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Overview

Peter Dann is affiliated with Monash University in Australia and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research spans various subfields, including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, and Genetics.

Their scholarly work covers several main topics such as Avian ecology and behavior, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Marine animal studies overview, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, and Marine and coastal plant biology.

Peter Dann has contributed to publications in multiple academic venues, with frequent appearances in Biological Invasions, Science, Nature Communications, PLoS ONE, and Royal Society Open Science.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Peter Dann include:

  • Hemispheric asymmetry in ocean change and the productivity of ecosystem sentinels (2021, Science)
  • Genomic insights into the secondary aquatic transition of penguins (2022, Nature Communications)
  • A physiological cost to behavioural tolerance (2020, Behavioural Processes)
  • Sustained reduction in numbers of Australian fur seal pups: Implications for future population monitoring (2022, PLoS ONE)
  • Trophic niches of a seabird assemblage in Bass Strait, south-eastern Australia (2020, PeerJ)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Michael A. Weston, Duncan R. Sutherland, Laura X. L. Tan, Yves Cherel, and Ursula Ellenberg.

Best Publications

  • Pollution, habitat loss, fishing, and climate change as critical threats to penguins.

    Phil N. Trathan;Pablo García-Borboroglu;Dee Boersma;Charles-André Bost

  • Seabird mortality induced by land-based artificial lights

    Airam Rodríguez;Nick D. Holmes;Peter G. Ryan;Kerry-Jayne Wilson

  • The penguins : ecology and management

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  • Distribution, Population Trends and Factors Influencing the Population Size of Little Penguins Eudyptula minor on Phillip Island, Victoria

    Peter Dann

  • A global threats overview for Numeniini populations: synthesising expert knowledge for a group of declining migratory birds

    James W. Pearce-Higgins;Daniel J. Brown;David J. T. Douglas;Jose A. Alves

  • Observed and predicted effects of climate on Australian seabirds

    Lynda E. Chambers;Carol A. Devney;Bradley C. Congdon;Nic Dunlop

  • SEASONAL AND ANNUAL FORAGING MOVEMENTS OF LITTLE PENGUINS FROM PHILLIP ISLAND, VICTORIA

    M Collins;John Mike Cullen;Peter Dann

  • Interspecific variations in the gastrointestinal microbiota in penguins.

    Meagan L. Dewar;John P. Y. Arnould;Peter Dann;Phil Trathan

  • Mortality and breeding failure of little penguins, Eudyptula minor, in Victoria, 1995–96, following a widespread mortality of pilchard, Sardinops sagax

    Peter Dann;F. I. Norman;J. M. Cullen;F. J. Neira

  • Fatal Attraction of Short-Tailed Shearwaters to Artificial Lights

    Airam Rodríguez;Graeme Burgan;Peter Dann;Roth Jessop

  • Predicting onset and success of breeding in little penguins Eudyptula minor from ocean temperatures

    J. M. Cullen;L. E. Chambers;P. C. Coutin;P. Dann

  • Reproductive performance of little penguinsEudyptula minorin relation to year, age, pair-bond duration, breeding date and individual quality

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  • High-coverage genomes to elucidate the evolution of penguins.

    Hailin Pan;Hailin Pan;Theresa L. Cole;Theresa L. Cole;Xupeng Bi;Miaoquan Fang

  • 3 – Survival, Patterns of Reproduction, and Lifetime Reproductive Output in Little Blue Penguins (Eudyptula minor) on Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia

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  • Determining the sex of Little Penguins (Eudyptula minor) in northern Bass Strait using morphometric measurements

    J. P. Y. Arnould;P. Dann;J. M. Cullen

  • Diet segregation between two colonies of little penguins Eudyptula minor in southeast Australia

    André Chiaradia;Manuela G. Forero;Keith A. Hobson;Stephen E. Swearer

  • Tangled and drowned: a global review of penguin bycatch in fisheries

    Rory Crawford;Ursula Ellenberg;Esteban Frere;Christina Hagen

  • Movements and Patterns of Mortality at Sea of Little Penguins Eudyptula minor From Phillip Island, Victoria

    Peter Dann;J.M. Cullen;R. Thoday;R. Jessop

  • Genomic insights into the secondary aquatic transition of penguins

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  • Reducing light-induced mortality of seabirds: High pressure sodium lights decrease the fatal attraction of shearwaters

    Airam Rodríguez;Airam Rodríguez;Peter Dann;André Chiaradia

  • At-sea movements and habitat use of adult male Australian fur seals (Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus)

    Roger KirkwoodR. Kirkwood;Michael LynchM. Lynch;Nick GalesN. Gales;Peter DannP. Dann

  • Energy requirements of free ranging little penguin, eudyptula minor

    Daniel P. Costa;Peter Dann;William Disher

  • Influence of fasting during moult on the faecal microbiota of penguins.

    Meagan L. Dewar;John P. Y. Arnould;Lutz Krause;Phil Trathan

  • Foraging behaviour and habitat selection of the little penguin Eudyptula minor during early chick rearing in Bass Strait, Australia

    Andrew J. Hoskins;Peter Dann;Yan Ropert-Coudert;Akiko Kato

  • Interspecific variations in the faecal microbiota of Procellariiform seabirds.

    Meagan L. Dewar;John P.Y. Arnould;Lutz Krause;Peter Dann

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael A. Weston
Michael A. Weston Deakin University
John P. Y. Arnould
John P. Y. Arnould Deakin University
Eric J. Woehler
Eric J. Woehler Australasian Seabird Group ·
Dayanthi Nugegoda
Dayanthi Nugegoda RMIT University
M. Thomas P. Gilbert
M. Thomas P. Gilbert University of Copenhagen
Lutz Krause
Lutz Krause University of Queensland
Jennifer L. Lavers
Jennifer L. Lavers Esperance Tjaltjraak Native Title Aboriginal Corporation
Manuela G. Forero
Manuela G. Forero Spanish National Research Council
Christopher P. Burridge
Christopher P. Burridge University of Tasmania
Alistair J. Hobday
Alistair J. Hobday Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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