Home Research Teaching Staff Internal Department of Theoretical Ecology   Ken Lundborg M.Sc. Graduate Student Supervisor: Anders Brodin Co-supervisor: Jan-Åke Nilsson, Dept. for Animal Ecology, Lund   Research Interests Food storing in small animals is a subject with many interesting aspects which connect into many disciplines of ecology and biology. As a graduate student at the dept of Theoretical Ecology, I study food storing partly from an analytic, theoretical point of view, focusing on social inter- actions and how it affects caching behaviour. Also, verifying theoretical predictions in the field is an important part of science and a good way of staying in touch with your study objects and the ecological reality in general. Apart from theoretical and empirical ecology, I also study the underlying neurology behind food storing - how the physiology of the Hippocampus structure in the brain affects the ability to remember food caches.   Research Projects The evolution of energy storing in wintering birds. Memory in food hoarding birds: the cost of memory, differences in neurophysiology, and social influences.   Selected Publications Brodin, A., LUNDBORG, K. & Clark, C. (2000) The effect of dominance on food hoarding: a game theoretical model, Am. Nat., 157:66-75. LUNDBORG, K. & Brodin, A. (2000) An experimental test of rank-dependent food storing in willow tits (Parus montanus), submitted to Ibis.   Teaching Seminars, labs, excursions and project leader in undergraduate ecology. Address: Theoretical Ecology, Ecology Building,  223 62 Lund , Sweden Phone: +46 (0)46 2220000, Fax: +46 (0)46 2224716 Webmasters: Jorgen Ripa & Fredrik Haas