Bianca Marcellino, a recent MSc grad from the Murray and McCauley labs, has had her first paper accepted!  This paper explores a question critical to understanding how climate change will affect animal behaviour.  This work involved extensive mark-resighting of male dragonflies, Calico Pennants (Celithemis elisa), and detailed field observations of their behaviour.  She found that at warmer temperatures males shifted their activity away from mating and more males were engaged in thermoregulatory behaviours in these conditions.  These results suggest that as our climate continues to warm animals may have reduced time windows to engage in mating behaviour.  This has important implications for the population ecology and evolution of species affected.

Well done Bianca!!