Dr Andreas Svensson
  Phone   N/A
Email   andreas.svensson@deakin.edu.au
Position   Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Campus   Geelong
Research grouping   Ecophysiology, Sensory Ecology and Behaviour
Centre for Integrative Ecology

My research profile can be summarized as "Evolutionary strategies in animals, using fishes as model
systems". I am especially interested in reproductive behaviours and animal colour patterns. Currently, I
am working together with Prof. John Endler investigating the roles of evolutionary exaggeration and
innovation in the colour patterns of male guppies (Poecilia reticulata).

Research interests

  1. Evolutionary and Behavioural Ecology.
  2. Reproductive behaviours and behavioural strategies in marine and freshwater fishes.
  3. Animal coloration, colour signals, chromatophores and carotenoids.


Career

2011 Alfred Deakin Research Fellow, Deakin University
2010 Lecturer is Statistics, Monash University
2007-10 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Monash University
2002-06 PhD Fellow, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
1995-2001 Undergraduate education and work as Research assistant in Sweden, the UK and the US.

Key publications

Svensson, P.A. & Wong B.B.M. (2011) Carotenoid-based signals in Behavioural Ecology - a review Behaviour 148, 131-189

Svensson, P.A., Lehtonen, T.K. & Wong B.B.M. (2010) The interval between sexual encounters affects male courtship tactics in a desert-dwelling fish Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 64, 1967-1970

Svensson, P.A., Pélabon C, Blount JD, Forsgren E, Bjerkeng B, Amundsen T. (2009) Temporal variability in a multicomponent trait: nuptial coloration of female two-spotted gobies Behavioral Ecology 20, 346-353

Nilsson-Sköld, H, Svensson, P.A. & Zejlon, C. ( 2010) The capacity for internal colour change is related to body transparency in fishes Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research 23, 292-295

Svensson, P.A., Pélabon, C, Blount, J.D., Surai, P.F. and Amundsen, T. ( 2006) Does female nuptial coloration reflect egg carotenoids and clutch quality in the two-spotted goby (Gobiusculus flavescens, Gobiidae)? Functional Ecology 20, 689-698


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Related links

Full publication list
pandreassvensson.wordpress.com /publications/

My research page
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My research in the media
pandreassvensson.wordpress.com /media-coverage/


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22nd September 2011