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Bush, Sarah L.; Dyson, Miranda L. and Halliday, Timothy R. (1996). Selective phonotaxis by males in the Majorcan midwife toad. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 263(1372) pp. 913–917.

Cooke, Julia; Araya, Yoseph; Bacon, Karen L.; Bagniewska, Joanna M.; Batty, Lesley; Bishop, Tom R.; Burns, Moya; Charalambous, Magda; Daversa, David R.; Dougherty, Liam R.; Dyson, Miranda; Fisher, Adam M.; Forman, Dan; Garcia, Cristina; Harney, Ewan; Hesselberg, Thomas; John, Elizabeth A; Knell, Rob; Maseyk, Kadmiel; Mauchline, Alice L.; Peacock, Julie; Pernetta, Angelo P.; Pritchard, Jeremy; Sutherland, William J.; Thomas, Rebecca L.; Tigar, Barbara; Wheeler, Philip; White, Rachel L.; Worsfold, Nicholas T. and Lewis, Zenobia (2021). Teaching and learning in ecology: a horizon scan of emerging challenges and solutions. Oikos, 130(1) pp. 15–28.

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Dyson, M. L.; Perez, D. M.; Curran, T.; McCullough, E. L. and Backwell, P. R. Y. (2020). The role of claw color in species recognition and mate choice in a fiddler crab. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 74, article no. 116.

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Darnell, M. Zachary; Backwell, Patricia R.Y.; Stockbridge, Jackson; Dyson, Miranda L. and Munguia, Pablo (2019). Thermal and desiccation constraints drive territory preference in fiddler crabs. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 518, article no. 151173.

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Dyson, Miranda L. and Backwell, Patricia R.Y. (2016). Alternative mating tactics and male mating success in two species of fiddler crab. Behaviour, 153(12) pp. 1403–1418.

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Dyson, Miranda L.; Rheichert, Michael S. and Halliday, Tim R. (2013). Contests in amphibians. In: Hardy, Ian and Briffa, Mark eds. Animal Contests. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 228–257.

Dyson, Miranda (2010). Courtship behaviour. In: Mills, Daniel S.; Marchant-Forde, Jeremy N.; McGreevy, Paul D.; Morton, David B.; Nicol, Christine J.; Phillips, Clive J. C.; Sandoe, Peter and Swaisgood, Ronald R. eds. The Encyclopaedia of Applied Animal Behaviour and Welfare. Oxford, UK: CAB International Publishing, pp. 145–148.

Dyson, Miranda (2008). Factors Affecting Mating Tactics in the Fiddler Crab, Uca vocans hesperiae. Ethology, 114(1) pp. 75–84.

Dyson, Miranda and Gerhardt, H. C. (2002). Decoding the frog chorus. In: Halliday, Tim and Adler, Kraig eds. The New Encyclopedia of Reptiles and Amphibians. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 92–95.

Dyson, Miranda L. (2000). Environmental variation: the effects on vertebrate mating systems with special reference to ectotherms. In: Apollonio, Marco; Festa-Bianch, Marco and Mainardi, Danilo eds. Vertebrate Mating Systems: Proceedings of the 14th Course of the International School of Ethology. The Science and Culture Series - Ethology. London: World Scientific, pp. 140–157.

Dyson, M. L.; Klump, G. M. and Gauger, B. (1998). Absolute hearing thresholds and critical masking ratios in the European barn owl: a comparison with other owls. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 182(5) pp. 695–702.

Dyson, Miranda L.; Bush, Sarah L. and Halliday, Tim R. (1998). Phonotaxis by female Majorcan midwife toads, Alytes muletensis. Behaviour, 135(2) pp. 213–230.

Dyson, Miranda L.; Henzi, S. Peter; Halliday, Timothy R. and Barrett, Louise (1998). Success breeds success in mating male reed frogs, Hyperolius marmoratus. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 265(1404) pp. 1417–1421.

Dyson, Miranda L.; Henzi, S. Peter and Passmore, Neville I. (1994). The effect of changes in the relative timing of signals during phonotaxis of the reed frog, Hyperolius marmoratus. Animal Behaviour, 48(3) pp. 679–685.

Dyson, Miranda L. and Passmore, Neville I. (1992). Effect of Intermale Spacing on Female Frequency Preferences in the Painted Reed Frog. Copeia, 1992(4) pp. 1111–1114.

Dyson, Miranda L. and Passmore, Neville I. (1992). Inter-male spacing and aggression in African Painted Reed Frogs, Hyperolius marmoratus. Ethology, 91(3) pp. 237–247.

Dyson, Miranda L.; Passmore, Neville I.; Bishop, Philip J. and Henzi, S. Peter (1992). Male behaviour and correlates of mating success in a natural population of African Painted Reed frogs (Hyperolius marmoratus). Herpetologica, 48(2) pp. 236–246.

Dyson, Miranda L. and Passmore, Neville I. (1988). The combined effect of intensity and the temporal relationship of stimuli on the phonotactic responses of female painted reed frogs Hyperolius marmoratus. Animal Behaviour, 36(5) pp. 1555–1556.

Dyson, Miranda L. and Passmore, Neville I. (1988). Two-choice phonotaxis in Hyperolius marmoratus (Anura: Hyperoliidae): the effect of temporal variation in presented stimuli. Animal Behaviour, 36(3) pp. 648–652.

Dyson, Miranda (1985). The effect of call sound pressure level on the selective phonotaxis of female Hyperolius marmoratus. South African Journal of Science, 81 pp. 209–211.

Gerhardt, H. Carl; Dyson, Miranda L. and Tanner, Steven D. (1996). Dynamic properties of advertisement calls of gray tree frogs: patterns of variability and female choice. Behavioral Ecology, 7(1) pp. 7–18.

Gerhardt, H. Carl; Dyson, Miranda L.; Tanner, Steven D. and Murphy, Christopher G. (1994). Female treefrogs do not avoid heterospecific calls as they approach conspecific calls: implications for the mechanisms of mate choice. Animal Behaviour, 47(6) pp. 1323–1332.

Henzi, S. P.; Dyson, M. L.; Piper, S. E.; Passmore, N. E. and Bishop, P. J. (1995). Chorus attendance by male and female painted reed frogs (Hyperolius marmoratus): environmental factors and selection pressures. Functional Ecology, 9(3) pp. 485–491.

Henzi, S. P.; Dyson, M. L. and Deenik, A. (1990). The relationship between altitude and group size in mountain baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus). International Journal of Primatology, 11(4) pp. 319–325.

Köppl, C.; Klump, G. M.; Taschenberger, G.; Dyson, M. and Manley, G. A. (1998). The auditory fovea of the barn owl - no correlation with enhanced frequency resolution. In: Palmer, A. R.; Rees, A.; Summerfield, A. Q. and Meddis, R. eds. Psychophysical and Physiological Advances in Hearing. London: Whurr, pp. 153–159.

Klump, G. M. and Dyson, M. L. (1997). Frequency selectivity in the barn owl (Tyto alba) measured with a masking paradigm using narrow band noise. In: From Membrane to Mind: Proceedings of the 25th Gottingen Neurobiology Conference 1997 (Elsner, Norbert and Wassle, Heinz eds.), Thieme Medical Publishers.

Lea, Jerry; Halliday, Tim. R. and Dyson, Mandy (2003). The mating strategy of Alytes muletensis: some males are less ready to mate than females. Amphibia-Reptilia, 24(2) pp. 169–180.

Lea, Jerry; Dyson, Mandy and Halliday, Timothy (2002). Phonotaxis to advertisement calls by midwife toads (Alytes muletensis) is not necessarily related to mating. Amphibia-Reptilia, 23(2) pp. 151–159.

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Lea, Jeremy; Dyson, Miranda and Halliday, Timothy (2001). Calling by male midwife toads stimulates females to maintain reproductive condition. Animal Behaviour, 61(2) pp. 373–377.

Lea, Jeremy; Halliday, Tim and Dyson, Miranda (2000). Reproductive stage and history affect the phonotactic preferences of female midwife toads, Alytes muletensis. Animal Behaviour, 60(4) pp. 423–427.

Telford, Steven R. and Dyson, Miranda L. (1990). The effect of rainfall on interclutch interval in painted reed frogs (Hyperolius marmoratus). Copeia, 1990(3) pp. 644–648.

Telford, Steven R.; Dyson, Miranda L. and Passmore, Neville I. (1989). Mate choice only occurs in small choruses of painted reed frogs Hyperolius marmoratus. Bioacoustics, 2(1) pp. 47–53.

Telford, Steven R. and Dyson, Miranda L. (1988). Some determinants of the mating system in a population of painted reed frogs (Hyperolius marmoratus). Behaviour, 106(3) pp. 265–278.