IMPRS for Quantitative Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution

Publications

Make sure to recognise the IMPRS in the affiliations and the acknowledgements of any form of publication, presentation, and poster. IMPRS-QBEE logos are provided under links and downloads.

Affiliations
In your affiliations, please always include your University or Univeristies (for most of you, this will be U KN) and your grad school, the IMPRS. Only if you are an MPI-AB PhD student, please also include the MPI-AB. Your full affiliation may look like this:

1^st: Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, 78464 Konstanz, Germany
2^nd: International Max Planck Research School for Quantitative Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution, Konstanz
3^rd:Additionally and only if you are a MPI-AB PhD student, please also add either of these:
Department of Collective Behavior, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, 78315 Radolfzell, Germany or
Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, 78315 Radolfzell, Germany or
Department Migration, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, 78315 Radolfzell, Germany

Acknowledgement / Funding
Since all of you receive financial support via the IMPRS, please include the following statement:
“This study was partially supported by the International Max Planck Research School for Quantitative Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution (IMPRS-QBEE).”

Publication fees
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Abdu, S.; Chimento, M.; Alarcon-Nieto, G.; Wanelik, K. M.; Farine, D. R.; Brandl, H. B.; Aplin, L. M.: Parasitic infection is associated with reduced latency to socially learn a novel foraging task. Royal Society Open Science 13 (4), 252220 (2026)

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Alarcon-Nieto, G.; Maldonado-Chaparro, A. A.; Bosque, C.; Kümmeth, F.; Safi, K.; Wikelski, M.: Oilbirds performing non-seasonal intra-tropical migrations reduce flight effort compared to individuals that frequently return to the colony roost. BMC Movement Ecology 14 (1), 53 (2026)

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Capelle, M. Q.; Slangewal, K.; Eleftheriadis, P. E.; Bahl, A.: Behavioral algorithms of ontogenetic switching in larval and juvenile zebrafish phototaxis. iScience 29 (6), 116190 (2026)

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Cepeda-Duque, J. C.; López-Barrera, A. M.; Arango-Correa, E.; Hernández-Fitzgerald, J. F.; López-Velasco, V.; Fox-Rosales, L. A.; de Oliveira, T. G.: Natives against invaders: shared use of space and temporal segregation of Clouded Tiger-Cats (Leopardus pardinoides) and domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) in an isolated protected area. Ecology and Evolution 16 (6), e73770 (2026)

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Cepeda-Duque, J. C.; López-Velasco, V.; Arango-Correa, E.; López-Barrera, A. M.; Fox-Rosales, L. A.; Lizcano, D. J.: Influential drivers in the occupancy and activity of the last megaherbivore from the Northwestern Andean cloud forest of Colombia. Mammalian Biology 106, pp. 41 - 56 (2026)

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Faiss, M.; Ghani, B.; Stowell, D.: A dataset of insect sounds from 459 species for bioacoustic machine learning. Scientific Data 13 (1), 499 (2026)

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Fox-Rosales, L. A.; Monteza-Moreno, C. M.; Jansen, P. A.; McLean, K.; Castillo-Caballero, P. L.; Crofoot, M. C.: Does predation risk constrain behavior in prey species? A test with five species of Neotropical forest mammals. Journal of Mammalogy (2026)

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Harrison, M. E.; de Andrade, A. C.; Lokuciejewski, E.; Allen, G.; Imron, M. A.: Impacts of fire and haze on non-human primates. Global Ecology and Conservation 68, e04248 (2026)

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Jordan, A.; Lein, E.; Ma, B.; Bose, A. P. H.: Societies of the shell-dwelling cichlid Neolamprologus multifasciatus. Animal Behaviour 231, 123407 (2026)

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Knöpfle, M.; Jordan, A.: Tactile behaviour in a marine producer–scrounger feeding aggregation. Animal Behaviour, 123487 (2026)

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Lundquist, U. P. S.; Afridi, S.; Berthelot, C.; Ngoc Dat, N.; Hlebowicz, K.; Iannino, E.; Laporte-Devylder, L.; Maalouf, G.; May, G.; Meier, K. et al.; Molina Catricheo, C. A.; Rolland, E. G. A.; Rondeau Saint-Jean, C.; Shukla, V.; Burghardt, T.; Christensen, A. L.; Costelloe, B. R.; Damen, M.; Flack, A.; Jensen, K.; Midtiby, H. S.; Mirmehdi, M.; Remondino, F.; Richardson, T.; Risse, B.; Tuia, D.; Wahlberg, M.; Cawthorne, D.; Bullock, S.; Njoroge, W.; Mutisya, S.; Watson, M.; Pastucha, E.: WildDrone: autonomous drone technology for monitoring wildlife populations. Frontiers in Robotics and AI 12 (2026)

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Mudunuri, A.; Zadigue-Dubé, É.; Vogt, K.: Multimodal social context modulates larval behavior in Drosophila. Science Advances 12 (5), eady0750 (2026)

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Schäfer-Zimmermann, J. C.; Demartsev, V.; Averly, B.; Dhanjal-Adams, K. L.; Duteil, M.; Gall, G. E. C.; Faiss, M.; Johnson-Ulrich, L.; Stowell, D.; Manser, M. B. et al.; Roch, M. A.; Strandburg-Peshkin, A.: animal2vec and MeerKAT: A self-supervised transformer for rare-event raw audio input and a large-scale reference dataset for bioacoustics. Methods in Ecology and Evolution (2026)

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Slania, N. E.; Gómez-Muñoz, M.; Piephoh, A.-S.; Muhumuza, G.; Young, R.; Revathe, T.; Hobaiter, C.; Zuberbühler, K.; Schuppli, C.: Chimpanzee culture beyond the conspicuous: Evidence for broad-scale observational social learning in wild individuals. iScience 29 (6), 115922 (2026)

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Spaethe, J.; Hutzenthaler, S.; Dietz, A.; Gehrig, K.; Foster, J.; Stöckl, A.: Bees flexibly adjust decision strategies to information content in a foraging task. Science Advances 12 (9), eadw9320 (2026)

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Mearns, D. S.; Hunt, S. A.; Schneider, M. W.; Parker, A. V.; Stemmer, M.; Baier, H.: Diverse prey capture strategies in teleost larvae. eLife 13, RP98347 (2025)

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Balduccio, N.; Bessone, M.; Iannarilli, F.; Rovero, F.; Fruth, B.: Long-term research presence mitigates hunting pressure and shapes mammal communities in the Congo Basin. Biological Conservation 312, 111502 (2025)

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Barrett, B. J.; Fiedler, W.; Frisoni, F.; Goldsborough, Z.; Mueller, I.; Safi, K.; Wikelski, M.; Zuniga, D.: Burden of a failed error culture in biologging. Animal Behaviour 230, 123388 (2025)

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Brønnvik, H.; Flack, A.: Experience and motivation shape the flight performance of white storks migrating long-distance. Current Biology 35 (15), pp. 3736 - 3744.e2 (2025)

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Freymann, E.; Hobaiter, C.; Huffman, M. A.; Klein, H.; Muhumuza, G.; Reynolds, V.; Slania, N. E.; Soldati, A.; Yikii, E. R.; Zuberbühler, K. et al.; Carvalho, S.: Self-directed and prosocial wound care, snare removal, and hygiene behaviors amongst the Budongo chimpanzees. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 13, 1540922 (2025)

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