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Overview

Julian D. Metcalfe is affiliated with the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a strong emphasis on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Genetics, Ecology, and aspects of Management, Monitoring, Policy, and Law.

The researcher's main areas of study include Marine and Fisheries Research, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Genetic and Phenotypic Traits in Livestock, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Marine Animal Studies Overview, Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, and Coastal and Marine Management.

Frequent coauthors working with Metcalfe include David Righton, Martin Wæver Pedersen, Cecilia Helmerson, Peggy Weist, and Marine Servane Ono Brieuc.

Metcalfe's recent publications reflect an interest in fish behavior, ecology, and spatial dynamics, often relating to cod populations. Recent papers include:

  • From 'where' and 'when' to 'what' and 'why': archival tags for monitoring 'complex' behaviours in fish (2024), published in BIBSYS Brage (BIBSYS (Norway))
  • Movements, migrations and space use of fish in the North Sea in relation to offshore wind farms (2024), published in OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Other relevant publications involving or related to their research area are:

  • Evidence of hybridization between genetically distinct Baltic cod stocks during peak population abundance(s) (2023), published in Evolutionary Applications
  • Behavioural Switching In North Sea Cod: Implications For Foraging Strategy? (2024), published in OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Spatial dynamics of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) in the North Sea: results from a large-scale electronic tagging programme (2024), published in OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

The main publication venues where Metcalfe's work appears include OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University), Evolutionary Applications, BIBSYS Brage (BIBSYS (Norway)), HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), and IET Computer Vision.

Best Publications

  • Scaling laws of marine predator search behaviour

    David W. Sims;Emily J. Southall;Nicolas E. Humphries;Graeme C. Hays

  • Fishery Stability, Local Extinctions, and Shifts in Community Structure in Skates

    Nicholas K. Dulvy;Julian D. Metcalfe;Jamie Glanville;Mike G. Pawson

  • Aquatic food security: insights into challenges and solutions from an analysis of interactions between fisheries, aquaculture, food safety, human health, fish and human welfare, economy and environment

    Simon Jennings;Simon Jennings;Grant D Stentiford;Ana M Leocadio;Keith R Jeffery

  • Hunt warm, rest cool: bioenergetic strategy underlying diel vertical migration of a benthic shark

    David W. Sims;Victoria J. Wearmouth;Emily J. Southall;Jacqueline M. Hill

  • Animal Orientation Strategies for Movement in Flows

    Jason W. Chapman;Raymond H.G. Klaassen;V. Alistair Drake;V. Alistair Drake;Sabrina Fossette

  • Habitat-specific normal and reverse diel vertical migration in the plankton-feeding basking shark

    David W. Sims;Emily J. Southall;Geraint A. Tarling;Geraint A. Tarling;Julian D. Metcalfe

  • Seasonal movements and behaviour of basking sharks from archival tagging: no evidence of winter hibernation

    David W. Sims;Emily J. Southall;Anthony J. Richardson;Philip C. Reid

  • Tracking fish with electronic tags

    J. D. Metcalfe;G. P. Arnold

  • Thermal niche of Atlantic cod Gadus morhua: limits, tolerance and optima

    David A. Righton;Ken Haste Andersen;Francis Neat;Vilhjalmur Thorsteinsson

  • Encounter success of free-ranging marine predator movements across a dynamic prey landscape

    David W Sims;Matthew J Witt;Anthony J Richardson;Emily J Southall

  • FLEXIBLE FORAGING MOVEMENTS OF LEATHERBACK TURTLES ACROSS THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN

    Graeme C. Hays;Victoria J. Hobson;Julian D. Metcalfe;David Righton

  • Empirical observations of the spawning migration of European eels: The long and dangerous road to the Sargasso Sea

    David Righton;Håkan Westerberg;Eric Feunteun;Finn Økland

  • Migration route and spawning area fidelity by North Sea plaice

    Ewan Hunter;Julian D. Metcalfe;John D. Reynolds

  • 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

  • The diving behaviour of green turtles at Ascension Island.

    Graeme C. Hays;Colin R. Adams;Annette C. Broderick;Brendan J. Godley

  • Physiology, Behavior, and Conservation

    Steven J. Cooke;Daniel T. Blumstein;Richard Buchholz;Timothy Caro

  • Plasma catecholamines in the lesser spotted dogfish and rainbow trout at rest and during different levels of exercise.

    P. J. Butler;J. D. Metcalfe;S. A. Ginley

  • 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

  • The diving behaviour of green turtles undertaking oceanic migration to and from Ascension Island: dive durations, dive profiles and depth distribution.

    G. C. Hays;S. Åkesson;A. C. Broderick;F. Glen

  • Migratory behaviour of the thornback ray, Raja clavata, in the southern North Sea

    e. hunter;a.a. buckley;c. stewart;j.d. metcalfe

Frequent Co-Authors

David Righton
David Righton Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
Graeme C. Hays
Graeme C. Hays Deakin University
David W. Sims
David W. Sims University of Southampton
Annette C. Broderick
Annette C. Broderick University of Exeter
Brendan J. Godley
Brendan J. Godley University of Exeter
Steven J. Cooke
Steven J. Cooke Carleton University
Matthew J. Witt
Matthew J. Witt University of Exeter
Myron A. Peck
Myron A. Peck Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Christian Jorgensen
Christian Jorgensen University of Bergen
David J. McKenzie
David J. McKenzie University of Montpellier

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