| Scaling laws of marine predator search behaviour DW Sims, EJ Southall, NE Humphries, GC Hays, CJA Bradshaw, ... Nature 451 (7182), 1098-1102, 2008 | 1158 | 2008 |
| Environmental context explains Lévy and Brownian movement patterns of marine predators NE Humphries, N Queiroz, JRM Dyer, NG Pade, MK Musyl, KM Schaefer, ... Nature 465 (7301), 1066-1069, 2010 | 1116 | 2010 |
| Foraging success of biological Lévy flights recorded in situ NE Humphries, H Weimerskirch, N Queiroz, EJ Southall, DW Sims Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (19), 7169-7174, 2012 | 413 | 2012 |
| Translating marine animal tracking data into conservation policy and management GC Hays, H Bailey, SJ Bograd, WD Bowen, C Campagna, RH Carmichael, ... Trends in ecology & evolution 34 (5), 459-473, 2019 | 384 | 2019 |
| Global spatial risk assessment of sharks under the footprint of fisheries N Queiroz, NE Humphries, A Couto, M Vedor, I Da Costa, AMM Sequeira, ... Nature 572 (7770), 461-466, 2019 | 380 | 2019 |
| Ocean-wide tracking of pelagic sharks reveals extent of overlap with longline fishing hotspots N Queiroz, NE Humphries, G Mucientes, N Hammerschlag, FP Lima, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (6), 1582-1587, 2016 | 277 | 2016 |
| Lévy flight and Brownian search patterns of a free‐ranging predator reflect different prey field characteristics DW Sims, NE Humphries, RW Bradford, BD Bruce Journal of Animal Ecology 81 (2), 432-442, 2012 | 217 | 2012 |
| Acoustic telemetry and network analysis reveal the space use of multiple reef predators and enhance marine protected area design JSE Lea, NE Humphries, RG von Brandis, CR Clarke, DW Sims Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 283 (1834), 20160717, 2016 | 156 | 2016 |
| Repeated, long-distance migrations by a philopatric predator targeting highly contrasting ecosystems JSE Lea, BM Wetherbee, N Queiroz, N Burnie, C Aming, LL Sousa, ... Scientific reports 5 (1), 11202, 2015 | 151 | 2015 |
| High activity and Lévy searches: jellyfish can search the water column like fish GC Hays, T Bastian, TK Doyle, S Fossette, AC Gleiss, MB Gravenor, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279 (1728), 465-473, 2012 | 148 | 2012 |
| Spatial dynamics and expanded vertical niche of blue sharks in oceanographic fronts reveal habitat targets for conservation N Queiroz, NE Humphries, LR Noble, AM Santos, DW Sims PloS one 7 (2), e32374, 2012 | 140 | 2012 |
| Convergence of marine megafauna movement patterns in coastal and open oceans AMM Sequeira, JP Rodríguez, VM Eguíluz, R Harcourt, M Hindell, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (12), 3072-3077, 2018 | 132 | 2018 |
| Hierarchical random walks in trace fossils and the origin of optimal search behavior DW Sims, AM Reynolds, NE Humphries, EJ Southall, VJ Wearmouth, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 (30), 11073-11078, 2014 | 124 | 2014 |
| First results from satellite-linked archival tagging of porbeagle shark, Lamna nasus: area fidelity, wider-scale movements and plasticity in diel depth changes NG Pade, N Queiroz, NE Humphries, MJ Witt, CS Jones, LR Noble, ... Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 370 (1-2), 64-74, 2009 | 119 | 2009 |
| Long-term GPS tracking of ocean sunfish Mola mola offers a new direction in fish monitoring DW Sims, N Queiroz, NE Humphries, FP Lima, GC Hays PLoS One 4 (10), e7351, 2009 | 117 | 2009 |
| Optimal foraging strategies: Lévy walks balance searching and patch exploitation under a very broad range of conditions NE Humphries, DW Sims Journal of theoretical biology 358, 179-193, 2014 | 106 | 2014 |
| A new approach for objective identification of turns and steps in organism movement data relevant to random walk modelling NE Humphries, H Weimerskirch, DW Sims Methods in Ecology and Evolution 4 (10), 930-938, 2013 | 105 | 2013 |
| Short-term movements and diving behaviour of satellite-tracked blue sharks Prionace glauca in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean N Queiroz, NE Humphries, LR Noble, AM Santos, DW Sims Marine Ecology Progress Series 406, 265-279, 2010 | 80 | 2010 |
| Climate-driven deoxygenation elevates fishing vulnerability for the ocean's widest ranging shark M Vedor, N Queiroz, G Mucientes, A Couto, I Costa, A Santos, ... Elife 10, e62508, 2021 | 77 | 2021 |
| DNA barcoding identifies a cosmopolitan diet in the ocean sunfish LL Sousa, R Xavier, V Costa, NE Humphries, C Trueman, R Rosa, ... Scientific Reports 6 (1), 28762, 2016 | 74 | 2016 |
David W. SimsProfessor of Marine Ecology, Marine Biological Association Lab and University of Southampton, UKVerified email at mba.ac.uk
