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Overview

W. Don Bowen is affiliated with the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to ecology and related subfields such as global and planetary change, atmospheric science, ocean engineering, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The scientist has published extensively in the area of marine animal studies, contributing to topics including marine and fisheries research, arctic and antarctic ice dynamics, avian ecology and behavior, animal behavior and reproduction, and fish ecology and management studies.

Frequent coauthors include Cornelia E. den Heyer, Damian C. Lidgard, Sara J. Iverson, Shelley L. C. Lang, and Janelle J. Badger.

W. Don Bowen has published papers across several reputable venues. The most frequent publication venues identified are Marine Mammal Science, Ecology and Evolution, Movement Ecology, Heredity, and The American Naturalist.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Contrasting trends in gray seal (Halichoerus grypus) pup production throughout the increasing northwest Atlantic metapopulation, 2020, Marine Mammal Science
  • Genetic association with boldness and maternal performance in a free-ranging population of grey seals (Halichoerus grypus), 2021, Heredity
  • Sex-differences in fine-scale home-range use in an upper-trophic level marine predator, 2020, Movement Ecology
  • Foraging behaviour of a continental shelf marine predator, the grey seal (Halichoerus grypus), is associated with in situ, subsurface oceanographic conditions, 2020, Movement Ecology
  • Exploring causal components of plasticity in grey seal birthdates: Effects of intrinsic traits, demography, and climate, 2020, Ecology and Evolution

Best Publications

  • QUANTITATIVE FATTY ACID SIGNATURE ANALYSIS: A NEW METHOD OF ESTIMATING PREDATOR DIETS

    Sara J. Iverson;Chris Field;W. Don Bowen;Wade Blanchard

  • Key Questions in Marine Megafauna Movement Ecology

    Graeme C. Hays;Luciana C. Ferreira;Luciana C. Ferreira;Ana M.M. Sequeira;Mark G. Meekan

  • Translating Marine Animal Tracking Data into Conservation Policy and Management

    Graeme C. Hays;Helen Bailey;Steven J. Bograd;W. Don Bowen

  • Birth weight and neonatal survival of harbour seal pups are positively correlated with genetic variation measured by microsatellites

    DW Coltman;WD Bowen;Jonathan M. Wright

  • Role of marine mammals in aquatic ecosystems

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  • Intraspecific variation in movement patterns: modeling individual behaviour in a large marine predator

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  • Among- and within-species variability in fatty acid signatures of marine fish and invertebrates on the Scotian Shelf, Georges Bank, and southern Gulf of St. Lawrence

    Suzanne M Budge;Sara J Iverson;W Don Bowen;Robert G Ackman

  • Prey-dependent foraging tactics and prey profitability in a marine mammal

    W. D. Bowen;D. Tully;Daryl J. Boness;B. M. Bulheier

  • Sex-specific, seasonal foraging tactics of adult grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) revealed by state–space analysis

    Greg A. Breed;Ian D. Jonsen;Ransom A. Myers;W. Don Bowen

  • The Evolution of Maternal Care in Pinnipeds

    Daryl J. Boness;W. Don Bowen

  • Sex differences in grey seal diet reflect seasonal variation in foraging behaviour and reproductive expenditure: evidence from quantitative fatty acid signature analysis.

    Carrie A. Beck;Sara J. Iverson;W. Don Bowen;Wade Blanchard

  • The effect of maternal size and milk energy output on pup growth in grey seals (Halichoerus grypus)

    Sara J. Iverson;W. Don Bowen;Daryl J. Boness;Olav T. Oftedal

  • Sexual segregation of seasonal foraging habitats in a non-migratory marine mammal

    Greg A Breed;W.D Bowen;J.I McMillan;M.L Leonard

  • Birth to weaning in 4 days: remarkable growth in the hooded seal, Cystophora cristata

    W. D. Bowen;O. T. Oftedal;D. J. Boness

  • Methods of estimating marine mammal diets: A review of validation experiments and sources of bias and uncertainty

    W. D. Bowen;S. J. Iverson

  • Dietary effects on the fatty acid signature of whole Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua)

    Penny E Kirsch;Sara J Iverson;W Don Bowen;Stephen R Kerr

  • Evidence of a maternal foraging cycle resembling that of otariid seals in a small phocid, the harbor seal

    Daryl J. Boness;W. D. Bowen;Olav T. Oftedal

  • Mass and energy transfer during lactation in a small phocid, the harbor seal (Phoca vitulina)

    W. Don Bowen;Olav T. Oftedal;Daryl J. Boness

  • Reconstruction of pinniped diets: accounting for complete digestion of otoliths and cephalopod beaks

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  • LINKING MOVEMENT, DIVING, AND HABITAT TO FORAGING SUCCESS IN A LARGE MARINE PREDATOR

    Deborah Austin;W. Don Bowen;Jim I. McMillan;Sara J. Iverson

  • Reproductive performance in grey seals: age-related improvement and senescence in a capital breeder

    W. D. Bowen;Sara J. Iverson;J. I. Mcmillan;D. J. Boness;D. J. Boness

  • Variation in Milk Production and Lactation Performance in Grey Seals and Consequences for Pup Growth and Weaning Characteristics

    Jo‐Ann E. Mellish;Sara J. Iverson;W. Don Bowen

  • Variation in coyote social organization: the influence of prey size

    W. Don Bowen

Frequent Co-Authors

Sara J. Iverson
Sara J. Iverson Dalhousie University
Daryl J. Boness
Daryl J. Boness University of New England
David W. Sims
David W. Sims University of Southampton
Olav T. Oftedal
Olav T. Oftedal Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Ian D. Jonsen
Ian D. Jonsen Macquarie University
Mike O. Hammill
Mike O. Hammill Fisheries and Oceans Canada
David W. Coltman
David W. Coltman University of Western Ontario
David Righton
David Righton Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
Marty L. Leonard
Marty L. Leonard Dalhousie University
Wade Blanchard
Wade Blanchard Australian National University

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