Filipe Cunha is a lecturer at the Behavioural Ecology Group at Wageningen University & Research (WUR). He is mostly dedicated to teaching several courses in BSc and MSc programs and coordinating the Animal Behaviour course.
His research interests lie at the crossroads of evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, and animal behaviour. My projects aim to understand widespread behavioural adaptations with a particular focus on the topics of sexual selection, communication, and anti-predatory (risky) behaviours. Although he primarily explore these topics in avian systems, I also seek to challenge my predictions across taxa.
As an evolutionary biologist and tropical ecologist working in the Palearctic, Filipe Cunha is keen to understand the behavioural differences between tropical species and their better-studied temperate counterparts. To this end, he established a research project in Brazil: The Lined Seedeater Project. The research station is on the campus of the Federal University of Viçosa in Florestal, MG. The project is creating a comprehensive long-term study of a Neotropical species, the Lined Seedeater (Sporophila lineola), and also work as an international hub for students and scientists.
Filipe Cunha is also active in multidisciplinary projects that investigate the interlink of biodiversity and food production. Filipe has led the ‘Biodiversity for Food’ project and currently co-coordinate the “Ecoacoustics: a biodiversity Yardstick”.
