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Professorin Petra Quillfeldt, Ph.D.

Address Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
Fachbereich Biologie und Chemie
Institut für Tierökologie und Spezielle Zoologie
ArbeitsgruppeTierökologie
Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32 IFZ
35392 Gießen

Projects

As Applicant
- Current projects
  - Rockhopper penguins as sentinels of ecosystem change in the subantarctic Southern Ocean (Research Grants)
  - Foraging and movement ecology of two sympatrically breeding Antarctic storm-petrels (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Hypothermia as an adaptation for energy conservation during periods of malnutrition (Research Grants)
  - Winged ghosts wandering the oceans: the global spatial ecology and conservation of the world’s smallest and elusive seabirds, the storm petrel (Hydrobatidae & Oceanitidae), across the Mediterranean and the North East Atlantic Ocean (Research Grants)
- Completed projects
  - Provisioning and growth in seabirds: Hormonal control of parent-chick interactions (Independent Junior Research Groups)
  - Sensors of the seas - Ecology and biogeography of pelagic seabirds in changing oceans (Research Grants)
  - Verhaltensökologie und Ökophysiologie der Tiere (Heisenberg Fellowships)
  - Heterothermy and torpor as energy saving strategies in Antarctic storm-petrel nestlings (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Behavioural Ecology and Ecophysiology (Heisenberg Professorships)
  - Advanced stable isotope analyses of seabird feathers - ecological segregation and historical changes in trophic levels across four Antarctic and subantarctic seabird communities (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Importance of fisheries discards and experience for seabird behavior and energetics (Research Grants)
  - Contamination and plastic debris residues in Antarctic petrel species (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Human originated pollutants in breeding seabirds - An assessment of pollution status in the course of breeding, it´s relation to foraging ecology, ingested plastic particles and impacts on breeding be-haviours of a Mediterranean top predator, the Scopoli´s shearwater (Calonectris diomedea). (Research Grants)
As Project Head
- Completed projects
  - Dynamics of waterbird populations as important top consumers at Lake Constance - Energy flow and dietary segregation (Collaborative Research Centres)
As Participating Person
- Completed projects
  - How animals distribute themselves in space: changing energy landscapes (Research Grants)

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