Caitlin Frankish
PhD Student
Biography
Seabird foraging behaviour, habitat preferences and implications for fishery bycatch mitigation
My PhD project focuses on determining the environmental and ecological processes driving the differential habitat use of closely-related albatross and petrel species (and in particular of juvenile life-stages), and investigating the implications of these trends for conservation. This project is a collaboration between BAS, the University of Cambridge, the Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwhich Islands and the RSPB.
Research interests
Spatial Ecology, Marine Ecosystems, R
Frankish, C. K., Phillips, R. A., Clay, T. A., Somveille, M. & Manica, A. Environmental drivers of movement in a threatened seabird: insights from a mechanistic model and implications for conservation. Divers Distrib, 00, 1-15 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13130
Publications from NERC Open Research Archive
2021
Frankish, Caitlin K. ORCID record for Caitlin K. Frankish, Manica, Andrea, Navarro, Joan, Phillips, Richard A.. (2021) Movements and diving behaviour of white-chinned petrels: diurnal variation and implications for bycatch mitigation. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 15 pp. 10.1002/aqc.3573 (In Press)
2020
Frankish, Caitlin K. ORCID record for Caitlin K. Frankish, Phillips, Richard A., Clay, Thomas A., Somveille, Marius, Manica, Andrea. (2020) Environmental drivers of movement in a threatened seabird: insights from a mechanistic model and implications for conservation. Diversity and Distributions, 26. 1315-1329. 10.1111/ddi.13130
Frankish, Caitlin ORCID record for Caitlin Frankish, Manica, Andrea, Phillips, Richard A. (2020) Effects of age on foraging behavior in two closely related albatross species. Movement Ecology, 8. 10.1186/s40462-020-0194-0