A5081669419- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Research Data Management Practices
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Plant and animal studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Data Analysis with R
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Diversity and Career in Medicine
- Data Quality and Management
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Marine animal studies overview
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Complex Network Analysis Techniques
- scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Academic Publishing and Open Access
- Software Engineering Research
Rudjer Boskovic Institute
2022-2025
Netherlands Institute of Ecology
2018-2024
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
2024
UNSW Sydney
2024
Australian National University
2024
University of Oxford
2010-2020
Despite growing interest in animal social networks, surprisingly little is known about whether individuals are consistent their network characteristics. Networks rarely repeatedly sampled; yet an assumption of individual consistency behaviour often made when drawing conclusions the consequences processes and structure. A characterization such phenotypes therefore vital to understanding significance structure for fitness outcomes, evolution ecology variation more broadly. Here, we measured...
Both social and ecological factors influence population process structure, with resultant consequences for phenotypic selection on individuals. Understanding the scale relative contribution of these two is thus a central aim in evolutionary ecology. In this study, we develop framework using null models to identify spatial patterns that contribute structure wild songbirds. We used automated technologies track 1053 individuals formed 73 737 groups from which inferred network. Our identified...
Access to analytical code is essential for transparent and reproducible research. We review the state of availability in ecology using a random sample 346 nonmolecular articles published between 2015 2019 under mandatory or encouraged code-sharing policies. Our results call urgent action increase availability: only 27% eligible were accompanied by code. In contrast, data available 79% articles, highlighting that an important limiting factor computational reproducibility ecology. Although...
High quality research data and analytical code are essential for ensuring the credibility of scientific results, key outputs, crucial elements to facilitate reproducibility. However, in ecology evolution (E&E) particular, it is currently unknown how many journals have policies on data- code-sharing peer review purposes, or upon manuscript acceptance. Furthermore, clarity such may impact authors' compliance. Thus, we assessed clarity, strictness, timing across 275 E&E. We also...
The integration and synthesis of the data in different areas science is drastically slowed hindered by a lack standards networking programmes. Long-term studies individually marked animals are not an exception. These especially important as instrumental for understanding evolutionary ecological processes wild. Furthermore, their number global distribution provides unique opportunity to assess generality patterns address broad-scale issues (e.g. climate change). To solve enable new scale...
Trade-offs between survival and reproduction are at the core of life-history theory, essential to understanding evolution reproductive tactics as well population dynamics stability. Factors influencing these trade-offs multiple often addressed in isolation. Further problems arise states wild populations estimated based on imperfect potentially biased observation processes, which might lead flawed conclusions. In this study, we aimed elucidating current (both pregnancy lactation), future...
Code review increases reliability and improves reproducibility of research. As such, code is an inevitable step in software development common fields such as computer science. However, despite its importance, noticeably lacking ecology evolutionary biology. This problematic it facilitates the propagation coding errors a reduction published results. To address this, we provide detailed commentary on how to effectively code, set up your project enable this form detail possible implementation...
Using measures of research productivity to assess academic performance puts women at a disadvantage because gender roles and unconscious biases, operating both home in academia, can affect productivity. The impact the COVID-19 pandemic on has been subject number studies, including studies based surveys numbers articles submitted and/or published journals. Here, we combine results 55 that compared men women; 17 were surveys, 38 article counts, total effect sizes was 130. We find gap increased...
The provision of wild birds with supplementary food has increased substantially over recent decades. While it is assumed that provisioning beneficial, feeding can have detrimental ‘carry‐over’ effects on reproductive traits. Due to difficulties in monitoring individual behaviour, assessing how individuals within a population vary their exploitation resources been limited. Quantifying consumption necessary understand the operation carry‐over at level. We used Radio Frequency Identification...
Publishing preprints is quickly becoming commonplace in ecology and evolutionary biology. Preprints can facilitate the rapid sharing of scientific knowledge establishing precedence enabling feedback from research community before peer review. Yet, significant barriers to preprint use exist, including language barriers, a lack understanding about benefits diversity types outputs accepted (e.g. reports). Community-driven initiatives allow come together break down these improve equity coverage...
Ensuring that research, along with its data and code, is credible remains accessible crucial for advancing scientific knowledge—especially in ecology evolutionary biology, where the climate crisis biodiversity loss accelerate demand urgent, transparent science. Yet, code rarely shared alongside publications, when it is, unclear implementation insufficient documentation often make difficult to use. Code review—whether as self-assessment or peer review—can improve key aspects of quality:...
Inter-seasonal events are believed to connect and affect reproductive performance (RP) in animals. However, much remains unknown about such carry-over effects (COEs), particular how behaviour patterns during highly mobile life-history stages, as migration, RP. To address this question, we measured at-sea a long-lived migratory seabird, the Manx shearwater ( Puffinus puffinus ) obtained data for individual migration cycles over 5 years, by tracking with geolocator/immersion loggers, along 6...
Fidelity rates of pair-bonded individuals are considerable interest to behavioral and population biologists as they can influence structure, mating rates, productivity, gene flow. Estimates fidelity calculated from direct observations pairs in consecutive breeding seasons may be biased because (i) that not seen assumed dead, (ii) variation the detectability is ignored, (iii) pair status must known with certainty. This lead a high proportion being ignored. approach also restricts way for...
Although they have the potential to strongly influence individual fitness and dynamics productivity of populations, survival consequences pairing outcomes current on those in future rarely been addressed. Previously, we shown that pair fidelity increases both a population great tits Parus major . The aim this study was explore generality our previous findings by evaluating paring two different species populations. We addressed aims within multievent capture–mark–recapture (MECMR) statistical...