Unit for Theoretical Biology

Unit for Theoretical Biology

The work in our unit is motivated by theoretical and conceptual questions in organismal evolutionary biology. Systemic properties of organisms, such as developmental and physiological processes, as well as their interactions with the environment, strongly influence their ability to respond to selection and to evolve. Our goal is to identify and understand these interactions in order to explain how the enormous diversity of life has evolved and continues to evolve. In pursuit of this general goal, we apply and advance theoretical, biometric, comparative, and experimental research methods.

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27.03.2026
 

Marie-Luise Wedenig

Population dynamics of the European green toad (Bufotes viridis) in an urban environment (Simmeringer Haide, Austria)

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25.03.2026
 

Michelle Kokodynska

The influence of artificial light at night on the development of tadpoles of the European green toad (Bufotes viridis)

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23.03.2026
 

Nina Kraus

Environmental Regulation of Cardiac Development and Evolution

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19.03.2026
 

Sophie Pohlert

Metabolomics of uterine decidualization in mammals

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14.03.2026
 

New paper in Ecological Modelling

125 years of change: linking long term observations and network topology to reveal shifts in a coastal food web.

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09.03.2026
 

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Jana Fluegge

Effects of post-metamorphic body mass, size and condition on first-winter survival in Bombina variegata

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