A5062402832- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Agriculture and Biological Studies
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience
- Morphological variations and asymmetry
- Digital Games and Media
University of Groningen
2022-2024
Wellcome / EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences
2024
Goethe University Frankfurt
2017
Abstract Understanding whether and how ambient ecological conditions affect the distribution of personality types within among populations lies at heart research on animal personality. Several studies have focussed only one agent divergent selection (or driver plastic changes in behavior), considering either predation risk or a single abiotic factor. Here, we investigated an array biotic environmental factors simultaneously shape population differences boldness, activity open‐field test,...
Habitat fragmentation can have negative impacts on migratory organisms that rely the functional connectivity between growing and breeding grounds. Quantifying population-level phenotypic consequences of such requires fine-scaled tracking individual behaviour movements across relevant scales. Here we make use a natural experiment where some populations ‘migrant’ three-spined sticklebacks ( Gasterosteus aculeatus ) became ‘residents', following habitat five decades ago. To test whether...
The existence of individual variation in males' motivation to mate remains a conundrum as directional selection should favour high mating frequencies. Balancing resulting from (context-dependent) female choice could contribute the maintenance this behavioural polymorphism. In dichotomous tests, mosquitofish ( Gambusia holbrooki ) females preferred virtual males showing intermediate frequencies, reflecting females' tendencies avoid harassment by highly sexually active males. When tested...
Individual differences in laterality and personality are expected to covary, as emotions processed differently by the two hemispheres, involves emotional behavior. Fish species often used investigate this topic due large variability patterns. While some show a positive relationship between lateralization strength boldness, others negative relationship, no relationship. A new way assess robustness of such is manipulate both examine how affects their To end, we conducted fully factorial design...
Animal sociality emerges from individual decisions on how to balance the costs and benefits of being sociable. Novel pathogens introduced into wildlife populations should increase sociality, selecting against gregariousness. Using an individual-based model that captures essential features pathogen transmission among social hosts, we show novel introduction provokes rapid evolutionary emergence coexistence distinct movement strategies. These strategies differ in they trade information risk...
By means of a simulation study, DiNuzzo & Griffen [1] investigate whether individual variation in personality trait can explain 'undermatching', an often-observed deviation from the ideal free distribution (IFD).Here, we raise five points concern about this regarding (i) interpretation results terms variation; (ii) deficiencies technical implementation model, leading to wrong conclusions; (iii) effects population size on deviations IFD; (iv) measure used for quantifying IFD and (v) analysis...
Abstract Studying the relationship between dispersal tendencies and personality, or ‘dispersal syndromes’, under ecologically relevant conditions is challenging, especially in fish. Laboratory studies lack environmental complexity scale, while field-based approaches are often unfeasible. We here mimicked events; encompassing all three phases of (departure, transience, settlement) a large experimental mesocosm containing gradient low- high-quality breeding sites. Using Passive Integrated...
Abstract Animal sociality emerges from individual decisions on how to balance the costs and benefits of being sociable. Movement strategies incorporating social information — presence status neighbours can modulate spatial associations, helping animals avoid infection while benefiting indirect about their environment. When a novel pathogen is introduced into population, it should increase sociality, selecting against gregariousness. Yet current thinking introductions wildlife neglects hosts’...
Abstract In the 1970s, water management in Netherlands resulted numerous isolated populations of three-spined sticklebacks, which can no longer migrate from freshwater to sea. We tested whether ∼50 years isolation reduced migratory tendencies these ‘resident’ sticklebacks. Lab-based individual testing showed behavioural divergence between residents and migrants, but also produced counter-intuitive results, especially with regards movement tendencies. To detect differences migration...