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Read more at: Global assessment of marine plastic exposure risk for oceanic birds
Global assessment of marine plastic exposure risk for oceanic birds

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...


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: 50,000 years of bird migrations
Barnacle Geese flock (Branta leucopsis) flying in formation during autum migration. Credits: Thermos on Wikimedia commons

50,000 years of bird migrations

21 February 2020

Marius, Robert and Andrea just published a new paper in Nature Communications reconstructing bird migrations through the climatic fluctuations that characterised the last 50,000 years. Marius Somveille, Martin Wikelski, Robert M. Beyer, Ana S. L. Rodrigues, Andrea Manica, Walter Jetz (2020) Simulation-based reconstruction...