ARCTIC BLOG: Students learn skills required for polar science
Hello! This is the first blog about the upcoming NERC Advanced Training Short Course run by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) between 26th August and 8th September 2015. We are […]
Thomas Clay
PhD Student
Research interests
I am currently a PhD student investigating the causes and consequences of variation in the movements of albatrosses from Bird Island, South Georgia. I use long-term tracking datasets and analytical tools such as habitat-preference modelling to understand the drivers of albatross distributions and the consequences of particular strategies on their population ecology and conservation.
- Carneiro APB, Manica A, Clay TA, Silk JRD, King M, Phillips RA (2016) Consistency in migration strategies and habitat preferences of brown skuas over two winters, a decade apart. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 553:267–281
- Clay TA, Manica A, Ryan PG, Silk JRD, Croxall JP, Ireland L, Phillips RA (2016) Proximate drivers of spatial segregation in non-breeding albatrosses. Sci Rep, 6:29932
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Albatrosses use different regions when on migration
Read more of: Albatrosses use different regions when on migrationA new study of the movements of sub-Antarctic albatrosses tracked from two remote islands some 5,000 km apart, shows that although the birds from each breeding site take similar routes around the Southern Ocean, they forage in different areas for the majority of the time. The results are published this month in the Nature journal Scientific Reports.
