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Jonathan D. R. Houghton

Jonathan D. R. Houghton

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
41
Citations
6881
World Ranking
5821
National Ranking
624

Overview

Jonathan D. R. Houghton is affiliated with Queen's University Belfast in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a concentration in several subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Aerospace Engineering, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

Their work covers a range of topics related to marine and ecological studies. Main topics include Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Marine animal studies overview, Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Marine and fisheries research, Avian ecology and behavior, Turtle Biology and Conservation, and Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology.

Jonathan D. R. Houghton's recent scientific papers illustrate the scope of their research interests. These include:

  • Assessing the effects of tidal stream marine renewable energy on seabirds: A conceptual framework (2020), published in Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • A general swimming response in exhausted obligate swimming fish (2022), published in Royal Society Open Science
  • Protect high seas biodiversity (2021), published in Science
  • Collision risk modelling for tidal energy devices: A flexible simulation-based approach (2020), published in Journal of Environmental Management
  • The critically endangered flapper skate (Dipturus intermedius): Recommendations from the first flapper skate working group meeting (2020), published in Marine Policy

Frequent coauthors in Jonathan's publications include:

  • Amy Garbett
  • James Thorburn
  • Paul A. Mayo
  • Patrick C. Collins
  • Louise Kregting

The primary venues for their publications are:

  • Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • Skeletal Radiology
  • Science

Best Publications

  • Environmental context explains Lévy and Brownian movement patterns of marine predators

    Nicolas E. Humphries;Nicolas E. Humphries;Nuno Queiroz;Nuno Queiroz;Nuno Queiroz;Jennifer R. M. Dyer;Nicolas G. Pade;Nicolas G. Pade

  • Identification of genetically and oceanographically distinct blooms of jellyfish - DUPE OF DU:30098064

    P.L.M. Lee;M.N. Dawson;S.P. Neill;P.E. Robins

  • Is there a common water-activity limit for the three domains of life?

    Andrew Stevenson;Jonathan A. Cray;Jim P. Williams;Ricardo Santos

  • A Paradigm Shift in the Trophic Importance of Jellyfish

    Graeme C. Hays;Thomas K. Doyle;Jonathan D.R. Houghton

  • Jellyfish aggregations and leatherback turtle foraging patterns in a temperate coastal environment

    Jonathan D. R. Houghton;Thomas K. Doyle;Mark W. Wilson;John Davenport

  • The energy density of jellyfish: Estimates from bomb-calorimetry and proximate-composition

    Thomas K. Doyle;Jonathan D.R. Houghton;Regina McDevitt;John Davenport

  • Endangered species: Pan-Atlantic leatherback turtle movements.

    Graeme C. Hays;Jonathan D. R. Houghton;Andrew E. Myers

  • Widespread occurrence of the jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca in Irish coastal and shelf waters

    Thomas K. Doyle;Henk De Haas;Don Cotton;Boris Dorschel

  • Water temperature and internesting intervals for loggerhead (Caretta caretta) and green (Chelonia mydas) sea turtles

    G.C. Hays;A.C. Broderick;F. Glen;B.J. Godley

  • Thermal conditions in nests of loggerhead turtles: further evidence suggesting female skewed sex ratios of hatchling production in the Mediterranean

    B.J. Godley;A.C. Broderick;J.R. Downie;F. Glen

  • First records of oceanic dive profiles for leatherback turtles, Dermochelys coriacea, indicate behavioural plasticity associated with long-distance migration

    Graeme C Hays;Jonathan D.R Houghton;Crafton Isaacs;Rebecca S King

  • The biology and ecology of the ocean sunfish Mola mola : a review of current knowledge and future research perspectives

    Edward C. Pope;Graeme C. Hays;Tierney M. Thys;Thomas K. Doyle

  • Protracted rainfall decreases temperature within leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) clutches in Grenada, West Indies: Ecological implications for a species displaying temperature dependent sex determination

    Jonathan Houghton;A.E. Myers;C. Lloyd;R.S. King

  • Diving behaviour during the internesting interval for loggerhead turtles Caretta caretta nesting in Cyprus

    Jonathan D. R. Houghton;Annette C. Broderick;Brendan J. Godley;Julian D. Metcalfe

  • Indicators of the impact of climate change on migratory species

    Stuart E. Newson;Sonia Mendes;Humphrey Q. P. Crick;Nicholas K. Dulvy

  • The broad-scale distribution of five jellyfish species across a temperate coastal environment

    Thomas K. Doyle;Jonathan D. R. Houghton;Sarah M. Buckley;Graeme C. Hays

  • Satellite tracking of the World's largest bony fish, the ocean sunfish (Mola mola L.) in the North East Atlantic

    David W. Sims;David W. Sims;Nuno Queiroz;Nuno Queiroz;Thomas K. Doyle;Jonathan D.R. Houghton

  • Developing a simple, rapid method for identifying and monitoring jellyfish aggregations from the air

    Jonathan D. R. Houghton;Thomas K. Doyle;John Davenport;Graeme C. Hays

  • Leatherback turtles satellite-tagged in European waters

    Thomas K. Doyle;Jonathan D. R. Houghton;Pádraig Frank OSúilleabháin;Victoria J. Hobson

  • Ecological and societal benefits of jellyfish

    Thomas K. Doyle;Graeme C. Hays;Graeme C. Hays;Chris Harrod;Jonathan D. R. Houghton

  • Asynchronous emergence by loggerhead turtle ( Caretta caretta ) hatchlings

    Jonathan Houghton;G.C. Hays

Frequent Co-Authors

Graeme C. Hays
Graeme C. Hays Deakin University
Chris Harrod
Chris Harrod University of Glasgow
John Davenport
John Davenport University College Cork
David W. Sims
David W. Sims University of Southampton
Nuno Queiroz
Nuno Queiroz University of Porto
Rory P. Wilson
Rory P. Wilson Swansea University
Julian D. Metcalfe
Julian D. Metcalfe Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
Brendan J. Godley
Brendan J. Godley University of Exeter
Annette C. Broderick
Annette C. Broderick University of Exeter
John E. Hallsworth
John E. Hallsworth Queen's University Belfast

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