Shannon, Graeme - Bangor University - School of Biological Sciences

个人简介

I conducted my PhD at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) on the effects of sexual dimorphism on the movement and foraging behavior of African elephants. After graduating in 2006 I carried out two distinct postdoctoral research projects, 1) the role of elephants and fire in savanna dynamics (University of KwaZulu-Natal), and 2) exploring the cognitive abilities of wild elephants in Kenya and South Africa (University of Sussex). In July 2012 I moved to the US to pursue a 2.5-year postdoctoral fellowship at Colorado State University exploring the effects of anthropogenic noise on wildlife ecology and behavior. On returning to the UK in late 2014, I spent 8 months as a research associate at the University of Liverpool before joining the School of Biological Sciences in November 2015.

研究领域

My research interests are in the fields of animal behaviour, ecology and conservation, with particular focus on the effects of human activities on wildlife, animal cognition and the behavioural ecology of large herbivores. I have studied African elephants for over a decade, addressing questions on foraging and movement ecology as well as investigating the detailed social and ecological knowledge of elephant family groups and their matriarchs. The research that I have conducted on elephant cognition has involved extensive use of acoustic playbacks, whereby animal vocalisations are broadcast to study the responses of elephants to social and ecological threats. More recently, I have applied these playback techniques to understand the effects of anthropogenic noise - a growing source of environmental disturbance - on animal behavior and wildlife ecology. I am also interested in the role that large herbivores play in ecosystem function and structure in natural and human altered habitats.

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Shannon G, Crooks KR, Wittemyer G, Fristrup KM, Angeloni LM (2016) Road noise causes earlier predator detection and flight response in a free-ranging mammal. Behavioral Ecology. Pdf available Shannon G, McKenna MF, Angeloni LM, Crooks KR, Fristrup KM, Brown E, Warner KA et al. (published online) A synthesis of two decades of research documenting the effects of noise on wildlife. Biological Reviews. Swaddle J, Francis CD, Barber JR, Cooper CB, Kyba CCM, Dominoni D, Shannon G, et al. (2015) A framework to assess evolutionary responses to anthropogenic light and sound. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30: 550-560. Hopson R, Meiman P, & Shannon G (2015) Rangeland dynamics: Investigating vegetation composition and structure of urban and exurban prairie dog habitat. PeerJ 3:e736. Shannon G, Lewis, J, Gerber, B (2014) Recommended survey designs foroccupancy modelling using motion-activated cameras: insights from empirical wildlife data. PeerJ 2:e532. Shannon G, Angeloni, LM, Wittemyer G, Fristrup, KM, Crooks, KR (2014) Road traffic noise modifies behaviour of a keystone species. Animal Behaviour 94: 135-141. Shannon G, Cordes LS, Hardy AR, Angeloni LM, Crooks KR (2014) Behavioral Responses Associated with a Human-Mediated Predator Shelter. PLoS ONE 9(4): e94630. McComb K, Shannon G*, Durant SM, Sayialel K, Slotow R, Poole J, Moss C (2014) Elephants can determine ethnicity, gender, and age from acoustic cues in human voices. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 111: 5433-5438 * = shared first authorship. Shannon G, Durant SM, Sayialel K, Slotow R, Poole J, Moss C, McComb K (2013) Effects of social disruption persist decades after culling. Frontiers in Zoology 10: 62. Shannon G, Mackey RL, Slotow R (2013) Diet selection and seasonal dietary switch of a large sexually dimorphic herbivore. Acta Oecologica 46: 48-55. Tamim Vanak A, Shannon G, Thaker M, Page B, Grant R, Rob Slotow (2012) Biocomplexity in large tree mortality: interactions between elephant, fire and landscape in an African savanna. Ecography 35: 315-321. Shannon G, Thaker M, Tamim Vanak A, Page B, Grant R, Rob Slotow (2011) Relative impacts of elephants and fire on large trees in a savanna ecosystem. Ecosystems 14: 1372-1381. McComb K, Shannon G*, Durant SM, Sayialel K, Slotow R, Poole J, Moss C (2011) Leadership in elephants: the adaptive value of age. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 278: 3720-3276 * = shared first authorship. Duffy K, Dai X, Shannon G, Slotow R, Page, B (2011) Movement patterns of African elephants (Loxodonta africana) in different habitat types. South African Journal of Wildlife Research 41: 21-28. Shannon G, Page BR, Duffy KJ, Slotow R (2010) The ranging behaviour of a large sexually dimorphic herbivore in response to seasonal and annual environmental variation. Austral Ecology 35: 731-742. Shannon G, Matthews WS, Page BR, Parker GE, Smith RJ (2009) The affects of artificial water availability on large herbivore ranging patterns in savanna habitats: a new approach based on modelling elephant path distributions Diversity and Distributions 15: 776-783. Druce DJ, Shannon G, Page BR, Grant R, Slotow R (2008) Ecological thresholds in the savanna landscape: Developing a protocol for monitoring the change in composition and utilisation of large trees. PLoS ONE 3(12): e3979.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003979. Kirby T, Shannon G, Page BR, Slotow R (2008) The influence of sexual dimorphism on the foraging behaviour of the Nyala. Acta Zoologica Sinica 54: 561-571. Shannon G, Druce DJ, Page BR, Eckhardt HC, Grant R, Slotow R (2008) The utilisation of large savanna trees by elephant in southern Kruger National Park. Journal of Tropical Ecology 24: 281-289. Shannon G, Page B, Mackey R, Duffy K, Slotow R (2008) Activity budgets and sexual segregation in the African elephant (Loxodonta africana). Journal of Mammalogy 89: 467-476. Xiaohua D, Shannon G, Slotow R, Page B, Duffy K (2007) Short duration daytime movements of a cow herd of African elephants. Journal of Mammalogy 88: 151-157. Shannon G, Page B, Duffy K, Slotow R (2006) The role of foraging behaviour in the sexual segregation of the African elephant. Oecologia 150: 344-354. Shannon G, Page B, Duffy K, Slotow R (2006) The consequences of body size dimorphism: are African elephants sexually segregated at the habitat scale? Behaviour 143: 1145-1168. Shannon G, Page B, Duffy K, Slotow R (2006) African elephant home range and habitat selection in Pongola Game Reserve, South Africa. African Zoology 41: 37-44.