Dr. Caspar Schöning

Profile

Academic positionCurrently without academic position
Research fieldsEcology and Biodiversity of Animals and Ecosystems, Organismic Interactions,Ecology and Biodiversity of Plants and Ecosystems
KeywordsDriver ants (Dorylus (Anomma) spp.), Honey bees (Apis mellifera), Ecology of afrotropical forests

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityBerlin

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Jacobus J. BoomsmaDepartment of Population Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen
Prof. Dr. Lars VilhelmsenNatural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen
Prof. Dr. Mosadoluwa A. BadejoDepartment of Zoology, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife
Start of initial sponsorship01/12/2004

Programme(s)

2004Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2011Caspar Schöning, Leah Shepard, Arunima Sen, Wanja Kinuthia, Joseph Ogutu: Should I stay or should I go now? Patch use by African army ant colonies in relation to food availability and predation. In: Insectes Sociaux, 2011, 335-343
2010Crickette Sanz, Caspar Schöning, David Morgan: Chimpanzees prey on army ants with specialized tool set. In: American Journal of Primatology , 2010, 17-24
2010Daniel Kronauer, Caspar Schöning, Patrizia D'Ettore, Jacobus Boomsma: Colony fusion and worker reproduction after queen loss in army ants. In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2010, 755-763
2010Caspar Schöning, Csaba Czusdi, Wanja Kinuthia, Joseph Ogutu Influence of driver ant swarm raids on earthworm prey densities in the Mount Kenya forest: implications for prey population dynamics and colony migrations. In: Insectes Sociaux, 2010, 73-82
2008Caspar Schöning, Washington Njagi, Wanja Kinuthia: Prey spectra of two swarm-raiding army ant species in East Africa. In: Journal of Zoology, 2008, 85-93
2008Caspar Schöning, William H. Gotwald Jr., Daniel J.C. Kronauer, Lars Vilhelmsen: Taxonomy of the African army ant Dorylus gribodoi Emery, 1892 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) - new insights from DNA sequence data and morphology. In: Zootaxa, 2008, 39-52
2008Caspar Schöning, Tatyana Humle, Yasmin Möbius, W.C. McGrew: The nature of culture: Technological variation in chimpanzee predation on army ants revisited. In: Journal of Human Evolution, 2008, 48-59
2007Daniel Kronauer, Caspar Schöning, Lars Vilhelmsen, Jacobus Boomsma: A molecular phylogeny of Dorylus army ants provides evidence for multiple evolutionary transitions in foraging niche. In: BMC Evolutionary Biology , 2007, 56
2007Caspar Schöning, Darren Ellis, Andrew Fowler, Volker Sommer: Army ant availability and consumption by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes vellerosus) at Gashaka / Nigeria. In: Journal of Zoology, 2007, 125-133
2007Caspar Schöning, Mark Moffett: Driver ants invading a termite nest - why do the most catholic predators of all seldom take this abundant prey? . In: Biotropica, 2007, 663-667
2006Caspar Schöning, Wanja Kinuthia, Jacobus Boomsma: Does the afrotropical army ant Dorylus (Anomma) molestus go extinct in fragmented forests? . In: Journal of East African Natural History , 2006, 163-179
2006Daniel Kronauer, Caspar Schöning, Jacobus Boomsma: Male parentage in the army ant Dorylus (Anomma) molestus. In: Molecular Ecology, 2006, 1147-1151
2005Caspar Schöning, Wanja Kinuthia, Nigel R. Franks: Evolution of allometries in the worker caste of Dorylus army ants. In: OIKOS, 2005, 231-240
2005Caspar Schöning, Wahington Njagi, Nigel R. Franks: Temporal and spatial patterns in the emigrations of the army ant Dorylus (Anomma) molestus at Mt Kenya. In: Ecological Entomology, 2005, 532-540
2004Daniel Kronauer, Caspar Schöning, Jes Pedersen, Jacobus Boomsma, Jürgen Gadau: Extreme queen-mating frequency and colony fission in African army ants. In: Molecular Ecology, 2004, 2381-2388