Department of Animal Ecology
The department of Animal Ecology studies how the life-history of birds is shaped by evolution: from personalities to seasonal timing, and from genes to populations.
| Visser Group | The research in the Visser Group focuses on seasonal timing of growth and reproduction. We aim to understand the causes of variation in timing and the... |
| Nolet Group | Scaling up from processes at the individual level to patterns at the population level. Research We try to understand patterns at the population level from... |
| Lessells Group | Parental investment (PI) is any investment by the parent in an individual offspring that increases the offspring’s chance of surviving (and hence reproductive... |
| Van Noordwijk Group | The presence of genetic variation is a key ingredient for rapid evolution in changing conditions, but we cannot explain how genetic variation is maintained or... |
| Van Oers Group | 'Personality' describes the phenomenon that individuals consistently differ in their behaviour and have limited flexibility to respond to environmental... |
| Van de Pol Group | Our new group aims to understand how individuals respond to various aspects of climate change and variability, such as an increasing frequency of extreme... |
| Van der Jeugd Group | Explaining variation in abundance and distribution of animals is a central theme in ecology. This group is entirely devoted to the study of these fundamental... |
| Spoelstra Junior Group | Nocturnal illumination leads to a permanent disturbance of natural habitats and there is accumulating evidence for – often negative – impact of artificial... |
