Research Output per year
Personal profile
Research Interests:
My main research and teaching interests are in the ecology and conservation of marine systems, with a particular focus on marine top predators. For over twenty years, my group’s research has focused on understanding how natural and anthropogenic environmental change influences the behaviour and dynamics of marine mammals and seabirds. This work has been underpinned by the development and maintenance of long-term individual based studies of harbour seal, bottlenose dolphin and fulmar populations in the North of Scotland, with comparative studies conducted at a range of overseas sites across the North Atlantic, North Pacific and South America. A key aim of the work has been to directly support regional conservation and management programmes, and through this to develop generic understanding and best practice case studies that provide insights into marine resource management issues elsewhere in the world.
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dolphin
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Tursiops truncatus
Agriculture & Biology
harbor
Earth & Environmental Sciences
marine mammal
Earth & Environmental Sciences
porpoise
Earth & Environmental Sciences
cetacean
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Phocoena phocoena
Agriculture & Biology
pile driving
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Network
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Research Output 1991 2019
Age-length relationships in UK harbour seals during a period of population decline
Hall, A. J., Mackey, B., Kershaw, J. L. & Thompson, P., Sep 2019, In : Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 29, S1, p. 61-70 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
Phoca vitulina
population decline
harbor
coast
Scotland
Breeding status influences timing but not duration of moult in the Northern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis
Grissot, A., Graham, I. M., Quinn, L., Brathen, V. S. & Thompson, P. M., 7 Mar 2019, In : Ibis.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
molt
molting
breeding
duration
seabird
3
Citations
(Scopus)
Changing distribution of the east coast of Scotland bottlenose dolphin population and the challenges of area‐based management
Arso Civil, M., Quick, N. J., Cheney, B., Pirotta, E., Thompson, P. M. & Hammond, P. S., Sep 2019, In : Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 29, S1, p. 178-196 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Tursiops truncatus
dolphin
Scotland
estuaries
estuary
Distribution maps of cetacean and seabird populations in the North-East Atlantic
Waggitt, J. J., Evans, P. G. H., Andrade, J., Banks, A. N., Boisseau, O., Bolton, M., Bradbury, G., Brereton, T., Camphuysen, C. J., Durinck, J., Felce, T., Fijn, R. C., Garcia-Baron, I., Garthe, S., Geelhoed, S. C. V., Gilles, A., Goodhall, M., Haelters, J., Hamilton, S., Hartny-Mills, L. & 26 others, , 10 Dec 2019, In : Journal of Applied Ecology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
cetacean
seabird
animal
distribution
standardization
2
Citations
(Scopus)
4
Downloads
(Pure)
Effects of impulsive noise on marine mammals: investigating range-dependent risk
Hastie, G., Merchant, N. D., Götz, T., Russell, D. J. F., Thompson, P. & Janik, V. M., 1 Jul 2019, In : Ecological Applications. 29, 5, 10 p., e01906.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
File
marine mammal
pile driving
damage
underwater noise
hearing
Datasets
Variations in age- and sex-specific survival rates help explain population trend in a discrete marine mammal population
Arso Civil, M. (Creator), Cheney, B. (Creator), Quick, N. J. (Creator), Islas-Villanueva, V. (Creator), Graves, J. A. (Creator), Janik, V. M. (Creator), Thompson, P. (Creator), Hammond, P. S. (Creator), Dryad Digital Repository, 19 Dec 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.8qm8r4m
Dataset
Integrating passive acoustic and visual data to model spatial patterns of occurrence in coastal dolphins
Thompson, P. (Creator), Brookes, K. L. (Creator), Cordes, L. (Creator), Dryad Digital Repository, 11 Jul 2014
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.3dd4d
Dataset
Acoustic and visual data of bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops spp.) foraging vocalizations, boat presence and noise levels in the Moray Firth in 2012-2013
Pirotta, E. (Contributor), PANGAEA: Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science, 2015
Dataset
Echolocation detections and digital video surveys provide reliable estimates of the relative density of harbour porpoises
Williamson, L. D. (Creator), Kate L., B. (Creator), Scott, B. (Creator), Graham, I. (Creator), Bradbury, G. (Creator), Hammond, P. S. (Creator), Thompson, P. (Creator), Dryad Digital Repository, 26 Jan 2016
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.cf04g
Dataset
Increasing trends in fecundity and calf survival of bottlenose dolphins in a marine protected area.
Cheney, B. (Creator), Thompson, P. (Creator), Cordes, L. S. (Creator), Nature Publishing Group, 11 Feb 2019
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-38278-9#Sec7
Dataset
Prizes
Marsh Award for Marine and Freshwater Conservation
Paul Michael Thompson (Recipient), 22 Jun 2016
Prize: Awards, Medals, Prizes and Distinctions
freshwater ecosystem
marsh
freshwater conservation
science
Impacts
Impacts of offshore energy developments
Paul Thompson (Coordinator), Philip S. Hammond (Coordinator), David Lusseau (Coordinator), D L Borchers (Coordinator), Gordon Hastie (Coordinator)
Impact: Quality of life Impacts