Markus Port
Position: Postdoctoral researcher (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG)Email: mp567@cam.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1223 763897
Research Interests
I am interested in the evolution of group-living in primates and other social mammals. Specifically, my research aims at understanding the differential costs and benefits of group-living to individuals of different social ranks and the consequent implications on group stability. Moreover, using a combination of game theoretical modelling and long term demographic data on two species of gregarious lemurs (Eulemur fulvus rufus and Propithecus verreauxi) I also investigate the role of life history in shaping a species’ social organisation.Publications
- Port, M., Johnstone, R.A., Kappeler, P.M. (2012) The evolution of multi-male groups in Verreaux' sifaka, or how to test an evolutionary demographic model. Behavioral Ecology, in press.
- Port, M., Kappeler, P.M., Johnstone, R.A. (2011) Communal defense of territories and the evolution of sociality. The American Naturalist, 178, 787-800.
- Port, M., Johnstone, R.A. and Kappeler, P.M. (2010) Costs and benefits of multi-male associations in redfronted lemurs (Eulemur fulvus rufus). Biology Letters, 6, 620-622.
- Port, M. and Kappeler, P.M. (2010) The utility of reproductive skew theory in the study of male primates – a critical evaluation. Evolutionary Anthropology, 19, 46-56.
- Kappeler, P.M., Mass, V. and Port, M. (2009) Even adult sex ratios in lemurs: potential costs and benefits of subordinate males in Verreaux’s sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) in the Kirindy Forest CFPF, Madagascar. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 140, 487-497.
- Port, M., Clough, D. and Kappeler, P.M. (2009) Market effects offset the reciprocation of grooming in free ranging redfronted lemurs (Eulemur fulvus rufus) Animal Behaviour, 77, 29-36.
- Kappeler, P.M. and Port, M. (2008) Mutual tolerance or reproductive competition? Patterns of reproductive skew among male redfronted lemurs (Eulemur fulvus rufus). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 62: 1477-1488.
- Port, M. and Rothe, H. (2003) Eine nicht-invasive Methode der Gewichtserfassung in einer Gruppe semifreilebender Weißbüschelaffen (Callithrix jacchus). Der Zoologische Garten 73: 422-425.
Thesis
- Port, M. (2009) Inequality in nature: Patterns of reproductive skew among male redfronted lemurs (Eulemur fulvus rufus). Dissertation, Universität Göttingen.
