1. Tropical Ecology in Africa 1.1. Ecology of West African army ants (Dorylus nigricans) 1.2. Fish communities in ephemeral savannah waters 1.3. Ecology and ethology of kob antelopes (Kobus kob) and possibilities of their sustainable use 1.4. Communication and sexual selection in African frogs 1.5. The biology of West African leopards (Panthera pardus, Linné 1758) in a seasonal environment: radiotracking an elusive and highly adaptable hunter 1.6. Seed dispersal and seed predation by Olive Baboons (Papio hamadryas anubis Lesson 1827, Cercopithecidae, Primates) in the Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast 1.7. Flexibility as an answer to unpredictability? - Alternative life-cycle strategies in Hyperolius nitidulus 1.8. Predators, parasitoids, and decomposers - ecology and behaviour of tropical arthropods 1.9. Arthropod communities of African shrubs and trees: which factors influence their structure? 1.10. Coexistence and resource use in space and time in a West-African tortoise beetle community 1.11. Invertebrate diversity of temporary tropical waters and mechanisms of its maintenance 1.12. Amphibians as bio-indicators of West African habitats 2. Tropical Ecology in Southeast Asia 2.1. Composition of leaf litter ant communities in primary and secondary forests in Sabah, Malaysia 2.2. Stingless bees in primary and secondary forests in Sabah, Malaysia 2.3. Diversity of ant-plant interactions in South-east Asian rain forests 2.4. Ecological and physiological aspects of the indirect, biotic defence of plants by ants 2.5. Allocation costs and fitness costs of systemic acquired resistance (SAR) 2.6. Patterns of ant diversity along gradients of altitude and disturbance in Malaysian rainforests 2.7. Investigations on the consequences of habitat fragmentation on diversity and abundance of butterflies in Sumatra 2.8. Maternal care in treehoppers 3. Tropical Ecology in South America 3.1. Development of a monitoring program of the impact of eco-tourism in the ‘Reserva de Producción Faunistica Cuyabeno’, Ecuador 3.2. Ecology of the hoatzin in the Amazonian lowland of Ecuador 3.3. Animal plant interactions: the case of seed dispersal in the rain forest tree Leonia cymosa (Violaceae) 4. Comparative ecology: tropics and temperate zone 4.1. The structure and dynamics of arboreal arthropod communities of primary and disturbed forests in the tropics and Central Europe 4.2. Seed dispersal and seed predation by ants – a comparison of ecosystems 4.2.1. Myrmecochory of spring ephemerals in deciduous forests of Lower Franconia 4.2.2. Harvester ants along a transect from the Mongolian steppe to the Gobi desert 4.2.3. Seed dispersal and seed predation by ants in three rain forest habitats of Borneo 4.2.4. Social Structure and behavioral ecology of giant ants Camponotus gigas 4.3. Structures and seasonal and spatial dynamics of arthropod communities in temperate and tropical tree canopies 5. Ecology and behavioural physiology in the temperate zone 5.1. Ecology and behavioural ecology of roe deer (Capreolus capreolus L.) and the European wild cat (Felis silvestris) 5.2. The evolution of sociality in terrestrial isopods (Crustacea, Isopoda, Oniscoidea) 5.3. Farming methods and conservation of arthropods in agro-communities 5.4. Ecophysiology of European Anurans 5.5. Taxonomy, ecology and lifehistories of Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) 5.6. Evolutionary Ecology of Hymenoptera 6. Ecological Field Station of the University of Würzburg 6.1. Evolution of Dispersal Strategies 6.2. Survival of animal populations in spatially and temporal dynamic landscapes 6.3. Zoological monitoring of management practices on old vineyard