Dietrich Meyer Professor emeritus, Department of Biology.  Research interests in ecology and animal behaviour
Former address University of Fribourg Dept. of Biology Unit of Ecology & Evolution FRIBOURG/ Switzerland	My research interests In the past my research group focused on community ecology and conservation biology and on adaptive traits of  wetland birds at the Grande Cariçaie. We altered habitat structures experimentally and isolated factors that influenced genetic fitness. We proposed a lottery model of sexual selection for Savi's warbler (Locustella luscinioides). We were able to demonstrate that  sexual infidelity in the Reed bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus) is advantageous to females, that it increases their reproductive  success. We investigated  the functions of dawn chorus song and the reaction of cuckolded social male partners. We were  testing the compatible- gene hypothesis. We proposed a mixed two-stage mating system.     More ...
dietrich.meyer (at) unifr.ch	Curriculum vitae
	1941      Born in Geneva/ Switzerland.  Schools in Baden/ Switzerland  and Zürich
	1965      Diploma in Zoology at the University of Zürich (with P. Tardent)
	1968      Dr. sc. nat. at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich (with P. Bovey)
	to 1973     Postdoctoral positions at Texas A&M University (with H. Röller) and at the University of Bern                    (with M. Lüscher)
	1973      Professor in Zoology, later of Ecology and Evolution  at the University of Fribourg/ Switzerland
	2003     President,  Department of Biology
	2006     Retirement
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