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Rona A. R. McGill is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Oceanography, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their research topics cover a range of environmental and ecological studies, with a significant focus on Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Marine animal studies overview, Avian ecology and behavior, Marine and fisheries research, Mercury impact and mitigation studies, Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.

Recent scholarly contributions include several papers published between 2020 and 2022. These papers are:

  • Mercury exposure in an endangered seabird: long-term changes and relationships with trophic ecology and breeding success, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Carbon burial over the last four millennia is regulated by both climatic and land use change, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Spatial and sex differences in mercury contamination of skuas in the Southern Ocean, 2022, Environmental Pollution
  • Stable isotopes demonstrate seasonally stable benthic-pelagic coupling as newly fixed nutrients are rapidly transferred through food chains in an estuarine fish community, 2022, Journal of Fish Biology
  • Tracking animal movements using biomarkers in tail hairs: a novel approach for animal geolocating from sulfur isoscapes, 2020, Movement Ecology

Rona A. R. McGill frequently publishes in several venues including:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Journal of Fish Biology
  • Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Global Change Biology

The scientist has collaborated recurrently with co-authors such as Jason Newton, William F. Mills, Richard A. Phillips, Paco Bustamante, and Yves Cherel. These collaborations have contributed significantly to the volume of their published work.

Best Publications

  • Stable isotopes indicate sex-specific and long-term individual foraging specialisation in diving seabirds

    Stuart Bearhop;Richard A. Phillips;Rona McGill;Yves Cherel

  • The effect of growth rate on tissue‐diet isotopic spacing in rapidly growing animals. An experimental study with Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

    Clive N. Trueman;Rona A. R. McGill;Philippe H. Guyard

  • Stable isotopes reveal individual variation in migration strategies and habitat preferences in a suite of seabirds during the nonbreeding period

    Richard A. Phillips;Stuart Bearhop;Rona A. R. Mcgill;Deborah A. Dawson

  • Diet and foraging areas of Southern Ocean seabirds and their prey inferred from stable isotopes: review and case study of Wilson's storm-petrel

    Petra Quillfeldt;Rona A.R. McGill;Robert W. Furness

  • Heavy metal pollution and Pb isotopes in urban soils of Napoli, Italy

    D. Cicchella;B. De Vivo;A. Lima;S. Albanese

  • Sexual segregation in distribution, diet and trophic level of seabirds: insights from stable isotope analysis

    Richard A. Phillips;Rona A. R. McGill;Deborah A. Dawson;Stuart Bearhop

  • Competition and phylogeny determine community structure in Müllerian co-mimics

    Markos A. Alexandrou;Claudio Oliveira;Marjorie Maillard;Rona A. R. McGill

  • Food web dynamics in the Scotia Sea in summer: A stable isotope study

    Gabriele Stowasser;Angus Atkinson;R.A.R McGill;Richard Phillips

  • Influence of trophic position and foraging range on mercury levels within a seabird community

    O. R. J. Anderson;Richard A. Phillips;R.A. McDonald;Richard F. Shore

  • Stable isotope evidence of diverse species-specific and individual wintering strategies in seabirds.

    Y Cherel;Richard A Phillips;Keith A Hobson;Rona McGill

  • Movements, winter distribution and activity patterns of Falkland and brown skuas: Insights from loggers and isotopes

    Richard A. Phillips;Paulo Catry;Janet R. D. Silk;Stuart Bearhop

  • Moving polewards in winter: a recent change in the migratory strategy of a pelagic seabird?

    Petra Quillfeldt;Juan Francisco Masello;Rona A. R. McGill;Mark Adams

  • The importance of pelagic longline fishery discards for a seabird community determined through stable isotope analysis

    Leandro Bugoni;Rona A.R. McGill;Robert W. Furness

  • Effects of preservation methods on stable isotope signatures in bird tissues.

    Leandro Bugoni;Rona A. R. McGill;Robert W. Furness

  • Integrated behavioural and stable isotope data reveal altered diet linked to low breeding success in urban-dwelling blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus).

    Christopher J. Pollock;Pablo Capilla-Lasheras;Pablo Capilla-Lasheras;Rona A. R. McGill;Barbara Helm

  • Differences in stable isotopes in blood and feathers of seabirds are consistent across species, age and latitude: implications for food web studies

    Petra Quillfeldt;Leandro Bugoni;Rona A. R. McGill;Juan Francisco Masello

  • Urban geochemistry: research strategies to assist risk assessment and remediation of brownfield sites in urban areas

    Iain Thornton;Margaret E. Farago;Catherine R. Thums;Randall R Parrish

  • Stable isotope analysis reveals sexual and environmental variability and individual consistency in foraging of thin-billed prions

    Petra Quillfeldt;Rona A. R. McGill;Juan Francisco Masello;Felix Weiss

  • Introduced mammals coexist with seabirds at New Island, Falkland Islands: abundance, habitat preferences, and stable isotope analysis of diet

    Petra Quillfeldt;Ingrid Schenk;Rona A. R. McGill;Ian J. Strange

  • Trophic segregation of Falkland Islands seabirds: insights from stable isotope analysis

    Felix Weiss;Robert W. Furness;Rona A. R. McGill;Ian J. Strange

  • Element patterns in albatrosses and petrels: influence of trophic position, foraging range, and prey type.

    O.R.J. Anderson;R.A. Phillips;R.F. Shore;R.A.R. McGill

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert W. Furness
Robert W. Furness University of Glasgow
Petra Quillfeldt
Petra Quillfeldt University of Giessen
Richard A. Phillips
Richard A. Phillips British Antarctic Survey
Stuart Bearhop
Stuart Bearhop University of Exeter
Yves Cherel
Yves Cherel Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jason Newton
Jason Newton University of Glasgow
Randall R. Parrish
Randall R. Parrish University of Portsmouth
Robbie A. McDonald
Robbie A. McDonald University of Exeter
Nicholas Polunin
Nicholas Polunin Newcastle University
Richard F. Shore
Richard F. Shore Lancaster University

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