Destabilizing effect of climate change on the persistence of a short-lived primate

A Ozgul, C Fichtel, M Paniw… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Seasonal tropical environments are among those regions that are the most affected by shifts
in temperature and rainfall regimes under climate change, with potentially severe …

Is risk taking during foraging a personality trait? A field test for cross-context consistency in boldness

M Dammhahn, L Almeling - Animal behaviour, 2012 - Elsevier
During foraging, animals have to balance the risk of predation with the energy gain. The
amount of risk animals take for a given resource depends on their energy budget but is …

[HTML][HTML] The gray mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus) as a model for early primate brain evolution

CLA Ho, C Fichtel, D Huber - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2021 - Elsevier
The gray mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus), one of the world's smallest primates, is
thought to share a similar ecological niche and many anatomical traits with early euprimates …

Linking cognition with fitness in a wild primate: fitness correlates of problem-solving performance and spatial learning ability

F Huebner, C Fichtel… - … Transactions of the …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Linking the cognitive performance of wild animals with fitness consequences is crucial for
understanding evolutionary processes that shape individual variation in cognition. However …

Are personality differences in a small iteroparous mammal maintained by a life-history trade-off?

M Dammhahn - Proceedings of the Royal Society B …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Despite increasing interest, animal personality is still a puzzling phenomenon. Several
theoretical models have been proposed to explain intraindividual consistency and …

Cognitive performance is linked to fitness in a wild primate

C Fichtel, J Henke-von der Malsburg, PM Kappeler - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Cognitive performance varies widely across animal species, but the processes underlying
cognitive evolution remain poorly known. For cognitive abilities to evolve, performance must …

Senescence or selective disappearance? Age trajectories of body mass in wild and captive populations of a small-bodied primate

A Hämäläinen, M Dammhahn… - … of the Royal …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Classic theories of ageing consider extrinsic mortality (EM) a major factor in shaping
longevity and ageing, yet most studies of functional ageing focus on species with low EM …

Modeling trap-awareness and related phenomena in capture-recapture studies

R Pradel, A Sanz-Aguilar - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Trap-awareness and related phenomena whereby successive capture events are not
independent is a feature of the majority of capture-recapture studies. This phenomenon was …

Sex‐specific effects of fisheries and climate on the demography of sexually dimorphic seabirds

D Gianuca, SC Votier, D Pardo, AG Wood… - Journal of Animal …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Many animal taxa exhibit sex‐specific variation in ecological traits, such as foraging and
distribution. These differences could result in sex‐specific responses to change, but such …

Ecology and morphology of mouse lemurs (Microcebus spp.) in a hotspot of microendemism in northeastern Madagascar, with the description of a new species

D Schuessler, MB Blanco, J Salmona… - American Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Delimitation of cryptic species is increasingly based on genetic analyses but the integration
of distributional, morphological, behavioral, and ecological data offers unique …