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Alicia Burns

Humboldt University Berlin
Verified email at hu-berlin.de
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Flight initiation distance changes across landscapes and habitats in a successful urban coloniser

MJ Hall, AL Burns, JM Martin, DF Hochuli - Urban Ecosystems, 2020 - Springer
Urbanisation is a major land use change that introduces novel sources of disturbance and
risk into an ecosystem. Successful urban species modify their fear behaviour in response to …

[HTML][HTML] Pace-of-life syndrome: linking personality, metabolism and colour ornamentation in male guppies

JGJ Godin, A Le Roy, AL Burns, F Seebacher… - Animal Behaviour, 2022 - Elsevier
Within populations, there commonly exists consistent among-individual differences in
behaviour. As a potential mechanism maintaining this variation, the pace-of-life-syndrome (POLS) …

Ecological insights into a charismatic bird using different citizen science approaches

MJ Hall, JM Martin, AL Burns, DF Hochuli - Austral Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Citizen science projects provide valuable ecological data owing to their capacity to collect a
wide variety of data at scales that would be difficult to achieve through traditional methods. A …

Self-organization and information transfer in Antarctic krill swarms

AL Burns, TM Schaerf, J Lizier… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Antarctic krill swarms are one of the largest known animal aggregations, and yet, despite
being the keystone species of the Southern Ocean, little is known about how swarms are …

Foraging enrichment alleviates oral repetitive behaviors in captive red‐tailed black cockatoos (Calyptorhynchus banksii)

ML Fangmeier, AL Burns, VA Melfi, J Meade - Zoo biology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The relationship between inadequate foraging opportunities and the expression of oral
repetitive behaviors has been well documented in many production animal species. However, …

The effect of visitor number on the behavior of zoo-housed macropods

J Meade, VA Melfi, M Keith, AL Burns - Anthrozoös, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Free-range exhibits are used by zoos to allow visitors to experience or interact with animals
in a semi-natural setting; close interactions with animals have been shown to increase …

Rapid color change in a group-hunting pelagic predator attacking schooling prey

AL Burns, M Licht, RJP Heathcote, J Krause… - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
A major challenge for group-hunting predators is coordinating movement at high speed. Billfish
— large predators with an elongated rostrum (bill) — include some of the fastest animals …

Risk balancing through selective use of social and physical information: a case study in the humbug damselfish

MIA Kent, AL Burns, WF Figueira, GPF Mazue… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
To effectively balance the need to forage against the need to avoid predation, animals should
utilize information from both their physical and social environments. However, most studies …

Mound‐building behaviour of a keystone bioturbator alters rates of leaf litter decomposition and movement in urban reserves

MJ Hall, JM Martin, AL Burns, DF Hochuli - Austral Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Bioturbation, the disturbance of soil and litter by digging animals plays an important role for
a variety of species and ecological processes in many ecosystems. The majority of studies …

Unexpected dispersal of Australian brush‐turkeys (Alectura lathami) in an urban landscape

MJ Hall, JM Martin, AL Burns, DF Hochuli - Austral Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Australian brush‐turkeys (Alectura lathami) are atypical urban colonising birds due to their
poor flight and dispersal ability, ground foraging and nesting behaviour, and lack of parental …