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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: Industrialised fishing overlaps threatened shark hotspots worldwide
Blacktip reef shark. Credit: James Lea

Industrialised fishing overlaps threatened shark hotspots worldwide

26 July 2019

James partecipated in a paper just published in Nature finding that major high seas fishing activities worldwide are centred on ecologically important shark hotspots. Queiroz et al. (2019) Global spatial risk assessment of sharks under the footprint of fisheries Nature 572, pages 461–466 Abstract Effective ocean management...


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...