Biography
I am a PhD student at the Evolutionary Ecology Group at Cambridge. My research focuses on how climate has affected and will continue to affect dispersal patterns in the adder (Vipera berus).
I was previously based at the University of Bangor, where I investigated patterns of genetic health in UK adders for my MRes and explored the presence of cryptic species in eastern African vipers for my BSc.
Publications
Pozzi, A.V., Owens, J.B., Üveges, B., Major, T., Morris, E., Graham, S., Togridou, A., Papadopulos, A.S., Wüster, W. and Barlow, A., 2023. High standing diversity masks extreme genetic erosion in a declining snake. BioRxiv, pp.2023-09.
Leonardi, M., Colucci, M., Pozzi, A.V., Scerri, E.M. and Manica, A., 2024. tidysdm: Leveraging the flexibility of tidymodels for species distribution modelling in R. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 15(10), pp.1789-1795.
Di Nicola, M.R., Pozzi, A.V., Mezzadri, S., Faraone, F.P., Russo, G., Dorne, J.L.M. and Minuti, G., 2023. The endangered Sardinian grass snake: Distribution update, bioclimatic niche modelling, dorsal pattern characterisation, and literature review. Life, 13(9), p.1867.
For a full publication list, please see my Google Scholar page.
