David Sims - Selected Publications#

Sims, D.W., Quayle, V.A. (1998) Selective foraging behaviour of basking sharks on zooplankton in a small-scale front. NATURE 363, 460-464.

Sims, D.W., Andrews, P.L.R., Young, J.Z. (2000) Fish behaviour: Stomach rinsing in rays. NATURE 404, 566.

Sims, D.W., Southall, E.J., Tarling, G.A., Metcalfe, J.D. (2005) Habitat-specific normal and reverse diel vertical migration in the plankton-feeding basking shark. J ANIM ECOL 74, 755-761.

Sims, D.W., Wearmouth, V.J., Southall, E.J., Hill, J., Moore, P., Rawlinson, K., Hutchinson, N., Budd, G.C., Righton, D., Metcalfe, J.D, Nash, J.P., Morritt, D. (2006) Hunt warm, rest cool: bioenergetic strategy underlying diel vertical migration in a benthic shark. J ANIM ECOL 75, 176-190.

Sims, D.W., Witt, M.J., Richardson, A.J., Southall, E.J., Metcalfe, J.D. (2006) Encounter success of free-ranging marine predator movements across a dynamic prey landscape. PROC R SOC B 273, 1195-1201.

Sims, D.W., Southall, E.J., Humphries, N.E., Hays, G.C., Bradshaw, C.J.A., Pitchford, J.W., James, A., Ahmed, M.Z., Brierley, A.S., Hindell, M.A., Morritt, D., Musyl, M.K., Righton, D., Shepard, E.L.C., Wearmouth, V.J., Wilson, R.P., Witt, M.J., Metcalfe, J.D. (2008) Scaling laws of marine predator search behaviour. NATURE 451, 1098-1102.
Highly Cited Paper (Web of Science).

Humphries, N.E., Queiroz, N., Dyer, J.M., Pade, N.G., Musyl, M.K., Schaefer, K.M., Fuller, D.W., Brunnschweiler, J.M., Doyle, T.K., Houghton, J.D.R., Hays, G.C., Jones, C.S., Noble, L.R., Wearmouth, V.J., Southall, E.J., Sims, D.W. (2010) Environmental context explains Lévy and Brownian movement patterns of marine predators. NATURE 465, 1066-1069.
Highly Cited Paper (Web of Science)

Simpson, S.D., Jennings, S., Johnson, M.P., Blanchard, J.L., Schön, J.-P., Sims, D.W., Genner, M.J. (2011) Continental shelf-wide response of a fish assemblage to rapid warming of the sea. CURR BIOL 21, 1565-1570.

Humphries, N.E., Weimerskirch, H., Queiroz, N., Southall, E.J., Sims, D.W. (2012) Foraging success of biological Lévy flights recorded in situ. PROC NATL ACAD SCI USA 109, 7169-7174.

Jacoby, D.M.P., Brooks, E.J., Croft, D.P., Sims, D.W. (2012) Developing a deeper understanding of animal movements and spatial dynamics through novel application of network analyses. METHODS ECOL EVOL 3, 574-583.

Wearmouth, V.J., McHugh, M.J., Humphries, N.E., Naegelen, A., Ahmed, M.Z., Southall, E.J., Reynolds, A.M., Sims, D.W. (2014) Scaling laws of ambush predator ‘waiting’ behaviour are tuned to a common ecology. PROC R SOC B 281, 20132997.

Sims, D.W., Reynolds, A.M., Humphries, N.E., Southall, E.J., Wearmouth, V.J., Metcalfe, B., Twitchett, R.J. (2014) Hierarchical random walks in trace fossils and the origin of optimal search behaviour. PROC NATL ACAD SCI USA 111, 11073-11078.

Rutterford, L.A., Simpson, S.D., Jennings, S., Johnson, M.P., Blanchard, J.L., Schön, J.-P., Sims, D.W., Tinker, J., Genner, M.J. (2015) Future fish distributions constrained by depth in warming seas. NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE 5, 569-573.

Queiroz, N., Humphries, N.E., Mucientes, G.R., Hammerschlag, N., Lima F.P., Scales, K.L., Miller, P.I., Seabra, R., Sousa, L.L., Sims, D.W. (2016) Ocean-wide tracking of pelagic sharks reveals extent of overlap with longline fishing hotspots. PROC NATL ACAD SCI USA 113, 1582-1587.
Highly Cited Paper (Web of Science)

Queiroz, N., Humphries, N.E., Couto, A., Vedor, M., da Costa, I., Sequeira, A.M.M., Mucientes, G., Santos, A.M., Abascal, F.J., Abercrombie, D.L., Abrantes, K., Acuña-Marrero, D., Afonso, A.S., Afonso, P., Anders, D., Araujo, G., Arauz, R., Bach, P., Barnett, A., Bernal, D., Berumen, M.L., Bessudo Lion, S., Bezerra, N.P.A., Blaison, A.V., Block, B.A., Bond, M.E., Bonfil, R., Bradford, R.W., Braun, C.D., Brooks, E.J., Brooks, A., Brown, J., Bruce, B.D., Byrne, M.E., Campana, S.E., Carlisle, A.B., Chapman, D.D., Chapple, T.K., Chisholm, J., Clarke, C.R., Clua, E.G., Cochran, J.E.M., Crochelet, E.C., Dagorn, L., Daly, R., Devia Cortés, D., Doyle, T.K., Drew, M., Duffy, C.A.J., Erikson, T., Espinoza, E., Ferreira, L.C., Ferretti, F., Filmalter, J.D., Fischer, C.G., Fitzpatrick, R., Fontes, J., Forget, F., Fowler, M., Francis, M.P., Gallagher, A.J., Gennari, E., Goldsworthy, S.D., Gollock, M.J., Green, J.R., Gustafson, J.A., Guttridge, T.L., Guzman, H.M., Hammerschlag, N., Harman, L., Hazin, F.H.V., Heard, M., Hearn, A.R., Holdsworth, J.C., Holmes, B.J., Howey, L.A., Hoyos, M., Hueter, R.E., Hussey, N.E., Huveneers, C., Irion, D.T., Jacoby, D.M.P., Jewell, O.J.D., Johnson, R., Jordan, L.K.B., Jorgensen, S.J., Joyce, W., Keating Daly, C.A., Ketchum, J.T., Klimley, A.P., Kock, A.A., Koen, P., Ladino, F., Lana, F.O., Lea, J.S.E., Llewellyn, F., Lyon, W.S., MacDonnell, A., Macena, B.C.L., Marshall, H., McAllister, J.D., McAuley, R., Meÿer, M.A., Morris, J.J., Nelson, E.R., Papastamatiou, Y.P., Patterson, T.A., Peñaherrera-Palma, C., Pepperell, J.G., Pierce, S.J., Poisson, F., Quintero, L.M., Richardson, A., Rogers, P.J., Rohner, C.A., Rowat, D.R.L., Samoilys, M., Semmens, J.M., Sheaves, M., Shillinger, G., Shivji, M., Singh, S., Skomal, G.B., Smale, M.J., Snyders, L.B., Soler, G., Soria, M., Stehfest, K.M., Stevens, J.D., Thorrold, S.R., Tolotti, M.T., Towner, A., Travassos, P, Tyminski, J.P., Vandeperre, F., Vaudo, J.J., Watanabe, Y.Y., Weber, S.B., Wetherbee, B.M., White, T.D., Williams, S., Zárate, P.M., Harcourt, R., Hays, G.C., Meekan, M.G., Thums, M., Irigoien, X., Eguiluz, V.M., Duarte, C.M., Sousa, L.L., Simpson, S.J., Southall, E.J. & Sims, D.W. (2019) Global spatial risk assessment of sharks under the footprint of fisheries. NATURE 572, 461-466.

Vedor, M., Queiroz, N., Mucientes, G., Couto, A., da Costa, I., dos Santos, A.M., Vandeperre, F., Afonso, P., Fontes, J., Rosa, R., Humphries, N.E., Sims, D.W. (2021) Climate-driven deoxygenation elevates fishing vulnerability for the ocean’s widest ranging shark. E-LIFE 10, e62508.

Womersley, F.C., Humphries, N.E., Queiroz, N., Vedor, M., da Costa, I., Furtado, M., Tyminski, J.P., Abrantes, K., Araujo, G., Bach, S.S., Barnett, A., Berumen, M.L., Bessudo Lion, S., Braun, C.D., Clingham, E., Cochran, J.E.M., de la Parra, R., Diamant, S., Dove, A.D.M., Dudgeon, C.L., Erdmann, M.V., Espinoza, E., Fitzpatrick, R., González Cano, J., Green, J.R., Guzman, H.M., Hardenstine, R., Hasan, A., Házin, F.H.V., Hearn, A.R., Hueter, R.E., Jaidah, M.Y., Labaja, J., Ladino, F., Macena, B.C.L., Morris Jr, J.J., Norman, B.M., Peñaherrera-Palma, C., Pierce, S.J., Quintero, L.M., Ramírez-Macías, D., Reynolds, S.D., Richardson, A.J., Robinson, D.P., Rohner, C.A., Rowat, D.R.L., Sheaves, M., Shivji, M.S., Sianipar, A.B., Skomal, G.B., Soler, G., Syakurachman, I., Thorrold, S.R., Webb, D.H., Wetherbee, B.M., White, T.D., Clavelle, T., Kroodsma, D.A., Thums, M., Ferreira, L.C., Meekan, M.G., Arrowsmith, L.M., Lester, E.K., Meyers, M.M., Peel, L.R., Sequeira, A.M.M., Eguiluz, V.M., Duarte, C.M. & Sims, D.W. (2022) Global collision-risk hotspots of marine traffic and the world’s largest fish, the whale shark. PROC NATL ACAD SCI USA 119, e2117440119.

Womersley, F.C., Loveridge, A., Sims, D.W. (2023) Shipping is on the rise: four steps to curb ‘ocean roadkill’. NATURE 621, 34-38.