Scientific publications are our currency. Peer review is the quality control system for making sure that research follows rigorous methodology and that conclusions are supported by the data. We are building up a great track record of publishing our work in the scientific literature. The PDFs found on the journal’s hosted sites are the definitive versions, but please find the author versions (proofs) below for your personal research and study. If you have any other questions about our work, please get in touch!
Peer Reviewed Publications
Christine Erbe, Alexander MacGillivray & Rob Williams. 2012. Mapping cumulative noise from shipping to inform marine spatial planning. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters 132(5), EL423-EL428.
Kristin Kaschner, Nicola Quick, Becci Jewell, Rob Williams & Catriona Harris. 2012. Global coverage of cetacean line-transect surveys: status quo, data gaps and future challenges. PLoS ONE 7(9): e44075. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0044075
Meike Scheidat, Ari Friedlaender, Karl-Hermann Kock, Linn Lehnert, Olaf Boebel, Jason Roberts & Rob Williams. 2011. Cetacean surveys in the Southern Ocean using icebreaker-supported helicopters scheidat polar biology 2011. Polar Biology 34:1513-1522.
Rob Williams, Martin Krkošek, Erin Ashe, Trevor A. Branch, Steve Clark, Philip S. Hammond, Erich Hoyt, Dawn P. Noren, David Rosen & Arliss Winship. 2011. Competing Conservation Objectives for Predators and Prey: Estimating Killer Whale Prey Requirements for Chinook Salmon. PLoS ONE 6(11): e26738. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026738
Rob Williams, Sharon L. Hedley, Trevor A. Branch, Mark V. Bravington, Alexander N. Zerbini, & Ken P. Findlay. 2011. Chilean Blue Whales as a Case Study to Illustrate Methods to Estimate Abundance and Evaluate Conservation Status of Rare Species . Conservation Biology 25:526-535.
Rob Williams, Shane S. Gero, Lars Bejder, John Calambokidis, Scott D. Kraus, David Lusseau, Andy J. Read & Jooke Robbins. 2011. Underestimating the Damage: Interpreting Cetacean Carcass Recoveries in the Context of the Deepwater Horizon/BP Incident. Conservation Letters 4:228-233.
Rob Williams, Erin Ashe & Patrick D. O’Hara. 2011. Marine mammals and debris in coastal waters of British Columbia, Canada. Marine Pollution Bulletin 62:1303-1316.
Erin Ashe, Dawn Noren & Rob Williams. 2010. Animal behaviour and marine protected areas: incorporating behavioural data into the selection of marine protected areas for an endangered killer whale population. Animal Conservation 13:196-203.
Rob Williams & Patrick O’Hara. 2010. Modelling ship strike risk to fin, humpback and killer whales in British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 11:1-8.
Rob Williams, Tom Okey, Scott Wallace & Vince Gallucci. 2010. Shark aggregation in coastal waters of British Columbia. Marine Ecology Progress Series 414:249-256.
Rob Williams & Len Thomas. 2009. Cost-effective abundance estimation of rare animals: Testing performance of small-boat surveys for killer whales in British Columbia. Biological Conservation 142:1542-1547.
Rob Williams & Dawn Noren. 2009. Swimming speed, respiration rate and estimated cost of transport in killer whales. Marine Mammal Science 25:327-350.
Rob Williams, David Lusseau & Phil Hammond. 2009. The role of social aggregations and protected areas in killer whale conservation: the mixed blessing of critical habitat. Biological Conservation 142:709-719.
Rob Williams*, David Bain, David Lusseau & Jodi Smith. 2009. Effects of vessel traffic on behaviour patterns of individual southern resident killer whales (Orcinus orca). Endangered Species Research 6:199-209. (* – Joint first-authorship.)
David Lusseau, David Bain, Rob Williams & Jodi Smith. 2009. Vessel traffic disrupts foraging behaviour of southern resident killer whales. Endangered Species Research 6:211-221.
Rob Williams, Anna Hall & Arliss Winship. 2008. Potential limits to anthropogenic mortality of small cetaceans in coastal waters of British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 65(9):1867-1878.
Rob Williams & Len Thomas. 2007. Distribution and abundance of marine mammals in the coastal waters of BC, Canada. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 9(1):15-28.
Len Thomas, Rob Williams & Doug Sandilands. 2007. Designing line transect surveys for complex survey regions. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 9(1):1-13.
Williams, R., Leaper, R., Zerbini, A. & Hammond, P.S. 2007. Methods for investigating measurement error in cetacean line transect surveys. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 87: 313-320.
Rob Williams & Erin Ashe. 2007. Killer whale evasive tactics vary with boat number. Journal of Zoology (London) 272(4):390-397.
Rob Williams & Kim Crosbie. 2007. Antarctic whales and Antarctic tourism. Tourism in Marine Environments (Special Issue on Polar Tourism).
Rob Williams & David Lusseau. 2006. A killer whale social network is vulnerable to targeted removals. Biology Letters 2(4): 497-500.
Rob Williams, Sharon Hedley & Phil Hammond. 2006. Modelling distribution and abundance of Antarctic baleen whales using ships of opportunity. Ecology and Society 11(1).
Rob Williams, David Lusseau & Phil Hammond. 2006. Estimating relative energetic costs of human disturbance to killer whales (Orcinus orca). Biological Conservation 133(3): 301-311.
Alexandra Morton & Rob Williams. 2006. Response of Sea Lice infestation on wild Pink and Chum Salmon smolts to arrival of parasitized wild adult salmon. Canadian Field-Naturalist 120(2): 199-204.
Alexandra Morton, Rick Routledge & Rob Williams. 2005. Temporal patterns of sea louse infestation on wild Pacific salmon in relation to the fallowing of Atlantic salmon farms. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 25: 811-821.
David Lusseau, Rob Williams, Ben Wilson, Kate Grellier, Tim Barton, Phil Hammond & Paul Thompson. 2004. Parallel influence of climate on the behaviour of Pacific killer whales and Atlantic bottlenose dolphins. Ecology Letters 7: 1068-1076.
Meike Scheidat, Cristina Castro, Janira Gonzalez & Rob Williams. 2004. Behavioural responses of humpback whales to whalewatching boats near Isla de la Plata, Machalilla National Park, Ecuador. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 6(1): 63-68.
Alexandra Morton & Rob Williams. 2003. First report of the sea louse, Lepeophtheirus salmonis, infestation on juvenile Pink Salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, in nearshore habitat. Canadian Field-Naturalist 117: 634-641.
Rob Williams, David Bain, John Ford & Andrew Trites. 2002. Behavioural responses of male killer whales to a ‘leapfrogging’ vessel. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 4(3): 305-310.
Rob Williams, Andrew Trites & David Bain. 2002. Behavioural responses of killer whales to whale-watching traffic: opportunistic observations and experimental approaches. Journal of Zoology (London) 256: 255-270.
Editorials and Encyclopedia Entries
Rob Williams. 2011. Establishing general principles from little truths: lessons from marine mammal research. Journal of Zoology 283:1-2.
Linnell, J.D.C., Rondeau, D., Reed, D.H., Rob Williams, Altwegg, R., Raxworthy, C.J., Austin, J.D., Hanley, N., Fritz, H., Evans, D.M., Gordon, I.J., Reyers, B., Redpath, S. & Pettorelli, N. 2010. Confronting the costs and conflicts associated with biodiversity. Animal Conservation 13:429-431.
Rob Williams & Greg Donovan. 2006. Blue whales. In: Riffenburgh, B. (ed.) Encyclopedia of the Antarctic (v. 1 & v. 2)
Rob Williams & Greg Donovan. 2006. Fin whales. In: Riffenburgh, B. (ed.) Encyclopedia of the Antarctic (v. 1 & v. 2)
Rob Williams & Greg Donovan. 2006. Sei whales. In: Riffenburgh, B. (ed.) Encyclopedia of the Antarctic (v. 1 & v. 2)
photo by J. Towers
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