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  1. Temporal changes in the dietary niche of sympatric seals provides insight into the role of competition in population declines

    Article • Oikos, February 2026, Wiley

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  2. Detection of Two High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza Virus (HPAIV) Subtypes, H5N1 and H5N5, in a Mass Mortality Event in Wild Seabirds and Co‐Location With Dead Seals

    Article • Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, January 2026, Wiley

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  3. Scale-dependent foraging behaviour and habitat associations of two sympatric marine top predators

    Article • Landscape Ecology, December 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jonas Teilmann, Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  4. Can Hematological Biomarkers Indicate Diagnoses and Prognosis in Stranded Harbor Seals ( Phoca vitulina )?

    Article • Marine Mammal Science, December 2025, Wiley

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  5. At‐sea distribution of seals on the Northwest European Shelf: Towards transboundary conservation and management

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, December 2025, Wiley

    Anita Gilles, Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  6. A state-space model for estimating pinniped pup production from serial counts at breeding colonies

    Article • Ecological Modelling, December 2025, Elsevier

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  7. Ecological recovery of benthic fauna from contamination near oil and gas platforms

    Article • Marine Pollution Bulletin, December 2025, Elsevier

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  8. Clinical Chemistry Reference Intervals for Health Assessment in Wild Adult Harbour Seals

    Article • Animals, November 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  9. Spatial overlap alone downplays the level of interaction between a central place forager and the local fishery

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, November 2025, Wiley

    Dr Richard B Sherley, Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  10. Intraguild predation in sympatric seals and the effect on a declining population

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, October 2025, Wiley

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  11. Range‐Wide Genomic Analysis Reveals Regional and Meta‐Population Dynamics of Decline and Recovery in the Grey Seal

    Article • Molecular Ecology, June 2025, Wiley

    Dr Jonas Teilmann, Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  12. Quantifying and reducing the cost of tagging: combining computational fluid dynamics and diving experiments to reduce impact from animal-borne tags

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, November 2024, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  13. Developing expert scientific consensus on the environmental and societal effects of marine artificial structures prior to decommissioning

    Article • Journal of Environmental Management, February 2024, Elsevier

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  14. Fitness correlates of blubber oxidative stress and cellular defences in grey seals (Halichoerus grypus): support for the life-history-oxidative stress theory from an animal model of simultaneous lactation and fasting

    Article • Cell Stress and Chaperones, September 2023, Elsevier

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  15. Offshore energy structures in the North Sea: Past, present and future

    Article • Marine Policy, June 2023, Elsevier

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  16. Population structure and genetic connectivity reveals distinctiveness of Irish harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) and implications for conservation management

    Article • Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, December 2022, Wiley

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  17. Sympatric Seals, Satellite Tracking and Protected Areas: Habitat-Based Distribution Estimates for Conservation and Management

    Article • Frontiers in Marine Science, June 2022, Frontiers

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  18. A Novel Approach to Using Seabed Geomorphology as a Predictor of Habitat Use in Highly Mobile Marine Predators: Implications for Ecology and Conservation

    Article • Frontiers in Marine Science, April 2022, Frontiers

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  19. Influence of offshore oil and gas structures on seascape ecological connectivity

    Article • Global Change Biology, March 2022, Wiley

    Dr Jessica A. Benthuysen, Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  20. Quantifying the effects of tidal turbine array operations on the distribution of marine mammals: Implications for collision risk

    Article • Renewable Energy, December 2021, Elsevier

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  21. Harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) presence is reduced during tidal turbine operation

    Article • Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, November 2021, Wiley

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  22. Acoustic risk balancing by marine mammals: anthropogenic noise can influence the foraging decisions by seals

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, July 2021, Wiley

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  23. Report of the NAMMCO-ICES Workshop on Seal Modelling (WKSEALS 2020)

    Article • NAMMCO Scientific Publications, May 2021, University Library at Tromso

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  24. How can marine mammals live with renewable energy?

    Article • January 2021, University of St. Andrews Library

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  25. Predicting the exposure of diving grey seals to shipping noise

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, August 2020, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  26. Perturbation drives changing metapopulation dynamics in a top marine predator

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, June 2020, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  27. Estimating the effects of pile driving sounds on seals: Pitfalls and possibilities

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, June 2020, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  28. From pup to predator: generalized hidden Markov models reveal rapid development of movement strategies in a naïve long‐lived vertebrate

    Article • Oikos, January 2020, Wiley

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  29. Modelling the population size and dynamics of the British grey seal

    Article • Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, September 2019, Wiley

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  30. Monitoring long‐term changes in UK grey seal pup production

    Article • Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, September 2019, Wiley

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  31. Post‐disturbance haulout behaviour of harbour seals

    Article • Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, September 2019, Wiley

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  32. The status of harbour seals ( Phoca vitulina ) in the UK

    Article • Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, September 2019, Wiley

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  33. Shining new light on mammalian diving physiology using wearable near-infrared spectroscopy

    Article • PLoS Biology, June 2019, PLOS

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  34. Effects of impulsive noise on marine mammals: investigating range‐dependent risk

    Article • Ecological Applications, June 2019, Wiley

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL, Dr Nathan Merchant

  35. Gray Seal

    Article • January 2018, Elsevier

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  36. Ontogeny of early-life at-sea behaviour in grey seals

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2017, Nature

    Matt Carter, Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  37. Harbour seals avoid tidal turbine noise: Implications for collision risk

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, September 2017, Wiley

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  38. Shipping noise in a dynamic sea: a case study of grey seals in the Celtic Sea

    Article • Marine Pollution Bulletin, January 2017, Elsevier

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  39. Aerial low-frequency hearing in captive and free-ranging harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) measured using auditory brainstem responses

    Article • Journal of Comparative Physiology A, October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  40. Inferring foraging behaviour from tracking data in pinnipeds

    Article • Movement Ecology, October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Matt Carter, Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  41. Dynamic habitat corridors for marine predators; intensive use of a coastal channel by harbour seals is modulated by tidal currents

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  42. Addressing Uncertainty in Marine Resource Management; Combining Community Engagement and Tracking Technology to Characterize Human Behavior

    Article • Conservation Letters, September 2016, Wiley

    Prof Brendan John Godley, Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL, Dr Matthew Witt

  43. Avoidance of wind farms by harbour seals is limited to pile driving activities

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, May 2016, Wiley

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  44. Multiple-Pulse Sounds and Seals: Results of a Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina) Telemetry Study During Wind Farm Construction

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  45. Predicting Future European Breeding Distributions of British Seabird Species under Climate Change and Unlimited/No Dispersal Scenarios

    Article • Diversity, November 2015, MDPI AG

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  46. Patterns of space use in sympatric marine colonial predators reveal scales of spatial partitioning

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, August 2015, Inter-Research Science Center

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  47. Sound exposure in harbour seals during the installation of an offshore wind farm: predictions of auditory damage

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, May 2015, Wiley

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  48. Intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of activity budgets in sympatric grey and harbour seals

    Article • Oikos, February 2015, Wiley

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  49. Beyond climate envelopes: bio-climate modelling accords with observed 25-year changes in seabird populations of the British Isles

    Article • Diversity and Distributions, October 2014, Wiley

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  50. Marine mammals trace anthropogenic structures at sea

    Article • Current Biology, July 2014, Elsevier

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  51. Assessing Performance of Bayesian State-Space Models Fit to Argos Satellite Telemetry Locations Processed with Kalman Filtering

    Article • PLOS One, March 2014, PLOS

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  52. Combining individual animal movement and ancillary biotelemetry data to investigate population-level activity budgets

    Article • Ecology, April 2013, Wiley

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  53. Uncovering the links between foraging and breeding regions in a highly mobile mammal

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, January 2013, Wiley

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  54. Carer provisioning rules in an obligate cooperative breeder: prey type, size and delivery rate

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, October 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL, Dr James Savage

  55. Evidence for sea lice-induced marine mortality of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in western Ireland from experimental releases of ranched smolts treated with emamectin benzoate

    Article • Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, February 2012, Canadian Science Publishing

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  56. Breeding ecology of the Chestnut-crowned Babbler: a cooperative breeder in the desert

    Article • Emu - Austral Ornithology, December 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  57. Physiological effects of climate on distributions of endothermic species

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, November 2010, Wiley

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL

  58. Social organisation and foraging ecology of the cooperatively breeding Chestnut-crowned Babbler (Pomatostomus ruficeps)

    Article • Emu - Austral Ornithology, June 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL