Editor-in-Chief for Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
(published by Springer, Heidelberg)
retired professor of Animal Ecology, University of Bonn
stickleback conferences
In 1985, International Conferences on Stickleback Behavior and Evolution started. The first was organized in Leiden (actually Sassenheim near Leiden) by Piet Sevenster and Hans van den Assem to commemorate 50 years of behavioral research on sticklebacks, 1934 introduced by Niko Tinbergen in Leiden, and to honor Jan van Iersel, who 1984 retired as a professor of Ethology at the University of Leiden. The first two conferences actually had been named International Symposium on Stickleback Behaviour; thus there has been a shift from stickleback behavior to stickleback evolution over the last decades.
There have been 11 conferences thus far. Selected papers from these conferences have been published in Behaviour, the Journal of Fish Biology, and Evolutionary Ecology Research. The Editorials to these special issues can be downloaded below (click on image).
The Eleventh International Conference on Stickleback Behavior and Evolution, 2025, Vancouver Island, Canada. Logo by Victoria Nookemus (and inspired by Olivier Morissette)
The Tenth International Conference on Stickleback Behavior and Evolution, 2022, Hólar, Iceland
The Eleventh International Conference on Stickleback Behavior and Evolution, 2025, Vancouver Island, Canada. Logo by Victoria Nookemus (and inspired by Olivier Morissette)