Invited Book Chapters
Kemp DJ, Rutowski RL (In Review) The Role of Coloration in Mate Choice and Sexual Interations in Butterflies. In: "Advances in the Study of Behaviour". Vol. 41. Elsevier Press.
Kemp DJ, Grenther GF (In Press) In: Irschick DJ, Briffa M, Podos N (Eds). "Animal Signalling: Functional and Evolutionary Perspectives". John Wiley and Sons.
Scientific Journal Articles
2010
Barry KL, Holwell GI, Herberstein ME (2010) A paternity advantage for speedy males? Sperm precedence patterns and female remating frequencies in a sexually cannibalistic praying mantid Evolutionary Ecology (In Press).
Barry KL, Kokko H (2010) Male mate choice: why sequential choice makes its evolution difficult Animal Behaviour (In Press).
Barry KL (2010) Influence of female nutritional status on mating dynamics in a sexually cannibalistic praying mantid. Animal Behaviour (In Press).
Barry KL, Holwell GI, Herberstein ME (2010) Multimodal mate assessment by male praying mantids in a sexually cannibalistic mating system. Animal Behaviour 79:1165-1172.
Maxwell MR, Barry KL, Johns PM (2010) Examination of female pheromone use in two praying mantids, Stagmomantis limbata and Tenodera aridifolia sinensis. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 100:108-114.
Kemp DJ, Reznick DN, Grether GF, Endler JA (2009) Predicting the direction of ornament evolution in Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (B) 276:4335-4343.
Barry KL, Holwell GI, Herberstein ME (2009) Male mating behaviour reduces the risk of sexual cannibalism in an Australian praying mantid. Journal of Ethology 27:377-383
Giffney RA, Russell T, Kohen JL (2009) Age of road-killed common brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula) and common ringtail possums (Pseudocheirus peregrinus) in an urban environment Australian Mammalogy 31:137-142.
Macedonia JM, Lappin AK, Loew ER, Mcguire JA, Hamilton PS, Plasman M, Brandt Y, Lemos-Espinal JA, Kemp DJ (2009) Conspicuousness of Dickerson’s Collared Lizard (Crotaphytus dickersonae) Through the Eyes of Conspecifics and Predators. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 97:749-765.
2008
Kemp DJ (2008) Resource-mediated condition dependence in sexually dichromatic butterfly wing colouration. Evolution 62:2346-2358.
Kemp DJ (2008) Female mating biases for bright ultraviolet iridescence in the butterfly Eurema hecabe (Pieridae). Behavioral Ecology 19:1-9.
Barry KL, Holwell GI, Herberstein ME (2008) Female praying mantids use sexual cannibalism as a foraging strategy to increase fecundity. Behavioral Ecology 19:710-715
Kemp DJ, Macedonia JM, Ball TS, Rutowski RL (2008) Potential direct fitness consequences of ornament-based mate choice in a butterfly. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 62:1017-1026.
Kemp DJ, Alcock J (2008) Aerial contests, sexual selection and flight morphology in solitary pompilid wasps. Ethology 114:195-202.
Kemp DJ, Reznick DN, Grether GF (2008) Ornamental evolution in Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata): insights from sensory processing-based analyses of entire color patterns. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 95:734-747.
Friberg M, Vongvanich N, Borg-Karlsson A, Kemp DJ, Wiklund C (2008) Female choice determines reproductive isolation between sympatric butterflies. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 62:873-886.
2007
Kemp DJ, Rutowski RL (2007) Condition-dependence, quantitative genetics and the potential signal content of iridescent ultraviolet butterfly coloration. Evolution 61:168-183.
Kemp DJ (2007) Female butterflies prefer males bearing bright iridescent ornamentation. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (B) 274:1043-1047.
Kemp DJ, Macedonia JM (2007) Male mating bias and its potential reproductive consequence in the butterfly Colias eurytheme. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 61:415-422.
Papke RS, Kemp DJ, Rutowski RL (2007) Multimodal signaling: structural ultraviolet reflectance predicts male mating success better than pheromones in the butterfly Colias eurytheme L. (Pieridae). Animal Behaviour 73:47-54.
Bergman M, Gotthard K, Berger D, Olofsson M, Kemp DJ, Wiklund C (2007) Mating success of resident versus non-resident males in a territorial butterfly. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (B) 274:1659-1665.
Holwell GI, Barry KL, Herberstein ME (2007) Mate location, antennal morphology and ecology in two praying mantids (Insecta: Mantodea). Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society 91: 307-313
Rutowski RL, Macedonia JM, Merry JW, Morehouse N, Yturralde K, Taylor-Taft L, Gaalema D, Kemp DJ, Papke RS (2007) Iridescent ultraviolet signalling in the orange sulphur butterfly (Colias eurytheme): spatial, temporal and spectral properties. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 90:349-364.
Bertram S, Kemp DJ, Johnson JS, Orozco SX, Gorelick R (2007) Heritability of acoustic signalling time in the Texas field cricket (Gryllus texensis). Evolutionary Ecology Research 9:975-986.
Rutowski RL, Macedonia JM, Kemp DJ, Taylor-Taft, L (2007) Diversity in structural ultraviolet coloration among female sulphur butterflies (Coliadinae, Pieridae). Arthropod Structure and Development 36:280-290.
2006
Kemp DJ, Vukusic P, Rutowski RL (2006) Stress-mediated covariance between nano-structural architecture and ultraviolet butterfly iridescence. Functional Ecology 20:282-289.
Kemp DJ, Alcock J, Allen GR (2006) Sequential size assessment and multi-component decision rules mediate aerial wasp contests. Animal Behaviour 71:279-287.
Barry KL, Goth A (2006) Call recognition in chicks of the Australian brush-turkey (Alectura lathami). Animal Cognition 9:47-54.
Kemp DJ, Wiklund C, Van Dyck H (2006) Contest behaviour in the speckled wood butterfly: seasonal phenotypic plasticity and the functional significance of flight performance. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 59:403-411.
Kemp DJ (2006) Ageing, reproductive value and the evolution of lifetime fighting behaviour. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 88:565-578.
Kemp DJ, Wiklund C, Gotthard K (2006) Life history effects upon contest behaviour: age as a predictor of territorial contest dynamics in two populations of the speckled wood butterfly, Pararge aegeria L. Ethology 112:471-477.
Kemp DJ (2006) Heightened phenotypic variation and age-based fading of ultraviolet butterfly wing coloration. Evolutionary Ecology Research 8:515-527.
Kemp DJ, Macedonia JM (2006) Structural ultraviolet ornamentation in the butterfly Hypolimnas bolina L. (Nymphalidae): visual, morphological and ecological properties. Australian Journal of Zoology 54:235-244.
Kemp DJ (2006) Ultraviolet ornamentation and male mating success in a high-density assemblage of the butterfly Colias eurytheme. Journal of Insect Behavior 19:669-684.
Lappin AK, Brandt Y, Husak GF, Macedonia JM, Kemp DJ (2006) Gaping displays reveal and amplify a mechanically-based index of weapon performance. The American Naturalist 168:100-113.
Alcock J, Kemp DJ (2006) The hilltopping mating system of Leschenaultia adusta (Loew) (Diptera: Tachinidae). Journal of Insect Behavior 19:645-656.
Alcock J, Kemp DJ (2006) The Significance of Variation in Male Body Size in the Tarantula Hawk Wasp Hemipepsis ustulata (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Ethology 112:691-698.
2005
Kemp DJ, Rutowski RL, Mendoza M (2005) Color pattern evolution in butterflies: a phylogenetic analysis of structural ultraviolet and melanic markings in North American sulphurs. Evolutionary Ecology Research 7:133–141.
Kemp DJ (2005) Contrasting lifetime patterns of territorial success in the nymphalid butterflies Hypolimnas bolina and Melanitis leda: a question of flight physiology? Australian Journal of Zoology 53:361-367.
Herberstein ME, Barry KL, Turoczy MA, Wills E, Youssef C, Elgar MA (2005) Post-copulation mate guarding in the sexually cannibalistic St Andrew’s Cross spider (Araneae, Araneidae). Ethology Ecology & Evolution 17:17-26.
Alcock J, Kemp DJ (2005) The scramble competition mating system of the sphecid wasp, Palmodes praestans (Kohl). Journal of Natural History 39:2809–2814.
Merry JW, Kemp DJ, Bertram SM, Rutowski RL (2005) Butterfly growth and development: The role of phosphorus. Integrative and Comparative Biology 45:1167-1167.
2004
Kemp DJ, Wiklund C (2004) Residency effects in animal contests. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (B) 271:1707–1711.
Kemp DJ, Krockenberger AK (2004) Behavioural thermoregulation in butterflies: the interacting effects of body size and basking posture in Hypolimnas bolina (L.) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 52:229–236.
Kemp DJ, Rutowski RL (2004) A survival cost to mating in the polyandrous butterfly Colias eurytheme. Oikos 105:65-70.
Alcock J, Kemp DJ (2004) Long term consistency in the mating system of the landmark defending fly Cuterebra austeni (Diptera: Cuterebridae). Journal of Insect Behavior 17:273–280.
Merry JW, Kemp DJ, Scow AM, Rutowski RL (2004) The effects of family and larval hostplant quality on vision in the orange sulphur butterfly, Colias eurytheme. Integrative and Comparative Biology 44: 603-603.
2003
Kemp DJ, Alcock J (2003) Lifetime resource utilization, flight physiology and the evolution of contest competition in territorial insects. The American Naturalist 162:290-301.
Kemp DJ (2003) Twilight fighting in the evening brown butterfly, Melanitis leda (L.) (Nymphalidae): residency and age effects. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 54:7-13.
2002
Kemp DJ (2002) Sexual selection constrained by life history in a butterfly. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (B) 269:1341–1345.
Kemp DJ (2002) Butterfly contests and flight physiology: why do older males fight harder? Behavioral Ecology 13:456–461.
Kemp DJ (2002) Shedding new light on nature’s brightest signals. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 17:298–300.
Kemp DJ, Krockenberger AK (2002) A novel method of behavioural thermoregulation in butterflies. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 15:922–929.
Kemp DJ (2002) Visual mate searching behaviour in the evening brown butterfly, Melanitis leda (L.)(Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Australian Journal of Entomology 41:300–305.
2001
Kemp DJ, Wiklund C (2001) Fighting without weaponry: a review of male-male contest competition in butterflies. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 49:429–442.
Brooks R, Kemp DJ (2001) Can old males deliver the good genes? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 16:308–313.
Kemp DJ (2001) The ecology of female receptivity in the territorial butterfly Hypolimnas bolina (L.): implications for mate location by males.
Australian Journal of Zoology 49:203–211.
Kemp DJ, Rutowski RL (2001) Spatial and temporal patterns of territorial mate locating behaviour in Hypolimnas bolina (L.)(Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Journal of Natural History 35:1399–1411.
Hardy ICW, Kemp DJ (2001) Skink skirmishes: why do owners win? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 16:174-174.
Kemp DJ (2001) Reproductive seasonality in the tropical butterfly Hypolimnas bolina (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in northern Australia. Journal of Tropical Ecology 17:1–12.
Kemp DJ (2001) Age-related site fidelity in a territorial butterfly, Hypolimnas bolina (L.) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Australian Journal of Entomology 40:65–68.
Kemp DJ, Jones RE (2001) Phenotypic plasticity in field populations of the tropical butterfly Hypolimnas bolina (L.) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 72:33–45.
Kemp DJ (2001) Investigating the correlates of behavioral plasticity in the territorial butterfly Hypolimnas bolina. Journal of Insect Behavior 14:129–147.
2000
Kemp DJ (2000) Contest behaviour in territorial male butterflies: Does size matter? Behavioral Ecology 11:591–596.
Kemp DJ (2000) Butterfly contests: neither paradoxical nor contradictory? Animal Behaviour 60:F44-F46.
Kemp DJ (2000) The basis of life history plasticity in Hypolimnas bolina (L.) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 48:67–78.
Pre-2000
Kemp DJ, Zalucki MP (1999) Method of handling affects post-marking encounter probabilities in Hypolimnas bolina (L.) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 53:138–141.
Kemp DJ (1998) Oviposition behaviour of post-diapause Hypolimnas bolina (L.) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in tropical Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 46:451–459.
Conference Publications
Kemp DJ, Jones DW (2010) Oral Presentation: “Is brighter always better? Iridescent colour-based mate selection in Hypolimnas butterflies”, presented at: Australian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour annual conference, Narrabri, 6-10 April 2010.
Giffney RA, Kemp DJ, Herberstein M (2010) “Mating behaviour and colour-based mate choice in the cotton harlequin bug (Tectocoris diopthalmus)”, poster presented at the Australian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour annual conference, Narrabri, 6-10 April 2010.
Fabricant S, Herberstein M, Kemp DJ (2010) “Structural colouration as a multicomponent signal in the Hibiscus Harlequin Bug”, poster presented at the Australian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour annual conference, Narrabri, 6-10 April 2010.
Rutowski RL, Merry J, Yturralde, K and Kemp DJ (2002) Iridescence in butterflies: temporal and spatial structure of directional signals produced by flying butterflies. In: Abstracts of the 9th Biennial Congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology, held Université du Québec á Montréal, Canada. 7-12 July 2002.
Kemp DJ (2008) Oral presentation: “The evolution of structural coloration in butterflies: sexual selection, sexual dimorphism and condition dependence”, presented at: “Iridescence: More than meets the eye” School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, 6-11 Feb 2008.
Kemp DJ (2007) “Bright ultraviolet signals and sexual selection in butterflies”, presented at “Evolution 2007”, joint meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, American Society of Naturalists & Society of Systematic Biologists, Christchurch, 16-20 June 2007.
Kemp DJ (2007) Oral presentation, “Bright ultraviolet signals and sexual selection in butterflies”, presented at the Australasian Evolution Society Biennial meeting, University of New South Wales, Sydney 12-15 June 2007.
Kemp DJ (2002) Butterfly contests: lessons in sexual selection and life history. In: Proceedings of the XIII European Congress of Lepidopterology, Held Korsør, Denmark. 1-6 June, 2002.
Kemp DJ (2001) Sexual selection constrained by life history in a butterfly. In: Proceedings of the Australasian Evolution Society conference, held University of Melbourne. 16-18 July, 2001.
Kemp DJ (1999) Factors affecting the outcome of territorial contests in male butterflies: does size matter? In: Proceedings of the ASAB Easter meeting, held University of Newcastle, UK. 29-31 March, 1999.
Kemp DJ (1998) Factors related to the outcome of territorial disputes amongst male Hypolimnas bolina (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). In: Proceedings of the Australian Entomological Society scientific conference, held University of Queensland, Brisbane. 26-29 September, 1998.
Douglas J, Gooley G, Kemp DJ and Ingram B (1998) Assessment of the ecosystem health of three Murray River Anabranches. Technical Report Series, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Melbourne.
Kemp DJ and Gooley GJ (1996) Development and validation of an index to quantify the condition of stream habitat. In: Proceedings of the World Fisheries Conference, Brisbane. September, 1996.
Popular Press Articles
Kemp DJ (2007) Pretty boys and picky girls: The evolution of butterfly brightness. Australasian Science Nov/Dec 2007: 28-30.
Kemp DJ (2003) Brilliance on the wing. Nature Australia 27:52–61.
Rutowski RL and Kemp DJ (2002) Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch…a Butterfly? American Butterflies 10(3):30–36.
Kemp DJ (2000) Sex Butterfly Style. Nature Australia 26:38–45.
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