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Team - Ecological Research employee

Benedetta CatittiDr.

Contact

+41 41 462 97 00
benedetta.catitti@vogelwarte.ch

Swiss Ornithological Institute
Seerose 1
6204 Sempach
Switzerland

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Ecological Research employee

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Research

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Ecological research

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Ecological research

Mechanisms of population dynamics in Red Kites

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CV

Education
2019-2023	PhD in Ecology at the University of Zurich
2016-2018	Degree (MSc) in Ecology and Evolution at the ETH Zurich
2012-2015	Degree (BSc) in Biology at "La Sapienza" University of Rome (Italy)
Further training
2023	AniMove workshop on movement ecology (University of British Columbia, Kelowna, Canada)
2023	Bayesian integrated population modeling (IPM) using JAGS (Swiss Ornithological Institute)
2021	Spatial dimension in animal management and conservation (University of Zurich)

PUBLICATIONS

Publications while working at the Swiss Ornithological Institute

Natal legacies cause social and spatial marginalization during dispersal

Catitti, Benedetta; Grüebler, Martin U.; Farine, Damien R.; Kormann, Urs G. (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14366

Brutbiologie des Rotmilans Milvus milvus in den Westschweizer Voralpen

Scherler, Patrick; van Bergen, Valentijn; Catitti, Benedetta; Kormann, Urs; Witczak, Stephanie; Andereggen, Melanie; Herzog, Jana S.; Aebischer, Adrian; Roth, Nicolas; Grüebler, Martin U. (2023)

Turning tables : Food availability shapes dynamic aggressive behaviour among asynchronously hatching siblings in red kites Milvus milvus // Food availability shapes dynamic aggressive behaviour among asynchronously hatching siblings in red kites Milvus milvus

Catitti, Benedetta; Kormann, Urs G.; van Bergen, Valentijn S.; Grüebler, Martin U. (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230328

Determinants of departure to natal dispersal across an elevational gradient in a long‐lived raptor species // Determinants of departure to natal dispersal across an elevational gradient in a long-lived raptor species

Scherler, Patrick; Witczak, Stephanie; Aebischer, Adrian; van Bergen, Valentijn; Catitti, Benedetta; Grüebler, Martin U. (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9603

Hungry or angry? Experimental evidence for the effects of food availability on two measures of stress in developing wild raptor nestlings

Catitti, Benedetta; Grüebler, Martin U.; Kormann, Urs G.; Scherler, Patrick; Witczak, Stephanie; van Bergen, Valentijn S.; Jenni-Eiermann, Susanne (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.244102

Weather and food availability additively affect reproductive output in an expanding raptor population

Nägeli, Melanie; Scherler, Patrick; Witczak, Stephanie; Catitti, Benedetta; Aebischer, Adrian; van Bergen, Valentijn; Kormann, Urs; Grüebler, Martin U. (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-021-05076-6

A vanishing raptor in a Mediterranean island : An updated picture of Red kite (milvus milvus) in Sardinia, Italy

De Rosa, Davide; Fozzi, Ilaria; Fozzi, Alberto; Sanna, Mauro; Škrábal, Jan; Raab, Rainer; Catiti, Benedetta; Rotta, Andrea; Literák, Ivan; Berlinguer, Fiammetta; Aresu, Mauro (2021)
https://doi.org/10.4081/rio.2021.517

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FURTHER INFORMATION

Associate Editor, Avocetta – Journal of Ornithology (www.avocetta.org)
Thesis supervision Lorenz Mindt, Master thesis, University of Innsbruck. Duration: 1 year (2020-2021). Title: “Foraging benefits and mate acquisition drive sex-biased roost attendance in a large raptor: Combining experimental food supplementation with multi-year GPS tracking “
Thesis supervision Melanie Andereggen, Master thesis, University of Basel. Duration: 1 year (2019-2020). Title: “Prey delivery rate and diet composition of red kites in Switzerland”
Award: ISBE 2022 Travel Award

CO-OPERATIONS

→ Martin Austad, University of Giessen (DE)
→ Michelangelo Morganti, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IT)

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Research

Ecological research

We investigate the diverse interactions of birds with their environment, from individual settlement behaviour to species communities.

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