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PUBLISHED WORK

Peer-Reviewed Journals

* Indicates undergraduate coauthors

CAN YOU HEAR ME? HOUSE SPARROW AUDITORY PROCESSING DIFFERS ACROSS AN URBANIZATION GRADIENT 

In review, 2025

Nduwimana, L. A*., Grimes, S. E.* Yurk, B., Ronald, K.L

URBANIZATION ALTERS THE SONG PROPAGATION OF TWO HUMAN-COMMENSAL
SONGBIRD SPECIES.

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2024

Grimes, S. E.*, Lewis, E.*, Nduwimana, L. A.*, Yurk, B., Ronald, K.L.

DEER BROWSING PRESSURE INFLUENCES PERCEPTION OF AVIAN PLUMAGE
IN TEMPERATE DECIDUOUS FORESTS 

Vision Research, 2023

Boycott, T. J., Sherrard, M.G.*, Gall, M. D., Ronald, K.L.

AVIAN COLOR EXPRESSION AND PERCEPTION: IS THERE A CAROTENOID LINK?

Journal of Experimental Biology, 2021

Toomey, M. B. and Ronald, K.L.

MALE MICE ADJUST COURTSHIP BEHAVIOR IN RESPONSE TO FEMALE MULTIMODAL SIGNALS

PLoS ONE, 2020

Ronald, K.L., Zhang, X*., Morrison, M. V*., Miller, R.*, Hurley, L. M.

IS MATE CHOICE IN THE EYE AND EAR OF THE BEHOLDER? FEMALE MULTIMODAL SENSORY CONFIGURATION INFLUENCES MATING PREFERENCES

Proceedings of the Royal Society, B 2018

Ronald, K.L, Fernandez-Juricic, E., Lucas, J.R.

TESTING A KEY ASSUMPTION IN ANIMAL COMMUNICATION: BETWEEN-INDIVIDUAL VARIATION IN FEMALE VISUAL SYSTEMS ALTERS PERCEPTION OF MALE SIGNALS

Biology Open 2017

Ronald, K.L., Ensminger, A.L., Shawkey, M.S., Lucas, J.R., Fernandez-Juricic, E.

THE SENSORY SUBSTRATE OF MULTIMODAL COMMUNICATION IN BROWN HEADED COWBIRDS: ARE FEMALES SENSORY 'SPECIALISTS' OR 'GENERALISTS'?

July 2017; Journal of Comparative Physiology A

Ronald, K.L., Sesterhenn, T., Fernandez-Juricic, E. Lucas, J.R.

WHAT MAKES A MULTIMODAL SIGNAL ATTRACTIVE? A PREFERENCE FUNCTION APPROACH

2017 Behavioral Ecology

Ronald, K.L., Zeng, R.*, White, D., Fernandez-Juricic, E., Lucas, J.R.

WATCH YOUR TONE: SOCIAL CONDITIONS MODULATE SINGING STRATEGIES

Ethology 2015

Ronald, K.L., Skillman, T.*, Lin, A.*, Li, Q.*, Fernandez-Juricic, E., Lucas, J.R.

EFFECTS OF HABITAT AND URBANIZATION ON THE ACTIVE SPACE OF
BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD SONG

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2012

Gall, M., Ronald, K. L., Bestrom, E*., Lucas, J.R.

TAKING THE SENSORY APPROACH: 
INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN AUDITORY AND VISUAL PERCEPTION CAN INFLUENCE MATE CHOICE

Animal Behaviour 2012

Ronald, K.L., Fernandez-Juricic, E., Lucas, J.R.

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