Paolo Becciu

Airflows redefine the cost of aerial transport in the wild

Fuel economy matters to both animals and machines, as the cost of transport can determine where, when, and how far locomotion is possible. However, established estimates of these values for animal flight come from laboratories and treat the atmosphere as constant, even though fre...

Genomic bases of short-term evolution in wild barn owls revealed by long-term monitoring and population-scale sequencing

Abstract Understanding how wild populations undergo rapid phenotypic evolution requires linking phenotypic change to its underlying genomic architecture over contemporary timescales. Here, we leverage a 30-year study of Swiss barn owls ( Tyto alba ) to examine long-term changes i...