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Read more at: The diving behaviour in young white sharks
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...


Read more at: The overlooked complexity of avian brood parasite–host relationships
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...


Read more at: Movement patterns and habitat selection in juvenile albatrosses
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...


Read more at: A link between aggression and longevity in snakes
Oligodon formosanus. Credit: Skink Chen on Flickr

A link between aggression and longevity in snakes

19 April 2019

Andrea just published a new paper in Science Advances showing a causal link between aggression and reduced longevity in an egg-eating snake ( Oligodon formosanus ). Chi-Ying Lee, David A. Pike, Hui-Yun Tseng, Jung-Ya Hsu, Shiang-Lin Huang, Pei-Jen L. Shaner, Chen-Pan Liao, Andrea Manica, Wen-San Huang (2019) When males...


Read more at: The evolutionary forces helping Nemo find a home
A clownfish hides within an anemone. Photo by Stefan Andrews

The evolutionary forces helping Nemo find a home

29 November 2018

Andrea published a paper in Ecology Letters showing that predation drives the recurrent convergent evolution of fish‐anemone mutualisms. William E. Feeney, Rohan M. Brooker, Lane N. Johnston, James D. J. Gilbert, Marc Besson, David Lecchini, Danielle L. Dixson, Peter F. Cowman, Andrea Manica (2018) Predation drives...