Peter G. Ryan

Research interests

Publications

• Floating macro- and microplastics around the Southern Ocean: Results from the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition

  Environment International · 2020 · 10.1016/j.envint.2020.105494

• Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics

  Nature · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2873-9

• Tracking of marine predators to protect Southern Ocean ecosystems

  Nature · 2020 · 10.1038/s41586-020-2126-y

• The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris

  Environmental Research Letters · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6d7d

• Microfibers in oceanic surface waters: A global characterization

  Science Advances · 2020 · 10.1126/sciadv.aay8493

• Future Directions in Conservation Research on Petrels and Shearwaters

  Frontiers in Marine Science · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00094

• Antarctica’s ecological isolation will be broken by storm-driven dispersal and warming

  Nature Climate Change · 2018 · 10.1038/s41558-018-0209-7

• Entanglement of birds in plastics and other synthetic materials

  Marine Pollution Bulletin · 2018 · 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.06.057

• Micro-plastic ingestion by waterbirds from contaminated wetlands in South Africa

  Marine Pollution Bulletin · 2017 · 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.11.021

• Seabird mortality induced by land‐based artificial lights

  Conservation Biology · 2017 · 10.1111/cobi.12900

• Biofouling on buoyant marine plastics: An experimental study into the effect of size on surface longevity

  Environmental Pollution · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2016.01.026

• Does size and buoyancy affect the long-distance transport of floating debris?

  Environmental Research Letters · 2015 · 10.1088/1748-9326/10/8/084019

• A Brief History of Marine Litter Research

  · 2015 · 10.1007/978-3-319-16510-3_1

• Global research priorities to mitigate plastic pollution impacts on marine wildlife

  Endangered Species Research · 2014 · 10.3354/esr00623

• Plastic Pollution in the World's Oceans: More than 5 Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing over 250,000 Tons Afloat at Sea

  PLoS ONE · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0111913

• Research priorities for seabirds: improving conservation and management in the 21st century

  Endangered Species Research · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.3354/esr00419

• Challenges to the Future Conservation of the Antarctic

  Science · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1222821

• Monitoring the abundance of plastic debris in the marine environment

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2008.0207

• Spatial match–mismatch in the Benguela upwelling zone: should we expect chlorophyll and sea‐surface temperature to predict marine predator distributions?

  Journal of Applied Ecology · 2008 · 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2007.01447.x

• A junk-food hypothesis for gannets feeding on fishery waste

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2008 · 10.1098/rspb.2007.1763

• Can predation by invasive mice drive seabird extinctions?

  Biology Letters · 2007 · 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0120

• Offshore diplomacy or how seabirds mitigate intra-specific competition: a case study based on GPS tracking of Cape gannets from neighbouring colonies

  Marine Ecology Progress Series · 2004 · 10.3354/meps268265

• Diving Birds in Cold Water: Do Archimedes and Boyle Determine Energetic Costs?

  The American Naturalist · 1992 · 10.1086/285409

• Effects of ingested plastic on seabird feeding: Evidence from chickens

  Marine Pollution Bulletin · 1988 · 10.1016/0025-326x(88)90708-4

• Plastic ingestion and PCBs in seabirds: Is there a relationship?

  Marine Pollution Bulletin · 1988 · 10.1016/0025-326x(88)90674-1

• The incidence and characteristics of plastic particles ingested by seabirds

  Marine Environmental Research · 1987 · 10.1016/0141-1136(87)90028-6

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