Olivia Aguiar, M.Sc. student
Major advisor: Barney Luttbeg
Behavior, ecology, predation risk
B.Sc. 2022, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Email: oaguair@okstate.edu
Specific Interests
Olivia studies predation risk using Physa snails as a prey and crayfish as a predator. Currently she is investigating how responses to predation risk change throughout the lifespan and how those responses compare to other types of risk responses.
Publications
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Aguiar, O.K., Sonnega, S., DiNuzzo, E.R., Sheriff, M.J. (2022). Playing it safe; risk-induced trait responses increase survival in the face of predation. Journal of Animal Ecology DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13880.
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Sheriff, M.J., Mancini, I., Aguiar, O.K., DiNuzzo, E.R., Maloney-Buckley, S., Sonnega, S., Donelan, S. (2022) The impact of food availability on risk-induced trait responses in prey. Target Journal: Behavioral Ecology. Submitted.