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  • Functional integration of multiple sexual ornaments: signal coherence and sexual selection
  • The meaning of purely structural colour: white plumage reflectance indicates feather condition
  • Valproate exposure in ovo attenuates the acquisition of social preferences of young post-hatch domestic chicks
  • Accelerated redevelopment of vocal skills is preceded by lasting reorganization of the song motor circuitry
  • Climate change and plumage colouration
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A mouflon sheep in the nest-box plot
A mouflon sheep in the nest-box plot
A young brown hare in the nest-box plot
A brown hare in the nest-box plot
A newborn roe deer in the nest-box plot
An immature yellow-necked mouse after jumping out of a nest-box in the nest-box plot
A wild boar piglet around the nest-boxes
A slowworm male in the nest-box plot
An Aesculapian snake escaping from a nest-box
An Aesculapian snake in the nest-box plot
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Copulating nine-spotted moths in the nest-box plot
A longhorn beetle (Morimus funereus)
A stag beetle in the nest-box plot
A yellowhammer female warming her nestlings
A female common chiffchaff incubating her eggs
eurasian treecreeper at the entrance of its nest in the nest-box plot
A black woodpecker in the nest-box plot
Great spotted woodpecker looking around at her nest site
Great spotted woodpecker nestling in the nest-box plot
A European nuthatch in the nest-box plot
An incubating common chaffinch in the nest-box plot
A view of the nest-box plot during Winter and Spring
Winter in the nest-box plot
Spring fog in the nest-box plot
Spring fog in the nest-box plot
Winter fog in the nest-box plot
Winter fog in the nest-box plot
Branches in the nest-box plot during winter
After freezing rain in the box-plot
Addersmeats in the nest-box plot
A martagon lily in the nest-box plot
Őrség, next to the lake where moore frogs courting
Őrség, next to the lake where moore frogs courting
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Projects

  • Acoustic mirrors project
  • Cultural Evolution in Birdsong
  • Plumage colour signals: dynamic and static mechanisms
  • Sex ratio project

Papers

  • Functional integration of multiple sexual ornaments: signal coherence and sexual selection
  • The meaning of purely structural colour: white plumage reflectance indicates feather condition
  • Valproate exposure in ovo attenuates the acquisition of social preferences of young post-hatch domestic chicks
  • Accelerated redevelopment of vocal skills is preceded by lasting reorganization of the song motor circuitry
  • Climate change and plumage colouration
  • Unravelling the relationships between life history, behaviour and condition
  • Escape ability and risk-taking behaviour in the collared flycatcher
  • Variation in mate quality dependent sex ratio adjustment
  • Reflectance variation in the blue tit crown
  • Acoustic mirrors as sensory traps for bats

Pictures from our life

Audio recording of a frog chorus A mouflon sheep in the nest-box plot A young brown hare in the nest-box plot A brown hare in the nest-box plot Measuring a collared flycatcher Searching for flycatchers Common toad Measuring of a collared flycatcher nestling Taking reflectance spectra of different types of samples Blue tit We take video records of the behaviour of birds Hard work eurasian treecreeper at the entrance of its nest in the nest-box plot Winter in the nest-box plot After freezing rain in the box-plot Őrség, next to the lake where moore frogs courting

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  • Popular Science
  • IFL Science
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  • New Scientist
  • National Geographic

We like these research groups

  • MTA-PE Evolutionary Ecology Research Group
  • Department of Evolutionary Zoology and Human Biology, University of Debrecen
  • Evolutionary Ecology Research Group
  • Evolutionary Ecology Group, Babeş-Bolyai University, Kolozsvár

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EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY
Faculty of Science

Institute of Biology
Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology
Pázmány Péter sétány 1/c.
H-1117 Budapest, Hungary

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