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The Amazon contains over half of the planet’s remaining tropical forests and supports a disproportionately large share of global biodiversity. Yet this ecosystem faces escalating pressures, including accelerating deforestation, widespread fire use, and the growing impacts of climate change. These ... [more]

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Alongside the wide diversification of behaviours we observe across species, understanding how behavioural variation persists in populations is a central question in evolutionary biology. In this talk, I present research across three animal systems that share a common thread: the coexistence of ... [more]

Human–animal interactions drive behavioural trait changes in animals. The cumulative effect of these changes on the behavioural repertoire of species and populations critically determines their capacity to adapt to future human-induced environmental change, particularly under scenarios of reduced ... [more]

How can we quantify the costs incurred by wild animals responding to anthropogenic disturbances? Declining population sizes of moose, a keystone species in boreal ecosystems, warrant a better understanding of disturbance responses in areas affected by climatic changes and expanding human influence ... [more]

Data collection biases pose a persistent challenge in social network analysis, particularly in animal social network studies where observations are uneven, censored, and incomplete. These biases can lead to distorted network inference and incorrect conclusions about social behaviour. We present a ... [more]

Oceanic ecosystems comprise Earth's largest living space. In these vast, fluid, and mostly dark ecosystems, resources aggregate in patchy, fleeting hotspots of biological activity. These conditions pose immense challenges both for resident lifeforms and researchers seeking to elucidate their ... [more]

This talk gives researchers and IT staff a roadmap for managing research data across its full lifecycle — from collection and active analysis to long‑term archiving. It covers core questions about ownership, sharing, and access, explains the difference between backup and archive workflows, and ... [more]

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When the Virginia opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralysed, her body temperature drops, her breathing and heart rate are reduced to a minimum, her tongue turns blue, and her glands simulate the smell of rot. Despite her convincing corpse disguise, the opossum is paying close attention to her ... [more]