Animal Navigation

Personal data:
Name: Andreas Michalik
Address: Dept. of Biology, University of Oldenburg,
D-26111 Oldenburg, Germany.
Tel.: +49 (0)441 798 3645
Fax: +49 (0)441 798 3284
email: Andreas.Michalik@uni-oldenburg.de
Work:
- 2010-present: PhD student at Dept. of Biology, University of Oldenburg, Germany,AG "Neurosensorik-Animal Navigation" (Group leader: Prof. Dr. H. Mouritsen).
Education:
- 2009: Diploma in Biology on "Foraging and sexual segregation in a diving seabird, the Imperial Cormorant, during contrasting environmental conditions", University of Osnabrück, Experimental Ecology Group, Prof. Dr. Till Eggers and Max-Planck-Institute for Ornithology, Vogelwarte Radolfzell, Dr. Petra Quillfeldt
- 2004: Matriculated at University of Osnabrück, Germany.
- 2003: Graduated from Marien-Gymnasium Jever, Germany.
Publications:
peer-reviewed:
Hilgerloh G., Michalik A., Raddatz B. (2011): Autumn migration of soaring birds through the Gebel El Zeit Important Bird Area (IBA), Egypt, threatened by wind farm projects. Bird Conservation International 21: 365-375.
Quillfeldt P., Schroff S., van Noordwijk H., Michalik A., Ludynia K. & Masello J.F. (2011): Flexible diving behaviour of a sexually dimorphic seabird: large males do not always dive deep. Marine Ecology Progress Series 428: 271-287.
Michalik A., van Noordwijk H.J., Brickle P., Eggers T. & Quillfeldt P. (2010): The diet of Imperial Shag Phalacrocorax atriceps at a colony on New Island, Falkland/Malvinas Islands combining different sampling techniques. Polar Biology 33: 1537-1546.
Quillfeldt P., Michalik A., Veit-Köhler G., Strange I.J. & Masello J.F. (2010): Inter-annual changes in diet and foraging trip lengths in a small pelagic seabird, the thin-billed prion Pachyptila belcheri. Marine Biology 157: 2043-2050.
Michalik A., McGill R.A.R., Furness R.W., Eggers T., van Noordwijk H.J. & Quillfeldt P. (2010): Black and white - does melanin change the bulk carbon and nitrogen isotope values of feathers? Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 24: 875-878.
others:
Husemann M., Michalik A. & Hochkirch A. (2008) Erstnachweis der Südlichen Eichenschrecke, Meconema meridionale (Costa, 1860), in Osnabrück (Niedersachsen). Articulata 23: 77-80.
Menke W. & Michalik A. (2003): Beobachtungen an ringmarkierten Lachmöwen Larus ridibundus L. im Raum Friesland-Wilhelmshaven. Oldenburger Jahrbuch 103: 245-278.