| Scaling laws of marine predator search behaviour DW Sims, EJ Southall, NE Humphries, GC Hays, CJA Bradshaw, ... Nature 451 (7182), 1098-1102, 2008 | 1152 | 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 | 1101 | 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 | 408 | 2012 |
| 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 | 369 | 2019 |
| Hunt warm, rest cool: Bioenergetic efficiency underlying diel vertical migration of a benthic shark DW Sims, VJ Wearmouth, EJ Southall, J Hill, P Moore, K Rawlinson, ... Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2006 | 355* | 2006 |
| Regional climatic warming drives long–term community changes of British marine fish MJ Genner, DW Sims, VJ Wearmouth, EJ Southall, AJ Southward, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 2004 | 331 | 2004 |
| Habitat-specific normal and reverse diel vertical migration in the plankton-feeding basking shark DW Sims, EJ Southall, GA Tarling, JD Metcalfe Journal of Animal Ecology, 755-761, 2005 | 297 | 2005 |
| Seasonal movements and behaviour of basking sharks from archival tagging: no evidence of winter hibernation DW Sims, EJ Southall, AJ Richardson, PC Reid, JD Metcalfe Marine Ecology Progress Series 248, 187-196, 2003 | 279 | 2003 |
| Encounter success of free-ranging marine predator movements across a dynamic prey landscape DW Sims, MJ Witt, AJ Richardson, EJ Southall, JD Metcalfe Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 273 (1591), 1195-1201, 2006 | 266 | 2006 |
| Body size‐dependent responses of a marine fish assemblage to climate change and fishing over a century‐long scale MJ Genner, DW Sims, AJ Southward, GC Budd, P Masterson, M Mchugh, ... Global Change Biology 16 (2), 517-527, 2010 | 254 | 2010 |
| Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment AE Bates, RB Primack, BS Biggar, TJ Bird, ME Clinton, RJ Command, ... Biological conservation 263, 109175, 2021 | 158 | 2021 |
| Diel and tidal rhythms in diving behaviour of pelagic sharks identified by signal processing of archival tagging data ELC Shepard, MZ Ahmed, EJ Southall, MJ Witt, JD Metcalfe, DW Sims Marine Ecology Progress Series 328, 205-213, 2006 | 138 | 2006 |
| Annual social behaviour of basking sharks associated with coastal front areas DW Sims, EJ Southall, VA Quayle, AM Fox Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 2000 | 136 | 2000 |
| 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 | 121 | 2014 |
| Basking sharks and oceanographic fronts: quantifying associations in the north‐east Atlantic PI Miller, KL Scales, SN Ingram, EJ Southall, DW Sims Functional Ecology 29 (8), 1099-1109, 2015 | 90 | 2015 |
| Seasonal space-use estimates of basking sharks in relation to protection and political–economic zones in the North-east Atlantic EJ Southall, DW Sims, MJ Witt, JD Metcalfe Biological conservation 132 (1), 33-39, 2006 | 68 | 2006 |
| Spatial distribution patterns of basking sharks on the European shelf: preliminary comparison of satellite-tag geolocation, survey and public sightings data EJ Southall, DW Sims, JD Metcalfe, JI Doyle, S Fanshawe, C Lacey, ... JMBA-Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 85 …, 2005 | 68 | 2005 |
| Year‐round sexual harassment as a behavioral mediator of vertebrate population dynamics VJ Wearmouth, EJ Southall, D Morritt, RC Thompson, IC Cuthill, ... Ecological Monographs 82 (3), 351-366, 2012 | 63 | 2012 |
| Rapid voluntary stomach eversion in a free-living shark JM Brunnschweiler, PLR Andrews, EJ Southall, M Pickering, DW Sims JMBA-Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 85 …, 2005 | 62 | 2005 |
| Scaling laws of ambush predator ‘waiting’behaviour are tuned to a common ecology VJ Wearmouth, MJ McHugh, NE Humphries, A Naegelen, MZ Ahmed, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281 (1782), 20132997, 2014 | 60 | 2014 |
David W. SimsProfessor of Marine Ecology, Marine Biological Association Lab and University of Southampton, UKVerified email at mba.ac.uk
