Publications

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Mazza V, Schianini V, Canestrelli D, Carere C. Quick on their paws: mice living in human-disturbed areas are faster problem-solvers than mice in strictly protected areas. Animal Cognition (in press).

Jánošíková R, Tulis F, Baláž I, Eccard JA, Mazza V (2025). Range expansion during recolonization: what does animal personality have to do with it? Behavioral Ecology araf053, doi.org/10.1093/beheco/araf053

Ferretti S, Macali A, Mazza V, Carere C. Behavioural responses to a simulated marine heatwave in invasive and native nudibranchs. Biological Invasions 27(10): 218, doi.org/10.1007/s10530-025-03674-6.

Vezyrakis A, Mazza V, Guenther A. Experienced problem solvers? The ontogeny of innovation in wild house mice. Animal Behaviour (in press).

Cerini F, Chiatante G, Chiocchio A, Mazza V, Piovesan G, Chiarucci A, Musiani M, Milazzo M, Maiorano L, Rondinini C; Canestrelli D. Are we zoning out? Biases in the assessment of protected areas zoning and a blueprint for a way forward (2025). One Earth 8, doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101377

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 (2025). The need for an individual-based global change ecology. Individual-based Ecology 1: e148200 doi.org/10.3897/ibe.1.148200

Latini L, Burini^† G, Mazza V, Grignani G, De Donno^† R, Bello^† E, Tricarico E, Malavasi S, Nascetti G, Canestrelli D, Carere C (2025). Early-life environment shapes claw bilateral asymmetry in the European lobster (Homarus gammarus). Biology Open: bio.061901 doi.org/10.1242/bio.061901

Vezyrakis A, Guenther A, & Mazza V (2025) Effects of behavioural types on the problem-solving performance of wild house mice under controlled and semi-natural conditions. Oikos: e10787 doi.org/10.1111/oik.10787

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. (2025). Challenges and promises of big team comparative cognition. Nature Human Behaviour 9, 240–242 doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-02081-6

Mazza V, Pacchiarotti^† G, Strinati C, Carlini A, Mather JA, & Carere C (2024) Personality dimensions in the common octopus (Octopus vulgaris). Behaviour 161, 1-36 doi.org/10.1163/1568539X-bja10290

Mazza V & Carere C (2024) Wildlife conservation and adaptation to humans. Animal Sentience 34(9), 1-6 doi.org/10.51291/2377-7478.1849

Mazza V & Šlipogor S (2024) Behavioral flexibility and novel environments: integrating current perspectives for future directions. Current Zoology 70(3), 304-309 doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoae029

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 (2024) Comparative cognition needs big team science: how large-scale collaborations will unlock the future of the field. Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews 19, 67-72 doi.org/10.3819/CCBR.2024.190001

Mazza V & Eccard JA (2023) Expanding through the Emerald Isle: exploration and spatial orientation of non-native bank voles in Ireland. Current Zoology 70(3), 320-331 doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoad038

Eccard JA, Mazza V, Stuart P, & Holland C (2023) The timid invasion: behavioural adjustments and range expansion in a non-native rodent. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 290:20230823 doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.0823

Mazza V, Czyperreck^† I, Eccard JA, & Dammhahn M (2021) Cross-Context Responses to Novelty in Rural and Urban Small Mammals. Research Topic Cognition and Adaptation to Urban Environments in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9:661971 doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.661971

Mazza V & Guenther A (2021) City mice and country mice: innovative problem solving in rural and urban non-commensal rodents. Animal Behaviour 172, 197-210 doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.12.007

Mazza V*, Dammhahn M*, Lösche^† E, & Eccard JA (2020) Small mammals in the big city: Behavioural adjustments of non‐commensal rodents to urban environments. Global Change Biology 26(11), 6326-6337 doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15304

Dammhahn M*, Mazza V*, Schirmer A, Göttsche^† C, & Eccard JA (2020) Of city and village mice: behavioural adjustments of striped field mice to urban environments. Scientific Reports 10:13056 doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-69998-6

Mazza V, Dammhahn M, Eccard JA, Palme R, Zaccaroni M, & Jacob J (2019) Coping with style: individual differences in responses to environmental variation. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 73:142 doi.org/10.1007/s00265-019-2760-2

Dell’Agnello F, Martini^† M, Mori E, Mazza G, Mazza V, & Zaccaroni M (2019) Winter activity rhythms of a rodent pest species in agricultural habitats. Mammal Research 65, 69-74 doi.org/10.1007/s13364-019-00443-4

Mazza V, Eccard JA, Zaccaroni M, Jacob J, & Dammhahn M (2018) The fast and the flexible: cognitive style drives individual variation in cognition in a small mammal. Animal Behaviour 137, 119-132 doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.01.011

Dell’Agnello F, Mazza V, Martini^† M, Bertolino S, Capizzi D, Riga F, & Zaccaroni M (2018) Trap type and positioning: how to trap Savi’s pine voles using the tunnel system. Mammalia 82(4), 350-354 doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2017-0005

Dell’Agnello F, Barfknecht R, Bertolino S, Capizzi D, Martini^† M, Mazza V, Riga F, & Zaccaroni M (2018) Consistent demographic trends in Savi’s pine vole between two distant areas in central Italy. Folia Zoologica 67, 35-42 doi.org/10.25225/fozo.v67.i1.a3.2018

Ranchelli E, Barfknecht R, Capizzi D, Riga F, Mazza V, Dell’Agnello F, & Zaccaroni M (2016) From biology to management of Savi’s pine vole (Microtus savii). Pest Management Science 72(5), 857-863 doi.org/10.1002/ps.4212

Preprint (not peer-reviewed)

Alessandroni N, Miller R, Altschul D, Barrett LP, Bazhydai M, Elsherif MM, Espinosa J, Gjoneska B,Héjja-Brichard Y, Mazza V, Paukner A, Pronizius E, Proulx MJ, Qadri MAJ, Reilly OT, Schwing R, Sebastián-Enesco C, Šlipogor V, de Sousa AA, Visser I, Yeager J, Zettersten M, Byers-Heinlein K, Call J, Chittka L, Huber L, Prétôt L. Flexible behavior or flexible methods? A cross-taxon review of experimental designs in reversal learning. PsyArXiv https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/mvche_v2 

Cerini F, Chiatante G, Chiocchio A, Mazza V, Piovesan G, Chiarucci A, Musiani M, Milazzo M, Maiorano L, Rondinini C; Canestrelli D. Are we zoning out? Biases in the assessment of protected areas zoning and a blueprint for a way forward. Authorea doi.org/10.22541/au.173879094.47471004/v1

Alessandroni N, Altschul D, Bazhydai M, Brosnan SF, Byers-Heinlein K, Call J, Chittka L, Elsherif M, Espinosa J, Freeman M, Gjoneska B, Güntürkün O, Huber L, Krasheninnikova A, Mazza V, Miller R, Moreau D, Nawroth C, Pronizius E, Ruiz-Fernández S, Schwing R, Šlipogor V, Visser I, Vonk J, Yeager J, Zettersten M, Prétôt L (2024). Bringing Big Team Science to Comparative Cognition Research: Challenges and Ways Forward. PsyArXiv doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5nykg

Eccard JA, Mazza V, Holland C, Stuart P (2022) The timid invasion: Behavioral adjustments favor range expansion in a non-native rodent. BioRxiv doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.16.494985

*Authors contributed equally; ^†undergraduate student author