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Liz is a lecturer at Eötvös University in Budapest, Hungary. Her research interests include theroetical and general ecology, parental care of hole-nesting birds and density dependent life-history adaptations. Liz has just finished editing a textbook in general ecology.

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Andrew Gosler is a University Research Lecturer studying of Great Tits in Wytham Woods since 1981 and broadly concerned with aspects of local adaptation in the tits including eco-morphology, studies of body condition, winter fattening etc. and eggshell pigmentation in relation to local variation in nutrients such as calcium. His teaching includes lecturing in Biological Conservation for the Institute of Human Sciences, and the practical training of bird ringing to graduate students in the EGI. He has chaired the Bird Ringing Committee of the BTO, and edited the BTO’s journal Bird Study (1993-1998), and Ibis for the BOU (1998-2006). He was elected to the International Ornithological Committee of the IOC in 2002, and am President of the Oxford Ornithological Society.

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Major interests include climate change and birds, effects of air pollution on birds, ecology of the annual cycle of birds, migration ecology of passerine birds wintering in the tropics and the history of Finnish birds and ornithology.

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Marcel’s research interests include evolutionary ecology, behavioural ecology and ecophysiology. Specific themes of his research are Population biology, Adaptation, Life history, Reproduction, Survival, Phenotypic plasticity, Traits development, Traits selection, Genetic determinism, Global change, Mediterranean constraints and Habitat heterogeneity. He is particularly interested in Monitoring of individually-marked individuals in the framework of long-term investigations and investigations in standardised conditions.

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Simon's research interests revolve around the two main life history trade-offs: between number and quality of offspring, and between current and future reproduction. More specifically, we are interested in the behavioural and physiological mechanisms mediating these trade-offs, and currently focus our work on the potential role of oxidative stress. Energy expenditure is a related research interest, as a potential proxy for free radical production as well as food requirements. We collect our data in the field (jackdaws, great tits, oystercatchers) and in the lab (zebra finches). More information here.

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I am professor in the Evolutionary Ecology Group at the University of Antwerp since 1994. My research interests are in evolutionary ecology, behavioural ecology and population biology in general. One of the main themes in my research is dispersal and its relation with population structure, particularly in fragmented habitats, which we study from various angles including behaviour, demography, genetics and landscape structure. My personal expertise is largely with ecology and behaviour of songbirds including field projects in Belgium (great and blue tits, long-term study sites since 1979) and Kenya (Taita Hills). My teaching in the Biology Bachelor and Master programmes includes Behavioural Ecology, Ornithology, Evolutionary Ecology and Applied Population Biology.

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Tomasz is is a professor at the University of Wroclaw, Poland. For over 30 years he has studied the ecology, behaviour and adaptations of woodland birds living in primeval conditions (Bialowieza Forest, NE Poland). He also does some work on forest trees and instects in relation to birds' requirements and on the evolution of parental care in birds. He is deeply involved with conservation activities, especially the preservation of primeval forest remnants.

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Vice Head of College, science Engineering and Food science, Associate Professor of Zoology, Ecology and Plant Science, 2004-present. Senior Lecturer in Zoology, Ecology, Plant Science, Jan1999-Dec 2003; Visiting Professor Of Biology Colby College , Maine, USA , July 1998-Dec 1998; College Lecturer, September 1989-Dec 1998; Post Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Wales, College of Cardiff , Feb 1988-Sept 1989; Ph.D., 1987, National University of Ireland , Cork; Editor Bird Study 1998-2004. John's research interests include avian ecotoxicology and applied ornithology.  Current projects include a 20 year study on population dynamics of dippers, Cinclus cinlcus, contaminants and their effects on Mute Cygnus olor and Whooper swans Cygnus cygnus, Barn Owls, Tyto alba. He also directs a large project on forest ecology including work on bird communities and Hen Harriers.

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I have been working at the Swiss Ornithological Institute since 1990 and am currently leading the conservation assessment unit and am deputy head of bird monitoring. I am also coordinating the national waterbird monitoring programme. My interest has always been in applied research projects, starting with effects of human recreation activities on great crested grebes for my PhD, followed by projects on pink-footed geese and eiders in Scotland and on interactions with wildlife and traffic. As president of Ala, the Swiss Society for the Study and Conservation of Birds, I am chairing the local organising committee of the EOU conference in 2009. www.vogelwarte.ch