Dr. Tom Ratz

Profil

Derzeitige StellungProfessor W-1 und Äquivalente
FachgebietBiologie des Verhaltens und der Sinne,Ökologie und Biodiversität der Tiere und Ökosysteme, Organismische Interaktionen
KeywordsEnvironmental change, Evolutionary genetics, Social evolution, Population density, Behaviour

Aktuelle Kontaktadresse

LandSchweiz
OrtZürich
Universität/InstitutionUniversity of Zurich
Institut/AbteilungDepartment of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies

Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung

Prof. Dr. Niels DingemanseDepartment Biologie II - Biozentrum Martinsried, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), Planegg
Beginn der ersten Förderung01.12.2021

Programm(e)

2020Humboldt-Forschungsstipendien-Programm für Postdocs

Publikationen (Auswahl)

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