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Research interests

I am a behavioural and evolutionary ecologist who seeks to uncover why animals of the same population differ tremendously and consistently in behaviour (so-called animal personality), how such variation can help predict adaptive capacities of wildlife and help design the best possible conservation measures.

In my research, I use wild three-spined sticklebacks, pied flycatchers and great tits, species that are very well suited to study personality, ecological and evolutionary processes. My group is making use of a unique unintended experiment in the field (isolation of a migratory stickleback population), a bird population on Zernike campus (nest boxes hang along an urbanisation gradient) and experiments in semi-natural conditions (sticklebacks) to study how personality variation emerges, evolves and feeds back on eco-evolutionary processes. 

You can also find me on Researche Gate ; Google Scholar ; Twitter (@sticklelab) and my personal blog

Publicaties

Effects of early predation and social cues on the relationship between laterality and personality

Effects of personality and social context on movement tendencies in three-spined sticklebacks

Adaptation to climate change through dispersal and inherited timing in an avian migrant

Eco-evolutionary consequences of dispersal syndromes during colonization in a passerine bird

Mesocosm experiment reveals scale dependence of movement tendencies in sticklebacks

DNA metabarcoding quantifies the relative biomass of arthropod taxa in songbird diets: Validation with camera-recorded diets

Effect of the environment on the development of laterality and personality in the three-spined sticklebacks

Habitat fragmentation induces rapid divergence of migratory and isolated sticklebacks

Personality-dependent dispersal and breeding success in three-spined sticklebacks

Social preferences of three-spined sticklebacks: A mesocosm experiment

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