Advisory Board and Editors Animal Behavior
Clint D Kelly
Canada Research Chair in Behavioural Ecology. Our lab uses an empirical approach to examine a broad set of topics in behavioral and evolutionary ecology, with particular emphasis on the evolution and maintenance of mating systems and strategies, the trade-offs between reproduction and immunity, the evolution of sexual dimorphism and sperm competition.
We test hypotheses in the lab and field using North American gryllid field crickets and the weta of New Zealand as model organisms. In addition to our empirical work, we have a strong interest in reviewing and synthesizing the primary literature using meta-analysis, commenting on statistical issues and analyzing scientific practices.
Mirjam Knörnschild
I am a Senior Scientist leading the Behavioral Ecology and Bioacoustics Lab at the Museum of Natural History in Berlin, Germany, and a Research Associate of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. I hold extensive scientific expertise in acoustic communication, cognition, learning and social behavior of mammals, particularly bats. My research projects are highly interdisciplinary, incorporating behavioral ecology, genetics, neuroethology and biolinguistics. Most of my field work is conducted in the Neotropics and South Africa.
Mei-Chuan Ko
Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. My research interests involve behavioral neuropharmacology of pain and addiction, including 1) biological basis and pharmacotherapy for drug abuse and dependence and 2) neuropharmacological basis of therapeutics of analgesics and antipruritics.
Nicola F Koyama
Nicola Koyama is a Reader in Primate Behaviour at Liverpool John Moores University and Co-Director of the Research Centre for Evolutionary Anthropology and Palaeoecology (2020-24). She is a behavioural ecologist with a research focus on understanding how group-living animals manage their social relationships in response to environmental, social and anthropogenic change. She is the departmental lead for Diversity and Inclusion and is active in translating institutional policies for diversity and inclusion into actionable strategies for cultural change.
Donald L Kramer
Dr. Kramer is Professor Emeritus of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, now living in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He obtained his Ph.D. in Zoology at the University of British Columbia in 1971. Following postdoctoral research at the University of Ghana and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, he was hired by McGill University where he remained until his retirement. He was a founding co-editor of Behavioral Ecology. Research Interests: Habitat selection and spatial distribution, antipredator behavior, foraging, breathing strategies in hypoxic environments, with forays into a variety of other topics. Principal study organisms: fishes (especially in coral reef and tropical freshwater habitats) and sciurid rodents (deciduous temperate forests).
Max R Lambert
I'm an ecologist and environmental scientist who studies a diversity of conservation and restoration issues for biodiversity and ecosystems.
B Duncan X Lascelles
After graduating from the veterinary program at the University of Bristol, U.K., with honors, Dr. Lascelles completed a PhD in aspects of pre-emptive/perioperative analgesia at the University of Bristol. After an internship there, he completed his surgical residency at the University of Cambridge, U.K. and then a Fellowship in Oncological Surgery at Colorado State University. He is currently Professor in Small Animal Surgery and Pain Management at North Carolina State University.
Claudio R. Lazzari
Professor at the University of Tours and researcher at the Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte. Interested on the study of the behavioural physiology of insects, in particular disease vectors, using an integrative approach. orcid.org/0000-0003-3703-0302
Oren Levy
The aim of our research group is to understand the dependency between environmental cues (e.g. light and temperature) that underlie circadian rhythms in symbiotic marine organisms, reef-building corals, in regulating physiology and behavior. Symbiotic corals will serve as a model system to investigate the dependency between two circadian-system associations or non-associations in the simple multicellular organism, on the physiological and molecular levels.
Dongming Li
Dongming Li is a Professor at the College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal University. His research focuses on the mechanisms of how animals adjust their morphology, physiology, and behavior to respond to the changing (or extreme) environments in free-living animals, especially birds.
Mathieu Lihoreau
Dr. Mathieu Lihoreau is CNRS researcher based at the Research Center on Animal Cognition (CRCA) / Center for Integrative Biology (CBI) of the University Paul Sabatier - Toulouse III. His research interests focus on the evolutionary relationships between brains, cognition and sociality.
Marcelo G Lorenzo
Graduated in Biological Science - University of Buenos Aires (1991), Ph.D. in Science - University of Buenos Aires (1997). Developed postdoctoral experience in CPqRR-FIOCRUZ (1999-2002) and Swedish Agricultural University (2009-2011). Associate researcher (between 2002-2006) and senior researcher of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (since then). Main experience in Insect Physiology (emphasis on Behavioral Physiology), acting on the following topics: behavior, pheromones, kairomones, electrophysiology, functional genomics of sensory processes, triatomines, culicids, development of baits and traps for vector control. More than 60 papers published on diverse topics related to insect neuroethology. His research group studies the sensory ecology of disease vectors using a multidisciplinary approach. Research by the group takes advantage of techniques ranging from neurobiology to analytical chemistry, molecular biology and behavior. Editorial board member of PLOS ONE, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Physiological Entomology and Neotropical Entomology. Current Vice-President of Latin American Association of Chemical Ecology and recently elected councilor of the International Society of Chemical Ecology.