A5006065063- Avian ecology and behavior
- Marine animal studies overview
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Influenza Virus Research Studies
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Marine and fisheries research
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Conservation, Ecology, Wildlife Education
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
Western Ecological Research Center
2019-2024
United States Geological Survey
2019-2024
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
2019-2024
San Jose State University
2022-2023
Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale
2023
Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center
2022
James Cook University
2013-2019
Spatio-temporal patterns of movement can characterize relationships between organisms and their surroundings, address gaps in our understanding species ecology, activity budgets, bioenergetics, habitat resource management. Highly mobile waterfowl, which exploit resources over large spatial extents, are excellent models to understand movements usage, landscape interactions specific needs.We tracked 3 dabbling ducks with GPS-GSM transmitters 2015-17 examine fine-scale 24 h periods (30 min...
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 586:233-249 (2018) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12376 Importance of tropical tuna for seabird foraging over a marine productivity gradient Mark G. R. Miller1,*, Nicholas Carlile2, Joe Scutt Phillips3, Fiona McDuie1, Bradley C. Congdon1 1College Science and Engineering Centre Tropical Environmental...
Zoonotic diseases are of considerable concern to the human population and viruses such as avian influenza (AIV) threaten food security, wildlife conservation health. Wild waterfowl natural wetlands they use known AIV reservoirs, with birds capable virus transmission domestic poultry populations. While infection risk models have linked migration routes outbreaks, there is a limited understanding wild presence on commercial livestock facilities, movement patterns wetlands. We documented 11...
Abstract Extensive global estuarine wetland losses have prompted intensive focus on restoration of these habitats. In California, substantial tracts freshwater, brackish and tidal wetlands been lost. Given the anthropogenic footprint development urbanization in this region, must rely conversion existing habitat types rather than adding new wetlands. These restorations can cause conflicts among stakeholders species that win or lose depending identified priorities. Suisun Marsh San Francisco...
Long-term environmental management to prevent waterfowl population declines is informed by ecology, movement behavior and habitat use patterns. Extrinsic factors, such as human-induced disturbance, can cause behavioral changes which may influence resource needs, driving variation that affects efficacy. To better understand the relationship between human-based disturbance animal use, their potential effects on management, we GPS tracked 15 dabbling ducks in California over ~4-weeks before,...
Abstract Understanding relationships between infection and wildlife movement patterns is important for predicting pathogen spread, especially multispecies pathogens those that can spread to humans domestic animals, such as avian influenza viruses (AIVs). Although with low pathogenic AIVs generally considered asymptomatic in wild birds, prior work has shown influenza‐infected birds occasionally delay migration and/or reduce local movements relative their uninfected counterparts. However, most...
Interactions between wildlife and livestock can lead to cross‐species disease transmission, which incurs economic costs threatens conservation. Wild waterfowl are natural hosts of avian influenza viruses (AIVs), often abundant near poultry farms, have been linked outbreaks AIVs in poultry. Interspecific seasonal variation movement habitat use means that the risk transmission wild birds inevitably varies across species, space, time. Here, we used GPS telemetry data from 10 species...
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 633:225-238 (2020) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13171 At-sea movements of wedge-tailed shearwaters during and outside breeding season from four colonies in New Caledonia Henri Weimerskirch1,*, Sophie de Grissac1,2, Andreas Ravache3,4, Aurélien Prudor1, Alexandre Corbeau1, Bradley C. Congdon5, Fiona...
In 2020, the fire season affecting western United States reached unprecedented levels. The 116 fires active in September consumed nearly 20,822 km2 (https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/accessible-view/ Accessed 2020-09-29) with 80% of this footprint (16,567 km2) from 68 occurring within California, Oregon, and Washington. Although 2020 was most extreme on record, it exemplified patterns increased wildfire size, number, timing, return frequency, extent, which are linked to climate-driven changes...
Breeding success should increase with prior knowledge of the surrounding environment, which is dependent upon an animal's ability to evaluate habitat. Prospecting for nesting locations and migratory stopover sites are well-established behaviours among bird species. We assessed whether three species California dabbling ducks – mallards, Anas platyrhynchos, gadwall, Mareca strepera, cinnamon teal, Spatula cyanoptera in Suisun Marsh, California, U.S.A., a brackish marsh, prospect suitable...
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 589:209-225 (2018) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12475 Oceanographic drivers of near-colony seabird foraging site use in tropical marine systems Fiona McDuie1,*, Scarla J. Weeks2, Bradley C. Congdon1 1Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science College Engineering, James Cook University,...
Abstract Context Effective wildlife management requires information on habitat and resource needs, which can be estimated with movement modelling energetics. One necessary component of avian models is flight speeds at multiple temporal scales. Technology has limited the ability to accurately assess speeds, leading estimates questionable accuracy, many have not been updated in almost a century. Aims We aimed update ducks, differentiate between migratory non-migratory detail that was unclear...
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 550:219-234 (2016) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps11713 Trans-equatorial migration and non-breeding habitat of tropical shearwaters: implications for modelling pelagic Important Bird Areas Fiona McDuie*, Bradley C. Congdon Centre Tropical Environmental Sustainability Science & College Science, James Cook...
To effectively manage species and habitats at multiple scales, population land managers require rapid information on wildlife use of managed areas responses to landscape conditions management actions. GPS tracking studies are particularly informative ecology, habitat use, conservation. Combining data with administrative a diverse suite remotely sensed, geo-referenced environmental (e.g., climatic) data, would more comprehensively inform how animals interact utilize ecosystems our goal was...
Understanding timing and distribution of virus spread is critical to global commercial wildlife biosecurity management. A highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAIv) panzootic, affecting ~600 bird mammal species globally over 83 million birds across North America (December 2023), poses a serious threat animals public health. We combined large, long‐term waterfowl GPS tracking dataset (16 species) with on‐ground disease surveillance data (county‐level HPAIv detections) create novel empirical...
Abstract Identifying migration routes and fall stopover sites of Cinnamon Teal ( Spatula cyanoptera septentrionalium) can provide a spatial guide to management conservation efforts, address vulnerabilities in wetland networks that support migratory waterbirds. Using high spatiotemporal resolution GPS‐GSM transmitters, we analyzed 61 tracks across western North America during our three‐year study (2017–2019). We marked primarily spring/summer important breeding molting regions seven states...
Abstract Background Identifying animal behaviors, life history states, and movement patterns is a prerequisite for many behavior analyses effective management of wildlife habitats. Most approaches classify short-term with high frequency location or accelerometry data. However, reflecting across longer time scales can have greater relevance to species biology needs, especially when available in near real-time. Given limitations collecting using such data accurately complex behaviors the...
Conservation of breeding seabirds typically requires detailed data on where they feed at sea. Ecological niche models (ENMs) can fill gaps, but rarely perform well when transferred to new regions. Alternatively, the foraging radius approach simply encircles sea surrounding a seabird colony (a circle), overestimates habitat. Here, we investigate whether ENMs transfer (predict) niches tropical between global colonies, and refine circles. We collate large dataset tracks (12000 trips, 16...
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 485:275-285 (2013) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps10322 Divergence in chick developmental patterns among wedge-tailed shearwater populations Fiona McDuie*, William Goulding, Darren R. Peck, Bradley C. Congdon School of & Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland 4870, Australia *Email:...