Publications
2019
Healy, K., Ezard, H.G.T., Jones, O.J., Salguero-Gómez, R., Buckley, M.Y. 2017.
Animal life history is shaped by the pace of life and the distribution of age-specific mortality and reproduction.
Nature ecology and evolution. DOI 10.1038/s41559-019-0938-7.
link to paper.
Healy, K., Carbone, C., Jackson, A.L. 2019.
Snake venom potency and yield are associated with prey‐evolution, predator metabolism and habitat structure.
Ecology Letters. 22(3), 527-537. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13216, link to paper,
2017
Healy, K., Kelly, S.B.A., Guillerme, T., Inger, R., Bearhop, S., Jackson, A.L. 2017.
SIDER: an R package for predicting trophic discrimination factors of consumers based on their ecology and phylogenetic relatedness.
Ecography. DOI 10.1111/ecog.03371.
link to paper.
Kane, A*., Healy, K*., Guillerme, T., Ruxton, G.D., Jackson, A.L. 2017.
A recipe for scavenging in vertebrates–the natural history of a behaviour.
Ecography. DOI: 10.1111/ecog.02817.
link to paper.
2016
Kane, A*., Healy, K*., Ruxton, G.D., Jackson, A.L. 2016.
Body size drives importance of scavenging in theropods. American Naturalist.
DOI: 10.1086/686094. link to paper.
* = co-first authors
Donohue, I., Hillebrand, H., Montoya, J.M., Petchey, O.L., Pimm, S.L., Fowler, M.S., Healy, K., Jackson, A.L., Lurgi, M., McClean, D., O'Connor, N.E.,
O'Gorman, E.J., Yang, Q. 2016.
Navigating the complexity of ecological stability. Ecology Letters.
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12648 link to paper.
This paper was awarded the Innovations in Sustainability Award from ESA in 2017
Healy, K., Kelly, S.B.A., Guillerme, T., Inger, R., Bearhop, S., Jackson, A.L. 2016.
Predicting trophic discrimination factor using Bayesian inference and phylogenetic, ecological and physiological data. DEsIR: Discrimination Estimation in R.
PeerJ. https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1950v1. Link to paper. Link to package.
2015
Healy, K. 2015.
Eusociality but not fossoriality drives longevity in small mammals.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. 282(1806), 20142917, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0298, link to paper.
2014
Healy, K., Guillerme T., Finlay, S., Kane, A., Kelly, S.B.A., McClean, D., Kelly, D.J., Donohue, I.,
Jackson, A.L. and Cooper, N. 2014.
Ecology and mode of life explain lifespan variation in birds and mammals.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. 281(1784), 20140298, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0298,
link to paper, link to media coverage, blog about the paper.
2013
Jackson, A.L. and Cooper, N. 2014.
Ecology and mode of life explain lifespan variation in birds and mammals.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. 281(1784), 20140298, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0298,
link to paper, link to media coverage, blog about the paper.
2013
Healy, K., McNally, L., Ruxton, G.D., Cooper, N. & Jackson. 2013.
Metabolic rate and body size linked with perception of temporal information.
Animal Behaviour. 86(4), 685-696.
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.06.018, link to paper, link to media coverage,
Donohue, I., Petchey, O.L., Montoya, J.M., Jackson, A.L., McNally, L., Viana, M.,
Healy, K., Lurgi, M., O’Connor, N.E. & Emmerson, M.C. 2013
On the dimensionality of ecological stability.
Ecology Letters. 16(4), 421-429. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.12086, link to paper,