yang, Y., Senior, A., Noble, D., and Lundgren, E. (2025).
    Mastering an accurate and generalizable simulation-based method to obtain bias-corrected point estimates and sampling variance for any effect sizes.
    Research Synthesis Methods. Under review.