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Stuart Bearhop is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on Ecology and related subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Bearhop's work covers several main topics within ecology, with significant contributions to Avian ecology and behavior, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Marine animal studies overview, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, and Marine and fisheries research.

The scientist has published frequently in the following venues:

  • Ibis
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Journal of Applied Ecology
  • Movement Ecology
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Stuart Bearhop has collaborated with various researchers including Stephen C. Votier, Robbie A. McDonald, Geoff M. Hilton, Richard B. Sherley, and Luke Ozsanlav-Harris, with whom they have multiple co-authored publications.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Bearhop include:

  • A deepening understanding of animal culture suggests lessons for conservation, 2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Migrant birds and mammals live faster than residents, 2020, Nature Communications
  • GPS tracking reveals landfill closures induce higher foraging effort and habitat switching in gulls, 2021, Movement Ecology
  • Variation in movement strategies: Capital versus income migration, 2022, Journal of Animal Ecology
  • 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

Best Publications

  • Comparing isotopic niche widths among and within communities: SIBER - Stable Isotope Bayesian Ellipses in R.

    Andrew L. Jackson;Richard Inger;Andrew C. Parnell;Stuart Bearhop

  • Source partitioning using stable isotopes: coping with too much variation.

    Andrew C. Parnell;Richard Inger;Stuart Bearhop;Andrew L. Jackson

  • Determining trophic niche width: a novel approach using stable isotope analysis

    Stuart Bearhop;Stuart Bearhop;Colin E. Adams;Susan Waldron;Richard A. Fuller

  • Applying stable isotopes to examine food‐web structure: an overview of analytical tools

    Craig A. Layman;Marcio S. Araujo;Ross Boucek;Caroline M. Hammerschlag-Peyer

  • A niche for isotopic ecology

    Seth D. Newsome;Carlos Martinez del Rio;Stuart Bearhop;Donald L. Phillips

  • Best practices for use of stable isotope mixing models in food-web studies

    Donald L. Phillips;Richard Inger;Stuart Bearhop;Andrew L. Jackson

  • Bayesian stable isotope mixing models

    Andrew C. Parnell;Donald L. Phillips;Stuart Bearhop;Brice X. Semmens

  • Carry‐over effects as drivers of fitness differences in animals

    Xavier A. Harrison;Jonathan D. Blount;Richard Inger;D. Ryan Norris

  • Factors That Influence Assimilation Rates and Fractionation of Nitrogen and Carbon Stable Isotopes in Avian Blood and Feathers

    Stuart Bearhop;Susan Waldron;Stephen C. Votier;Robert W. Furness

  • Food for thought: supplementary feeding as a driver of ecological change in avian populations

    Gillian N Robb;Robbie A McDonald;Dan E Chamberlain;Stuart Bearhop;Stuart Bearhop

  • Applications of stable isotope analyses to avian ecology

    Richard Inger;Stuart Bearhop

  • Marine renewable energy: potential benefits to biodiversity? An urgent call for research

    Richard Inger;Martin J. Attrill;Stuart Bearhop;Annette C. Broderick

  • Assortative Mating as a Mechanism for Rapid Evolution of a Migratory Divide

    Stuart Bearhop;Wolfgang Fiedler;Robert W. Furness;Stephen C. Votier

  • Space partitioning without territoriality in gannets.

    Ewan D. Wakefield;Thomas W. Bodey;Stuart Bearhop;Jez Blackburn

  • Changes in fisheries discard rates and seabird communities

    Stephen C. Votier;Robert W. Furness;Stuart Bearhop;Stuart Bearhop;Jonathan E. Crane

  • Applications of stable isotope techniques to the ecology of mammals

    Kerry Crawford;Robbie A. Mcdonald;Stuart Bearhop

  • Individual responses of seabirds to commercial fisheries revealed using GPS tracking, stable isotopes and vessel monitoring systems

    Stephen C. Votier;Stuart Bearhop;Matthew J. Witt;Richard Inger

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

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

  • Winter feeding of birds increases productivity in the subsequent breeding season.

    Gillian N Robb;Robbie A McDonald;Dan E Chamberlain;S. James Reynolds

  • A Phylogenetically Controlled Meta-Analysis of Biologging Device Effects on Birds: Deleterious effects and a call for more standardized reporting of study data

    Thomas W. Bodey;Ian R. Cleasby;Fraser Bell;Nicole Parr

  • Stable isotope ratios indicate that body condition in migrating passerines is influenced by winter habitat.

    Stuart Bearhop;Geoff M. Hilton;Stephen C. Votier;Susan Waldron

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen C. Votier
Stephen C. Votier Heriot-Watt University
Richard Inger
Richard Inger University of Exeter
Robbie A. McDonald
Robbie A. McDonald University of Exeter
Robert W. Furness
Robert W. Furness University of Glasgow
Jason Newton
Jason Newton University of Glasgow
Richard A. Phillips
Richard A. Phillips British Antarctic Survey
Keith C. Hamer
Keith C. Hamer University of Leeds
Susan Waldron
Susan Waldron University of Glasgow
Samantha C. Patrick
Samantha C. Patrick University of Liverpool
Rona A. R. McGill
Rona A. R. McGill University of Glasgow

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