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Overview

Niels Jeroen Dingemanse is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their research spans several main fields of study, including Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant focus on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior, and Systematics.

The scientist's work covers a range of subfields such as Ecology, Genetics, Global and Planetary Change, and Parasitology, highlighting a multidisciplinary approach within biological and environmental sciences.

Dingemanse's research topics include:

  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Amphibian and Reptile Biology
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change

They have contributed multiple papers to various scientific venues. Some recent publications include:

  • "Robustness of linear mixed-effects models to violations of distributional assumptions" (2020), Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • "A guide for studying among-individual behavioral variation from movement data in the wild" (2020), Movement Ecology
  • "Criteria for acceptable studies of animal personality and behavioural syndromes" (2020), Ethology
  • "Continent-wide genomic signatures of adaptation to urbanisation in a songbird across Europe" (2021), Nature Communications
  • "Connecting the data landscape of long-term ecological studies: The SPI-Birds data hub" (2020), Journal of Animal Ecology

Frequent publication venues for Dingemanse include:

  • Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Behavioral Ecology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
  • Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Dingemanse often collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Alexia Mouchet (13 co-authored works)
  • David F. Westneat (8 co-authored works)
  • Yimen G. Araya-Ajoy (8 co-authored works)
  • Jonathan Wright (6 co-authored works)
  • Erik Matthysen (6 co-authored works)

Best Publications

  • Integrating animal temperament within ecology and evolution.

    Denis Réale;Simon M. Reader;Simon M. Reader;Daniel Sol;Daniel Sol;Peter T. McDougall

  • Behavioural reaction norms: animal personality meets individual plasticity

    Niels Jeroen Dingemanse;Anahita J. N. Kazem;Denis Réale;Jonathan Wright

  • Robustness of linear mixed-effects models to violations of distributional assumptions

    Holger Schielzeth;Niels J. Dingemanse;Shinichi Nakagawa;David F. Westneat

  • Fitness consequences of avian personalities in a fluctuating environment

    Niels Jeroen Dingemanse;Christiaan Both;Piet J. Drent;Joost M. Tinbergen

  • Quantifying individual variation in behaviour: mixed-effect modelling approaches

    Niels Jeroen Dingemanse;Niels Jeroen Dingemanse;Ned A. Dochtermann

  • Natural selection and animal personality

    Niels Jeroen Dingemanse;Denis Réale

  • Repeatability and heritability of exploratory behaviour in great tits from the wild

    Niels Jeroen Dingemanse;Christiaan Both;Piet J. Drent;Kees van Oers

  • Natal dispersal and personalities in great tits (Parus major)

    Niels Jeroen Dingemanse;Christiaan Both;Arie J. van Noordwijk;Anne L. Rutten

  • Behavioural syndromes differ predictably between 12 populations of three‐spined stickleback

    Niels Jeroen Dingemanse;Jonathan Wright;Anahita J. N. Kazem;Dawn K. Thomas

  • Animal personality and state–behaviour feedbacks: a review and guide for empiricists

    Andrew Sih;Kimberley J. Mathot;Maria Moiron;Pierre-Olivier Montiglio

  • Recent models for adaptive personality differences: a review

    Niels Jeroen Dingemanse;Max Wolf

  • Evolutionary and ecological approaches to the study of personality

    Denis Réale;Niels Jeroen Dingemanse;Anahita J. N. Kazem;Jonathan Wright

  • Between-individual differences in behavioural plasticity within populations: causes and consequences

    Niels Jeroen Dingemanse;Max Wolf

  • Adaptive responses of animals to climate change are most likely insufficient

    Viktoriia Radchuk;Thomas Reed;Céline Teplitsky;Martijn van der Pol

  • Pairs of extreme avian personalities have highest reproductive success

    Christiaan Both;Niels Jeroen Dingemanse;Piet J. Drent;Joost M. Tinbergen

  • The relation between dominance and exploratory behavior is context-dependent in wild great tits

    Niels Jeroen Dingemanse;P. de Goede

  • Pace-of-life syndromes: a framework for the adaptive integration of behaviour, physiology and life history

    Melanie Dammhahn;Niels J. Dingemanse;Petri T. Niemelä;Denis Réale

  • Parasitism and the evolutionary ecology of animal personality

    Iain Barber;Niels Jeroen Dingemanse

  • Sampling bias resulting from animal personality.

    P. A. Biro;Niels Jeroen Dingemanse

  • Variation in personality and behavioural plasticity across four populations of the great tit Parus major

    Niels Jeroen Dingemanse;Niels Jeroen Dingemanse;Karen M. Bouwman;Martijn van de Pol;Thijs van Overveld

  • Individual experience and evolutionary history of predation affect expression of heritable variation in fish personality and morphology

    Niels J Dingemanse;Fons Van der Plas;Jonathan Wright;Denis Réale

Frequent Co-Authors

Bart Kempenaers
Bart Kempenaers Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Denis Réale
Denis Réale University of Quebec at Montreal
Jonathan Wright
Jonathan Wright Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Shinichi Nakagawa
Shinichi Nakagawa University of New South Wales
Marcel E. Visser
Marcel E. Visser University of Groningen
Blandine Doligez
Blandine Doligez Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Joost M. Tinbergen
Joost M. Tinbergen University of Groningen
David F. Westneat
David F. Westneat University of Kentucky
Christiaan Both
Christiaan Both University of Groningen
Michaela Hau
Michaela Hau University of Konstanz

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