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23  (of 23 published available) for Centre for Research into Ecological & Environmental Modelling with keyword Synthesis clear keyword filter. (source: University of St Andrews PURE)
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2018 (3)
Journal of Applied Ecology
vol.55 pp.684-693
(Article)
Harbour seals avoid tidal turbine noise
Gordon Drummond Hastie, Debbie JF Russell, Paul Lepper, Jim Elliott, Ben Wilson, Steven Benjamins, David Thompson 
Keywords: Collision risk, Marine mammals, Avoidance, Renewable energy, Pinnipeds, Marine spatial planning, Underwater noise, Tidal turbines, Behavioural responsesNERC
2018 (1)
Journal of Applied Ecology
vol.55 pp.396-404
(Review article)
Marine mammals and sonar
Catriona M Harris, Len Thomas, Erin Falcone, John Hildebrand, Dorian Houser, Petter Kvadsheim, Frans-Peter A. Lam, Patrick Miller, David J. Moretti, Andrew Read, Hans Slabbekoorn, Brandon L. Southall, Peter Lloyd Tyack, Douglas Wartzok, Vincent Janik 
Keywords: Sonar, Cetaceans, Human disturbance, Impact assessment, Anti-predator response, Anthropogenic noise, Behavioural response, Marine mammals, Dose response

Ecology and Evolution
vol.Early View 
(Review article)
Understanding the population consequences of disturbance
Enrico Pirotta, Daniel P. Costa, Erica Fleishman, Scott D. Kraus, David Lusseau, David Moretti, Leslie Frances New, Robert Schilling Schick, Lisa K. Schwarz, Samantha E. Simmons, Len Thomas, Peter Lloyd Tyack, Michael J. Weise, Randall S. Wells, John Harwood 
Keywords: Anthropogenic disturbance, Environmental impact assessments, Marine mammals, Nonconsumptive effects, Population consequences, Trait-mediated indirect interactions, Uncertainty
2017 (4)
Ecology and Evolution
vol.7 pp.2101-2111
(Article)
A simulation approach to assessing environmental risk of sound exposure to marine mammals
Carl Robert Donovan, Catriona M Harris, Lorenzo Milazzo, John Harwood, Laura Helen Marshall,  
Keywords: Agent-based models, Grey seal, Harbour porpoise, Risk assessment, Underwater sound
2017 (3/1)
The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America
vol.98 pp.57-63
(Article)
Best practices for virtual participation in meetings
Stephanie E. Hampton, Benjamin S. Halpern, Marten Winter, Jennifer K. Balch, John N. Parker, Jill S. Baron, Margaret Palmer, Mark P. Schildhauer, Pamela Bishop, Thomas Robert Meagher, Alison Specht 
2017 (6)
Journal of Applied Ecology
vol.54 pp.894-902
(Article)
Counting chirps
G. John Measey, Ben Stevenson, tanya scott, Res Altwegg, David Louis Borchers 
Keywords: Acoustic spatially explicit capture-recapture, Signal strength, Time of arrival, Triangulation, Anurans
2017 (1/6)
General and Comparative Endocrinology
vol.247 pp.53-65
(Article)
Divergent regulation of insulin-like growth factor binding protein genes in cultured Atlantic salmon myotubes under different models of catabolism and anabolism
Daniel Garcia de la Serrana Castillo, Eduardo Nicolas Jofre, Samuel A. M. Martin, Ian Alistair Johnston, Daniel J. Macqueen 
Keywords: Skeletal muscle, Myotubes, Cell culture, Insulin-like growth factor system, Igf binding proteins, Atlantic salmon, Dexamethasone, Interleukin-1β, Amino acids
2017 (12)
Journal of Applied Ecology
vol.54 pp.1930-1940
(Article)
Seals and shipping
Esther Lane Jones, Gordon Drummond Hastie, Sophie Caroline Smout, Joseph Onoufriou, Nathan Merchant, Kate Brookes, David Thompson 
Keywords: Halichoerus grypus, Phoca vitulina, Spatial overlap, AIS, Telemetry, Acoustic propagation, Marine stressor, MSFD, Noise pollution, UncertaintyNERC
2017 (8)
Bioscience
vol.67 pp.750-759
(Article)
Synthesis centers as critical research infrastructure
Jill Baron, Alison Specht, Eric Garnier, Pamela Bishop, Andrew Campbell, Frank Davis, Bruno Fady, Dawn Field, Louis Gross, Siddeswara Guru, Benjamin Halpern, Stephanie Hampton, Peter Leavitt, Thomas Robert Meagher, Jean Ometto, John Parker, Richard Price, Casey Rawson, Allen Rodrigo, Laura Sheble, Marten Winter 
Keywords: Synthesis, Collaboration, Interdisciplinary research
2016 (12)
Journal of Applied Ecology
vol.53 pp.1642-1652
(Article)
Avoidance of wind farms by harbour seals is limited to pile driving activities
Debbie JF Russell, Gordon Drummond Hastie, David Thompson, Vincent Janik, Philip Steven Hammond, Lindesay Alexandra Sarah Scott-Hayward, Jason Matthiopoulos, Esther Lane Jones, Bernie J McConnell 
Keywords: Complex Region Spatial Smoother, Disturbance, Marine renewables, Marine spatial planning, Pinnipeds, Renewable energy, Spatially Adaptive Local Smoothing Algorithm, Spatially adaptive smoothing , Underwater noiseNERC, BEIS/DECC, Scottish Government
2016 (9)
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
vol.199 pp.50-57
(Article)
Comparison of the transcriptional responses of skeletal muscle and bone to a flooding dose of leucine in the gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata)
Daniel Garcia de la Serrana Castillo, Edson A. Mareco, Vera LA Vieira, Deborah M. Power, Ian Alistair Johnston 
Keywords: NGS, Muscle, Bone, Expression, Leucine, mTOR, Fast growth, Aquaculture, Skeletal deformities
2016 (11)
Journal of Ecology
vol.104 pp.1819-1828
(Article)
Lianas and soil nutrients predict fine-scale distribution of above-ground biomass in a tropical moist forest
Alicia Ledo, Janine Baerbel Illian, Stefan A. Schnitzer, S. Joseph Wright, James W. Dalling, David F. R. P. Burslem 
Keywords: Above-ground biomass spatial distribution, Carbon dynamics, Carbon stocks, INLA approach, Liana, Resource competition, Soil nutrients, Spatial statistics
2016 (26/10)
Movement Ecology
vol.4 
(Review article)
Navigating uncertain waters: a critical review of inferring foraging behaviour from location and dive data in pinnipeds
Matthew Ian Daniel Carter, Kimberley A. Bennett, Clare B. Embling, Philip J. Hosegood, Debbie JF Russell 
Keywords: Movement ecology, Area-restricted search, Satellite telemetry, GPS, Argos, TDR, Animal tracking, Marine mammals, SealsNERC
2016 (1/5)
Statistical Science
vol.31 pp.219-232
(Article)
Spatial capture-recapture models
David Louis Borchers, R.M. Fewster 
Keywords: Capture-recapture, Competing risks, Detection hazard, Poisson process, Spatial modellingStatistics and Probability, Mathematics(all), Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
2016 (1)
Journal of Ecology
vol.104 pp.160-172
(Article)
Success of spatial statistics in determining underlying process in simulated plant communities
Calum Brown, Janine Baerbel Illian, David F. R. P. Burslem 
Keywords: Coexistence mechanisms, Determinants of plant community diversity and structure, Environmental niche, Heteromyopia, Individual species–area relationship, Janzen–Connell, Lottery model, Neutral theory, Point pattern, Spatial Simpson index
2015 (6)
Journal of Applied Ecology
vol.52 pp.686-695
(Article)
Developing and enhancing biodiversity monitoring programmes
Michael J. O. Pocock, Stuart E. Newson, Ian G. Henderson, Jodey Peyton, William J. Sutherland, David G. Noble, Stuart G. Ball, Björn C. Beckmann, Jeremy Biggs, Tom Brereton, David J. Bullock, Stephen Terrence Buckland, Mike Edwards, Mark A. Eaton, Martin C. Harvey, Mark O. Hill, Martin Horlock, David S. Hubble, Angela M. Julian, Edward C. Mackey, Darren J. Mann, Matthew J. Marshall, Jolyon M. Medlock, Elaine M. O'Mahony, Marina Pacheco, Keith Porter, Steve Prentice, Deborah A. Procter, Helen E. Roy, Sue E. Southway, Chris R. Shortall, Alan J. A. Stewart, David E. Wembridge, Mark A. Wright, David B. Roy 
Keywords: Biodiversity , Citizen science, Monitoring, Participatory monitoring, Survey, Volunteer, Surveillance
2015 (31/7)
BMC Genomics
vol.16 
(Article)
RNAseq analysis of fast skeletal muscle in restriction-fed transgenic coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch)
Daniel Garcia de la Serrana Castillo, Robert Devlin, Ian Alistair Johnston 
Keywords: Salmon, Growth, Teleost fish, Growth hormone transgenics, Skeletal muscle transcriptome, Fish nutrition
2015

(Other report)
Status and future of research on the behavioural responses of marine mammals to U.S. Navy sonar
Catriona M Harris, Len Thomas 
2014 (12)
Journal of Applied Ecology
vol.51 pp.1650-1660
(Article)
Assessing trends in biodiversity over space and time using the example of British breeding birds
Phil Harrison, Stephen Terrence Buckland, Joyce Yuan , David Andrew Elston, M.J. Brewer, A. Johnston, J.W. Pearce-Higgins 
Keywords: Change points in trends, Generalized additive models, Geometric mean index, Good-of-fit measures, Long-term trends, Rare species, Spatio-temporal modelling
2013 (8)
Journal of Applied Ecology
vol.50 pp.1071-1079
(Article)
Seabirds maintain offspring provisioning rate despite fluctuations in prey abundance
Sophie Caroline Smout, Anna Rindorf, Sarah Wanless, Francis Daunt, Michael P. Harris, Jason Matthiopoulos 
Keywords: Ammodytes marinus , Chick provisioning, Good Environmental Status, Indicator species, MCMC , predator–prey interactions, Seabird diet, Sprattus sprattus , Uria aalge
2013 (1)
Journal of Applied Ecology
vol.50 pp.499-509
(Article)
Uncovering the links between foraging and breeding regions in a highly mobile mammal
Debbie JF Russell, Bernie J McConnell, David Thompson, Callan David Duck, Chris Morris, John Harwood, Jason Matthiopoulos 
Keywords: Bayesian statistics, Capital breeding, Individually referenced data, Integrated modelling, Marine conservation, Markov Chain Monte Carlo, Migration, Pinnipeds, Site fidelity, WinBUGS
2012 (2)
Journal of Ornithology
vol.152 pp.S435-S444
(Article)
A non-technical overview of spatially explicit capture-recapture models
David Louis Borchers 
Keywords: Spatially explicit capture-recapture, Spatial sampling, Measurement error, Capture function, Plot sampling, Distance sampling
2010 (11)
Nucleic Acids Research
vol.38 
(Article)
Targeted rapid amplification of cDNA ends (T-RACE)-an improved RACE reaction through degradation of non-target sequences
Neil Ivan Bower, Ian Alistair Johnston 
Keywords: Uracil DNA Glycosylase, Contamination