November 17th – lecture room 11th floor
09.45 – 10.20 INVITED EXTERNAL TALK – Kathi Mahr: The function of female Song in the Superb fairy wren (Malurus cyaneus)
10.20 – 10.40 Svana Rogalla: Use of thermography to examine wing surface temperature gradients in Ospreys (Pandion haliaetus)
10.40 – 11.00 Brigitte Heylen: Optimal foraging strategy of central place foragers in a rapidly changing environment
11.00 – 11.20 Stefano Masier: Evolution in metapopulations: what’s next?
— Coffee break —
11.40 – 12.00 Alejandro Sotillo: Diet effects on early chick development of Larus fuscus: aviary vs. field data
12.00 – 12.20 Daan De Keukeleire: How does tree species identity, tree species diversity and forest fragmentation influence breeding performance of great and blue tits?
12.20 – 12.50 Thomas Parmentier: Myrmecophile communities as a model system to study spatial food webs
— Lunch —
14.00 – 14.20 Steven Goossens: How individual heterogeneity and maternal effects influence density dependent aerial dispersal in the two spotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae)
14.20 – 14.40 Femke Batsleer: The spatial organisation of nest aggregates in a digger wasp: the synergy between habitat suitability and parasite avoidance
14.40 – 15.00 Jan Engler : Influence of device accuracy and choice of algorithm for species distribution modelling of seabirds
15.00 – 15.15 Frederik Mortier: Habitat choice: let’s select it in mite
— Coffee break —
15.30 – 15.45 Bram Vanthournout: Colour in spiders and springtails
15.45 – 16.15 Jan Baert: Inter- or intraspecific variability: where do we draw the species line?
16.15 – 16.45 Luc Lens, Matthew Shawkey & Dries Bonte: Recent activities at TEREC and an outlook for the future
— TERECEON bubbles —