What question did this study set out to answer?

To explore the sleep behaviors of animals in disturbed or extreme environments, enhancing understanding of adaptability.

February 12, 2026

ECR Spotlight – Anne Aulsebrook

Key Points

To explore the sleep behaviors of animals in disturbed or extreme environments, enhancing understanding of adaptability.
Conducted interviews with early-career authors to understand their research insights.
Analyzed various physiological systems related to sleep in different animal species.
Examined challenges faced by wildlife in disturbed habitats.
Identified significant challenges wildlife encounter when seeking sleep in disturbed environments.
Highlighted the adaptations animals may use in response to environmental pressures.

Abstract

ECR Spotlight is a series of interviews with early-career authors from a selection of papers published in Journal of Experimental Biology and aims to promote not only the diversity of early-career researchers (ECRs) working in experimental biology but also the huge variety of animals and physiological systems that are essential for the ‘comparative’ approach. Anne Aulsebrook is an author on ‘ Challenges for wildlife seeking sleep in a disturbed world’, published in JEB. Anne is an Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the lab of Kate Buchanan at Deakin University, Waurn Ponds, Australia, investigating when, where and how animals sleep in disturbed or extreme environments.

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