Research output per year
Research output per year
prof. dr. ir.
I am an integrative behavioural and evolutionary ecologist studying the evolution of social behaviour and life history patterns in social animals, with the goal of discovering why and how animals cooperate or compete with each other. My research focuses on behaviour as this is the level at which organisms interact most directly with their physical and social environment. I integrate empirical and theoretical studies to obtain deeper knowledge of the evolution of adaptive behavioural responses. I focus on long-term studies of wild birds in naturally varying environments; these are complemented with experimental studies at the individual and local population levels. Starting in 1985, I established one of the best known model systems in evolutionary ecology: the Seychelles warbler. Warblers normally produce one chick per nest and can be cooperative breeders, in which more than two individuals are engaged in raising the single offspring. My research focuses on two groups of questions:
What drives the evolution of group living and cooperative breeding?
What drives the evolution of sex allocation?
I publish regularly in the fields of evolutionary biology, behavioural biology, zoology, ecology, and genetics, but also in theoretical biology, biodiversity conservation, environmental sciences, immunology and endocrinology, and occasionally in psychology, molecular biology and medical science. Starting January 2020, I am a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Behavioral Ecology.
No external positions
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › Academic
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Komdeur, J., Vásquez Salfate, R. & Churchill, J.
01/10/2022 → 01/10/2025
Project: Research
Weissing, F., Komdeur, J. & Riederer, J.
01/09/2020 → 01/09/2024
Project: Research
Pen, I., Beukeboom, L., Komdeur, J. & Kreider, J.
01/07/2020 → 01/07/2024
Project: Research
Komdeur, J., Groothuis, T., Vásquez Salfate, R. & Birker-Wegter, M.
01/07/2017 → 01/11/2024
Project: Research
Komdeur, J., Weissing, F. & Borger, M.
01/03/2019 → 01/03/2023
Project: Research
Stephen Salazar (Speaker), Kasper Hlebowicz (Contributor), Jan Komdeur (Contributor) & Peter Korsten (Contributor)
Activity: Talk and presentation › Academic presentation › Academic
Mirjam Borger (Speaker), Jan Komdeur (Contributor), David S. Richardson (Contributor) & Franz Weissing (Contributor)
Activity: Talk and presentation › Academic presentation › Academic
Sjouke Anne Kingma (Speaker), Kat Bebbington (Speaker), Martijn Hammers (Contributor), Frank Groenewoud (Contributor), Hannah Dugdale (Contributor), Marco van der Velde (Contributor), Michael Taborsky (Contributor), Terry Burke (Contributor), Franz J. Weissing (Contributor), David S. Richardson (Contributor) & Jan Komdeur (Contributor)
Activity: Talk and presentation › Academic presentation › Academic
Jan Komdeur (Member)
Activity: Membership › Academic
Troy G Murphy (Speaker), Peter Korsten (Contributor), Martje Birker (Contributor), Reinaldo Marfull Castro (Contributor) & Jan Komdeur (Contributor)
Activity: Talk and presentation › Academic presentation › Academic
Vedder, O. (Creator), Magrath, M. (Creator), van der Velde, M. (Creator) & Komdeur, J. (Creator), University of Groningen, 11-Sept-2013
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.b6428
Dataset
Hammers, M. (Creator), Kingma, S. A. (Creator), Spurgin, L. (Creator), Bebbington, K. (Creator), Dugdale, H. (Creator), Burke, T. (Creator), Komdeur, J. (Supervisor) & Richardson, D. S. (Creator), University of Groningen, 21-Feb-2019
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7751099.v1
Dataset
van Boheemen, L. (Creator), Hammers, M. (Creator), Kingma, S. A. (Creator), Richardson, D. S. (Creator), Burke, T. (Creator), Komdeur, J. (Creator) & Dugdale, H. (Creator), University of Groningen, 16-Aug-2018
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.6977564.v1, https://github.com/Seychelle-Warbler-Project/vanBoheemen_Lotte/
Dataset
Busana, M. (Creator), Weissing, F. (Creator), Hammers, M. (Creator), Bakker, J. (Creator), Dugdale, H. (Creator), Raj Pant, S. (Creator), Richardson, D. S. (Creator), Burke, T. A. (Creator) & Komdeur, J. (Creator), University of Groningen, 4-Nov-2021
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.jm63xsjc6 , https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.jm63xsjc6
Dataset
Davies, C. (Contributor), Taylor, M. (Contributor), Hammers, M. (Contributor), Burke, T. (Contributor), Komdeur, J. (Contributor), Dugdale, H. (Contributor) & Richardson, D. (Contributor), University of Groningen, 4-May-2021
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.m905qfv06, https://zenodo.org/record/4723917
Dataset
Jia Zheng, Jan Komdeur & Emiel Zuidema
14/05/2022 → 17/05/2022
4 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research › Academic
02/03/2022 → 03/03/2022
11 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research › Academic
15/10/2021
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research › Professional
07/10/2020
2 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other › Professional