Publications

2025

  • Brand JA, Michelangeli M, Shry SJ, Moore ER, Bose APH, Cerveny D, Martin JM, Hellström G, McCallum ES, Holmgren A, Thoré ESJ, Fick J, Brodin T, Bertram MG. (2025). Pharmaceutical pollution influences river-to-sea migration in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). Science 388, 217-222. DOI:10.1126/science.adp7174

  • Brand JA, Martin JM, Michelangeli M, Thoré E, Sandoval-Herrera N, McCallum ES, Szabo D, Callahan DL, Clark TD, Bertram MG, Brodin T. (2025) Advancing the spatiotemporal dimension of wildlife–pollution interactions. Environmental Science & Technology Letters, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.5c00042

  • Martin JM, Michelangeli M, Bertram MG, Blanchfield PJ, Brand JA, Brodin T, ... & McCallum ES. (2025). Evidence of the Impacts of Pharmaceuticals on Aquatic Animal Behaviour (EIPAAB): a systematic map and open access database. Environmental Evidence, 14: 4. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13750-025-00357-6

  • Noble DW, Xirocostas ZA, Wu NC, Martinig AR, Almeida RA, Bairos-Novak KR, ... Brand JA,…& Lagisz, M. (2025). The promise of community-driven preprints in ecology and evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 292: 20241487

  • Gould E, Fraser HS, Parker TH, Nakagawa S, Griffith SC, Vesk PA, ...Brand JA, ... & Lagisz M. (2025) Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology. BMC Biology, 23, 1–36

2024

  • Brand JA, Bertram MG, Cerveny D, McCallum ES, Hellström G, Michelangeli M, Palm D, Brodin T. (2024) Psychoactive pollutant alters movement dynamics of fish in a natural lake system. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 291:20241760.

  • Fergusson KN, Tanner JL, Brand JA, Hannington SL, Pettersen AK, Sundin J, Saaristo M, Bertram MG, Martin JM, Wong BB. (2024). Effects of long-term fluoxetine exposure on morphology, but not behaviour or metabolic rate, in male guppies (Poecilia reticulata). Aquatic Toxicology. 276, 107082. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquatox.2024.107082

  • Michelangeli M, Martin JM, Robson S, Cerveny D, Walsh R, Richmond EK, Grace MR, Brand JA, Bertram MG, Ho SS, Brodin T. (2024). Pharmaceutical pollution alters the structure of freshwater communities and hinders their recovery from a fish predator. Environmental Science & Technology, 58, 13904-17. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c02807

  • Brand JA, Thorstad EB, Quinn TP, Brodin T, & Bertram MG. (2024). Salmonid fishes. Current Biology, 34, R882-R884. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.08.054

  • Bertram MG, Ågerstrand M, Thoré ESJ, Allen J, Balshine S, Brand JA, ... & Brodin T. (2024). EthoCRED: a framework to guide reporting and evaluation of the relevance and reliability of behavioural ecotoxicity studies. Biological Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.13154

  • Boughman JW, Brand JA, Brooks RC, Bonduriansky R, Wong BB. (2024) Sexual selection and speciation in the Anthropocene. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2024.02.005

  • Brand JA, Aich U, Yee WKW, Wong BBM, Dowling DK. (2024) Sexual selection increases male behavioural consistency in Drosophila melanogaster. The American Naturalist. 203: 713-725. https://doi.org/10.1086/729600

  • Thoré ESJ, Aulsebrook AE, Brand JA, Almeida RA, Brodin T, Bertram MG. (2024) Time is of the essence: The importance of considering biological rhythms in an increasingly polluted world. PLOS Biology 22: e3002478. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002478

  • Brand JA, Garcia-Gonzalez F, Dowling D K, Wong BBM. (2024) Mitochondrial genetic variation as a potential mediator of intraspecific behavioural diversity. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 39: 199-212.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.09.009

2023

  • Tan H, Brand JA, Clarke BO, Manera JL, Martin JM, Wong BBM, Alton LA. (2023) No evidence that the widespread environmental contaminant caffeine alters energy balance or stress responses in fish. Ethology, 129(12), 666-678.

  • Polverino G, Aich U, Brand JA, Bertram MG, Martin JM, Tan H, Soman VR, Mason RT, Wong BBM. (2023) Sex-specific effects of psychoactive pollution on behavioral individuality and plasticity in fish. Behavioral Ecology https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arad065

  • Brand JA, Yee WKW, Aitkenhead IJ, Martin JM, Polverino G, Chown SL, Wong BBM, Dowling DK. (2023) Temperature change exerts sex-specific effects on behavioural variation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 290: 20230110 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.0110

  • Brand JA, Henry J, Melo GC, Wlodkowic D, Wong BBM, Martin JM. (2023) Sex differences in the predictability of risk-taking behaviour. Behavioral Ecology 34: 108-116 https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arac105

  • Brand JA. (2023) Behavioural variation and environmental change: Understanding how ecological conditions mediate animal personality traits. Doctoral thesis, Monash University.

2022

  • Chapple DG*, Naimo AC*, Brand JA*, Michelangeli M, Martin JM, Goulet CT, Brunton DH, Sih A, Wong BBM. (2022) Biological invasions as a selective filter driving behavioral divergence. Nature Communications 13: 5996 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33755-2
    * Co-first authorship

  • Brand JA, Naimo AC, Michelangeli M, Martin JM, Sih A, Wong BBM, Chapple DG. (2022) Social context mediates the expression of a personality trait in a gregarious lizard. Oecologia 200: 359-369 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-022-05269-7

  • Orford JT, Ozeki S, Brand JA, Henry J, Wlodkowic D, Martin JM, Alton LA, Wong BBM. (2022) Effects of the agricultural pollutant 17β-trenbolone on morphology and behaviour of tadpoles (Limnodynastes tasmaniensis). Aquatic Toxicology 251: 106289 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquatox.2022.106289

  • Henry J, Brand JA, Bai Y, Martin JM, Wong BBM, Wlodkowic D. (2022) Multi-generational impacts of exposure to antidepressant fluoxetine on behaviour, reproduction, and morphology of freshwater snail Physa acuta. Science of The Total Environment 814: 152731. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152731

  • Bertram MG, Martin JM, McCallum ES, Alton LA, Brand JA, Brooks BW, Cerveny D, Fick J, Ford AT, Hellström G, Michelangeli M, Nakagawa S, Polverino G, Saaristo M, Sih A, Tan H, Tyler CR, Wong BBM, Brodin T. (2022) Frontiers in quantifying wildlife behavioural responses to chemical pollution. Biological Reviews 97: 1346-1364.  https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12844

2021

  • Brand JA, Naimo AC, Michelangeli M, Martin JM, Sih A, Wong BBM, Chapple DG. (2021) Population differences in the effect of context on personality in an invasive lizard. Behavioral Ecology 32: 1363-1371. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arab102

  • Martin JM, Bertram MG, Blanchfield PJ, Brand JA, Brodin T, Brooks BW, Cerveny D, Lagisz M, Ligocki IY, Michelangeli M, Nakagawa S, Orford JT, Sundin J, Tan H, Wong BBM, McCallum ES. (2021) Evidence of the impacts of pharmaceuticals on aquatic animal behaviour: a systematic map protocol. Environmental Evidence 10: 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13750-021-00241-z

  • Mason RT, Martin JM, Tan H, Brand JA, Bertram MG, Tingley R, Todd-Weckmann A, Wong BBM. (2021) Context is key: social environment mediates the impacts of a psychoactive pollutant on shoaling behavior in fish. Environmental Science & Technology 55: 13024-13032. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c04084

  • Brand JA, Martin JM, Tan H, Mason RT, Orford JT, Hammer MP, Chapple DG, Wong BBM. (2021) Rapid shifts in behavioural traits during a recent fish invasion. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 75: 134. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-021-03077-2

  • Polverino G, Martin JM, Bertram MG, Soman VR, Tan H, Brand JA, Mason RT, Wong BBM. (2021) Psychoactive pollution suppresses individual differences in fish behaviour. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288: 20202294. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.2294

2020

  • Martin JM, Nagarajan-Radha V, Tan H, Bertram MG, Brand JA, Saaristo M, Dowling DK, Wong BBM. (2020) Antidepressant exposure causes a nonmonotonic reduction in anxiety-related behaviour in female mosquitofish. Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters 1: 100004. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hazl.2020.100004