Projects

Social niche conformance in a rodent: When, how and why

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

Genetic and phenotypic characterisation of immunological niche conformance in cavefish

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

Social niche conformance and social niche transition during adolescence and beyond: effects on biobehavioural profiles and fitness

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

Male sexual competition as a social niche dimension: adaptive niche conformance and its proximate mechanisms in a species with male parental care

Social niche-mediated reproductive phenotypes.

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

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

Proximate and ultimate mechanisms of social niche construction during colony founding in the ant Pogonomyrmex californicus

Niche construction consequences of parasite virulence in eco-evolutionary dynamics

The role of niche construction and evolutionary capacitance for evolvability in the Red Flour Beetle, Tribolium castaneum

Fitness consequences of niche choice and niche construction: nest site selection and architecture, parasite load and survival in Common Buzzard

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

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

Individual-based research: concepts, epistemology and integration

Individualised niches in a variable environment – Consequences for environmental change responses 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

Function and fitness in individual niches - Conceptual and explanatory issues

The ontological status of individualised niches

Local population density as a key dimension of the individualised niche: An eco-evolutionary modelling approach

Modelling the evolution of individual differences in niche choice, niche conformance, and niche construction

The behavioural ecology of individualised niches in the light of meta-analyses

Statistical inference on niche choices based on behavioural time series data

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