SFB-TRR 212

Social niche conformance: When, how and why

Niche conformance in a holometabolous invertebrate: Adjustments of behavioural, physiological and chemical phenotypes and fitness consequences

Genetic and phenotypic characterization of immunological niche conformance in cavefish

Niche conformance as a mediator of niche choice in Galápagos sea lions

The role of niche construction and evolutionary capacitance for evolvability in the red flour beetle

Effect of niche choice on host-parasite interactions of common buzzards

Proximate and ultimate mechanisms of social niche choice and construction during colony founding in the ant P. californicus

Niche construction consequences of parasite virulence in eco-evolutionary dynamics

The role of individual internal states in niche choice, niche construction and behavioral niche conformance

Individual-based research: concepts, epistemology and integration

Consequences of individualised niches in a changing environment and for species interactions

Armament, hunger, and mating: How competition can drive individual variation

Individual niche specialisation in the light of evidence synthesis

Uncovering complex behavioural niche mechanisms from individual-level ecological time series

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