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Nico Cellinese, Ph.D. Assistant Curator, Botany & Informatics
Joint Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
Florida Museum of Natural History University of
Florida 354 Dickinson Hall, PO Box 117800 Gainesville,
FL 32611-7800, U.S.A. Tel. 352-273-1979 Fax
352-846-1861 http://cellinese.blogspot.com/ ncellinese@flmnh.ufl.edu
UGroningen BehaviouralEvolution
PhD position Behavioural Evolution (1,0 fte)
Vacancy number 212248
Job description
Research description Dispersal is the movement of individuals
from their birthplace to their location of breeding.
Dispersal plays a key role in social-organisation,
the mating system and social evolution. Behaviour,
such as dispersal, may be influenced by the presence
and behaviour of other individuals, which is the social
environment in which the behaviour is expressed. Consequently
as social behaviour evolves, the environment
it is expressed in does as well. Therefore evolution of
social behaviour is complicated by the need to consider
the role of both the social environment in which individuals
live, and the degree of social interactions between
individuals on the expression of individual behaviours.
The combined effects of these have rarely been considered.
The proposed project will investigate how the
social environment affects the expression of dispersal,
and the consequences this has for individual lifetime
fitness parameters. We will use field experiments to
manipulate social interactions and phenotype frequencies
in wild Seychelles warbler populations to investigate
how specific perturbations influence the expression
of individual behaviours and subsequent fitness. There
are very few studies that have experimentally manipulated
the social environment in the wild. For our experiments,
we will focus on the islands of Cousin (high
density and saturated population) and Denis (rapidly
expanding from very low density), for which we have
comprehensive behavioural and pedigree data.
This project is closely linked to the TopGrant funded
post-doctoral position in Theoretical Evolutionary
Ecology. The close collaboration between molecular,
theoretical and behavioural researchers, along with access
to the long-term Seychelles warbler dataset, provides
a unique opportunity to forge a link between conceptual
models and real-world data.
Research group The PhD will work in the BESO research
group which is part of the Centre for Ecological
and Evolutionary Studies at the University of Groningen
(The Netherlands) with Prof. Jan Komdeur. Dr
David Richardson (University of East Anglia, UK),
Dr Hannah Dugdale (University of Sheffield, UK) and