Bart Kempenaers

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Bart Kempenaers (born June 4, 1967 in Heist-op-den-Berg ) is a Belgian biologist and ornithologist . He is a professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and director at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen .

Life

In 1989 he completed his biology studies at the University of Limburg and the University of Antwerp . In 1994 he received his PhD from the University of Antwerp. This was followed by post-doctoral positions at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology and at Queen's University in Canada (1995) as well as a position at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Comparative Behavioral Research in Vienna . In 1999 Kempenaers became head of a research group in Seewiesen and in 2003 he became the founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen and has been an honorary professor at the LMU Munich since 2004 . In 2009 he received the New Zealand Julius von Haast Fellowship Award .

Kempenaers researches the evolution of partner choice, partner loyalty and parental brood care in birds. His department investigates why individuals differ in their mating behavior and how this affects their reproductive success and their chances of survival.

Publications (selection)

  • Bart Kempenaers, Geert R. Verheyen, Marleen Van den Broeck, Terry Burke, Christine Van Broeckhoven, André Dhondt (1992): Extra-pair paternity results from female preference for high-quality males in the blue tit , Nature 357, p. 494 -496; doi : 10.1038 / 357494a0 .
  • Bart Kempenaers, Geert R. Verheyen, André A. Dhondt (1997): Extrapair paternity in the blue tit (Parus caeruleus): female choice, male characteristics, and offspring quality , Behavioral Ecology No. 8 (5), p. 481– 492; doi : 10.1093 / beheco / 8.5.481 .
  • Marion Petrie, Bart Kempenaers (1998): Extra-pair paternity in birds: Explaining variation between species and populations , Trends in Ecology & Evolution 13 (2), pp. 52–58; doi : 10.1016 / S0169-5347 (97) 01232-9 .
  • Donald Blomqvist, Malte Andersson, Clemens Küpper, Innes C. Cuthill, János Kis, Richard B. Lanctot, Brett K. Sandercock, Tamás Székely, Johan Wallander, Bart Kempenaers (2002): Genetic similarity between mates and extra-pair parentage in three species of shorebirds , Nature 419 (6907), pp. 613-615; doi : 10.1038 / nature01104 .
  • Katharina Foerster, Kaspar Delhey, Arild Johnsen, Jan T. Lifjeld, Bart Kempenaers (2003): Females increase offspring heterozygosity and fitness through extra-pair matings , Nature 425 (6959), pp. 714-717; doi : 10.1038 / nature01969 .
  • Bart Kempenaers, Pernilla Borgström, Peter Loës, Emmi Schlicht, Mihai Valcu (2010): Artificial Night Lighting Affects Dawn Song, Extra-Pair Siring Success, and Lay Date in Songbirds , Current Biology 20 (19), pp. 1735–1739; doi : 10.1016 / j.cub.2010.08.028 .
  • James Dale, Cody J. Dey, Kaspar Delhey, Bart Kempenaers, Mihai Valcu (2015): The effects of life history and sexual selection on male and female plumage coloration , Nature 527, pp. 367-370; doi : 10.1038 / nature15509 .
  • Martin Bulla, Mihai Valcu, Adriaan M. Dokter, Alexei A. Dondua, András Kosztolányi, Anne Rutten, Barbara Helm, Brett K. Sandercock, Bruce Casler, Bruno J. Ens, Caleb S. Spiegel, Chris J. Hassell, Clemens Küpper , Clive Minton, Daniel Burgas, David B. Lank, David C. Payer, Egor Y. Loktionov, Erica Nol, Eunbi Kwon, Fletcher Smith, H. River Gates, Hana Vitnerová, Hanna Prüter, James A. Johnson, James JH St Clair, Jean-François Lamarre, Jennie Rausch, Jeroen Reneerkens, Jesse R. Conklin, Joana Burger, Joe Liebezeit, Joël Bêty, Jonathan T. Coleman, Jordi Figuerola, Jos CEW Hooijmeijer, José A. Alves, Joseph AM Smith, Karel Weidinger , Kari Koivula, Ken Gosbell, Larry Niles, Laura Koloski, Laura McKinnon, Libor Praus, Marcel Klaassen, Marie-Andrée Giroux, Martin Sládeček, Megan L. Boldenow, Michael Exo, Michael I. Goldstein, Miroslav Šálek, Nathan Senner, Nelli Rönkä, Nicolas Lecomte, Olivier Gilg, Orsolya Vincze, Oscar W. Johnson, Paul A. Smith, Paul F. Woodard, Pavel S. Tomkovich, Phil Battl ey, Rebecca Bentzen, Richard B. Lanctot, Ron Porter, Sarah T. Saalfeld, Scott Freeman, Stephen C. Brown, Stephen Yezerinac, Tamás Székely, Tomás Montalvo, Theunis Piersma, Vanessa Loverti, Veli-Matti Pakanen, Wim Tijsen, Bart Kempenaers (2016): Unexpected diversity in socially synchronized rhythms of shorebirds , Nature 540 (7631), pp. 109-113; doi : 10.1038 / nature20563 .
  • Bart Kempenaers, Mihai Valcu (2017): Breeding site sampling across the Arctic by individual males of a polygynous shorebird , Nature 541, pp. 528-531; doi : 10.1038 / nature20813 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bart Kempenaers website of the Max Planck Society. Retrieved November 7, 2011.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Kempenaers, Bart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian biologist and ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th June 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Heist-op-den-Berg