Frank Pennekamp
Table of contents
Research interests
Consequences of intraspecific variation on community dynamics, conditional dispersal strategies, dispersal syndromes, movement ecology, phenotypic plasticity.
CV
Education and professional positions
| 2019 - present | Independent group leader, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2014 - present | Postdoc position with Prof. Dr. Owen Petchey, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2009 - 2014 | Ph.D. in Ecology, Thesis title: Swimming with ciliates: dispersal and movement ecology of Tetrahymena thermophila. Supervisors: Prof. Nicolas Schtickzelle, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium |
| 2009 | Diploma in Applied Biogeography. Title: The larval ecology and dispersal behavior of the Spanish Fritillary butterfly in SW-Portugal. Supervisor: Prof. Thomas Schmitt, University of Trier, Germany |
Selected publications
- Pennekamp, F, Clobert, J, Schtickzelle, N. (2019). The interplay between movement, morphology and dispersal in Tetrahymena ciliates. PeerJ 7:e8197 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.8197
- Daugaard U., Petchey O., Pennekamp F. (2019). Warming can destabilise predator-prey interactions by shifting the functional response from Type III to Type II. Journal of Animal Ecology DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13053
- Tabi A., Petchey O., Pennekamp F. (2019). Warming reduces the effects of enrichment on stability and functioning across levels of organization in an aquatic microbial ecosystem. Ecology letters. DOI: 10.1111/ele.13262
- Pennekamp F., Iles A., Garland J., Brennan G., Brose U., Gaedke U., Jacob U., Kratina P., Matthews B., Munch S., Novak M., Palamara GM., Rall B., Rosenbaum B., Tabi A., Ward C., Williams R., Ye H., Petchey O. (2019). The intrinsic predictability of ecological time series and its potential to guide forecasting. Ecological Monographs, e01359. DOI: 10.1002/ecm.1359
- Pennekamp F., Pontarp M., Tabi A., Altermatt F., Alther R., Choffat Y., Fronhofer EA., Ganesanandamoorthy P., Garnier A., Griffiths JI., Greene S., Horgan K., Massie TM., Mächler E., Palamara GM., Seymour M. & Petchey OL. (2018). Biodiversity increases and decreases ecosystem stability. Nature 563, 109-112. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0627-8
- Fronhofer EA., Legrand D., Altermatt F., Ansart A., Blanchet S., Bonte D., Chaine A., Dahirel M., Laender FD., Raedt JD., di Gesu L., Jacob S., Kaltz O., Laurent E., Little CJ., Madec L., Manzi F., Masier S., Pellerin F., Pennekamp, F., Schtickzelle N., Therry L., Vong A., Winandy L., Cote J. (2018). Bottom-up and top-down control of dispersal across major organismal groups. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2, 1859. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-018-0686-0
