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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
89
Citations
26430
World Ranking
509
National Ranking
73

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Rory P. Wilson is affiliated with Swansea University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a particular focus on Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Small Animals, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist has contributed to topics including Avian ecology and behavior, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Bat Biology and Ecology Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Marine animal studies overview, Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies, and Fish Ecology and Management Studies.

Frequent publication venues for their work include Animal Biotelemetry, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Ecology and Evolution, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, and Movement Ecology.

Notable recent papers include:

  1. Physical limits of flight performance in the heaviest soaring bird, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  2. Animal tag technology keeps coming of age: an engineering perspective, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  3. Dead-reckoning animal movements in R: a reappraisal using Gundog.Tracks, 2021, Animal Biotelemetry
  4. Wearable sensors for monitoring marine environments and their inhabitants, 2023, Nature Biotechnology
  5. Why did the animal turn? Time-varying step selection analysis for inference between observed turning-points in high frequency data, 2021, Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Rory P. Wilson include Mark D. Holton, D. Michael Scantlebury, Richard Gunner, David G. Ainley, and Carlos M. Duarte.

Wilson has published books as well, including The Aquatic World of Penguins (2023) through Springer International Publishing.

Among their recognitions, Rory P. Wilson was appointed as a Member of Academia Europaea in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Scaling laws of marine predator search behaviour

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

  • Moving towards acceleration for estimates of activity-specific metabolic rate in free-living animals: the case of the cormorant

    Rory P. Wilson;Craig R. White;Flavio Roberto Quintana;Lewis G. Halsey

  • Observing the unwatchable through acceleration logging of animal behavior

    Danielle D Brown;Roland Kays;Roland Kays;Roland Kays;Martin Wikelski;Martin Wikelski;Martin Wikelski;Rory Wilson

  • Trends and perspectives in animal-attached remote sensing

    Yan Ropert-Coudert;Rory P. Wilson

  • Prying into the intimate details of animal lives: use of a daily diary on animals

    Rory P. Wilson;E. L. C. Shepard;N. Liebsch

  • Making overall dynamic body acceleration work: on the theory of acceleration as a proxy for energy expenditure

    Adrian C. Gleiss;Rory P. Wilson;Emily L. C. Shepard

  • Energy Landscapes Shape Animal Movement Ecology

    Emily L. C. Shepard;Rory P. Wilson;W. Gareth Rees;Edward Grundy

  • HYDRODYNAMIC ASPECTS OF DESIGN AND ATTACHMENT OF A BACK-MOUNTED DEVICE IN PENGUINS

    Rudolf Bannasch;Rory P. Wilson;Boris Culik

  • Measuring devices on wild animals: what constitutes acceptable practice?

    Rory P. Wilson;Clive R. McMahon

  • Trans-ancestry genome-wide association study identifies 12 genetic loci influencing blood pressure and implicates a role for DNA methylation

    Norihiro Kato;Marie Loh;Marie Loh;Marie Loh;Fumihiko Takeuchi;Niek Verweij

  • Tri-axial dynamic acceleration as a proxy for animal energy expenditure; should we be summing values or calculating the vector?

    Lama Qasem;Antonia Cardew;Alexis Wilson;Iwan Griffiths

  • DNA methylation signatures in peripheral blood strongly predict all-cause mortality

    Yan Zhang;Rory Wilson;Jonathan Heiss;Lutz P. Breitling

  • Recording Devices on Free‐Ranging Marine Animals: Does Measurement Affect Foraging Performance?

    Rory P. Wilson;W. Stewart Grant;David C. Duffy

  • Optimizing the use of biologgers for movement ecology research

    Hannah J Williams;Lucy A Taylor;Lucy A Taylor;Simon Benhamou;Allert I Bijleveld

  • Derivation of body motion via appropriate smoothing of acceleration data

    Emily L. C. Shepard;Rory P. Wilson;Lewis G. Halsey;Flavio Quintana

  • Diving Birds in Cold Water: Do Archimedes and Boyle Determine Energetic Costs?

    Rory P. Wilson;Kit Hustler;Peter G. Ryan;Alan E. Burger

  • Assessing the development and application of the accelerometry technique for estimating energy expenditure.

    Lewis G. Halsey;Emily L.C. Shepard;Rory P. Wilson

  • Remote-sensing systems and seabirds: their use, abuse and potential for measuring marine environmental variables

    Rory P. Wilson;David Grémillet;Jon Syder;Mandy A. M. Kierspel

  • The relationship between oxygen consumption and body acceleration in a range of species.

    L.G. Halsey;E.L.C. Shepard;F. Quintana;F. Quintana;A. Gomez Laich

  • Estimates for energy expenditure in free-living animals using acceleration proxies: A reappraisal

    Rory P. Wilson;Luca Börger;Mark D. Holton;D. Michael Scantlebury

  • When three per cent may not be three per cent; device-equipped seabirds experience variable flight constraints

    Sylvie P. Vandenabeele;Emily L. Shepard;Adam Grogan;Rory P. Wilson

  • Research priorities for seabirds: improving conservation and management in the 21st century

    R. Lewison;D. Oro;B. J. Godley;L. Underhill

  • Oceanic respite for wandering albatrosses.

    Henri Weimerskirch;Henri Weimerskirch;Rory P. Wilson

Frequent Co-Authors

Flavio Quintana
Flavio Quintana National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Emily L. C. Shepard
Emily L. C. Shepard Swansea University
Boris M. Culik
Boris M. Culik Kiel University
Melanie Waldenberger
Melanie Waldenberger Helmholtz Zentrum München
Annette Peters
Annette Peters Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Carlos M. Duarte
Carlos M. Duarte King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Adrian C. Gleiss
Adrian C. Gleiss Murdoch University
Christian Gieger
Christian Gieger Helmholtz Zentrum München
David Grémillet
David Grémillet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Yan Ropert-Coudert
Yan Ropert-Coudert Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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