Dr Rick Bruintjes

Research summary

My main interests lie in Behavioural Ecology. Specifically, I am interesting in the evolution of cooperative breeding and the impact of anthropogenic (man-made) noise on behaviour and physiology. Many factors ...

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Biography

I started studying Biology in 1998 at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) and completed my MSc in 2003. My first lab based Masters project, dealt with sex-ratio adjustment and ...

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Memberships

School of Biological Sciences

Groups

• Behaviour, Sensory and Neurobiology

Labs

• Bioacoustics and Behavioural Ecology

Selected publications

• Bruintjes, R, Hekman, R & Taborsky, M 2010, ‘Experimental global food reduction raises resource acquisition costs of brood care helpers and reduces their helping effort’. Functional Ecology, vol 24., pp. 1054 - 1063
• Bruintjes, R, Bonfils, D, Heg, D & Taborsky, M 2011, ‘Paternity of Subordinates Raises Cooperative Effort in Cichlids’. PLoS ONE, vol 6., pp. e25673

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Latest publications

• Bruintjes, R, Heg-Bachar, Z & Heg, D 2013, ‘Subordinate removal affects parental investment, but not offspring survival in a cooperative cichlid’. Functional Ecology.
• Bruintjes, R & Radford, AN 2013, ‘Context-dependent impacts of anthropogenic noise on individual and social behaviour in a cooperatively breeding fish’. Animal Behaviour.

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