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Overview

Mark A. Hindell is affiliated with the University of Tasmania in Australia. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science, with significant contributions in earth and planetary sciences.

Their academic output includes notable papers such as:

  • Tracking of marine predators to protect Southern Ocean ecosystems, 2020, Nature
  • Defining Southern Ocean fronts and their influence on biological and physical processes in a changing climate, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • When large marine predators feed on fisheries catches: Global patterns of the depredation conflict and directions for coexistence, 2020, Fish and Fisheries
  • aniMotum, an R package for animal movement data: Rapid quality control, behavioural estimation and simulation, 2023, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Global assessment of marine plastic exposure risk for oceanic birds, 2023, Nature Communications

Mark A. Hindell's frequent co-authors include:

  • Clive R. McMahon
  • Robert Harcourt
  • Mary-Anne Lea
  • John P. Y. Arnould
  • Simon Wotherspoon

The scientist publishes regularly in venues such as:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

Their research spans various subfields of study including:

  • Ecology
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Oceanography
  • Ecological Modeling

Mark A. Hindell's main topics of work cover:

  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Cryospheric studies and observations

Best Publications

  • Scaling laws of marine predator search behaviour

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

  • Climate change and Southern Ocean ecosystems I: how changes in physical habitats directly affect marine biota

    Andrew J. Constable;Andrew J. Constable;Jessica Melbourne-Thomas;Jessica Melbourne-Thomas;Stuart P. Corney;Kevin R. Arrigo

  • Variability in sea ice cover and climate elicit sex specific responses in an Antarctic predator

    Sara Labrousse;Jean-Baptiste Sallee;Jean-Baptiste Sallee;Alexander D. Fraser;Rob A. Massom

  • Variations in behavior and condition of a Southern Ocean top predator in relation to in situ oceanographic conditions.

    M. Biuw;L. Boehme;C. Guinet;M. Hindell

  • Antarctic Bottom Water production by intense sea-ice formation in the Cape Darnley polynya

    Kay I. Ohshima;Yasushi Fukamachi;Guy D. Williams;Sohey Nihashi

  • Molecular scatology as a tool to study diet: analysis of prey DNA in scats from captive Steller sea lions.

    B. E. Deagle;D. J. Tollit;S. N. Jarman;M. A. Hindell

  • The Diving Behaviour of Adult Male and Female Southern Elephant Seals, Mirounga leonina (Pinnipedia : Phocidae)

    MA Hindell;DJ Slip;HR Burton

  • Studying Seabird Diet through Genetic Analysis of Faeces: A Case Study on Macaroni Penguins (Eudyptes chrysolophus)

    Bruce E. Deagle;Bruce E. Deagle;Nick J. Gales;Karen Evans;Simon N. Jarman

  • Tracking of marine predators to protect Southern Ocean ecosystems

    Mark A. Hindell;Ryan R. Reisinger;Ryan R. Reisinger;Yan Ropert-Coudert;Luis A. Hückstädt

  • Loyalty pays: potential life history consequences of fidelity to marine foraging regions by southern elephant seals

    Corey J.A. Bradshaw;Mark A. Hindell;Michael D. Sumner;Michael D. Sumner;Kelvin J. Michael

  • Southern Ocean frontal structure and sea-ice formation rates revealed by elephant seals

    J.-B. Charrassin;M. Hindell;S. R. Rintoul;F. Roquet

  • Marine Mammals: Fisheries, Tourism and Management Issues

    Nicholas Gales;Mark Hindell;Roger Kirkwood

  • The suppression of Antarctic bottom water formation by melting ice shelves in Prydz Bay

    G. D. Williams;L. Herraiz-Borreguero;Fabien Roquet;T. Tamura

  • Defining Southern Ocean fronts and their influence on biological and physical processes in a changing climate

    Christopher C. Chapman;Mary-Anne Lea;Amelie Meyer;Amelie Meyer;Jean‐Baptiste Sallée

  • Using short-term measures of behaviour to estimate long-term fitness of southern elephant seals

    Leslie F. New;James S. Clark;Daniel P. Costa;E. Fleishman;E. Fleishman

  • You are what you eat: describing the foraging ecology of southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) using blubber fatty acids.

    Corey J A Bradshaw;Mark A Hindell;Narelle J Best;Katrina L Phillips;Katrina L Phillips

  • Bayesian Estimation of Animal Movement from Archival and Satellite Tags

    Michael D. Sumner;Simon J. Wotherspoon;Mark A. Hindell

  • Animal-borne telemetry: An integral component of the ocean observing toolkit

    Rob Harcourt;Ana M. M. Sequeira;Xuelei Zhang;Fabien Roquet

  • Commercial Fishing Patterns Influence Odontocete Whale-Longline Interactions in the Southern Ocean

    Paul Tixier;Paul Burch;Gaetan Richard;Gaetan Richard;Karin Olsson;Karin Olsson

  • Dive behaviour, foraging locations, and maternal-attendance patterns of Australian fur seals (Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus)

    John P. Y. Arnould;Mark A. Hindell

  • Important marine habitat off east Antarctica revealed by two decades of multi‐species predator tracking

    Ben Raymond;Ben Raymond;Ben Raymond;Mary Anne Lea;Toby Patterson;Virginia Andrews-Goff;Virginia Andrews-Goff

  • Circumpolar habitat use in the southern elephant seal: implications for foraging success and population trajectories

    Mark A. Hindell;Clive R. Mcmahon;Marthán N. Bester;Lars Boehme

Frequent Co-Authors

Clive R. McMahon
Clive R. McMahon University of Tasmania
Mary-Anne Lea
Mary-Anne Lea University of Tasmania
Robert Harcourt
Robert Harcourt Macquarie University
Corey J. A. Bradshaw
Corey J. A. Bradshaw Flinders University
Christophe Guinet
Christophe Guinet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Daniel P. Costa
Daniel P. Costa University of California, Santa Cruz
Ben Raymond
Ben Raymond Australian Antarctic Division
Jean-Benoît Charrassin
Jean-Benoît Charrassin Sorbonne University
Harry R. Burton
Harry R. Burton Australian Antarctic Division
Michael A. Fedak
Michael A. Fedak University of St Andrews

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