Insights into Fish Ecophysiology: The links between environment, physiology and behavior in fish
Abstract: Animals need to constantly allocate energy among essential functions, such as foraging, learning or other behaviors, reproduction and growth, under the constraints imposed by their environment. Environmental conditions determine resource availability and accessibility, but also directly influence physiological processes such as metabolic rate (e.g. through temperature). Together, these factors shape overall animal energetics, with potential consequences for behavior. In this talk, I will summarize examples from different studies: (i) showing how physiological measurements can help to detect and characterize specific behaviors in fish; (ii) illustrating how the relationship between physiology and behavior can be context-dependent; (iii) discussing how environmental conditions can influence fish physiology with downstream effects on behavior.
Speaker: Daphne Cortese, new Group Leader in the Department Fish Biology, Fisheries and Aquaculture
IGB Colloquia open up!
IGB strives to facilitate and accelerate the exchange of knowledge and ideas within and also outside of IGB. One element contributing to inter- and transdisciplinary exchange, and more (scientific) cooperation and innovation, is to open up IGB Colloquia to an interested external audience from science (other research institutes, universities, laboratories) as well as practice (i.e. conservationists, freshwater/land-use managers, authorities, associations). If you would like to join this IGB Colloquium as a guest, we ask you to register until the morning of the colloquium 10 o'clock the latest. After we have checked your registration, you will receive the participation link.
