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VALERIA MAZZA

Ricercatore Legge 240/10 - T.D.

Department
DEB - DIPARTIMENTO DI SCIENZE ECOLOGICHE E BIOLOGICHE
Email
valeria.mazza@unitus.it
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Curriculum
- Curriculum
- Scarica : Curriculum Vitae
Profile
- Bio
- I am a behavioural biologist working at the interface between behavioural and cognitive ecology. Behaviour and cognition determine how individuals interact with their surroundings, and mediate fast and flexible responses to buffer environmental variation. My research focuses on within-species variation in behaviour and cognition, and specifically whether and how cognition and behavioural flexibility help animals cope with ecological novelty, as well as how living in non-native and/or human-altered environments affects animal cognition, behaviour and personality.
- Keywords
- - Animal behaviour
  - Animal cognition
  - Animal personality
- Discliplinary scientific field
- BIO/05 ZOOLOGIA
- Research fields
- Skills
- - LS8_11-Behavioural ecology and evolution , 2024 - LS8 , LS8 - Environmental Biology, Ecology and Evolution
Scientific research
- Groups of research
- Research Projects
- Prizes and Awards
- - SIE Event 2025
- Scientific Participations
- PhD Students
- Research Fellows
- Scholars
- Editorial Boards
Principal Publications
- Publications
- - Wildlife conservation and adaptation to humans
    
    Mazza V; Carere C | Animal Sentience - 2024/34(9)
  - Behavioral flexibility and novel environments: integrating current perspectives for future directions
    
    Mazza V; Šlipogor S | Current Zoology - 2024/70(3): 304-309
  - Comparative cognition needs big team science: how large-scale collaborations will unlock the future of the field.
    
    Alessandroni N; Altschul D; Bazhydai M; Byers-Heinlein K; Elsherif M; Gjoneska B; Huber L; Mazza V; Miller R; Nawroth C; Pronizius E; Qadri M; Šlipogor V; Soderstrom M; Stevens JR; Visser I; Williams M; Zettersten M; Prétôt L | Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews - 2024/19,67-72
  - Expanding through the Emerald Isle: exploration and spatial orientation of non-native bank voles in Ireland
    
    Mazza V; Eccard JA | Current Zoology - 2023/70(3): 320-331
  - The timid invasion: behavioural adjustments and range expansion in a non-native rodent
    
    Eccard JA; Mazza V; Stuart P; Holland C | Proceedings of the Royal Society B - 2023/290:20230823
  - Cross-Context Responses to Novelty in Rural and Urban Small Mammals
    
    Mazza V; Czyperreck I; Eccard JA; Dammhahn M | rontiers in Ecology and Evolution - 2021/9:661971
  - City mice and country mice: innovative problem solving in rural and urban non-commensal rodents.
    
    Mazza V; Guenther A | Animal Behaviour - 2021/172, 197-210
  - Small mammals in the big city: Behavioural adjustments of non‐commensal rodents to urban environments
    
    Mazza V; Dammhahn M; Lösche E; Eccard JA | Global Change Biology - 2020/26(11): 6326-6337
  - Of city and village mice: behavioural adjustments of striped field mice to urban environments
    
    Dammhahn M; Mazza V; Schirmer A; Göttsche C; Eccard JA | Scientific Reports - 2020/10:13056
  - Coping with style: individual differences in responses to environmental variation
    
    Mazza V; Dammhahn M; Eccard JA; Palme R; Zaccaroni M; Jacob J | Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology - 2019/73:142
  - Individual variation in cognitive style reflects foraging and anti-predator strategies in a small mammal.
    
    Mazza V; Jacob J; Dammhahn M; Zaccaroni M; Eccard JA | Scientific Reports - 2019/9:10157
  - Winter activity rhythms of a rodent pest species in agricultural habitats
    
    Dell’Agnello F; Martini M; Mori E; Mazza G; Mazza V; Zaccaroni M | Mammal Research - 2019/65, 69-74
  - The fast and the flexible: cognitive style drives individual variation in cognition in a small mammal
    
    Mazza V; Eccard JA; Zaccaroni M; Jacob J; Dammhahn M | Animal Behaviour - 2018/137, 119-132
  - Trap type and positioning: how to trap Savi’s pine voles using the tunnel system
    
    Dell’Agnello F; Mazza V; Martini M; Bertolino S; Capizzi D; Riga F; Zaccaroni M | Mammalia - 2018/82(4), 350-354
  - Consistent demographic trends in Savi’s pine vole between two distant areas in central Italy
    
    Dell’Agnello F; Barfknecht R; Bertolino S; Capizzi D; Martini M; Mazza V; Riga F; Zaccaroni M | Folia Zoologica - 2018/67, 35-42
  - From biology to management of Savi’s pine vole (Microtus savii)
    
    Ranchelli E; Barfknecht R; Capizzi D; Riga F; Mazza V; Dell’Agnello F; Zaccaroni M | Pest Management Science - 2016/72(5), 857-863
  - Personality dimensions in the common octopus (Octopus vulgaris)
    
    Mazza V; Pacchiarotti G; Strinati C; Carlini A;Mather JA; Carere C | Behaviour - 2024/161
  - Challenges and promises of big team comparative cognition
    
    Alessandroni N; Altschul D; Baumgartner HA; Bazhydai M; Brosnan SF; Byers-Heinlein K; Call J; Chittka L; Elsherif M; Espinosa J; Freeman MS; Gjoneska B; Güntürkün O; Huber L; Krasheninnikova A; Mazza V; Miller R; Moreau D; Nawroth C; Pronizius E; Ruiz-Fernandez S; Schwing R; Šlipogor V; Visser I; Vonk J; Yeager J; Zettersten M; Prétôt; L | Nature Human Behaviour - 2025/9
  - Effects of behavioural types on the problem-solving performance of wild house mice under controlled and semi-natural conditions
    
    Vezyrakis A; Guenther A; Mazza V | Oikos - 2025/e10787
  - Early-life environment shapes claw bilateral asymmetry in the European lobster (Homarus gammarus)
    
    Latini L; Burini G; Mazza V; Grignani G; De Donno R; Bello E; Tricarico E; Malavasi S; Nascetti G; Canestrelli D; Carere C | Biology Open - 2025/bio.061901
  - The need for an individual-based global change ecology
    
    Jeltsch F; Roeleke M; Abdelfattah A; Arlinghaus R; Berg G; Blaum N; De Meester L; Dittmann E; Eccard JA; Fournier B; Gaedke U; Gallagher C; Govaert L; Hauber M; Jeschke JM; Kramer-Schadt S; Linstädter A; Lucke U; Mazza V; Metzler R; Nendel C; Radchuk V; Rillig MC; Ryo M; Scheiter K; Tiedemann R; Tietjen B; Voigt CC; Weithoff G; Wolinska J; Zurell D | Individual-based Ecology - 2025/1: e148200
  - Are we zoning out? Biases in the assessment of protected areas zoning and a blueprint for a way forward
    
    Cerini F; Chiatante G; Chiocchio A; Mazza V; Piovesan G; Chiarucci A; Musiani M; Milazzo M; Maiorano L; Rondinini C; Canestrelli D | One Earth - 2025/101377
  - Marine heatwaves as selective filters on the behaviour of native and non-native invertebrates
    
    Ferretti S; Macali A; Mazza V; Carere C | Biological Invasions - 2025/27(10): 218
  - Range expansion during recolonization: what does animal personality have to do with it?
    
    Jánošíková R; Tulis F; Baláž I; Eccard JA; Mazza V | Behavioral Ecology - 2025/4(36): araf053
  - Variation in innovation is maintained by disassortative mating and female choice
    
    Vezyrakis A; Darmis F; Mazza V; Guenther A | Current Biology - 2025/36
  - Quick on their paws: mice living in human-disturbed areas are faster problem-solvers than mice in strictly protected areas
    
    Mazza V; Schianini V; Canestrelli D; Carere C | Animal Cognition - 2025/28:91
  - Experienced problem solvers? The ontogeny of innovation in wild house mice
    
    Vezyrakis A; Mazza V; Guenther A | Animal Behaviour - 2026/in press
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Valeria Mazza

VALERIA MAZZA

Ricercatore Legge 240/10 - T.D.

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Curriculum

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Scientific research

Principal Publications

Wildlife conservation and adaptation to humans

Behavioral flexibility and novel environments: integrating current perspectives for future directions

Comparative cognition needs big team science: how large-scale collaborations will unlock the future of the field.

Expanding through the Emerald Isle: exploration and spatial orientation of non-native bank voles in Ireland

The timid invasion: behavioural adjustments and range expansion in a non-native rodent

Cross-Context Responses to Novelty in Rural and Urban Small Mammals

City mice and country mice: innovative problem solving in rural and urban non-commensal rodents.

Small mammals in the big city: Behavioural adjustments of non‐commensal rodents to urban environments

Of city and village mice: behavioural adjustments of striped field mice to urban environments

Coping with style: individual differences in responses to environmental variation

Individual variation in cognitive style reflects foraging and anti-predator strategies in a small mammal.

Winter activity rhythms of a rodent pest species in agricultural habitats

The fast and the flexible: cognitive style drives individual variation in cognition in a small mammal

Trap type and positioning: how to trap Savi’s pine voles using the tunnel system

Consistent demographic trends in Savi’s pine vole between two distant areas in central Italy

From biology to management of Savi’s pine vole (Microtus savii)

Personality dimensions in the common octopus (Octopus vulgaris)

Challenges and promises of big team comparative cognition

Effects of behavioural types on the problem-solving performance of wild house mice under controlled and semi-natural conditions

Early-life environment shapes claw bilateral asymmetry in the European lobster (Homarus gammarus)

The need for an individual-based global change ecology

Are we zoning out? Biases in the assessment of protected areas zoning and a blueprint for a way forward

Marine heatwaves as selective filters on the behaviour of native and non-native invertebrates

Range expansion during recolonization: what does animal personality have to do with it?

Variation in innovation is maintained by disassortative mating and female choice

Quick on their paws: mice living in human-disturbed areas are faster problem-solvers than mice in strictly protected areas

Experienced problem solvers? The ontogeny of innovation in wild house mice

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