Visual signals in fruits
DFG
Signal diversity and pollinator behaviour
DFG
Fruit pigments as health stimulants
DAAD grant to Carlo Catoni in collaboration with Institute
of Avian Research and Max-Planck Institute of Ornithology.
Plant-frugivore interactions –testing phenotypic
integration of fruit traits
DAAD grant together with Pedro Jordano and Alfredo Valido
at the Integrative Ecology group, Sevilla, Spain.
Plant-animal communication in the Atlantic forest
DAAD grant together with Mauro Galetti and Eliana Cazetta,
Sao Paulo State University, Brazil.
Plant herbivore communication
Marsden Grant with Prof. Kevin Gould, Nigel Perry and
others
Evolution of multiple signals in Gouldian Finch
DFG, PI Veronika Schaefer
Camouflage strategies in butterflies
Cusanuswerk grant to Nina Stobbe, Grant from Chinese
Research Council to Wang Zhen.
Optimal investment in costly anti-predator defences
in insects
Collaboration with Graeme Ruxton, Glasgow, UK;
NERC grant.
Microevolution of the blackcap
Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Freiburg in cooperation
with Gernot Segelbacher, University of Freiburg.
Reproductive biology of the endangered El Oro
Parakeet
Loro Parque Foundation and Stihl Stiftung
Re-assessment of the Dispersal syndrome hypothesis
The effect of colour on seed disperser type,
research done in Kenya in collaboration with
Katrin Böhning-Gaese, University
of Mainz, Germany. Theoretical work done in collaboration with
Silvia Lomascolo, University of Florida, Gainesville, US. |