Richard Sherley

Publications

• Correction to ‘Bayesian inference reveals positive but subtle effects of experimental fishery closures on marine predator demographics'
• South Africa's experimental fisheries closures and recovery of the endangered African penguin
• Vulnerability of northern gannets to offshore wind farms; seasonal and sex-specific collision risk and demographic consequences
• Hemispheric asymmetry in ocean change and the productivity of ecosystem sentinels
• Sexual segregation of gannet foraging over 11 years: movements vary but isotopic differences remain stable
• Scavenger communities and fisheries waste: North Sea discards support 3 million seabirds, 2 million fewer than in 1990
• Using Predicted Patterns of 3D Prey Distribution to Map King Penguin Foraging Habitat
• Urofaecal glucocorticoid metabolite concentrations in African penguin (Spheniscus demersus) chick populations experiencing different levels of human disturbance
• Strategic discarding reduces seabird numbers and contact rates with trawl fishery gears in the Southwest Atlantic
• Marine Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas in the Chagos Archipelago
• African Penguins and Localized Fisheries Management: Response to Butterworth and Ross-Gillespie
• Prey-switching to fishery discards does not compensate for poor natural foraging conditions in breeding albatross
• The Decline and Conservation Status of the African Penguin
• Geolocator tracking seabird migration and moult reveal large‐scale temperature‐driven isoscapes in the NE Atlantic
• Factors determining the number of seabirds impacted by oil spills and the success of their rehabilitation: Lessons learned from Namibia and South Africa
• Data from: The conservation status and population decline of the African penguin deconstructed in space and time
• Microplastic study reveals the presence of natural and synthetic fibres in the diet of King Penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) foraging from South Georgia
• Defining ecologically relevant scales for spatial protection with long-term data on an endangered seabird and local prey availability
• Seabird species vary in behavioural response to drone census
• Demographic rates reveal the benefits of protected areas in a long-lived migratory bird
• Happy Feet in a Hostile World? The Future of Penguins Depends on Proactive Management of Current and Expected Threats
• Food habits of an endangered seabird indicate recent poor forage fish availability off western South Africa
• Local forage fish abundance influences foraging effort and offspring condition in an endangered marine predator
• Sex differences in migration and demography of a wide-ranging seabird, the northern gannet
• Demographic rates reveal the benefits of protected areas in a long-lived migratory bird.
• Inter-colony and inter-annual variation in discard use by albatross chicks revealed using isotopes and regurgitates
• Half a century of global decline in oceanic sharks and rays
• A framework for studying ecological energy in the contemporary marine environment
• rbsherley/Swans: v.1.0.0
• Intercolony variation in reproductive skipping in the African penguin
• Bayesian inference reveals positive but subtle effects of experimental fishery closures on marine predator demographics
• A non-invasive approach to estimate the energetic requirements of an increasing seabird population in a perturbed marine ecosystem
• Investigating differences in population recovery rates of two sympatrically nesting sea turtle species
• Sex‐specific effects of fisheries and climate on the demography of sexually dimorphic seabirds
• Estimating IUCN Red List population reduction: JARA—A decision‐support tool applied to pelagic sharks
• Long‐term multi‐species demographic studies reveal divergent negative impacts of winter storms on seabird survival
• African penguin Spheniscus demersus foraging on juvenile fish in jellyfish tentacles
• An overview of the impacts of fishing on seabirds, including identifying future research directions
• Survival estimates for the greater crested tern Thalasseus bergii in southern Africa
• How many can you catch? Factors influencing the occurrence of multi-prey loading in provisioning Greater Crested Terns
• Foraging plasticity in seabirds: A non-invasive study of the diet of greater crested terns breeding in the Benguela region.
• The costs of kleptoparasitism: a study of mixed-species seabird breeding colonies
• JARA: ‘Just Another Red-List Assessment’
• The status and conservation of the Cape Gannet Morus capensis
• Geographical and temporal variation in the diet of Bank Cormorants Phalacrocorax neglectus in South Africa
• Parenting in a warming world: thermoregulatory responses to heat stress in an endangered seabird
• Second bibliography of biodiversity research on Robben Island
• The conservation status and population decline of the African penguin deconstructed in space and time
• Decades of artificial nests towards African penguin conservation—Have they made a difference?
• The African Penguin Spheniscus demersus should be considered Critically Endangered
• Metapopulation Tracking Juvenile Penguins Reveals an Ecosystem-wide Ecological Trap.
• INSECTS IN THE DIET OF THE GREATER CRESTED TERN THALASSEUS BERGII BERGII IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
• Dietary studies in birds: testing a non-invasive method using digital photography in seabirds
• Tangled and drowned: a global review of penguin bycatch in fisheries
• Ostrich chick humoral immune responses and growth rate are predicted by parental immune responses and paternal colouration
• Growth and decline of a penguin colony and the influence on nesting density and reproductive success
• A system dynamics approach to modelling multiple drivers of the African penguin population on Robben Island, South Africa
• The initial journey of an Endangered penguin: implications for seabird conservation
• Interactions between snakes and seabirds on Robben, Schaapen and Meeuw Islands, Western Cape province, South Africa
• Age-specific survival and movement among major African Penguin Spheniscus demersus colonies
• Hand-Rearing, Release and Survival of African Penguin Chicks Abandoned Before Independence by Moulting Parents
• Bottom-up effects of a no-take zone on endangered penguin demographics
• Introduced European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) and domestic cats (Felis catus) on Robben Island: Population trends and management recommendations
• Influence of local and regional prey availability on breeding performance of African penguins Spheniscus demersus
• Artificial nests enhance the breeding productivity of African Penguins (Spheniscus demersus) on Robben Island, South Africa
• Storms and heat limit the nest success of Bank Cormorants: implications of future climate change for a surface-nesting seabird in southern Africa
• Birds occurring or breeding at Robben Island, South Africa, since 2000.
• Spotting the difference: towards fully-automated population monitoring of African penguins Spheniscus demersus
• Egg morphology of Swift Terns in South Africa
• System dynamics modelling of the Endangered African penguin populations on Dyer and Robben islands, South Africa
• Penguins’ perilous conservation status calls for complementary approach based on sound ecological principles: reply to Butterworth et al. (2015)
• Seabirds
• Best practices for assessing forage fish fisheries-seabird resource competition
• Body condition as a quantitative tool to guide hand-rearing decisions in an endangered seabird
• Processes influencing the population dynamics and conservation of African penguins on Dyer Island, South Africa
• ​​​​​​​PhD jobs: Revamp funding structures.
• Gannets wintering in the Canary Current and Iberian Coast feed primarily on pelagic fishes and co-occur with trawl and fixed gear fisheries