Student Publications

Afify, A. F. A.; Galizia, C. G.: Chemosensory cues for mosquito oviposition site selection. Journal of Medical Entomology 52 (2), pp. 120 - 130 (2015)

Araya-Ajoy, Y. G.; Mathot, K. J.; Dingemanse, N. J.: An approach to estimate short-term, long-term, and reaction norm repeatability. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 6 (12), pp. 1462 - 1473 (2015)

Bulla, M.; Cresswell, W.; Rutten, A. L.; Valcu, M.; Kempenaers, B.: Biparental incubation-scheduling: No experimental evidence for major energetic constraints. Behavioral Ecology 26 (1), pp. 30 - 37 (2015)

Bulla, M.; Stich, E.; Valcu, M.; Kempenaers, B.: Off-nest behaviour in a biparentally incubating shorebird varies with sex, time of day and weather. Ibis 157 (3), pp. 575 - 589 (2015)

Dominoni, D. M.; Partecke, J.: Does light pollution alter daylength? A test using light loggers on free-ranging European blackbirds (Turdus merula). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 370 (1667), 20140118 (2015)

Dominoni, D. M.; Van't Hof, T. J.; Partecke, J.: Social cues are unlikely to be the single cause for early reproduction in urban European blackbirds (Turdus merula). Physiology & Behavior 142, pp. 14 - 19 (2015)

Ihle, M.; Kempenaers, B.; Forstmeier, W.: Fitness benefits of mate choice for compatibility in a socially monogamous species. PLoS Biology 13 (9), e1002248 (2015)

Jax, E.; Marín, S.; Rodríguez-Ferraro, A.; Isasi-Catalá, E.: Habitat use and relative abundance of the Spotted Paca Cuniculus paca (Linnaeus, 1766) (Rodentia: Cuniculidae) and the Red-rumped Agouti Dasyprocta leporina (Linnaeus, 1758) (Rodentia: Dasyproctidae) in Guatopo National Park, Venezuela. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7, pp. 6739 - 6749 (2015)

Knief, U.; Hemmrich-Stanisak, G.; Wittig, M.; Franke, A.; Griffith, S. C.; Kempenaers, B.; Forstmeier, W.: Quantifying realized inbreeding in wild and captive animal populations. Heredity 114 (4), pp. 397 - 403 (2015)

Knief, U.; Schielzeth, H.; Ellegren, H.; Kempenaers, B.; Forstmeier, W.: A prezygotic transmission distorter acting equally in female and male zebra finches Taeniopygia guttata. Molecular Ecology 24 (15), pp. 3846 - 3859 (2015)

Kranstauber, B.; Weinzierl, R.; Wikelski, M.; Safi, K.: Global aerial flyways allow efficient travelling. Ecology Letters 18 (12), pp. 1338 - 1345 (2015)

Kratochwil, C. F.; Sefton, M.; Meyer, A.: Embryonic and larval development in the Midas cichlid fish species flock (Amphilophus spp.): A new evo-devo model for the investigation of adaptive novelties and species differences. BMC Developmental Biology 15, 12 (2015)

Kusche, H.; Elmer, K. R.; Meyer, A.: Sympatric ecological divergence associated with a color polymorphism. BMC Biology 13, 82 (2015)

Luo, J.; Goerlitz, H. R.; Brumm, H.; Wiegrebe, L.: Linking the sender to the receiver: Vocal adjustments by bats to maintain signal detection in noise. Scientific Reports 5, 18556 (2015)

Luo, J.; Siemers, B. M.; Koselj, K.: How anthropogenic noise affects foraging. Global Change Biology 21 (9), pp. 3278 - 3289 (2015)

Machado-Schiaffino, G.; Kautt, A.; Kusche, H.; Meyer, A.: Parallel evolution in Ugandan crater lakes: Repeated evolution of limnetic body shapes in haplochromine cichlid fish. BMC Evolutionary Biology 15, 9 (2015)

Mathot, K. J.; Nicolaus, M.; Araya-Ajoy, Y. G.; Dingemanse, N. J.; Kempenaers, B.: Does metabolic rate predict risk-taking behaviour? A field experiment in a wild passerine bird. Functional Ecology 29 (2), pp. 239 - 249 (2015)

Mortega, K. G.; Horsburgh, G. J.; Illera, J. C.; Dawson, D. A.: Characterization of microsatellite markers for Saxicola species. Conservation Genetics Resources 7 (1), pp. 273 - 278 (2015)

Nagel, M.; Kleineidam, C. J.: Two cold-sensitive neurons within one sensillum code for different parameters of the thermal environment in the ant Camponotus rufipes. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 9, 240 (2015)

Nicolaus, M.; Mathot, K. J.; Araya-Ajoy, Y. G.; Mutzel, A.; Wijmenga, J. J.; Kempenaers, B.; Dingemanse, N. J.: Does coping style predict optimization? An experimental test in a wild passerine bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282 (1799), 20142405 (2015)

Niemelä, P. T.; Santostefano, F.: Social carry-over effects on non-social behavioral variation: Mechanisms and consequences. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 3, 49 (2015)

Pokharel, K.; Yohannes, E.; Salvarina, I.; Storch, I.: Isotopic evidence for dietary niche overlap between barking deer and four-horned antelope in Nepal. Journal of Biological Research Thessaloniki 22 (1), 6 (2015)

Quispe Valdez, R.; Trappschuh, M.; Gahr, M.; Goymann, W.: Towards more physiological manipulations of hormones in field studies: Comparing the release dynamics of three kinds of testosterone implants, silastic tubing, time-release pellets and beeswax. General and Comparative Endocrinology 212, pp. 100 - 105 (2015)

Razanajatovo, M. H.; Föhr, C.; Fischer, M.; Prati, D.; van Kleunen, M.: Non-naturalized alien plants receive fewer flower visits than naturalized and native plants in a Swiss botanical garden. Biological Conservation 182, pp. 109 - 116 (2015)

Schlicht, L.; Valcu, M.; Kempenaers, B.: Spatial patterns of extra-pair paternity: Beyond paternity gains and losses. Journal of Animal Ecology 84 (2), pp. 518 - 531 (2015)

Schlicht, L.; Valcu, M.; Kempenaers, B.: Male extraterritorial behavior predicts extrapair paternity pattern in blue tits, Cyanistes caeruleus. Behavioral Ecology 26 (5), pp. 1404 - 1413 (2015)

Schmieder, D. A.; Benitez, H. A.; Borissov, I. M.; Fruciano, C.: Bat species comparisons based on external morphology: A test of traditional versus geometric morphometric approaches. PLoS One 10 (5), e0127043 (2015)

Stuber, E. F.; Dingemanse, N. J.; Kempenaers, B.; Mueller, J. C.: Sources of intraspecific variation in sleep behaviour of wild great tits. Animal Behaviour 106, pp. 201 - 221 (2015)

Stuber, E. F.; Mathot, K. J.; Kempenaers, B.; Dingemanse, N. J.; Mueller, J. C.: Sex-specific association between sleep and basal metabolic rate in great tits. Animal Behaviour 109, pp. 15 - 22 (2015)

van Schaik, J.; Janssen, R.; Bosch, T.; Haarsma, A.-J.; Dekker, J. J. A.; Kranstauber, B.: Bats swarm where they hibernate: Compositional similarity between autumn swarming and winter hibernation assemblages at five underground sites. PLoS One 10 (7), e0130850 (2015)

Wehmann, H. N.; Gustav, D.; Kirkerud, N. H.; Galizia, C. G.: The sound and the fury - Bees hiss when expecting danger. PLoS One 10 (3), e0118708 (2015)