List of works - Peter G. Ryan

A global assessment of the impact of fisheries-related mortality on shy and white-capped albatrosses: Conservation implications

article by G. Barry Baker et al published July 2007 in Biological Conservation

A junk-food hypothesis for gannets feeding on fishery waste

scientific article published on 01 May 2008

A non-invasive approach to estimate the energetic requirements of an increasing seabird population in a perturbed marine ecosystem. ⬇️

scientific article

A simple technique for counting marine debris at sea reveals steep litter gradients between the Straits of Malacca and the Bay of Bengal ⬇️

scientific article published on February 14, 2013

A trawl survey of seafloor macrolitter on the South African continental shelf

scientific article published on 28 November 2019

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

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

African Black Oystercatchers feeding in a terrestrial habitat

African endemics span the tree of songbirds (Passeri): molecular systematics of several evolutionary 'enigmas' ⬇️

scientific article

African penguins (Spheniscus demersus) can detect dimethyl sulphide, a prey-related odour.

scientific article published in October 2008

Ancestral polymorphism at the major histocompatibility complex (MHCIIß) in the Nesospiza bunting species complex and its sister species (Rowettia goughensis).

scientific article

Antarctica’s ecological isolation will be broken by storm-driven dispersal and warming

article

Anthropogenic debris in the nests of kelp gulls in South Africa.

scientific article published on 27 October 2016

Between air and water: the plunge dive of the Cape Gannet Morus capensis

scientific article published in 2003

Biofouling on buoyant marine plastics: An experimental study into the effect of size on surface longevity

scientific article published on 21 January 2016

Blue Petrels Halobaena caerulea discovered breeding on Gough Island

article published in 2015

Can predation by invasive mice drive seabird extinctions? ⬇️

scientific article

Changes in population size, habitat use and breedingbiology of lesser sheathbills (Chionis minor) at Marion Island: impacts of cats, mice and climate change?

article

Clinical Pathology of the Vulnerable Gough Moorhen (Gallinula comeri).

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 28 June 2017

Confidence intervals and sample size for estimating the prevalence of plastic debris in seabird nests

scientific article published on 20 March 2020

Conservation. Challenges to the future conservation of the Antarctic

scientific article

Consistent patterns of debris on South African beaches indicate that industrial pellets and other mesoplastic items mostly derive from local sources

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 1 March 2020

Cranes and Crops: Investigating Farmer Tolerances toward Crop Damage by Threatened Blue Cranes (Anthropoides paradiseus) in the Western Cape, South Africa.

scientific article published on 29 September 2016

Dazzled by the light: the impact of light pollution from ships on seabirds at Tristan da Cunha

scientific article published on 20 October 2021

Debris size and buoyancy influence the dispersal distance of stranded litter

scientific article

Decadal changes in plastic litter regurgitated by albatrosses and giant petrels at sub-Antarctic Marion Island

scientific article published on 25 July 2020

Defining ecologically relevant scales for spatial protection with long-term data on an endangered seabird and local prey availability.

scientific article

Defining ecologically-relevant scales for spatial protection using long-term data on an endangered seabird and local prey availability

Demographic history of a recent invasion of house mice on the isolated Island of Gough ⬇️

scientific article

Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics

scientific article published on 11 November 2020

Diving in shallow water: the foraging ecology of darters (Aves: Anhingidae)

article by Peter G. Ryan published July 2007 in Journal of Avian Biology

Diving of great shearwaters (Puffinus gravis) in cold and warm water regions of the South Atlantic Ocean

scientific article

Do humans spread zoonotic enteric bacteria in Antarctica?

scientific article published on 23 October 2018

Does size and buoyancy affect the long-distance transport of floating debris?

scientific article published in August 2015

Drivers of predatory behavior and extreme size in house mice Mus musculus on Gough Island

article by Richard J. Cuthbert et al published 28 February 2016 in Journal of Mammalogy

Ecological speciation in South Atlantic island finches.

scientific article published in March 2007

Effects of mouse predation on burrowing petrel chicks at Gough Island

Entanglement of birds in plastics and other synthetic materials

scientific article published on 11 July 2018

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

scientific article published on 16 January 2015

Exploring South Africa’s southern frontier: A 20-year vision for polar research through the South African National Antarctic Programme

scholarly article by Isabelle J. Ansorge et al published 30 May 2017 in South African Journal of Science

Feather mercury concentrations in Southern Ocean seabirds: Variation by species, site and time.

scientific article

Floating macro- and microplastics around the Southern Ocean: Results from the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition

scientific article published on 27 January 2020

Focus on plastics from land to aquatic ecosystems

scientific article published in 2023

Foraging ecology and ecophysiology of Cape gannets from colonies in contrasting feeding environments

article

Foraging in a dynamic environment: Response of four sympatric sub-Antarctic albatross species to interannual environmental variability

scientific article published on 21 September 2020

Foraging movements of breeding Kelp Gulls in South Africa

scientific article published on 03 September 2020

Foraging plasticity in seabirds: A non-invasive study of the diet of greater crested terns breeding in the Benguela region

scientific article published on 31 January 2018

From both sides: Dire demographic consequences of carnivorous mice and longlining for the Critically Endangered Tristan albatrosses on Gough Island

article

Fungal Planet description sheets: 128-153 ⬇️

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 assessment of marine plastic exposure risk for oceanic birds

Global phenological insensitivity to shifting ocean temperatures among seabirds

Globally important islands where eradicating invasive mammals will benefit highly threatened vertebrates ⬇️

article

Group foraging in Socotra cormorants: A biologging approach to the study of a complex behavior

scientific article published on 26 February 2017

Habitat modelling of tracking data from multiple marine predators identifies important areas in the Southern Indian Ocean

scientific article published in 2018

High-coverage genomes to elucidate the evolution of penguins

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

How quickly do albatrosses and petrels digest plastic particles?

scientific article published on 15 August 2015

Human activities, propagule pressure and alien plants in the sub-Antarctic: Tests of generalities and evidence in support of management

article

Identification of animal movement patterns using tri-axial magnetometry.

scientific article

Impacts of plastic ingestion on post-hatchling loggerhead turtles off South Africa.

scientific article published on 14 April 2016

Ingestion of plastic litter by the sandy anemone Bunodactis reynaudi

scientific article published on 29 August 2020

Land or sea? What bottles tell us about the origins of beach litter in Kenya

scientific article published on 09 August 2020

Latitudinal exposure to DDTs, HCB, PCBs, PBDEs and DP in giant petrels (Macronectes spp.) across the Southern Ocean.

scientific article published on 15 April 2016

Limited long-distance transport of plastic pollution by the Orange-Vaal River system, South Africa

scientific article published on 13 April 2020

Litter survey detects the South Atlantic 'garbage patch'.

scientific article published on 18 December 2013

Long-term decreases in persistent organic pollutants in South African coastal waters detected from beached polyethylene pellets

scientific article published on 12 October 2012

Low densities of drifting litter in the African sector of the Southern Ocean

scientific article

Low densities of macroplastic debris in the Pitcairn Islands Marine Reserve

scientific article published on 12 June 2020

Marine litter keeps increasing

scientific article published in Nature

Massive decline of the world’s largest king penguin colony at Ile aux Cochons, Crozet

scholarly article by Henri Weimerskirch published in July 2018

Micro-plastic ingestion by waterbirds from contaminated wetlands in South Africa

scientific article published on 22 December 2017

Microfibers in oceanic surface waters: A global characterization

scientific article published on 05 June 2020

Microplastic study reveals the presence of natural and synthetic fibres in the diet of King Penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) foraging from South Georgia

scientific article published on 11 November 2019

Mitogenomes uncover extinct penguin taxa and reveal island formation as a key driver of speciation ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Molecular characterization and lesions associated with Diomedenema diomedeae (Aproctoidea: Desmidocercidae) from grey-headed albatrosses (Thalassarche chrysostoma) on Subantarctic Marion Island.

scientific article published on 12 April 2018

Monitoring the abundance of plastic debris in the marine environment

scientific article

Moult of Flight Feathers in Darters (Anhingidae)

article

Mouse eradication is required to prevent local extinction of an endangered seabird on an oceanic island

scientific article published on 17 February 2021

Multilocus phylogeny of the avian family Alaudidae (larks) reveals complex morphological evolution, non-monophyletic genera and hidden species diversity

scientific article

Multistate Models for Estimation of Survival and Reproduction in the Grey-headed Albatross (Thalassarche chrysostoma)

article

Parenting in a warming world: thermoregulatory responses to heat stress in an endangered seabird

scientific article published on 18 January 2020

Penguins are attracted to dimethyl sulphide at sea.

scientific article

Phylogenetic affinities of the Fregetta storm-petrels are not black and white

scientific article published on 19 January 2016

Phylogeny of the microcormorants, with the description of a new genus

scientific article published in 2023

Phylogeography and taxonomy of White-chinned and Spectacled Petrels.

scientific article published on 11 April 2009

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

Population trends of albatrosses and petrels at sub-Antarctic Marion Island

scientific article (publication date: February 2002)

Prey delivery to a breeding colony of Caspian Terns <i>Hydroprogne caspia</i> on the west coast of South Africa

scientific article published on 24 February 2021

Proximate drivers of spatial segregation in non-breeding albatrosses

scientific article published on 21 July 2016

Pseudo-egg and exotic egg adoption by Kelp Gulls Larus dominicanus vetula

journal article; published in African Zoology in 2015

Quantifying changes in litter loads in urban stormwater run-off from Cape Town, South Africa, over the last two decades

scientific article published on 30 March 2020

Quantifying temporal trends in anthropogenic litter in a rocky intertidal habitat

scientific article published on 21 August 2020

Radar detectors carried by Cape gannets reveal surprisingly few fishing vessel encounters

scientific article published on 06 February 2019

Rapid increase in Asian bottles in the South Atlantic Ocean indicates major debris inputs from ships

scientific article published on 30 September 2019

Receding ice drove parallel expansions in Southern Ocean penguins

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Recreational Fish-Finders--An Inexpensive Alternative to Scientific Echo-Sounders for Unravelling the Links between Marine Top Predators and Their Prey

scientific article

Regional differences in plastic ingestion among Southern Ocean fur seals and albatrosses.

scientific article published on 28 January 2016

Sampling microfibres at the sea surface: The effects of mesh size, sample volume and water depth

scientific article published on 17 October 2019

Seabird mortality in the Patagonian toothfish longline fishery around the Prince Edward Islands, 1996–2000

article by Deon C. Nel et al published June 2002 in Antarctic Science

Seabird mortality induced by land-based artificial lights.

scientific article

Seabirds (Laridae) as a source of Campylobacter spp., Salmonella spp. and antimicrobial resistance in South Africa

scientific article published on 28 July 2017

Seabirds indicate changes in the composition of plastic litter in the Atlantic and south-western Indian Oceans

scientific article

South African research in the Southern Ocean: New opportunities but serious challenges

scholarly article by Anne M. Treasure et al published 2013 in South African Journal of Science

Spatial and Interspecies Heterogeneity in Concentrations of Perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs) in Seabirds of the Southern Ocean

scientific article published on 06 August 2019

Spatial scales of marine conservation management for breeding seabirds ⬇️

Stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen in the study of organochlorine contaminants in albatrosses and petrels

scientific article published on 22 April 2014

Taxonomic and conservation implications of ecological speciation in Nesospiza buntings on Tristan da Cunha

scientific article published in March 2008

The Tristan ThrushNesocichla eremitaas Seabird Predator

The conservation status of the spectacled petrel Procellaria conspicillata

The effect of fine-scale sampling frequency on estimates of beach litter accumulation

scientific article published on 16 September 2014

The effect of flipper banding on the breeding success of African Penguins Spheniscus demersus at Boulders Beach, South Africa

article

The impacts of introduced House Mice on the breeding success of nesting seabirds on Gough Island

article by Anthony Caravaggi et al published 22 October 2018 in Ibis

The occurrence of two bill morphs of prions Pachyptila vittata on Gough Island

The origin of finches on Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island, central South Atlantic ocean.

scientific article published on 07 June 2013

The origin of the world's smallest flightless bird, the Inaccessible Island Rail Atlantisia rogersi (Aves: Rallidae)

The origin of the world’s smallest flightless bird, the Inaccessible Island Rail Atlantisia rogersi (Aves: Rallidae)

scholarly article by Martin Stervander published in January 2019

The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris

scientific article published in 2020

The retrospective analysis of Antarctic tracking data project

scientific article published on 18 March 2020

The role of eddies in the diving behaviour of female southern elephant seals

article published in 2015

Tracking of marine predators to protect Southern Ocean ecosystems

scientific article published on 18 March 2020

Trends and tactics of mouse predation on Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena chicks at Gough Island, South Atlantic Ocean

article published in 2015

Understanding the mechanisms of antitropical divergence in the seabird White-faced Storm-petrel (Procellariiformes: Pelagodroma marina) using a multilocus approach

scientific article published on 5 June 2015

Underwater wingbeats extend depth and duration of plunge dives in northern gannetsMorus bassanus

Using behavioural and state variables to identify proximate causes of population change in a seabird

scientific article published on 02 December 2005

Using measurements to predict laying order in harvested Northern Rockhopper Penguin (Eudyptes moseleyi) eggs

Using photographs to record plastic in seabird nests

scientific article published on 17 May 2020

List of works by Peter G. Ryan

A global assessment of the impact of fisheries-related mortality on shy and white-capped albatrosses: Conservation implications

A junk-food hypothesis for gannets feeding on fishery waste

A non-invasive approach to estimate the energetic requirements of an increasing seabird population in a perturbed marine ecosystem. ⬇️

A simple technique for counting marine debris at sea reveals steep litter gradients between the Straits of Malacca and the Bay of Bengal ⬇️

A trawl survey of seafloor macrolitter on the South African continental shelf

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

African Black Oystercatchers feeding in a terrestrial habitat

African endemics span the tree of songbirds (Passeri): molecular systematics of several evolutionary 'enigmas' ⬇️

African penguins (Spheniscus demersus) can detect dimethyl sulphide, a prey-related odour.

Ancestral polymorphism at the major histocompatibility complex (MHCIIß) in the Nesospiza bunting species complex and its sister species (Rowettia goughensis).

Antarctica’s ecological isolation will be broken by storm-driven dispersal and warming

Anthropogenic debris in the nests of kelp gulls in South Africa.

Between air and water: the plunge dive of the Cape Gannet Morus capensis

Biofouling on buoyant marine plastics: An experimental study into the effect of size on surface longevity

Blue Petrels Halobaena caerulea discovered breeding on Gough Island

Can predation by invasive mice drive seabird extinctions? ⬇️

Changes in population size, habitat use and breedingbiology of lesser sheathbills (Chionis minor) at Marion Island: impacts of cats, mice and climate change?

Clinical Pathology of the Vulnerable Gough Moorhen (Gallinula comeri).

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

Confidence intervals and sample size for estimating the prevalence of plastic debris in seabird nests

Conservation. Challenges to the future conservation of the Antarctic

Consistent patterns of debris on South African beaches indicate that industrial pellets and other mesoplastic items mostly derive from local sources

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

Cranes and Crops: Investigating Farmer Tolerances toward Crop Damage by Threatened Blue Cranes (Anthropoides paradiseus) in the Western Cape, South Africa.

Dazzled by the light: the impact of light pollution from ships on seabirds at Tristan da Cunha

Debris size and buoyancy influence the dispersal distance of stranded litter

Decadal changes in plastic litter regurgitated by albatrosses and giant petrels at sub-Antarctic Marion Island

Defining ecologically relevant scales for spatial protection with long-term data on an endangered seabird and local prey availability.

Defining ecologically-relevant scales for spatial protection using long-term data on an endangered seabird and local prey availability

Defining ecologically-relevant scales for spatial protection using long-term data on an endangered seabird and local prey availability

Demographic history of a recent invasion of house mice on the isolated Island of Gough ⬇️

Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics

Diving in shallow water: the foraging ecology of darters (Aves: Anhingidae)

Diving of great shearwaters (Puffinus gravis) in cold and warm water regions of the South Atlantic Ocean

Do humans spread zoonotic enteric bacteria in Antarctica?

Does size and buoyancy affect the long-distance transport of floating debris?

Drivers of predatory behavior and extreme size in house mice Mus musculus on Gough Island

Ecological speciation in South Atlantic island finches.

Effects of mouse predation on burrowing petrel chicks at Gough Island

Entanglement of birds in plastics and other synthetic materials

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

Exploring South Africa’s southern frontier: A 20-year vision for polar research through the South African National Antarctic Programme

Feather mercury concentrations in Southern Ocean seabirds: Variation by species, site and time.

Floating macro- and microplastics around the Southern Ocean: Results from the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition

Focus on plastics from land to aquatic ecosystems

Foraging ecology and ecophysiology of Cape gannets from colonies in contrasting feeding environments

Foraging in a dynamic environment: Response of four sympatric sub-Antarctic albatross species to interannual environmental variability

Foraging movements of breeding Kelp Gulls in South Africa

Foraging plasticity in seabirds: A non-invasive study of the diet of greater crested terns breeding in the Benguela region

From both sides: Dire demographic consequences of carnivorous mice and longlining for the Critically Endangered Tristan albatrosses on Gough Island

Fungal Planet description sheets: 128-153 ⬇️

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

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

Global assessment of marine plastic exposure risk for oceanic birds

Global phenological insensitivity to shifting ocean temperatures among seabirds

Globally important islands where eradicating invasive mammals will benefit highly threatened vertebrates ⬇️

Group foraging in Socotra cormorants: A biologging approach to the study of a complex behavior

Habitat modelling of tracking data from multiple marine predators identifies important areas in the Southern Indian Ocean

High-coverage genomes to elucidate the evolution of penguins

How quickly do albatrosses and petrels digest plastic particles?

Human activities, propagule pressure and alien plants in the sub-Antarctic: Tests of generalities and evidence in support of management

Identification of animal movement patterns using tri-axial magnetometry.

Impacts of plastic ingestion on post-hatchling loggerhead turtles off South Africa.

Ingestion of plastic litter by the sandy anemone Bunodactis reynaudi

Land or sea? What bottles tell us about the origins of beach litter in Kenya

Latitudinal exposure to DDTs, HCB, PCBs, PBDEs and DP in giant petrels (Macronectes spp.) across the Southern Ocean.

Limited long-distance transport of plastic pollution by the Orange-Vaal River system, South Africa

Litter survey detects the South Atlantic 'garbage patch'.

Long-term decreases in persistent organic pollutants in South African coastal waters detected from beached polyethylene pellets

Low densities of drifting litter in the African sector of the Southern Ocean

Low densities of macroplastic debris in the Pitcairn Islands Marine Reserve

Marine litter keeps increasing

Massive decline of the world’s largest king penguin colony at Ile aux Cochons, Crozet

Micro-plastic ingestion by waterbirds from contaminated wetlands in South Africa

Microfibers in oceanic surface waters: A global characterization

Microplastic study reveals the presence of natural and synthetic fibres in the diet of King Penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) foraging from South Georgia

Mitogenomes uncover extinct penguin taxa and reveal island formation as a key driver of speciation ⬇️

Molecular characterization and lesions associated with Diomedenema diomedeae (Aproctoidea: Desmidocercidae) from grey-headed albatrosses (Thalassarche chrysostoma) on Subantarctic Marion Island.

Monitoring the abundance of plastic debris in the marine environment