Dr. Marlies Heesen

Main scientific interests

• Behavioural ecology
• Sociobiology
• Evolution
• Conservation

Academic career

• 1999 - 2005: MSc Biology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
  Effects of conflict characteristics on reconciliation and stress in captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).
  Early characterisation of coping strategies in the great tit and its impact on fledging age.
• 2005 - 2007: MSc Primate Conservation, Oxford Brookes University, Great Britain.
  Feeding competition among chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) in the Okavango Delta, Botswana.
• 2006 - 2007: Research assistant for the Okavango Baboon Research Project, Botswana. University of Pennsylvania.
• 2008 - 2010: Research assistant for Integrative Primate Socio-Ecology Group, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.
• 2010 - 2014: PhD student Social Evolution in Primates Group, Courant Research Centre Evolution of Social Behaviour, University of Göttingen.
  Feeding competition in female Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis)

Publications

• Haunhorst C, Heesen M, Ostner J & Schülke O (2017) Social bonds with males lower costs of competition for wild female Assamese macaques, Animal Behaviour 165, 51-60
• Richter C, Heesen M, Nenadic O, Ostner J & Schülke O (2015) Males matter: increased home range size is associated with the number of resident males after controlling for ecological factors in wild Assamese macaques, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22834
• Heesen M, Macdonald S, Ostner J & Schülke O (2015) Ecological and social determinants of group cohesiveness and within-group spatial position in wild Assamese macaque. Ethology 121, 270-283
• Heesen M, Rogahn S, Macdonald S, Ostner, J & Schülke, O (2014) Predictors of food related aggression in wild Assamese macaques and the role of conflict avoidance. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 68, 1829-1841
• Heesen M, Rogahn S, Ostner J, Schülke O (2013) Food abundance affects energy intake and reproduction in frugivorous female Assamese macaques. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 67, 1052-1066
• Cheney D, Moscovice L, Heesen M, Mundry R & Seyfarth R (2010) Contingent cooperation between wild female baboons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107, 6562-6566
• Moscovice L, Heesen M, Di Fiore A, Seyfarth R & Cheney D (2009) Paternity alone does not predict long-term investment in juveniles by male baboons. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 63, 1471-1482