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Dr Bob Wong

Senior Lecturer

LLB (Hons)
BSc (Hons)
PhD, The Australian National University

Telephone: +61-3-9905-5652
Fax: +61-3-9905-5613
E-mail: bob.wong@sci.monash.edu.au

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Dr Bob Wong
Publications

Book Chapters

  • Candolin, U., and Wong, BBM. 2008. Mate Choice. In: Fish Behaviour (Eds: Magnhagen, C., Braithwaite, V., Forsgren, E., Kapoor, B.G.). Science Publisher Inc., Enfield, NH, USA.

Peer-reviewed papers

  • Squires, ZE., Bailey, PCE., Reina, RD., Wong, BBM. In press. Compensatory growth in tadpoles after transient salinity stress. Marine and Freshwater Research.
  • Lehtonen, TK., Lindström, K., Wong, BBM. In press. Fluctuating mate preferences in a marine fish. Biology Letters.
  • Lehtonen, TK, and Wong, BBM. In press. Should females prefer males with elaborate nests? Behavioral Ecology.
  • Wong, BBM., Järvenpää, M., Lindström, K. In press. Risk-sensitive mating decisions in a visually compromised environment. Biology Letters.
  • Wong, BBM, and McCarthy, M. 2009. Prudent male mate choice under perceived sperm competition risk in the eastern mosquitofish. Behavioral Ecology. 20: 278-282.
  • Wong, BBM, and Svensson, PA. 2009. Strategic male signalling effort in a desert-dwelling fish. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 63: 543-549.
  • Squires, ZE., Bailey, PCE., Reina, RD., Wong, BBM. 2008. Environmental deterioration increases tadpole vulnerability to predation. Biology Letters 4: 392-394
  • Wong, BBM., Lehtonen, TK., Lindström, K. 2008. Male nest choice in sand gobies, Pomatoschistus minutus. Ethology. 114: 575-581.
  • Buckingham, J., Wong, BBM., Rosenthal, GG. 2007. Shoaling decisions in female swordtails: how do fish gauge group size? Behaviour. 144: 1333-1346.
  • Wong, BBM, Candolin, U., Lindström, K. 2007. Environmental deterioration compromises socially enforced signals of male quality in three-spined sticklebacks. American Naturalist. 170: 184-189.
  • Kokko, H, and Wong, BBM. 2007. What determines sex roles in mate searching? Evolution. 61: 1162-1175.
  • Jennions, MD., Wong, BBM., Cowling, A., Donnelly, C. 2006. Life-history phenotypes in a livebearing fish Brachyrhaphis episcopi living under different predator regimes: seasonal effects? Environmental Biology of Fishes. 76: 211-219
  • Fisher, HS., Wong, BBM., Rosenthal, GG. 2006 Alteration of the chemical environment disrupts communication in a freshwater fish. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. 273: 1187-1193.
  • Wong, BBM, and Rosenthal, GG. 2006 Female disdain for swords in a swordtail fish. The American Naturalist. 167: 136-140.
  • Wong, BBM, and Candolin, U. 2005 How is female mate choice affected by male competition? Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 80: 559-571.
  • Wong, BBM, and Kokko, H. 2005 Is science as global as we think? Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 20: 475-476.
  • Wong, BBM, Bibeau, C, Bishop, K, and Rosenthal, GG. 2005. Response to perceived predation threat in fiddler crabs: Trust thy neighbor as thyself? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 58: 345-350.
  • Wong, BBM, Fisher, HS, and Rosenthal, GG. 2005. Species recognition by male swordtails via chemical cues. Behavioral Ecology. 16: 818-822.
  • Wong, BBM, and Rosenthal, GG. 2005. Shoal choice in swordtails when preferences conflict. Ethology. 111: 179-186.
  • Wong, BBM., Jennions, MD., Keogh, JS. 2004. Sequential male mate choice in a fish, the Pacific blue-eye Pseudomugil siginifer. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 56: 253-256.
  • Wong, BBM. 2004. Male competition is disruptive to courtship in the Pacific blue-eye fish. Journal of Fish Biology. 65: 333-341.
  • Wong, BBM., Salzmann, C., Schiestl, FP. 2004. Pollinator attractiveness increases with distance from flowering orchids. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B (Supp), Biology Letters. 271: s212-s214.
  • Wong, BBM., Keogh, JS., Jennions, MD. 2004. Mate recognition in a freshwater fish: geographic distance, genetic differentiation, and variation in female preference for local over foreign males. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 17: 701-708.
  • Wong, BBM., Cowling, A., Donnelly, CF., Cunningham, RB., Cooper, PD. 2004. Does temperature and social environment interact to affect call rate in frogs, Crinia signifera? Austral Ecology. 29: 209-214.
  • Wong, BBM. 2004. Superior fighters make mediocre fathers in the Pacific blue-eye fish. Animal Behaviour. 67:583-590.
  • Wong, BBM., Keogh, JS., McGlashan, DJ. 2004. Current and historical patterns of drainage connectivity in eastern Australia inferred from population genetic structuring in a widespread freshwater fish Pseudomugil signifer (Pseudomugilidae). Molecular Ecology. 13: 391-401.
  • Wong, BBM, and Jennions, MD. 2003. Costs influence male mate choice in a freshwater fish. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B (Supp), Biology Letters. 270: s36-s38.
  • Wong, BBM, and Schiestl, FP. 2002. How an orchid harms its pollinator. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 269:1529-39.
  • Hough, D., Wong, B., Bennett, G., Brettschneider, K., Spinocchia, M., Manion, N., Heinsohn, R. 1997.Vigilance and group size in emus. Emu. 98: 324-327.

Book Reviews

  • Wong, BBM 2007. Sperm competition in humans: Classic and contemporary readings. International Society for Behavioral Ecology Newsletter. 19(1): 9-10.
  • Wong, BBM 2002. Model Systems in Behavioral Ecology Integrating Conceptual, Theoretical, and Empirical Approaches. Animal Behaviour. 64: 512-3.
  • Wong, BBM. 2002. Freshwater fishes of Australia: A field guide Copeia. 2002(4): 1158-1160.

Popular Articles

  • Wong, BBM. 2004. What females want. Nature Australia. 28(1): 42-51.
  • Wong, BBM. 2004. Sex, lies and pheromones. Nature Australia. 28(3): 42-47.