Lilian Cabon
Main Focus
Phd Thesis started in 2022
Investigating how colour-polymorphism in grasshoppers is maintained in populations, using niche chooser and niche conformer species
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Faculty of Biological Sciences
Supervisor: Dr. Hannah Rowland
My thesis is focusing on the colour polymorphisms in grasshoppers. Indeed, they can exhibit a green-brown polymorphism and they also differ in terms of melanisation. These polymorphisms seem to be maimtained over the long-term, which is quite unusual. Then, the main goal of my thesis is to bring insights about their processes behind their long-term maintenance.
Curriculum Vitae
Bachelor Degree in Biology of Organisms and Populations, University of Lille 1, France
Master Degree in Behavioural and Functional Ecology, University of Rennes 1, France