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Bradley C. Congdon

Bradley C. Congdon

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
30
Citations
2899
World Ranking
8377
National Ranking
655

Overview

Bradley C. Congdon is affiliated with James Cook University in Australia and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans various subfields including Ecology, Genetics, Oceanography, Insect Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's work primarily focuses on topics such as Marine and coastal plant biology, Mollusks and Parasites Studies, Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Marine animal studies overview, and Marine Biology and Ecology Research.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Bradley C. Congdon include:

  • Global assessment of marine plastic exposure risk for oceanic birds, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Consistent patterns of fungal communities within ant-plants across a large geographic range strongly suggest a multipartite mutualism, 2021, Mycological Progress
  • Towards Resolving the American and West African Strombidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Neostromboidae) Using Integrated Taxonomy, 2020, The Festivus
  • Trends in seabird breeding populations across the Great Barrier Reef, 2020, Conservation Biology
  • Mutualistic relationships in marine angiosperms: Enhanced germination of seeds by mega-herbivores, 2021, Biotropica

Bradley C. Congdon has collaborated frequently with several researchers including Stephen Maxwell, Tasmin L. Rymer, Sandra E. Abell-Davis, Samantha Tol, and Rob Coles.

Publications by Congdon appear in various academic venues such as The Festivus, Zootaxa, Nature Communications, Mycological Progress, and Conservation Biology.

Best Publications

  • Extrapair paternity and egg hatchability in tree swallows: evidence for the genetic compatibility hypothesis?

    Bart Kempenaers;Brad Congdon;Peter Boag;Raleigh J. Robertson

  • Intron variation in marbled murrelets detected using analyses of single‐stranded conformational polymorphisms

    V. L. Friesen;B. C. Congdon;H. E. Walsh;T. P. Birt

  • Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primers for the amplification of five nuclear introns in vertebrates.

    V. L. Friesen;B. C. Congdon;M. G. Kidd;T. P. Birt

  • Observed and predicted effects of climate on Australian seabirds

    Lynda E. Chambers;Carol A. Devney;Bradley C. Congdon;Nic Dunlop

  • MECHANISMS OF POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION IN MARBLED MURRELETS: HISTORICAL VERSUS CONTEMPORARY PROCESSES

    Bradley C. Congdon;John F. Piatt;Kathy Martin;Vicki L. Friesen

  • Global diversity and oceanic divergence of humpback whales ( Megaptera novaeangliae )

    Jennifer A. Jackson;Jennifer A. Jackson;Debbie J. Steel;P. Beerli;Bradley C. Congdon

  • Dual-foraging and co-ordinated provisioning in a tropical Procellariiform, the wedge-tailed shearwater

    Bradley C. Congdon;Andrew K. Krockenberger;Brian V. Smithers

  • Elevated sea-surface temperature, reduced provisioning and reproductive failure of wedge-tailed shearwaters (Puffinus pacificus) in the southern Great Barrier Reef, Australia

    B. V. Smithers;D. R. Peck;A. K. Krockenberger;B. C. Congdon

  • Sea surface temperature constrains wedge-tailed shearwater foraging success within breeding seasons

    Darren R. Peck;Brian V. Smithers;Andrew K. Krockenberger;Bradley C. Congdon

  • Reconciling historical processes and population structure in the sooty tern Sterna fuscata

    Darren R. Peck;Bradley C. Congdon

  • Sensitivity of tropical seabirds to El Niño precursors

    Carol A. Devney;Michael Short;Bradley C. Congdon

  • CLOSE GENETIC SIMILARITY BETWEEN TWO SYMPATRIC SPECIES OF TEPHRITID FRUIT FLY REPRODUCTIVELY ISOLATED BY MATING TIME

    Jennifer Morrow;Leon Scott;Leon Scott;Bradley Congdon;Bradley Congdon;David Yeates

  • Sex-specific chick provisioning and diving behaviour in the wedge-tailed shearwater Puffinus pacificus

    Darren R. Peck;Bradley C. Congdon

  • Geographical variation in song frequency and structure: the effects of vicariant isolation, habitat type and body size

    Anna H. Koetz;David A. Westcott;Bradley C. Congdon

  • Long distance biotic dispersal of tropical seagrass seeds by marine mega-herbivores

    Samantha J. Tol;Jessie C. Jarvis;Jessie C. Jarvis;Paul H. York;Alana Grech

  • Day-to-day variation in sea-surface temperature reduces sooty tern Sterna fuscata foraging success on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

    Carol A. Erwin;Bradley C. Congdon

  • Redundancy among mammalian fungal dispersers and the importance of declining specialists

    S.J. Nuske;K. Vernes;T.W. May;A.W. Claridge;A.W. Claridge

  • Molecular evidence that fireweed ( Senecio madagascariensis, Asteraceae ) is of South African origin

    L. J. Scott;B. C. Congdon;J. Playford

  • Importance of tropical tuna for seabird foraging over a marine productivity gradient

    Mark G.R. Miller;Nicholas Carlile;Joe Scutt Phillips;Fiona McDuie

  • The hookworm Ancylostoma ceylanicum: An emerging public health risk in Australian tropical rainforests and Indigenous communities.

    Felicity A. Smout;Lee F. Skerratt;James R.A. Butler;Christopher N. Johnson

  • Dugong dugon feeding in tropical Australian seagrass meadows: implications for conservation planning.

    Samantha J. Tol;Rob G. Coles;Bradley C. Congdon

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew K. Krockenberger
Andrew K. Krockenberger James Cook University
Christopher N. Johnson
Christopher N. Johnson University of Tasmania
Vicki L. Friesen
Vicki L. Friesen Queen's University
Scarla J. Weeks
Scarla J. Weeks University of Queensland
Rob Coles
Rob Coles James Cook University
David A. Westcott
David A. Westcott Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Andrew W. Claridge
Andrew W. Claridge University of New South Wales
Lee F. Skerratt
Lee F. Skerratt University of Melbourne
Darrell J. Kemp
Darrell J. Kemp Macquarie University
Peter Dann
Peter Dann Monash University

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