Rita Covas

Rita Covas

Universidade do Porto

H-index: 26

Europe-Portugal

About Rita Covas

Rita Covas, With an exceptional h-index of 26 and a recent h-index of 20 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Universidade do Porto, specializes in the field of Cooperative breeding, sociality, life-history evolution, insularity syndrome.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Benefits of Pair-Bond Duration on Reproduction in a Lifelong Monogamous Cooperative Passerine

Highly variable breeding phenology in an arid region colonial cooperative breeder, the Sociable Weaver Philetairus socius

Family-living and cooperative breeding in birds are associated with the number of avian predators

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Interplay of cooperative breeding and predation risk on egg allocation and reproductive output

Advancing cooperative breeding research with a peer-reviewed and" live" Cooperative-Breeding Database (Co-BreeD)

The effect of climate change on avian offspring production: A global meta-analysis

Egg components and offspring survival vary with group size and laying order in a cooperative breeder

Rita Covas Information

University

Position

CIBIO and PFIAO University of Cape TownUnknown affiliation

Citations(all)

2462

Citations(since 2020)

1072

Cited By

1773

hIndex(all)

26

hIndex(since 2020)

20

i10Index(all)

44

i10Index(since 2020)

32

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Rita Covas Skills & Research Interests

Cooperative breeding

sociality

life-history evolution

insularity syndrome

Top articles of Rita Covas

Benefits of Pair-Bond Duration on Reproduction in a Lifelong Monogamous Cooperative Passerine

The American Naturalist

2024/5/1

Rita Covas
Rita Covas

H-Index: 18

Highly variable breeding phenology in an arid region colonial cooperative breeder, the Sociable Weaver Philetairus socius

Ostrich

2024/4/26

Rita Covas
Rita Covas

H-Index: 18

Family-living and cooperative breeding in birds are associated with the number of avian predators

Evolution

2024/4/23

Interplay of cooperative breeding and predation risk on egg allocation and reproductive output

Behavioral Ecology

2024/3/1

Advancing cooperative breeding research with a peer-reviewed and" live" Cooperative-Breeding Database (Co-BreeD)

bioRxiv

2024

Egg components and offspring survival vary with group size and laying order in a cooperative breeder

Oecologia

2023/5

Matthieu Paquet
Matthieu Paquet

H-Index: 10

Rita Covas
Rita Covas

H-Index: 18

Strength of the ‘island rule’in birds is positively associated with absence of avian predators

Biology Letters

2023/3/22

Raquel Ponti
Raquel Ponti

H-Index: 3

Rita Covas
Rita Covas

H-Index: 18

DNA Barcode library of the endemic-rich avifauna of the oceanic islands of the Gulf of Guinea

Biodiversity Data Journal

2023

Correction: ‘Strength of the “island rule” in birds is positively associated with absence of avian predators’ (2023), by Ponti et al.

Biology Letters

2023/12/13

Raquel Ponti
Raquel Ponti

H-Index: 3

Rita Covas
Rita Covas

H-Index: 18

Comparative evidence for sexual selection on nest weave pattern in weaverbirds

2023/11/9

Rita Covas
Rita Covas

H-Index: 18

Staffan Andersson
Staffan Andersson

H-Index: 2

Peer Community Journal

2021/11/24

The oxidative cost of helping and its minimization in a cooperative breeder

Behavioral Ecology

2022/5/1

Begging and feeding responses vary with relatedness and sex of provisioners in a cooperative breeder

Animal Behaviour

2022/3/1

Rita Covas
Rita Covas

H-Index: 18

Matthieu Paquet
Matthieu Paquet

H-Index: 10

Evolution of immune genes in island birds: reduction in population sizes can explain island syndrome

Peer Community Journal

2022

Increased Sociality in Island-Dwelling Birds Worldwide and its Ecological Significance

Available at SSRN 4221336

2022

Disentangling climatic and nest predator impact on reproductive output reveals adverse high‐temperature effects regardless of helper number in an arid‐region cooperative bird

Ecology letters

2022/1

Matthieu Paquet
Matthieu Paquet

H-Index: 10

Rita Covas
Rita Covas

H-Index: 18

Contrasting associations between nestling telomere length and pre and postnatal helpers’ presence in a cooperatively breeding bird

Oecologia

2021/5

Matthieu Paquet
Matthieu Paquet

H-Index: 10

Rita Covas
Rita Covas

H-Index: 18

Maternal allocation in relation to weather, predation and social factors in a colonial cooperative bird

Journal of Animal Ecology

2021/5

Matthieu Paquet
Matthieu Paquet

H-Index: 10

Rita Covas
Rita Covas

H-Index: 18

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