Dr. Ian Boyd is Professor of Biology at the University of St Andrews, and Director of its Sea Mammal Research Unit and the Scottish Oceans Institute. He is also currently acting Director of The Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland, an initiative to create a single overarching organizational focus for marine science in Scotland consisting of 9 institutional partners and 700 researchers. Until 2001, he led a research program on ecosystem management with the British Antarctic Survey and has spent 14 years studying the ecosystem of the Scotia Sea. He is a member of the Scottish Governments enquiry into the future of the EU Common Fisheries Policy. Dr. Boyd's major research interests are behavioral dynamics of marine predators, marine ecosystem management, and ecological economics.
His biological research focuses on how predator fitness is related to the distribution and abundance of food, and how this fitness is affected by environmental variability. Dr. Boyd is also researching marine ecosystem management, by examining the interface between ecology, modeling, and economics. Much of his research is applied to the interface between marine mammals and offshore development associated with renewable energy, offshore oil and gas exploration and defense. His work in these fields means that he has a formal advisory role to the UK Government on the management of marine mammals. He has also recently been Chief Scientists in an international team investigating the effects of underwater noise on beaked whales.
Dr. Boyd has authored over 200 scientific publications. He sits on the Editorial Board of the scientific journals Antarctic Science and Aquatic Mammals, and recently stood down as Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Zoology. Until early 2009, he was Chief Executive of SMRU Ltd.
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RECENT SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Matthiopoulos, J., S. Smout,A.J. Winship, D. Thompson, I.L. Boyd, and J. Harwood. 2008. Getting beneath the surface of marine mammal - fisheries competition. Mammal Review 38(2-3): 167-188.
Lonergan, M., C.D. Duck, D. Thompson, B.L. Mackey, L. Cunningham,I.L. Boyd. 2007.Using sparse survey data to investigate the declining abundance of British harbour seals. Journal of Zoology 271: 261-269.
Butler, J.R.A., S.J. Middlemas, S.A. McKelvey, I. McMyn, B. Leyshon, I. Walker, P.M. Thompson I.L. Boyd, C.D. Duck, J.D. Armstrong, I.M. Graham, and J. Baxter. 2007. The Moray Firth Seal Management Plan: towards balancing the conservation of protected harbour seals, Atlantic salmon and fisheries in the UK. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystem 18: 1025-1038.
Boyd, I.L., S. Wanless, and C.J. Camphuysen. 2006. Management of marine ecosystems: monitoring change in upper trophic levels. Cambridge University Press.
Green, J.A., I.L. Boyd, A.J. Woakes, N.L. Warren, and P.J. Butler. 2005. Behavioural flexibility during year-round foraging in macaroni penguins. Marine Ecology Progress Series 296: 183-196.
Mori, Y andI.L. Boyd. 2004. The behavioural basis for non-linear functional responses: the case of the Antarctic fur seal. Ecology 85, 398-410.
Staniland, I.J., K. Reid, and I.L. Boyd. 2004. Comparing individual and spatial influences on foraging behaviour in Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella). Marine Ecology Progress Series 275: 263-274.
Barlow, K. E., I.L. Boyd, J.P. Croxall, K. Reid, I.J. Staniland, and A.S. Brierley. 2002. Are penguins and seals in competition for antarctic krill at south georgia? Marine Biology 140(2): 205-213.
Boyd, I. L. 2002. Estimating food consumption of marine predators: Antarctic fur seals and macaroni penguins. Journal of Applied Ecology 39(1): 103-119.
Boyd, I. L. 2002. Integrated environment-prey-predator interactions off South Georgia: Implications for management of fisheries. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 12(1): 119-126.
Thomson, R. B., D.S. Butterworth, I.L. Boyd, and J.P. Croxall. 2000. Modeling the consequences of Antarctic krill harvesting on Antarctic fur seals. Ecological Applications 10(6): 1806-1819.
Priddle, J., I.L. Boyd, M.J. Whitehouse, E.J. Murphy, and J.P. Croxall. 1998. Estimates of southern ocean primary production--constraints from predator carbon demand and nutrient drawdown. Journal of Marine Systems 17(1-4): 275-288. |
