Associate Professor Terry Ord

Associate Professor

Science

School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences

I am an evolutionary ecologist interested in how phylogeny, natural selection and sexual selection contribute to the evolution of behavioural diversity. I combine large-scale phylogenetic comparative analysis across species and targeted experimental study within species to investigate macro- and microevolutionary processes shaping behaviour and other sexually-selected traits. From more details, see

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Phone

+ 61 2 9065 1192

E-mail

t.ord@unsw.edu.au

Location

Room 5106, Level 5, Biological Sciences South (E26)

Book Chapters | 2010

Ord T; Martins EP, 2010, 'The evolution of behavior: phylogeny and the origin of present-day diversity', in Westneat D; Fox C (ed.), Evolutionary Behavioural Ecology, Oxford University Press, USA, pp. 108 - 128

Book Chapters | 2010

Ord T, 2010, 'Phylogeny and the evolution of communication', in Breed MD; Moore J (ed.), Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, Academic Press, Oxford, pp. 652 - 660

Book Chapters | 2010

Ord T, 2010, 'Phylogeny', in Mills DS; Marchant Forde JN; McGreevy PD; Morton DB; Nicol CJ; Phillips CJC; Sandoe P; Swaisgood RR (ed.), The encyclopedia of applied animal behaviour and welfare, CABI, Cambridge MA, pp. 471 - 473

Book Chapters | 2010

Ord TJ, 2010, 'Evolution and Phylogeny of Communication', in Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior Volume Three Set, pp. V1-V1-660,

Book Chapters | 2009

Ord TJ, 2009, 'Evolution and Phylogeny of Communication', in Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, pp. 652 - 660,

Book Chapters | 2004

Ord TJ; Martins EP, 2004, 'Behavioral phylogeny: the evolutionary origins of behavior', in Bekoff M (ed.), Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, Greenwood Press, Westport, pp. 87 - 92
Journal articles | 2025

Ord TJ; Blazek K, 2025, 'Central place foraging in an ectotherm and the long-term liability of selecting the "wrong" central place', Behavioral Ecology, 36,

Journal articles | 2025

Yao S; Ord TJ, 2025, 'Adaptation for crypsis versus conspicuous social signalling following transitions across an extreme ecotone', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 38, pp. 580 - 593,

Journal articles | 2024

Ord TJ; Surovic EA; Vaz DFB; Irisarri I, 2024, 'Abiotic factors that prompt major ecological transitions: Are fish on land to escape an intolerable aquatic environment?', Functional Ecology, 38, pp. 2648 - 2664,

Journal articles | 2023

Campbell NE; Ord TJ, 2023, 'Wild kangaroos become more social when caring for young and may maintain long-term affiliations with popular individuals', Animal Behaviour, 205, pp. 183 - 195,

Journal articles | 2023

Iglesias-Carrasco M; Medina I; Ord TJ, 2023, 'Global effects of forest modification on herpetofauna communities', Conservation Biology, 37,

Journal articles | 2023

Ord TJ; Diesmos A; Ahmad N; Das I, 2023, 'Evolutionary loss of complexity in animal signals: cause and consequence', Evolution, 77, pp. 660 - 669,

Journal articles | 2023

Ord TJ, 2023, 'Drought-induced relocation of ant colonies and its consequences for the long-term spatial ecology of a population under stress', Functional Ecology, 37, pp. 2231 - 2245,

Journal articles | 2022

Iglesias-Carrasco M; Cabido C; Ord TJ, 2022, 'Natural toxins leached from Eucalyptus globulus plantations affect the development and life-history of anuran tadpoles', Freshwater Biology, 67, pp. 378 - 388,

Journal articles | 2022

Nelson CMV; Ord TJ, 2022, 'Identifying potential cues of species identity in complex animal signals', Animal Behaviour, 186, pp. 121 - 136,

Journal articles | 2022

Nelson CMV; Sherwin WB; Ord TJ, 2022, 'Why does the complexity of functionally equivalent signals vary across closely related species?', Behavioral Ecology, 33, pp. 926 - 936,

Journal articles | 2022

Summers TC; Ord TJ, 2022, 'Female preference for super-sized male ornaments and its implications for the evolution of ornament allometry', Evolutionary Ecology, 36, pp. 701 - 716,

Journal articles | 2022

Summers TC; Ord TJ, 2022, 'Signal detection shapes ornament allometry in functionally convergent Caribbean Anolis and Southeast Asian Draco lizards', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 35, pp. 1508 - 1523,

Journal articles | 2022

Summers TC; Ord TJ, 2022, 'The stabilising impact of natural selection on the allometry of sexual ornaments: Fish that escape locomotor constraints exhibit extravagant ornamentation', Functional Ecology, 36, pp. 500 - 511,

Journal articles | 2021

Ord TJ; Blazek K; White TE; Das I, 2021, 'Conspicuous animal signals avoid the cost of predation by being intermittent or novel: Confirmation in the wild using hundreds of robotic prey', Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 288, pp. 20210706,

Journal articles | 2021

Ord TJ; Klomp DA; Summers TC; Diesmos A; Ahmad N; Das I, 2021, 'Deep-time convergent evolution in animal communication presented by shared adaptations for coping with noise in lizards and other animals', Ecology Letters, 24, pp. 1750 - 1761,

Journal articles | 2021

Ord TJ, 2021, 'Costs of territoriality: a review of hypotheses, meta-analysis, and field study', Oecologia, 197, pp. 615 - 631,

Journal articles | 2020

Ord TJ; Garcia-Porta J; Querejeta M; Collar DC, 2020, 'Gliding dragons and flying squirrels: Diversifying versus stabilizing selection on morphology following the evolution of an innovation', American Naturalist, 195, pp. E51 - E66,

Journal articles | 2020

Ord TJ; Hundt PJ, 2020, 'Crossing extreme habitat boundaries: Jack-of-all-trades facilitates invasion but is eroded by adaptation to a master-of-one', Functional Ecology, 34, pp. 1404 - 1415,

Journal articles | 2018

Cortesi F; Cheney KL; Cooke GM; Ord TJ, 2018, 'Opsin gene evolution in amphibious and terrestrial combtooth blennies (Blenniidae)', , pp. 503516,

Journal articles | 2018

Medina I; Cooke GM; Ord TJ, 2018, 'Walk, swim or fly? Locomotor mode predicts genetic differentiation in vertebrates', Ecology Letters, 21, pp. 638 - 645,

Journal articles | 2017

Klomp DA; Stuart-Fox D; Cassidy EJ; Ahmad N; Ord TJ, 2017, 'Color pattern facilitates species recognition but not signal detection: A field test using robots', Behavioral Ecology, 28, pp. 597 - 606,

Journal articles | 2017

Klomp DA; Stuart-Fox D; Das I; Ord TJ, 2017, 'Gliding lizards use the position of the sun to enhance social display', Biology Letters, 13,

Journal articles | 2017

Klomp DA; Stuart-Fox D; Das I; Ord TJ, 2017, 'Gliding lizards use the position of the sun to enhance social display', Biology Letters, 13,

Journal articles | 2017

Ord TJ; Emblen J; Hagman M; Shofner R; Unruh S, 2017, 'Manipulation of habitat isolation and area implicates deterministic factors and limited neutrality in community assembly', Ecology and Evolution, 7, pp. 5845 - 5860,

Journal articles | 2017

Ord TJ; Stamps JA, 2017, 'Why does the rate of signal production in ectotherms vary with temperature?', Behavioral Ecology, 28, pp. 1272 - 1282,

Journal articles | 2017

Ord TJ; Summers TC; Noble MM; Fulton CJ, 2017, 'Ecological release from aquatic predation is associated with the emergence of marine blenny fishes onto land', American Naturalist, 189, pp. 570 - 579,

Journal articles | 2016

Cooke GM; Schlub TE; Sherwin WB; Ord TJ, 2016, 'Understanding the spatial scale of genetic connectivity at sea: Unique insights from a land fish and a meta-analysis', Plos One, 11, pp. e0150991,

Journal articles | 2016

Hagman M; Ord TJ, 2016, 'Many paths to a common destination: Morphological differentiation of a functionally convergent visual signal', American Naturalist, 188, pp. 306 - 318,

Journal articles | 2016

Klomp DA; Ord TJ; Das I; Diesmos A; Ahmad N; Stuart-Fox D, 2016, 'Ornament size and colour as alternative strategies for effective communication in gliding lizards', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 29, pp. 1689 - 1700,

Journal articles | 2016

Ord TJ; Charles GK; Palmer M; Stamps JA, 2016, 'Plasticity in social communication and its implications for the colonization of novel habitats', Behavioral Ecology, 27, pp. 341 - 351,

Journal articles | 2016

Ord TJ; Cooke GM, 2016, 'Repeated evolution of amphibious behavior in fish and its implications for the colonization of novel environments', Evolution International Journal of Organic Evolution, 70, pp. 1747 - 1759,

Journal articles | 2016

Platt ERM; Fowler AM; Ord TJ, 2016, 'Land colonisation by fish is associated with predictable changes in life history', Oecologia, 181, pp. 769 - 781,

Journal articles | 2016

Tucker MA; Ord TJ; Rogers TL, 2016, 'Revisiting the cost of carnivory in mammals', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 29, pp. 2181 - 2190,

Journal articles | 2015

Clark DL; Macedonia JM; Rowe JW; Stuart MA; Kemp DJ; Ord TJ, 2015, 'Evolution of displays in Galápagos lava lizards: Comparative analyses of signallers and robot playbacks to receivers', Animal Behaviour, 109, pp. 33 - 44,

Journal articles | 2015

Ord TJ; Klomp DA; Garcia-Porta J; Hagman M, 2015, 'Repeated evolution of exaggerated dewlaps and other throat morphology in lizards', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 28, pp. 1948 - 1964,

Journal articles | 2015

Ord TJ; Summers TC, 2015, 'Repeated evolution and the impact of evolutionary history on adaptation Evolutionary Ecology and Behaviour', BMC Evolutionary Biology, 15, pp. 137,

Journal articles | 2015

Platt ERM; Ord TJ, 2015, 'Population variation in the life history of a land fish, alticus arnoldorum, and the effects of predation and density', Plos One, 10, pp. e0137244,

Journal articles | 2014

Klomp DA; Stuart-Fox D; Das I; Ord TJ, 2014, 'Marked colour divergence in the gliding membranes of a tropical lizard mirrors population differences in the colour of falling leaves', Biology Letters, 10,

Journal articles | 2014

Morgans CL; Cooke GM; Ord TJ, 2014, 'How populations differentiate despite gene flow: Sexual and natural selection drive phenotypic divergence within a land fish, the Pacific leaping blenny', BMC Evolutionary Biology, 14, pp. 97,

Journal articles | 2014

Ord TJ; Klomp DA, 2014, 'Habitat partitioning and morphological differentiation: The Southeast Asian Draco lizards and Caribbean Anolis lizards compared', Oecologia, 175, pp. 651 - 666,

Journal articles | 2014

Tucker MA; Ord TJ; Rogers TL, 2014, 'Evolutionary predictors of mammalian home range size: Body mass, diet and the environment', Global Ecology and Biogeography, 23, pp. 1105 - 1114,

Journal articles | 2013

Garcia-Porta J; Ord TJ, 2013, 'Key innovations and island colonization as engines of evolutionary diversification: A comparative test with the Australasian diplodactyloid geckos', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 26, pp. 2662 - 2680,

Journal articles | 2013

Morgans CL; Ord TJ, 2013, 'Natural selection in novel environments: Predation selects for background matching in the body colour of a land fish', Animal Behaviour, 86, pp. 1241 - 1249,

Journal articles | 2013

Ord TJ; Collar DC; Sanger TJ, 2013, 'The biomechanical basis of evolutionary change in a territorial display', Functional Ecology, 27, pp. 1186 - 1200,

Journal articles | 2012

Charles GK; Ord T, 2012, 'Factors leading to the evolution and maintenance of a male ornament in territorial species', Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 66, pp. 231 - 239,

Journal articles | 2012

Freeberg T; Dunbar RIM; Ord T, 2012, 'Social complexity as a proximate and ultimate factor in communicative complexity', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 367, pp. 1785 - 1801,

Journal articles | 2012

Freeberg T; Ord T; Dunbar RIM, 2012, 'The social network and communicative complexity: preface to theme issue', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 316, pp. 1782 - 1784,

Journal articles | 2012

Ord T; Garcia-porta J, 2012, 'Is sociality required for the evolution of communicative complexity? Evidence weighed against alternative hypotheses in diverse taxonomic groups', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 316, pp. 1811 - 1828,

Journal articles | 2012

Ord T; Mowles SL, 2012, 'Repetitive signals and mate choice: insights from contest theory', Animal Behaviour, 84, pp. 295 - 304,

Journal articles | 2012

Ord T, 2012, 'Historical contingency and behavioural divergence in territorial Anolis lizards', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 25, pp. 2047 - 2055,

Journal articles | 2012

Ord T, 2012, 'Receiver perception predicts species divergence in long-range communication', Animal Behaviour, 83, pp. 3 - 10,

Journal articles | 2011

Ord T; Charles GK; Hofer RK, 2011, 'The evolution of alternative adaptive strategies for effective communication in noisy environments', American Naturalist, 177, pp. 54 - 64,

Journal articles | 2011

Ord T; King L; Young AM, 2011, 'Contrasting theory with the empirical data of species recognition', Evolution, 65, pp. 2572 - 2591,

Journal articles | 2011

Ord T; Tonia hsieh S, 2011, 'A highly social, land-dwelling fish defends territories in a constantly fluctuating environment', Ethology, 117, pp. 918 - 927,

Journal articles | 2010

Clusas B; Ord T; Owings DH, 2010, 'Fossils and phylogeny uncover the evolutionary history of a unique antipredator behaviour', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 23, pp. 2197 - 2211,

Journal articles | 2010

Ord T; Stamps JA; Losos JB, 2010, 'Adaptation and plasticity of animal communication in fluctuating environments', Evolution, 64, pp. 3134 - 3148,

Journal articles | 2010

Ord TJ; Stamps JA; Losos JB, 2010, 'Adaptation and plasticity of animal communication in fluctuating environments', Evolution, 64, pp. 3134 - 3148,

Journal articles | 2009

Ord T; Stamps JA, 2009, 'Species Identity Cues in Animal Communication', American Naturalist, 174, pp. 585 - 593,

Journal articles | 2008

Ord T; Stamps JA, 2008, 'Alert signals enhance animal communication in “noisy” environments', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105, pp. 18830 - 18835,

Journal articles | 2008

Ord T, 2008, 'Dawn and Dusk "Chorus" in Visually Communicating Jamaican Anole Lizards', American Naturalist, 172, pp. 585 - 592,

Journal articles | 2007

Ord T; Peters RA; Clusas B; Stamps JA, 2007, 'Lizards speed up visual displays in noisy motion habitats', Proceedings of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences, 274, pp. 1057 - 1062,

Journal articles | 2007

Ord TJ; Peters RA; Clucas B; Stamps JA, 2007, 'Lizards speed up visual displays in noisy motion habitats', Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 274, pp. 1057 - 1062,

Journal articles | 2006

Martins EP; Ord T; Slaven J; Wright JL; Houseworth EA, 2006, 'Individual, sexual, seasonal, and temporal variation in the amount of sagebrush lizard scent marks', Journal of Chemical Ecology, 32, pp. 881 - 893

Journal articles | 2006

Ord T; Martins EP, 2006, 'Tracing the origins of signal diversity in anole lizards: phylogenetic approaches to inferring the evolution of complex behaviour', Animal Behaviour, 71, pp. 1411 - 1429

Journal articles | 2006

Ord T; Stuart-Fox D, 2006, 'Ornament evolution in dragon lizards: multiple gains and widespread losses reveal a complex history of evolutionary change', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 19, pp. 797 - 808

Journal articles | 2004

Stuart-Fox DM; Ord TJ, 2004, 'Sexual selection, natural selection and the evolution of dimorphic coloration and ornamentation in agamid lizards', Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 271, pp. 2249 - 2255,

Journal articles | 2004

Thakur S; Börner K; Mane K; Martins E; Ord T, 2004, 'Content coverage of animal behavior data', Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering, 5295, pp. 305 - 311,

Journal articles | 2003

Ord TJ; Evans CS, 2003, 'Display rate and opponent assessment in the Jacky dragon (Amphibolurus muricatus): An experimental analysis', Behaviour, 140, pp. 1495 - 1508,

Journal articles | 2003

Peters RA; Ord TJ, 2003, 'Display response of the Jacky Dragon, Amphibolurus muricatus (Lacertilia: Agamidae), to intruders: A semi-Markovian process', Austral Ecology, 28, pp. 499 - 506,

Journal articles | 2002

Ord TJ; Blumstein DT; Evans CS, 2002, 'Ecology and signal evolution in lizards', Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 77, pp. 127 - 148,

Journal articles | 2002

Ord TJ; Blumstein DT, 2002, 'Size constraints and the evolution of display complexity: Why do large lizards have simple displays?', Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 76, pp. 145 - 161,

Journal articles | 2002

Ord TJ; Evans CS, 2002, 'Interactive video playback and opponent assessment in lizards', Behavioural Processes, 59, pp. 55 - 65,

Journal articles | 2002

Ord TJ; Peters RA; Evans CS; Taylor AJ, 2002, 'Digital video playback and visual communication in lizards', Animal Behaviour, 63, pp. 879 - 890,

Journal articles | 2001

Ord TJ; Blumstein DT; Evans CS, 2001, 'Intrasexual selection predicts the evolution of signal complexity in lizards', Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 268, pp. 737 - 744,

Journal articles | 2001

Ord TJ; Dangerfield JM, 2001, 'Implications of paradoxomatid millipede density and dispersion for faecal pellet production in Eucalyptus woodland of eastern Australia', General and Applied Entomology, 30, pp. 1 - 10,

Journal articles | 1999

Ord TJ; Evans CS; Cooper DW, 1999, 'Nocturnal behaviour of the parma wallaby, Macropus parma (Marsupialia: Macropodoidea)', Australian Journal of Zoology, 47, pp. 155 - 167,
Preprints | 2018

Cortesi F; Cheney KL; Cooke GM; Ord TJ, 2018, Opsin gene evolution in amphibious and terrestrial combtooth blennies (Blenniidae),

Conference Papers | 2009

Ord TJ; Stamps JA, 2009, 'Studying cues for species identification using robotic lizards in the field', in INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY, OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, MA, Boston, pp. E126 - E126, presented at Annual Meeting of the Society-for-Integrative-and-Comparative-Biology, MA, Boston, 03 January 2009 - 07 January 2009,

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