Publications

Wilson, R,P., Redcliffe, J., Holton, M., Hopkins, P., Thomas, V., Rosell, F.N, Lodberg-Holm, H.K., Robstad, C., Kominos, T., Galanaki, A., Gasteratos, G., Naziridis T., Gunner, R., Silovsky, V., Ježek, M., English, H., Shott, O., Bambridge, K., Fuller, A., Willoughby, C., Dee, E., Nichols, N., Quintana, F., Fahlman, F., Larsson, J., Scantlebury. D.M and Siebert, U. 2025. Why catch when you can throw? A framework for tagging animals without capture or restraint. R. Soc. OpenSci. 12: 250139.

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.

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.

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.

Del Caño. M., Quintana, F., Wilson, R., Dell´Omo, G. and Gómez Laich, A. 2025. Assessing meal size in seabirds through head movement dynamics. Marine Biology 172-92.

Quintana F, Wilson R, Dell Arciprete P, Shepard E y Gómez Laich A. 2011. Women from Venus, men from Mars: inter-sex foraging differences in the imperial cormorant Phalacrocorax atriceps a colonial seabird. Oikos 120: 350-358.

Gómez Laich A, Wilson RP, Gleiss AC, Shepard ELC y Quintana F. 2011. Use of Overall dynamic body acceleration for estimating energy expenditure in cormorants; does locomotion in different media affect relationships? Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 399: 151-155.

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.

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.

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

Shepard ELC, Wilson RP, Quintana F, Gómez Laich A y Forman DW. 2009. Pushed for time or saving fuel: fine-scale energy budgets shed light on currencies in a diving bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 276: 3149-3155.

Sala JE, Quintana F, Wilson RP, Dignani J, Lewis M y Campagna C. 2011. Pitching and new angle on elephant seal dive patterns. Polar Biology 34:1197-1209.

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.

Wilson RP, Liebsch N, Gómez-Laich A, Kay WP, Bone A, Hobson V y Siebert U. 2015. Options for modulating intra-specific competition in colonial pinnipeds: the case of harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) in the Wadden Sea. PeerJ http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.957

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

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.

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.

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

Wilson RP, Holton MD, Neate A, Del Caño M, Quintana F, Yoda K, Gómez-Laich A. 2022. Luck and tactics in foraging success: the case of the imperial shag. Marine Ecology Progress Series 682: 1-12. doi:10.3354/meps13967

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

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

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.

Gómez‐Laich A, Pantano C, Wilson RP, Svagelj WS, Yoda K, Gunner R, Quintana F. 2022. Leg rings impact the diving performance of a foot‐propelled diver. Ibis 164(1): 118-131. doi:10.1111/ibi.12998

Gómez Laich A, Quintana F, Shepard ELC y Wilson RP. 2012. Intersex differences in the diving behaviour of Imperial cormorants. Journal of Ornithology 153: 139-147.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gómez Laich A, Wilson RP, Shepard ELC y Quintana F. 2013. Energy expenditure and food consumption of foraging Imperial cormorants in Patagonia, Argentina. Marine Biology 160: 1697-1707.

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

Gleiss AC, Jorgensen SJ, Liebsch N, Sala JE, Norman B, Hays GC, Quintana F, Grundy E, Campagna C, Trites AW, Block BA y Wilson RP. 2011. Convergent evolution in locomotory patterns of flying and swimming animals. Nature Communications 2:352. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1350.

Wilson R, Quintana F y Hobson V. 2012. Construction of energy landscapes can clarify the movement and distribution of foraging animals. Proceeding of the Royal Society Series B 279: 975-980.

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.

Shepard ELC, Wilson RP, Gómez Laich A y Quintana F. 2010. Buoyed up and slowed down: speed limits for diving birds in shallow waters. Aquatic Biology 8: 259-267.

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.