I am interested in ecology and evolution of – mostly Eurasian (song-) – birds as an investigation of biodiversity in space and time.
Topics: population ecology, population genetics, integrative taxonomy, macroecology, biogeography, character evolution, genotype-phenotype associations, ...
Methods: bird banding/ringung, morphometrics, bioacoustics, phylogenetics, transkriptomics, genomics, bioinformatics, distribution and niche modeling, ...
Study areas: Holarctic, Indo-Malayan, Afrotropics, especially Sino-Himalayas and (Central) Europe, Rheinland-Pfalz, flood plains near Mainz, "Eich-Gimbsheimer Altrhein" nature reserve (www.ismega.de) and various cities, ...
Taxa: tits and chickadees (Paridae), leaf-warblers (Phylloscopidae), treecreepers (Certhia), rosefinches (Carpodacus), thrushes (Turdus), white stork (Ciconia ciconia), swifts (Apodidae), bee-eater (Merops apiaster), Central European songbirds, Sino-Himalayan (song)birds, ...
If you would like to join forces as an undergraduate thesis candidate or collaborator, please get in touch with me.
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