Publications

Del Caño. M., Quintana, F., Dell’Omo, G. and Gómez-Laich, A. 2024. Tri-axial accelerometry allows to determine parental food provisioning behaviour in a marine bird. Avian Research 15 100194.

Quintana, F., Wilson, R.P. y Gómez-Laich, A. 2024. Síntesis y revisión crítica del uso de bio-registradores para aves marinas de Sudamérica. El Hornero 39 (2): 65-94.

Quintana, F., Wilson, R., Prandoni, N., Svagelj, W. and Gómez-Laich, A. 2022. Long-term ecology studies in Patagonian seabirds: a review with the Imperial Cormorant as a case study. Chapter 10. In: Global change in Atlantic coastal Patagonian ecosystems: A journey through time. Eds.: E.W. Helbling, M.A. Narvarte, R.A. González & V.E. Villafañe, Springer.

Del Caño. M., Quintana, F., Wilson, R., Dell´Omo, G. and Gómez Laich, A. 2025. Assessing meal size in seabirds through head movement dynamics. Marine Biology 172-92.

Quintana F, Wilson R, Dell Arciprete P, Shepard E y Gómez Laich A. 2011. Women from Venus, men from Mars: inter-sex foraging differences in the imperial cormorant Phalacrocorax atriceps a colonial seabird. Oikos 120: 350-358.

Gómez Laich A, Wilson RP, Gleiss AC, Shepard ELC y Quintana F. 2011. Use of Overall dynamic body acceleration for estimating energy expenditure in cormorants; does locomotion in different media affect relationships? Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 399: 151-155.

Krishnan K, Garde B, Bennison A, Cole NC, Cole EL, Darby J, Elliot KH, Fell A, Gómez-Laich A, de Grissac S et al. 2022. The role of wingbeat frequency and amplitude in flight power. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 19(193):20220168. doi:10.1098/rsif.2022.0168

Halsey LG, Shepard ELC, Quintana F, Gomez Laich A, Green JA y Wilson RP. 2009. The relationship between oxygen consumption and body acceleration in a range of species. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A 152: 197–202.

Bidder OR, Soresina M, Shepard ELC, Halsey LG, Quintana F, Gómez Laich A y Wilson RP. 2012. The need for speed: testing acceleration for estimating animal travel rates in terrestrial dead-reckoning systems. Zoology 115:58-64. Doi:10.1016/j.zool.2011.09.003.

Leonardi, MS, Svagelj W, Gómez-Laich A, Quintana F. 2017. The eldest sibling is the lousiest in an obligate brood reducer seabird. Emu - Austral Ornithology. doi:10.1080/01584197.2017.1387028.

Svagelj WS, Gómez‐Laich A, Pérez MR, Somoza GM, Quintana F. 2021. Sex‐specific environmental sensitivity on the postnatal growth of a sexually size‐dimorphic seabird. Ibis 163(3):1032-1044. doi:10.1111/ibi.12920

Gómez-Laich A, Yoda K, Zavalaga C y Quintana F. 2015. Selfies of Imperial cormorants (Phalacrocorax atriceps): What is happening underwater? PLoS ONE 10(9): e0136980.

Svagelj WS, Gómez-Laich A, Quintana F. 2019. Richards’s equation and nonlinear mixed models applied to avian growth: why use them? Journal of Animal Ecology e01864. doi: 10.1111/jav.01864

Wilson RP, Sala JE, Gómez-Laich A, Ciancio J y Quintana F. 2015. Pushed to the limit: food abundance determines tag-induced harm in penguins. Animal Welfare 24:37-44

Shepard ELC, Wilson RP, Quintana F, Gómez Laich A y Forman DW. 2009. Pushed for time or saving fuel: fine-scale energy budgets shed light on currencies in a diving bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 276: 3149-3155.

Wilson RP, Shepard ELC, Gómez Laich A, Frere E y Quintana F. 2010. Pedaling downhill and freewheeling up; a penguin perspective on foraging. Aquatic Biology 8: 193-202.

Rebstock GA, Agüero ML, Boersma PD, Ebert LA, Gómez Laich A, Lisnizer N, Svagelj WS y Trivellini MM. 2010. Repeated observations of a Cape Gannet (Morus capensis) on the coast of Patagonia Argentina. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 81 (2): 167-169.

Wilson RP, Liebsch N, Gómez-Laich A, Kay WP, Bone A, Hobson V y Siebert U. 2015. Options for modulating intra-specific competition in colonial pinnipeds: the case of harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) in the Wadden Sea. PeerJ http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.957

Williams JH, Taylor LA, Benhamou S, Bijleveld AI, Clay TA, de Grissac S, Demšar U, English HL, Franconi N, Gómez‐Laich A et al. 2020. Optimizing the use of biologgers for movement ecology research. Journal of Animal Ecology 89 (1): 186-206. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13094

Gómez-Laich A, Wilson RP, Sala JE, Luzenti A. y Quintana F. 2015. Moving northward: Comparison of the foraging effort of Magellanic penguins from three colonies of Northern Patagonia. Marine Biology 162: 1451-1461.

Wilson RP, Holton MD, Neate A, Del Caño M, Quintana F, Yoda K, Gómez-Laich A. 2022. Luck and tactics in foraging success: the case of the imperial shag. Marine Ecology Progress Series 682: 1-12. doi:10.3354/meps13967

Bidder O, Campbell HA, Gómez Laich A, Urgé P, Walker J, Yuzhi C, Lianli G, Quintana F y Wilson R. 2014. Love thy Neighbour: Automatic Animal Behavioural Classification of Acceleration data using the K-Nearest Neighbour Algorithm. PLoS ONE 9 (2): e88609. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0088609

Quintana F, Gómez-Laich A, Gunner RM, Gabelli F, Dell'Omo GD, Duarte C, Brogger M, Wilson RP. 2022. Long walk home: Magellanic penguins have strategies that lead them to areas where they can navigate most efficiently. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289:20220535. doi:10.1098/rspb.2022.0535

Wilson R.P., Gómez-Laich A, Sala JE, Dell’Omo G, Holton MD, Quintana F. 2017. Long necks enhance and constrain foraging capacity in aquatic vertebrates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284: 1867.

Gómez‐Laich A, Pantano C, Wilson RP, Svagelj WS, Yoda K, Gunner R, Quintana F. 2022. Leg rings impact the diving performance of a foot‐propelled diver. Ibis 164(1): 118-131. doi:10.1111/ibi.12998

Thiebot JB, Arnould J, Gómez-Laich A, Ito K, Kato A, Mattern T, Mitamura H, Noda T, Poupart T, Quintana F, Raclot T, Ropert-Coudert Y, Sala J, Seddon P, Sutton G, Yoda K, Takahashi A. 2017. Jellyfish and other gelata as food to four penguin species: insights from predator-borne videos. Frontiers in ecology and the environment.

Gómez Laich A, Quintana F, Shepard ELC y Wilson RP. 2012. Intersex differences in the diving behaviour of Imperial cormorants. Journal of Ornithology 153: 139-147.

Gómez-Laich A, Yoda K, Quintana F. 2018. Insights into the Foraging Behavior of Magellanic Penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus). Waterbirds 41: 332-336. doi: 10.1675/063.041.0315

Gunner RM, Holton MD, Scantlebury MD, Hopkins P, Shepard ELC, Fell AJ, Garde B, Quintana F, Gómez‑Laich A, Yoda K et al. 2021. How often should dead-reckoned animal movement paths be corrected for drift? Animal Biotelemetry 9(1): 1-22. doi:10.1186/s40317-021-00265-9

Quintana F, Uhart MM, Gallo L, Mattera MB, Rimondi A, Gómez-Laich A. 2022. Heat-related massive chick mortality in an Imperial Cormorant Leucocarbo atriceps colony from Patagonia, Argentina. Polar Biology (45): 275-284. doi:10.1007/s00300-021-02982-6

García GO, Isacch JP, Gómez Laich A, Albano M, Favero M, Cardoni AD, Luppi T y Iribarne O. 2010. American Oystercatcher foraging behaviour and diet in a Patagonian intertidal área affected by nutrients loading. Emu 110: 146-154.

Del Caño M, Quintana F, Yoda K, Dell’Omo G, Blanco GS, Gómez-Laich A. 2021. Fine-scale body and head movements allow to determine prey capture events in the Magellanic Penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus). Marine Biology 168(6): 1-15. doi:10.1007/s00227-021-03892-1

Wilson RP, Börger L, Holton MD, Scantlebury DM, Gómez-Laich A, Quintana F et al. 2020. Estimates for energy expenditure in free-living animals using acceleration proxies; a reappraisal. Journal of Animal Ecology 89: 161-172. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13040

Gómez Laich A, Wilson RP, Shepard ELC y Quintana F. 2013. Energy expenditure and food consumption of foraging Imperial cormorants in Patagonia, Argentina. Marine Biology 160: 1697-1707.

Gunner RM, Holton MD, Scantlebury MD, van Schalkwyk OL, English HM, Williams HJ, Hopkins P, Quintana F, Gómez-Laich A, Börger et al. 2021. Dead-reckoning animal movements in R: a reappraisal using Gundog. Tracks. Animal Biotelemetry 9(1): 1-37. doi: 10.1186/s40317-021-00245-z

Shepard ELC, Wilson RP, Gómez Laich A y Quintana F. 2010. Buoyed up and slowed down: speed limits for diving birds in shallow waters. Aquatic Biology 8: 259-267.

Wilson RP, Holton MD, Walker JS, Shepard ELC, Scantlebury MD, Wilson VL, Wilson GI, Tysse B, Gravenor M, Ciancio J, McNarry MA, Mackintosh KA, Qasem L, Rosell F, Graf PM, Quintana F, Gómez-Laich A, Sala JE, Mulvenna CC, Marks NJ, Jones MW. 2016. A spherical-plot solution to linking acceleration metrics with animal performance, state, behaviour and lifestyle. Movement Ecology 4:22.