Researcher
Marcel Eens
- Research Expertise:Evolutionary biological and Molecular ecological research. Field ecotoxicological and behavioural research in birds.
- Keywords:FISH ECOLOGY, EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY, FIELD ECOTOXICOLOGY, BIOACOUSTICS, BIOMONITORING, Biology
- Disciplines:Animal biology, General biology, Veterinary medicine
- Research techniques:- Description, analysis, and interpretation of behaviour - Bioacoustical analyses - Molecular-ecological analyses - Electrofishing techniques - Biomonitoring
- Users of research expertise:- Environmental and nature administration - Media
Affiliations
- Behavioural Ecology & Ecophysiology (Research group)
Responsible
From1 Oct 2003 → Today
Projects
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- Investigating the role of astronomical light pollution on acoustic and visual communication in nocturnal birds.From1 Nov 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- Mercury exposure, nutritional stress and their combined effect on the susceptibility to a viral disease, physiology, and parental care behaviour: an experimental approach in a wild, long-lived seabird.From1 Nov 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- Serotonergic modulation of the behavioral divergence in Pan: A hologenomics approach.From1 Oct 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO senior postdoctoral fellowship
- Bioavailability and toxicity of legacy and emerging per- and polyfluoralkylated substances (PFAS) in a terrestrial food chain: effects at different levels of biological organisation (BIOTOX-Terra)From1 Jan 2023 → TodayFunding: BOF - projects
- Human biomonitoring study in the vicinity of 3M (Jongerenstudie HBM-3M)From1 Dec 2021 → 31 Mar 2023Funding: Department of Environment
- Unravelling the impact of astronomical light pollution on individual behaviour in a nocturnal bird.From1 Oct 2021 → TodayFunding: FWO junior postdoctoral fellowship
- The female perspective of aggression in a free-living songbird: studying female competitive trait expression within a behavioural syndrome and life history framework.From1 Oct 2021 → TodayFunding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- Research in the Antwerp Primate Ethology & Evolution Lab.From1 Mar 2021 → 28 Feb 2022Funding: Other Flemish scientific institutions
- The gut-brain axis: investigating the gut microbiome and its influence on behavior in the bonobo (Pan paniscus).From1 Nov 2020 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- Unravelling the effects of mercury exposure on the physiological status, senescence, and susceptibility to viral diseases in a long-lived seabird.From1 Nov 2020 → TodayFunding: FWO junior postdoctoral fellowship
Publications
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- Feathers as an integrated measure of organohalogen contamination, its dietary sources and corticosterone in nestlings of a terrestrial bird of prey, the northern Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis)(2022)
Authors: Sina T. Randulff, Naeem A. Abbasi, Igor Eulaers, Torgeir Nygard, Adrian Covaci, Marcel Eens, Malarvannan Govindan, Gilles Lepoint, Mari E. Loseth, Veerle Jaspers
Pages: 1 - 8 - Perfluoroalkylated compounds in the eggs and feathers of resident and migratory seabirds from the Antarctic Peninsula(2022)
Authors: Janeide Padilha, Gabriel O. de Carvalho, Tim Willems, Gilles Lepoint, Larissa Cunha, Adriana R.L. Pessoa, Marcel Eens, Els Prinsen, Erli Costa, João Paulo Torres, et al.
Pages: 1 - 12 - Evaluating self-directed behaviours and their association with emotional arousal across two cognitive tasks in bonobos (**Pan paniscus**)(2022)
Authors: Daan Laméris, Jonas Verspeek, Marina Salas, Nicky Staes, Jonas Torfs, Marcel Eens
Pages: 1 - 15 - Historical museum samples enable the examination of divergent and parallel evolution during invasion(2022)
Authors: Katarina C. Stuart, William B. Sherwin, Jeremy J. Austin, Melissa Bateson, Marcel Eens, Matthew C. Brandley, Lee A. Rollins
Pages: 1836 - 1852 - The role of serotonergic gene methylation in regulating anxiety-related personality traits in chimpanzees(2022)
Authors: Nicky Staes, Elaine E. Guevara, William D. Hopkins, Steven J. Schapiro, Marcel Eens, Chet C. Sherwood, Brenda J. Bradley
Pages: 1 - 14 - Intrinsic individual variation in daily activity onset and plastic responses on temporal but not spatial scales in female great tits(2022)
Authors: Marjolein Meijdam, Wendt Müller, Marcel Eens
Pages: 1 - 9 - Social and nonsocial stimuli alter the performance of bonobos during a pictorial emotional Stroop task(2022)
Authors: Daan Laméris, Jonas Verspeek, Marcel Eens
- Seabirds under environmental pressures(2022)
Authors: Manrico Sebastiano, Marcel Eens, Paco Bustamante, Olivier Chastel, David Costantini
Pages: 1 - 12 - An experimental approach to investigating effects of artificial light at night on free-ranging animals(2022)
Authors: Melissa Grunst, Andrea Grunst, Annie Pinxten, Geert Eens, Marcel Eens
Pages: 1 - 19 - Chimpanzee extraversion scores vary with epigenetic modification of dopamine receptor gene D2 (DRD2) and early rearing conditions(2022)
Authors: Nicky Staes, Cassandra M. White, Elaine E. Guevara, Marcel Eens, William D. Hopkins, Steven J. Schapiro, Chet C. Sherwood, Brenda J. Bradley
Pages: 1701 - 1714
Linked dataset
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- Data from: Group-level variation in co-feeding tolerance between two sanctuary-housed communities of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) (Creator)
- Data from: Variable and consistent traffic noise negatively affect the sleep behavior of a free-living songbird (Creator)
- Glucocorticoids link forest type to local abundance in tropical birds (Creator)
- Data from: Early-life exposure to artificial light at night elevates physiological stress in free-living songbirds (Creator)
- Pathways linking female personality with reproductive success are trait and year-specific (Creator)
- Dataset Disruptive effects of light pollution on sleep in free-living birds: season and/or light intensity-dependent? (Creator)