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About us Practical matters How to find us A.A. (Alexander) Schlatmann, MSc

Research interests

PhD project: Animal personality as a driver of reproductive isolation?

Personality variation influences how individuals distribute and interact with each other’s. As a consequence such phenomena could promote personality-based mating and, potentially, be a first step towards reproductive isolation and species divergence.

This PhD project investigates whether and how personality variation can contribute to personality-based assortative mating in animal populations.

Publications

Intrasexual and intersexual territorial aggressive responses are repeatable and correlated in blue tits of both sexes

No evidence for olfactory kin discrimination in begging blue tit nestlings

Intruder sex and breeding stage influence territorial aggressiveness: But only in male not female blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus)

Olfactory kin discrimination in begging blue tit nestlings?

Press/media

Blue tit nesting and breeding habits

What do birds use their nose for?