Dr Pablo Capilla Lasheras

  • Affiliate Researcher (School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine)

Biography

Career Path

2023 - Current: Research Associate - University of Glasgow, UK. Funded by Wild Animal Initiative

2019 - 2023: Reseach Assistant - University of Glasgow, UK

2015 - 2019: PhD (Biology) - University of Exeter, UK

2014 - 2015: MSc (Quantitative Methods) - Univesity of Glasgow, UK

2009 - 2013: BSc (Environmental Biology) - Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

Research interests

For a complete list of publications, go to tihs Google Scholar page. You can also find my research on GitHub.

General research interest

Current research

Previous research

Research groups

Publications

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Number of items: 28.

2026

Branston, Claire J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4416-0984, Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Haugh, Connor, Baker, Paul J., Reid, Rachel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1869-9676, Griffiths, Kate, White, Stewart and Dominoni, Davide M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2063-9955 (2026) Native trees are related to advanced bird breeding phenology and increased reproductive success along an urban gradient. Ecology and Evolution, (Accepted for Publication)

2025

Navarro, Ana B., McGill, Rona A.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0400-7288, Newton, Jason, Branston, Claire J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4416-0984, Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Silveira, Luis F. and Dominoni, Davide ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2063-9955 (2025) Urbanization is associated with changes in stable isotopes across multiple trophic levels. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies, (doi: 10.1080/10256016.2025.2546139) (Early Online Publication)

Navarro, Ana B., McGill, Rona A.R., Newton, Jason, Branston, Claire J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4416-0984, Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Silveira, Luís F. and Dominoni, Davide M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2063-9955 (2025) Urbanisation is associated with changes in stable isotopes across multiple trophic levels. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies, (doi: 10.1080/10256016.2025.2546139) (PMID:40828863) (Early Online Publication)

Reid, Rachel R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1869-9676, Dawson, Neal ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5389-8692, Duncan, Eleanor, Gillespie, Robert, Mitchell, Christopher, Branston, Claire J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4416-0984, Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Boonekamp, Jelle and Dominoni, Davide M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2063-9955 (2025) Partial night lighting may reduce the physiological impact of artificial light at night on captive zebra finches. Frontiers in Physiology, 16, 1592407. (doi: 10.3389/fphys.2025.1592407) (PMID:40519783) (PMCID:PMC12162287)

Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Branston, Claire J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4416-0984, Baker, Paul, Cochrane, Cara, Helm, Barbara and Dominoni, Davide ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2063-9955 (2025) Urban effects on timing and variability of diel activity differ across passerine species and seasons. Journal of Animal Ecology, 94(5), pp. 1088-1100. (doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.70038) (PMID:40202257) (PMCID:PMC12056343)

Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089 and Risely, Alice (2025) Migratory microbiomes: the role of the gut microbiome in bird migration eco-physiology. Journal of Avian Biology, 2025(2), e03406. (doi: 10.1111/jav.03406)

Pitt, Mark D., Alhowiti, Norah S. S., Branston, Claire J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4416-0984, Carlon, Eugenio, Boonekamp, Jelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1900-627X, Dominoni, Davide ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2063-9955 and Capilla Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089 (2025) Environmental constraints can explain clutch size differences between urban and forest blue tits: insights from an egg removal experiment. Journal of Animal Ecology, 94(3), pp. 368-378. (doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.14171) (PMID:39219149) (PMCID:PMC11880655)

2024

Capilla-Lasheras, P. et al. (2024) Evolution of sex differences in cooperation can be explained by trade-offs with dispersal. PLoS Biology, 22(10), e3002859. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002859) (PMID:39446701) (PMCID:PMC11500963)

Martin, Colette, Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Monaghan, Pat ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2430-0326 and Burraco, Pablo (2024) The impact of chemical pollution across major life transitions: a meta-analysis on oxidative stress in amphibians. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 291(2029), 20241536. (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2024.1536) (PMID:39191283) (PMCID:PMC11349447)

Reid, Rachel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1869-9676, Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Haddou, Yacob, Boonekamp, Jelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1900-627X and Dominoni, Davide ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2063-9955 (2024) The impact of urbanisation on health depends on the health metric, life stage and level of urbanisation: a global meta-analysis on avian species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 291(2027), 20240617. (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2024.0617) (PMID:39016598) (PMCID:PMC11253839)

2023

Capilla Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Wilson, Alastair J. and Young, Andrew J. (2023) Mothers in a cooperatively breeding bird increase investment per offspring at the pre-natal stage when they will have more help with post-natal care. PLoS Biology, 21(11), e3002356. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002356)

Womack, Robyn J., Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, McGlade, Ciara L. O., Dominoni, Davide M. and Helm, Barbara (2023) Reproductive fitness is associated with female chronotype in a songbird. Animal Behaviour, 205, pp. 65-78. (doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.08.018)

Salmon, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9718-6611, López-Idiáquez, David, Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Pérez-Tris, Javier, Isaksson, Caroline and Watson, Hannah (2023) Urbanisation impacts plumage colouration in a songbird across Europe: evidence from a correlational, experimental, and meta-analytical approach. Journal of Animal Ecology, 92(10), pp. 1924-1936. (doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13982) (PMID:37574652)

McGlade, Ciara L.O., Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Womack, Robyn J., Helm, Barbara and Dominoni, Davide ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2063-9955 (2023) Experimental light at night explains differences in activity onset between urban and forest great tits. Biology Letters, 19(9), 20230194. (doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0194) (PMID:37670610) (PMCID:PMC10480697)

Schmid, Dominik W., Capilla Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Dominoni, Davide M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2063-9955, Müller‐Klein, Nadine, Sommer, Simone and Risely, Alice (2023) Circadian rhythms of hosts and their gut microbiomes: Implications for animal physiology and ecology. Functional Ecology, (doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.14255)

2022

Wood, Emma M., Capilla‐Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Cram, Dominic L., Walker, Lindsay A., York, Jenny E., Lange, Anke, Hamilton, Patrick B., Tyler, Charles R. and Young, Andrew J. (2022) Social dominance and rainfall predict telomere dynamics in a cooperative arid‐zone bird. Molecular Ecology, 31(23), pp. 6141-6154. (doi: 10.1111/mec.15868) (PMID:33657651)

Capilla Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Thompson, Megan J., Sánchez-Tójar, Alfredo, Haddou, Yacob, Branston, Claire J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4416-0984, Réale, Denis, Charmantier, Anne and Dominoni, Davide M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2063-9955 (2022) A global meta-analysis reveals higher variation in breeding phenology in urban birds than in their non-urban neighbours. Ecology Letters, 25(11), pp. 2552-2570. (doi: 10.1111/ele.14099) (PMID:36136999)

Thompson, M.J., Capilla-Lasheras, P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Dominoni, D.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2063-9955, Réale, D. and Charmantier, A. (2022) Phenotypic variation in urban environments: mechanisms and implications. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 37(2), pp. 171-182. (doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2021.09.009) (PMID:34690006)

2021

Branston, Claire J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4416-0984, Capilla Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Pollock, Christopher J., Griffiths, Kate, White, Stewart ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3777-3181 and Dominoni, Davide M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2063-9955 (2021) Urbanisation weakens selection on the timing of breeding and clutch size in blue tits but not in great tits. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 75(11), 155. (doi: 10.1007/s00265-021-03096-z)

Brown, Antony M., Wood, Emma M., Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Harrison, Xavier A. and Young, Andrew J. (2021) Longitudinal evidence that older parents produce offspring with longer telomeres in a wild social bird. Biology Letters, 17(10), 20210409. (doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2021.0409) (PMID:34665991)

Capilla Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Harrison, Xavier, Wood, Emma M., Wilson, Alastair J. and Young, Andrew J. (2021) Altruistic bet-hedging and the evolution of cooperation in a Kalahari bird. Science Advances, 7(39), eabe8980. (doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abe8980) (PMID:34550732) (PMCID:PMC8457656)

Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Bondía, Blanca and Aguirre, José I. (2021) Environmental conditions but not nest composition affect reproductive success in an urban bird. Ecology and Evolution, 11(7), pp. 3084-3092. (doi: 10.1002/ece3.7234) (PMID:33841769) (PMCID:PMC8019055)

2019

Łapińska, Urszula, Glover, Georgina, Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Young, Andrew J. and Pagliara, Stefano (2019) Bacterial ageing in the absence of external stressors. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 374(1786), 20180442. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0442) (PMID:31587633) (PMCID:PMC6792439)

Bravo-Santano, Natalia, Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Mateos, Luis M., Calle, Yolanda, Behrends, Volker and Letek, Michal (2019) Identification of novel targets for host-directed therapeutics against intracellular Staphylococcus aureus. Scientific Reports, 9, 15435. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-51894-3) (PMID:31659191) (PMCID:PMC6817851)

2018

Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089 (2018) incR: a new R package to analyse incubation behaviour. Journal of Avian Biology, 49(8), e01710. (doi: 10.1111/jav.01710)

Gwinner, Helga, Capilla Lasheras, Pablo, Cooper, Caren and Helm, Barbara (2018) 'Green incubation': avian offspring benefit from aromatic nest herbs through improved parental incubation behaviour. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 285(1880), 20180376. (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.0376) (PMID:29875299) (PMCID:PMC6015870)

2017

Pollock, Christopher, Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, McGill, Rona A.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0400-7288, Helm, Barbara and Dominoni, Davide M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2063-9955 (2017) Integrated behavioural and stable isotope data reveal altered diet linked to low breeding success in urban-dwelling blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus). Scientific Reports, 7, 5014. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-04575-y) (PMID:28694437) (PMCID:PMC5503996)

Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Dominoni, Davide M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2063-9955, Babayan, Simon A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4949-1117, O'Shaughnessy, Peter J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5651-7883, Mladenova, Magdalena, Woodford, Luke, Pollock, Christopher J., Barr, Tom, Baldini, Francesco ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5904-4070 and Helm, Barbara (2017) Elevated immune gene expression is associated with poor reproductive success of urban blue tits. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 5, 64. (doi: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00064)

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Branston, Claire J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4416-0984, Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Haugh, Connor, Baker, Paul J., Reid, Rachel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1869-9676, Griffiths, Kate, White, Stewart and Dominoni, Davide M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2063-9955 (2026) Native trees are related to advanced bird breeding phenology and increased reproductive success along an urban gradient. Ecology and Evolution, (Accepted for Publication)

Navarro, Ana B., McGill, Rona A.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0400-7288, Newton, Jason, Branston, Claire J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4416-0984, Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Silveira, Luis F. and Dominoni, Davide ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2063-9955 (2025) Urbanization is associated with changes in stable isotopes across multiple trophic levels. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies, (doi: 10.1080/10256016.2025.2546139) (Early Online Publication)

Navarro, Ana B., McGill, Rona A.R., Newton, Jason, Branston, Claire J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4416-0984, Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Silveira, Luís F. and Dominoni, Davide M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2063-9955 (2025) Urbanisation is associated with changes in stable isotopes across multiple trophic levels. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies, (doi: 10.1080/10256016.2025.2546139) (PMID:40828863) (Early Online Publication)

Reid, Rachel R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1869-9676, Dawson, Neal ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5389-8692, Duncan, Eleanor, Gillespie, Robert, Mitchell, Christopher, Branston, Claire J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4416-0984, Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Boonekamp, Jelle and Dominoni, Davide M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2063-9955 (2025) Partial night lighting may reduce the physiological impact of artificial light at night on captive zebra finches. Frontiers in Physiology, 16, 1592407. (doi: 10.3389/fphys.2025.1592407) (PMID:40519783) (PMCID:PMC12162287)

Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Branston, Claire J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4416-0984, Baker, Paul, Cochrane, Cara, Helm, Barbara and Dominoni, Davide ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2063-9955 (2025) Urban effects on timing and variability of diel activity differ across passerine species and seasons. Journal of Animal Ecology, 94(5), pp. 1088-1100. (doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.70038) (PMID:40202257) (PMCID:PMC12056343)

Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089 and Risely, Alice (2025) Migratory microbiomes: the role of the gut microbiome in bird migration eco-physiology. Journal of Avian Biology, 2025(2), e03406. (doi: 10.1111/jav.03406)

Pitt, Mark D., Alhowiti, Norah S. S., Branston, Claire J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4416-0984, Carlon, Eugenio, Boonekamp, Jelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1900-627X, Dominoni, Davide ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2063-9955 and Capilla Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089 (2025) Environmental constraints can explain clutch size differences between urban and forest blue tits: insights from an egg removal experiment. Journal of Animal Ecology, 94(3), pp. 368-378. (doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.14171) (PMID:39219149) (PMCID:PMC11880655)

Capilla-Lasheras, P. et al. (2024) Evolution of sex differences in cooperation can be explained by trade-offs with dispersal. PLoS Biology, 22(10), e3002859. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002859) (PMID:39446701) (PMCID:PMC11500963)

Martin, Colette, Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Monaghan, Pat ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2430-0326 and Burraco, Pablo (2024) The impact of chemical pollution across major life transitions: a meta-analysis on oxidative stress in amphibians. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 291(2029), 20241536. (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2024.1536) (PMID:39191283) (PMCID:PMC11349447)

Reid, Rachel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1869-9676, Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Haddou, Yacob, Boonekamp, Jelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1900-627X and Dominoni, Davide ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2063-9955 (2024) The impact of urbanisation on health depends on the health metric, life stage and level of urbanisation: a global meta-analysis on avian species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 291(2027), 20240617. (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2024.0617) (PMID:39016598) (PMCID:PMC11253839)

Capilla Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Wilson, Alastair J. and Young, Andrew J. (2023) Mothers in a cooperatively breeding bird increase investment per offspring at the pre-natal stage when they will have more help with post-natal care. PLoS Biology, 21(11), e3002356. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002356)

Womack, Robyn J., Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, McGlade, Ciara L. O., Dominoni, Davide M. and Helm, Barbara (2023) Reproductive fitness is associated with female chronotype in a songbird. Animal Behaviour, 205, pp. 65-78. (doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.08.018)

Salmon, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9718-6611, López-Idiáquez, David, Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Pérez-Tris, Javier, Isaksson, Caroline and Watson, Hannah (2023) Urbanisation impacts plumage colouration in a songbird across Europe: evidence from a correlational, experimental, and meta-analytical approach. Journal of Animal Ecology, 92(10), pp. 1924-1936. (doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13982) (PMID:37574652)

McGlade, Ciara L.O., Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Womack, Robyn J., Helm, Barbara and Dominoni, Davide ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2063-9955 (2023) Experimental light at night explains differences in activity onset between urban and forest great tits. Biology Letters, 19(9), 20230194. (doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0194) (PMID:37670610) (PMCID:PMC10480697)

Schmid, Dominik W., Capilla Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Dominoni, Davide M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2063-9955, Müller‐Klein, Nadine, Sommer, Simone and Risely, Alice (2023) Circadian rhythms of hosts and their gut microbiomes: Implications for animal physiology and ecology. Functional Ecology, (doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.14255)

Wood, Emma M., Capilla‐Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Cram, Dominic L., Walker, Lindsay A., York, Jenny E., Lange, Anke, Hamilton, Patrick B., Tyler, Charles R. and Young, Andrew J. (2022) Social dominance and rainfall predict telomere dynamics in a cooperative arid‐zone bird. Molecular Ecology, 31(23), pp. 6141-6154. (doi: 10.1111/mec.15868) (PMID:33657651)

Capilla Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Thompson, Megan J., Sánchez-Tójar, Alfredo, Haddou, Yacob, Branston, Claire J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4416-0984, Réale, Denis, Charmantier, Anne and Dominoni, Davide M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2063-9955 (2022) A global meta-analysis reveals higher variation in breeding phenology in urban birds than in their non-urban neighbours. Ecology Letters, 25(11), pp. 2552-2570. (doi: 10.1111/ele.14099) (PMID:36136999)

Thompson, M.J., Capilla-Lasheras, P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Dominoni, D.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2063-9955, Réale, D. and Charmantier, A. (2022) Phenotypic variation in urban environments: mechanisms and implications. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 37(2), pp. 171-182. (doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2021.09.009) (PMID:34690006)

Branston, Claire J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4416-0984, Capilla Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Pollock, Christopher J., Griffiths, Kate, White, Stewart ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3777-3181 and Dominoni, Davide M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2063-9955 (2021) Urbanisation weakens selection on the timing of breeding and clutch size in blue tits but not in great tits. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 75(11), 155. (doi: 10.1007/s00265-021-03096-z)

Brown, Antony M., Wood, Emma M., Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Harrison, Xavier A. and Young, Andrew J. (2021) Longitudinal evidence that older parents produce offspring with longer telomeres in a wild social bird. Biology Letters, 17(10), 20210409. (doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2021.0409) (PMID:34665991)

Capilla Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Harrison, Xavier, Wood, Emma M., Wilson, Alastair J. and Young, Andrew J. (2021) Altruistic bet-hedging and the evolution of cooperation in a Kalahari bird. Science Advances, 7(39), eabe8980. (doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abe8980) (PMID:34550732) (PMCID:PMC8457656)

Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Bondía, Blanca and Aguirre, José I. (2021) Environmental conditions but not nest composition affect reproductive success in an urban bird. Ecology and Evolution, 11(7), pp. 3084-3092. (doi: 10.1002/ece3.7234) (PMID:33841769) (PMCID:PMC8019055)

Łapińska, Urszula, Glover, Georgina, Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Young, Andrew J. and Pagliara, Stefano (2019) Bacterial ageing in the absence of external stressors. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 374(1786), 20180442. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0442) (PMID:31587633) (PMCID:PMC6792439)

Bravo-Santano, Natalia, Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Mateos, Luis M., Calle, Yolanda, Behrends, Volker and Letek, Michal (2019) Identification of novel targets for host-directed therapeutics against intracellular Staphylococcus aureus. Scientific Reports, 9, 15435. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-51894-3) (PMID:31659191) (PMCID:PMC6817851)

Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089 (2018) incR: a new R package to analyse incubation behaviour. Journal of Avian Biology, 49(8), e01710. (doi: 10.1111/jav.01710)

Gwinner, Helga, Capilla Lasheras, Pablo, Cooper, Caren and Helm, Barbara (2018) 'Green incubation': avian offspring benefit from aromatic nest herbs through improved parental incubation behaviour. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 285(1880), 20180376. (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.0376) (PMID:29875299) (PMCID:PMC6015870)

Pollock, Christopher, Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, McGill, Rona A.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0400-7288, Helm, Barbara and Dominoni, Davide M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2063-9955 (2017) Integrated behavioural and stable isotope data reveal altered diet linked to low breeding success in urban-dwelling blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus). Scientific Reports, 7, 5014. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-04575-y) (PMID:28694437) (PMCID:PMC5503996)

Capilla-Lasheras, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089, Dominoni, Davide M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2063-9955, Babayan, Simon A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4949-1117, O'Shaughnessy, Peter J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5651-7883, Mladenova, Magdalena, Woodford, Luke, Pollock, Christopher J., Barr, Tom, Baldini, Francesco ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5904-4070 and Helm, Barbara (2017) Elevated immune gene expression is associated with poor reproductive success of urban blue tits. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 5, 64. (doi: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00064)

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Grants

Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.

  • It takes guts to grow in the city: the role of the gut microbiome in the welfare of juvenile urban birds.
    Wild Animal Initiative
    2022 - 2023
     
  • Animal and human health consequences of variation in the gut microbiome of urban freeliving birds
    Wellcome Trust
    2022 - 2022
     

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Level 4 Behavioural Ecology