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Pierre A. Pistorius is affiliated with Nelson Mandela University in South Africa. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Environmental Science, with a strong focus on Ecology and its related subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's work covers various topics centered on marine and avian ecology. These include:

  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

They have published several recent papers in notable journals. Among these are:

  • Tracking of marine predators to protect Southern Ocean ecosystems, 2020, Nature
  • Marine Ecosystem Assessment for the Southern Ocean: Birds and Marine Mammals in a Changing Climate, 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Genome-wide analyses reveal drivers of penguin diversification, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Climate change impacts on seabirds and marine mammals: The importance of study duration, thermal tolerance and generation time, 2021, Ecology Letters
  • The retrospective analysis of Antarctic tracking data project, 2020, Scientific Data

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Pierre A. Pistorius has worked with co-authors such as Ryan R Reisinger, Peter G. Ryan, Andrew Lowther, Richard A. Phillips, and Florian Orgeret.

Their contributions have appeared repeatedly in several academic journals including Diversity and Distributions, Marine Biology, Parasitology, Marine Ecology Progress Series, and Ecology and Evolution.

Best Publications

  • Tracking of marine predators to protect Southern Ocean ecosystems

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

  • Marine ecosystem assessment for the Southern Ocean : Birds and marine mammals in a changing climate

    Sophie Bestley;Yan Ropert-Coudert;Susan Bengtson Nash;Cassandra M. Brooks

  • Bird-borne video-cameras show that seabird movement patterns relate to previously unrevealed proximate environment, not prey.

    Yann Tremblay;Andréa Thiebault;Ralf Mullers;Pierre Pistorius

  • Climate-driven range shifts of the king penguin in a fragmented ecosystem

    Robin Cristofari;Xiaoming Liu;Francesco Bonadonna;Yves Cherel

  • Local enhancement in a seabird: reaction distances and foraging consequence of predator aggregations

    Andréa Thiebault;Ralf H.E. Mullers;Pierre A. Pistorius;Yann Tremblay

  • Habitat modelling of tracking data from multiple marine predators identifies important areas in the Southern Indian Ocean

    Ryan Rudolf Reisinger;Ryan Rudolf Reisinger;Ben Raymond;Ben Raymond;Ben Raymond;Mark A. Hindell;Mark A. Hindell;Marthan Nieuwoudt Bester

  • Adult female survival, population trend, and the implications of early primiparity in a capital breeder, the southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina)

    P. A. Pistorius;M. N. Bester;M. N. Lewis;F. E. Taylor

  • Survivorship of a declining population of southern elephant seals, Mirounga leonina, in relation to age, sex and cohort.

    P. A. Pistorius;M. N. Bester;S. P. Kirkman

  • From colony to first patch: Processes of prey searching and social information in Cape Gannets

    Andréa Thiebault;Ralf Mullers;Pierre Pistorius;María Andrea Meza-Torres

  • Population changes in Subantarctic and Antarctic fur seals at Marion Island

    G. J. G. Hofmeyr;M. N. Bester;A. B. Makhado;P. A. Pistorius

  • Climate change impacts on seabirds and marine mammals: The importance of study duration, thermal tolerance and generation time.

    Florian Orgeret;Andréa Thiebault;Kit M Kovacs;Christian Lydersen

  • Genome-wide analyses reveal drivers of penguin diversification.

    Juliana A Vianna;Flávia A N Fernandes;María José Frugone;Henrique V Figueiró;Henrique V Figueiró

  • Temporal changes in fecundity and age at sexual maturity of southern elephant seals at Marion Island

    P.A. Pistorius;M.N. Bester;S.P. Kirkman;F.E. Taylor

  • Using systematic conservation planning to align priority areas for biodiversity and nature-based activities in marine spatial planning: A real-world application in contested marine space

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  • Group foraging increases foraging efficiency in a piscivorous diver, the African penguin.

    Alistair M. McInnes;Cuan McGeorge;Samuel Ginsberg;Lorien Pichegru

  • Evaluation of age- and sex-dependent rates of tag loss in southern elephant seals

    Pierre A. Pistorius;Marthan N. Bester;Stephen P. Kirkman;Peter L. Boveng

  • Avoidance of seismic survey activities by penguins.

    Lorien Pichegru;Reason Nyengera;Alistair M. McInnes;Pierre Pistorius

  • Population dynamics of southern elephant seals: a synthesis of three decades of demographic research at Marion Island

    PA Pistorius;Pjn de Bruyn;MN Bester

  • The retrospective analysis of Antarctic tracking data project

    Yan Ropert-Coudert;Anton P. Van de Putte;Ryan R. Reisinger;Ryan R. Reisinger;Ryan R. Reisinger;Horst Bornemann

  • Increasing trend in the number of Southern Rockhopper Penguins ( Eudyptes c. chrysocome ) breeding at the Falkland Islands

    A. M. M. Baylis;A. M. M. Baylis;A. C. Wolfaardt;S. Crofts;P. A. Pistorius

  • Dietary change in Cape gannets reflects distributional and demographic shifts in two South African commercial fish stocks

    David B. Green;Norbert T. W. Klages;Robert J. M. Crawford;Janet C. Coetzee

  • Population changes in Subantarctic and Antarctic fur seals at Marion Island : research article

    G.J.G. Hofmeyr;M.N. Bester;A.B. Makhado;P.A. Pistorius

  • Variation in the timing of moult in southern elephant seals at Marion Island : research article

    S.P. Kirkman;M.N. Bester;P.A. Pistorius;G.J.G. Hofmeyr

Frequent Co-Authors

Marthán N Bester
Marthán N Bester University of Pretoria
Ben Raymond
Ben Raymond Australian Antarctic Division
Mark A. Hindell
Mark A. Hindell University of Tasmania
Peter G. Ryan
Peter G. Ryan University of Cape Town
Henri Weimerskirch
Henri Weimerskirch Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Clive R. McMahon
Clive R. McMahon University of Tasmania
Yann Tremblay
Yann Tremblay Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Yan Ropert-Coudert
Yan Ropert-Coudert Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Charles-André Bost
Charles-André Bost University of La Rochelle
Norman Ratcliffe
Norman Ratcliffe British Antarctic Survey

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