Jaume Forcada

The crabeater seal reference genome reveals hallmarks of persistently large effective population size and sustained population expansion in the World's most abundant pinniped

The paper presents a high-quality crabeater seal reference genome and shows it has high genetic diversity, low inbreeding, and a history of population expansion.

Early-life environmental conditions shape demographic responses to climate change in male Antarctic fur seals

The paper shows that early-life environmental conditions affect male Antarctic fur seal recruitment and population dynamics, linking environmental variability to population decline through delayed recruitment strategies.

Fine-scale spatiotemporal predator-prey interactions in an Antarctic fur seal colony

This study uses high-resolution camera data and a YOLO-based neural network to analyze spatiotemporal density patterns and predator-prey interactions in an Antarctic fur seal colony, revealing how pup predation risk is influenced by proximity to adult seals.

High population density limits predator access in Antarctic fur seal breeding colonies

The paper examines how population density affects predator access in Antarctic fur seal colonies using camera data and machine learning.

Semi-Automated Seal Detection on the Western Antarctic Peninsula: An Unsupervised Machine Learning Approach for Detecting Ice Seals in Aerial Survey Data

This paper presents a semi-automated image analysis pipeline using hierarchical clustering to detect ice seals in aerial survey data from the Western Antarctic Peninsula, achieving 82% test recall.

Skin but not gut microbial communities in Antarctic fur seals vary with social density

The paper compares skin and gut microbial communities in Antarctic fur seals at different social densities, finding skin communities are more affected by social density than gut communities.

Sustainability in the laboratory: evaluating the reuseability of microtiter plates for PCR and fragment detection

This study evaluates the reuse of microtiter plates for PCR and fragment detection, finding that PCR plates lead to increased genotyping errors while detection plates can be reused without data quality loss.