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46
Citations
10256
World Ranking
4587
National Ranking
359

Overview

Ian D. Jonsen is affiliated with Macquarie University in Australia and works primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research activity spans several subfields, including Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, and Ecological Modeling.

Their research topics broadly cover Marine animal studies overview, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Marine and fisheries research, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Avian ecology and behavior, and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Tracking of marine predators to protect Southern Ocean ecosystems, 2020, Nature
  • aniMotum, an R package for animal movement data: Rapid quality control, behavioural estimation and simulation, 2023, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Animal Borne Ocean Sensors - AniBOS - An Essential Component of the Global Ocean Observing System, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • A standardisation framework for bio-logging data to advance ecological research and conservation, 2021, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • The retrospective analysis of Antarctic tracking data project, 2020, Scientific Data

Ian D. Jonsen frequently collaborates with several researchers in their field. Frequent co-authors include Robert Harcourt, Clive R. McMahon, Mark A. Hindell, Daniel P. Costa, and M. A. Fedak.

Their work has been published in a variety of scientific venues, with repeated contributions to Frontiers in Marine Science, Royal Society Open Science, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Oecologia.

Best Publications

  • Tracking apex marine predator movements in a dynamic ocean

    Barbara A. Block;I D Jonsen;S J Jorgensen;A J Winship

  • ROBUST STATE-SPACE MODELING OF ANIMAL MOVEMENT DATA

    Ian D. Jonsen;Joanna Mills Flemming;Ransom A. Myers

  • Predicted habitat shifts of Pacific top predators in a changing climate

    Elliott L. Hazen;Elliott L. Hazen;Salvador Jorgensen;Ryan R. Rykaczewski;Steven J. Bograd

  • Key Questions in Marine Megafauna Movement Ecology

    Graeme C. Hays;Luciana C. Ferreira;Luciana C. Ferreira;Ana M.M. Sequeira;Mark G. Meekan

  • META-ANALYSIS OF ANIMAL MOVEMENT USING STATE-SPACE MODELS

    Ian D. Jonsen;Ransom A. Myers;Joanna Mills Flemming

  • Identifying leatherback turtle foraging behaviour from satellite telemetry using a switching state-space model

    Ian D. Jonsen;Ransom A. Myers;Michael C. James

  • Response of generalist and specialist insect herbivores to landscape spatial structure

    Ian D. Jonsen;Lenore Fahrig

  • State-space models for bio-loggers: A methodological road map

    I.D. Jonsen;M. Basson;S. Bestley;S. Bestley;M.V. Bravington

  • Sex-specific, seasonal foraging tactics of adult grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) revealed by state–space analysis

    Greg A. Breed;Ian D. Jonsen;Ransom A. Myers;W. Don Bowen

  • Tracking of marine predators to protect Southern Ocean ecosystems

    Mark A. Hindell;Ryan R. Reisinger;Ryan R. Reisinger;Yan Ropert-Coudert;Luis A. Hückstädt

  • Animal-borne telemetry: An integral component of the ocean observing toolkit

    Rob Harcourt;Ana M. M. Sequeira;Xuelei Zhang;Fabien Roquet

  • Robust hierarchical state–space models reveal diel variation in travel rates of migrating leatherback turtles

    Ian D. Jonsen;Ransom A. Myers;Michael C. James

  • Movement responses to environment: fast inference of variation among southern elephant seals with a mixed effects model

    I. D. Jonsen;C. R. McMahon;T. A. Patterson;M. Auger-Méthé

  • Joint estimation over multiple individuals improves behavioural state inference from animal movement data.

    Ian Jonsen

  • North Atlantic Blue and Fin Whales Suspend Their Spring Migration to Forage in Middle Latitudes: Building up Energy Reserves for the Journey?

    Mónica A. Silva;Mónica A. Silva;Rui Prieto;Ian Jonsen;Mark F. Baumgartner

  • Effect of habitat patch characteristics on abundance and diversity of insects in an agricultural landscape

    Lenore Fahrig;Ian Jonsen

  • Consequences of global shipping traffic for marine giants

    Vanessa Pirotta;Alana Grech;Ian D Jonsen;William F Laurance

  • State-space models' dirty little secrets: even simple linear Gaussian models can have estimation problems.

    Marie Auger-Méthé;Chris Field;Christoffer Moesgaard Albertsen;Andrew E. Derocher

  • The importance of sample size in marine megafauna tagging studies

    Ana M. M. Sequeira;M. R. Heupel;M. A. Lea;Víctor M. Eguíluz

  • An Economical Custom-Built Drone for Assessing Whale Health

    Vanessa Pirotta;Alastair Smith;Martin Ostrowski;Dylan Russell

  • Fine-scale movement behaviors of calopterygid damselflies are influenced by landscape structure: an experimental manipulation

    Ian D. Jonsen;Philip D. Taylor

  • Integrative modelling of animal movement: incorporating in situ habitat and behavioural information for a migratory marine predator

    Sophie Bestley;Sophie Bestley;Sophie Bestley;Ian D. Jonsen;Mark A. Hindell;Christophe Guinet

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Harcourt
Robert Harcourt Macquarie University
Mark A. Hindell
Mark A. Hindell University of Tasmania
Clive R. McMahon
Clive R. McMahon University of Tasmania
Daniel P. Costa
Daniel P. Costa University of California, Santa Cruz
Ben Raymond
Ben Raymond Australian Antarctic Division
David W. Sims
David W. Sims University of Southampton
Mary-Anne Lea
Mary-Anne Lea University of Tasmania
Christophe Guinet
Christophe Guinet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Nicholas J. Gales
Nicholas J. Gales Australian Antarctic Division
Scott A. Shaffer
Scott A. Shaffer San Jose State University

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