Coping with change: The evolutionary ecology of stress
Talk Maren Vitousek
- Cancelled!
- Date: Feb 4, 2016
- Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Prof. Dr. Maren Vitousek
- Cornell University: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Location: Seewiesen
- Room: Seminar Room, House 4, Tea & Coffee 12:30, Videoconference to Radolfzell upon request
- Host: Prof. Dr. Michaela Hau
- Contact: mhau@orn.mpg.de
Why are some individuals, and some species, better able to cope with stress than others? When faced with an acute challenge – the attack of a predator, a severe storm, a major injury – hormones mediate changes in an enormous diversity of behavioral and physiological traits. Variation in these key mechanisms of phenotype can influence the ability to survive and reproduce. In this talk I will discuss how integrative research in free-living birds is providing fundamental insight into the capacity of individuals, populations, and species to persist in changing environments, and how selection shapes endocrine mediators of phenotype.