Staff profile

• behavioural ecology
• character displacement
• citizen science
• evolutionary biology
• phylogenetic comparative methods
• species interactions

Journal Article

• Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Non‐Ecological Speciation in Rubyspot Damselflies ( Hetaerina spp.)
  
  Patterson, C., Brennan, A., Cowling, H., González‐Rodríguez, A., Grether, G. F., Mendoza Cuenca, L., Springer, M., Vega‐Sánchez, Y. M., & Drury, J. (2025). Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Non‐Ecological Speciation in Rubyspot Damselflies ( Hetaerina spp.). Molecular Ecology. Advance online publication, Article e17797. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17797
• Interspecific behavioural interference and range dynamics: current insights and future directions
  
  Patterson, C. W., & Drury, J. P. (2024). Interspecific behavioural interference and range dynamics: current insights and future directions. Biological Reviews, 98(6), 2012-2027. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12993
• Competitive displacement and agonistic character displacement, or the ghost of interference competition
  
  McEachin, S., Drury, J. P., & Grether, G. F. (2024). Competitive displacement and agonistic character displacement, or the ghost of interference competition. The American Naturalist, 203(3). https://doi.org/10.1086/728671
• Limited ecological opportunity influences the tempo of morphological evolution in birds
  
  Drury, J. P., Clavel, J., Tobias, J. A., Rolland, J., Sheard, C., & Morlon, H. (2024). Limited ecological opportunity influences the tempo of morphological evolution in birds. Current Biology, 34(3), 661-669. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.12.055
• Niche differentiation, reproductive interference, and range expansion
  
  Grether, G. F., Finneran, A. E., & Drury, J. P. (2024). Niche differentiation, reproductive interference, and range expansion. Ecology Letters, 27(1). https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14350
• Unfamiliarity generates costly aggression in interspecific avian dominance hierarchies
  
  Leighton, G. M., Drury, J. P., Small, J., & Miller, E. T. (2024). Unfamiliarity generates costly aggression in interspecific avian dominance hierarchies. Nature Communications, 15(1), Article 335. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-44613-0
• A chromosome-level genome assembly for the smoky rubyspot damselfly (Hetaerina titia)
  
  Patterson, C. W., Bonillas-Monge, E., Brennan, A., Grether, G. F., Mendoza-Cuenca, L., Tucker, R., Vega-Sánchez, Y. M., & Drury, J. (2024). A chromosome-level genome assembly for the smoky rubyspot damselfly (Hetaerina titia). Journal of Heredity, 115(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esad070
• Macrobehaviour: behavioural variation across space, time, and taxa
  
  Keith, S. A., Drury, J. P., McGill, B. J., & Grether, G. F. (2023). Macrobehaviour: behavioural variation across space, time, and taxa. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 38(12), 1177-1188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.08.007
• Interspecific territoriality has facilitated recent increases in the breeding habitat overlap of North American passerines
  
  Nesbit, D., Cowen, M., Grether, G., & Drury, J. (2023). Interspecific territoriality has facilitated recent increases in the breeding habitat overlap of North American passerines. Ecography, 2023(6), Article e06573. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06573
• Mechanisms of reduced interspecific interference between territorial species
  
  McEachin, S., Drury, J., Anderson, C., & Grether, G. (2022). Mechanisms of reduced interspecific interference between territorial species. Behavioural Ecology, 33(1), 126-136. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arab115
• Evolution and Biogeographic History of Rubyspot Damselflies (Hetaerininae: Calopterygidae: Odonata)
  
  Standring, S., Sánchez-Herrera, M., Guillermo-Ferreira, R., Ware, J. L., Vega-Sánchez, Y. M., Clement, R., Drury, J. P., Grether, G. F., González-Rodríguez, A., Mendoza-Cuenca, L., Bota-Sierra, C. A., & Bybee, S. (2022). Evolution and Biogeographic History of Rubyspot Damselflies (Hetaerininae: Calopterygidae: Odonata). Diversity, 14(9), Article 757. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14090757
• Tempo and mode of morphological evolution are decoupled from latitude in birds
  
  Drury, J., Clavel, J., Rolland, J., Sheard, C., Tobias, J., & Morlon, H. (2021). Tempo and mode of morphological evolution are decoupled from latitude in birds. PLoS Biology, 19(8), Article e3001270. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001270
• The Verification of Ecological Citizen Science Data: Current Approaches and Future Possibilities
  
  Baker, E., Drury, J., Judge, J., Roy, D., Smith, G., & Stephens, P. (2021). The Verification of Ecological Citizen Science Data: Current Approaches and Future Possibilities. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 6(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.351
• Multiple routes to interspecific territoriality in sister species of North American perching birds
  
  Cowen, M., Drury, J., & Grether, G. (2020). Multiple routes to interspecific territoriality in sister species of North American perching birds. Evolution, 74(9), 2134-2148. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14068
• Competition and hybridization drive interspecific territoriality in birds
  
  Drury, J., Cowen, M., & Grether, G. (2020). Competition and hybridization drive interspecific territoriality in birds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(23), 12923-12930. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1921380117
• Predicting evolutionary responses to interspecific interference in the wild
  
  Grether, G., Drury, J., Okamoto, K., McEachin, S., & Anderson, C. (2020). Predicting evolutionary responses to interspecific interference in the wild. Ecology Letters, 23(2), 221-230. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13395
• A general explanation for the persistence of reproductive interference
  
  Drury, J., Anderson, C., Cabezas Castillo, M., Fisher, J., McEachin, S., & Grether, G. (2019). A general explanation for the persistence of reproductive interference. American Naturalist, 194(2), 268-275. https://doi.org/10.1086/704102
• Continent-scale phenotype mapping using photographs from citizen scientists
  
  Drury, J., Barnes, M., Finneran, A., Harris, M., & Grether, G. (2019). Continent-scale phenotype mapping using photographs from citizen scientists. Ecography, 42(8), 1436-1445. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04469
• Detecting the macroevolutionary signal of species interactions
  
  Harmon, L., Andreazzi, C., Débarre, F., Drury, J., Goldberg, E., Martins, A., Melián, C., Narwani, A., Nuismer, S., Pennell, M., Rudman, S., Seehausen, O., Silvestro, D., Weber, M., & Matthews, B. (2019). Detecting the macroevolutionary signal of species interactions. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 32(8), 769-782. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13477
• An assessment of phylogenetic tools for analyzing the interplay between interspecific interactions and phenotypic evolution
  
  Drury, J., Grether, G., Garland Jr., T., & Morlon, H. (2018). An assessment of phylogenetic tools for analyzing the interplay between interspecific interactions and phenotypic evolution. Systematic Biology, 67(3), 413-427. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syx079
• Contrasting impacts of competition on ecological and social trait evolution in songbirds
  
  Drury, J., Tobias, J., Burns, K., Mason, N., Schultz, A., & Morlon, H. (2018). Contrasting impacts of competition on ecological and social trait evolution in songbirds. PLoS Biology, 16(1), Article e2003563. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2003563
• Fear no colors? Observer clothing color influences lizard escape behavior
  
  Putman, B., Drury, J., Blumstein, D., & Pauly, G. (2017). Fear no colors? Observer clothing color influences lizard escape behavior. PLoS ONE, 12(8), Article e0182146. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182146
• Estimating the effect of competition on trait evolution using maximum likelihood inference
  
  Drury, J., Clavel, J., Manceau, M., & Morlon, H. (2016). Estimating the effect of competition on trait evolution using maximum likelihood inference. Systematic Biology, 65(4), 700-710. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syw020
• RPANDA: an R package for macroevolutionary analyses on phylogenetic trees
  
  Morlon, H., Lewitus, E., Condamine, F., Manceau, M., Clavel, J., & Drury, J. (2016). RPANDA: an R package for macroevolutionary analyses on phylogenetic trees. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 7(5), 589-597. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.12526
• The ecological and evolutionary stability of interspecific territoriality
  
  Losin, N., Drury, J., Peiman, K., Storch, C., & Grether, G. (2016). The ecological and evolutionary stability of interspecific territoriality. Ecology Letters, 19(3), 260-267. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12561
• Reproductive interference explains persistence of aggression between species
  
  Drury, J., Okamoto, K., Anderson, C., & Grether, G. (2015). Reproductive interference explains persistence of aggression between species. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282(1804), Article 20142256. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.2256
• Interspecific aggression, not interspecific mating, drives character displacement in the wing coloration of male rubyspot damselflies (Hetaerina)
  
  Drury, J., & Grether, G. (2014). Interspecific aggression, not interspecific mating, drives character displacement in the wing coloration of male rubyspot damselflies (Hetaerina). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281(1796), Article 20141737. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.1737