Publications (since 1987)
BOOKS
ARTICLES
- 2009c M. Mesterton-Gibbons. Game Theory. In
Evolution: The First Four Billion Years
(M. Ruse and J.L. Travis, eds), Harvard University Press. In press
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- 2009b M. Mesterton-Gibbons and T. N. Sherratt. Animal network phenomena: insights from triadic games.
Complexity,
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- 2009a M. Mesterton-Gibbons and T. N. Sherratt. Neighbor intervention: a game-theoretic
model. Journal of Theoretical Biology 256, 263-275
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- 2007b M. Mesterton-Gibbons and T. N. Sherratt. Social eavesdropping: a game-theoretic analysis.
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 69, 1255-1276
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- 2007a M. Mesterton-Gibbons and T. N.
Sherratt. Coalition formation: a game-theoretic analysis.
Behavioral Ecology 18, 277-286
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- 2006b M. Mesterton-Gibbons, I.C.W. Hardy and J. Field. The effect of differential survivorship
on the stability of reproductive queueing. Journal of Theoretical
Biology
242, 699-712
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- 2006a M. Mesterton-Gibbons and T. N. Sherratt. Victory displays: a game-theoretic analysis. Behavioral Ecology
17, 597-605
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- 2004 M. Mesterton-Gibbons and I.C.W. Hardy.
The influence of contests on optimal
clutch size: a game-theoretic model.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 271,
791-798
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- 2003b E.S. Adams
and M. Mesterton-Gibbons.
Lanchester's attrition models and fights among social animals.
Behavioral Ecology 14, 719-723
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- 2003a M. Mesterton-Gibbons and E.S. Adams.
Landmarks in territory partitioning: a strategically stable convention?
American Naturalist 161, 685-697
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- 2002 M. Mesterton-Gibbons and E.S. Adams. The economics of animal cooperation.
Science 298, 2146-2147
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- 2001b M. Mesterton-Gibbons and E.S. Adams.
Animal contests as evolutionary games. In Exploring Animal Behavior:
Readings from American Scientist, 3rd edition (P. W. Sherman and J.
Alcock, eds), pp. 256-263. Sinauer: Sunderland, Massachusetts. Reprint of
1998a
- 2001a M. Mesterton-Gibbons and I.C.W. Hardy. A polymorphic effect of sexually differential production costs when one
parent controls the sex ratio.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 268, 1429-1434
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- 2000d M. Mesterton-Gibbons. Reply from M. Mesterton-Gibbons.
Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15, 329
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- 2000c M. Mesterton-Gibbons. Reply from M. Mesterton-Gibbons.
Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15, 204-205
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- 2000b M. Mesterton-Gibbons. A consistent equation for ecological
sensitivity in matrix population analysis.
Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15, 115
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- 2000a M. Mesterton-Gibbons and E.J. Milner-Gulland. Conserving African wildlife: modeling issues.
Natural Resource Modeling 13, 5-11
- 1999e M. Mesterton-Gibbons. On the
evolution of pure winner and loser effects: a game-theoretic model.
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 61, 1151-1186
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- 1999d M. Mesterton-Gibbons. Game Theory. Section 15.5 (pp.
1016-1028) of CRC Handbook of Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics, ed. K.H. Rosen, J.G. Michaels, J.L. Gross, J.W.
Grossman & D.R. Shier, CRC Press, Boca Raton
- 1999c M. Mesterton-Gibbons and L.A. Dugatkin. On the evolution of delayed recruitment to food
bonanzas. Behavioral Ecology 10, 377-390
- 1999b M. Mesterton-Gibbons. On sperm competition games:
incomplete fertilization risk and the equity paradox.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 266, 269-274
- 1999a M. Mesterton-Gibbons. On sperm competition games:
raffles and roles revisited.
Journal of Mathematical Biology 39, 91-108
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- 1998b M. Mesterton-Gibbons and E.J. Milner-Gulland. On the strategic stability of monitoring:
Implications for cooperative wildlife management programs in Africa.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 265, 1237-1244
- 1998a M. Mesterton-Gibbons and E.S. Adams. Animal contests as evolutionary games.
American
Scientist 86, 334-341
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- 1997 M. Mesterton-Gibbons and L.A. Dugatkin. Cooperation and the prisoner's dilemma: toward testable models of
mutualism versus reciprocity. Animal Behaviour 54, 551-557
- 1996f M. Mesterton-Gibbons. A technique for finding an optimal
two-species harvesting policy. Ecological Modelling 92,
235-244
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- 1996e M. Mesterton-Gibbons. On traffic flow at a T-junction: a
sufficient condition for a left-turn lane. Mathematical and Computer
Modelling 24, No. 7, 53-57
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- 1996d M. Mesterton-Gibbons and M.J. Childress. Constraints on reciprocity for non-sessile
organisms. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 58, 861-875
- 1996c M. Mesterton-Gibbons, J.H. Marden and L.A. Dugatkin. On wars of attrition without
assessment. Journal of Theoretical Biology 181, 65-83
- 1996b M. Mesterton-Gibbons. On the war of attrition and other games
among kin. Journal of Mathematical Biology 34, 253-270
- 1996a L.A. Dugatkin and M. Mesterton-Gibbons. Cooperation among unrelated individuals: Reciprocal altruism,
byproduct mutualism and group selection in fishes. Biosystems 37, 19-30
- 1995b M. Mesterton-Gibbons and L.A. Dugatkin. Toward a theory of dominance hierarchies: effects of assessment,
group size and variation in fighting ability. Behavioral Ecology 6, 416-423
- 1995a E.S. Adams and M. Mesterton-Gibbons. The cost of threat displays and the stability of deceptive
communication. Journal of Theoretical Biology175, 405-421
- 1994b M. Mesterton-Gibbons. The comedy of the commons revisited. Rationality and Society
6, 519
- 1994a M. Mesterton-Gibbons. The Hawk-Dove game revisited: effects of continuous variation in
resource holding potential on the frequency of escalation. Evolutionary
Ecology 8, 230-247
- 1993c M. Mesterton-Gibbons. Game-theoretic resource modeling.
Natural Resource Modeling 7, 93-147
- 1993b M. Mesterton-Gibbons. Why demographic elasticities sum to one: A postscript to de Kroon
et al. Ecology 74, 2467-2468
- 1993a M. Mesterton-Gibbons. The comedy of the commons: A comment
on Wildavsky and Friedman.
Rationality and Society 5, 537-540
- 1992e M. Mesterton-Gibbons and L.A. Dugatkin. Cooperation among unrelated individuals: evolutionary
factors. Quarterly Review of Biology 67, 267-281
- 1992d M. Mesterton-Gibbons. Games nectarivores play: A perspective
on Possingham
. Ecology 73, 1913- 1915
- 1992c L.A. Dugatkin, M. Mesterton-Gibbons and A.I.
Houston. Beyond the prisoner's dilemma: toward models to discriminate
among mechanisms of cooperation in nature. Trends in Evolutionary
Ecology 7, 202-205
- 1992b M. Mesterton-Gibbons. Ecotypic variation in the asymmetric Hawk-Dove Game: When is
Bourgeois an evolutionarily stable strategy? Evolutionary Ecology 6, 198-222
- 1992a M. Mesterton-Gibbons. On the iterated prisoner's dilemma in a finite population.
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 54, 423-443
- 1991 M. Mesterton-Gibbons. An escape from the 'prisoner's dilemma'.
Journal of Mathematical
Biology 29, 251-269
- 1990 M. Mesterton-Gibbons. A game-theoretic analysis of a motorist's dilemma. Mathematical
and Computer Modelling 13, No. 2, 9-14
- 1989 M. Mesterton-Gibbons. On compromise in foraging and an experiment by Krebs et al
(1977). Journal of Mathematical Biology 27, 273-296
- 1988c M. Mesterton-Gibbons. On the optimal compromise for a dispersing parasitoid. Journal
of Mathematical Biology 26, 375-385
- 1988b M. Mesterton-Gibbons. On the optimal policy for combining harvesting of predator and
prey. Natural Resource Modeling 3, 63-90
- 1988a M. Mesterton-Gibbons. How fast can fast food be served? Mathematical and Computer Modelling
10, 405-407
- 1987b M. Mesterton-Gibbons. When does a T-junction require a left-turn lane? Mathematical and Computer Modelling 9, 625-629
- 1987a M. Mesterton-Gibbons. On the optimal policy for combined harvesting of independent
species. Natural Resource Modeling 2, 109-134
- 1999 M. Mesterton-Gibbons (ed). Environmental Games.
Natural Resource Modeling 11, No. 4
- 2000 M. Mesterton-Gibbons and E.J. Milner-Gulland (eds). Conserving
African Wildlife: Modeling Issues.
Natural Resource Modeling 13, No. 1
- 2004 Bioscience 54, 1040-1042
(Review of Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation, ed. Peter
Hammerstein, MIT Press, 2003)
- 2004 American Journal of Human Biology 16, 609-610
(Review of Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation, ed. Peter
Hammerstein, MIT Press, 2003)
- 2002 Quarterly Review of Biology 77, 237-238 (Review
of Economics in Nature: Social Dilemmas, Mate Choice and Biological
Markets, ed. Ronald Noë, Jan A.R.A.M. van Hooff & Peter
Hammerstein, Cambridge University Press, 2001)
- 2001 Animal Behaviour 61, 510-511 (Review of Game
Theory Evolving by Herbert Gintis, Princeton University Press, 2000)
- 2000 SIAM Review 42, 356-357 (Review of The Nature of
Mathematical Modeling by Neil Gershenfeld, Cambridge University Press,
1999)
- 1997 Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 59, 794-798
(Review of Control and Game-Theoretic Models of the Environment, ed.
Carlo Carraro & Jerzy A. Filar, Birkhauser, 1995)
- 1997 Zentralblatt fur Mathematik 861, 567-568 (Review
of The Theory of Moves by Steven Brams, Cambridge University Press,
1994)
- 1996 Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 58, 393-397
(Review of Frontiers in Mathematical Biology, ed. Simon A. Levin,
Springer-Verlag, 1994)
- 1994 Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 56, 1007-1008
(Review of Games of Life: Explorations in Ecology, Evolution, and
Behaviour by Karl Sigmund, Oxford University Press, 1993)
- 1993 Natural Resource Modeling 7, 89-91 (Review of
Game Equilibrium Models I-IV, ed. Reinhard Selten, Springer-Verlag,
1991)
- 1992 Natural Resource Modeling 6, 455-457 (Review of
Randomization and Monte Carlo Methods in Biology by Bryan F.J. Manly,
Chapman and Hall, 1991)
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