Department of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, University of
Haifa, Haifa 31905, Israel and Department of Biology, University of Haifa at Oranim, Tivon 36006, Israel
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Ecology
Ornithology
Behavioural ecology
Chemical ecology
(In Refereed Journals )
Markman, S ., Yom-Tov, Y. & Wright, J. (1995). Male parental care in the orangetufted sunbird: behavioural adjustments in provisioning and nest guarding effort.
Animal Behaviour 50: 655-669.

Markman, S.
, Yom-Tov, Y. & Wright, J. (1996). The effect of male removal on female parental care in the orange-tufted sunbird. Animal Behaviour 52: 437-444.
Markman, S.
, Pinshow, B. & Wright, J. (1999). Orange-tufted Sunbirds do not feed nectar to their chicks. The Auk 116 : 257-259.
Markman, S., Pinshow, B. & Wright, J.
(2002) . Manipulation of parent-only food sources reveals sex-specific trade-offs between parental self-feeding and offspring care. Proceedings of the Royal Society. London. B. 269 : 1931-1938.
Markman, S.
, Pinshow, B., Wright, J. & Kotler, B. P. (2004). Food patch use by parent birds: to gather food for themselves or for their chicks?
Journal of Animal
Ecology 73 : 747-755 .
Tadmor - Melamed H., Markman, S ., Arieli, A., Distl, M., Wink, M.
& Ido Izhaki.
(2004). A limited ability of Palestine sunbirds ( Nectarinia osea ) to cope with pyridine alkaloids in nectar of tobacco tree ( Nicotiana glauca ). Functional Ecology
18 : 844-850
Wright, J., Markman, S & Denney, S.M. (2006) Facultative adjustment of prefledging mass loss by nestling swifts preparing for flight. Proceedings of the Royal
Society. London.B
. 273 : 1895-1900 .
Markman, S.
, Tadmor - Melamed H., Arieli, A. & Izhaki, I. (2006). Sex differences in food intake and digestive constraints in a nectarivourus bird. Journal of Experimental Biology 209 : 1058-1063 .
Hambly, C., Markman, S., Roxburgh, L., & Pinshow, B. (2007).
Seasonal sex– specific energy expenditure in breeding and non-breeding Palestine sunbirds
( Nectarinia osea ) .
Journal of Avian Biology 38: 190-197.
Markman, S., Guschina, I.., Barnsley, S., Pascoe, D., Muller C. T & Buchanan, K.
L. (2007) Endocrine disrupting chemicals accumulate in Earthworms ( Eisnia fetida ) exposed to sewage effluent. Chemosphere , 70: 119-125.

Markman, S., Leitner, S., Catchpole, C., Barnsley, S., Müller, C. T., Pascoe, D. &
Buchanan, K. L. (In review) Pollutants increase song complexity and the volume of the brain area HVC in a songbird. PLOS One .
Markman, S.
Hill, N. Todrank, J., Heth, G. & Blaustein, L. Aggressiveness covaries with genetic similarity in fire salamander larvae. Submitted to
Proceedings of the Royal Society. London.B
.