2023

• Effects of a fishery closure and prey abundance on seabird diet and breeding success: Implications for strategic fisheries management and seabird conservation

• A framework for improving treatment of uncertainty in offshore wind assessments for protected marine birds

2022

• 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

• 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