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Ecology and Evolution
South Africa
2022

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
76
Citations
16069
World Ranking
1019
National Ranking
37

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in South Africa Leader Award

Overview

David Grémillet is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science with a strong focus on Ecology.

Their subfields of study include:

  • Ecology
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecological Modeling

Main topics addressed in their work cover:

  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change

Recent papers by David Grémillet include:

  • "Ecological insights from three decades of animal movement tracking across a changing Arctic" (2020, Science)
  • "Multispecies tracking reveals a major seabird hotspot in the North Atlantic" (2021, Conservation Letters)
  • "Mercury contamination and potential health risks to Arctic seabirds and shorebirds" (2022, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • "A framework for mapping the distribution of seabirds by integrating tracking, demography and phenology" (2020, Journal of Applied Ecology)
  • "Toward a global strategy for seabird tracking" (2021, Conservation Letters)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with David Grémillet are:

  • Jérôme Fort
  • Andrea S. Grunst
  • Melissa L. Grunst
  • Marta Cruz-Flores
  • Paco Bustamante

David Grémillet has published multiple works in notable venues, such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Biological Conservation
  • Marine Biology
  • The Science of The Total Environment

The scientist has contributed to several book publications, with titles including:

  • Les discrètes: rêves de tortues marines (2025, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
  • Dans les bras du poulpe: et autres chroniques écologiques (2024, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
  • Ecocentric fisheries management in european seas: Data gaps, base models and initial assessments, volume I (2023, Frontiers Media)

Best Publications

  • Space partitioning without territoriality in gannets.

    Ewan D. Wakefield;Thomas W. Bodey;Stuart Bearhop;Jez Blackburn

  • Spatial ecology and conservation of seabirds facing global climate change: a review

    David Grémillet;Thierry Boulinier

  • Offshore diplomacy, or how seabirds mitigate intra-specific competition: a case study based on GPS tracking of Cape gannets from neighbouring colonies

    David Gremillet;Giacomo Dell'omo;Peter G. Ryan;Gerrit Peters

  • Microplastic pollution in the Greenland Sea: Background levels and selective contamination of planktivorous diving seabirds.

    F. Amélineau;D. Bonnet;O. Heitz;V. Mortreux

  • Approaching birds with drones: first experiments and ethical guidelines

    Elisabeth Vas;Amélie Lescroël;Olivier Duriez;Guillaume Boguszewski

  • A junk-food hypothesis for gannets feeding on fishery waste

    David Grémillet;David Grémillet;Lorien Pichegru;Lorien Pichegru;Grégoire Kuntz;Anthony G Woakes

  • Spatial match–mismatch in the Benguela upwelling zone: should we expect chlorophyll and sea-surface temperature to predict marine predator distributions?

    David Grémillet;David Grémillet;Sue Lewis;Laurent Drapeau;Carl D. Van Der Lingen

  • Climate change and the ecology and evolution of Arctic vertebrates

    Olivier Gilg;Olivier Gilg;Kit M. Kovacs;Jon Aars;Jérôme Fort

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

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

  • Remote-sensing systems and seabirds: their use, abuse and potential for measuring marine environmental variables

    Rory P. Wilson;David Grémillet;Jon Syder;Mandy A. M. Kierspel

  • Spatial match-mismatch across four trophic levels of the Benguela upwelling zone during an ecosystem shift.

    David Gremillet;Sue Lewis;Laurent Drapeau;Carl D. van der Lingen

  • Marine no-take zone rapidly benefits endangered penguin

    L. Pichegru;D. Grémillet;R. J. M. Crawford;R. J. M. Crawford;P. G. Ryan

  • Annual variation in diets, feeding locations and foraging behaviour of gannets in the North Sea: flexibility, consistency and constraint

    K. C. Hamer;E. M. Humphreys;S. Garthe;J. Hennicke

  • GPS tracking a marine predator: the effects of precision, resolution and sampling rate on foraging tracks of African Penguins

    P. G. Ryan;S. L. Petersen;G. Peters;D. Grémillet

  • Individual differences in searching behaviour and spatial foraging consistency in a central place marine predator

    Samantha C. Patrick;Stuart Bearhop;David Grémillet;Amélie Lescroël

  • King penguin population threatened by Southern Ocean warming

    Céline Le Bohec;Joël M Durant;Michel Gauthier-Clerc;Nils C Stenseth

  • A fine-scale time budget of Cape gannets provides insights into the foraging strategies of coastal seabirds

    Yan Ropert-Coudert;David Grémillet;Akiko Kato;Peter G. Ryan

  • Tracking through Life Stages: Adult, Immature and Juvenile Autumn Migration in a Long-Lived Seabird

    Clara Péron;David Grémillet;David Grémillet

  • Flexible foraging techniques in breeding Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo and Shags Phalacrocorax aristotelis: benthic or pelagic feeding?

    D. Grémillet;G. Argentin;B. Schulte;B. M. Culik

  • HOW DO MAGELLANIC PENGUINS COPE WITH VARIABILITY IN THEIR ACCESS TO PREY

    Rory P. Wilson;Rory P. Wilson;J. Alejandro Scolaro;David Grémillet;Mandy A. M. Kierspel

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

    Sue Lewis;David Gremillet;Francis H.J. Daunt;Peter G. Ryan

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter G. Ryan
Peter G. Ryan University of Cape Town
Jérôme Fort
Jérôme Fort Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Sarah Wanless
Sarah Wanless Natural Environment Research Council
Yan Ropert-Coudert
Yan Ropert-Coudert Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Rory P. Wilson
Rory P. Wilson Swansea University
Francis Daunt
Francis Daunt Natural Environment Research Council
Keith C. Hamer
Keith C. Hamer University of Leeds
Akiko Kato
Akiko Kato University of La Rochelle
Yvon Le Maho
Yvon Le Maho Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Richard A. Phillips
Richard A. Phillips British Antarctic Survey

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