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Gunnar Þór Hallgrímsson - Professor

Gunnar Þór Hallgrímsson

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School of Engineering and Natural Sciences

Gunnar Þór Hallgrímsson

Professor

Zoology

Location
Askja / N-249
Phone
525 - 4083 6985978
Email
gunnih [at] hi.is

Unit
Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences

Published works

2024

Synchronous timing of return to breeding sites in a long-distance migratory seabird with ocean-scale variation in migration schedulesMovement Ecology
Using a common morphometric-based method to sex a migratory bird along its entire flyway despite geographical and temporal variations in body size and sexual size dimorphismJournal of Ornithology
Remote tracking unveils intercontinental movements of nomadic Short-eared Owls (Asio flammeus) with implications for resource tracking by irruptive specialist predatorsIbis
Annual and spatial variation in adult and brood abundance in a sub-Arctic waderBird Study

2023

High pathogenicity avian influenza (H5N1) in Northern Gannets (Morus bassanus)Ibis
Co-developing guidance for conservationConservation Science and Practice
Genomic diversity and differentiation between island and mainland populations of white-tailed eagles (Haliaeetus albicilla)Molecular Ecology
Global assessment of marine plastic exposure risk for oceanic birdsNature Communications

2022

Distinctive mitogenomic lineages within populations of White-tailed EaglesOrnithology
Corrigendum to: Distinctive mitogenomic lineages within populations of White-tailed EaglesOrnithology
Iceland as Stepping Stone for Spread of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus between Europe and North AmericaEmerging Infectious Diseases
Global dissemination of influenza A virus is driven by wild bird migration through arctic and subarctic zonesMolecular Ecology
Mercury contamination and potential health risks to Arctic seabirds and shorebirdsScience of the Total Environment

2021

Predicting Source Populations of Vagrants Using Breeding Population DataFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution
A review of constraints and solutions for collecting raptor samples and contextual data for a European Raptor Biomonitoring FacilityScience of the Total Environment
Light-level geolocators reveal spatial variations in interactions between northern fulmars and fisheriesMarine Ecology Progress Series
Twilight foraging enables European shags to survive the winter across their latitudinal rangeMarine Ecology Progress Series
Six pelagic seabird species of the North Atlantic engage in a fly-and-forage strategy during their migratory movementsMarine Ecology Progress Series
Year-round distribution of Northeast Atlantic seabird populationsMarine Ecology Progress Series

2020

A schematic sampling protocol for contaminant monitoring in raptorsAmbio

2019

Low fitness at low latitudes: Wintering in the tropics increases migratory delays and mortality rates in an Arctic breeding shorebirdJournal of Animal Ecology
Aerosol transmission of gull-origin Iceland subtype H10N7 influenza A virus in ferretsJournal of Virology

2018

Adult Gannet migrations frequently loop clockwise around Britain and IrelandRinging and Migration

2017

Ecological forensicsMethods in Ecology and Evolution

2016

East or west? Migration routes and wintering sites of Northern Gannets Morus bassanus from south-eastern IcelandMarine Biology
Morphological differentiation of Icelandic Redpolls, Acanthis flammea islandicaBird Study
Sexing adult and fledgling Lesser Black-backed Gulls from morphometricsRinging and Migration
Genetic divergence of Troglodytes troglodytes islandicus from other subspecies of Eurasian wren in northwestern EuropeJournal of Avian Biology

2015

Evolutionary status of icelandic redpolls Carduelis flammea islandica (Aves, Passeriformes, Fringillidae)Journal of Ornithology
Sexing of redpolls Acanthis flammea in Iceland from morphometricsRinging and Migration
A review of the subspecies status of the Icelandic Purple Sandpiper Calidris maritima littoralisZoological Journal of the Linnean Society

2014

North Atlantic migratory bird flyways provide routes for intercontinental movement of avian influenza virusesPLoS ONE
Avian influenza virus ecology in Iceland shorebirdsInfection, Genetics and Evolution

2012

Spatial contraction in a large gull colony in relation to the position of arctic fox densEuropean Journal of Wildlife Research
The winter range of Nearctic Purple Sandpipers Calidris maritima on the East Atlantic flywayArdea
Migration pattern of Icelandic Lesser Black-backed Gulls Larus fuscus graellsiiJournal of Ornithology

2011

Sex ratio and sexual size dimorphism in Purple Sandpiper Calidris maritima chicksBird Study
Observations of bi-parental brood attendance and care in Purple Sandpipers Calidris maritimaWader Study Group Bulletin
First two records of european-banded lesser black-backed gulls larus fuscus in AmericaMarine Ornithology

2010

Reply to Rocke and BarkerProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Greenlandic Dunlins on passage in NE Iceland in springWader Study Group Bulletin
Genotoxicity in herring gulls (Larus argentatus) in Sweden and IcelandMutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

2009

Sanderlings using African Eurasian flyways: a review of current knowledgeWader Study Group Bulletin
Wild birds of declining European species are dying from a thiamine deficiency syndromeProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Population structure, biometrics and moult of migrant Purple Sandpipers Calidris maritima in southwest Iceland in springBird Study

2008

Bill lengthJournal of Field Ornithology

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