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principal investigator :
Daniel Sol
d.sol@creaf.uab.es
Department:
Biodiversitat
Center:
CREAF (Centre de Recerca Ecolňgica i Aplicacions Forestals)
CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)
Institution:
CREAF, CSIC
Members: 4
Research lines:
The main objective of my research is to understand how animals respond to environmental changes. The main lines of research are two. The first one attempts to understand the role of animal behavior in response to environmental changes and the implications that this responsiveness can have on the ecology and evolution (including the evolution of brain size). The second line of research seeks to resolve the 'paradox of invasion': how is it possible that invasive species are able to invade environments without having time to adapt and become even more abundant than some native species? To address these issues behavior, morphology, ecology and phylogeny studies are integrated.
Areas:
Cognition
Evolució del cervell
Keywords:
ecologia, comportament animal, flexibilitat de comportament, biologia d'invasions, urbanització, aprenentatge, evolució del cervell
Publications:
Sol, D., Duncan, R. P., Blackburn, T.M., Cassey, P. and Lefebvre, L. (2005) Big brains, enhanced cognition and response of birds to novel environments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (USA) 102: 5460-5465.
Sol, D. and Price, T.D. (2008) Brain size and body size diversification in birds. American Naturalist 172: 170-177.
Sol, D. (2009) Revisiting the cognitive buffer hypothesis for the evolution of large brains. Biology Letters 5: 130-133.
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