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Publications

The laboratory's article repository, filterable by topic, animal and author. All PDFs available for download.

Please note that the list shown does not cover all of the laboratory's publications. These documents are only those for which we have obtained explicit authorization to publish. The list will grow as new publications appear and we have permission to share them.

41 publications

  • 2025PenguinsOther seabirdsBehavior

    Kaidarova, A., Geraldi, N., Wilson, R., Kosel, J., Meekan, M., Eguíluz, V., Hussain, M., Shamim, A., Liao, H., Srivastava, M., Saha, S., Strano, M., Zhang, X., Ooi, B., Holton, M., Hopkins, L., Jin, X., Gong, X., Quintana, F., Tovasarov, A., Tasmagambetova, A., & Duarte, C. 2023. Wearable sensors for monitoring marine environments and their inhabitants. Nature Biotechnology 41: 1208 -1220.

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  • 2025PenguinsOther seabirdsHealth status

    Vanstreels RET, Piccinin I, Maraschin, M, Gallo L, Serafini PP, Pereira A, Santos AP, Egert L, Uhart M. 2023. Phtalate esters (plasticizers) in the uropygial gland and their relationship to plastic ingestión in seabirds along the coast of Espírito Santo, Eastern Brazil. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine.

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  • 2025PenguinsOther seabirdsConservation

    Uhart, M., Vanstreels, R., Quintana, F., Mattera, B., Montoya, N., Guzman, L., Pacheco Valles, H., Pizarro, G., Marull, C. Pozzi, L., Mörner, T., García Borboroglu. P., Crofts, S., Cook, R. and Karesh, W. En prensa. Four unusual mortality events of seabirds in the Patagonian Sea, 2000–2006: species affected and possible causes. Polar Biology.

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  • 2025PenguinsCormorantsPetrels

    Quintana, F., Wilson, R.P. y Gómez-Laich, A. 2024. Síntesis y revisión crítica del uso de bio-registradores para aves marinas de Sudamérica. El Hornero 39 (2): 65-94.

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  • 2025PenguinsCormorantsPetrels

    Quintana, F., Wilson, R., Prandoni, N., Svagelj, W. and Gómez-Laich, A. 2022. Long-term ecology studies in Patagonian seabirds: a review with the Imperial Cormorant as a case study. Chapter 10. In: Global change in Atlantic coastal Patagonian ecosystems: A journey through time. Eds.: E.W. Helbling, M.A. Narvarte, R.A. González & V.E. Villafañe, Springer.

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  • 2025PenguinsBehaviorMovement

    Barrionuevo, M., Frere, E., Quintana, F., Ciancio, J., Marchisio, N and Lisovski, S. 2023. Within- and amongcolony variation in non-breeding dispersion of Magellanic penguins breeding along the coast of Argentina. Mar Ecol Prog Ser. 721: 151-160.

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  • 2023PenguinsBehaviorMovement

    Sala JE, Pisoni JP, Quintana F. 2017. Three-dimensional temperature fields of the North Patagonian Sea recorded by Magellanic penguins as biological sampling platforms. Journal Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 189: 203-215.

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  • 2023PenguinsOther seabirdsMovement

    Halsey LG, Shepard ELC, Quintana F, Gomez Laich A, Green JA y Wilson RP. 2009. The relationship between oxygen consumption and body acceleration in a range of species. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A 152: 197–202.

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  • 2023PenguinsBehaviorMovement

    Bidder OR, Soresina M, Shepard ELC, Halsey LG, Quintana F, Gómez Laich A y Wilson RP. 2012. The need for speed: testing acceleration for estimating animal travel rates in terrestrial dead-reckoning systems. Zoology 115:58-64. Doi:10.1016/j.zool.2011.09.003.

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  • 2023PenguinsCormorantsMovement

    Yorio P, Quintana F, Dell Arciprete P y Gonzales-Zevallos D. 2010. Spatial overlap between foraging seabirds and trawl fisheries: implications for the effectiveness of a marine protected area at Golfo San Jorge, Argentina. Bird Conservation International 20: 320-334.

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  • 2023PenguinsHealth status

    Uhart M, Vanstreels RET, Gallo L, Cook RA, Karesh WB. 2020. Serological survey for select infectious agents in wild Magellanic penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus) in Argentina, 1994–2008. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 56(1): 66-81. doi: 10.7589/2019-01-022

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  • 2023PenguinsCormorantsOther seabirds

    González-Zevallos D, Yorio P y Svagelj WS. 2011. Seabird attendance and incidental mortality at shrimp fisheries in Golfo San Jorge, Argentina. Marine Ecology Progress Series 432: 125-135.

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  • 2023PenguinsBehaviorMovement

    Wilson RP, Sala JE, Gómez-Laich A, Ciancio J y Quintana F. 2015. Pushed to the limit: food abundance determines tag-induced harm in penguins. Animal Welfare 24:37-44

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  • 2023PenguinsBiology and ecology

    Acosta Hospitaleche C y Haidr N. 2011. Penguin cranial remains from the Eocene La Meseta Formation, Isla Marambio (Seymour Island), Antarctic Peninsula. Antarctic Science 23 (4): 369-378.

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  • 2023PenguinsBehaviorMovement

    Wilson RP, Shepard ELC, Gómez Laich A, Frere E y Quintana F. 2010. Pedaling downhill and freewheeling up; a penguin perspective on foraging. Aquatic Biology 8: 193-202.

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  • 2023PenguinsOther seabirdsBehavior

    Williams JH, Taylor LA, Benhamou S, Bijleveld AI, Clay TA, de Grissac S, Demšar U, English HL, Franconi N, Gómez‐Laich A et al. 2020. Optimizing the use of biologgers for movement ecology research. Journal of Animal Ecology 89 (1): 186-206. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13094

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  • 2023PenguinsOther seabirdsBehavior

    Wilson R, McMahon CR, Quintana F, Frere E, Scolaro A, Hays G y Bradshaw CJ. 2011. N-dimensional animal energetic niches clarify behavioural options in a variable marine environment. Journal of Experimental Biology 214: 646-656.

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  • 2023PenguinsBehaviorMovement

    Gómez-Laich A, Wilson RP, Sala JE, Luzenti A. y Quintana F. 2015. Moving northward: Comparison of the foraging effort of Magellanic penguins from three colonies of Northern Patagonia. Marine Biology 162: 1451-1461.

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  • 2023PenguinsBiology and ecology

    Haidr N y Acosta Hospitaleche C. 2014. Miocene Patagonian penguins: craniomandibular morphology and functional mechanics. Alcheringa 38(2): 273-280.

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  • 2023PenguinsBehaviorMovement

    Wilson RP, Holton MD, Di Virgiglio A, Williams H, Shepard ELC et al. 2018. Give the machine a hand: A Boolean time-based decision-tree template for rapidly finding animal behaviours in multisensor data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 9: 2206 - 2215. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.13069

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  • 2023PenguinsBehaviorMovement

    Bidder O, Campbell HA, Gómez Laich A, Urgé P, Walker J, Yuzhi C, Lianli G, Quintana F y Wilson R. 2014. Love thy Neighbour: Automatic Animal Behavioural Classification of Acceleration data using the K-Nearest Neighbour Algorithm. PLoS ONE 9 (2): e88609. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0088609

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  • 2023PenguinsBehaviorMovement

    Quintana F, Gómez-Laich A, Gunner RM, Gabelli F, Dell'Omo GD, Duarte C, Brogger M, Wilson RP. 2022. Long walk home: Magellanic penguins have strategies that lead them to areas where they can navigate most efficiently. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289:20220535. doi:10.1098/rspb.2022.0535

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  • 2023PenguinsCormorantsBehavior

    Wilson R.P., Gómez-Laich A, Sala JE, Dell’Omo G, Holton MD, Quintana F. 2017. Long necks enhance and constrain foraging capacity in aquatic vertebrates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284: 1867.

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  • 2023PenguinsBehaviorBiology and ecology

    Thiebot JB, Arnould J, Gómez-Laich A, Ito K, Kato A, Mattern T, Mitamura H, Noda T, Poupart T, Quintana F, Raclot T, Ropert-Coudert Y, Sala J, Seddon P, Sutton G, Yoda K, Takahashi A. 2017. Jellyfish and other gelata as food to four penguin species: insights from predator-borne videos. Frontiers in ecology and the environment.

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  • 2023PenguinsBehaviorMovement

    Gómez-Laich A, Yoda K, Quintana F. 2018. Insights into the Foraging Behavior of Magellanic Penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus). Waterbirds 41: 332-336. doi: 10.1675/063.041.0315

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  • 2023PenguinsOther seabirdsMovement

    Williams HJ, Holton MD, Shepard ELC, Largey N, Norman B, Ryan PG, Duriez O, Scantlebury M, Quintana F, Magowan EA, Marks NJ, Alagaili AN, Bennett NC and Wilson RP. 2017. Identification of animal movement patterns using tri-axial magnetometry. Movement Ecology 5 (6). DOI 10.1186/s40462-017-0097-x.

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  • 2023PenguinsCormorantsOther seabirds

    Gunner RM, Holton MD, Scantlebury MD, Hopkins P, Shepard ELC, Fell AJ, Garde B, Quintana F, Gómez‑Laich A, Yoda K et al. 2021. How often should dead-reckoned animal movement paths be corrected for drift? Animal Biotelemetry 9(1): 1-22. doi:10.1186/s40317-021-00265-9

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  • 2023PenguinsBehaviorMovement

    Sala JE, Wilson RP y Quintana F. 2012. How much is too much? Assessment of prey consumption by Magellanic penguins in Patagonian colonies. PLoS ONE 7(12):e51487. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0051487

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  • 2023PenguinsHealth status

    Gallo L, Vanstreels RET, Cook RA, Karesh WB, Uhart M. 2019. Hematology, plasma biochemistry, and trace element reference values for free-ranging adult Magellanic Penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus). Polar Biology 42(4): 733-742. doi:10.1007/s00300-019-02467-7

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  • 2023PenguinsBehaviorMovement

    Sala JE, Wilson RP, Frere E y Quintana F. 2012. Foraging effort in Magellanic penguins in Coastal Patagonia, Argentina. Marine Ecology Progress Series 464:273-287. DOI: 10.3354/meps09887

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  • 2023PenguinsBehaviorMovement

    Sala JE, Wilson RP y Quintana F. 2015. Foraging effort in Magellanic penguins: Balancing the energy books for survival? Marine Biology 162: 501-514.

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  • 2023PenguinsBehavior

    Sala JE, Quintana F, Frere E y Wilson RP. 2014. Flexible foraging for finding fish: variable diving patterns in Magellanic penguins from different colonies. Journal of Ornithology 155: 801-817. DOI:10.1007/s10336-014-1065-5

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  • 2023PenguinsBehaviorMovement

    Del Caño M, Quintana F, Yoda K, Dell’Omo G, Blanco GS, Gómez-Laich A. 2021. Fine-scale body and head movements allow to determine prey capture events in the Magellanic Penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus). Marine Biology 168(6): 1-15. doi:10.1007/s00227-021-03892-1

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  • 2023PenguinsBehaviorMovement

    Yamamoto T, Yoda K, Blanco GS, Quintana F. 2019. Female-biased stranding in Magellanic penguins. Current Biology 29:12-13. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.11.023

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  • 2023PenguinsBiology and ecology

    Haidr N y Acosta Hospitaleche, C. 2012. Feeding habits of Antarctic Eocene penguins from a morphofunctional perspective. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 263 (2): 125-131.

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  • 2023PenguinsCormorantsBehavior

    Wilson RP, Börger L, Holton MD, Scantlebury DM, Gómez-Laich A, Quintana F et al. 2020. Estimates for energy expenditure in free-living animals using acceleration proxies; a reappraisal. Journal of Animal Ecology 89: 161-172. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13040

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  • 2023PenguinsCormorantsOther seabirds

    Gunner RM, Holton MD, Scantlebury MD, van Schalkwyk OL, English HM, Williams HJ, Hopkins P, Quintana F, Gómez-Laich A, Börger et al. 2021. Dead-reckoning animal movements in R: a reappraisal using Gundog. Tracks. Animal Biotelemetry 9(1): 1-37. doi: 10.1186/s40317-021-00245-z

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  • 2023PenguinsBehaviorBiology and ecology

    Ciancio J, Quintana F, Sala JE and Wilson RP. 2016. Cold birds under pressure; can thermal substitution ease heat loss in diving penguins? Marine Biology 163: 43. DOI 10.1007/s00227-016-2813-2.

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  • 2023PenguinsHealth status

    Gallo VL, Vanstreels RET, Gallo L, Entrocassi AC, Peker L, Blanco GS, Rago MV, Rodriguez Fermepin M, Uhart MM. 2022. Chlamydiaceae-Like Bacterium in Wild Magellanic Penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus). Diversity 14(9):746. doi: 10.3390/d14090746

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  • 2023PenguinsBehaviorMovement

    Blanco GS, Gallo L, Pisoni JP, Dell’Omo G, Gerez NA, Molina G, Quintana F. 2022. At-sea distribution, movements and diving behavior of Magellanic penguins reflect small-scale changes in oceanographic conditions around the colony. Marine Biology 169(2): 1-13. doi:10.1007/s00227-021-04016-5

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  • 2023PenguinsOther seabirdsBehavior

    Wilson RP, Holton MD, Walker JS, Shepard ELC, Scantlebury MD, Wilson VL, Wilson GI, Tysse B, Gravenor M, Ciancio J, McNarry MA, Mackintosh KA, Qasem L, Rosell F, Graf PM, Quintana F, Gómez-Laich A, Sala JE, Mulvenna CC, Marks NJ, Jones MW. 2016. A spherical-plot solution to linking acceleration metrics with animal performance, state, behaviour and lifestyle. Movement Ecology 4:22.

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