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Overview

Julia Ostner is affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of psychology and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions to social psychology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, developmental biology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and behavioral neuroscience.

Their work extensively addresses topics related to primate behavior and ecology, animal behavior and reproduction, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, animal vocal communication and behavior, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, stress responses and cortisol, and wildlife ecology and conservation.

Julia Ostner's recent papers include:

  • "Bonds of bros and brothers: Kinship and social bonding in postdispersal male macaques" (2020) published in Molecular Ecology
  • "Aging gut microbiota of wild macaques are equally diverse, less stable, but progressively personalized" (2022) published in Microbiome
  • "Factors influencing terrestriality in primates of the Americas and Madagascar" (2022) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Quantifying within-group variation in sociality-covariation among metrics and patterns across primate groups and species" (2022) published in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
  • "Fermented food consumption in wild nonhuman primates and its ecological drivers" (2021) published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Ostner include:

  • Oliver Schülke
  • Michael Heistermann
  • Claudia Fichtel
  • Peter M. Kappeler
  • Julia Fischer

Their publications are commonly featured in journals such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Hormones and Behavior, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, American Journal of Primatology, and Microbiome.

Best Publications

  • Social Bonds Enhance Reproductive Success in Male Macaques

    Oliver Schülke;Jyotsna Bhagavatula;Linda Vigilant;Julia Ostner

  • Responses to social and environmental stress are attenuated by strong male bonds in wild macaques.

    Christopher Young;Christopher Young;Bonaventura Majolo;Michael Heistermann;Oliver Schülke

  • Dominance, aggression and physiological stress in wild male Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis)

    Julia Ostner;Michael Heistermann;Oliver Schülke;Oliver Schülke

  • Female reproductive synchrony predicts skewed paternity across primates

    Julia Ostner;Charles Lindsay Nunn;Oliver Schülke

  • Linking Sociality to Fitness in Primates: A Call for Mechanisms

    Julia Ostner;Julia Ostner;Oliver Schülke;Oliver Schülke

  • Social bonds predict future cooperation in male Barbary macaques, Macaca sylvanus

    Andreas Berghänel;Julia Ostner;Uta Schröder;Oliver Schülke

  • Locomotor play drives motor skill acquisition at the expense of growth: A life history trade-off.

    Andreas Berghänel;Oliver Schülke;Julia Ostner;Julia Ostner

  • Androgen and glucocorticoid levels reflect seasonally occurring social challenges in male redfronted lemurs (Eulemur fulvus rufus)

    Julia Ostner;Peter Kappeler;Michael Heistermann

  • The relative importance of intra- and intersexual selection on human male sexually dimorphic traits

    Tobias L. Kordsmeyer;John Hunt;David A. Puts;Julia Ostner

  • Seasonal variation and social correlates of androgen excretion in male redfronted lemurs (Eulemur fulvus rufus)

    Julia Ostner;Peter M. Kappeler;Michael Heistermann

  • Ecological and social influences on sociality

    Oliver Schülke;Julia Ostner

  • Prenatal stress accelerates offspring growth to compensate for reduced maternal investment across mammals.

    Andreas Berghänel;Michael Heistermann;Oliver Schülke;Julia Ostner;Julia Ostner

  • The evolution of social bonds in primate males

    Julia Ostner;Oliver Schülke

  • Male life history and the unusual adult sex ratios of redfronted lemur, Eulemur fulvus rufus, groups

    Julia Ostner;Peter M Kappeler

  • Food abundance affects energy intake and reproduction in frugivorous female Assamese macaques

    Marlies Heesen;Sebastian Rogahn;Julia Ostner;Oliver Schülke

  • Central males instead of multiple pairs in redfronted lemurs, Eulemur fulvus rufus (Primates, Lemuridae)?

    Julia Ostner;Peter M. Kappeler

  • Stable heterosexual associations in a promiscuous primate

    Julia Ostner;Linda Vigilant;Jyotsna Bhagavatula;Mathias Franz

  • Reproductive and Life History Parameters of Wild Female Macaca assamensis

    Ines Fürtbauer;Oliver Schülke;Michael Heistermann;Julia Ostner

  • Personality structure and social style in macaques

    Mark James Adams;Bonaventura Majolo;Julia Ostner;Oliver Schülke

  • Male competition and its hormonal correlates in Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis)

    Julia Ostner;Michael Heistermann;Oliver Schülke

  • Prenatal stress effects in a wild, long-lived primate: predictive adaptive responses in an unpredictable environment.

    Andreas Berghänel;Michael Heistermann;Oliver Schülke;Julia Ostner;Julia Ostner

Frequent Co-Authors

Oliver Schülke
Oliver Schülke University of Göttingen
Michael Heistermann
Michael Heistermann German Primate Center
Bonaventura Majolo
Bonaventura Majolo University of Lincoln
Peter M. Kappeler
Peter M. Kappeler German Primate Center
Lars Penke
Lars Penke University of Göttingen
Christina Strube
Christina Strube University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation
Dietmar Zinner
Dietmar Zinner German Primate Center
Charles L. Nunn
Charles L. Nunn Duke University
Claudia Fichtel
Claudia Fichtel German Primate Center
Cyril C. Grueter
Cyril C. Grueter University of Western Australia

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