Dr Guilherme A. Bortolotto PhD

Dr Guilherme A. Bortolotto

Lecturer in Marine Ecology

Department of Life Sciences

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2023-present

Lecturer in Marine Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, Aberystwyth University, UK

2019-2023

Research Fellow in Polar Marine Ecology, Sea Mammal Research Unit & Scottish Oceans Institute, University of St Andrews, UK

2015-2019

PhD degree, under supervision of Dr Phil Hammond, Dr Len Thomas and Dr Alexandre Zerbini, School of Biology & School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, UK

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Research

I am interested in how marine animals use their environment, in the potential impacts from human activities on them, and in the development of methods and (statistical) tools to investigate and improve marine animal conservation. I have ongoing research into strandings and rehabilitation of marine megafauna (cetaceans, pinnipeds, penguins and seabirds), the distribution and conservation of cetacean and seal species (eg, franciscana dolphins, humpback whales, Weddell seals), and into the oceanographic processes related to drastic changes in the physical and ecological environment of polar regions. 

Publications

Serpa, N, Frainer, G, dos Santos, B, A. Bortolotto, G & B. Moreno, I 2024, 'Behavioral repertoire of Lahille’s bottlenose dolphins that interact with artisanal fishers', Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, vol. 78, no. 3, 31. 10.1007/s00265-024-03443-w
Mobley Jr, JR, Deakos, MH, Pack, AA & Bortolotto, GA 2023, 'Aerial survey perspectives on humpback whale resiliency in Maui Nui, Hawaiʻi, in the face of an unprecedented North Pacific marine warming event', Marine Mammal Science, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 842-857. 10.1111/mms.13018
Paitach, RL, Bortolotto, GA, Amundin, M & Cremer, MJ 2023, 'Critically endangered franciscana dolphins in an estuarine area: Fine-scale habitat use and distribution from acoustic monitoring in Babitonga Bay, southern Brazil', Marine Ecology Progress Series, vol. 707, pp. 131-150. 10.3354/meps14249
Bortolotto, GA, Zerbini, AN, Thomas, L, Andriolo, A & Hammond, P 2023, 'Distribution and habitat use modelling from satellite tracking data of humpback whales in Brazil agrees with shipboard survey data modelling', Marine Ecology Progress Series, vol. 720, pp. 161-174. 10.3354/meps14404
Savidge, E, Snow, T, Siegfried, MR, Zheng, Y, Villas Bôas, AB, Bortolotto, GA, Boehme, L & Alley, KE 2023, 'Wintertime polynya structure and variability from thermal remote sensing and seal-borne observations at Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica', IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 61, 4300813. 10.1109/TGRS.2023.3271453, 10.5281/zenodo.7843547
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