Prof John Endler ~ Adjunct Professor

Interests

Research

• Sensory Ecology, Behavioural Ecology, Evolutionary Ecology, Reciprocal effects of Ecology, Behaviour and Sensory Physiology on Evolution.
• All of my research has been in the wet tropics, first in South and Central America and since 1988 in Australia.
• Most commonly I work with freshwater fishes and bowerbirds, but I've also worked on Frogs, Lizards, Snakes and several groups of insects.

Experience

• 2019 to present - Adjunct Professor of Zoology, James Cook University (Cairns, Australia)
• 2012 to 2020 - Alfred Deakin Professor, Deakin University (Australia)
• 1998 to 2019 - Adjunct Professor of Zoology, James Cook University (Townsville, Australia)
• 2010 to 2012 - Professor of Sensory Ecology & Evolution, Deakin Centre for Integrative Ecology, Deakin University (Geelong, Australia)
• 1997 to 2005 - Member, Cooperative Research Center for Tropical Rainforest Ecology and Management (Cairns, Australia)
• 1996 to 1998 - Professor of Zoology, James Cook University (Townsville, Australia)

Research Disciplines

• Ecology (3103)
• Zoology (3109)
• Evolutionary biology (3104)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Expanding knowledge (2801)

Awards

• 2012 - Alfred Deakin Professor

Fellowships

• 2020 - Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
• 2012 - Australian Academy of Sciences
• 2007 - American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Memberships

• 2012 - Royal Society of Victoria (Australia

Other

• 2020 - Hamilton Lecture

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Journal Articles

• Heinsohn R, Zdenek C, Appleby D and Endler J (2023) Individual preferences for sound tool design in a parrot. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological Sciences, 290 (2006).
• van den Berg C, Endler J and Cheney K (2023) Signal detectability and boldness are not the same: the function of defensive coloration in nudibranchs is distance-dependent. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological Sciences, 290 (2003).
• Madsen T, Stille B, Ujvari B, Bauwens D and Endler J (2022) Negative frequency-dependent selection on polymorphic color morphs in adders. Current Biology, 32 (15). pp. 3385-3388.e3
• Kelley L and Endler J (2017) How do great bowerbirds construct perspective illusions? Royal Society Open Science, 4.
• Kemp D, Herberstein M, Fleishman L, Endler J, Bennett A, Dyer A, Hart N, Marshall J and Whiting M (2015) An integrative framework for the appraisal of coloration in nature. American Naturalist, 185 (6). pp. 705-724
• Endler J, Gaburro J and Kelley L (2014) Visual effects in great bowerbird sexual displays and their implications for signal design. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological Sciences, 281 (1783). pp. 1-9
• Kelley L and Endler J (2012) Illusions promote mating success in great bowerbirds. Science, 335 (6066). pp. 335-338
• Kelley L and Endler J (2012) Male great bowerbirds create forced perspective illusions with consistently different individual quality. National Academy of Sciences. Proceedings, 109 (51). pp. 20980-20985
• Endler J, Endler L and Doerr N (2010) Great bowerbirds create theaters with forced perspective when seen by their audience. Current Biology, 20 (18). pp. 1679-1684
• Kemp D, Reznick D, Grether G and Endler J (2009) Predicting the direction of ornament evolution in Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological Sciences, 276 (1667). pp. 4335-4343
• Wilson D, Heinsohn R and Endler J (2007) The adaptive significance of ontogenetic colour change in a tropical python. Biology Letters, 3 (1). pp. 40-43
• Endler J and Day L (2006) Ornament colour selection, visual contrast and the shape of colour preference functions in great bowerbirds, Chlamydera nuchalis. Animal Behaviour, 72 (6). pp. 1405-1416

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