Dr. Tom Ratz

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsSensory and Behavioural Biology,Ecology and Biodiversity of Animals and Ecosystems, Organismic Interactions
KeywordsEnvironmental change, Evolutionary genetics, Social evolution, Population density, Behaviour

Current contact address

CountryUnited Kingdom
CityEdinburgh
InstitutionUniversity of Edinburgh
InstituteInstitute of Evolutionary Biology

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Niels DingemanseDepartment Biologie II - Biozentrum Martinsried, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), Planegg
Start of initial sponsorship01/12/2021

Programme(s)

2020Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2023Ratz T., Bourdiol, J., Moreau, S., Vadnais, C., Montiglio P.-O: The evolution of prey-attraction strategies in spiders: the interplay between foraging and predator avoidance. In: Oecologia, 202, 2023, 669–684
2022Toupin L.-P., Ratz T., Montiglio P.-O.: Effect of Resource availability on the web structure of female western black widows: Do physiological trade-offs constrain web structure?. In: Behavioral Ecology, 33, 2022, 1170–1179
2022De Groot C., Wijnhorst R. E., Ratz T., Murray M., Araya-Ajoy Y. G., Wright J. The importance of distinguishing individual differences in ‘social impact’ versus ‘social responsiveness’ when quantifying indirect genetic effects on the evolution of social plasticity. In: Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 144, 2022, 104996
2022Ratz T., Leissle L., Smiseth P. T. The presence of conspecific intruders alters the magnitude of sex differences in care in a burying beetle. In: Animal Behaviour, 194, 2022, 57–65
2021Ratz T., Kremi K., Leissle L., Richardson J., Smiseth P. T.: Access to resources shapes sex differences between caring parents.. In: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9, 2021, 712425
2021Ratz T., Monteith K., Vale P., Smiseth P. T. Carry on caring: infected female burying beetles maintain their parental care despite high mortality. In: Behavioral Ecology, 32, 2021, 738–746