Topics At Behavior Conference Include Hermaphrodites, Predatory Actions And Fertility Decline

Behavior spanning the wide spectrum of the animal and human world will be examined at the 12th International Behavioral Ecology Congress, hosted by the International Society for Behavioral Ecology, on Aug. 10 -14, 2008, at Cornell University in Ithaca.



In addition to talks and poster sessions, the congress will feature plenary sessions on:
Suzanne Alonzo, assistant professor ecology and evolutionary biology, Yale University, on "When Theory Meets Data: What We Don't Know About Sexual Selection and Mating Systems,"


Nico Michiels, professor in zoology at the University Tuebingen, Germany, on "Hermaphrodites: Sexual Opportunists with a Long Term Problem,"


Ben Hatchwell, professor, animal and plant sciences, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, on "Kinship, Cooperation And Population Structure In Social Birds,"


Yael Lubin, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University, Israel, on "Evolution of sociality in spiders,"


Ken Catania, associate professor of biological sciences, Vanderbilt University, on "A Sensory Arms Race? - The Senses and Predatory Behaviors of Shrews and Moles," and


Ruth Mace, professor of evolutionary anthropology, Oxford University, United Kingdom, on "The Behavioral Ecology of Fertility Decline."





The program Web site: isbe2008cornell/program_talk.php



Source: Blaine Friedlander


Cornell University Communications