Coping with change: The evolutionary ecology of stress

Talk Maren Vitousek

  • Cancelled!
  • Datum: 04.02.2016
  • Uhrzeit: 13:00 - 14:00
  • Vortragende(r): Prof. Dr. Maren Vitousek
  • Cornell University: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Ort: Seewiesen
  • Raum: Seminar Room, House 4, Tea & Coffee 12:30, Videoconference to Radolfzell upon request
  • Gastgeber: Prof. Dr. Michaela Hau
  • Kontakt: mhau@orn.mpg.de
Why are some individuals, and some species, better able to cope with stress than others? When faced with an acute challenge – the attack of a predator, a severe storm, a major injury – hormones mediate changes in an enormous diversity of behavioral and physiological traits. Variation in these key mechanisms of phenotype can influence the ability to survive and reproduce. In this talk I will discuss how integrative research in free-living birds is providing fundamental insight into the capacity of individuals, populations, and species to persist in changing environments, and how selection shapes endocrine mediators of phenotype.
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