Research

Contact

Prof. Dr. Heiko Schmaljohann
(Groupleader)

0441-798-3332

A01 3-314

Adress:
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
Institut für Biologie und Umweltwissenschaften – A1
AG Migrationsökologie
Postfach 5634
D - 26046 Oldenburg

Office

Research

The focus of my research is the migration of migratory birds. The aim of the work is to elucidate how the animals reach their destinations despite diverse challenges. Together with colleagues from various partner institutions, I study, for example, the animals' orientation and navigation skills, their innate migration programme and the genetic control of migration. I am particularly interested in how the animals' migrations are organised spatially and temporally, how bird migration affects the increase and decrease of populations and how the birds adapt to environmental changes. Among other things, I lead my own subproject and two subprojects with other scientists in the Collaborative Research Centre "Magnetic Reception and Navigation of Vertebrates". (Start: 2019, spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Henrik Mouritsen, University of Oldenburg)

Current research projects

 

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