Paul M Thompson

Summary

Affiliation: University of Aberdeen
Country: UK

Publications

  1. ncbi Prevalence and intensity of the ectoparasite Echinophthirius horridus on harbour seals (Phoca vitulina): effects of host age and inter-annual variability in host food availability
    P M Thompson
    University of Aberdeen, Department of Zoology, Cromarty, Ross Shire, UK
    Parasitology 117:393-403. 1998
  2. ncbi Developing water quality standards for coastal dolphins
    Paul 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
  3. ncbi Assessing the responses of coastal cetaceans to the construction of offshore wind turbines
    Paul 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
  4. ncbi Lagged effects of ocean climate change on fulmar population dynamics
    P M Thompson
    University of Aberdeen, Department of Zoology, Lighthouse Field Station, Cromarty, Ross shire IV11 8YJ, UK
    Nature 413:417-20. 2001
  5. ncbi Assessing underwater noise levels during pile-driving at an offshore windfarm and its potential effects on marine mammals
    Helen 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
  6. ncbi Quantifying the influence of sociality on population structure in bottlenose dolphins
    David 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
  7. ncbi Functional and aggregative responses of harbour seals to changes in salmonid abundance
    Stuart 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
  8. ncbi Patterns in the vocalizations of male harbor seals
    Sofie M Van Parijs
    Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø N 9296, Norway
    J Acoust Soc Am 113:3403-10. 2003
  9. ncbi Lessons from community based management of floodplain fisheries in Bangladesh
    Paul M Thompson
    WorldFish Center, House 22B, Road 7 Block F, Banani, Dhaka 1213, Bangladesh
    J Environ Manage 69:307-21. 2003
  10. ncbi Adaptive elastic segmentation of brain MRI via shape-model-guided evolutionary programming
    Alain 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

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Publications12

  1. ncbi Prevalence and intensity of the ectoparasite Echinophthirius horridus on harbour seals (Phoca vitulina): effects of host age and inter-annual variability in host food availability
    P 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...
  2. ncbi Developing water quality standards for coastal dolphins
    Paul 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
    ....
  3. ncbi Assessing the responses of coastal cetaceans to the construction of offshore wind turbines
    Paul 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...
  4. ncbi Lagged effects of ocean climate change on fulmar population dynamics
    P 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...
  5. ncbi Assessing underwater noise levels during pile-driving at an offshore windfarm and its potential effects on marine mammals
    Helen 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...
  6. ncbi Quantifying the influence of sociality on population structure in bottlenose dolphins
    David 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...
  7. ncbi Functional and aggregative responses of harbour seals to changes in salmonid abundance
    Stuart 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...
  8. ncbi Patterns in the vocalizations of male harbor seals
    Sofie 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...
  9. ncbi Lessons from community based management of floodplain fisheries in Bangladesh
    Paul M Thompson
    WorldFish Center, House 22B, Road 7 Block F, Banani, Dhaka 1213, Bangladesh
    J Environ Manage 69:307-21. 2003
    ....
  10. ncbi Adaptive elastic segmentation of brain MRI via shape-model-guided evolutionary programming
    Alain 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...
  11. ncbi Temporal and spatial variation in age-specific survival rates of a long-lived mammal, the Hawaiian monk seal
    Jason 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...
  12. ncbi Optimization of brain conformal mapping with landmarks
    Yalin 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...