Stuart Humphries

Publications

• Form and metabolic scaling in colonial animals
• A physical explanation of the temperature dependence of physiological processes mediated by cilia and flagella
• Independent evolution of shape and motility allows evolutionary flexibility in Firmicutes bacteria
• Cell morphology governs directional control in swimming bacteria
• Expectation, motivation, engagement and ownership: using student reflections in the conative and affective domains to enhance residential field courses
• 150 million years of sustained increase in pterosaur flight efficiency
• Biophysical Determinants and Constraints on Sperm Swimming Velocity
• The allometry of suspension feeding
• Seston capture by Hydropsyche siltalai and the accuracy of capture efficiency estimates
• Body size and suspension feeding
• Variability in Isotope Discrimination Factors in Coral Reef Fishes: Implications for Diet and Food Web Reconstruction
• Can ecological and evolutionary arguments solve the riddle of the missing marine insects?
• Stable isotope analysis reveals community-level variation in fish trophodynamics across a fringing coral reef
• The influence of surface energy on the self-cleaning of insect adhesive devices
• Comparative Analysis of Teleost Genome Sequences Reveals an Ancient Intron Size Expansion in the Zebrafish Lineage
• Did pterosaurs feed by skimming? Physical modelling and anatomical evaluation of an unusual feeding method
• Effect of particulate contamination on adhesive ability and repellence in two species of ant (Hymenoptera; Formicidae)
• Oceanographic forcing of nutrient uptake and release over a fringing coral reef
• Particulate nutrient fluxes over a fringing coral reef: relevant scales of phytoplankton production and mechanisms of supply
• Positive Allometry and the Prehistory of Sexual Selection
• Direct and indirect effects of temperature on the population dynamics and ecosystem functioning of aquatic microbial ecosystems
• Mechanisms of temperature-dependent swimming: the importance of physics, physiology and body size in determining protist swimming speed
• Filter feeders and plankton increase particle encounter rates through flow regime control
• SPERM MORPHOLOGY AND VELOCITY ARE GENETICALLY CODETERMINED IN THE ZEBRA FINCH
• The interacting effects of temperature and food chain length on trophic abundance and ecosystem function
• Sperm competition: linking form to function
• The allometry of suspension feeding
• RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SPERM LENGTH AND SPEED DIFFER AMONG THREE INTERNALLY AND THREE EXTERNALLY FERTILIZING SPECIES
• Why is eusociality an almost exclusively terrestrial phenomenon?
• Characteristics and Drivers of High-Altitude Ladybird Flight: Insights from Vertical-Looking Entomological Radar
• Particulate nutrient fluxes over a fringing coral reef: Source-sink dynamics inferred from carbon to nitrogen ratios and stable isotopes
• Buddenbrockia plumatellae: a novel solution to being a worm
• No link between sperm morphology and velocity across maternal mouthbrooding cichlid fish from Lake Malawi
• Filter feeders and plankton increase particle encounter rates through flow regime control
• Filter feeders and plankton increase particle encounter rates through flow regime control
• Body size and suspension feeding
• Did pterosaurs feed by skimming? Physical modelling and anatomical evaluation of an unusual feeding method
• Contribution to the Themed Section: Scaling from individual lankton to marine ecosystems The influence of viscosity on the motility and sensory ability of the dinoflagellate Heterocapsa triquetra
• 3D Printing: Applications in evolution and ecology
• Optimal Cell Length for Exploration and Exploitation in Chemotactic Planktonic Bacteria
• Estimation of sinking velocities using free-falling dynamically scaled models: foraminifera as a test case
• Motile curved bacteria are Pareto-optimal
• Motile curved bacteria are Pareto-optimal
• Microrheology reveals microscale viscosity gradients in planktonic systems
• Estimation of sinking velocities using free-falling dynamically scaled models: foraminifera as a test case
• Optimal cell length for exploration and exploitation in chemotactic planktonic bacteria
• 150 million years of sustained increase in pterosaur flight efficiency
• Microrheology reveals microscale viscosity gradients in planktonic systems
• Phenotypic reconstruction of the last universal common ancestor reveals a complex cell
• Fluid dynamics of dinoflagellate feeding and swimming
• Out with a bang
• Making statistical sense of scents
• Why did some ichthyosaurs have such large eyes?
• Straining for a net profit
• Bower-building: coevolution of display traits in response to the costs of female choice?
• Is there really a drift paradox?
• Marine boy
• Why didn't I think of that? Avian nest predation and parental activity
• Toxic nectar: one man's meat is another man's poison
• Physical properties of Hydropsyche siltalai (Trichoptera) net silk
• Resolving the departures of observed results from the Ideal Free Distribution with simple random movements
• Non-IFD movements: reflections on past work and prospects for future developments
• Dispersal in drift-prone macroinvertebrates: a case for density-independence
• For the boys!
• Making statistical sense of scents
• Why did some ichthyosaurs have such large eyes?
• Behaviour without function: egg rejection in the absence of parasitism
• Faecal pellets and energy flow in rivers
• Non-competitive phenotypic differences can have a strong effect on ideal free distributions
• Out with a bang
• Re-examining the drift paradox
• Treat 'em mean, keep 'em keen: are females drawn to aggressive males?
• Unequal competitor ideal free distributions: predictions for differential effects of interference between habitats
• Group size and relative competitive ability: geometric progressions as a conceptual tool
• The effect of group size on relative competitive ability
• Estimation of intergenerational drift dispersal distances and mortality risk for aquatic macroinvertebrates
• Modelling territorial behaviour of animals in variable environments
• Multiple ideal free distributions of unequal competitors
• Patch choice and risk: relative competitive ability is context dependent
• For the boys!
• Is there really a drift paradox?
• Marine boy
• Non-IFD movements: reflections on past work and prospects for future developments
• Dispersal in drift-prone macroinvertebrates: a case for density-independence
• Seston capture by Hydropsyche siltalai and the accuracy of capture efficiency estimates
• Physical properties of Hydropsyche siltalai (Trichoptera) net silk
• Resolving the departures of observed results from the Ideal Free Distribution with simple random movements
• Estimation of intergenerational drift dispersal distances and mortality risk for aquatic macroinvertebrates
• Behaviour without function: egg rejection in the absence of parasitism
• Faecal pellets and energy flow in rivers
• Non-competitive phenotypic differences can have a strong effect on ideal free distributions
• Re-examining the drift paradox
• Straining for a net profit
• Toxic nectar: one man's meat is another man's poison
• Treat 'em mean, keep 'em keen: are females drawn to aggressive males?
• Unequal competitor ideal free distributions: predictions for differential effects of interference between habitats
• Why didn't I think of that? Avian nest predation and parental activity
• Group size and relative competitive ability: geometric progressions as a conceptual tool
• Bower-building: coevolution of display traits in response to the costs of female choice?