13-19 January 2020 – Modeling Population Dynamics Workshop

We are looking forward welcoming you on this gripping workshop about Estimating demographic parameters for wildlife conservation. Click here for further information

10-12 January 2020 – III. ÉLVONAL Conference

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21-24 November 2019 – III. ÉLVONAL Fieldwork Training Camp, Australia

Great opportunity to gain field experience on breeding shorebird population:

17-19 September 2019 – II. ÉLVONAL Workshop in Sheffield, UK

We had an informal meeting with a group of our collaborators at Sheffield University. We entitled this workshop to discuss our experiences about the past spring fieldwork season, 2019. As well as to introduce new collaborative teams to our current co-working fellows, such as teams from Algeria, Tobseda, Taiwan. During this fruitful event we raised…

Taiwan – New study site enriches ÉLVONAL Project repertoire

News from the pheasant-tailed jacana field project by Nolwenn Fresneau & Andras Liker August 2019, Guantian, Taiwan We started the first field season on 20th June in Taiwan. The place is wonderful: we are studying a population of pheasant-tailed jacanas Hydrophasianus chirurgus resident in the Jacana Ecological and Educational Park, in south-west Taiwan…

9-16 May 2019 – II. ÉLVONAL Fieldwork Training Camp, Belarus

This camp was organised and lead by Dr Vojtech Kubelka and the scientific team of Turov ringing station, Belarus: Dr Natalia Karlionova, Evgenya Lunchik, Viacheslav Khursanov. With the participation of Triin Kaasiku (Estonia), Anastazia Kuzmiankova (Belarus), José Valdebenito (Chile), Emilien Genetier (France) the training camp was successful and very instructive for the whole team. Turov…

23-28 April 2019 – I. ÉLVONAL Fieldwork Training Camp in Cadiz, Spain

As the beginning of the spring field season approached at many of our study sites worldwide, we took a break to test run our research plans and prepare ourselves for the next months. Prof Alejandro Perez Hurtado de Mendoza from Cadiz University was a great host of our enthusiastic team of thirteen. The training took…

27-29 March 2019 – II. ÉLVONAL Shorebird Workshop in Debrecen, Hungary

After our successful first workshop in Groningen, this spring we decided to meet our shorebird friends again and discuss new ideas and the clarified ÉLVONAL fieldwork protocol. This event was organised by ÉLVONAL core team and held at University of Debrecen. With the participation of twenty one researchers and students from many countries we had…

11-13 January 2019. – II. ÉLVONAL Conference – New directions in evolutionary research of sex roles

The time arrived to hold our Project’s second annual conference, that took place in Debrecen, Hungary. During these days we had deep discussions about new directions in evolutionary research of sex roles from many perspective. Despite the harsh wintertime our invited speakers’s bright talks provided the skeleton to numerous presentations along which we came up…

26-28 September 2018 – I. ÉLVONAL Workshop in Groningen, Netherlands

We had an informal meeting with a group of our collaborators at Groningen University. We entitled this workshop to introduce and discuss our ÉLVONAL Project’s objectives and tasks to fulfil the upcoming field season. During this fruitful event we listened to talks presenting each of our previous work and interest in science, especially in terms…