Browsing by Author "Quispe, René"

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    • Ecological drivers of group living in two populations of the communally rearing rodent, Octodon degus 
      Ebensperger, Luis A.; Sobrero, Raúl; Quirici, Verónica; Castro, Rodrigo A.; Ortiz Tolhuysen, Liliana; Vargas, Francisco; Burger, Joseph Robert; Quispe, René; Villavicencio, Camila P.; Vásquez Salfate, Rodrigo; Hayes, Loren D. (Springer, 2012)
      Intraspecific variation in sociality is thought to reflect a trade-off between current fitness benefits and costs that emerge from individuals' decision to join or leave groups. Since those benefits and costs may be ...
    • Neuroendocrine patterns underlying seasonal song and year-round territoriality in male black redstarts 
      Villavicencio, Camila P.; Windley, Harriet; D’Amelio, Pietro B.; Gahr, Manfred; Goymann, Wolfgang; Quispe, René (BMC, 2021)
      Background The connection between testosterone and territoriality in free-living songbirds has been well studied in a reproductive context, but less so outside the breeding season. To assess the effects of seasonal androgenic ...