Guilford, Tim - University of Oxford

研究领域

Although I still maintain an interest in the evolution of animal signals, especially warning signals, which was the subject of my early research, I now concentrate on trying to unravel the mechanisms by which animals map the environments through which they travel. What cues do birds use to navigate home across familiar areas? What do their maps look like? How versatile is the spatial knowledge they store? The questions range from cognitive to ecological, homing pigeons are the principal model, and the techniques involve field experiments using miniature GPS loggers, on-board cameras, and analytical approaches borrowed from computational engineering. Most recently I have been extending my research group’s work to trying to understand how long distance wandering seabirds (many of which are of vulnerable conservation status) migrate, map and navigate across the open oceans.

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Shoji, A., Aris-Brosou, S., Fayet, A., Padget, O., Perrins, C., & Guilford, T. (2015). “Dual foraging and pair-co-ordination during chick provisioning by Manx shearwaters: empirical evidence supported by a simple model.” Journal of Experimental Biology, 218: 2116-2123. doi:10.1242/jeb.120626 Guilford, T. & Taylor, G. (2014) “The sun compass revisited.” Animal Behaviour, 97:135-143 Guilford, T. & Biro, D. (2014). “Route following and the pigeon’s familiar area map.” Journal of Experimental Biology, 271:169-179. DOI:10.1242/jeb.092908 Freeman, R., Dean, B., Kirk, H., Leonard, K., Phillips, R. A., Perrins, C. M. & Guilford, T. (2013). “Predictive ethoinformatics reveals the complex migratory behaviour of a pelagic seabird.” J. Roy Soc. Interface, 10 (84). DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2013.0279 Guilford, T., Wynn, R., McMinn, M., Rodriguez, A., Fayet, A., Maurice, L., Jones, A. & Meier, R. (2012) “Geolocators reveal migration and pre-breeding behaviour of the critically endangered Balearic shearwater Puffinus mauretanicus.” PLoS ONE 7(3): e33753. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033753 Guilford, T., Meade, J., Willis, J., Phillips, R. A., Boyle, D., Roberts, S., Collett, M., Freeman, R., & Perrins, C. M. (2009) “Migration and stopover in a small pelagic seabird, the Manx Shearwater Puffinus puffinus: insights from machine learning”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 276:1215-1223