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My Research

I am an experimental global change biologist with a focus on marine and coastal ecosystems. I am particularly interested in how anthropogenic pollutants like artificial light at night (ALAN) and anthropogenic noise affect animals in their behaviour, physiology, development, and chronobiology.

By taking a sensory ecology approach, I seek to advance our understanding of the underlying basic biology such as night-time ecology, biological rhythms (e.g., chronobiology, diel niche partitioning) while identifying avenues for mitigating adverse effects of anthropogenic global change and supporting wildlife conservation.

My research is interdisciplinary and I collaborate with molecular biologists, optical oceanographers, socio-economist and colleagues outside of academia and research (NGOs, conservation practitioners such as national park authorities and resources managers).

Links

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• ResearchGate
• Blue Sky
• Personal webpage

• PhD: Behavioural impacts of anthropogenic noise on the European hermit crab Pagurus bernhardus
  University of Plymouth, UK & Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Ireland, 2019
• MSc: Environmenal Science, Policy and Management Erasmus Mundus
  Central European University, Hungary; University of Manchester, UK; Lund University, Sweden & University of the Aegean, Greece, 2013
• BA: Dutch-German Double Diploma BA/ BSc. Public Administration Special Emphasis: European Studies
  Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany & Universiteit Twente, Netherlands, 2010

I have a range of research interests in which PhD and Master's projects could be developed. Please contact me by email in the first instance regarding topics I mentioned under my research or are related.

2024

• PublishedAnthropogenic noise limits resource distribution without changing social hierarchies
  Tidau, S. & Briffa, M., 20 Apr 2024, In: Science of the Total Environment. 922, p. 171309 171309.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2023

• PublishedArtificial light at night alters predation on colour-polymorphic camouflaged prey
  Moyse, E., Firth, L. B., Smyth, T., Tidau, S. & Davies, T. W., 1 Dec 2023, In: Basic and Applied Ecology. 73, p. 88-93
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedGlobal disruption of coral broadcast spawning associated with artificial light at night
  Davies, T. W., Levy, O., Tidau, S., Fernandes de Barros Marangoni, L., Wiedenmann, J., D’Angelo, C. & Smyth, T., 15 May 2023, In: Nature Communications. 14, 2511.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedImpacts of artificial light at night on the early life history of two ecosystem engineers
  Tidau, S., Brough, F., Jenkins, S. & Davies, T. W., 18 Dec 2023, In: Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 378, 1892, 20220363.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2022

• PublishedArtificial light at night reverses monthly foraging pattern under simulated moonlight
  Tidau, S., Whittle, J., Jenkins, S. & Davies, T., Jul 2022, In: Biology Letters. 18, 7, 20220110.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedDisruption of marine habitats by artificial light at night from global coastal megacities
  Davies, T., Smyth, T., Wright, A., Edwards-Jones, A., Queiros, A., Rendon, O., Tidau, S. & McKee, D., 1 Dec 2022, In: Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene. 10, 1, 00042.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2021

• Published11 pressing research questions on how light pollution affects biodiversity
  Holker, F., Bolliger, J., Davies, T., Giavi, S., Jechow, A., Kalinkat, G., Longcore, T., Spoelstra, K., Tidau, S., Visser, M. & Knopp, E., 8 Dec 2021, In: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedA global atlas of artificial light at night under the sea
  Smyth, T., Wright, A., McKee, D., Tidau, S., Tamir, R., Dubinsky, Z., Iluz, D. & Davies, T., 13 Dec 2021, In: Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene. 9, 1
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedMarine artificial light at night: An empirical and technical guide
  Tidau, S., Smyth, T., McKee, D., Wiedenmann, J., D'Angelo, C., Wilcockson, D., Ellison, A., Grimmer, A., Jenkins, S., Widdicombe, S., de Moura Queiros, A., Talbot, E., Wright, A. & Davies, T., Sept 2021, In: Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12, 9, p. 1588-1601
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2020

• PublishedArtificial skyglow disrupts celestial migration at night
  Torres, D., Tidau, S., Jenkins, S. & Davies, T., 22 Jun 2020, In: Current Biology. 30, 12, p. PR696-R697
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
• PublishedBiologically important artificial light at night on the seafloor
  Davies, T. W., McKee, D., Fishwick, J., Tidau, S. & Smyth, T., 27 Jul 2020, In: Scientific Reports. 10, 1, 12545.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2019

• PublishedAnthropogenic noise pollution reverses grouping behaviour in hermit crabs
  Tidau, S. & Briffa, M., May 2019, In: Animal Behaviour. 151, p. 113-120
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedDistracted decision makers: ship noise and predation risk change shell choice in hermit crabs
  Tidau, S. & Mark Briffa, Jul 2019, In: Behavioral Ecology. 30, 4, p. 1157–1167
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2016

• PublishedReview on behavioral impacts of aquatic noise on crustaceans
  Tidau, S. & Mark Briffa, 2016, In: Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics. 27, 1, 010028.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review

2024

• British Council - International Science Partnerships Fund

  Grant reviewer

  2024 →

  Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Contributor)
• Welsh Crucible (External organisation)

  2024 →

  Activity: Membership of network (Member)

2020

• British Ecological Society - Grant Review College (External organisation)

  Grant reviewer

  2020 →

  Activity: Membership of committee (Member)