2022
- Seabird GPS tracking on the Isle of May, Fowlsheugh and St Abb’s Head in 2021 in relation to offshore wind farms in the Forth/Tay region
- Assessing discards in an illegal small-scale fishery using fisher-led reporting
- Potential climate-driven changes to seabird demography: implications for assessments of marine renewable energy development
- State-space models for ecological time-series data: Practical model-fitting
- Study to examine how seabird collision risk, displacement and barrier effects could be integrated for assessment of offshore wind developments
- Study to examine the impact of climate change on seabird species off the east coast of Scotland and potential implications for environmental assessments
- Tidal streams, fish, and seabirds: Understanding the linkages between mobile predators, prey, and hydrodynamics
2021
- Surface characterisation of Kolk-Boils within tidal stream environments using UAV imagery
- A guide to state-space modeling of ecological time series
- Estimating spatio-temporal distribution of fish and gear selectivity functions from pooled scientific survey and commercial fishing data
- Feasibility study of large-scale deployment of colour-ringing on Black-legged Kittiwake populations to improve the realism of demographic models assessing the population impacts of offshore wind farms
- Intra- and inter-annual variability in the fat content of Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) as revealed by routine industry monitoring
- Correct treatment of uncertainty in ornithological assessments
- Study to examine the feasibility of extending SeabORD to the entire breeding season
2020
- Estimating the effects of pile driving sounds on seals: Pitfalls and possibilities
- A population viability analysis modelling tool for seabird species – tool testing
- Attributing seabirds at sea to appropriate breeding colonies and populations
- Improving inference for nonlinear state-space models of animal population dynamics given biased sequential life stage data
- Scoping study - regional population viability analysis for key bird species
2019
- A population viability analysis modelling tool for seabird species
- Colonisation dynamics during range expansion is poorly predicted by dispersal in the core range
- Effect of breeding performance on the distribution and activity budgets of a predominantly resident population of black‐browed albatrosses
- Fine scale spatial variability in the influence of environmental cycles on the occurrence of dolphins at coastal sites
- Global spatial risk assessment of sharks under the footprint of fisheries
- Scottish waters east region regional sectoral marine plan strategic ornithology study
- Sub-lethal effects of natural parasitism operate through maternal but not paternal reproductive success in a wild population
2018
- AIS data to inform small scale fisheries management and marine spatial planning
- Bacterial community response in deep Faroe-Shetland channel sediments following hydrocarbon entrainment with and without dispersant addition
- Finding out the fate of displaced birds
- Multi-decadal and ontogenetic trophic shifts inferred from stable isotope ratios of pinniped teeth
- Pronounced long-term trends in year-round diet composition of the European shag Phalacrocorax aristotelis
- The effect of chemical dispersant concentration on hydrocarbon mobility through permeable North-East Scotland sands
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The energetic cost of parasitism in a wild population
2017
- Convergent foraging tactics of marine predators with different feeding strategies across heterogeneous ocean environments
- Feasibility study for meta-analysis of red-throated diver displacement
- Fine-scale harbour seal usage for informed marine spatial planning
- From days to decades: Short- and long-term variation in environmental conditions affect offspring diet composition of a marine top predator
- Multi-colony tracking reveals spatio-temporal variation in carry-over effects between breeding success and winter movements in a pelagic seabird
- Review of analytical approaches for identifying usage and foraging areas at sea for harbour seals
- Seals and shipping: quantifying population risk and individual exposure to vessel noise
- Taking movement data to new depths: Inferring prey availability and patch profitability from seabird foraging behavior
- Updated grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) usage maps in the North Sea
- Updated seal usage maps: The estimated at-sea distribution of grey and harbour seals
- Validating accelerometry estimates of energy expenditure across behaviours using heart rate data in a free-living seabird
2016
- A trait-based approach for predicting species responses to environmental change from sparse data: how well might terrestrial mammals track climate change?
- Avoidance of wind farms by harbour seals is limited to pile driving activities
- Couto, A., Baptista, M., Furtado, M., Sousa, L. and Queiroz, N., 2016. Life histories of oceanodromous fishes. An introduction to fish migration. CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp.123-146
- Fine-scale harbour seal at-sea usage around Orkney and the North coast of Scotland
- Integrated monitoring of Mola mola behaviour in space and time
- Investigations into the interactions between harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) and vessels in the inner Moray Firth
- Novel application of a quantitative spatial comparison tool to species distribution data
- Population scaling in 5 km x 5 km grey and harbour seal usage maps
- The relative performance of AIC, AICC and BIC in the presence of unobserved heterogeneity
- The role of trust in the resolution of conservation conflicts
- The use of an unsupervised learning approach for characterizing latent behaviors in accelerometer data
- Using individual tracking data to validate the predictions of species distribution models
2015
- At-sea turnover of breeding seabirds
- Bogdanova, M.I., Butler, A., Gunn, C., Kafas, A., Rei, C., Low, P. & Daunt F. (2015) Foraging behaviour of large gulls and implications for offshore wind site selection. Contract report to Innovate UK, Moray Offshore Renewables Ltd and Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Ltd
- Determine data sparse regions. Report to Marine Scotland MMSS/001/11 MR 5.1
- Determine environmental covariates for usage preference around the UK. Report to Marine Scotland MMSS/001/11 MR 5.1.6
- Effects of sea temperature and stratification changes on seabird breeding success
- Examining the distribution of observed carcasses to identify biological and oceanographic patterns and distribution of potential causes to assess the patterns of risk associated with unexplained seal deaths
- Habitat selection of gray seals (Halichoerus grypus) in a marine protected area in France
- Intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of activity budgets in sympatric grey and harbour seals
- Patterns of space use in sympatric marine colonial predators reveals scales of spatial partitioning
- Produce, publish and maintain seal usage maps with confidence intervals
- Protracted treatment with corticosterone reduces breeding success in a long-lived bird
- Review the extent of how new survey data affect usage estimates. Report to Marine Scotland MMSS/001/11 MR 5.1
2014
- Among-year and within-population variation in foraging distribution of European shags Phalacrocorax aristotelis over a twenty-year period: implications for marine spatial planning
- Assessing the vulnerability of the marine bird community in the western North Sea to climate change and other anthropogenic impacts
- Population consequences of displacement from proposed offshore wind energy developments for seabirds breeding at Scottish SPAs (CR/2012/03)
2013
- Does stakeholder involvement really benefit biodiversity conservation
- Endoscopy as a novel method for assessing endoparasite burdens in free-ranging European shags (Phalacrocorax aristotelis)
- Framing scale in participatory biodiversity management may contribute to more sustainable solutions
- Jones, E.L., & Matthiopoulos, J. (2013) Hornsea Offshore Wind Farm Project One: Environmental Statement Volume 5 – Offshore Annexes. Smart Wind Limited
2012
- Phenological trends and trophic mismatch across multiple levels of a North Sea pelagic food web
- Sparling, C.E., Russell, D.J.F., Jones, E.L., Grellier, K., Lonergan, M., McConnell, B.J., ... Thompson, D. (2012) Baseline seal information for the FTWODG area. SMRUL-FDG-2012-0 to FTOWDG. SMRU Consulting