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As usual, the Winter meeting will be held in early December at the Zoological Society of London Meeting Rooms, Regent's Park, London, UK. The meeting will be organized by Sasha Dall, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, UK.
The full meeting programme is now available for download.
Specialisation is a major driver of biodiversity. This is because, at its heart, speciation is synonymous with reproductive specialisation within lineages. Moreover, since behavioural change often precedes change in gene frequencies, the factors promoting behavioural specialisation within populations deserve specific attention. In this meeting researchers investigating individual specialisations from three distinct perspectives will be brought together: individual niche specialisations, animal personality differences and the divisions of labour within animal societies.
Invited speakers:
- Daniel Bolnick (Univ Texas, Austin, USA): Ecological and evolutionary forces maintaining niche variation within populations
- Alison Bell (Univ Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA): Causes and consequences of individual differences in behaviour in threespined sticklebacks
- Francis Ratnieks (Univ Sussex, UK): Specialization and optimization of reproduction and work in insect societies
The meeting also features the annual Tinbergen lecture, this year given by Kate Lessells, of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Heteren, The Netherlands.
Traditionally, this conference is open to all with an interest in the field. Registration is free and will be open throughout the conference.
Presentations at ASAB meetings are assumed to comply with the Society's standards of scientific integrity (available here) and are subject to ethical scrutiny in the same way as papers published in Animal Behaviour. All work presented should therefore conform to ASAB/ABS's Guidelines for the Treatment of Animals in Research (available from the Ethics page). This should be confirmed by agreeing to the Ethical Statement on the abstract submission form.
For further information, please see the dedicated conference web site, or contact the conference organizer: S.R.X.Dall@exeter.ac.uk.
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