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tidysdm

29 August 2023

Michela, Margherita and Andrea recently published a preprint presenting tidysdm , an R package to perform Species Distribution modelling with tidymodels. In the right column are linked a few resources to familiarise with it. Michela Leonardi, Margherita Colucci, Andrea Manica (2023), tidysdm: leveraging the flexibility of...

Global assessment of marine plastic exposure risk for oceanic birds

5 July 2023

Lizzie and Andrea just published in Nature Communications a new paper assessing the risk of exposure to marine plastic for oceanic birds worldwide. The article has received a lot of media coverage (see altmetric ), you can read here the press release of the University of Cambridge. Bethany L Clark, Ana P B Carneiro...

pastclim 1.2: an R package to easily access and use paleoclimatic reconstructions

6 January 2023

Michela, Robert, Mario and Andrea, together with Emily Hallett from Loyola University, just published in Ecography the paper presenting pastclim , an R package to easily access and use paleoclimatic reconstructions. In the right column are linked a few resources to familiarise with it. Michela Leonardi, Emily Y. Hallett...

Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) Credits: Hermanus Backpackers, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

The diving behaviour in young white sharks

23 November 2022

Julia and Andrea just published a new paper in Biology with the analysis of the diving behaviour in young white sharks in their migrations between Australia and New Zealand. Julia L. Y. Spaet, Paul A. Butcher, Andrea Manica, Chi Hin Lam 4 (2022) Spatial Dynamics and Fine-Scale Vertical Behaviour of Immature Eastern...

Palaeolithic animals. Reproduction of the Lascaux paintings at the Galerie de Paleontologie, Natural History Museum, Paris. Picture by Michela Leonardi.

The impact of the Last Glacial Maximum on four european ungulates

1 October 2022

Michela and Andrea just published in Communications Biology their new paper about the impact of the Last Glacial Maximum on the ecological niche and the distribution of horses, deers, aurochs and wild boars. Michela Leonardi, Francesco Boschin, Paolo Boscato, Andrea Manica (2022) Following the niche: the differential...

Brood parasitism. Picture by Dru! from Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0

The overlooked complexity of avian brood parasite–host relationships

29 June 2022

It is now out in Ecology Letters our global analysis on the relationships between avian brood parasites (i.e. birds that lay their eggs in other species' nests) and their hosts. James A. Kennerley, Marius Somveille, Mark E. Hauber, Nicole M. Richardson, Andrea Manica, William E. Feeney (2022) The overlooked complexity of...

African hunter-gatherer in front of a herd of zebras. Picture by A Chomolla on Pexels

Population interconnectivity over the past 120,000 years explains distribution and diversity of Central African hunter-gatherers

18 May 2022

Cecilia and Andrea published a new paper in PNAS combining ethnographic, archaeological, genetic, and paleoclimatic data to model the dynamics of Central African hunter-gatherer populations over the past 120,000 years. Padilla-Iglesias et al. (2022) Population interconnectivity over the past 120,000 years explains...

Dickinsonia costata (Ediacaran fossil), South Australian Museum, Adelaide, Australia. Photo by James St. John from Flickr. CC BY 2.0

Metacommunity analyses show an increase in ecological specialisation throughout the Ediacaran period

18 May 2022

It is now out in PLOS Biology a paper showing that early animals formed complex ecological communities more than 550 million years ago, setting the evolutionary stage for the Cambrian explosion. Rebecca Eden, Andrea Manica, Emily G. Mitchell (2022) Metacommunity analyses show an increase in ecological specialisation...

Grey-headed Albatross (Thalassarche chrysostoma) in South Georgia. Photo by Gregory "Slobirdr" Smith on Flickr. CC BY-SA 2.0

Movement patterns and habitat selection in juvenile albatrosses

21 April 2022

It is out now in Oikos our new paper that uses step-selection models to examine movement patterns and habitat selection in juvenile albatrosses. Caitlin K. Frankish, Andrea Manica, Thomas A. Clay, Andrew G. Wood, Richard A. Phillips (2022) Ontogeny of movement patterns and habitat selection in juvenile albatrosses Oikos...

Crops. Photo by Natalie Bond from pexels

Relocating croplands could drastically reduce the environmental impacts of global food production

11 March 2022

Robert and Andrea published in Communications Earth & Environment a paper on how optimising the spatial distribution of global croplands could reduce environmental impacts whilst maintaining current production levels. Robert M. Beyer, Fangyuan Hua, Philip A. Martin, Andrea Manica, Tim Rademacher (2022) Relocating...

tidysdm

Global assessment of marine plastic exposure risk for oceanic birds

pastclim 1.2: an R package to easily access and use paleoclimatic reconstructions

The diving behaviour in young white sharks

The impact of the Last Glacial Maximum on four european ungulates

The overlooked complexity of avian brood parasite–host relationships

Population interconnectivity over the past 120,000 years explains distribution and diversity of Central African hunter-gatherers

Metacommunity analyses show an increase in ecological specialisation throughout the Ediacaran period

Movement patterns and habitat selection in juvenile albatrosses

Relocating croplands could drastically reduce the environmental impacts of global food production

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