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Andreas Svensson

Dr. P. Andreas Svensson

Contact details

Telephone:+61-3-9902-0300
Fax:+61 3 990 55613
E-mail:andreas.svensson@sci.monash.edu.au
Building/Room: 17/G25
Curriculum Vitae (pdf 52kb)


Research Interests

I am interested in evolutionary based questions concerning animal behaviour in general and fish behaviour in particular. I use mainly small fishes (gobies) as model organisms to understand phenomena like reproductive trade-offs, sexual signals and honest indicators of quality.

Currently, I am working on a ARC-funded Discovery Project together with Dr, Bob Wong. The project is titled "Sexual signalling and parental care: A life-history perspective". Sexual displays often use resources that are also needed to improve other components of fitness. I'm using the Australian desert goby Chlamydogobius eremius to investigate whether signalling effort is optimised with respect to current and future reproductive success, and that allocation of resources to sexual signalling may be traded off with other components of reproductive investment such as parental care.

See also
Bob Wong Lab
 

Publications

  • Mobley, KB, Amundsen, T, Forsgren, E, Svensson, PA, Jones, AG. 2009. Multiple mating and a low incidence of cuckoldry for nest-holding males in the two-spotted goby, Gobiusculus flavescens. BMC Evolutionary Biology. In press.
  • Wong BBM & Svensson, PA. 2008. Strategic male signalling effort in a desert-dwelling fish. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. In press.
  • Svensson PA, Pélabon C, Blount JD, Forsgren E, Bjerkeng B, Amundsen T. 2008. Temporal variability in a multicomponent trait: nuptial coloration of female two-spotted gobies. Behavioral Ecology. In press.
  • Nilsson Sköld H, Amundsen T, Svensson PA, Mayer I, Bjelvenmark J, Forsgren E. 2008. Hormonal regulation of female nuptial coloration in a fish. Hormones and Behavior 54: 549– 556.
  • Svensson, PA, Pélabon, C, Blount, JD, Surai, PF 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.
  • Svensson P.A., Forsgren E., Amundsen T. and Nilsson-Sköld H. 2005. Chromatic interaction between egg pigmentation and skin chromatophores in the nuptial coloration of female twospotted gobies. Journal of Experimental Biology, 208: 4391-4397.
  • Eklund, B., Svensson, P. A., Jonsson, C and Malm, T. 2005. Toxic effects of decomposing red algae on littoral organisms. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 62 (4): 621-626.
  • Barber, I, Walker P & P.A. Svensson. 2004. Behavioural responses to simulated avian predation in three spined sticklebacks: the effect of experimental Schistocephalus solidus infections. Behaviour 141:1425-1440.
  • Martin Isæus, Torleif Malm, Sofia Persson & Andreas Svensson. Effects of filamentous algae and sediment on recruitment and survival of Fucus serratus (Phaeophyceae) juveniles in the eutrophic Baltic Sea. European Journal of Phycology (2004), 39: 301 – 307.
  • Svensson, P.A., Malm T & Engkvist R. 2004. Distribution and host plant preference of Idotea baltica (Pallas) (Crustacea: Isopoda) on shallow rocky shores in the central Baltic Sea. Sarsia 89:1, 1-7.
  • Barber, I. & Svensson, P. A. 2003. Synchrony between parasite development and host behaviour change. Abstract in Journal of Fish Biology, 63 Suppl A: 246.
  • Barber, I. & Svensson, P. A. 2003. Effects of experimental Schistocephalus solidus infections on growth, morphology and sexual development of female three-spined sticklebacks, Gasterosteus aculeatus. Parasitology 126: 359-367.
  • Svensson, P. A., Barber I. and E. Forsgren. 2000. Shoaling behaviour of the two-spotted goby. Journal of Fish Biology 56, 1477-1487.

    • Please email me for any reprints