ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2020
Perturbation drives changing metapopulation dynamics in a top marine predator.
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Haul-Out Site Use and Connectivity of Harbour Seals Between Management Units in Southern Scandinavia.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Reduced Adult Survival Estimated in Areas of Decline of Harbour Seal Populations in Scotland.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Range-Wide Genomic Analysis Reveals Regional and Meta-Population Dynamics of Decline and Recovery in the Grey Seal.Molecular ecology · 2025Article
- Sequence Diversity and Differences at the Highly Duplicated MHC-I Gene Reflect Viral Susceptibility in Sympatric Pinniped Species.The Journal of heredity · 2022Article
- Genetic and particle modelling approaches to assessing population connectivity in a deep sea lobster.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Origin and expansion of the world's most widespread pinniped: Range-wide population genomics of the harbour seal (Phoca vitulina).Molecular ecology · 2022Article
- Sustained reduction in numbers of Australian fur seal pups: Implications for future population monitoring.PloS one · 2022Article
- Perturbation drives changing metapopulation dynamics in a top marine predator.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
Metapopulation theory assumes a balance between local decays/extinctions and local growth/new colonisations. Here we investigate whether recent population declines across part of the UK harbour seal range represent normal metapopulation dynamics or are indicative of perturbations potentially threatening the metapopulation viability, using 20 years of population trends, location tracking data (
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