Dr. Oscar Vedder

Senior Researcher

Institute of Avian Research
An der Vogelwarte 21
26386 Wilhelmshaven
Germany

Tel.: +49 4421 9689 19
Email: oscar.vedder@ifv-vogelwarte.de
ORCID: 0000-0003-4689-8568
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I am broadly interested in behavioural and evolutionary ecology. I work on a diverse set of topics, encompassing ageing, sexual selection, phenotypic plasticity, parental effects and natural selection, which together shape individual life histories. I complement longitudinal data analyses with specific experiments. This enables me to measure both causal pathways and fitness consequences of the behaviour and age-specific performance of birds at the individual level. It is especially the integration of methods and ideas from subfields in the study of behaviour, ecology and evolution that I find valuable and strive for. I currently mostly collect data from a captive population of Japanese quail, of which all important aspects of individual life histories, and the relatedness among individuals, can be accurately quantified under controlled environmental conditions.