Researcher Portfolio
Küpper, Clemens
Forschungsgruppe Küpper, Seewiesen, Max Planck Institut für Ornithologie, Max Planck Society, Research Group Behavioural Genetics and Evolutionary Ecology / Küpper, Seewiesen, Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, Max Planck Society
Researcher Profile
Position: Forschungsgruppe Küpper, Seewiesen, Max Planck Institut für Ornithologie, Max Planck Society
Position: Research Group Behavioural Genetics and Evolutionary Ecology / Küpper, Seewiesen, Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, Max Planck Society
Researcher ID: https://pure.mpg.de/cone/persons/resource/persons198189
Publications
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: Eberhart-Hertel, L. J., Williams, E. M., McGilvary-Howard, A., Howard, T., Habraken, T., O'Donnell, C. F. J., Küpper, C., & Kempenaers, B. (2025). Evaluating the effects of tracking devices on survival, breeding success, behavior, and condition of a small, partially migratory shorebird. Journal of Avian Biology, 2025(4): e03490. doi:10.1002/jav.03490. [PubMan] : Algora, H., Tolliver, J. D. M., Pakanen, V.-M., Kupan, K., Belojevic, J., Rönkä, N., Küpper, C., & Koivula, K. (2025). Nests, threats, and leks: Nonrandom distributions of nests in ruffs (Calidris pugnax). Ecology and Evolution, 15(3): e70997. doi:10.1002/ece3.70997. [PubMan] : Rohr‑Bender, V. A., Kupan, K., Lopez-Nava, G., Forstmeier, W., Hertel, A., Razumov, V., Martin, K., Kempenaers, B., & Küpper, C. (2025). Sex and morph variation in activity from early ontogeny to maturity in ruffs (Calidris pugnax). Ethology, 131(3): e13543. doi:10.1111/eth.13543. [PubMan] : Koivula, K., Algora, H., Airaksinen, E., Belojevic, J., Küpper, C., Oranen, M., Rohr‑Bender, V. A., Rönkä, N., Tolliver, J. D. M., & Pakanen, V.-M. (2025). Increased wind flood frequency leads to decreased nest success of endangered waders in managed shore meadows. Biological Conservation, 302: 110970. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2025.110970. [PubMan] : Loveland, J. L., Zemella, A., Jovanović, V. M., Möller, G., Sager, C. P., Bastos, B., Dyar, K. A., Fusani, L., Gahr, M., Giraldo Deck, L. M., Goymann, W., Lank, D. B., Tokarz, J., Nowick, K., & Küpper, C. (2025). A single gene orchestrates androgen variation underlying male mating morphs in ruffs. Science, 387(6732), 406-412. doi:10.1126/science.adp5936. [PubMan] : Bulla, M., Küpper, C., Lank, D. B., Albrechtová, J., Loveland, J. L., Martin, K., Teltscher, K. L., Cragnolini, M., Lierz, M., Albrecht, T., Forstmeier, W., & Kempenaers, B. (2024). Sperm swimming speed and morphology differ slightly among the three genetic morphs of ruff sandpiper (Calidris pugnax), but show no clear polymorphism. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 12: 1476254. doi:10.3389/fevo.2024.1476254. [PubMan] : Giraldo Deck, L. M., Loveland, J. L., Goymann, W., Lank, D. B., & Küpper, C. (2024). A supergene affects androgen concentrations during early development in a bird with alternative reproductive morphs. Hormones and Behavior, 166: 105645. doi:10.1016/j.yhbeh.2024.105645. [PubMan] : Volkmer, T., Kupan, K., Rohr‑Bender, V. A., Guirao‑Ortiz, M., Cruz‑López, M., del Angel, S. G., Rodrigues, L. F., Eberhart-Hertel, L. J., & Küpper, C. (2024). Hidden in plain sight: Camouflage and hiding behaviour of wild precocial chicks in an open landscape. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 78(6): 73. doi:10.1007/s00265-024-03482-3. [PubMan] : Cimiotti, D. V., Eberhart-Hertel, L. J., Audevard, A., Garcias Salas, P. J., Gelinaud, G., Günther, K., Rocha, A., Schulz, R., van der Winden, J., Schmaljohann, H., & Küpper, C. (2024). Dispersal in Kentish plovers (Charadrius alexandrinus): Adult females perform furthest movements. Journal of Ornithology, 165(2), 301-314. doi:10.1007/s10336-023-02120-5. [PubMan] : Eberhart-Hertel, L. J., Rodrigues, L. F., Krietsch, J., Eberhart-Hertel, A. G., Cruz-López, M., Vazquez-Rojas, K. A., González-Medina, E., Schroeder, J., & Küpper, C. (2023). Egg size variation in the context of polyandry: A case study using long-term field data from snowy plovers. Evolution: International journal of organic evolution, 77(12), 2590-2605. doi:10.1093/evolut/qpad168. [PubMan] : Tolliver, J. D. M., Kupan, K., Lank, D. B., Schindler, S., & Küpper, C. (2023). Fitness benefits from co-display favour subdominant male-male partnerships between phenotypes. Animal Behaviour, 197, 131-154. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.12.004. [PubMan] : Maney, D. L., & Küpper, C. (2022). Supergenes on steroids. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 377(1855): 20200507. doi:10.1098/rstb.2020.0507. [PubMan] : Giraldo Deck, L. M., Loveland, J. L., Goymann, W., Tschirren, B., Burke, T., Kempenaers, B., Lank, D. B., & Küpper, C. (2022). Intralocus conflicts associated with a supergene. Nature Communications, 13: 1384. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-29033-w. [PubMan] : Loveland, J. L., Lank, D. B., & Küpper, C. (2021). Gene expression modification by an autosomal inversion associated with three male mating morphs. Frontiers in Genetics, 12: 641620. doi:10.3389/fgene.2021.641620. [PubMan] : Kupan, K., Székely, T., Cruz-López, M., Seymour, K., & Küpper, C. (2021). Offspring desertion with care? Chick mortality and plastic female desertion in Snowy Plovers. Behavioral Ecology, 32(3), 428-439. doi:10.1093/beheco/araa141. [PubMan] : Rohr, V. A., Volkmer, T., Metzler, D., & Küpper, C. (2021). Neoptile feathers contribute to outline concealment of precocial chicks. Scientific Reports, 11: 5483. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-84227-4. [PubMan] : Küpper, C. (2021). Metamorphosis of a butterfly inversion. Nature Genetics, 53(3), 264-266. [PubMan] : Loveland, J. L., Giraldo Deck, L. M., Lank, D. B., Goymann, W., Gahr, M., & Küpper, C. (2021). Functional differences in the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis are associated with alternative reproductive tactics based on an inversion polymorphism. Hormones and Behavior, 127: 104877. doi:10.1016/j.yhbeh.2020.104877. [PubMan] : Cruz-López, M., Fernández, G., Hipperson, H., Palacios, E., Cavitt, J., Galindo-Espinosa, D., Gómez del Angel, S., Pruner, R., Gonzalez, O., Burke, T., & Küpper, C. (2020). Allelic diversity and patterns of selection at the major histocompatibility complex class I and II loci in a threatened shorebird, the Snowy Plover (Charadrius nivosus). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 20: 114. doi:10.1186/s12862-020-01676-7. [PubMan] : Giraldo Deck, L. M., Goymann, W., Safari, I., Dawson, D. A., Stocks, M., Burke, T., Lank, D. B., & Küpper, C. (2020). Development of intraspecific size variation in black coucals, white‐browed coucals and ruffs from hatching to fledging. Journal of Avian Biology, 51(8): e02440. doi:10.1111/jav.02440. [PubMan] : D’Urban Jackson, J., Bruford, M. W., Székely, T., DaCosta, J. M., Sorenson, M. D., Russo, I. M., Maher, K. H., Cruz-López, M., Galindo‑Espinosa, D., Palacios, E., de Sucre‑Medrano, A. E., Cavitt, J., Pruner, R., Morales, A. L., Gonzalez, O., Burke, T., & Küpper, C. (2020). Population differentiation and historical demography of the threatened snowy plover Charadrius nivosus (Cassin, 1858). Conservation Genetics, 21(3), 387-404. doi:10.1007/s10592-020-01256-8. [PubMan] : Eberhart-Phillips, L. J., Cruz-López, M., Lozano-Angulo, L., Ángel, S. G. d., Rojas-Abreu, W., Bucio-Pacheco, M., & Küpper, C. (2020). CeutaOPEN, individual-based field observations of breeding snowy plovers Charadrius nivosus. Scientific Data, 7: 149. doi:10.1038/s41597-020-0490-y. [PubMan] : dos Remedios, N., Küpper, C., Székely, T., Zefania, S., Burns, F., Boltons, M., & Lee, P. L. M. (2020). Genetic structure among Charadrius plovers on the African mainland and islands of Madagascar and St. Helena. Ibis, 162(1), 104-118. doi:10.1111/ibi.12694. [PubMan] : Sadanandan, K. R., Küpper, C., Low, G. W., Yao, C.-T., Li, Y., Xu, T., Rheindt, F. E., & Wu, S. (2019). Population divergence and gene flow in two East Asian shorebirds on the verge of speciation. Scientific Reports, 9: 8546. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-44996-5. [PubMan] : Plaschke, S., Bulla, M., Cruz-López, M., Ángel, S. G. d., & Küpper, C. (2019). Nest initiation and flooding in response to season and semi-lunar spring tides in a ground-nesting shorebird. Frontiers in Zoology, 16: 15. doi:10.1186/s12983-019-0313-1. [PubMan]