Publications

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Peer-reviewed

  1. Meier, A. C., Restrepo, O.N., Nordseth, A., Copeland, M., Foroughirad, V., Mann, J., Wittemyer, G., J.E. Smith. In press. Network indicators of cultural resilience to anthropogenic removals in animal societies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.

  2. Vivier, F., Andrés, C., Gonzalvo, J., Fertitta, K., van Aswegen, M., Foroughirad, V., Mann, J., McEntee, M., Wells, R.S., & L. Bejder. (2024) Inferring dolphin population status: using unoccupied aerial systems to quantify age-structure. Animal Conservation. doi:10.1111/acv.12978

  3. McEntee, M.H.F., Foroughirad, V., Krzyszczyk, E. & J. Mann. (2023) Sex bias in mortality risk varies with age and sex specific selection pressures across the lifespan of bottlenose dolphins. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. doi:10.1098/rspb.2023.0675

  4. Crystal-Ornelas, R., Edwards, B., Hébert, K., Hudgins, E.J., Sánchez-Reyes, L.L., Scott, E.R., Grainger, M., Foroughirad, V., Binley, A., Brookson, C., Gaynor, K., Shafiei Sabet, S., Güncan, A., Hillemann, F., Weierbach, H., Gomes, D.G.E., Braga, P.H.P. (2023) Not just for programmers: How GitHub can accelerate collaborative and reproducible research in ecology and evolution. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.14108

  5. Dolezal, M., Foroughirad, V., Fish, F., Jacoby, A.M., Collier, M., Murphy, C., Rittmaster, K., Bansal, S., Mann, J. (2023) Some like it hot: Temperature and hydrodynamic factors influence Xenobalanus globicipitis attachment to cetaceans. Marine Mammal Science. doi:10.1111/mms.13022

  6. Foroughirad, V., Frère, C.H., Levengood, A.L., Kopps, A.M., Krzyszczyk, E. & J. Mann. (2023) Small effects of family size on sociality despite strong kin preferences in female bottlenose dolphins. Animal Behaviour. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.10.011

  7. Gomes, D.G.E., Pottier, P., Crystal-Ornelas, R., Hudgins, E.J., Foroughirad, V., Sánchez-Reyes, L.L., Turba, R., Martinez, P.A., Moreau, D., Bertram, M., Smout, C. & K. Gaynor. (2022) Why don’t we share data and code? Perceived barriers and benefits to public archiving practices. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. doi:10.1098/rspb.2022.1113

  8. Foroughirad, V., McEntee, M. H., Kopps, A.M., Levengood, A.L., Frère, C.H & J. Mann. (2022) Reproductive timing as an explanation for skewed parentage assignment ratio in a bisexually philopatric population. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 76, 129. doi:10.1007/s00265-022-03233-2

  9. Levengood, A. L., Strickland, K., Foroughirad, V., Mann, J., Cristescu, R.H., Krzyszczyk, E.B., Frère, C. (2022) Heterogeneity of resource competition shapes individual variation in dolphin social behavior. Behavioral Ecology. Volume 33, Issue 4, July/August 2022, Pages 745–757, doi:10.1093/beheco/arac037

  10. Strickland K., Mann J., Foroughirad V., Levengood A.L., Frère C.H. (2021) Maternal effects and fitness consequences of individual variation in bottlenose dolphins’ ecological niche. Journal of Animal Ecology. 2021; 00:1–13. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.13513

  11. Mann, J., Foroughirad, V., McEntee, M.H., Miketa, M.L., Evans, T., Karniski, C.B., Krzyszczyk, E.B., Patterson, EM., Strohman, J., Wallen, M.M. (2021) Elevated calf mortality and long-term responses of wild bottlenose dolphins to extreme climate events: Impacts of foraging specialization and human provisioning. Frontiers in Marine Science. 8:617550. doi:10.3389/fmars.2021.617550

  12. Galezo, A., Foroughirad, V., Krzyszczyk, E., Frère, C. & Mann, J. (2020). Juvenile social dynamics reflect adult reproductive strategies in bottlenose dolphins. Behavioral Ecology. doi:10.1093/beheco/araa068

  13. Powell, S.N., Wallen, M.M., Miketa, M.L., Krzyszczyk, E., Foroughirad, V., Bansal, S. and Mann, J. (2019) Sociality and tattoo skin disease among bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay, Australia. Behavioral Ecology. doi:10.1093/beheco/arz207

  14. Foroughirad, V., Levengood, A., Mann, J. & Frère, C. (2019) Quality and quantity of genetic relatedness data affect the analysis of social structure. Molecular Ecology Resources. doi:10.1111/1755-0998.13028

  15. Miketa, M., Patterson, EM., Krzyszczyk, E., Foroughirad, V., & Mann, J. (2018) Calf age and sex affects maternal diving behavior in Shark Bay bottlenose dolphins. Animal Behaviour. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.12.023

  16. Strickland, K., Levengood, A., Foroughirad, V., Mann, J., Krzyszczyk, E., & Frère, C. (2017) A framework for the identification of long-term social avoidance in longitudinal datasets. Royal Society Open Science. 4(8) doi:10.1098/rsos.170641

  17. Karniski, C.B., Patterson, E.M., Krzyszczyk, E., Foroughirad, V., Stanton, M.A. & Mann, J. (2015) A comparison of survey and focal follow methods for estimating individual activity budgets of cetaceans. Marine Mammal Science. doi:10.1111/mms.12198

  18. Foroughirad, V. & Mann, J. (2013) Long-term impacts of fish provisioning on the behavior and survival of bottlenose dolphins. Biological Conservation. 160:242-249. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2013.01.001

Preprints

Collier, M.A., Jacoby, A., Foroughirad, V., Patterson, E.M., Krzyszczyk, E., Wallen, M.M., Miketa, M., Karniski, C., Wilkin, S., Mann, J., & S. Bansal. Breathing in sync: how a social behavior structures respiratory epidemic risk in bottlenose dolphins. bioRxiv, 2023.12.01.569646

Rankin, R.W., Foroughirad, V., Krzyszczyk, E.B., Frère, C.H., & J. Mann. Changes in social position predict survival in bottlenose dolphins. bioRxiv, 2022.08. 25.505273

Albery, G.F., Becker, D.J., Firth, J.A., Silk, M., Sweeny, A.R., Wal, E.V., Webber, Q.,…Foroughirad, V.,…Bansal, S., 2024. Density-dependent network structuring within and across wild animal systems. bioRxiv 2024.06.28.601262.