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5268
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6894
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696

Overview

Gail Schofield is affiliated with Queen Mary University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Environmental Science, with a strong focus on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's work covers several subfields, including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Social Psychology. Their research emphasizes topics such as Turtle Biology and Conservation, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, and Marine animal studies overview. Additional focal areas include Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Avian ecology and behavior, and Ichthyology and Marine Biology.

Gail Schofield has contributed to a number of peer-reviewed publications, including the following recent papers:

  • Long-term photo-id and satellite tracking reveal sex-biased survival linked to movements in an endangered species, 2020, Ecology
  • Operational Protocols for the Use of Drones in Marine Animal Research, 2020, Drones
  • Machine learning to detect marine animals in UAV imagery: effect of morphology, spacing, behaviour and habitat, 2021, Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation
  • Network analysis of sea turtle movements and connectivity: A tool for conservation prioritization, 2022, Diversity and Distributions
  • Social media reveals consistently disproportionate tourism pressure on a threatened marine vertebrate, 2020, Animal Conservation

Frequent co-authors contributing to Gail Schofield's research include Graeme C. Hays, Kostas A. Katselidis, Kostas Papafitsoros, Antonios D. Mazaris, and Liam C. D. Dickson.

Their work has been published in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Drones, Marine Biology, Evolutionary Applications, and Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation.

Best Publications

  • Translating Marine Animal Tracking Data into Conservation Policy and Management

    Graeme C. Hays;Helen Bailey;Steven J. Bograd;W. Don Bowen

  • Global sea turtle conservation successes.

    Antonios D. Mazaris;Gail Schofield;Gail Schofield;Chrysoula Gkazinou;Vasiliki Almpanidou

  • Are we working towards global research priorities for management and conservation of sea turtles

    A.F. Rees;J. Alfaro-Shigueto;P.C.R. Barata;K.A. Bjorndal

  • Fidelity to foraging sites, consistency of migration routes and habitat modulation of home range by sea turtles

    Gail Schofield;Victoria J. Hobson;Sabrina Fossette;Martin K. S. Lilley

  • Breeding Periodicity for Male Sea Turtles, Operational Sex Ratios, and Implications in the Face of Climate Change

    Graeme C. Hays;Sabrina Fossette;Kostas A. Katselidis;Gail Schofield

  • Ontogenetic development of migration: Lagrangian drift trajectories suggest a new paradigm for sea turtles.

    Graeme C. Hays;Sabrina Fossette;Kostas A. Katselidis;Patrizio Mariani

  • Novel GPS tracking of sea turtles as a tool for conservation management

    Gail Schofield;Gail Schofield;Charles M. Bishop;Grant MacLean;Peter Brown

  • Population viability at extreme sex-ratio skews produced by temperature-dependent sex determination.

    Graeme C. Hays;Antonios D. Mazaris;Gail Schofield;Jacques-Olivier Laloë

  • Satellite tracking large numbers of individuals to infer population level dispersal and core areas for the protection of an endangered species

    Gail Schofield;Alexandra Dimadi;Sabrina Fossette;Sabrina Fossette;Kostas A. Katselidis

  • Different male vs. female breeding periodicity helps mitigate offspring sex ratio skews in sea turtles

    Graeme C. Hays;Graeme C. Hays;Antonios D. Mazaris;Gail Schofield

  • Microhabitat selection by sea turtles in a dynamic thermal marine environment

    Gail Schofield;Gail Schofield;Charles M. Bishop;Kostas A. Katselidis;Panayotis Dimopoulos

  • Evidence-based marine protected area planning for a highly mobile endangered marine vertebrate

    Gail Schofield;Rebecca Scott;Alexandra Dimadi;Sabrina Fossette;Sabrina Fossette

  • Behaviour analysis of the loggerhead sea turtle Caretta caretta from direct in-water observation

    Gail Schofield;Kostas A. Katselidis;Panayotis Dimopoulos;John D. Pantis

  • Investigating the viability of photo-identification as an objective tool to study endangered sea turtle populations

    Gail Schofield;Kostas A. Katselidis;Panayotis Dimopoulos;John D. Pantis

  • Inter-annual variability in the home range of breeding turtles: implications for current and future conservation management.

    Gail Schofield;Victoria J. Hobson;Martin K.S. Lilley;Kostas A. Katselidis

  • Detecting elusive aspects of wildlife ecology using drones: new insights on the mating dynamics and operational sex ratios of sea turtles

    Gail Schofield;Kostas A. Katselidis;Martin K. S. Lilley;Richard D. Reina

  • Protected species use of a coastal marine migratory corridor connecting marine protected areas

    Kellie L. Pendoley;Gail Schofield;Paul A. Whittock;Daniel Ierodiaconou

  • Operational Protocols for the Use of Drones in Marine Animal Research

    Vincent Raoult;Andrew P Colefax;Blake M. Allan;Daniele Cagnazzi

  • Acceleration data reveal the energy management strategy of a marine ectotherm during reproduction

    Sabrina Fossette;Gail Schofield;Martin K. S. Lilley;Adrian C. Gleiss

  • Route optimisation and solving Zermelo's navigation problem during long distance migration in cross flows.

    Graeme C. Hays;Graeme C. Hays;Asbjørn Christensen;Sabrina Fossette;Sabrina Fossette;Gail Schofield;Gail Schofield

Frequent Co-Authors

Graeme C. Hays
Graeme C. Hays Deakin University
John D. Pantis
John D. Pantis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Sabrina Fossette
Sabrina Fossette University of Western Australia
Panayotis Dimopoulos
Panayotis Dimopoulos University of Patras
Antonios D. Mazaris
Antonios D. Mazaris Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Daniel Ierodiaconou
Daniel Ierodiaconou Deakin University
Beata Ujvari
Beata Ujvari Deakin University
David W. Sims
David W. Sims University of Southampton
Mark Hamann
Mark Hamann James Cook University
Jeffrey A. Seminoff
Jeffrey A. Seminoff National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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