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7138
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Overview

Lucy A. Hawkes is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom and specializes in environmental science with a focus on conservation and marine biology. Their research encompasses various subfields such as nature and landscape conservation, ecology, global and planetary change, genetics, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics primarily related to marine and animal biology. These include ichthyology and marine biology, fish ecology and management studies, marine animal studies overview, turtle biology and conservation, marine and fisheries research, avian ecology and behavior, and physiological and biochemical adaptations.

Among their recent publications are several papers demonstrating the scope of their research interests:

  • Diving into the vertical dimension of elasmobranch movement ecology, 2022, Science Advances
  • One hundred research questions in conservation physiology for generating actionable evidence to inform conservation policy and practice, 2021, Conservation Physiology
  • Future trends in measuring physiology in free-living animals, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Mismatches in scale between highly mobile marine megafauna and marine protected areas, 2022, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Reframing conservation physiology to be more inclusive, integrative, relevant and forward-looking: reflections and a horizon scan, 2020, Conservation Physiology

Lucy A. Hawkes has collaborated frequently with a number of other researchers. The most frequent co-authors of their work include:

  • Matthew J. Witt
  • Francesco Garzon
  • Thomas W. Horton
  • David Righton
  • S. M. Henderson

Their publications appear regularly in journals and venues known for marine and ecological research. Frequent venues include:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Animal Biotelemetry
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Conservation Physiology

Best Publications

  • Investigating the potential impacts of climate change on a marine turtle population

    L. A. Hawkes;A. C. Broderick;M. H. Godfrey;B. J. Godley

  • Climate change and marine turtles

    Lucy A. Hawkes;Annette C. Broderick;Matthew H. Godfrey;Brendan J. Godley

  • Satellite tracking of sea turtles: Where have we been and where do we go next?

    B. J. Godley;J. M. Blumenthal;A. C. Broderick;M. S. Coyne

  • Phenotypically Linked Dichotomy in Sea Turtle Foraging Requires Multiple Conservation Approaches

    Lucy A. Hawkes;Annette C. Broderick;Michael S. Coyne;Matthew H. Godfrey

  • Predicting the impacts of climate change on a globally distributed species: the case of the loggerhead turtle

    M. J. Witt;L. A. Hawkes;M. H. Godfrey;B. J. Godley

  • REVIEW: On the Front Line: frontal zones as priority at-sea conservation areas for mobile marine vertebrates

    Kylie L. Scales;Peter I. Miller;Lucy A. Hawkes;Simon N. Ingram

  • The roller coaster flight strategy of bar-headed geese conserves energy during Himalayan migrations

    Charles M. Bishop;Robin J. Spivey;Lucy A. Hawkes;Nyambayar Batbayar

  • The trans-Himalayan flights of bar-headed geese (Anser indicus)

    Lucy A. Hawkes;Sivananinthaperumal Balachandran;Nyambayar Batbayar;Patrick J. Butler

  • Only some like it hot — quantifying the environmental niche of the loggerhead sea turtle

    Lucy A. Hawkes;Annette C. Broderick;Michael S. Coyne;Matthew H. Godfrey

  • Home on the range: spatial ecology of loggerhead turtles in Atlantic waters of the USA

    Lucy A. Hawkes;Matthew J. Witt;Annette C. Broderick;John W. Coker

  • Satellite tracking of manta rays highlights challenges to their conservation.

    Rachel T. Graham;Matthew J. Witt;Dan W. Castellanos;Francisco Remolina

  • Climate change and marine turtles: recent advances and future directions

    Ana R. Patrício;Ana R. Patrício;Lucy A. Hawkes;Jonathan R. Monsinjon;Brendan J. Godley

  • Satellite Tracking Sea Turtles: Opportunities and Challenges to Address Key Questions

    Graeme C. Hays;Lucy A. Hawkes

  • How Bar-Headed Geese Fly Over the Himalayas

    Graham R. Scott;Lucy A. Hawkes;Peter B. Frappell;Patrick J. Butler

  • Somatic growth dynamics of West Atlantic hawksbill sea turtles: a spatio-temporal perspective

    Karen A. Bjorndal;Milani Chaloupka;Vincent S. Saba;Carlos E. Diez

  • A potential tool to mitigate the impacts of climate change to the caribbean leatherback sea turtle

    Juan Patino-Martinez;Adolfo Marco;Liliana Quiñones;Lucy Hawkes

  • The paradox of extreme high-altitude migration in bar-headed geese Anser indicus

    Lucy A. Hawkes;S. Balachandran;N. Batbayar;P. J. Butler

  • Diving into the vertical dimension of elasmobranch movement ecology

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  • Evaluating the landscape of fear between apex predatory sharks and mobile sea turtles across a large dynamic seascape

    Neil Hammerschlag;Annette C. Broderick;John W. Coker;Michael S. Coyne

  • Geographic variation in bar-headed geese Anser Indicus : connectivity of wintering areas and breeding grounds across a broad front

    John Y. Takekawa;Shane R. Heath;David C. Douglas;William M. Perry

  • Assignment of nesting loggerhead turtles to their foraging areas in the Northwest Atlantic using stable isotopes

    Mariela Pajuelo;Karen A. Bjorndal;Kimberly J. Reich;Hannah B. Vander Zanden

  • Climate change resilience of a globally important sea turtle nesting population

    Ana R. Patrício;Miguel R. Varela;Castro Barbosa;Annette C. Broderick

  • Assessing climate change associated sea‐level rise impacts on sea turtle nesting beaches using drones, photogrammetry and a novel GPS system

    Miguel R. Varela;Ana R. Patrício;Ana R. Patrício;Karen Anderson;Annette C. Broderick

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew J. Witt
Matthew J. Witt University of Exeter
Brendan J. Godley
Brendan J. Godley University of Exeter
Annette C. Broderick
Annette C. Broderick University of Exeter
Patrick J. Butler
Patrick J. Butler University of Birmingham
Matthew H. Godfrey
Matthew H. Godfrey Duke University
John Y. Takekawa
John Y. Takekawa United States Geological Survey
Scott H. Newman
Scott H. Newman Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Martin Wikelski
Martin Wikelski Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Adolfo Marco
Adolfo Marco Spanish National Research Council
Diann J. Prosser
Diann J. Prosser United States Fish and Wildlife Service

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