Konrad Lorenz Institute for Ethology




	A scientific institute devoted to the study of animal behavior, ecology, and evolutionary biology. We are located in the outskirts of Vienna, Austria, in the beautiful Vienna Woods.

	Konrad Lorenz Institute for Ethology
	an Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

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Upcoming Seminars
	January, 27 Ulf DIECKMANN IIASA Laxenburg, A Dynamics at the interface of Ecology and Evolution
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Most Recent Publications
	Moodley, Y., et al. (2009): The Peopling of the Pacific from a Bacterial Perspective. Science 323: 527-530. doi: 10.1126/science.1166083
	Ilmonen, P., Stundner, G., Thoß, M. & Penn, D.J. (2009): Females prefer the scent of outbred males: good-genes-as-heterozygosity? BMC Evolutionary Biology 9:104 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-104
	Mery, F., Varela, S.A.M., Danchin, E., Blanchet, S., Parejo, D., Coolen, I. & Wagner, R.H. (2009): Public versus personal information for mate copying in an invertebrate. Current Biology 19: 730-734. DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2009.02.064 See also a commentary on this paper: Leadbeater E. 2009. Social Learning: What Do Drosophila Have to Offer? Current Biology 19: R378-R380. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.03.016
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	Sparkling Science "Sparkling Science - a new challenge: Science linking with school. The influence of climatic factors on our environment, in particular bird behavior and reproduction is the interest of a KLIVV project undertaken together with a school. Sponsored by BM.W_F."
	Behavioural Ecology Richard H. Wagner has coauthored three chapters in the new Oxford University Press textbook, Behavioural Ecology: Chapter 4: An information driven approach to behaviour Chapter 14: Animal aggregations: Hypotheses and Controversies Chapter 20: Cultural evolution
	Evolutionary Perspectives on Environmental Problems A new reader, edited by D. Penn and I. Mysterud, brings together many important papers that take an evolutionary perspective on behavior in order to better understand why humans are often so environmentally short-sighted (Forward by E.O. Wilson).
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