A5051314852- Marine animal studies overview
- Crystallization and Solubility Studies
- X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
- Underwater Acoustics Research
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Marine and fisheries research
- Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
- Renal and related cancers
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Renal cell carcinoma treatment
- Maritime Navigation and Safety
- Geological formations and processes
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Cephalopods and Marine Biology
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
- Mathematical Biology Tumor Growth
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Molecular spectroscopy and chirality
- Crystallography and molecular interactions
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Enzyme Structure and Function
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
University of St Andrews
2010-2021
Marine Mammal Commission
2013
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 436:257-272 (2011) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps09236 Modelling sperm whale habitat preference: a novel approach combining transect and follow data Enrico Pirotta1,*, Jason Matthiopoulos1,2, Monique MacKenzie2, Lindesay Scott-Hayward2, Luke Rendell1 1Sea Mammal Research Unit, Scottish Oceans Institute,...
The first fully automated small-molecule robotic X-ray diffractometer is described. After demonstrating the utility of instrument using multiple samples ammonium bitartrate, we investigated conformational chirality diphenyl dichalcogenide (E2Ph2, where E = S, Se, or Te). Structural and computational studies suggest that two enantiomers are energetically indistinguishable. Therefore, it was unsurprising found (in 35 suitable data collections) proportion 0.51:0.49 M-S2Ph2 to P-S2Ph2 in bulk...
Summary Behavioural change in response to anthropogenic activities is often assumed indicate a biologically significant effect on population of concern. Disturbances can affect individual health through lost foraging time or other behaviours, which will impact vital rates and thus the dynamics. However, individuals may be able compensate for observed shifts behaviour, leaving their dynamics, unchanged. We developed mathematical model simulating complex social, spatial, behavioural...
Summary As part of global efforts to reduce dependence on carbon‐based energy sources there has been a rapid increase in the installation renewable devices. The and operation these devices can result conflicts with wildlife. In marine environment, mammals may avoid wind farms that are under construction or operating. Such avoidance lead more time spent travelling displacement from key habitats. A paucity data at‐sea movements around limits our understanding nature their potential impacts....
Conventional smoothing over complicated coastal and island regions may result in errors across boundaries, due to the use of Euclidean distances measure interpoint similarity. The new Complex Region Spatial Smoother (CReSS) method presented here uses estimated geodesic distances, model averaging, a local radial basis function provide improved complex domains. CReSS is compared, via simulation, with recent related techniques, Thin Plate Splines (TPS), low rank TPS (GLTPS), Soap film smoother...
ABSTRACT The effect of various anthropogenic sources noise (e.g. sonar, seismic surveys) on the behaviour marine mammals is sometimes quantified as a dose–response relationship, where probability an animal behaviourally ‘responding’ avoiding source) increases with ‘dose’ (or received level noise). To do this, however, requires definition ‘significant’ response (avoidance), which can be difficult to quantify. There also potential that ‘avoids’ not only source but vessel operating source,...
Active echo sounding devices are often employed for commercial or scientific purposes in the foraging habitats of marine mammals. We conducted an experiment off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, USA, to assess whether behavior short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) changed when exposed EK60 sounder. attached digital acoustic recording tags (DTAGs) nine individuals, five which were exposed. A hidden Markov model characterize diving states with and without exposure provided no...
Vocalisations form a key component of the social interactions and foraging behaviour toothed whales. We investigated changes in calling echolocation long-finned pilot whales between non-foraging periods, by combining acoustic recordings diving depth data from tagged individuals with concurrent surface observations on their group. The showed marked vocal variation, specific to context. During periods foraging, more activity than during (rest, travel). In addition expected increase activity,...
Abstract Fostering and allo-suckling are widespread among pinnipeds, several hypotheses have been formulated to explain their occurrence. Here, we describe the occurrence of in harbour seals from photo-identification data females pups Orkney (Scotland) during pupping seasons between 2016 2019. We used a generalised linear model framework investigate effect on duration lactation (females) nursing period (pups). A additive was explore how probability varied throughout season, with changes...
Clinicopathological scores are used to predict the likelihood of recurrence-free survival for patients with clear cell renal carcinoma (ccRCC) after surgery. These fallible, particularly in middle range. This inevitably means that a significant proportion ccRCC who will not develop recurrent disease enroll into clinical trials. As an exemplar using digital pathology, we sought improve predictive power "recurrence free" designation localized patients, by precise measurement nuclear...
Cetacean sound-production rates are highly variable and patchy in time, depending upon individual behavior, social context, environmental context. Better quantification of the drivers this variability should allow more realistic estimates expected call rates, improving our ability to convert between counts animal density, also facilitating detection changes due acoustic disturbance. Here, we analyze digital tag (DTAG) records visual observations collected during behavioral response studies...