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Biológiai Intézet Szervezeti egységek Behavioural Biology Research Group

Behavioural Biology Research Group

Research group leader:

Dr. András Kosztolányi, associate professor

Researchers:

Research topic:

Investigation of sexual selection, sexual conflict and cooperation between individuals. Investigation of the evolution of reproductive systems and parental care. Investigation of the impact of social networks, animal personalities and social learning on reproductive behaviour. Investigation of factors influencing feeding decisions. Survival analysis and population viability (PVA) studies. Observational and experimental studies are mostly carried out at various field sites in Hungary and abroad and occasionally in laboratory populations on birds, butterflies and beetles.

Memberships:

  • Magyar Etológiai Társaság
  • Magyar Madártani és Természetvédelmi Egyesület
  • Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour
  • International Society for Behavioral Ecology
  • British Ecological Society

Cooperations:

  • University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria
  • University of Oxford, UK
  • University of Bath, UK
  • Büro für ökologische Forschung und Planung GEYER & DOLEK, Wörthsee, Germany

Selected publications:

  1. McDonald, G.C., Barta, Z., Caspers, B.A., Székely, T., Kosztolányi, A., 2024. Sex roles in parental care in a species with precocial offspring and frequent brood desertion. Animal Behaviour, 215, 211–225. D1
  2. Fresneau, N., Pipoly, I., Gigler, D., Kosztolányi, A., Székely, T., Liker, A., 2024. The evolution of sex roles: the importance of ecology and social environment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 121, e2321294121. D1
  3. Carleial, R., Pizzari, T., Richardson, D.S., McDonald G.C., 2023. Disentangling the causes of temporal variation in the opportunity for sexual selection. Nature Communications 14, 1006 D1
  4. McDonald, G.C., Cuthill, I.C., Székely, T., Kosztolányi, A., 2023. Remating opportunities and low costs underlie maternal desertion. Evolution, 77, 97–109. D1
  5. Gór, Á., Lang, Z., Pásztor, K., Szigeti, V., Vajna, F., Kis, J., 2023. Mate‐guarding success depends on male investment in a butterfly. Ecology and Evolution, 13, e10533. Q1