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  • 2001 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Imants G. Priede is affiliated with the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to research in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work covers a range of subfields including oceanography, nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, ecology, and paleontology.

The research topics addressed by Priede focus primarily on marine and fisheries research, marine biology and ecology research, ichthyology and marine biology, fish ecology and management studies, marine and environmental studies, paleontology and evolutionary biology, and isotope analysis in ecology.

The following are some of their recent published papers:

  • The earliest evidence of deep-sea vertebrates, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Drivers of Biomass and Biodiversity of Non-Chemosynthetic Benthic Fauna of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the North Atlantic, 2022, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Near equal compressibility of liver oil and seawater minimises buoyancy changes in deep-sea sharks and chimaeras, 2020, Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Backward swimming in elongated-bodied abyssal demersal fishes: Synaphobranchidae, Macrouridae, and Ophidiidae, 2025, Journal of Fish Biology
  • In situ observation of a macrourid fish at 7259 m in the Japan Trench: swimbladder buoyancy at extreme depth, 2024, Journal of Experimental Biology

Frequent coauthors in their work include:

  • Tracey Sutton
  • David A. Keith
  • José R. Ferrer-Paris
  • Emily Nicholson
  • Melanie J. Bishop

Priede has published extensively in several journals and institutional repositories. Leading venues for their publications include:

  • UEF eRepo (University of Eastern Finland)
  • Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Frontiers in Marine Science

In addition to journal articles, Priede has contributed to books published by Princeton University Press, including multiple editions of "The Deep Ocean" released in 2023.

Recognition for Priede's professional contributions includes being named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2001.

Best Publications

  • Biological structures as a source of habitat heterogeneity and biodiversity on the deep ocean margins

    Lene Buhl-Mortensen;Ann Vanreusel;Andrew J. Gooday;Lisa A. Levin

  • Metabolic Scope in Fishes

    Imants G. Priede

  • Hadal trenches: the ecology of the deepest places on Earth

    Alan John Jamieson;Toyonobu Fujii;Daniel Justin Mayor;Martin Solan

  • Scavenging deep demersal fishes of the Porcupine Seabight, north-east Atlantic: observations by baited camera, trap and trawl

    Imants George Priede;Philip Michael Bagley;A. Smith;S Creasey

  • Changing coasts: marine aliens and artificial structures

    Frederic Mineur;Elizabeth J. Cook;Dan Minchin;Katrin Bohn

  • Wildlife Telemetry: Remote Monitoring and Tracking of Animals

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  • Movements of adult Atlantic salmon in relation to a hydroelectric dam and fish ladder

    A. R. D. Gowans;J. D. Armstrong;I. G. Priede

  • Does Presence of a Mid-Ocean Ridge Enhance Biomass and Biodiversity?

    Imants G. Priede;Odd Aksel Bergstad;Peter I. Miller;Michael Vecchione

  • Long-term change in the abyssal NE Atlantic: The ‘Amperima Event’ revisited

    D.S.M. Billett;B.J. Bett;W.D.K. Reid;B. Boorman

  • Movements of Atlantic salmon migrating upstream through a fish‐pass complex in Scotland

    A. R. D. Gowans;A. R. D. Gowans;J. D. Armstrong;I. G. Priede;S. Mckelvey

  • Improving the precision of the daily egg production method using generalized additive models

    D L Borchers;S T Buckland;I G Priede;S Ahmadi

  • Estimation of abundance of abyssal demersal fishes; a comparison of data from trawls and baited cameras

    Imants George Priede;N R Merrett

  • Foraging behavior of abyssal grenadier fish: inferences from acoustic tagging and tracking in the North Pacific Ocean

    Imants George Priede;Kenneth L. Smith;John D. Armstrong

  • Aerobic metabolic scope and swimming performance in juvenile cod, Gadus morhua L.

    N M Soofiani;Imants George Priede

  • Use of physiological telemetry as a method of estimating metabolism of fish in the natural environment

    Martyn C. Lucas;Alastair D. F. Johnstone;Imants G. Priede

  • Long-term changes in deep-water fish populations in the northeast Atlantic: a deeper reaching effect of fisheries?

    D M Bailey;M A Collins;John D M Gordon;A F Zuur

  • The fate of cetacean carcasses in the deep sea: observations on consumption rates and succession of scavenging species in the abyssal north-east Atlantic Ocean

    Emma G. Jones;Martin A. Collins;Philip M. Bagley;Steven Addison

  • Natural selection for energetic efficiency and the relationship between activity level and mortality

    Imants George Priede

  • The absence of sharks from abyssal regions of the world's oceans

    Imants G Priede;Rainer Froese;David M Bailey;Odd Aksel Bergstad

  • Bathymetric distribution of some benthic and benthopelagic species attracted to baited cameras and traps in the deep eastern Mediterranean

    E. G. Jones;A. Tselepides;Philip Michael Bagley;M. A. Collins

  • Trends in body size across an environmental gradient: a differential response in scavenging and non-scavenging demersal deep-sea fish.

    M.A Collins;D.M Bailey;D.M Bailey;G.D Ruxton;I.G Priede

  • Photographic and acoustic tracking observations of the behaviour of the grenadier Coryphaenoides (Nematonurus) armatus, the eel Synaphobranchus bathybius, and other abyssal demersal fish in the North Atlantic Ocean

    John D. Armstrong;Philip Michael Bagley;Imants George Priede

  • Cameras and carcasses: historical and current methods for using artificial food falls to study deep-water animals

    David M. Bailey;Nicola J. King;Imants G. Priede

  • Experimental biology at sea

    A. G. Macdonald;I. G. Priede

  • Environmental biology of fishes: Malcolm Jobling, Chapman & Hall, London, 1995, 455 pp., Fisheries & Fisheries Series No. 16, ISBN 0 412 58080 2

    I.G. Priede

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin A. Collins
Martin A. Collins British Antarctic Survey
Henry A. Ruhl
Henry A. Ruhl Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Kenneth L. Smith
Kenneth L. Smith Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Brian J. Bett
Brian J. Bett National Oceanography Centre
Gilbert T. Rowe
Gilbert T. Rowe Texas A&M University
John D. Armstrong
John D. Armstrong Marine Scotland
David S.M. Billett
David S.M. Billett National Oceanography Centre
Martyn C. Lucas
Martyn C. Lucas Durham University
Daniel O.B. Jones
Daniel O.B. Jones National Oceanography Centre
Christopher J. Secombes
Christopher J. Secombes University of Aberdeen

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