Debora Goedert
About
I am an evolutionary ecologist interested in how variable selection and its interactions with other evolutionary mechanisms or the genetic architecture of traits affects diversification. In my previous research, I have used tools from fields of evolutionary ecology, population genetics/genomics, and quantitative genetics. Currently, I am integrating concepts across these fields to understand eco-evolutionary consequences of dispersal in spatially structured populations. My study system is a metapopulation of house sparrows from the Helgeland archipelago - a model system at the confluence of adaptive and non-adaptive population diversification.
Among past endeavours, I have studied a variety of organisms (e.g. birds, frogs, fish, insects) to investigate: variability in visual and acoustic signals in the contexts of predation and intra-specific interactions; transgenerational parental effects in fitness-related traits; as well as the interplay between temporal/spatial variation in selection and genetic architecture of traits, considering evolutionary frameworks of local adaptation, sexual conflict, sex-limited polymorphisms, and single-generation complex life cycles.
Publications
2022
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Brady, Steven P.;
Goedert, Debora;
Frymus, Lauren E.;
Zamora-Camacho, Francisco Javier;
Smith, Peter C.;
Zeiss, Caroline J.;
Comas, Mar;
Abbott, Timothy A.;
Basu, Silvia P.;
DeAndressi, Jason C.;
Forgione, Mia E.;
Maloney, Michael J.;
Priester, Joseph L.;
Senturk, Faruk;
Szeligowski, Richard V.;
Tucker, Alina S.;
Zhang, Mason;
Calsbeek, Ryan.
(2022)
Salted roads lead to oedema and reduced locomotor function in amphibian populations.
Freshwater Biology.
Academic article
2021
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Dias, Raphael Igor;
Goedert, Debora.
(2021)
Task division in a facultative cooperative breeder bird: Do males take out the trash?.
Behaviour.
volum 158.
Academic literature review
Journal publications
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Brady, Steven P.;
Goedert, Debora;
Frymus, Lauren E.;
Zamora-Camacho, Francisco Javier;
Smith, Peter C.;
Zeiss, Caroline J.;
Comas, Mar;
Abbott, Timothy A.;
Basu, Silvia P.;
DeAndressi, Jason C.;
Forgione, Mia E.;
Maloney, Michael J.;
Priester, Joseph L.;
Senturk, Faruk;
Szeligowski, Richard V.;
Tucker, Alina S.;
Zhang, Mason;
Calsbeek, Ryan.
(2022)
Salted roads lead to oedema and reduced locomotor function in amphibian populations.
Freshwater Biology.
Academic article
-
Dias, Raphael Igor;
Goedert, Debora.
(2021)
Task division in a facultative cooperative breeder bird: Do males take out the trash?.
Behaviour.
volum 158.
Academic literature review
Teaching
Courses
Media
2022
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Academic lectureDickel, Lisa; Arcese, Peter; Nietlisbach, Pirmin; Keller, Lukas F.; Goedert, Debora; Jensen, Henrik; Reid, Jane Margaret. (2022) Contrasting multi-generational fitness effects of immigrants indicate strong heterosis and epistatic breakdown in a natural meta-population of song sparrows (Melospiza melodia) . Annual Meeting of the British Ecological Society 2022 (BES) . British Ecological Society; Edinburgh, Scotland. 2022-12-18 - 2023-01-22.
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PosterGhimire, Kiran; Burnett, Hamish Andrew; Goedert, Debora; Ranke, Peter Sjolte; Muff, Stefanie; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Sæther, Bernt-Erik; Reid, Jane Margaret; Jensen, Henrik. (2022) Effects of inbreeding on nestling fitness in an insular house sparrow metapopulation in northern Norway. 5th Conference of Nordic Society OIKOS 2022 . Nordic Society Oikos; Aarhus. 2022-06-07 - 2022-06-10.