Tracing evolution of annual timing in a long distance migratory song bird: A combined natural behaviour and neuro-genetics approach

A major challenge in this era of global change is predicting the possibilities and the limits of organisms to adapt to human induced environmental change. This PhD-project investigates how a long-distance migratory bird adapts its timing to the advancing phenology of its breeding area. This project seeks proof for evolutionary adjustment by combining field and lab-work on the proximate mechanisms underlying individual and population variation in annual time schedules.