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Stefan Garthe

Stefan Garthe

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
58
Citations
10817
World Ranking
2599
National Ranking
142

Overview

Stefan Garthe is affiliated with Kiel University in Germany and primarily conducts research within the field of Environmental Science. Their work focuses extensively on Ecology and related subfields including Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, as well as Sociology and Political Science. The main topics addressed in their body of research cover a range of ecological and conservation-related themes.

The scientist's research topics prominently include:

  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Marine and coastal plant biology

Among recent publications, Stefan Garthe has contributed to research across several notable scientific journals. Their papers include:

  • "Ecological insights from three decades of animal movement tracking across a changing Arctic" (2020), published in Science
  • "Biological Earth observation with animal sensors" (2022), published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "Hotspots in the grid: Avian sensitivity and vulnerability to collision risk from energy infrastructure interactions in Europe and North Africa" (2022), published in Journal of Applied Ecology
  • "Telemetry reveals strong effects of offshore wind farms on behaviour and habitat use of common guillemots (Uria aalge) during the breeding season" (2020), published in Marine Biology
  • "Large-scale effects of offshore wind farms on seabirds of high conservation concern" (2023), published in Scientific Reports

Frequent publication venues where Stefan Garthe has contributed multiple works include:

  • Journal für Ornithologie
  • Marine Biology
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Movement Ecology
  • Ibis

The scientist often collaborates with a consistent network of co-authors, which includes:

  • Philipp Schwemmer
  • Moritz Mercker
  • Verena Peschko
  • Nele Markones
  • Pierrick Bocher

This overview encapsulates Stefan Garthe's research focus on avian and marine ecology, their involvement in environmental science and ecology subfields, and their pattern of scholarly collaboration and publication.

Best Publications

  • Diet studies of seabirds: a review and recommendations

    Robert T. Barrett;Kees Camphuysen;Tycho Anker-Nilssen;John W. Chardine

  • The impacts of fishing on marine birds

    Mark L. Tasker;C. J. Camphuysen;John Cooper;Stefan Garthe

  • Scaling possible adverse effects of marine wind farms on seabirds: developing and applying a vulnerability index

    Stefan Garthe;Ommo Hüppop

  • Amounts of discards by commercial fisheries and their significance as food for seabirds in the North Sea

    Garthe S;Camphuysen K;Furness Rw

  • 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

  • Bycatch in gillnet fisheries – An overlooked threat to waterbird populations

    R. Zydelis;J. Bellebaum;H. Osterblom;M. Vetemaa

  • Annual variation in diets, feeding locations and foraging behaviour of gannets in the North Sea: flexibility, consistency and constraint

    K. C. Hamer;E. M. Humphreys;S. Garthe;J. Hennicke

  • Forage fish, their fisheries, and their predators: who drives whom?

    Georg H. Engelhard;Myron A. Peck;Anna Rindorf;Sophie Smout

  • Distribution, diet and habitat selection by four sympatrically breeding gull species in the south-eastern North Sea

    U. Kubetzki;S. Garthe

  • Effects of ship traffic on seabirds in offshore waters: implications for marine conservation and spatial planning

    Philipp Schwemmer;Bettina Mendel;Nicole Sonntag;Volker Dierschke

  • Biological Earth observation with animal sensors.

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  • Pursuit plunging by northern gannets (Sula bassana) feeding on capelin (Mallotus villosus).

    Stefan Garthe;Silvano Benvenuti;William A. Montevecchi

  • Waterbird Populations and Pressures in the Baltic Sea

    Henrik Skov;Stefan Heinänen;Ramnas Žydelis;Jochen Bellebaum

  • Recording foraging seabirds at sea standardised recording and coding of foraging behaviour and multi-species foraging associations

    Kees Camphuysen;Stefan Garthe

  • Seabirds and offshore wind farms in European waters: Avoidance and attraction

    Volker Dierschke;Robert W. Furness;Stefan Garthe

  • Tracking seabirds to identify ecologically important and high risk marine areas in the western North Atlantic

    W.A. Montevecchi;A. Hedd;L. McFarlane Tranquilla;D.A. Fifield

  • Distribution of ship-following seabirds and their utilization of discards in the North Sea in summer

    Stefan Garthe;Ommo Hüppop

  • Foraging plasticity in a pelagic seabird species along a marine productivity gradient

    Vitor H. Paiva;Pedro Geraldes;Iván Ramírez;Ana Meirinho

  • Fine-scale foraging behaviour of a medium-ranging marine predator

    Keith C Hamer;E M Humphreys;E M Humphreys;M C Magalhães;M C Magalhães;Stefan Garthe

  • Consumption of discards by seabirds in the North Sea

    C.J. Camphuysen;B. Calvo;J. Durinck;K. Ensor

  • Contrasting foraging tactics by northern gannets ( Sula bassana ) breeding in different oceanographic domains with different prey fields

    Stefan Garthe;William A. Montevecchi;Gilles Chapdelaine;Jean-Francois Rail

  • Ecological insights from three decades of animal movement tracking across a changing Arctic

    Sarah C. Davidson;Sarah C. Davidson;Sarah C. Davidson;Gil Bohrer;Eliezer Gurarie;Eliezer Gurarie;Scott LaPoint;Scott LaPoint

Frequent Co-Authors

William A. Montevecchi
William A. Montevecchi Memorial University of Newfoundland
Vitor H. Paiva
Vitor H. Paiva University of Algarve
Robert W. Furness
Robert W. Furness University of Glasgow
Jaime A. Ramos
Jaime A. Ramos University of Coimbra
Richard A. Phillips
Richard A. Phillips British Antarctic Survey
David Grémillet
David Grémillet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Christian C. Voigt
Christian C. Voigt Leibniz Association
Sarah Wanless
Sarah Wanless Natural Environment Research Council
Yan Ropert-Coudert
Yan Ropert-Coudert Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Akiko Kato
Akiko Kato University of La Rochelle

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