Manuela Bizzozzero

Ever wondered how accurate drone-based photogrammetry really is?

Turns out UAV-based photogrammetry does a great job at estimating body size, condition, and even mass in live cetaceans. Yes, we validated it.

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Thank you for highlighting our work! <3

New paper on dolphin motor synchrony led by master's student Sam Hill-Cousins with a fantastic team of co-authors @danaipapageorgiou.bsky.social @emmachereskin.bsky.social @researchdolphin.bsky.social 🐬🐬🐬: Male dolphins use synchrony to both maintain and strengthen their social bonds
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Couldn’t have done this without my brilliant co-authors and the wonderful @researchdolphin.bsky.social — what an adventure! 🌊 @svenjamarfurt.bsky.social , @florianaltermatt.bsky.social , Erik Willems, Alexander Damm-Reiser, Simon J. Allen, Jean-Claude Walser and Michael Krützen

Integrating Environmental DNA Metabarcoding and Remote Sensing Reveals Known and Novel Fish Diversity Hotspots in a World Heritage Area Aim Shark Bay, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Western Australia, is highly vulnerable to climate change, yet its fish biodiversity remains poorly understood at fine spatial scales. We integrated en...

🎉 Excited to share the 2nd chapter of my PhD!

From 270 eDNA samples across Shark Bay (🇦🇺), we identified 106 fish species and mapped their diversity with remote sensing — all non-invasively! 🌊🐠

A scalable framework for characterising marine biodiversity

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ddi.70074

Delfine im Klimastress: Wie Wetterextreme Delfine gefährden - Einstein - Play SRF Zwei Jahre nachdem «Einstein» mit Forschenden der Uni Zürich in die Welt der Delfine Westaustraliens abtauchte, liegen nun Resultate vor: Wetterextreme setzen den Meeressäugern massiv zu und nur wenig...

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Tune in for an update on our🐬-research with @researchdolphin.bsky.social and the University of Zurich & on today's SRF einstein episode. It was wonderful to catch up with the incredible einstein-team and share more about our ongoing research and what we do at Irchel campus👩‍🔬🧪🐬

Graphical abstract of the methods and main results of the publication. It includes a photograph of a group of several humpback whales competing to be closest to the female of the group.

New paper on "Patterns of paternity: insights into mating competition and gene flow in a recovering population of humpback whales." 🐋🧬
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Demographic History and Adaptive Evolution of Indo‐Pacific Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in Western Australia Demographic processes can substantially affect a species' response to changing ecological conditions, necessitating the combined consideration of genetic responses to environmental variables and neut...

A late butterfly to the party🦋. What I am working on and passionate about is somewhat summarized in my first PhD publication🥹 in Molecular Ecology🐬🌊 below. Looking forward to connecting, sharing, and celebrating all things science, population & conservation genomics & passion for wildlife here!🌍🩵

🧬🐟🐬🦈Stay tuned for more research using eDNA to characterise the marine habitat of bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay! @researchdolphin.bsky.social

Enhancing environmental DNA metabarcoding from marine ecosystems: Impact of filter type, storage method, and storage time on the assessment of fish alpha and beta diversity In this study, we investigated the impact of filter type, storage method, and storage time on DNA yield, alpha (i.e., ZOTU richness) and beta diversity (i.e., ZOTU composition) derived from environme...

🧬🧪Curious about storing eDNA samples on filter papers without refrigeration?
Thrilled to share that the first chapter of my PhD was published this year:
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Demographic History and Adaptive Evolution of Indo‐Pacific Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in Western Australia Demographic processes can substantially affect a species' response to changing ecological conditions, necessitating the combined consideration of genetic responses to environmental variables and neut....

🧐🐬 Interested in the demographic history and adaptive evolution of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins along the Western Australian coast?
Check out this paper by my amazing colleague Svenja Marfurt:
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Just landed with my new wings and excited to share some of the latest research from our lab! 🐬🧬