Head of Division
Prof. Dr. Michael Taborsky
Institut für Ökologie und Evolution
Telefon: +41 31 631 91 11
Telefax: +41 31 631 91 41
E-Mail: claudia.leiser@iee.unibe.ch
Ethologische Station Hasli
Wohlenstrasse 50a
CH-3032 Hinterkappelen
HIGHLIGHTS
PLOS BIOLOGY
The smell of hunger: Norway rats provision social partners based on odour cues of need
K. Schneeberger & M. Taborsky
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FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY
Sensory ecology and cognition in social decisions
Special feature edited by K. Schneeberger & M. Taborsky
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SCIENCE ADVANCES Alternative male morphs solve sperm performance/longevity trade-off in opposite directions M. Taborsky, D. Schütz, O. Goffinet & G.S.van Doorn
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Media release, University of Bern
CURRENT BIOLOGY
Reciprocal trading of different commodities in Norway rats. M.K. Schweinfurth & M. Taborsky
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Nature research highlight
Current Biology dispatch
PNAS - Divergence of developmental trajectories is triggered interactively by early social and ecological experience in a cooperative breeder. Fischer, Bohn, Oberhummer, Nyman & B. Taborsky
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commentary on Fischer et al
PNAS - Predation risk drives social complexity in cooperative breeders. Groenewoud, Frommen, Josi, Tanaka, Jungwirth & Taborsky
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The evolution of cooperation based on direct fitness benefits. Phil Trans theme issue compiled and edited by Taborsky M., Frommen JG & Riehl C. (2016)
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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS Kinship reduces alloparental care in cooperative
cichlids where helpers pay-to-stay
Zoettl M., Heg D., Chervet N. & Taborsky M. (2013)
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Social competence: an evolutionary approach
Taborsky, B. & Oliveira, R.F.
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Larval helpers and age polyethism in ambrosia beetles
Biedermann P.H.W. & Taborsky M.
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Animal personality due to social niche specialisation
Bergmueller R. & Taborsky M.
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Environmental Change Enhances Cognitive Abilities in Fish
Kotrschal, A. & Taborsky, B.
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Extended phenotypes as signals
Franziska C. Schaedelin and Michael Taborsky
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On the Origin of Species by Natural
and Sexual Selection
G. Sander van Doorn, Pim Edelaar, Franz J. Weissing
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Cambridge University Press
Alternative Reproductive Tactics: An Integrative
Approach
Oliveira R., Taborsky M. & Brockmann H.J.
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Site under reconstruction. From August 2020 Prof. Eva Ringler is the new Head of Division. We thank Prof. Michael Taborsky for the excellent scientific work and leadership over the past 20 years and and wish him all the best for his retirement.
Welcome at Division Behavioural Ecology
Our research focus is on the mechanisms involved in the evolution of advanced social behaviour and alternative reproductive behaviours. Specific research subjects include cooperative breeding in vertebrates and insects, alternative male mating tactics, and the mechanisms involved in the regulation of agonistic and cooperative interactions between conspecifics. In addition, we study the significance of external structures manufactured by animals to attract partners ("extended phenotypes"), and the importance of ecology and intrinsic growth on life history decisions in indeterminately growing organisms. As model systems we currently use cichlid fishes of Lake Tanganyika, bark beetle and Norway rats.
Willkommen in der Abteilung Verhaltensökologie
Als ein zentrales Forschungsgebiet der Ethologie untersucht die Verhaltensökologie Mechanismen, die an der Evolution des Verhaltens massgeblich beteiligt sind. Eine Voraussetzung dafür ist das Verständnis des adaptiven Wertes eines Merkmals. Daneben sollten auch morphologische und physiologische Randbedingungen für die Ausprägung eines Verhaltens bekannt sein. Die Verhaltensökologie bedient sich vielfältiger Methoden aus der Evolutionsbiologie, Ökologie, Physiologie und der vergleichend-phylogenetischen Analyse. Obwohl prinzipiell organismisch orientiert, verwendet sie auch das Instrumentarium der Molekulargenetik, Immunologie, Parasitologie, Neurobiologie und Endokrinologie. Der wichtigste methodische Ansatz ist das Experiment, sowohl unter natürlichen als auch standardisierten Laborbedingungen.
Neues aus der Forschung
Artikel im "Uniaktuell", dem Online-Magazin der Universität Bern, und dem Wissenschaftsmagazin "Unipress":
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