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| C J A BradshawSummaryAffiliation: Charles Darwin University Country: Australia Publications
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Scaling laws of marine predator search behaviourDavid W Sims
Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth PL1 2PB, UK
Nature 451:1098-102. 2008..This may explain why Lévy-like behaviour seems to be widespread among diverse organisms, from microbes to humans, as a 'rule' that evolved in response to patchy resource distributions...
Chemical immobilization of adult female Weddell seals with tiletamine and zolazepam: effects of age, condition and stage of lactationKathryn E Wheatley
Antarctic Wildlife Research Unit, School of Zoology, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 05, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia
BMC Vet Res 2:8. 2006..We also compared performance between IV and IM injection of the same mixture...
Complex interplay between intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of long-term survival trends in southern elephant sealsSiobhan C de Little
School for Environmental Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
BMC Ecol 7:3. 2007....
Measurement error causes scale-dependent threshold erosion of biological signals in animal movement dataCorey J A Bradshaw
School for Environmental Research, Institute of Advanced Studies, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
Ecol Appl 17:628-38. 2007..This study provides researchers with a framework for understanding the limitations of their data and identifies how temporal subsampling can help to reduce the influence of spatial error on their conclusions...
Behavioral inference of diving metabolic rate in free-ranging leatherback turtlesCorey J A Bradshaw
School for Environmental Research, Institute of Advanced Studies, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory 0909, Australia
Physiol Biochem Zool 80:209-19. 2007..Their capacity to have a warm body core even in cold water therefore seems to derive from their large size, heat exchangers, thermal inertia, and insulating fat layers and not from an elevated metabolic rate...
Incorporating known sources of uncertainty to determine precautionary harvests of saltwater crocodilesCorey J A Bradshaw
School for Environmental Research, Institute of Advanced Studies, Charles Darwin University, Northern Territory, Australia
Ecol Appl 16:1436-48. 2006....
Conservation value of non-native banteng in northern AustraliaCorey J A Bradshaw
School for Environmental Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory 0909, Australia
Conserv Biol 20:1306-11. 2006....
Mass cetacean strandings-a plea for empiricismCorey J A Bradshaw
School for Environmental Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory 0909, Australia
Conserv Biol 20:584-6. 2006
Inferring population trends for the world's largest fish from mark-recapture estimates of survivalCorey J A Bradshaw
School for Environmental Research, Institute of Advanced Studies, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
J Anim Ecol 76:480-9. 2007....
Low genetic diversity in the bottlenecked population of endangered non-native banteng in northern AustraliaCorey J A Bradshaw
School for Environmental Research, Institute of Advanced Studies, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT 0909, Australia
Mol Ecol 16:2998-3008. 2007..This study indicates the genetic value of small populations of endangered artiodactyls established ex situ...
Swimming in the deep end of the gene pool: global population structure of an oceanic giantCorey J A Bradshaw
School for Environmental Research, Institute of Advanced Studies, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory 0909, Australia
Mol Ecol 16:5111-3. 2007..Previous tracking studies imply a high dispersal capacity, but only now have Castro and colleagues demonstrated high gene flow and haplotype diversity among the major ocean basins where they are found...
Chemical immobilisation of wild banteng (Bos javanicus) in northern Australia using detomidine, tiletamine and zolazepamC J A Bradshaw
School for Environmental Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory
Aust Vet J 83:616-7. 2005
Having your water and drinking it too: resource limitation modifies density regulationCorey J A Bradshaw
School for Environmental Research, Institute of Advanced Studies, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory 0909, Australia
J Anim Ecol 77:1-4. 2008..This work has important climate change implications for the conservation management of African herbivores...
Strength of evidence for density dependence in abundance time series of 1198 speciesBarry W Brook
School for Environmental Research, Institute of Advanced Studies, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
Ecology 87:1445-51. 2006..These results underscore the value of using multiple modes of analysis to quantify the relative empirical support for a set of working hypotheses that encompass a range of realistic population dynamical behaviors...
Shifting trends: detecting environmentally mediated regulation in long-lived marine vertebrates using time-series dataClive R McMahon
Department of Zoology and Entomology, Mammal Research Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, Republic of South Africa
Oecologia 159:69-82. 2009....
Applying the heat to research techniques for species conservationClive R McMahon
Institute of Environmental Sustainability, School of Biological Sciences, University of Wales Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, United Kingdom
Conserv Biol 21:271-3. 2007
Endogenous and exogenous factors controlling temporal abundance patterns of tropical mosquitoesGuo Jing Yang
School for Environmental Research, Institute of Advanced Studies, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory 0909, Australia
Ecol Appl 18:2028-40. 2008..This work also indicates that climate change, via continued increases in rainfall and higher expected frequencies and intensities of high tide events with sea level rise, will alter mosquito abundance trends in northern Australia...
Managing an endangered Asian bovid in an Australian National Park: the role and limitations of ecological-economic models in decision-makingBarry W Brook
School for Environmental Studies, Institute of Advanced Studies, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
Environ Manage 38:463-9. 2006....
To catch a buffalo: field immobilisation of Asian swamp buffalo using etorphine and xylazineC R McMahon
School for Environmental Research, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina Campus, Darwin, NT 0909, Australia
Aust Vet J 86:235-41. 2008..To demonstrate the efficacy of a mixture of etorphine and xylazine to safely immobilise wild buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) in the field...
Chapter 4. Susceptibility of sharks, rays and chimaeras to global extinctionIain C Field
School for Environmental Research, Institute of Advanced Studies, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory 0909, Australia
Adv Mar Biol 56:275-363. 2009....
You are what you eat: describing the foraging ecology of southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) using blubber fatty acidsCorey J A Bradshaw
Antarctic Wildlife Research Unit, School of Zoology, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 05, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia
Proc Biol Sci 270:1283-92. 2003..Thus, we were able to measure the coarse-scale diet structure of a major marine predator using FA profiles, and estimate its associated seasonal and temporal variation...
Blubber and buoyancy: monitoring the body condition of free-ranging seals using simple dive characteristicsMartin Biuw
Sea Mammal Research Unit, Gatty Marine Laboratory, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife KY16 8LB, Scotland, UK
J Exp Biol 206:3405-23. 2003..Our results suggest that this simple method can be used to estimate the changes in lipid content of free-ranging seals while at sea and may help improve our understanding of the foraging strategies of these important marine predators...
Resource partitioning through oceanic segregation of foraging juvenile southern elephant seals ( Mirounga leonina)Iain C Field
Antarctic Wildlife Research Unit, School of Zoology, Private Bag 05, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia
Oecologia 142:127-35. 2005..Such modifications of haul-out timing and behavior enable them to exploit a patchy and unpredictable environment...
Measuring the meltdown: drivers of global amphibian extinction and declineNavjot S Sodhi
Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
PLoS ONE 3:e1636. 2008..These empirical results show that amphibian species with restricted ranges should be urgently targeted for conservation...
Juvenile southern elephant seals exhibit seasonal differences in energetic requirements and use of lipids and protein storesIain C Field
Antarctic Wildlife Research Unit, School of Zoology, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 05, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia
Physiol Biochem Zool 78:491-504. 2005..These differences are most likely related to haul-out function and behavior, growth, and earlier development of females toward sexual maturity...
Minimum viable population sizes and global extinction risk are unrelatedBarry W Brook
Ecol Lett 9:375-82. 2006..Further, the large variation in MVP across species is unrelated to (or at least dwarfed by) the anthropogenic threats that drive the global biodiversity crisis by causing once-abundant species to decline...
Influence of maternal mass and condition on energy transfer in Weddell sealsKathryn E Wheatley
Antarctic Wildlife Research Unit, School of Zoology, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 05, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia
J Anim Ecol 75:724-33. 2006..These differences translate to changes in pup mass and condition at weaning with potential consequences for future survival and recruitment...
Allometric scaling of lung volume and its consequences for marine turtle diving performanceSandra Hochscheid
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale 1, 80121 Naples, Italy
Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 148:360-7. 2007..While this highlights the need to determine more parameters that affect the duration-body mass relationship, our results provide a reference point for calculating oxygen storage capacities and air volumes available for buoyancy control...
Feast or famine: evidence for mixed capital-income breeding strategies in Weddell sealsKathryn E Wheatley
Antarctic Wildlife Research Unit, School of Zoology, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 05, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia
Oecologia 155:11-20. 2008..Questions remain as to the amount of energy gain derived from the income strategy, and the consequences for pup condition and survival...
Lower reproductive success in hybrid fur seal males indicates fitness costs to hybridizationMelanie L Lancaster
Zoology Department, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia
Mol Ecol 16:3187-97. 2007....
Dangers of sensationalizing conservation biologyCorey J A Bradshaw
Conserv Biol 21:570-1. 2007
Vertical stratification of fatty acids in the blubber of southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina): implications for diet analysisNarelle J Best
Antarctic Wildlife Research Unit, School of Zoology, University of Tasmania, GPO Box 252-05, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia
Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 134:253-63. 2003..This can be achieved in animals such as pinnipeds where the whole blubber layer can be readily sampled...
