Behavioural ecology
Our research in behavioural ecology focuses on understanding how individual animals and populations function and how selection acts on fitness, using a range of different behavioural and life history traits. Our main study organisms are birds and fish.
Topics
- Animal cooperation
- Animal cognition
- Animal personality
- Sexual selection
- Social behaviour
Projects
- Behavioural and ecological determinants of social strategies in great tits
- Social organization and vocal communication in wild zebra finches
- The influence of habitat quality on Personality in great tits (Parus major)
- The evolution of social behaviour under predation pressure: an experimental approach in guppies (Poecilia reticulata)
- Behavioral innovation promotes population expansion in great tits: Behavioral and epigenetic mechanisms
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Research themes
Behavioural ecology
Our research in behavioural ecology focuses on understanding how individual animals and populations function and how selection acts on fitness, using a range of different behavioural and life history traits. Our main study organisms are birds and fish.
Conservation biology
Our research in conservation biology encompasses several projects. Part of our work includes the use of animal conditioning interventions to reduce human-wildlife conflicts, which can provide valuable insights for policy and management decisions.
Companion animal behaviour
At the Behavioural Ecology group we are interested in a variety of topics linked to the ecology, behaviour and cognition of both cats and dogs. We study cats living at Carus as well as pet dogs living in the Netherlands and free-ranging dogs living in Morocco.
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