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Dr Sophie Smout

Dr Sophie Smout
Lecturer (Education Focused)


 

My interests are in the processes that drive changes in animal populations, especially in marine ecosystems. Foraging success and trophic interactions have important consequences for populations of ‘top’ marine predators e.g. seabirds and marine mammals, for their prey, and for fisheries. I also work on the implications of bycatch for predators, and the consequences of limiting bycatch for fisheries. Methods used and under development include: modelling the spatial distributions of predators and prey; the analysis of mark-recapture data; modelling trophic interactions; Bayesian methods including state-space (or hidden process) models.

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Research Overview:

 

 

50 (of 51 /dk/atira/pure/researchoutput/status/published available) for scs10 (source: University of St Andrews PURE)
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AgentSeal Magda Ewa Chudzinska, Jacob Nabe-Nielsen, Sophie Caroline Smout, Sophie Brasseur, Isla Graham, Paul Thompson, Bernie J McConnell
Ecological Modelling 2021 vol. 440
Modeling recruitment of birth cohorts to the breeding population Hannah Worthington, Ruth King, Rachel McCrea, Sophie Caroline Smout, Patrick Pomeroy
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 2021 vol. 9
Habitat partitioning in sympatric delphinids around the Falkland Islands Sophie Caroline Smout, Clint Blight, Lars Boehme, Grant Munro, Marina Costa, Sonja Heinrich
Frontiers in Marine Science 2020 vol. 7
Harbour Seal Decline – vital rates and drivers Monica Arso Civil, Izzy Langley, Andy Law, Emily Hague, Eiren Kate Jacobson, Len Thomas, Sophie Caroline Smout, Rebecca Hewitt, Callan David Duck, Chris Morris, Andrew Brownlow, Nicolas Davison, Mariel Doeschate, Bernie J McConnell, Ailsa Jane Hall
2020
Colony-specific differences in decadal longitudinal body composition of a capital-breeding marine top predator Nora Nell Hanson, Sophie Caroline Smout, Simon Moss, Patrick Pomeroy
Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 2019 vol. 29 pp. 131-143
Effect of temporal and spatial resolution on identification of fishing activities in small-scale fisheries using pots and traps Tania Mendo, Sophie Caroline Smout, Tommaso Russo, Lorenzo D'Andrea, Mark Andrew James, Christos Maravelias
ICES Journal of Marine Science 2019 vol. 76 pp. 1601-1609
Identifying fishing grounds from vessel tracks: model-based inference for small scale fisheries Tania Mendo, Sophie Caroline Smout, Theoni Photopoulou, Mark Andrew James
Royal Society Open Science 2019 vol. 6
SIFIDS Work Package 8b: Identifying fishing activities and their associated drivers Tania Mendo, Sophie Caroline Smout, Ian Noel Durbach, Paddy McCann, Swithun Crowe, Ariadna Carulla Fàbrega, Irene de Prado, Hannah Ladd-Jones, Mark Andrew James
2019
Sensitivity of multispecies maximum sustainable yields to trends in the top (marine mammals) and bottom (primary production) compartments of the southern North Sea food-web Moritz Stäbler, Alexander Kempf, Sophie Caroline Smout, Axel Temming
PLoS ONE 2019 vol. 14
Use of state-space modelling to identify ecological covariates associated with trends in pinniped demography Line Cordes, Paul Thompson, Jason Matthiopoulos, Sophie Caroline Smout
Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 2019 vol. 29 pp. 101-118
Body density of humpback whales (Megaptera novaengliae) in feeding aggregations estimated from hydrodynamic gliding performance Tomoko Narazaki, Saana Isojunno, Douglas P. Nowacek, Ari S. Friedlaender, Christian Ramp, Sophie Caroline Smout, Kagari Aoki, Volker Bernt Deecke, Katsufumi Sato, Patrick James Miller
PLoS ONE 2018 vol. 13
FIS013 – Scoping the background information for an ecosystem approach to fisheries in Scottish waters Michael R. Heath, Law Richard, Searle Kate, Robin Cook, Dougie Speirs, Francis Daunt, Sarah Wanless, Kieran Hyder, John K. Pinnegar, Robert Thorpe, Diele Karen, Neil Campbell, Peter Wright, James Thorburn, Robert Arthur, Paul Macdonald, Beth Mouat, Clive Fox, Sheila Heymans, Ken Coull, Peter Evans, Paul Fernandes, Philip Steven Hammond, Sophie Caroline Smout, Jeppe Kolding, David Reid
2017
Fine-scale harbour seal usage for informed marine spatial planning Esther Lane Jones, Carol Elizabeth Sparling, Bernie J McConnell, Chris Morris, Sophie Caroline Smout
Scientific Reports 2017 vol. 7
Harbour Seal Decline – vital rates and drivers. Monica Arso Civil, Sophie Caroline Smout, David Thompson, Andrew Brownlow, Nicolas Davison, Mariel Doeschate, Callan David Duck, Chris Morris, Caroline Cummings, Bernie J McConnell, Ailsa Jane Hall
2017
Impact of wild prey availability on livestock predation by snow leopards Kulbhushansingh R. Suryawanshi, Stephen M. Redpath, Yash Veer Bhatnagar, Uma Ramakrishnan, Vaibhav Chaturvedi, Sophie Caroline Smout, Charudutt Mishra
Royal Society Open Science 2017 vol. 4
Modelling harbour seal movements Bernie J McConnell, Sophie Caroline Smout, Mick Wu
2017 vol. 8
Review of analytical approaches for identifying usage and foraging areas at sea for harbour seals Esther Lane Jones, Sophie Caroline Smout, Debbie JF Russell, Eunice Pinn, Bernie J McConnell
2017 vol. 602
Seals and shipping Esther Lane Jones, Gordon Drummond Hastie, Sophie Caroline Smout, Joseph Alistair Ross Onoufriou, Nathan Merchant, Kate Brookes, David Thompson
Journal of Applied Ecology 2017 vol. 54 pp. 1930-1940
Body density and diving gas volume of the northern bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus) Patrick James Miller, Tomoko Narazaki, Saana Isojunno, Kagari Aoki, Sophie Caroline Smout, Katsufumi sato
Journal of Experimental Biology 2016 vol. 219 pp. 2458-2468
Fine-scale harbour seal at-sea usage around Orkney and the North coast of Scotland Esther Lane Jones, Sophie Caroline Smout, Clint Blight, Carol Elizabeth Sparling, Bernie J McConnell
2016
Harbour Seal Decline - vital rates and drivers Monica Arso Civil, Sophie Caroline Smout, Callan David Duck, Chris Morris, Joseph Alistair Ross Onoufriou, David Thompson, Andrew Brownlow, Nicholas Davison, Caroline Cummings, Patrick Pomeroy, Bernie J McConnell, Ailsa Jane Hall
2016
Marine Renewable Energy MRE1 Annual Report Bernie J McConnell, Sophie Caroline Smout, Mick Wu, David Thompson, Phil Irving, Gordon Drummond Hastie
2016
Population scaling in 5 km x 5 km grey and harbour seal usage maps. Note to Scottish Government MMSS/002/15 Esther Lane Jones, Chris Morris, Sophie Caroline Smout, Bernie J McConnell
2016
Report of the ICES/NAFO/NAMMCO Working Group on Harp and Hooded Seals (WGHARP) Sophie Caroline Smout
2016
Report of the NAMMCO Working Group on Coastal Seals 2016 Sophie Caroline Smout
2016
The MSY concept in a multi-objective fisheries environment - Lessons from the North Sea Alexander Kempf, John Mumford, Polina Levontin, Adrian Leach, Ayoe Hoff, Katell G. Hamon, Heleen Bartelings , Morten Vinther, Moritz Staebler, Jan Jaap Poos, Sophie Caroline Smout, Hans Frost, Sander van den Burg, Clara Ulrich, Anna Rindorf
Marine Policy 2016 vol. 69 pp. 146-158
CSD4: Harbour Seal Decline: Population Modelling Sophie Caroline Smout
2015
Determine data sparse regions. Report to Marine Scotland MMSS/001/11 MR 5.1 Esther Lane Jones, Sophie Caroline Smout, Chris Morris, Bernie J McConnell
2015
Determine environmental covariates for usage preference around the UK. Report to Marine Scotland MMSS/001/11 MR 5.1.6 Esther Lane Jones, Sophie Caroline Smout, Bernie J McConnell
2015
Examining the distribution of observed carcasses to identify biological and oceanographic patterns and distribution of potential causes to assess the patterns of risk associated with unexplained seal deaths. Esther Lane Jones, Joseph Alistair Ross Onoufriou, David Thompson, Sophie Caroline Smout
2015
Patterns of space use in sympatric marine colonial predators reveals scales of spatial partitioning Esther Lane Jones, Bernie J McConnell, Sophie Caroline Smout, Philip Steven Hammond, Callan David Duck, Christopher Morris, David Thompson, Debbie JF Russell, cecile vincent, michelle cronin, Ruth Jemma Sharples, jason matthiopoulos
Marine Ecology Progress Series 2015 vol. 534 pp. 235-249
Review the extent of how new survey data affect usage estimates. Report to Marine Scotland MMSS/001/11 MR 5.1 Esther Lane Jones, Sophie Caroline Smout, Bernie J McConnell
2015
Colony specific implications of individual mass changes for survival and fecundity in female grey seals (Halichoerus grypus). Sophie Caroline Smout, Ruth King, Patrick Pomeroy
2014 pp. 134-143
Forage fish, their fisheries, and their predators Georg H. Engelhard, Myron A. Peck, Anna Rindorf, Sophie Caroline Smout, Mikael Van Deurs, Kristina Raab, Ken H. Andersen, S. Garthe, Rebecca A.M. Lauerburg, Finlay Scott, Thomas Brunel, Tobias Van Kooten, Mark Dickey-Collas
ICES Journal of Marine Science 2014 vol. 71 pp. 90-104
Modelling prey consumption and switching by UK grey seals Sophie Caroline Smout, Anna Rindorf, Philip Steven Hammond, John Harwood, Jason Matthiopoulos
ICES Journal of Marine Science 2014 vol. 71 pp. 81-89
State-space modelling reveals proximate causes of harbour seal population declines Jason Matthiopoulos, Line S. Cordes, Beth Mackey, David Thompson, Callan David Duck, Sophie Caroline Smout, Paul Thompson
Oecologia 2014 vol. 174 pp. 151-162
The importance of developing modeling frameworks to inform conservation decisions Jason Matthiopoulos, Sophie Caroline Smout, Line S. Cordes, Beth Mackey, Paul Thompson
Oecologia 2014 vol. 175 pp. 1069-1071
Ecological Risk Assessment of Southwest Fisheries: Marine Mammal Ecosystem Component. Al Kingston, Sophie Caroline Smout, Simon Northridge
2013
Ecosystem-based management objectives for the North Sea mark Dickey-Collas, Georg Engelhard, Anna RIndorf, Kristina Raab, Sophie Caroline Smout, Geert Aarts, Martin van Deurs, Thomas Brunel, Ayoe Hoff, Rebecca Lauerberg, Stefan Garthe, Ken Haste Anderson, F Scott, T van Kooten, Douglas Beare, Myron Peck
ICES Journal of Marine Science 2013
Functional relationship between harp seal body condition and available prey in the Barents Sea Tor Arne Oigard, Ulf Lindstrom, Tore Haug, Kjell Tormod Nilssen, Sophie Caroline Smout
Marine Ecology Progress Series 2013 vol. 484 pp. 287-301
Seabirds maintain offspring provisioning rate despite fluctuations in prey abundance Sophie Caroline Smout, Anna Rindorf, Sarah Wanless, Francis Daunt, Michael P. Harris, Jason Matthiopoulos
Journal of Applied Ecology 2013 vol. 50 pp. 1071-1079
Penalising Yield: MSY and bycatch Simon Northridge, Sophie Caroline Smout,
2012
Estimating demographic parameters for capture-recapture data in the presence of multiple mark types Sophie Caroline Smout, Ruth King, Patrick Pomeroy
Environmental and Ecological Statistics 2011 vol. 18 pp. 331-347
Integrating heterogeneity of detection and mark loss to estimate survival and transience in UK colonies of grey seals Sophie Caroline Smout, Ruth King, Patrick Pomeroy
Journal of Applied Ecology 2011 vol. 48 pp. 364-372
Low and delayed recruitment at two grey seal breeding colonies in the UK Patrick Pomeroy, Sophie Caroline Smout, S.E. Moss, S.D. Twiss, Ruth King
Journal of Northwest Atlantic Fishery Science 2010 vol. 42 pp. 125-133
The functional response of a generalist predator Sophie Caroline Smout, C Asseburg, Jason Matthiopoulos, Carmen Fernández, S Redpath, S Thirgood, John Harwood
PLoS ONE 2010 vol. 5
Modelling multi-species interactions in the Barents Sea ecosystem with special emphasis on minke whales and their interactions with cod, herring and capelin Ulf Lindstrom, Sophie Caroline Smout, Daniel Howell, Bjarte Bogstad
Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 2009 vol. 56 pp. 2068-2079
Getting beneath the surface of marine mammal - fisheries competition Jason Matthiopoulos, Sophie Caroline Smout, Arliss Winship, David Thompson, Ian Boyd, John Harwood
Mammal Review 2008 vol. 38 pp. 167-188
Multispecies functional response of the minke whale Balaenoptera acutorostrata based on small-scale foraging studies Sophie Caroline Smout, Ulf Lindstrom
Marine Ecology Progress Series 2007 vol. 341 pp. 277-291
Sensitivity to assumptions in models of generalist predation on a cyclic prey Jason Matthiopoulos, K Graham, Sophie Caroline Smout, C Asseburg, S Redpath, S Thirgood, P Hudson, John Harwood
Ecology 2007 vol. 88 pp. 2576-2586

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