Fabrizio Grieco

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• Biographical Information

• Past Studies

• Main Scientific Interests

• Links

• Contact Information

Biographical Information

Born in Pavia (Italy) on July, 14th, 1969

Education:

1985-1988 Technical Industrial High School, area Computer Programming

final mark 60 of 60

1988 - 1992 University of Pavia - Faculty of Science, M.Sc. Degree in Biology

final mark 110 of 110 cum laude

Thesis: Eco-ethology of breeding of the Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo in the colony of Val Campotto

1993 - 1994 University of Pavia - Faculty of Science

Apprenticeship at the Department of Botany and at the Institute of Entomology

1995 -1996 Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Centre for Terrestrial Ecology

Post-graduate fellowship of the University of Pavia

Project 1: Timing of reproduction in the Great Tit (tutors: Prof. Arie J. van Noordwijk and Dr. Marcel Visser)

Project 2: Pair formation process in the Cormorant (tutor: Dr. Adriaan Kortlandt)

1997-2001

PhD at the Department of Animal Population Biology at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Centre for Terrestrial Ecology (Heteren, NL), with a Marie Curie Fellowship of the European Commission

Foraging and its consequences on the breeding season of the Blue Tit (Parus caeruleus)

Main achievement: Evidence for the effect of Learning on Timing of Reproduction in th Blue Tit  (Science 296: 136-138)

Download the Abstract or the Full Text Article

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Past Studies 

• The breeding biology of the Great Cormorant

The establishment of a new breeding colony of Cormorant in the italian peninsula, after its extinction in the XIX century as breeding species. The use of trees as nesting sites in a changing environment. The high breeding performance throughout the breeding season. Immature-plumaged birds attempting to breed in an 'easy' environment. The decline of the colony due to nesting sites limitations rather than food depletion.

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Main Scientific Interests

• Food availability, experience, and its consequences in the Blue Tit

The role of food levels in some reproductive decisions, both in the present and in the future reproductive events, investigated by performing additional feeding experiments in natural populations. Is the timing of laying also determined by previous breeding experience? Supplemental feeding and its consequences on current fitness components. The use of videotaping revealing important relationships between feeding effort, feeding rate and prey quality.

Leggi l'articolo su TuttoScienze (La Stampa)

• Mate choice and mate retention in the Cormorants

The long history of Cormorant behavioural research. Field studies and the 'clinical approach' to animal behaviour. The ritualised and the non-ritualised, subtle expressions in the Cormorant world. The large dataset from the colony in the zoo of Amsterdam, providing the opportunity to address questions about how the individual characteristics develope during life, and how birds collect the information related to these features in order to choose their partners.

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Links

• Visit the Amsterdam Zoo
• Calendar of Zoology Conferences
• Netherlands Institute of Ecology - Centre for Terrestrial Ecology
• The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB)
• The Italian Center for Ornithological Studies (CISO)
• The Marie Curie Fellowship Association (MCFA)
• Ornithology Links: Lynx
• The Nature Reserve of Val Campotto (in Italian)
• The Waterbirds Society
• Science International Journal

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Contact Information

Correspondence address
Haarweg 207, NL 6709 RL Wageningen, The Netherlands
e-mail: fabgrieco@hetnet.nl

 

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