Search Results - "Marras, Stefano"
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The role of physiological traits in assortment among and within fish shoals
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences (19-08-2017)“…Individuals of gregarious species often group with conspecifics to which they are phenotypically similar. This among-group assortment has been studied for body…”
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Fish and robots swimming together: attraction towards the robot demands biomimetic locomotion
Published in Journal of the Royal Society interface (07-08-2012)“…The integration of biomimetic robots in a fish school may enable a better understanding of collective behaviour, offering a new experimental method to test…”
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The effect of hypoxia on fish schooling
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences (19-08-2017)“…Low-oxygen areas are expanding in the oceans as a result of climate change. Work carried out during the past two decades suggests that, in addition to…”
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Schooling fish under attack are not all equal: some lead, others follow
Published in PloS one (12-06-2013)“…Animal groups such as fish schools, bird flocks and insect swarms appear to move so synchronously that they have long been considered egalitarian, leaderless…”
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Aerobic capacity influences the spatial position of individuals within fish schools
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (22-01-2012)“…The schooling behaviour of fish is of great biological importance, playing a crucial role in the foraging and predator avoidance of numerous species. The…”
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Hidden impacts of ocean warming and acidification on biological responses of marine animals revealed through meta-analysis
Published in Nature communications (03-04-2024)“…Conflicting results remain on the impacts of climate change on marine organisms, hindering our capacity to predict the future state of marine ecosystems. To…”
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Author Correction: Hidden impacts of ocean warming and acidification on biological responses of marine animals revealed through meta-analysis
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The Evolution of Lateralization in Group Hunting Sailfish
Published in Current biology (20-02-2017)“…Lateralization is widespread throughout the animal kingdom [1–7] and can increase task efficiency via shortening reaction times and saving on neural tissue…”
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Relationships among traits of aerobic and anaerobic swimming performance in individual European sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax
Published in PloS one (03-09-2013)“…Teleost fishes exhibit wide and temporally stable inter-individual variation in a suite of aerobic and anaerobic locomotor traits. One mechanism that could…”
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Salinity limits mosquitofish invasiveness by altering female activity during mate choice
Published in Frontiers in Fish Science (25-09-2024)“…Biological invasions of freshwater habitats are of increasing biological and economical concern, and both, salinity and parasites are considered to be key…”
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Maximum swimming speeds of sailfish and three other large marine predatory fish species based on muscle contraction time and stride length: a myth revisited
Published in Biology open (15-10-2016)“…Billfishes are considered to be among the fastest swimmers in the oceans. Previous studies have estimated maximum speed of sailfish and black marlin at around…”
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Environmental stressors alter relationships between physiology and behaviour
Published in Trends in ecology & evolution (Amsterdam) (01-11-2013)“…•Stressors amplify physiological and behavioural links by increasing variation.•Stressors can attenuate such relationships by decreasing variation.•These…”
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Fuel, fasting, fear: routine metabolic rate and food deprivation exert synergistic effects on risk-taking in individual juvenile European sea bass
Published in The Journal of animal ecology (01-09-2011)“…1. Individuals of the same species often exhibit consistent differences in metabolic rate, but the effects of such differences on ecologically important…”
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The effect of hypoxia on fish schooling
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences (19-08-2017)“…Low-oxygen areas are expanding in the oceans as a result of climate change. Work carried out during the past two decades suggests that, in addition to…”
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Physiology-based modelling approaches to characterize fish habitat suitability: Their usefulness and limitations
Published in Estuarine, coastal and shelf science (05-02-2018)“…Models are useful tools for predicting the impact of global change on species distribution and abundance. As ectotherms, fish are being challenged to adapt or…”
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Fish swimming in schools save energy regardless of their spatial position
Published in Behavioral ecology and sociobiology (01-02-2015)“…For animals, being a member of a group provides various advantages, such as reduced vulnerability to predators, increased foraging opportunities and reduced…”
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The effects of hypoxia on aerobic metabolism in oil-contaminated sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax)
Published in Chemosphere (Oxford) (01-08-2020)“…Hypoxia and petrogenic hydrocarbon contamination are two anthropogenic stressors that coexist in coastal environments. Although studies have estimated the…”
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A relationship between metabolic rate and risk-taking behaviour is revealed during hypoxia in juvenile European sea bass
Published in Functional ecology (01-02-2012)“…1. Inter-individual variation in metabolic rate exists in a wide range of taxa. While this variation appears to be linked to numerous aspects of animal…”
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The role of physiological traits in assortment among and within fish shoals
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences (19-08-2017)“…Individuals of gregarious species often group with conspecifics to which they are phenotypically similar. This among-group assortment has been studied for body…”
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Fast growers sprint slower: effects of food deprivation and re-feeding on sprint swimming performance in individual juvenile European sea bass
Published in Journal of experimental biology (15-03-2014)“…While many ectothermic species can withstand prolonged fasting without mortality, food deprivation may have sublethal effects of ecological importance,…”
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