Rita Covas

2.7k total citations
61 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Rita Covas is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Rita Covas has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 39 papers in Ecology and 9 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Rita Covas's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (36 papers), Plant and animal studies (28 papers) and Avian ecology and behavior (27 papers). Rita Covas is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (36 papers), Plant and animal studies (28 papers) and Avian ecology and behavior (27 papers). Rita Covas collaborates with scholars based in France, South Africa and Portugal. Rita Covas's co-authors include Claire Doutrelant, Morné A. Du Plessis, Michael Griesser, Matthieu Paquet, Martim Melo, Jacques Blondel, Mary Bomberger Brown, Robert C. Fleischer, Jon S. Beadell and Farah Ishtiaq and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Rita Covas

59 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rita Covas France	24	1.0k	1.0k	387	252	208	61	1.8k
Teddy A. Wilkin United Kingdom	15	875 0.8×	838 0.8×	393 1.0×	204 0.8×	201 1.0×	17	1.4k
Cas Eikenaar Germany	26	1.5k 1.5×	1.4k 1.3×	374 1.0×	162 0.6×	205 1.0×	64	2.0k
Ulf Ottosson Sweden	26	1.4k 1.4×	818 0.8×	627 1.6×	184 0.7×	264 1.3×	94	2.2k
José Javier Cuervo Spain	26	1.1k 1.1×	1.3k 1.3×	325 0.8×	255 1.0×	264 1.3×	86	1.9k
Petr Procházka Czechia	28	1.7k 1.6×	1.1k 1.1×	351 0.9×	225 0.9×	315 1.5×	108	2.1k
Juan A. Fargallo Spain	28	1.7k 1.7×	1.3k 1.3×	503 1.3×	145 0.6×	359 1.7×	75	2.3k
Mark C. Mainwaring United Kingdom	28	1.7k 1.7×	1.4k 1.4×	432 1.1×	140 0.6×	278 1.3×	69	2.2k
Birgit Feßl Ecuador	20	775 0.7×	687 0.7×	500 1.3×	142 0.6×	91 0.4×	43	1.3k
Tomás Pérez‐Contreras Spain	23	992 1.0×	968 1.0×	367 0.9×	115 0.5×	125 0.6×	60	1.5k
Roger Jovani Spain	31	1.5k 1.4×	1.3k 1.3×	977 2.5×	323 1.3×	264 1.3×	81	2.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ferreira, André C., et al.. (2025). Long-term evaluation of the association between dominance, bib size, sex and age. Behavioral Ecology. 37(1).

Perret, Samuel, et al.. (2025). Deep learning approach to detect and visualize sexual dimorphism in monomorphic species. Animal Behaviour. 225. 123223–123223.

Elliott, Andrew, et al.. (2024). Sex and age differences in the preference for materials for the communal nests of sociable weavers Philetairus socius. Ethology. 130(8). 2 indexed citations

Covas, Rita, et al.. (2024). Interplay of cooperative breeding and predation risk on egg allocation and reproductive output. Behavioral Ecology. 35(2). arae010–arae010. 3 indexed citations

Ferreira, André C., et al.. (2024). Highly variable breeding phenology in an arid region colonial cooperative breeder, the Sociable Weaver Philetairus socius. Ostrich. 95(2). 152–158. 1 indexed citations

Dufour, Paul, et al.. (2024). Family living and cooperative breeding in birds are associated with the number of avian predators. Evolution. 78(7). 1317–1324. 2 indexed citations

Doutrelant, Claire, et al.. (2023). Strength of the ‘island rule’ in birds is positively associated with absence of avian predators. Biology Letters. 19(3). 20220536–20220536. 8 indexed citations

Paquet, Matthieu, Clotilde Biard, André C. Ferreira, et al.. (2023). Egg components and offspring survival vary with group size and laying order in a cooperative breeder. Oecologia. 202(1). 129–142. 2 indexed citations

Doutrelant, Claire, Rita Covas, Martim Melo, et al.. (2022). Evolution of immune genes in island birds: reduction in population sizes can explain island syndrome. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 5 indexed citations

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Paquet, Matthieu, et al.. (2021). Maternal allocation in relation to weather, predation and social factors in a colonial cooperative bird. Journal of Animal Ecology. 90(5). 1122–1133. 13 indexed citations

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Covas, Rita, Benjamin Rey, André C. Ferreira, et al.. (2021). The oxidative cost of helping and its minimization in a cooperative breeder. Behavioral Ecology. 33(3). 504–517. 3 indexed citations

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Ferreira, André C., Francesco Renna, Hanja B. Brandl, et al.. (2020). Deep learning‐based methods for individual recognition in small birds. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 11(9). 1072–1085. 121 indexed citations

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Ferreira, André C., et al.. (2020). How to make methodological decisions when inferring social networks. Ecology and Evolution. 10(17). 9132–9143. 30 indexed citations

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Paquet, Matthieu, Paul Dufour, Julien P. Renoult, et al.. (2020). Examining the link between relaxed predation and bird coloration on islands. Biology Letters. 16(4). 20200002–20200002. 23 indexed citations

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Lengagne, Thierry, et al.. (2019). The theory of island biogeography and soundscapes: Species diversity and the organization of acoustic communities. Journal of Biogeography. 46(9). 1901–1911. 18 indexed citations

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Ferreira, André C., et al.. (2018). Females pay the oxidative cost of dominance in a highly social bird. Animal Behaviour. 144. 135–146. 18 indexed citations

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Acker, Paul, Arnaud Grégoire, Claire N. Spottiswoode, et al.. (2015). Disruptive viability selection on a black plumage trait associated with dominance. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 28(11). 2027–2041. 6 indexed citations

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Paquet, Matthieu, Rita Covas, Olivier Chastel, Charline Parenteau, & Claire Doutrelant. (2013). Maternal Effects in Relation to Helper Presence in the Cooperatively Breeding Sociable Weaver. PLoS ONE. 8(3). e59336–e59336. 34 indexed citations

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Altwegg, Res, Claire Doutrelant, Mark D. Anderson, Claire N. Spottiswoode, & Rita Covas. (2013). Climate, social factors and research disturbance influence population dynamics in a declining sociable weaver metapopulation. Oecologia. 174(2). 413–425. 16 indexed citations

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Giménez, Olivier, Rita Covas, Charles R. Brown, et al.. (2006). NONPARAMETRIC ESTIMATION OF NATURAL SELECTION ON A QUANTITATIVE TRAIT USING MARK‐RECAPTURE DATA. Evolution. 60(3). 460–466. 33 indexed citations

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