Emilio Pagani-Nunez
emilio pagani nunez

Dr Emilio Pagani-Nunez

Lecturer

 0131 455 3812

  E.Pagani-Nunez@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

I work as a Lecturer in Ecology and Conservation at the School of Applied Sciences of 麻豆社区, where I also am a member of the Centre for Conservation and Restoration Science (CCRS). Prior to working at 麻豆社区, I was Assistant Professor at the Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) of Suzhou, China (2019-2022). In China, I also worked as a postdoc at Guangxi University (2015-2016) and Sun Yat-sen University (2016-2019). I obtained my PhD from the University of Barcelona (2014). My PhD project, developed at the Natural Sciences Museum of Barcelona, focused on the relationships between diet, ecology, and plumage colouration, using Great Tits (Parus major) as model. Since 2020, I serve as an Associate Editor at Ecology and Evolution and Ornithological Applications.

RESEARCH
I am a field ecologist with broad interests in ecology, evolution and behaviour. I enjoy studying birds to understand how our activities impact biodiversity and to think in ways in which these impacts can be minimized. I employ an array of methodologies and techniques in my research. I am especially keen to conduct experiments and observations in the field but have also explored lab techniques such as stable isotopes and deep genomic sequencing. I also use citizen data sources. To date, I have published over 40 manuscripts in conservation, ecology and ornithology journals such as Conservation Biology, Ecography, Oecologia, Ibis or Journal of Avian Biology.

GRANTS AND SUPERVISION
I have recently completed the project 3177020270 鈥淭he impact of urbanization on genotypes and phenotypes of Barn Swallows鈥 funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China with RMB640,000 (approx. 拢76,500). Linked to this project, I am supervising the PhD project "Resource use and genetic divergence in urban and rural populations of Barn Swallows (Hirunda rustica)" led by Sihao Chen, which is funded by XJTLU. I am also supervising the PhD project 鈥淯rbanization and community structure: the impact of habitat transformation on competition and predation in avian assemblages鈥, led by Yu Zeng and also funded by XJTLU.

MEDIA OUTPUT
My last publication, Trade-offs between economic development and biodiversity conservation on a tropical island, published in Conservation Biology (https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cobi.13912) was picked up by several media outlets such as Phys.org, Science Magazine or UK Today News.

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Editorial Activity

  • Associate Editor, Ecology and Evolution (2020-now)
  • Guest Editor, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 鈥 Conservation: Research Topic 鈥淚mpacts of Habitat Transformation on Species, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in Asia鈥 https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/14235 (2021-2022)
  • Associate Editor, Ornithological Applications (2020-now)

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • PhD Scholarship FPI grant BES-2010-040359 (2010-2014)

 

Invited Speaker

  • A commentary on the recent update of China鈥檚 wildlife conservation list - RICE - Cervantes Institute of Shanghai (Online) (2022)
  • Disentangling the community ecology mess - Xishuangbanna Botanical Garden CAS Seminars, Menla (Yunnan, China) (2021)
  • Why urban biodiversity matters - Elefam NGO Summer School (Online) (2021)
  • Stable Isotopes in Ecological Research - Youth Ornithologists Symposium of China (Changchun, China) (2019)

 

Media Activity

  • Phys.org , Science Magazine, UK Today News - featuring article in Conservation Biology "Trade鈥恛ffs between economic development and biodiversity conservation on a tropical island" (2022)

 

Membership of Professional Body

  • Member, Ecological 麻豆社区 of China (ESC) (2020-now)
  • Member, British Ecological 麻豆社区 (BES) (2020-now)
  • Member, Spanish Association of Terrestrial Ecology (AEET) (2020)
  • Member, Spanish Ornithological 麻豆社区 (SEO/Birdlife) (2010-now)
  • Member, Spanish 麻豆社区 of Ethology (SEE) (2010-now)

 

Reviewing

  • I have reviewed paper for Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Journal of Animal Ecology, Conservation Biology, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Global Ecology and Conservation, Behavioral Ecology, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Biological Journal of the Linnean 麻豆社区, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, Biological Invasions, Biotropica, Scientific Reports, Ecology and Evolution, Ecosphere, Ecoscience, Behavior, Animal Microbiome, Condor, Bird Study, Ardea, Ornis Fennica, Avian Research, Wilson Journal of Ornithology, Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, Journal of Urban Ecology, African Journal of Ecology, Pakistan Journal of Zoology, Animals Cells and Systems, Ringing & Migration, Catalan Journal of Ornithology

 

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To be so bold: boldness is repeatable and related to within individual behavioural variability in North Island robins

Journal Article
He, R., Pagani-N煤帽ez, E., Chevallier, C., & Barnett, C. R. (2017)
To be so bold: boldness is repeatable and related to within individual behavioural variability in North Island robins. Behavioural Processes, 140, 144-149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2017.04.014
Behavioural research traditionally focusses on the mean responses of a group of individuals rather than variation in behaviour around the mean or among individuals. However, e...

Plumage colouration variability of male Bluethroats (Luscinia svecica cyanecula) wintering in SE Iberia

Journal Article
Peir贸, I. G., & Pagani-N煤帽ez, E. (2016)
Plumage colouration variability of male Bluethroats (Luscinia svecica cyanecula) wintering in SE Iberia. Ornis Fennica, 93(2), 111-120

The diet of great tit nestlings: Comparing observation records and stable isotope analyses

Journal Article
Pagani-N煤帽ez, E., Renom, M., Mateos-Gonzalez, F., Cot铆n, J., & Senar, J. C. (2017)
The diet of great tit nestlings: Comparing observation records and stable isotope analyses. Basic and Applied Ecology, 18, 57-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2016.11.004
The diet of wild animals has been studied using many different strategies, approaches and methods in recent decades. In this regard, stable isotopes analysis (SIA) is becoming...

More ornamented Great Tit Parus major fathers start feeding their offspring earlier

Journal Article
Pagani-N煤帽ez, E., & Senar, J. C. (2016)
More ornamented Great Tit Parus major fathers start feeding their offspring earlier. Ardea, 104(2), 167-176. https://doi.org/10.5253/arde.v104i2.a1
Carotenoid-based ornaments have been proposed to signal the ability to find food. The good-parent hypothesis suggests that females may rely on these carotenoid-based traits to...

The need for new categorizations of dietary specialism incorporating spatio鈥恡emporal variability of individual diet specialization

Journal Article
Pagani鈥怤煤帽ez, E., Barnett, C., Gu, H., & Goodale, E. (2016)
The need for new categorizations of dietary specialism incorporating spatio鈥恡emporal variability of individual diet specialization. Journal of Zoology, 300(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.12364
In the last decade, an increasing body of research has addressed the extent to which different individuals within a species or population specialize in their exploitation of d...

The breeding ecology of the barn swallow Hirundo rustica gutturalis in South China

Journal Article
Pagani-N煤帽ez, E., He, C., Li, B., Li, M., He, R., Jiang, A., & Goodale, E. (2016)
The breeding ecology of the barn swallow Hirundo rustica gutturalis in South China. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 32(3), 260-263. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467416000201
Some animal species are found in many environments and over wide distributions and may have adaptations to live in such different areas. The barn swallow Hirundo rustica is an...

Comparing prey composition and prey size delivered to nestlings by great tits, Parus major, and blue tits, Cyanistes caeruleus, in a Mediterranean sclerophyllous mixed forest

Journal Article
Navalpotro, H., Pagani鈥揘煤帽ez, E., Hern谩ndez鈥揋贸mez, S., & Senar, J. (2016)
Comparing prey composition and prey size delivered to nestlings by great tits, Parus major, and blue tits, Cyanistes caeruleus, in a Mediterranean sclerophyllous mixed forest. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, 39(1), 129-139. https://doi.org/10.32800/abc.2016.39.0129
Resource partitioning is a central issue in ecology because it can establish to which point similar species can coexist in the same habitat. Great tits and blue tits have been...

Metal exposure influences the melanin and carotenoid-based colorations in great tits

Journal Article
Giraudeau, M., Mateos-Gonzalez, F., Cot铆n, J., Pagani-Nu帽ez, E., Torn茅-Noguera, A., & Senar, J. (2015)
Metal exposure influences the melanin and carotenoid-based colorations in great tits. Science of the Total Environment, 532, 512-516. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.06.021
Metals are naturally found in the environment but are also emitted through anthropogenic activities, raising some concerns about the potential deleterious effects of these ele...

Diet specialization in a generalist population: the case of breeding great tits Parus major in the Mediterranean area

Journal Article
Pagani-N煤帽ez, E., Valls, M., & Senar, J. (2015)
Diet specialization in a generalist population: the case of breeding great tits Parus major in the Mediterranean area. Oecologia, 179(3), 629-640. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-015-3334-2
The analysis of diet specialization provides key information on how different individuals deal with similar food and habitat constraints within populations. Characterizing par...

Year-round preference for spiders by Mediterranean Great Tits Parus major

Journal Article
Pagani-N煤帽ez, E., Hern谩ndez-G贸mez, S., Riyahi, S., & Senar, J. (2014)
Year-round preference for spiders by Mediterranean Great Tits Parus major. Ardeola, 61(2), 257-267. https://doi.org/10.13157/arla.61.2.2014.257
A key topic in foraging ecology is whether a particular prey type is consumed because it is more abundant or easier to catch, or because there is a specific preference for it....

Pre-Napier Funded Projects

  • PI, External, 3177020270, 鈥淭he impact of urbanization on genotypes and phenotypes of Barn Swallows鈥, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 拢76,000 (2018-2021)

Current Post Grad projects

Non-Napier PhD or MSc by Research supervisions

  • PS, Yu Zeng, XJTLU, Urbanization and community structure: the impact of habitat transformation on competition and predation in avian assemblages (2020-now)
  • PS, Sihao Chen, XJTLU, Resource use and genetic divergence in urban and rural populations of Barn Swallows (Hirunda rustica) (2020-now)