Roger
Jovani
My research interests go from the behaviour of tiny feather mites when escaping from bird moult, to the statistical properties of colony size variation of seabirds in different parts of the world. In between, I study collective behaviour of groups, combining individual-based models with field observations; the causes of fault bars on bird feathers; the evolutionary ecology of the interaction between birds and feather mites; or the use of fractal geometry to describe the spatial distribution of bird nests, or to quantify the heterogeneous patterns of bird plumage.