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Overview

Terrie M. Williams is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz, in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science, with a significant body of work centered around marine animal studies and ecological dynamics.

Their recent publications include the following:

  • Brain activity of diving seals reveals short sleep cycles at depth, 2023, Science
  • Surviving in steep terrain: a lab-to-field assessment of locomotor costs for wild mountain lions (Puma concolor), 2020, Movement Ecology
  • Temporal scale of habitat selection for large carnivores: Balancing energetics, risk and finding prey, 2021, Journal of Animal Ecology
  • The impact of rising sea temperatures on an Arctic top predator, the narwhal, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Behavioral Response Study on Seismic Airgun and Vessel Exposures in Narwhals, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science

Terrie's frequent co-authors include:

  • Daniel P. Costa
  • Mads Peter Heide-Jørgensen
  • Randall W. Davis
  • Susanna B. Blackwell
  • Outi M. Tervo

The main publication venues where their research has appeared are:

  • Science
  • Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Functional Ecology
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Integrative and Comparative Biology

Terrie's work spans several subfields of environmental science, including:

  • Ecology
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Oceanography
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Endocrine and Autonomic Systems

The key topics covered across their publications include:

  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Cardiovascular and Diving-Related Complications
  • Physiological and biochemical adaptations
  • Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses

Best Publications

  • Killer Whale Predation on Sea Otters Linking Oceanic and Nearshore Ecosystems

    J. A. Estes;M. T. Tinker;T. M. Williams;D. F. Doak

  • Genome 10K: A Proposal to Obtain Whole-Genome Sequence for 10 000 Vertebrate Species

    David Haussler;Stephen J. O'Brien;Oliver A. Ryder;F. Keith Barker

  • Sequential megafaunal collapse in the North Pacific Ocean: An ongoing legacy of industrial whaling?

    A. M. Springer;J. A. Estes;G. B. van Vliet;T. M. Williams

  • Sink or swim: strategies for cost-efficient diving by marine mammals.

    Terrie M. Williams;R. W. Davis;Lee A Fuiman;J. Francis

  • KILLER APPETITES: ASSESSING THE ROLE OF PREDATORS IN ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES

    Terrie M. Williams;James A. Estes;Daniel F. Doak;Alan M. Springer

  • Hunting Behavior of a Marine Mammal Beneath the Antarctic Fast Ice

    R. W. Davis;Lee A Fuiman;T. M. Williams;S. O. Collier

  • Understanding and predicting ecological dynamics: are major surprises inevitable?

    Daniel F. Doak;James A. Estes;Benjamin S. Halpern;Ute Jacob

  • The evolution of cost efficient swimming in marine mammals: limits to energetic optimization

    Terrie M. Williams

  • The cost of foraging by a marine predator, the Weddell seal Leptonychotes weddellii: pricing by the stroke

    Terrie M. Williams;Lee A. Fuiman;Markus Horning;Randall W. Davis

  • Travel at low energetic cost by swimming and wave-riding bottlenose dolphins

    T. M. Williams;W. A. Friedl;M. L. Fong;R. M. Yamada

  • Body size and skeletal muscle myoglobin of cetaceans: adaptations for maximizing dive duration.

    S.R. Noren;T.M. Williams

  • Instantaneous energetics of puma kills reveal advantage of felid sneak attacks

    Terrie M. Williams;Lisa Wolfe;Tracy Davis;Traci Kendall

  • The physiology of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus): heart rate, metabolic rate and plasma lactate concentration during exercise

    T M Williams;W A Friedl;J E Haun

  • Scale Dependent Behavioral Responses to Human Development by a Large Predator, the Puma

    Christopher C. Wilmers;Yiwei Wang;Barry Nickel;Paul Houghtaling

  • Swimming Performance and Hydrodynamic Characteristics of Harbor Seals Phoca vitulina

    T. M. Williams;G. L. Kooyman

  • The diving physiology of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). II. Biomechanics and changes in buoyancy at depth

    Randolph C. Skrovan;T. M. Williams;P. S. Berry;P. W. Moore

  • A killer appetite: metabolic consequences of carnivory in marine mammals.

    Terrie M Williams;J Haun;R.W Davis;L.A Fuiman

  • Swimming Metabolism of Yearling and Adult Harbor Seals Phoca vitulina

    R. W. Davis;T. M. Williams;G. L. Kooyman

  • Behavior of midwater fishes under the Antarctic ice: observations by a predator

    Lee A Fuiman;R. W. Davis;T. M. Williams

  • Sequential Megafaunal Collapse in the North Pacific Ocean: An Ongoing Legacy of Industrial

    A. M. Springer;J. A. Estes;G. B. van Vliet;T. M. Williams

Frequent Co-Authors

Randall W. Davis
Randall W. Davis Texas A&M University
James A. Estes
James A. Estes University of California, Santa Cruz
Daniel P. Costa
Daniel P. Costa University of California, Santa Cruz
Lee A. Fuiman
Lee A. Fuiman The University of Texas at Austin
Daniel F. Doak
Daniel F. Doak University of Colorado Boulder
Christopher C. Wilmers
Christopher C. Wilmers University of California, Santa Cruz
Frank E. Fish
Frank E. Fish West Chester University
Gerald L. Kooyman
Gerald L. Kooyman University of California, San Diego
Donald A. Croll
Donald A. Croll University of California, Santa Cruz
Mads Peter Heide-Jørgensen
Mads Peter Heide-Jørgensen University of Copenhagen

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