Rita Covas Monteiro
AuthID: R-000-J8G
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TITLE: Hot-Dry Weather Is Associated with Worse Reproductive Outcomes Regardless of Group Composition in a Long-Lived Cooperatively Breeding Bird
AUTHORS: Middleton, Kyle Mark; Hickman, Carrie; Spottiswoode, Claire N.; Rybak, Fanny; Covas, Rita;
PUBLISHED: 2026, SOURCE: AMERICAN NATURALIST, VOLUME: 207, ISSUE: 4
AUTHORS: Middleton, Kyle Mark; Hickman, Carrie; Spottiswoode, Claire N.; Rybak, Fanny; Covas, Rita;
PUBLISHED: 2026, SOURCE: AMERICAN NATURALIST, VOLUME: 207, ISSUE: 4
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TITLE: Infanticide in a colonial cooperative bird is not associated with direct reproductive benefits
AUTHORS: Covas, Rita; Silva, Liliana R.; Ferreira, Andre C.; D'Amelio, Pietro B.; Fortuna, Rita; Duval, Delphine; Paquet, Matthieu; Doutrelant, Claire;
PUBLISHED: 2026, SOURCE: PEER COMMUNITY JOURNAL, VOLUME: 6
AUTHORS: Covas, Rita; Silva, Liliana R.; Ferreira, Andre C.; D'Amelio, Pietro B.; Fortuna, Rita; Duval, Delphine; Paquet, Matthieu; Doutrelant, Claire;
PUBLISHED: 2026, SOURCE: PEER COMMUNITY JOURNAL, VOLUME: 6
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TITLE: No evidence of sentinel behaviour in a highly social bird based on an artificial set-up
AUTHORS: Marta Marmelo; Liliana Silva; André Ferreira; Claire Doutrelant; Rita Covas;
PUBLISHED: 2026
AUTHORS: Marta Marmelo; Liliana Silva; André Ferreira; Claire Doutrelant; Rita Covas;
PUBLISHED: 2026
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TITLE: Infanticide in a colonial cooperative bird is not associated with direct reproductive benefits
AUTHORS: Rita Covas; Liliana R Silva; André C Ferreira; Pietro B D’Amelio; Rita Fortuna; Delphine Duval; Matthieu Paquet; Claire Doutrelant;
PUBLISHED: 2025
AUTHORS: Rita Covas; Liliana R Silva; André C Ferreira; Pietro B D’Amelio; Rita Fortuna; Delphine Duval; Matthieu Paquet; Claire Doutrelant;
PUBLISHED: 2025
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CrossRef5
TITLE: An integrative, peer-reviewed and open-source cooperative-breeding database (Co-BreeD) Full Text
AUTHORS: Ben Mocha, Yitzchak; Woith, Maike; Scemama de Gialluly, Sophie; Bruscagnin, Lucia; Kestel, Natalie; Markman, Shai; Drobniak, Szymon M.; Baglione, Vittorio; Boersma, Jordan; Cousseau, Laurence; Covas, Rita; Braga de Miranda, Guilherme Henrique; Dey, Cody J.; Doutrelant, Claire; Gula, Roman; Heinsohn, Robert; Keynan, Oded; Kingma, Sjouke A.; Leitao, Ana V.; Li, Jianqiang; ...More
PUBLISHED: 2025, SOURCE: JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY, VOLUME: 94, ISSUE: 12
AUTHORS: Ben Mocha, Yitzchak; Woith, Maike; Scemama de Gialluly, Sophie; Bruscagnin, Lucia; Kestel, Natalie; Markman, Shai; Drobniak, Szymon M.; Baglione, Vittorio; Boersma, Jordan; Cousseau, Laurence; Covas, Rita; Braga de Miranda, Guilherme Henrique; Dey, Cody J.; Doutrelant, Claire; Gula, Roman; Heinsohn, Robert; Keynan, Oded; Kingma, Sjouke A.; Leitao, Ana V.; Li, Jianqiang; ...More
PUBLISHED: 2025, SOURCE: JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY, VOLUME: 94, ISSUE: 12
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TITLE: Life-History Evolution in Island Populations of Birds
AUTHORS: Rita Covas; Raquel Ponti;
PUBLISHED: 2025, SOURCE: Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology
AUTHORS: Rita Covas; Raquel Ponti;
PUBLISHED: 2025, SOURCE: Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology
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Scopus7
TITLE: Begging and feeding responses vary with relatedness and sex of provisioners in a cooperative breeder
AUTHORS: Fortuna, Rita; D'Amelio, Pietro B.; Doutrelant, Claire; Ferreira, C.; Lecq, Clothilde; Silva, Liliana R.; Covas, Rita; Rybak, Fanny; Paquet, Matthieu;
PUBLISHED: 2022, SOURCE: ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, VOLUME: 185
AUTHORS: Fortuna, Rita; D'Amelio, Pietro B.; Doutrelant, Claire; Ferreira, C.; Lecq, Clothilde; Silva, Liliana R.; Covas, Rita; Rybak, Fanny; Paquet, Matthieu;
PUBLISHED: 2022, SOURCE: ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, VOLUME: 185
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TITLE: The oxidative cost of helping and its minimization in a cooperative breeder
AUTHORS: Covas, R; Lardy, S; Silva, LR; Rey, B; Ferreira, AC; Theron, F; Tognetti, A; Faivre, B; Doutrelant, C;
PUBLISHED: 2022, SOURCE: BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY, VOLUME: 33, ISSUE: 3
AUTHORS: Covas, R; Lardy, S; Silva, LR; Rey, B; Ferreira, AC; Theron, F; Tognetti, A; Faivre, B; Doutrelant, C;
PUBLISHED: 2022, SOURCE: BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY, VOLUME: 33, ISSUE: 3
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TITLE: The oxidative cost of helping and its minimization in a cooperative breeder
AUTHORS: Covas, Rita; Lardy, Sophie; Silva, Liliana R.; Rey, Benjamin; Ferreira, Andre C.; Theron, Franck; Tognetti, Arnaud; Faivre, Bruno; Doutrelant, Claire;
PUBLISHED: 2022, SOURCE: BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY, VOLUME: 33, ISSUE: 3
AUTHORS: Covas, Rita; Lardy, Sophie; Silva, Liliana R.; Rey, Benjamin; Ferreira, Andre C.; Theron, Franck; Tognetti, Arnaud; Faivre, Bruno; Doutrelant, Claire;
PUBLISHED: 2022, SOURCE: BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY, VOLUME: 33, ISSUE: 3
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TITLE: Evolution of immune genes in island birds: reduction in population sizes can explain island syndrome
AUTHORS: Mathilde Barthe; Claire Doutrelant; Rita Covas; Martim Melo; Juan Carlos Illera; Marie-Ka Tilak; Constance Colombier; Thibault Leroy; Claire Loiseau; Benoit Nabholz;
PUBLISHED: 2022, SOURCE: Peer Community Journal, VOLUME: 2
AUTHORS: Mathilde Barthe; Claire Doutrelant; Rita Covas; Martim Melo; Juan Carlos Illera; Marie-Ka Tilak; Constance Colombier; Thibault Leroy; Claire Loiseau; Benoit Nabholz;
PUBLISHED: 2022, SOURCE: Peer Community Journal, VOLUME: 2
