Biography

I received my BSc degree in Applied Ecology (Czech University of Life Sciences) and earned two MSc degrees: in Ecological Conservation (Cranfield University) and in Forestry, Water and Landscape Management (Czech University of Life Sciences). I obtained my PhD degree in Ecology and Evolution at the University of Bern. Before joining the Environmental Sciences and Humanities Institute, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Basel and at the Centre for Compassionate Conservation at the University of Technology Sydney.

My current research focuses on wildlife welfare, animal research ethics, humane education, and implementation of the 3Rs principles and non-invasive methods in wildlife research (https://3RsWildlife.info).

You can find more information about my work at: https://miriamzemanova.com.

Research and publications

• Book chapters

  Zemanova M. A. (2022): Non-Domesticated Terrestrial Species. In Knight A., Phillips C., Sparks P. (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Animal Welfare (1^st ed., pp. 271-281). London, UK, Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003182351

   

  Knight A., Zemanova M. A. (2022): Animal Use in Veterinary Education. In Kipperman B., Rollin B. E. (Eds.), Ethics in Veterinary Practice: Balancing Conflicting Interests (1^st ed., pp. 369-402). Hoboken, USA, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119791256.ch18

   

   

• Peer-reviewed articles

  Zemanova M. A. (2023): Crucial but neglected: limited availability of animal welfare courses in education of wildlife researchers. Animals 13: 2907. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13182907

   

  Zemanova M. A. (2023): Prevalence of conscientious objection policies to harmful animal use in education at medical and veterinary faculties in Europe. Trends in Higher Education 2: 332-339. https://doi.org/10.3390/higheredu2020019

   

  Zemanova M. A. (2022): Attitudes toward animal dissection and animal-free alternatives among high school biology teachers in Switzerland. Frontiers in Education 7: 892713. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2022.892713

   

  Zemanova M. A., Ramp D. (2021): Genetic structure and gene flow in eastern grey kangaroos in an isolated conservation reserve. Diversity 13: 570. https://doi.org/10.3390/d13110570

   

  Zemanova M. A. (2021): Non-invasive genetic assessment is an effective wildlife research tool when compared with other approaches. Genes 12: 1672. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes12111672

   

  Zemanova M. A. (2021): Making room for the 3Rs principles of responsible animal use in ecology: potential issues identified through a pilot survey. European Journal of Ecology 7: 18-39. https://doi.org/10.17161/eurojecol.v7i2.14683

   

  Zemanova M. A., Knight A., Lybaek S. (2021): Educational use of animals in Europe indicates reluctance to implement alternatives. ALTEX 38: 490-506. https://doi.org/10.14573/altex.2011111

   

  Zemanova M. A. (2021): New online resource on the 3Rs principles of animal research for wildlife biologists, ecologists, and conservation managers. Conservation 1: 106-112. https://doi.org/10.3390/conservation1020009

   

  Zemanova M. A., Knight A. (2021): The educational efficacy of humane teaching methods: a systematic review of the evidence. Animals 11: 114. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11010114

   

  Wallach A. D., Batavia C., Nelson M. P., Bekoff M., Baker L., Ben-Ami D., Boronyak L., Cardilini A., Carmel Y., Celermajer D., Coghlan S., Dahdal Y., Gomez Y., Kaplan G., Keynan O., Khalilieh A., Kopnina H., Lynn W., Narayanan Y., Riley S., Santiago-Ávila F. J., Yanco E., Zemanova M. A., Ramp D. (2020): Recognizing animal personhood in compassionate conservation. Conservation Biology 34: 1097–1106. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13494

   

  Zemanova M. A. (2020): Towards more compassionate wildlife research through the 3Rs principles: moving from invasive to non-invasive methods. Wildlife Biology 2020: wlb.00607. https://doi.org/10.2981/wlb.00607

   

  Zemanova M. A. (2019): Poor implementation of non-invasive sampling in wildlife genetics studies. Rethinking Ecology 4: 119-132. https://doi.org/10.3897/rethinkingecology.4.32751

   

  Zemanova M. A., Broennimann O., Guisan A., Knop E., Heckel G. (2018): Slimy invasion: climatic niche and the current and future biogeography of Arion slugs invaders. Diversity and Distributions 24: 1627-1640. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12789

   

  Zemanova M. A., Knop E., Heckel G. (2017): Introgressive replacement of natives by invading pest slugs. Scientific Reports 7: 14908. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-14619-y

   

  Zemanova M. A., Perotto-Baldivieso H. L., Dickins E. L., Gill A. B., Leonard J. P., Wester D. B. (2017): Impact of deforestation on habitat connectivity thresholds for large carnivores in tropical forests. Ecological Processes 6: 21. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13717-017-0089-1

   

  Zemanova M. A. (2017): More training in animal ethics needed for European biologists. BioScience 67: 301-305. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biw177

   

  Zemanova M. A., Knop E., Heckel G. (2016): Phylogeographic past and invasive presence of Arion pest slugs in Europe. Molecular Ecology 25: 5747-5764. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13860

   

  Desurmont G. A., Zemanova M. A., Turlings T. C. J. (2016): The gastropod menace: slugs on Brassica plants affect caterpillar survival through consumption and interference with parasitoid attraction. Journal of Chemical Ecology 42: 183–192. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-016-0682-2

   

  Zemanova M. A., Knop E., Heckel G. (2015): Development and characterization of novel microsatellite markers for the Arion species. Conservation Genetics Resources 7: 501-503. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12686-014-0406-2