Select Publications
Book Chapters
2023, 'Crabeater seal: Lobodon carcinophaga', in Strahan's Mammals of Australia, pp. 699 - 701
,2023, 'Family phocidae: Earless, phocid or 'true' seals', in Strahan's Mammals of Australia, pp. 695 - 695
,2023, 'Leopard seal: Hydrurga leptonyx', in Strahan's Mammals of Australia, pp. 696 - 698
,2023, 'Ross seal: Ommatophoca rossii', in Strahan's Mammals of Australia, pp. 703 - 704
,2023, 'Subfamily monachinae', in Strahan's Mammals of Australia, pp. 696 - 696
,2017, 'Leopard Seal: Hydrurga leptonyx', in Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals, Third Edition, pp. 550 - 552, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-804327-1.00163-1
,2013, 'Leopard Seal Hydrurga leptonyx', in Van Dyck S; Gynther I; Baker A (ed.), Field Companion to the Mammals of Australia, New Holland Publishers, pp. 200 - 200
,2009, 'Health assessment of the leopard seal, Hydrurga leptonyx, in Prydz Bay, Eastern Antarctica and NSW, Australia', in Kerry KR; Riddle MJ (ed.), Health status of the Leopard-seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) in Prydz Bay, Eastern Antarctica, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 167 - 192
,2009, 'Measuring Stress in Antarctic Seals', in Kerry KR; Riddle MJ (ed.), Health status of the Leopard-seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) in Prydz Bay, Eastern Antarctica, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 263 - 270
,2009, 'The leopard seal, Hydrurga leptonyx', in Perrin WF; Wursig B; Thewissen JGM (ed.), Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals, Academic Press, San Diego, pp. 673 - 674
,2009, 'The Ross seal, Ommatophoca rossii', in Perrin WF; Wursig B; Thewissen JGM (ed.), Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals, Academic Press, San Diego, pp. 988 - 990
,2008, 'Best practice techniques for monitoring the fur seal haul-out site at Steamers Head, NSW, Australia', in Lunney D; Munn A; Meikle W (ed.), Too close for comfort: Contentious issues in human-wildlife encounters, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, pp. 233 - 245
,2008, 'Leopard Seal, Hydrurga leptonyx (de Blainville, 1820)', in Van Dyck S; Strahan R (ed.), The Mammals of Australia, Reed New Holland, Australia, pp. 730 - 731
,2008, 'Status of the Steamers Head (NSW) Australian and New Zealand fur seal haul-out site and influence of environmental factors and stochastic disturbance on seal behaviour', in Lunney D; Munn A; Meikle W (ed.), Too close for comfort: Contentious issues in human-wildlife encounters, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, pp. 246 - 254
,2006, 'Leopard Seals', in Riffenburgh B (ed.), The Encyclopedia of the Antarctic, Routledge
,1995, 'Underwater vocal repertoire of the leopard seal, (Hydrurga leptonyx), in Prydz Bay, Antarctica', in Kastelein RA; Thomas JA; Nachtigall PE (ed.), Sensory Abilities of Aquatic Animals, DeSpil., Amsterdam, pp. 223 - 236
,Journal articles
2025, 'Latitudinal changes in blubber fatty acids of the South American sea lion along the Southeast Pacific Coast', Marine Environmental Research, 204, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2024.106890
,2024, 'BASSA: New software tool reveals hidden details in visualisation of low-frequency animal sounds', Ecology and Evolution, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11636
,2024, 'Characterization of pinniped vibrissal type and number', Marine Mammal Science, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mms.13166
,2023, 'Living in human-modified landscapes narrows the dietary niche of a specialised mammalian scavenger', Scientific Reports, 13, pp. 3582, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30490-6
,2023, 'Regional oceanography affects humpback whale entanglements in set fishing gear', Conservation Science and Practice, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/csp2.13034
,2023, 'Air availability and expandable vocal tracts shape the duration of mammal calls', The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 154, pp. A88 - A88, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/10.0022893
,2023, 'Arnoux’s beaked whales acoustically misidentified as Type C killer whales in Prydz Bay, Antarctica', The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 154, pp. A215 - A215, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/10.0023324
,2023, 'Evolution of the highest sound pressure levels in mammalian echolocation calls', The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 154, pp. A217 - A217, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/10.0023332
,2023, 'Evolution of the highest sound pressure levels in vertebrate communication calls', The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 154, pp. A217 - A217, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/10.0023331
,2023, 'Examining environmental conditions that influence long-term Antarctic blue whale migration patterns in the Southern Hemisphere using an 18-year passive acoustic dataset', The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 154, pp. A171 - A171, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/10.0023166
,2023, 'The extremes of mammalian hearing: The evolution of whale hearing', The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 154, pp. A48 - A48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/10.0022759
,2023, 'Extreme dietary specialisation in adult male southern elephant seals: determining variation between individual trophic diets', Marine Ecology Progress Series, 725, pp. 185 - 199, http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps14472
,2023, 'Stable isotopes infer the diet and habitat of the enigmatic pygmy right whale (Caperea marginata) off southern Australia', Frontiers in Marine Science, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1190623
,2022, 'Changes of Oceanic Conditions Drive Chagos Whale Migration Patterns in the Central Indian Ocean', Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.843875
,2022, 'Stable Isotope Oscillations in Whale Baleen Are Linked to Climate Cycles, Which May Reflect Changes in Feeding for Humpback and Southern Right Whales in the Southern Hemisphere', Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.832075
,2022, 'Effects of intraspecific competition and body mass on diet specialization in a mammalian scavenger', Ecology and Evolution, 12, pp. e8338, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8338
,2022, 'La Niña conditions influence interannual call detections of pygmy blue whales in the eastern Indian Ocean', Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.850162
,2021, 'Highly abundant core taxa in the blow within and across captive bottlenose dolphins provide evidence for a temporally stable airway microbiota', BMC Microbiology, 21, pp. 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12866-020-02076-z
,2021, 'Multiple pygmy blue whale acoustic populations in the Indian Ocean: whale song identifies a possible new population', Scientific Reports, 11, pp. 8762, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-88062-5
,2021, 'Complementary use of stable isotopes and fatty acids for quantitative diet estimation of sympatric predators, the Antarctic pack-ice seals', Oecologia, 197, pp. 729 - 742, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-021-05045-z
,2021, 'Whisker growth in Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) and applications for stable isotope studies', Ecosphere, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3846
,2021, 'Seasonal Occurrence of Sympatric Blue Whale Subspecies: the Chilean and Southeast Indian Ocean Pygmy Blue Whales With the Antarctic Blue Whale', Frontiers in Marine Science, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.671145
,2021, 'Summer circumpolar acoustic occurrence and call rates of Ross, Ommatophoca rossii, and leopard, Hydrurga leptonyx, seals in the Southern Ocean', Polar Biology, 44, pp. 433 - 450, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00300-021-02804-9
,2021, 'Conditions influencing the appearance of thermal windows and the distribution of surface temperature in hauled-out southern elephant seals', Conservation Physiology, 9, pp. coaa141, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coaa141
,2020, 'A New Blue Whale Song-Type Described for the Arabian Sea and Western Indian Ocean', Endangered Species Research, 43, pp. 495 - 515, http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/ESR01096
,2020, 'Artificial eyespots on cattle reduce predation by large carnivores', Communications Biology, 3, pp. 430, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01156-0
,2020, 'Evaluating the performance of the Bayesian mixing tool MixSIAR with fatty acid data for quantitative estimation of diet', Scientific Reports, 10, pp. 20780, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77396-1
,2020, 'Foraging behaviour of the South American sea lion (Otaria byronia) in two disparate ecosystems assessed through blubber fatty acid analysis', Scientific Reports, 10, pp. 5725, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-62178-6
,2020, 'Respiratory microbiota of humpback whales may be reduced in diversity and richness the longer they fast', Scientific Reports, 10, pp. 12645, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-69602-x
,2020, 'Does sociality drive diversity and composition of airway microbiota in cetaceans?', Environmental Microbiology Reports, 12, pp. 324 - 333, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.12835
,2019, 'Leukocyte counts in three sympatric pack-ice seal species from the western Antarctic Peninsula', Polar Biology, 42, pp. 1801 - 1809, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00300-019-02551-y
,2019, 'Interannual comparison of core taxa and community composition of the blow microbiota from East Australian humpback whales', FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 95, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiz102
,2019, 'From low to high latitudes: Changes in fatty acid desaturation in mammalian fat tissue suggest a thermoregulatory role', BMC Evolutionary Biology, 19, pp. 155, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-019-1473-5
,2019, 'Food caching by a marine apex predator, the leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx)', Canadian Journal of Zoology, 97, pp. 573 - 578, http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2018-0203
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