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Alicia Burns

Postdoctoral Researcher

Biology

HU Berlin

 

Email:
alicialburns@gmail.com

 

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Alicia Burns

Alicia Burns

Photo: SCIoI

Alicia is a biologist with research interests spanning from basic behavioural biology to wildlife conservation. In particular, she looks at how individual variation in animals affects group-level functionality and collective behaviour, and how animal groups mediate the competing interests of individual members. The aim of this research is to ultimately understand the mechanisms driving social organisation, and to determine what makes some groups more “successful” than others in the face of changing social and asocial environments. At SCIoI, Alicia is part of project 33, working with mathematicians, computer scientists, and biologists, to understand the mechanisms underlying predator-prey interactions and group hunting.


Projects

Alicia Burns is member of Project 33.


Pacher, K., Krause, J., Bartashevich, P., Romanczuk, P., Bideau, P., Pham, D., Burns, A., Deffner, D., Dhellemmes, F., Binder, B., Boswell, K., Galván-Magaña, F., Domenici, P., & Hansen, M. (2024). Evidence for a by-product mutualism in a group hunter depends on prey movement state. Functional Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14638
Licht, M., Burns, A., Pacher, K., Krause, S., Bartashevich, P., Romanczuk, P., Hansen, M., Then, A., & Krause, J. (2024). Sailfish generate foraging opportunities for seabirds in multi-species predator aggregations. Biology Letters, 20(7). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0177
Burns, A. L., Licht, M., Heathcote, R. J., Krause, J., & Hansen, M. J. (2024). Rapid color change in a group-hunting pelagic predator attacking schooling prey. Current Biology, 34, R131–R132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.12.040
Hansen, M., Domenici, P., Bartashevich, P., Burns, A., & Krause, J. (2023). Mechanisms of group-hunting in vertebrates. Biological Reviews, 1687–1711. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12973
Burns, A. L., Bartasevich, P., Krause, J., & Hansen, M. (2023). Quantifying the spatio-temporal mechanisms of group-hunting striped marlin. Biohybrid Systems in Animal Behaviour.

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