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Andrew G. Hirst is affiliated with the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. Their research spans primarily Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Oceanography, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their scholarly work concentrates on several main topics, including:

  • Physiological and biochemical adaptations
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Bat biology and ecology studies
  • Fish ecology and management studies
  • Isotope analysis in ecology
  • Animal behavior and reproduction
  • Marine biology and ecology research

Andrew G. Hirst has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed publications. Their recent papers include:

  • "Shrinking body sizes in response to warming: explanations for the temperature-size rule with special emphasis on the role of oxygen" (2020), published in Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • "Increasing nutrient stress reduces the efficiency of energy transfer through planktonic size spectra" (2020), published in Limnology and Oceanography
  • "Selection for increased male size predicts variation in sexual size dimorphism among fish species" (2020), published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "A new framework for growth curve fitting based on the von Bertalanffy Growth Function" (2020), published in Scientific Reports
  • "Body size and shape responses to warming and resource competition" (2021), published in Functional Ecology

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • Functional Ecology
  • Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Scientific Reports

Andrew G. Hirst has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, notably:

  • David Atkinson
  • Angus Atkinson
  • Wilco C. E. P. Verberk
  • Curtis R. Horne
  • Andrea J. McEvoy

Best Publications

  • Warming-induced reductions in body size are greater in aquatic than terrestrial species.

    Jack Forster;Andrew G. Hirst;David Atkinson

  • Spatial and temporal operation of the Scotia Sea ecosystem: a review of large-scale links in a krill centred food web.

    E.J Murphy;J.L Watkins;P.N Trathan;K Reid

  • Growth of marine planktonic copepods: Global rates and patterns in relation to chlorophyll a, temperature, and body weight

    A. G. Hirst;A. J. Bunker

  • Mortality of marine planktonic copepods: global rates and patterns

    A.G. Hirst;Thomas Kiørboe

  • Shrinking body sizes in response to warming: explanations for the temperature-size rule with special emphasis on the role of oxygen.

    Wilco C.E.P. Verberk;David Atkinson;K. Natan Hoefnagel;K. Natan Hoefnagel;Andrew G. Hirst;Andrew G. Hirst

  • Temperature‐size responses match latitudinal‐size clines in arthropods, revealing critical differences between aquatic and terrestrial species

    Curtis R. Horne;Andrew. G. Hirst;Andrew. G. Hirst;David Atkinson

  • Natural growth rates in Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba): II. Predictive models based on food, temperature, body length, sex, and maturity stage

    Angus Atkinson;Rachael S. Shreeve;Andrew G. Hirst;Peter Rothery

  • Biogeochemical fluxes through mesozooplankton

    Erik Buitenhuis;Erik Buitenhuis;Corinne Le Quéré;Corinne Le Quéré;Olivier Aumont;Grégory Beaugrand

  • Towards a global model of in situ weight-specific growth in marine planktonic copepods

    A. G. Hirst;R. S. Lampitt

  • An overview of Calanus helgolandicus ecology in European waters

    Delphine Bonnet;Anthony Richardson;Roger Harris;Andrew Hirst

  • Shifts in mass scaling of respiration, feeding, and growth rates across life-form transitions in marine pelagic organisms.

    Thomas Kiørboe;Andrew G. Hirst

  • The temperature‐size rule emerges from ontogenetic differences between growth and development rates

    Jack Forster;Andrew G. Hirst

  • Growth and development rates have different thermal responses.

    Jack Forster;Andrew G. Hirst;Guy Woodward

  • Role of zooplankton dynamics for Southern Ocean phytoplankton biomass and global biogeochemical cycles

    Corinne Le Quéré;Erik T. Buitenhuis;Róisín Moriarty;Séverine Alvain

  • Fecundity of marine planktonic copepods: global rates and patterns in relation to chlorophyll a, temperature and body weight

    A. J. Bunker;A. G. Hirst

  • Are in situ weight-specific growth rates body-size independent in marine planktonic copepods? A re-analysis of the global syntheses and a new empirical model

    Hirst Ag;Sheader M

  • Pelagic production at the Celtic Sea shelf break

    Ian Joint;Roland Wollast;Lei Chou;Sonia Batten

  • A synthesis of growth rates in marine epipelagic invertebrate zooplankton.

    A.G. Hirst;J.C. Roff;R.S. Lampitt

  • Body shape shifting during growth permits tests that distinguish between competing geometric theories of metabolic scaling.

    Andrew G. Hirst;Andrew G. Hirst;Douglas S. Glazier;David Atkinson

  • Does predation controls adult sex ratios and longevities in marine pelagic copepods

    A.G. Hirst;D. Bonnet;D.V.P. Conway;Thomas Kiørboe

  • Natural growth rates in Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba): I. Improving methodology and predicting intermolt period

    Geraint A. Tarling;Rachael S. Shreeve;Andrew G. Hirst;Angus Atkinson

Frequent Co-Authors

David Atkinson
David Atkinson University of Liverpool
Thomas Kiørboe
Thomas Kiørboe Technical University of Denmark
Angus Atkinson
Angus Atkinson Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Roger P. Harris
Roger P. Harris Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Peter Ward
Peter Ward University of Washington
Douglas S. Glazier
Douglas S. Glazier Juniata College
Richard S. Lampitt
Richard S. Lampitt National Oceanography Centre
Geraint A. Tarling
Geraint A. Tarling British Antarctic Survey
Erik T. Buitenhuis
Erik T. Buitenhuis University of East Anglia
Corinne Le Quéré
Corinne Le Quéré University of East Anglia

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