Svenja Tidau

Svenja Tidau

Postdoctoral Researcher in Marine Biology, University of Plymouth

My research focusses on sensory ecology of marine organisms and how anthropogenic pollutants such as noise and light alter behaviour and development.

I am Postdoctoral Researcher working on the NERC-funded Project Artificial Light Impacts on Coastal Ecosystems (ALICE) where I investigate the impacts of artificial light at night on coastal organisms, their development and interactions.

In my PhD I worked on the behavioural impacts of anthropogenic noise on the European hermit crab Pagurus bernhardus at the University of Plymouth (UK) and the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (Ireland). In lab and field experiments I showed that anthropogenic noise acts across sensory modalities and interferes with natural cues and signals used in individual and group behaviour.

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