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Overview

Lorna Wing was affiliated with the Medical Research Council in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focused on environmental science, with a strong emphasis on ecology.

The scientist's work covered several subfields, including ecology, global and planetary change, oceanography, general health professions, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics. This interdisciplinary approach allowed for contributions across multiple domains within environmental studies.

The main topics addressed in their research included:

  • Isotope analysis in ecology
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Indigenous studies and ecology
  • Cephalopods and marine biology
  • Autism spectrum disorder research

Lorna Wing collaborated frequently with other researchers such as Amandine Sabadel, Stephen R. Wing, Marta Guerra, Steve Dawson, and William Rayment.

They published in multiple academic venues, with repeated contributions in:

  • Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers
  • Ecosystems
  • Marine Ecology Progress Series
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Ecosphere

Significant papers authored or co-authored by Lorna Wing include:

  • "Penguins and Seals Transport Limiting Nutrients Between Offshore Pelagic and Coastal Regions of Antarctica Under Changing Sea Ice," 2020, Ecosystems
  • "Changes in habitat use by a deep-diving predator in response to a coastal earthquake," 2020, Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers
  • "Stable isotope analyses reveal seasonal and inter-individual variation in the foraging ecology of sperm whales," 2020, Marine Ecology Progress Series
  • "Overexploitation and decline in kelp forests inflate the bioenergetic costs of fisheries," 2021, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "You can't go home again: Changes in trophic niche following extinction and recolonization of the New Zealand sea lion," 2025, Ecosphere

Best Publications

  • Severe impairments of social interaction and associated abnormalities in children : epidemiology and classification

    Lorna Wing;Judith Gould

  • Asperger's syndrome: a clinical account.

    Lorna Wing

  • Describing the Sensory Abnormalities of Children and Adults with Autism.

    Susan R. Leekam;Carmen Nieto;Sarah J. Libby;Lorna Wing

  • A screening questionnaire for Asperger syndrome and other high-functioning autism spectrum disorders in school age children.

    Stephan Ehlers;Christopher Gillberg;Lorna Wing

  • The Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders: background, inter-rater reliability and clinical use.

    Lorna Wing;Susan R. Leekam;Sarah J. Libby;Judith Gould

  • The epidemiology of autistic spectrum disorders: is the prevalence rising?

    Lorna Wing;David Potter

  • Physiological Measures, Sedative Drugs, and Morbid Anxiety

    Malcolm Harold Lader;Lorna Wing

  • The Continuum of Autistic Characteristics

    Lorna Wing

  • Autism: not an extremely rare disorder

    Christopher Gillberg;Lorna Wing

  • The Autistic Spectrum

    Lorna Wing

  • Language, social, and cognitive impairments in autism and severe mental retardation

    Lorna Wing

  • Catatonia in autistic spectrum disorders.

    Lorna Wing;Amitta Shah

  • Sex ratios in early childhood autism and related conditions

    Lorna Wing

  • Autism Spectrum Disorders in the DSM-V: Better or Worse than the DSM-IV?.

    Lorna Wing;Judith Gould;Christopher Gillberg

  • The Autistic Spectrum : A Guide for Parents and Professionals

    Lorna Wing

  • Language, communication, and the use of symbols in normal and autistic children.

    Derek M. Ricks;Lorna Wing

  • SYMBOLIC PLAY IN SEVERELY MENTALLY RETARDED AND IN AUTISTIC CHILDREN

    Lorna Wing;Judith Gould;Sybil R. Yeates;Lorna M. Brierly

  • The Disability Assessment Schedule: a brief screening device for use with the mentally retarded

    Nan Holmes;Amitta Shah;Lorna Wing

  • Chronicity of challenging behaviours in people with severe intellectual disabilities and/or autism: a total population sample.

    Glynis H. Murphy;Glynis H. Murphy;Julie Beadle-Brown;Lorna Wing;Judy Gould

  • Are there subgroups within the autistic spectrum? A cluster analysis of a group of children with autistic spectrum disorders.

    Margot Prior;Richard Eisenmajer;Susan Leekam;Lorna Wing

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan R. Leekam
Susan R. Leekam Cardiff University
Ilse Noens
Ilse Noens KU Leuven
Glynis H. Murphy
Glynis H. Murphy University of Kent
Ann Le Couteur
Ann Le Couteur Newcastle University
Margot Prior
Margot Prior University of Melbourne
Malcolm Lader
Malcolm Lader King's College London
Deborah Fein
Deborah Fein University of Connecticut
Carl Feinstein
Carl Feinstein Stanford University
Uta Frith
Uta Frith University College London
Catherine Lord
Catherine Lord University of California, Los Angeles

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