BEHAVIOURAL ECOLOGY: ANIMAL–ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS

Our current projects are centred on animal movement ecology, population structuring, and how environmental change affects these linked processes. The species studied are principally marine vertebrates such as sharks, rays and tunas, but our more recent work on search behaviour has also investigated jellyfish, octopus and cuttlefish.

 

We use a wide array of techniques including satellite tracking (Argos & GPS), animal-attached data-loggers (archival telemetry), radio-linked acoustic positioning systems, body movement sensors, remote environmental monitors, GIS, computer-aided video monitoring, behavioural experiments (laboratory), molecular markers, software development for movement and statistical analysis, computer simulations and modelling.

 

Our funding comes from a variety of sources including the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), the European Union, UK Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), The Leverhulme Trust, Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, Save Our Seas Foundation, The Royal Society, and the Fisheries Society of the British Isles.

 

Click the brief titles on the right to learn more about a project.

Downloads

PDF IconFish tagging recapture form

PDF IconRay and flatfish reward poster

PDF IconSkate DST reward poster

PDF IconRay DST reward poster

 

Tags, Sharks, Rays, Tunas, satellite tracking, GPS, acoustic positioning systems, basking shark, sexual segregation

+ SEARCH BEHAVIOUR
+ COMPARATIVE MOVEMENT
+ BEHAVIOURAL ANALYSIS
+ ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR

+ SENSORY ABILITY & FORAGING

+ SPATIAL DYNAMICS

+ ENDANGERED SPECIES BEHAVIOUR

+ BASKING SHARK

+ MIGRATORY BEHAVIOUR

+ SEXUAL SEGREGATION

+ SOCIAL NETWORKS

+ MARINE PROTECTED AREAS

+ FISH RESPONSES TO CLIMATE CHANGE

+ EUTOPIA