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Project properties |
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| Title | Social Behaviour: Do more social fish always get more food? (database and video) |
| Group | Behavioural Ecology |
| Project type | thesis |
| Credits | 12 or 24-36 |
| Supervisor(s) | Lysanne Snijders |
| Examiner(s) | Lysanne Snijders |
| Contact info | lysanne.snijders@wur.nl |
| Begin date | 2024/09/01 |
| End date | 2025/12/31 |
| Description | We have individual-based data on social foraging in wild guppies spanning several years that have been entered in a database and allow for the study of questions on the costs (competition) and benefits (facilitation) of foraging socially. The project would thus be primarily based on database analysis (including further development/expansion of the database).
Recommended reading: Snijders et al 2018. https://doi.org/10.1101/260604. Snijders et al 2019. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13086. Chouinard-Thuly & Reader 2019. https://doi.org/10.1101/786772. Hasenjager & Dugatkin 2017. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.2020 |
| Used skills | database creation and management, statistical analysis (R), question formulation, and hypothesis testing. |
| Requirements | Motivation (and ideally experience) to work on a primarily database-based project. Alternative: motivation to score and analyze a large number of videos. |