Current Members:

Permanent team
Dr. Sandy E. Trautwein, Director of Conservation and Science

Dr. Morgane Tidière, Science Team Leader

Rikke Øgelund Nielsen, Research Assistant

Short term contracts
Dr. Floriane Plard, Statistical Analyst

Scientific Publications 2025

• Staerk J, Conde DA, Tidière M, Lemaître JF, Liker A, Vági B, Pavard S, Giraudeau M, Smeele SQ, Vincze O, Ronget V, Gaillard JM, Székely T, and Colchero F. (2025). Sexual selection drives sex difference in adult life expectancy across mammals and birds. Science Advances, 11(40):eady8433.
• Rust NL, Jürgens J, Øgelund Nielsen R, Staerk J, Tidière M, and Conde DA. (2025). From ocean to screen: data gaps, conservation concerns, and sustainability challenges in Germany’s online marine ornamental fish trade. Journal for Nature Conservation, 88:127032.
• Jürgens, J., Staerk, J., Bruslund, S., Oegelund Nielsen, R. & Conde, D.A. (2025). CITES Appendix III matters: Hidden impacts of CITES deletions on global bird trade. Biological Conservation, 310:111365

Scientific Publications 2024

• Tidière, M., J. Staerk, M. J. Adkesson, D. A. Conde, and F. Colchero (2024). The untapped potential of zoo and aquarium data for the comparative biology of ageing in Ageing and Longevity: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach. Editors: F.-F. Lemaître & S. Pavard. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-1-316-51919-6

Report Publications 2024

• Oegelund Nielsen R, Trautwein SE, Booth L, Clauss M, Fienig E, Fisher T, Franke M, Hartmann M, Hartog J, Houssaye F, Müller P, Roe S, Roller M, Roy S, Schad Eebes K, Simonsen KS, Sliwa A, Skovlund CR, Terio K, van Der Meer R, Mastromonaco G, and Tidière M (2024). Continuous enhancement in management, care, and welfare in Panthera species in zoological institutions as evidenced by the increase of two survival summary metrics. Species360 Conservation Science Alliance, Species360, Minneapolis, MN, USA & Department of Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.12721991
• Tidière M, Oegelund Nielsen R, Bemment N, Beuer T, Clauss M, Crockford C, Danforth M, Duncan LM, Encke D, Faust LJ, Fienieg ES, Franke M, Göbel M, Grossfeldt L, Koch D, Kögler J, Kopp K, Lafaut S, Liptovszky M, Meehan T, Miller L, Payne K, Perebroom Z, Pluhácková J, Robbins M, Ruijs J, Schehka S, Smits W, Steinmetz HW, Stevens J, Thompson H, van Den Berg L, van Der Meer R, Trautwein SE and Mastromonaco G (2024). Continuous enhancement in management, care, and welfare in great apes in zoological institutions as evidenced by survival summary metrics. Species360 Conservation Science Alliance, Species360, Minneapolis, MN, USA & Department of Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.12721612
• Conservation Science Alliance (2024). Summary reports for 15 species selected for review under Resolution Conf. 17.7 (Rev. CoP19) at the 32nd meeting of the Animals Committee (AC33, Geneva, July 2024). Species360 Conservation Science Alliance, Species360, Minneapolis, MN, USA & Department of Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.
• Juergens J, Oegelund Nielsen R, Anderson PA, Staerk J, Tidière, M, S. E. Trautwein, Rust NL, Conde DA, Rhyne A  (2024). The Marine Ornamental Fish Species Knowledge Index: Providing Data to Inform CITES Decisions and Recommendations to Manage the International Trade of Marine Ornamental Fish. Species360 Conservation Science Alliance, Species360, Minneapolis, MN, USA & Department of Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.

Publications 2023

• Juergens, J., Bruslund, S., de Man, D., Staerk, J., Nielsen, R. O., Conde, D. A. (2023). Deletion of birds from CITES Appendix III changed global trade reports and dynamics. CITES Information Document. Technical workshop on songbird trade and conservation management, Bangkok (Thailand), 11 to 14 December 2023
• Juergens, J., Bruslund, S., de Man, D., Staerk, J., Nielsen, R. O., Birder, J., Conde, D. A.(2023). Illegal songbird trade and captive breeding of songbird in Europe. CITES Information Document. Technical workshop on songbird trade and conservation management, Bangkok (Thailand), 11 to 14 December 2023.
• Tidière, M., F. Colchero, J. Staerk, M. J. Adkesson, D. H. Andersen, L. Bland, M. Böye, S. Brando, I. Clegg, S. Cubaynes, A. Cutting, E. Gaglione, K. A. Hansen, A. Jungheim, J. Kok, G. Laule, A. L. Goya, L. Miller, T. Monreal, K. Mucha, M. A. Owen, S. D. Petersen, N. Pilfold, D. Richardson, E. S. Richardson, D. Sabo, N. Sato, W. Shellabarger, R. Skovlund, K. Tomisawa, S. E. Trautwein, P. Zhang, X. Zhang, and D. A. Conde. (2023). Survival improvements of marine mammals in zoological institutions mirror historical advances in human longevity. 290:20231895. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.1895
• Mooney, A., Ryder, O. A., Houck, M. L., Staerk, J., Conde, D. A., & Buckley, Y. M. (2023). Maximizing the potential for living cell banks to contribute to global conservation priorities. Zoo Biology, 1–12.
• Mooney, A., Teare, J. A., Staerk, J., Smeele, S. Q., Rose, P., Edell, R. H., King, C. E., Conrad, L., & Buckley, Y. M. (2023). Flock size and structure influence reproductive success in four species of flamingo in 540 captive populations worldwide. Zoo Biology, 42, 343–356.
• Challender, D. W. S., Cremona, P. J., Malsch, K., Robinson, J. E., Pavitt, A. T., Scott, J., Hoffmann, R., Joolia, A., Oldfield, T. E. E., Jenkins, R. K. B., Conde, D. A., Hilton-Taylor, C., & Hoffmann, M. (2023). Identifying species likely threatened by international trade on the IUCN Red List can inform CITES trade measures. Nature Ecology and Evolution.

Presentations 2023

• Morgane Tidière (06.10.2023): Zoological Registrars Association (ZRA): The power of high quality data to inform population management and husbandry practices.
• Sandy Trautwein & Rikke Oegelund Nielsen (27.09.2023): European Aquarium Curators Conference (EUAC): The Changing Roles of Aquariums and How Animal Records Can Help
• Sandy Trautwein, Morgane Tidière, Rikke Oegelund Nielsen & Hannah Jenkins (23.09.2023): European Association of Zoos and Aquariums (EAZA): Species360 Update & the Conservation Science Alliance
• Morgane Tidière, Johanna Staerk, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Jean-Francois Lemaître, András Liker, Tamás Székely, Jacqueline Jürgens, Dalia A. Conde, Fernando Colchero (23.03. 2023): Evolutionary Demography Conference (EvoDemo): Influence of the environment of life on a long–standing evolutionary riddle. THE BETWEEN-SEX DIFFERENCE IN LIFESPAN
• Rikke Oegelund Nielsen, Morgane Tidiere, Dalia Conde (12.04.2023). The Danish Association of Zoos and Aquariums (DAZA) welfare meeting: Supporting policy advocacy through state-of-the-art research: Assessing Evidence of welfare population improvements
• Morgane Tidiere (23.04.2023) Association Française des Parcs Zoologiques (AFdPZ): SCIENCE ET BIEN-ÊTRE ANIMAL: LE SOUTIEN DE LA CONSERVATION SCIENCE ALLIANCE AUXZOOS ET AQUARIUMS
• Rikke Oegelund Nielsen, Morgane Tidiere, Dalia Conde (22.05.2023) Hansenberg Organia – Zookeeper education: Hvordan kan forskning med data fra Species360 ZIMS sikre, at potentialet af zoologiske haver opnås og forbedrer både dyrenes pleje, velfærd og bevarelse?

Publications

2022

• da Silva, Rita., Conde, D.A., Baudisch Annette., Colchero, Fernando., (2022) Slow and negligible senescence among testudines challenges evolutionary theories of senescence. Science, Vol. 376 (6600),1466-1470.
• Poo, S., Whitfield, S. M., Shepack, A., Watkins-Colwell, G. J., Nelson, G., Goodwin, J., …, Conde, D.A.,… & Chakrabarty, P. (2022). Bridging the Research Gap between Live Collections in Zoos and Preserved Collections in Natural History Museums. BioScience, 72(5), 449-460.
• Smeele, S. Q., Conde, D. A., Baudisch, A., Bruslund, S., Iwaniuk, A., Staerk, J., … & Aplin, L. (2022). Coevolution of relative brain size and life expectancy in parrots. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 289(1971), 20212397.
• Lewin, H. A., Richards, S., Aiden, E. L., Allende, M. L., Archibald, J. M., Bálint, M., …Conde, D. A.…& Zhang, G. (2022). The earth BioGenome project 2020: Starting the clock. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(4).
• Colin, L., Abed-Navandi, D., Conde, D. A., Craggs, J., da Silva, R., Janse, M., … & Yesson, C. (2022). What’s left in the tank? Identification of non-ascribed aquarium’s coral collections with DNA barcodes as part of an integrated diagnostic approach. Conservation genetics resources, 1-16.
• Vincze, O., Colchero, F., Lemaître, J. F., Conde, D. A., Pavard, S., Bieuville, M., … & Giraudeau, M. (2022). Cancer risk across mammals. Nature, 601(7892), 263-267.
• Species360 Conservation Science Alliance 2022, Summary: Species Knowledge Initiative to Support CITES Decisions and Recommendations for Songbirds, Species360, Minneapolis, MN, USA & University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.
• Species360 Conservation Science Alliance 2021, Annex 1: Species Knowledge Initiative to Support CITES Decisions and Recommendations for Passeriformes, Species360, Minneapolis, MN, USA & Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics, Department of Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.

2021

• Colchero, F., Aburto, J. M., Archie, E. A., Boesch, C., Breuer, T., Campos, F. A., ..Conde, D., Staerk, J., & Alberts, S. C. (2021). The long lives of primates and the ‘invariant rate of ageing’hypothesis. Nature communications, 12(1), 1-10.
• Juergens, J., Bruslund, S., Staerk, J., Nielsen, R. O., Shepherd, C. R., Leupen, B., … & Conde, D. A. (2021). A standardized dataset for conservation prioritization of songbirds to support CITES. Data in Brief, 36, 107093.
• Mooney, A. (2021). The value of ex situ collections for global biodiversity conservation in the wild (Doctoral dissertation, The University of Dublin).

2020

• Lemaître J.F., Ronget V., Tidiere M., Allan D., Berger V., Cohas A., Colchero F., Conde D.A., Garratt M., Liker A., Marais G.A.B, Scheuerlein A., Székely T., and Gaillard J.M. (2020), Sex differences in adult lifespan and aging rates of mortality across wild mammals, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117 (15) 8546-8553.
• Gallagher, RV., Falster, DS., Maitner, BS. … Conde, DA, et al. (2020). Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life. Nat Ecol Evol 4, 294–303.
• Mooney, A., Conde, D.A., Healy, K. & Buckley, Y. M. (2020). A system wide approach to managing zoo collections for visitor attendance and in situ conservation. Nat Commun 11, 584.
• Oegelund Nielsen, R., da Silva, R., Juergens, J., Staerk, J., Sørensen, L, L., Jackson, J., Smeele, S,Q., Conde, D, A. (2020). Standardized data to support conservation prioritization for sharks and batoids (Elasmobranchii). Data in Brief, 33: 106337.
• Andersen, S, K., Staerk, J., Kalhor, E., Natusch, D, J, D., da Silva, R., Pfau, B., Conde, D, A. (2020). Economics, Life History and International Trade Data for seven turtle species in Indonesian and Malaysian farms, Data in Brief: 106708 

2019

• Conde, D. A., Staerk, J., Colchero, F., da Silva, R., Schöley, J., Baden, H. M., … & Vaupel, J. W. (2019). Data gaps and opportunities for comparative and conservation biology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(19), 9658-9664.
• Challender, D. W.S., Hoffmann M., Hoffmann R., Scott J., Robinson J. E., Cremona P., HiltonTaylor C., Jenkins R. K. B., Malsch K., Conde, D. and Tom De Meulenaer (2019) Criteria for CITES species protection, Science, vol 364, issue 3467, April 19. pp 247-248.
• Ilieva, I., Jouvet, L., Seidelin, L., Best, B. D., Aldabet, S., da Silva, R., & Conde, D. A. (2019). A global database of intentionally deployed wrecks to serve as artificial reefs. Data in Brief, 23, 103584.
• da Silva, R., Pearce-Kelly, P., Zimmerman, B., Knott, M., Foden, W., & Conde, D. A. (2019). Assessing the conservation potential of fish and corals in aquariums globally. Journal for Nature Conservation, 48, 1-11.
• da Silva, R., & Conde, D. A. (2019). Data on the conservation potential of fish and coral populations in aquariums. Data in Brief , 22 , 987-991.
• Staerk, J., Conde, D. A., Ronget, V., Lemaitre, J. F., Gaillard, J. M., & Colchero, F. (2019). Performance of generation time approximations for extinction risk assessments. Journal of Applied Ecology.
• Colchero, F., Jones, O. R., Conde, D. A., Hodgson, D., Zajitschek, F., Schmidt, B. R., … Gaillard, J-M. (2019). The diversity of population responses to environmental change. Ecology Letters, 22(2), 342-353.

2018

• Staerk, J., Conde, D. A., Siriaroonat, B., Ryder, O., Hvilsom, C. (2018). Saving samples, saving species: Biobanking is essential for genetic rescue and population management sustainability. Zooquaria, 101.
• Mooney A., Conde D. A., Healy, K., Teare, A. & Buckley, Y. M. 2018. ZIMS and flamingo management: Moving from Data to Decisions. Flamingo, e1: 76-80.
• Staerk, J. da Silva, A. R., Jouvet, L. & Conde, D. A.,(2018). CITES Animals Committee Doc. 13.1 Annex 3. 
• Staerk, J., & Conde, D. A. (2018). CITES SC70, Doc. 51, Annex 2 (Rev.1). Review of facilities keeping Asian big cats in captivity.
  Staerk, J., da Silva, R., et al. & Conde, D.A. (2018). Manual for the differentiation of captive-produced and wild-caught turtles and tortoises. (17.291 a)

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