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List of works by Richard A. Phillips

A White-capped Albatross, Thalassarche [cauta] steadi, at South Georgia: first confirmed record in the south-western Atlantic

A carryover effect of migration underlies individual variation in reproductive readiness and extreme egg size dimorphism in macaroni penguins

scientific article published in September 2010

A dispersive migration in the Atlantic Puffin and its implications for migratory navigation

scientific article

A probabilistic algorithm to process geolocation data

scientific article

A review of methods used to analyse albatross diets—assessing priorities across their range

scientific article published in 2016

Accumulate or eliminate? Seasonal mercury dynamics in albatrosses, the most contaminated family of birds

article published in 2018

Acoustic detection of manatee vocalizations

scientific article published in September 2003

Activity patterns of wintering Great SkuasStercorarius skua

article

Additive Traits Lead to Feeding Advantage and Reproductive Isolation, Promoting Homoploid Hybrid Speciation

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Additive effects of climate and fisheries drive ongoing declines in multiple albatross species.

scientific article

Age-related variation in foraging behaviour in the wandering albatross at South Georgia: no evidence for senescence

scientific article

Age-related variation in non-breeding foraging behaviour and carry-over effects on fitness in an extremely long-lived bird

scientific article published in 2018

Age-related variation in reproductive traits in the wandering albatross: evidence for terminal improvement following senescence.

scientific article

Albatrosses and petrels at South Georgia as sentinels of marine debris input from vessels in the southwest Atlantic Ocean

scientific article published on 09 January 2020

Albatrosses following fishing vessels: how badly hooked are they on an easy meal?

scientific article (publication date: 2011)

Analysis of stable isotope ratios in blood of tracked wandering albatrosses fails to distinguish a δ(13) C gradient within their winter foraging areas in the southwest Atlantic Ocean

scientific article published on December 2015

Annual Variation in Great Skua Diets: The Importance of Commercial Fisheries and Predation on Seabirds Revealed by Combining Dietary Analyses

article by Stuart Bearhop et al published 2001 in The Condor

Arctic TernsSterna paradisaeafrom the Netherlands Migrate Record Distances Across Three Oceans to Wilkes Land, East Antarctica

scholarly article by Richard A. Phillips published in 2013

Assessing the structure and temporal dynamics of seabird communities: the challenge of capturing marine ecosystem complexity.

scientific article published on 6 October 2015

Biologging, remotely-sensed oceanography and the continuous plankton recorder reveal the environmental determinants of a seabird wintering hotspot

scientific article

Breaking the routine: individual Cory's shearwaters shift winter destinations between hemispheres and across ocean basins.

scientific article published on 24 November 2010

Breeding-site vagrancy and hybridization in albatrosses

scientific article published in 2018

Brood-guarding duration in black-browed albatrosses Thalassarche melanophris: temporal, geographical and individual variation

Bycatch of great albatrosses in pelagic longline fisheries in the southwest Atlantic: Contributing factors and implications for management

article by Sebastián Jiménez et al published March 2014 in Biological Conservation

Carry-over effects from breeding modulate the annual cycle of a long-distance migrant: an experimental demonstration.

scientific article published in June 2013

Cephalopods in the diet of nonbreeding black-browed and grey-headed albatrosses from South Georgia

article by Pedro M. Alvito et al published 7 December 2014 in Polar Biology

Changes in fisheries discard rates and seabird communities

scientific article published in February 2004

Changing measurements or changing movements? Sampling scale and movement model identifiability across generations of biologging technology

scientific article published on 3 October 2017

Colony attendance and at-sea distribution of thin-billed prions during the early breeding season

Comment on "Marine plastic debris emits a keystone infochemical for olfactory foraging seabirds" by Savoca et al.

scientific article published on 28 June 2017

Comparative population genomics reveals key barriers to dispersal in Southern Ocean penguins

scientific article published on 22 November 2018

Comparison of methods for determining key marine areas from tracking data

article

Contemporary and historical separation of transequatorial migration between genetically distinct seabird populations.

scientific article published in January 2011

Contrasting drivers of reproductive ageing in albatrosses

scientific article published on 12 June 2017

Contrasting responses of male and female foraging effort to year-round wind conditions

scientific article

Correction to: High-coverage genomes to elucidate the evolution of penguins

scientific article published on 1 March 2020

Corticosterone mediated costs of reproduction link current to future breeding.

scientific article

Corticosterone predicts foraging behavior and parental care in macaroni penguins.

scientific article published on 24 May 2012

Determination of West Indian manatee vocalization levels and rate

scientific article published in January 2004

Differences in metabolic costs of terrestrial mobility in two closely related species of albatross

scientific article published on 01 August 2007

Differences in the timing and extent of annual moult of black-browed albatrosses Thalassarche melanophris living in contrasting environments

Different means to the same end: long-distance migrant seabirds from two colonies differ in behaviour, despite common wintering grounds

scientific article

Divergent foraging strategies during incubation of an unusually wide-ranging seabird, the Murphy’s petrel

scientific article published on 15 December 2018

Diving capabilities of diving petrels

article published in 2014

Does genetic structure reflect differences in non-breeding movements? A case study in small, highly mobile seabirds

scientific article

Dynamics of seasonal movements by a trans-Pacific migrant, the Westland Petrel

scientific article published in February 2011

Ecological segregation in space, time and trophic niche of sympatric planktivorous petrels

scientific article

Effects of age on foraging behavior in two closely related albatross species

scientific article published on 07 February 2020

Either taking it easy or feeling too tired: old Cory’s Shearwaters display reduced activity levels while at sea

article by Paulo Catry et al published 30 November 2010 in Journal of Ornithology

Evidence of pathogen-induced immunogenetic selection across the large geographic range of a wild seabird

scientific article published on 25 February 2020

Evolutionary factors affecting the cross-species utility of newly developed microsatellite markers in seabirds

scientific article published on 16 January 2015

Extreme variation in migration strategies between and within wandering albatross populations during their sabbatical year, and their fitness consequences

scientific article

Factors affecting the solution of a parental dilemma in albatrosses: at what age should chicks be left unattended?

Flexibility in foraging strategies of Brown Skuas in response to local and seasonal dietary constraints

Flight Morphology and Foraging Behavior of Male and Female Cory's Shearwaters

scientific article published in 2009

Flight speed and performance of the wandering albatross with respect to wind.

scientific article published on 7 March 2018

Foraging behaviour and habitat use by brown skuas Stercorarius lonnbergi breeding at South Georgia

scientific article published in 2014

Foraging responses of black-legged kittiwakes to prolonged food-shortages around colonies on the Bering Sea shelf

scientific article

Framework for mapping key areas for marine megafauna to inform Marine Spatial Planning: The Falkland Islands case study

scientific article

Genetic population structure of black-browed and Campbell albatrosses, and implications for assigning provenance of birds killed in fisheries

article by Theresa M. Burg et al published 16 March 2017 in Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Genomics detects population structure within and between ocean basins in a circumpolar seabird: The white-chinned petrel

scientific article published on 21 October 2019

Global circumnavigations: tracking year-round ranges of nonbreeding albatrosses

scientific article

Global patterns of sex- and age-specific variation in seabird bycatch

Global phenological insensitivity to shifting ocean temperatures among seabirds

Global spatial ecology of three closely-related gadfly petrels

scientific article

Habitat-mediated population limitation in a colonial central-place forager: the sky is not the limit for the black-browed albatross.

scientific article published on 15 January 2014

High occurrence of jellyfish predation by black-browed and Campbell albatross identified by DNA metabarcoding.

scientific article published on 22 July 2017

High-coverage genomes to elucidate the evolution of penguins

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Hybridization and back-crossing in giant petrels (Macronectes giganteus and M. halli) at Bird Island, South Georgia, and a summary of hybridization in seabirds

scientific article

Identifying predictable foraging habitats for a wide-ranging marine predator using ensemble ecological niche models

scientific article published in 2015

Individual winter movement strategies in two species of murre (Uria spp.) in the Northwest Atlantic.

scientific article

Inter-breeding movements of little auks Alle alle reveal a key post-breeding staging area in the Greenland Sea

scholarly article by Anders Mosbech et al published 18 August 2011 in Polar Biology

Introduced species and extreme weather as key drivers of reproductive output in three sympatric albatrosses

scientific article published on 18 May 2020

Key Questions in Marine Megafauna Movement Ecology.

scientific article published on 12 March 2016

Leapfrog migration and habitat preferences of a small oceanic seabird, Bulwer's petrel (Bulweria bulwerii)

Life span and reproductive cost explain interspecific variation in the optimal onset of reproduction

scientific article published on 13 January 2016

Long-term changes in habitat and trophic level of Southern Ocean squid in relation to environmental conditions

scientific article published on 16 September 2020

Long-term changes in population size, distribution and productivity of skuas (Stercorarius spp.) at Signy Island, South Orkney Islands

Marine debris ingestion by albatrosses in the southwest Atlantic Ocean

scientific article published on 16 May 2015

Mercury exposure in an endangered seabird: long-term changes and relationships with trophic ecology and breeding success

scientific article published on 23 December 2020

Migration routes and non-breeding areas of Common Terns (Sterna hirundo) from the Azores

Migratory carryover effects and endocrinological correlates of reproductive decisions and reproductive success in female albatrosses.

scientific article published on 20 January 2012

Multicolony tracking reveals potential threats to little auks wintering in the North Atlantic from marine pollution and shrinking sea ice cover

article

Multicolony tracking reveals the winter distribution of a pelagic seabird on an ocean basin scale

article

Mysterious attendance cycles in Cory's shearwater, Calonectris diomedea: an exploration of patterns and hypotheses

No evidence for fitness signatures consistent with increasing trophic mismatch over 30 years in a population of European shag Phalacrocorax aristotelis

scientific article published on 18 October 2020

Nocturnal foraging by great skuas Stercorarius skua: implications for conservation of storm-petrel populations

article

Nonbreeding distribution of flesh-footed shearwaters and the potential for overlap with north Pacific fisheries

article by Tim A. Reid et al published October 2013 in Biological Conservation

Ocean-scale variation in migration schedules of a long-distance migratory seabird is fully compensated upon return to the breeding site

Origin, age, sex and breeding status of wandering albatrosses (Diomedea exulans), northern (Macronectes halli) and southern giant petrels (Macronectes giganteus) attending demersal longliners in Falkland Islands and Scotia Ridge waters, 2001–2005

Pelagic distribution of Gould’s Petrel (Pterodroma leucoptera): linking shipboard and onshore observations with remote-tracking data

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Phylogeography of the southern skua complex-rapid colonization of the southern hemisphere during a glacial period and reticulate evolution

scientific article published on 30 July 2008

Poor transferability of species distribution models for a pelagic predator, the grey petrel, indicates contrasting habitat preferences across ocean basins

scientific article

Postmigratory body condition and ovarian steroid production predict breeding decisions by female gray-headed albatrosses

scientific article published on 31 October 2013

Predictive ethoinformatics reveals the complex migratory behaviour of a pelagic seabird, the Manx Shearwater

scientific article published on May 2013

Protein Deimination and Extracellular Vesicle Profiles in Antarctic Seabirds

scientific article published on 08 January 2020

Proximate drivers of spatial segregation in non-breeding albatrosses

scientific article published on 21 July 2016

Quantifying variation in δ (13)C and δ (15)N isotopes within and between feathers and individuals: Is one sample enough?

scientific article

Revisiting Lévy flight search patterns of wandering albatrosses, bumblebees and deer.

scientific article

SUSTAINED FAST TRAVEL BY A GRAY-HEADED ALBATROSS (THALASSARCHE CHRYSOSTOMA) RIDING AN ANTARCTIC STORM

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Seabird diversity hotspot linked to ocean productivity in the Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem

scientific article

Seasonal interactions in the black-legged kittiwake, Rissa tridactyla: links between breeding performance and winter distribution

scientific article published on 5 January 2011

Seasonal patterns of prolactin and corticosterone secretion in an Antarctic seabird that moults during reproduction

scientific article published on 15 October 2011

Seasonal sexual segregation by monomorphic Sooty Shearwaters Puffinus griseus reflects different reproductive roles during the pre-laying period

scientific article published on 09 January 2014

Senescence effects in an extremely long-lived bird: the grey-headed albatross Thalassarche chrysostoma.

scientific article published in July 2006

Sex-specific effects of fisheries and climate on the demography of sexually dimorphic seabirds

scientific article published on 11 June 2019

Sex-specific effects of wind on the flight decisions of a sexually dimorphic soaring bird

scientific article published on 19 June 2020

Sexual segregation in birds: patterns, processes and implications for conservation

Sexual segregation in distribution, diet and trophic level of seabirds: insights from stable isotope analysis

article

Sexual segregation in timing of foraging by imperial shags (Phalacrocorax atriceps): is it always ladies first?

scientific article published in 2013

Short- and long-term consistency in the foraging niche of wandering albatrosses

scientific article published in 2012

So far, so good… Similar fitness consequences and overall energetic costs for short and long-distance migrants in a seabird

scientific article published on 16 March 2020

Spatial distribution and ecological niches of non-breeding planktivorous petrels

scientific article published on 13 July 2015

Spatial scales of marine conservation management for breeding seabirds

Species versus guild level differentiation revealed across the annual cycle by isotopic niche examination.

scientific article published on 11 November 2013

Stable isotope evidence of diverse species-specific and individual wintering strategies in seabirds

scientific article (publication date: 22 June 2006)

Stable isotopes reveal individual variation in migration strategies and habitat preferences in a suite of seabirds during the nonbreeding period.

scientific article

Status and distribution of wandering, black-browed and grey-headed albatrosses breeding at South Georgia

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Surface temperatures of albatross eggs and nests

Telomere length measurement by qPCR in birds is affected by storage method of blood samples.

scientific article

The breeding cycle, year-round distribution and activity patterns of the endangered Chatham Petrel (Pterodroma axillaris)

scholarly article

The retrospective analysis of Antarctic tracking data project

scientific article published on 18 March 2020

Theoretical detection ranges for acoustic based manatee avoidance technology

scientific article published in July 2006

Threats to seabirds: A global assessment

scientific article published in September 2019

Tracking of Arctic terns Sterna paradisaea reveals longest animal migration

scientific article

Tracking of marine predators to protect Southern Ocean ecosystems

scientific article published on 18 March 2020

Trans-equatorial migration routes, staging sites and wintering areas of a high-Arctic avian predator: the long-tailed Skua (Stercorarius longicaudus)

scientific article

Transatlantic migration by post-breeding puffins: a strategy to exploit a temporarily abundant food resource?

article published in 2013

Translating Marine Animal Tracking Data into Conservation Policy and Management

scientific article published on 14 March 2019

Using super-high resolution satellite imagery to census threatened albatrosses

scientific article published in 2017

Year-round distribution suggests spatial segregation of two small petrel species in the South Atlantic

article published in 2012