Aquatic Behavioural Ecology
Research area
As long as the human species has existed, we have observed animals because our lives depended on knowledge of animal behaviour.
Also today, the subject has great practical significance and may ultimately lead to control of biological factors in our surroundings, and management of, for example, commercial fishery resources and endangered species.
Animals have evolved behaviours that allow them to grow, survive and reproduce, all under environmental and physiological constraints.
In aquatic environments, behavioural processes range from automated responses to external stimuli to learning and cooperation between individuals.
The aquatic behavioural group studies behavioural adaptations in marine and freshwater parasites, zooplankton and fish and their consequences for ecosystems, management and fish farming.
Combining field studies, laboratory experiments and models we study how organisms respond to the ambient environment (i. e. light conditions, turbidity, hypoxia, temperature), find food, avoid predators and seek out mates.
We have strong links to the research groups in “Modelling”, “Evolutionary ecology”, “Fish Biology", "Ecology and Reproduction”, “Marine Biodiversity” and "Applied Industrial Biology” and have international and national collaborators in The Norwegian-South Africa collaboration, EU, NORFA and NFR.
Current Research Questions
Below you will in the future be able to follow links to some of the research questions we are working on.
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