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Giacomo Tavecchia is affiliated with the University of the Balearic Islands in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with significant contributions to biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

Their scholarly work spans several subfields of study, including ecology, molecular biology, ecological modeling, global and planetary change, and nature and landscape conservation.

The research topics addressed by Giacomo Tavecchia cover a variety of areas, with a particular emphasis on avian ecology and behavior, species distribution and climate change, wildlife ecology and conservation, identification and quantification in food, amphibian and reptile biology, fish ecology and management studies, and marine animal studies.

Recent publications illustrate a focus on species ecology, conservation, and environmental monitoring:

  • Playing "hide and seek" with the Mediterranean monk seal: a citizen science dataset reveals its distribution from molecular traces (eDNA), 2023, Scientific Reports
  • Demographic modeling to fine-tune conservation targets: importance of pre-adults for the decline of an endangered raptor, 2020, Ecological Applications
  • Foraging Far from Home: GPS-Tracking of Mediterranean Storm-Petrels Hydrobates pelagicus melitensis Reveals Long-Distance Foraging Movements, 2020, Ardeola
  • Climate warming induced a stretch of the breeding season and an increase of second clutches in a passerine breeding at its altitudinal limits, 2021, Current Zoology
  • Life span, growth, senescence and island syndrome: Accounting for imperfect detection and continuous growth, 2022, Journal of Animal Ecology

The main venues where Giacomo Tavecchia publishes research include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Reports, Ardeola, Current Zoology, and Oecologia.

Frequent collaborations are an evident part of their research approach, partnering notably with:

  • José Manuel Igual
  • Andreu Rotger
  • Ana Sanz-Aguilar
  • Daniel Oró
  • Laura Baldo

Best Publications

  • Ecological and evolutionary implications of food subsidies from humans

    Daniel Oro;Meritxell Genovart;Giacomo Tavecchia;Mike S. Fowler

  • Individual improvements and selective mortality shape lifelong migratory performance

    Fabrizio Sergio;Alessandro Tanferna;Renaud De Stephanis;Lidia López Jiménez

  • Predictors of reproductive cost in female Soay sheep

    Giacomo Tavecchia;Giacomo Tavecchia;Tim Coulson;Byron J.T. Morgan;Josephine M. Pemberton

  • SEX‐ AND AGE‐RELATED VARIATION IN SURVIVAL AND COST OF FIRST REPRODUCTION IN GREATER FLAMINGOS

    Giacomo Tavecchia;Giacomo Tavecchia;Roger Pradel;Vincent Boy;Alan R. Johnson

  • Survival in a long-lived territorial migrant: effects of life-history traits and ecological conditions in wintering and breeding areas

    Juan Manuel Grande;David Serrano;Giacomo Tavecchia;Martina Carrete

  • Estimating selection on neonatal traits in red deer using elasticity path analysis

    T. Coulson;L. E. B. Kruuk;G. Tavecchia;J. M. Pemberton

  • LONG LIVING AND REPRODUCTION SKIPPING IN THE FAT DORMOUSE

    Andrea Pilastro;Giacomo Tavecchia;Guglielmo Marin

  • The Young, the Weak and the Sick: Evidence of Natural Selection by Predation

    Meritxell Genovart;Nieves Negre;Giacomo Tavecchia;Ana Bistuer

  • Holding up a mirror to the society: Children recognize exotic species much more than local ones

    Meritxell Genovart;Giacomo Tavecchia;Juan José Enseñat;Paola Laiolo

  • Effects of wind farms and food scarcity on a large scavenging bird species following an epidemic of bovine spongiform encephalopathy

    Alejandro Martínez-Abraín;Alejandro Martínez-Abraín;Giacomo Tavecchia;H. M. Regan;Juan Francisco Jiménez

  • ESTIMATING THE FUNCTIONAL FORM FOR THE DENSITY DEPENDENCE FROM LIFE HISTORY DATA

    Tim Coulson;T.H.G. Ezard;F. Pelletier;G. Tavecchia

  • Maximizing re-introduction success: Assessing the immediate cost of release in a threatened waterfowl

    Giacomo Tavecchia;Covadonga Viedma;Alejandro Martínez-Abraín;Miguel Angel Bartolomé

  • Woodpigeons nesting in association with hobby falcons: advantages and choice rules.

    Giuseppe Bogliani;Fabrizio Sergio;Giacomo Tavecchia

  • Short-term effects of data-loggers on Cory’s shearwater (Calonectris diomedea)

    José Manuel Igual;Manuela G. Forero;Giacomo Tavecchia;Jacob González-Solís;Jacob González-Solís

  • Evidence-based culling of a facultative predator: Efficacy and efficiency components

    Ana Sanz-Aguilar;Alejandro Martínez-Abraín;Giacomo Tavecchia;Eduardo Mínguez

  • Modelling non-additive and nonlinear signals from climatic noise in ecological time series: Soay sheep as an example.

    Nils Christian Stenseth;Kungsik Chan;Giacomo Tavecchia;Giacomo Tavecchia;Tim Coulson

  • Effects of decreased anthropogenic food availability on an opportunistic gull: evidence for a size-mediated response in breeding females

    Emma C. Steigerwald;Emma C. Steigerwald;José Manuel Igual;Ana Payo-Payo;Giacomo Tavecchia

  • Variation in age-structured vital rates of a long-lived raptor: Implications for population growth

    Fabrizio Sergio;Giacomo Tavecchia;Julio Blas;Lidia López

  • Studying the reproductive skipping behavior in long-lived birds by adding nest inspection to individual-based data.

    Ana Sanz-Aguilar;Ana Sanz-Aguilar;Giacomo Tavecchia;Meritxell Genovart;Jose Manuel Igual

  • THE COST OF REPRODUCTION AND EXPERIENCE-DEPENDENT VITAL RATES IN A SMALL PETREL

    Ana Sanz-Aguilar;Giacomo Tavecchia;Roger Pradel;Roger Pradel;Eduardo Mínguez

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Oro
Daniel Oro Spanish National Research Council
Roger Pradel
Roger Pradel University of Montpellier
Fabrizio Sergio
Fabrizio Sergio Spanish National Research Council
Fernando Hiraldo
Fernando Hiraldo Spanish National Research Council
Tim Coulson
Tim Coulson University of Oxford
Tim H. Clutton-Brock
Tim H. Clutton-Brock University of Cambridge
Manuela G. Forero
Manuela G. Forero Spanish National Research Council
Iris E. Hendriks
Iris E. Hendriks Spanish National Research Council
Paolo Galeotti
Paolo Galeotti University of Pavia
Byron J. T. Morgan
Byron J. T. Morgan University of Kent

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