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Arne Schröder – our new researcher at Aquatic Ecology

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I am interested in how environmental variation in space and time affects populations and food webs through the intra- and interspecific interactions between individuals, mediated by their plastic traits and flexible behaviours.

In particular, I investigate how in structured populations flexible movement behaviour and plastic life history traits interact with stage-specific ecological performance. To this purpose I use a range of laboratory and natural systems. Currently, I study (1) the causes and consequences of partial fish migration on lake ecosystems, (2) the size- and condition-dependent trade-offs between foraging, inter-habitat movement and predator avoidance behaviour in a Chaoborus-Daphnia-Algae community, and (3) how in soil mite metapopulations heterogeneity introduced by spatial variation in stage-specific mortality and complex life cycles jointly determine local and regional dynamics.

januari 25, 2012

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