Prof. Dr. Eckhard W. Heymann
- Behavioural ecology and ecology, particularly of New World primates; Tropical ecology
Specific
- Social systems
- Social organisation and mating systems (particularly polyandry and monogamy)
- Social behaviour and communication (particularly olfactory communication)
- Autoecology
- Feeding ecology and habitat use
- Synecology (community ecology
- Primate ecological functions
- Animal-plant interactions: seed dispersal
- Mechanisms of niche differentiation of sympatric species
- Interspecific associations (primate-primate, primate-birds)
- 1975-81 Study of Biology at the Justus-Liebig University Gießen
- 1985 Graduation at the Faculty of Biology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
- 1985-86 First field study by a DPZ researcher (at Estación Biológica Quebrada Blanco in Peru)
- 1997-2022 Responsible scientist for the Estación Biológica Quebrada Blanco
- 1998 Habilitation at the Faculty of Biology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
- 2007 Adjunct professor at the Biological Faculty, Georg-August-University Göttingen
- Co-editor of the HANDBOOK OF THE MAMMALS OF MIDDLE AND SOUTH AMERICA: PRIMATES
- Associate editor of the journal PRIMATES
- Co-editor of the journal NEOTROPICAL PRIMATES
- Ad-hoc reviewer for numerous scientific journals and for granting organizations
Publications
- Mainardi A, Thiel S, Heer K, Heymann EW, Shahuano Tello N, Kalbitzer U (in press) Unravelling the phenology of the liana Marcgravia longifolia: temporal patterns and climatic cues. Biotropica
- Heymann EW (2026) Habituation, trapping, observer effects: reflections on the impact of humans and field study techniques on the behaviour of small primates. Primates, doi.org/10.1007/s10329-025-01230-3
- Gottstein M, Thiel S, Vornhagen JL, Mengel C, Tschapka M, Heymann EW, Heer K (2025) Gene flow and vertical stratification of pollination in the bat-pollinated liana species Marcgravia longifolia. Ecology & Evolution 15, e72050
- Heymann EW, Flores Amasifuén C, Shahuano Tello N (2025) Seasonality of sightings of Cacajao ucayalii at EBQB and implications for the interpretation of ranging patterns and habitat use. Primate Biology 12, 1-5
- Heymann EW, Slana D (2025) Infant carrying in wild black-fronted saddleback tamarin groups with single and two breeding females. American Journal of Primatology 87, e70062
- Zanette EM, Bialozyt R, Santos MM, de Almeida e Silva AS, Messaoudi Y, Alcolea M, Kaisin O, Bufalo F, Heymann EW, Culot L (2025) Predicting frugivore generated seed rain in different environmental contexts: a modelling approach applied to a forest specialist. Ecological Modelling 505, 111093
- De Gregorio C, Antonini P, Heymann EW, Gamba M (2025) Isochrony in titi monkeys duets: social context as a proximate cause of duets’ rhythm and regularity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 292, 20242805
- Rubio Vargas CL, Cerón Cancharis ZL, Heymann EW (2024) Characterization of forest fragments occupied by the San Martín titi monkey (Plecturocebus oenanthe). Frontiers in Conservation Science 5, 1401517
- Heymann EW (2024) Measuring food in the field.in Lambert JE, Bryer MAH, Rothman JM (eds), How Primates Eat: A Synthesis of Nutritional Ecology across a Mammal Order. , doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226829746.003.0022. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp 399-416
- Urbani B, Heymann EW (2024) Late eighteenth-century depictions of Peruvian primates in the Codex Martínez Compañón and the Quadro de la Historia Natural Civil y Geográfica del Reyno del Perú. Archives of Natural History 51, 146-170
- Thiel S, Gottstein M, Heymann EW, Kroszewski J, Lieker N, Shahuano Tello N, Tschapka M, Junker R, Heer K (2024) Vertically stratified interactions of nectarivores and nectar-inhabiting bacteria in a liana flowering across forest strata. American Journal of Botany 111, e16303
- Eppley TM .…Heymann EW… et al. (2024) Tropical field stations yield high conservation return on investment. Conservation Letters 17, e13007 https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.13007
- Tesar KL, Heymann EW, Dolotovskaya S (2023) A comparison of scan and focal sampling in estimating activity budgets, diet composition, and proximity patterns of a wild pair-living primate. Folia Primatologica 94, 249–263
- Gottstein M, Morris A, Heer K, Heymann EW (2023) Feeding ecology of monk sakis (Pithecia monachus) in a seasonally flooded forest in western Amazonia. Primates 64, 527-537
- Thiel S, Willems FM, Farwig N, Rehling F, Schabo DG, Schleuning M, Shahuano Tello N, Töpfer T, Tschapka M, Heymann EW, Heer K (2023) Frugivore community composition and interaction frequency are vertically stratified in a liana species fruiting across forest strata. Biotropica 55, 650-664
- Sivault E, McConkey K, Bretagnolle F, Sengupta A, Lambert J*, Heymann EW*, Forget PM*, Herrel A* (2023) Can body mass and skull morphology predict seed and fruit ingestion potential for mammal species? A test using extant species and its application to extinct species. Functional Ecology 37,1504–1515. *equal contribution as last authors
- Heymann EW, Thiel S, Paciência FM da D, Rimachi Taricuarima MN, Zárate Gómez R, Shahuano Tello N, Heer K, Sennhenn-Reulen H, Mundry R (2022) Non-random host tree infestation by the Neotropical liana Marcgravia longifolia. PeerJ 10, e14535
- Heymann EW, Fuzessy L, Culot L (2022) Small but nice – seed dispersal by tamarins compared to large Neotropical primates. Diversity 14, 1033
- Heymann EW (2022) Saguinus mystax (Primates: Callitrichidae). Mammalian Species 54, seac009
- Eppley TM, Hoeks S, Chapman CA, ....Heymann EW.... Wright PC, Donati G, Santini L (2022) Factors influencing terrestriality in primates from the Americas and Madagascar. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119, e2121105119, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2121105119
- Bello R, Heymann EW, Pottie S (2022) Report of an attack on a howler monkey Alouatta sara by a group of collared peccaries Dicotyles tajacu at a mammal clay lick in Madre de Dios, Peru. Primate Biology 9, 29-31
- Dolotovskaya S, Heymann EW (2022) Coordinated singing in coppery titi monkeys (Plecturocebus cupreus): resource or mate defense? Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10: 898509. doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.898509
- Charpentier E, García-Mendoza G, Cruz-Guimaraes J, Aquino R, Heymann EW (2022) Southern range extension of Spix’s saddle-back tamarin, Leontocebus fuscicollis fuscicollis, in Peru. Primate Biology 9, 19-22
- Theara GK, Ruíz Macedo J, Zárate Gómez, Heymann EW*, Dolotovskaya S* (2022) Fur rubbing in Plecturocebus cupreus – an incidence of self-medication? Primate Biology 9, 7-10 *equal contribution as last authors
- Heymann EW (2022) New sniffing at New World primates - recent advances in the study of platyrrhine olfactory communication. Ethology Ecology & Evolution 34, 260-273
- Heymann EW (2022) On the identity of the tamarin AMNH 98303 (“Saguinus fuscicollis tripartitus”; Primates: Haplorrhini: Simiiformes: Platyrrhini: Callitrichidae). Primate Biology 9, 1-4
- Berles P, Heymann EW, Golcher F, Nyakatura J (2022) Behavioural adaptation related to leaping: differential habitat utilization in two sympatric tamarins (Primates: Callitrichidae) in Amazonian Peru. Journal of Mammalogy 103 146-158
- Rojas RR, Walter Mora V, Gómez Vásquez A, Pezo Lozano E, Tirado Herrera E, Heymann EW, Bodmer R (2021) Ontogenetic variation in an Amazonian population of lowland tapir (Mammalia: Perissodactyla). Acta Amazónica 51, 311-322
- Risch Ferreira NI, Verhaagh M, Heymann EW (2021) Myrmecovory in Neotropical primates. Primates 62, 871-877
- Heymann EW, Tirado Herrera ER (2021) Estación Biológica Quebrada Blanco – un sitio poco conocido para investigación en biodiversidad y ecología en la Amazonía peruana. Revista peruana de Biología 28, e20266
- Quiring K, Carroll G, Heymann EW, Champion C, Harcourt R (2021) The diet of greater crested terns off southeast Australia varies with breeding stage and sea surface temperature Marine Biology 168, 143
- Cárdenas Ramírez GG, Jones MM, Heymann EW*, Tuomisto H* (2021) Characterizing primate habitats in Peruvian Amazonia: using ferns and lycophytes as indicators of site quality. Biotropica 53, 930-940 *equal contribution as last authors
- Thiel S, Tschapka M, Heymann EW*, Heer K* (2021) Vertical stratification of seed-dispersing vertebrate communities and their interactions with plants in tropical forests. Biological Reviews 96, 454-469 *equal contribution as last authors
- Heymann EW, Fuzessy LF (2021) Are palms a good model to explain primate colour vision diversification? A comment on Onstein et al. 2020. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288, 20201423
- Heymann EW, Dolotovskaya S, Tirado Herrera ER (2021) Estación Biológica Quebrada Blanco. Ecotropica 23, 202101
- Heymann EW (2021) Do wild tamarins reconcile? Two case reports from moustached tamarins. Acta Ethologica 24, 67-70
- Dolotovskaya S, Roos C, Heymann EW (2020) Genetic monogamy and mate choice in a pair-living primate. Scientific Reports 10, 20328
- Ohlendorf C, Heymann EW (2020) Do saki monkeys have a grooming claw? Primate Biology 7, 19-23
- Junker J, Petrovan SO, Arroyo-Rodríguez V, Boonratana R, … Heymann EW, …, Kühl HS (2020) Severe lack of evidence limits effective conservation of the world’s primates. BioScience 70, 794-803
- Dolotovskaya S, Heymann EW (2020) Do less or eat more: strategies to cope with costs of parental care in a pair-living monkey. Animal Behaviour 163, 163-173
- Goodale E, Sridhar H, Sieving K, Bangal P, Colorado G, Farine D, Heymann EW, Jones H, Krams I, Martínez A et al. (2020) Mixed company: a framework for understanding the composition and organization of mixed-species animal groups. Biological Reviews 95, 889-910
- Düker S, Kupsch D, Bobo SK, Heymann EW, Waltert M (2020) Congo grey parrot Psittacus erithacus densities in oil palm plantation, agroforestry mosaic and protected forest in Southwest Cameroon. Bird Conservation International 30, 156-167
- Dolotovskaya S, Walker S, Heymann EW (2020) What makes a pair bond in a Neotropical primate: female and male contributions. Royal Society Open Science 7, 191489