David Wheatcroft

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 998 citations indexed

About

David Wheatcroft is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Developmental Biology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, David Wheatcroft has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 998 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 25 papers in Developmental Biology and 17 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in David Wheatcroft's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (30 papers), Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (25 papers) and Plant and animal studies (14 papers). David Wheatcroft is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (30 papers), Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (25 papers) and Plant and animal studies (14 papers). David Wheatcroft collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and Japan. David Wheatcroft's co-authors include Toshitaka N. Suzuki, Michael Griesser, Trevor D. Price, Jason T. Weir, Anna Qvarnström, Indriķis Krams, Tatjana Krama, Markus J. Rantala, Daisuke Kyogoku and S. Eryn McFarlane and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Trends in Ecology & Evolution and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

David Wheatcroft

35 papers receiving 986 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird calls

2016 170 citations Toshitaka N. Suzuki, David Wheatcroft et al. profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Wheatcroft Sweden	21	696	617	395	147	119	36	998
Toshitaka N. Suzuki Japan	21	735 1.1×	764 1.2×	483 1.2×	62 0.4×	223 1.9×	35	1.2k
Christopher N. Templeton United States	21	1.3k 1.8×	1.1k 1.7×	775 2.0×	100 0.7×	235 2.0×	46	1.6k
Roberta Pickert United States	9	540 0.8×	626 1.0×	329 0.8×	48 0.3×	186 1.6×	11	940
Benjamin J. Pitcher Australia	19	567 0.8×	546 0.9×	593 1.5×	151 1.0×	124 1.0×	41	1.0k
James J. H. St Clair United Kingdom	17	440 0.6×	231 0.4×	404 1.0×	207 1.4×	288 2.4×	25	961
Matthew B. V. Bell United Kingdom	22	886 1.3×	388 0.6×	515 1.3×	191 1.3×	257 2.2×	36	1.2k
Paul C. Mundinger United States	13	638 0.9×	666 1.1×	427 1.1×	79 0.5×	81 0.7×	19	904
Peter F. Jenkins New Zealand	13	574 0.8×	682 1.1×	440 1.1×	84 0.6×	62 0.5×	18	895
David M. Logue Canada	19	794 1.1×	721 1.2×	383 1.0×	104 0.7×	69 0.6×	44	977
Soila Sayialel United Kingdom	6	417 0.6×	430 0.7×	562 1.4×	196 1.3×	390 3.3×	6	1.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Wheatcroft

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Wheatcroft, David, et al.. (2025). Traffic noise exposure impacts song production in wild male field crickets ( Gryllus bimaculatus ) under predator and intrasexual competition contexts. Royal Society Open Science. 12(5). 241346–241346. 1 indexed citations

Amcoff, Mirjam, et al.. (2025). Evolutionary changes in telencephalon size affect both egocentric and allocentric spatial learning in guppies. Journal of Experimental Biology. 228(17).

Both, Christiaan, et al.. (2024). Translocated wild birds are predisposed to learn songs of their ancestral population. Current Biology. 34(11). 2535–2540.e4. 2 indexed citations

Ålund, Murielle, S. Eryn McFarlane, Arild Husby, et al.. (2024). Inheritance of Material Wealth in a Natural Population. Ecology Letters. 27(12). e14505–e14505. 1 indexed citations

Boussard, Annika, et al.. (2023). No Sex-Specific Effects of Artificial Selection for Relative Telencephalon Size during Detour Learning and Spatial Discrimination in Guppies (Poecilia reticulata). Fishes. 8(11). 536–536. 1 indexed citations

Wheatcroft, David, Jaime Muriel, Malcolm D. Burgess, et al.. (2022). Species-specific song responses emerge as a by-product of tuning to the local dialect. Current Biology. 32(23). 5153–5158.e5. 6 indexed citations

Kyogoku, Daisuke & David Wheatcroft. (2020). Heterospecific mating interactions as an interface between ecology and evolution. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 33(10). 1330–1344. 20 indexed citations

Mugal, Carina F., Wang Mi, Niclas Backström, et al.. (2020). Tissue-specific patterns of regulatory changes underlying gene expression differences among Ficedula flycatchers and their naturally occurring F₁ hybrids. Genome Research. 30(12). 1727–1739. 11 indexed citations

Suzuki, Toshitaka N., Michael Griesser, & David Wheatcroft. (2019). Syntactic rules in avian vocal sequences as a window into the evolution of compositionality. Animal Behaviour. 151. 267–274. 36 indexed citations

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Mathevon, Nicolas, et al.. (2019). Experience modulates an insect’s response to anthropogenic noise. Behavioral Ecology. 31(1). 90–96. 21 indexed citations

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Suzuki, Toshitaka N., David Wheatcroft, & Michael Griesser. (2018). Call combinations in birds and the evolution of compositional syntax. PLoS Biology. 16(8). e2006532–e2006532. 40 indexed citations

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Sirkiä, Päivi M., S. Eryn McFarlane, W. E. Jones, et al.. (2017). Climate‐driven build‐up of temporal isolation within a recently formed avian hybrid zone. Evolution. 72(2). 363–374. 17 indexed citations

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Griesser, Michael, David Wheatcroft, & Toshitaka N. Suzuki. (2017). From bird calls to human language: exploring the evolutionary drivers of compositional syntax. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 21. 6–12. 21 indexed citations

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Wheatcroft, David & Anna Qvarnström. (2017). Genetic divergence of early song discrimination between two young songbird species. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1(7). 31 indexed citations

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McFarlane, S. Eryn, et al.. (2016). Song discrimination by nestling collared flycatchers during early development. Biology Letters. 12(7). 10 indexed citations

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Wheatcroft, David & Anna Qvarnström. (2015). A blueprint for vocal learning: auditory predispositions from brains to genomes. Biology Letters. 11(8). 20150155–20150155. 25 indexed citations

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Wheatcroft, David. (2015). Reproductive interference via display signals: the challenge of multiple receivers. Population Ecology. 57(2). 333–337. 8 indexed citations

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Weir, Jason T., David Wheatcroft, & Trevor D. Price. (2012). THE ROLE OF ECOLOGICAL CONSTRAINT IN DRIVING THE EVOLUTION OF AVIAN SONG FREQUENCY ACROSS A LATITUDINAL GRADIENT. Evolution. 66(9). 2773–2783. 59 indexed citations

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Krams, Indriķis, et al.. (2009). The increased risk of predation enhances cooperation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 277(1681). 513–518. 71 indexed citations

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Wheatcroft, David & Trevor D. Price. (2008). Reciprocal cooperation in avian mobbing: playing nice pays. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 23(8). 416–419. 22 indexed citations

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