Development and maintenance of individual behavioural types in a social context

Joachim Frommen
01.12.2012 – 31.05.2016

Summary

Scientific abstract

Animal personalities have become a major focus of research in behavioural ecology. A central issue in the concept of personalities is their stability over time. The proposed behavioural stability contrasts with the relative instability of the ecological and social environments of an individual, which usually change throughout a lifetime. Indeed, recent theoretical and empirical studies reveal a decline of the repeatability ...
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Persons

Applicants

  • Joachim Frommen, Department of Natural Sciences Manchester Metropolitan University, Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Employees

Disciplines and keywords

mySNF disciplines (provided by researchers): Ecology, Zoology
Fields of research (mapped from mySNF Disciplines): Ecology, Zoology
Keywords: animal personalities, behavioural syndromes, social niche, phenotypic plasticity, cichlid fish, social breeder, helping behaviour, cooperation

Scientific publications

Predation risk drives social complexity in cooperative breeders

Groenewoud, F.*, ; Frommen, J.G.*, ; Josi, D., ; Tanaka, H., ; Jungwirth, A. , ; Taborsky, M.,
Predation risk drives social complexity in cooperative breeders. In Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 4014–4019.
2016

Visible Implant Elastomer tagging influences social preferences of zebrafish (Danio rerio)

Frommen J.G., ; Hanak S., ; Schmidl C.A. , ; Thünken T.,
Visible Implant Elastomer tagging influences social preferences of zebrafish (Danio rerio). In Behaviour , 152, 1765–1777.
2015

Quantification acuity in spontaneous shoaling decisions of three-spined sticklebacks

Mehlis, M., , ; Thünken, T., ; Bakker, T.C.M. , ; Frommen, J.G. ,
Quantification acuity in spontaneous shoaling decisions of three-spined sticklebacks. In Anim. Cogn., 18, 1125–1131.
2015

Mirror, mirror on the wall: the predictive value of mirror tests for measuring aggression in fish

Balzarini, V., ; Taborsky, M., ; Wanner, S.,, ; Koch, F. , ; Frommen, J.G.,
Mirror, mirror on the wall: the predictive value of mirror tests for measuring aggression in fish. In Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol., 68, 871–878.
2014

Animated images as a tool to study inter- and intraspecific behavioural responses: a case study in a cooperatively breeding cichlid

Fischer, S., ; Taborsky, B., ; Burlaud, R., , ; Fernandez, A., ; Hess, S., ; Frommen, J.G. ,
Animated images as a tool to study inter- and intraspecific behavioural responses: a case study in a cooperatively breeding cichlid. In Behaviour , 151, 1921–1942.
2014

Collaboration

PD Leif Engqvist, Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Bielefeld

  • in-depth/constructive exchanges on approaches, methods or results
  • Publication
Germany

Prof. Michael Taborsky, Department for Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern

  • in-depth/constructive exchanges on approaches, methods or results
  • Publication
  • Research Infrastructures
  • Exchange of personnel
Switzerland

Dr. Sander van Doorn, Department for Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern

  • in-depth/constructive exchanges on approaches, methods or results
Switzerland

Academic events

Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society

Type: Poster
Title of contribution: Predator exposure affects develop¬ment of male ornamentation and female mate choice in three-spined stickleback
17.09.2016
, Kiel, Germany

Congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology

Type: Talk given at a conference
Title of contribution: Predation and habitat characteristics determine social structure in cooperative cichlids
28.07.2016
, Exeter, Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology

Type: Talk given at a conference
Title of contribution: The use of urine as aggressive signal in cooperative cichlids
28.07.2016
, Exeter, Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology

Type: Poster
Title of contribution: Repeatabilities of behaviours determining social structure in a cooperative breeder
28.07.2016
, Exeter, Great Britain and Northern Ireland

European Conference on Behavioural Biology

Type: Poster
Title of contribution: Presence of dead-end host cues cancels parasitic manipulation of an intermediate host
12.07.2016
, Wien, Austria

European Conference on Behavioural Biology

Type: Talk given at a conference
Title of contribution: The use of urine as aggressive signal in cooperatively breeding cichlids
12.07.2016
, Wien, Austria

Topical Meeting of the Ethological Society

Type: Talk given at a conference
Title of contribution: Olfactory signals trigger social interactions in a cooperatively breeding fish
17.02.2016
, Göttingen, Germany

Cichlid Science 2015

Type: Talk given at a conference
Title of contribution: Habitat and predation relates to population divergence in cooperatively breeding cichlids
06.09.2015
, Graz, Austria

Behaviour 2015

Type: Talk given at a conference
Title of contribution: Habitat and predation relates to population divergence in cooperatively breeding cichlids
08.08.2015
, Cairns, Australia

Behaviour2015

Type: Poster
Title of contribution: Animated images: a new tool to study visual communication
08.08.2015
, Cairns, Australia

Biology15

Type: Poster
Title of contribution: Olfactory communication in the cichlid fish Neolamprologus pulcher
12.02.2015
, Dübendorf, Switzerland

Topical Meeting of the Ethological Society

Type: Talk given at a conference
Title of contribution: Habitat and predation explain population divergence in cooperatively breeding cichlids
11.02.2015
, Hamburg, Germany

Tagung der Gesellschaft für Ichthyologie

Type: Poster
Title of contribution: Differences in morphology relate to habitat quality in the cooperatively breeding cichlid Neolamprologus pulcher
27.09.2014
, Stralsund, Germany

Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology

Type: Talk given at a conference
Title of contribution: The social niche experienced early in life determ¬ines the behavioural phenotype
10.08.2014
, Lausanne, Switzerland

Congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology

Type: Poster
Title of contribution: The relation between social role and behavioral phenotype: a test of the social niche hypothesis
31.07.2014
, New York, United States of America

Congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology

Type: Talk given at a conference
Title of contribution: Ecological conditions explain population divergence in a cooperatively breeding cichlid
31.07.2014
, New York, United States of America

Biology14

Type: Poster
Title of contribution: How does related¬ness affect interactions of helpers in a cooperatively breeding cichlid?
13.02.2014
, Geneva, Switzerland

Biology14

Type: Poster
Title of contribution: Fish opercular patterns as a signal of aggression
13.02.2014
, Geneva, Switzerland

Biology14

Type: Poster
Title of contribution: Habitat preference changes with the degree of environmental com¬ple¬xity in a cooperatively breeding cichlid
13.02.2014
, Geneva, Switzerland

Biology14

Type: Poster
Title of contribution: The impact of habitat structure on cooperative breeding in a fish
13.02.2014
, Geneva, Switzerland

Biology14

Type: Poster
Title of contribution: Olfactory information from an opponent triggers agonistic behavior in cichlid Neolamprologus pulcher
13.02.2014
, Geneva, Switzerland

Tagung der Gesellschaft für Ichthyologie

Type: Poster
Title of contribution: ) Investigating group size preferences in large shoals of three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)
21.10.2013
, Bonn, Germany

Behaviour2013

Type: Talk given at a conference
Title of contribution: Habitat structure affects cooperative breeding in a fish
04.08.2013
, Newcastle, Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Behaviour 2013

Type: Talk given at a conference
Title of contribution: Integrating the study of cooperation and personality: towards a comprehensive behavioural type
04.08.2013
, Newcastle, Great Britain and Northern Ireland

International Conference on Individual Differences

Type: Talk given at a conference
Title of contribution: How does individual behavioural type impact group efficiency in a cooperative breeder?
22.07.2013
, Groningen, Netherlands

Awards

Bayani, Dario-Marcos: Olfactory communication in the cichlid Neolamprologus pulcher Volz- award for best Master thesis

2018

Bayani, Dario-Marcos: Olfactory communication in the cichlid Neolamprologus pulcher Best Master-thesis in the Department of Biology, University of Bern

2017

Balzarini V. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the most aggressive after all? Third best poster at the Congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology, Lund, Sweden

2014

Overview

Grant number
144191
Funding scheme
Project funding
Call
Projektförderung 2012 (01.04.2012)
Approved amount
290,000 CHF
Status
Completed
Research institution
University of Berne – BE
Institute
Ethologische Station Hasli Zoologisches Institut Universität Bern

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