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| Paul M ThompsonSummaryAffiliation: University of Aberdeen Country: UK Publications
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Prevalence and intensity of the ectoparasite Echinophthirius horridus on harbour seals (Phoca vitulina): effects of host age and inter-annual variability in host food availabilityP M Thompson
University of Aberdeen, Department of Zoology, Cromarty, Ross Shire, UK
Parasitology 117:393-403. 1998..Nevertheless, there was a significant negative correlation between intensity of infection and several erythrocyte parameters, suggesting that high burdens of lice may compromise diving ability...
Developing water quality standards for coastal dolphinsPaul M Thompson
University of Aberdeen, School of Biological Sciences, Lighthouse Field Station, Cromarty, Ross shire IV11 8YJ, UK
Mar Pollut Bull 54:123-7. 2007....
Assessing the responses of coastal cetaceans to the construction of offshore wind turbinesPaul M Thompson
University of Aberdeen, Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Lighthouse Field Station, Cromarty, Ross shire IV11 8YJ, UK
Mar Pollut Bull 60:1200-8. 2010..We explore alternative approaches to assessing the impact of offshore wind farm upon cetaceans, and make recommendations for the research and monitoring that will be required to underpin future developments...
Lagged effects of ocean climate change on fulmar population dynamicsP M Thompson
University of Aberdeen, Department of Zoology, Lighthouse Field Station, Cromarty, Ross shire IV11 8YJ, UK
Nature 413:417-20. 2001..These data show how interactions between different climatic factors result in complex dynamics, and that the effects of climate change may take many years to become apparent in long-lived marine top predators...
Assessing underwater noise levels during pile-driving at an offshore windfarm and its potential effects on marine mammalsHelen Bailey
University of Aberdeen, Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Lighthouse Field Station, Cromarty, Ross shire IV11 8YJ, UK
Mar Pollut Bull 60:888-97. 2010..For bottlenose dolphins, auditory injury would only have occurred within 100m of the pile-driving and behavioural disturbance, defined as modifications in behaviour, could have occurred up to 50km away...
Quantifying the influence of sociality on population structure in bottlenose dolphinsDavid Lusseau
Lighthouse Field Station, School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, George St, Cromarty, Ross Shire, IV118YJ, UK
J Anim Ecol 75:14-24. 2006..These findings highlight how network analyses can be used to detect and understand the forces driving social organization of bottlenose dolphins and other social species...
Functional and aggregative responses of harbour seals to changes in salmonid abundanceStuart J Middlemas
Lighthouse Field Station, School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Cromarty, Ross shire IV11 8YJ, UK
Proc Biol Sci 273:193-8. 2006..These studies provide empirical support for the use of type 3 response in modelling studies...
Patterns in the vocalizations of male harbor sealsSofie M Van Parijs
Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø N 9296, Norway
J Acoust Soc Am 113:3403-10. 2003..Combined, these factors suggest that site-specific variation influences the development of vocal structure in harbor seals and these factors may provide evidence for the occurrence of vocal dialects...
Lessons from community based management of floodplain fisheries in BangladeshPaul M Thompson
WorldFish Center, House 22B, Road 7 Block F, Banani, Dhaka 1213, Bangladesh
J Environ Manage 69:307-21. 2003....
Adaptive elastic segmentation of brain MRI via shape-model-guided evolutionary programmingAlain Pitiot
Reed Neurological Research Center, Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1769, USA
IEEE Trans Med Imaging 21:910-23. 2002..We focus on understanding the features of template matching that are most beneficial in terms of the achieved match. Examples from simulated and real image data are discussed, with considerations of algorithmic efficiency...
Temporal and spatial variation in age-specific survival rates of a long-lived mammal, the Hawaiian monk sealJason D Baker
Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Centre, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, Honolulu, HI 96822 2396, USA
Proc Biol Sci 274:407-15. 2007..Survival rates for different age classes tended to be positively correlated, suggesting that similar factors may influence the survival for seals of all ages...
Optimization of brain conformal mapping with landmarksYalin Wang
Mathematics Department, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv 8:675-83. 2005..We also examined how the parameterization changes with different weighting factors. As expected, the landmark matching error can be reduced if it is more heavily penalized, but conformality is progressively reduced...
