Dr Peter Davies
Profiles

Dr Peter Davies

Post-Doctoral Researcher

School of Biological and Marine Sciences (Faculty of Science and Engineering)

Biography

Biography

I am interested in how, where and why animals move, and applying this knowledge to inform their conservation. For my PhD I used telemetry to understand how habitat fragmentation affects the movements of threatened migratory fish, and how fish populations respond when habitats are reconnected. My current work as postdoctoral researcher in the aMER research group spans two major projects: FISH INTEL and Angling for Sustainability, which are cross-channel efforts aimed at broadening our understanding of the movements of marine species to inform ecosystem-based fisheries management.
Publications

Publications

Journals
Hawkes, L.A., Davies, P., Hall, A.E., Horton, T.W., Stamp, T., Witt, M.J. and Sheehan, E.V. (2024), People behind the “pings”; limiting authorship threatens collaboration in telemetry. J Fish Biol. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15700

Yeldham, M. I. A., Britton, J. R., Crundwell, C., Davies, P., Dodd, J. R., Nunn, A. D., Velterop, R., & Bolland, J. D. (2024). Emigration of post-spawned twaite shad Alosa fallax, an anadromous and iteroparous fish, in a highly fragmented river. Journal of Fish Biology, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15713

Davies, P., Britton, J. R., Andreou, D., Crundwell, C., Dodd, J. R., Lepais, O., . . . Bolland, J. D. (2024). Tracking repeat spawning anadromous fish migrations over multiple years in a fragmented river suggests philopatry and sex-linked variation in space use. Aquatic Sciences, 86(2). doi:10.1007/s00027-024-01048-z


Davies, P., Britton, J. R., Castro-Santos, T., Crundwell, C., Dodd, J. R., Nunn, A. D., . . . Bolland, J. D. (2023). Tracking anadromous fish over successive freshwater migrations reveals the influence of tagging effect, previous success, and abiotic factors on upstream passage over barriers. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 80(7), 1110-1125. doi:10.1139/cjfas-2022-0196


Yeldham, M. I. A., Britton, J. R., Crundwell, C., Davies, P., Dodd, J. R., Nunn, A. D., . . . Bolland, J. D. (2023). Individual repeatability in the timing of river entry indicates the strong influence of photoperiod in the spawning migrations of iteroparous twaite shad Alosa fallax. Hydrobiologia, 850(7), 1619-1634. doi:10.1007/s10750-023-05168-9


Lowe, C. D., Tregenza, N. J. C., Allen, C. J., Blow, G. E., Nuuttila, H., Bertelli, C. M., Davies, P., . . . Clarke, D. R. K. (2022). A novel method for identifying coded tags recorded on aquatic acoustic monitoring systems. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 194(11). doi:10.1007/s10661-022-10500-2


Davies, P., Britton, J. R., Nunn, A. D., Dodd, J. R., Bainger, C., Velterop, R., & Bolland, J. D. (2022). Individual movement variation in upstream‐migrating sea lamprey Petromyzon marinus in a highly fragmented river. Freshwater Biology, 67(4), 643-656. doi:10.1111/fwb.13869


Davies, P., Britton, J. R., Nunn, A. D., Dodd, J. R., Bainger, C., Velterop, R., & Bolland, J. D. (2021). Cumulative impacts of habitat fragmentation and the environmental factors affecting upstream migration in the threatened sea lamprey, Petromyzon marinus. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 31(9), 2560-2574. doi:10.1002/aqc.3625


Antognazza, C. M., Britton, J. R., De Santis, V., Kolia, K., Turunen, O. A., Davies, P., . . . Andreou, D. (2021). Environmental DNA reveals the temporal and spatial extent of spawning migrations of European shad in a highly fragmented river basin. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 31(8), 2029-2040. doi:10.1002/aqc.3601


Antognazza, C. M., Britton, R. J., Read, D. S., Goodall, T., Mantzouratou, A., De Santis, V., Davies, P., . . . Andreou, D. (2021). Application of eDNA metabarcoding in a fragmented lowland river: Spatial and methodological comparison of fish species composition. Environmental DNA, 3(2), 458-471. doi:10.1002/edn3.136


Davies, P., Britton, R. J., Nunn, A. D., Dodd, J. R., Crundwell, C., Velterop, R., . . . Bolland, J. D. (2020). Novel insights into the marine phase and river fidelity of anadromous twaite shad Alosa fallax in the UK and Ireland. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 30(7), 1291-1298. doi:10.1002/aqc.3343


Davies, P., & Sheehan, E. V. (2019). Laser chasing behaviour of wild fishes exploited as a tool to compare space use between size, sex and species. Journal of Applied Ichthyology, 35(6), 1225-1233. doi:10.1111/jai.13982


Bolland, J. D., Nunn, A. D., Angelopoulos, N. V., Dodd, J. R., Davies, P., Gutmann Roberts, C., . . . Cowx, I. G. (2019). Refinement of acoustic-tagging protocol for twaite shad Alosa fallax (Lacépède), a species sensitive to handling and sedation. Fisheries Research, 212, 183-187. doi:10.1016/j.fishres.2018.12.006


Davies, P., Williams, C., Carpenter, G., & Stewart, B. D. (2018). Does size matter? Assessing the use of vessel length to manage fisheries in England. Marine Policy, 97, 202-210. doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2018.06.013