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68
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14822
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1546
National Ranking
92

Overview

Anthony J. Gaston is affiliated with Carleton University in Canada. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Ecology, Atmospheric Science, and Global and Planetary Change. The researcher's work also connects to Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Climate variability and models
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Notable recent publications authored or coauthored by Anthony J. Gaston include:

  • "Foraging range scales with colony size in high-latitude seabirds," 2022, Current Biology
  • "Opposite, but insufficient, phenological responses to climate in two circumpolar seabirds: Relative roles of phenotypic plasticity and selection," 2022, Functional Ecology
  • "Thick-billed Murre (Uria lomvia)," 2020, Birds of the World
  • "Sea ice extent and phenology influence breeding of high-Arctic seabirds: 4 decades of monitoring in Nunavut, Canada," 2022, Oecologia
  • "Northwest range shifts and shorter wintering period of an Arctic seabird in response to four decades of changing ocean climate," 2021, Marine Ecology Progress Series

Frequent coauthors in their body of work include:

  • H. Grant Gilchrist
  • Allison Patterson
  • Kyle H. Elliott
  • Neil G. Pilgrim
  • Shannon Whelan

The researcher's publications often appear in journals and venues such as:

  • Birds of the World
  • Arctic Science
  • Marine ornithology
  • The Canadian Field-Naturalist
  • Current Biology

Best Publications

  • The Petrels: Their Ecology and Breeding Systems

    Anthony J. Gaston;J. Warham

  • The Auks: Alcidae

    D. N. Nettleship;A. J. Gaston;I. L. Jones

  • The Evolution of Group Territorial Behavior and Cooperative Breeding

    A. J. Gaston

  • Individual specialization in diet by a generalist marine predator reflects specialization in foraging behaviour

    Kerry J. Woo;Kyle Hamish Elliott;Melissa Davidson;Anthony J. Gaston;Anthony J. Gaston

  • The thick-billed murres of Prince Leopold Island

    A. J Gaston

  • Foraging Behavior and Physiological Adaptation for Diving in Thick-Billed Murres

    Donald A. Croll;Anthony J. Gaston;Alan E. Burger;Daniel Konnoff

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

    Morten Frederiksen;Børge Moe;Francis Daunt;Richard A. Phillips

  • Seabirds: A Natural History

    Anthony J. Gaston

  • Climate change, ice conditions and reproduction in an Arctic nesting marine bird: Brunnich's guillemot (Uria lomvia L.)

    Anthony J. Gaston;H. Grant Gilchrist;J. Mark Hipfner

  • High flight costs, but low dive costs, in auks support the biomechanical hypothesis for flightlessness in penguins

    Kyle H. Elliott;Robert E. Ricklefs;Anthony J. Gaston;Scott A. Hatch

  • A natural experiment on the impact of overabundant deer on songbird populations

    Sylvain Allombert;Anthony J. Gaston;Jean-Louis Martin

  • CENTRAL-PLACE FORAGING IN AN ARCTIC SEABIRD PROVIDES EVIDENCE FOR STORER-ASHMOLE'S HALO

    Kyle H. Elliott;Kerry J. Woo;Anthony J. Gaston;Silvano Benvenuti

  • Trends in Forage Fish Populations in Northern Hudson Bay since 1981, as Determined from the Diet of Nestling Thick-Billed Murres Uria lomvia

    Anthony J. Gaston;Kerry Woo;J. Mark Hipfner

  • The Effect of Age on Timing of Breeding and Reproductive Success in the Thick-Billed Murre

    Leah N. de Forest;Anthony J. Gaston

  • Top-down and bottom-up consequences of unchecked ungulate browsing on plant and animal diversity in temperate forests: lessons from a deer introduction

    Jean-Louis Martin;Jean-Louis Martin;Stephen A. Stockton;Sylvain Allombert;Anthony J. Gaston

  • Social behaviour within groups of jungle babblers (Turdoides striatus)

    A.J. Gaston

  • Seabird foraging behaviour indicates prey type

    Kyle Hamish Elliott;Kerry Woo;Anthony J. Gaston;Silvano Benvenuti

  • Changes in Canadian seabird populations and ecology since 1970 in relation to changes in oceanography and food webs

    Anthony J. GastonA.J. Gaston;Douglas F. BertramD.F. Bertram;Andrew W. BoyneA.W. Boyne;John W. ChardineJ.W. Chardine

  • Fluctuations in circumpolar seabird populations linked to climate oscillations

    David B. Irons;Tycho Anker-Nilssen;Anthony J. Gaston;G. Vernon Byrd

  • Changes in Seasonal Events, Peak Food Availability, and Consequent Breeding Adjustment in a Marine Bird: A Case of Progressive Mismatching

    Anthony J. Gaston;H. Grant Gilchrist;Mark L. Mallory;Paul A. Smith

  • Ingested plastic in a diving seabird, the thick-billed murre (Uria lomvia), in the eastern Canadian Arctic

    Jennifer F. Provencher;Anthony J. Gaston;Mark L. Mallory;Patrick D. O’hara

  • The Thick-Billed Murres of Prince Leopold Island : a study of the breeding ecology of a colonial high arctic seabird

    A. J. Gaston;David N. Nettleship

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark L. Mallory
Mark L. Mallory Acadia University
Kyle H. Elliott
Kyle H. Elliott McGill University
H. Grant Gilchrist
H. Grant Gilchrist Carleton University
Birgit M. Braune
Birgit M. Braune Carleton University
Jennifer F. Provencher
Jennifer F. Provencher Government of Canada
Jean-Louis Martin
Jean-Louis Martin Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Gregory J. Robertson
Gregory J. Robertson Environment and Climate Change Canada
William A. Montevecchi
William A. Montevecchi Memorial University of Newfoundland
Akiko Kato
Akiko Kato University of La Rochelle
Ian L. Jones
Ian L. Jones Memorial University of Newfoundland

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