Dr Ellen Garland

Principal Research Fellow

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3620

Email

ecg5@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

My broad research interests include animal culture, social learning, bioacoustics, and behavioural ecology. My main research focuses on cetaceans, and in particular the cultural transmission, vocal learning, and function of humpback whale song. I am also interested in vocal sequence analysis techniques, and using similarity in vocal displays to define population structures for conservation management.

PhD supervision

• Jeanne Merindol

Selected publications

• Open access

  A pan-cetacean MHC amplicon sequencing panel developed and evaluated in combination with genome assemblies

  Heimeier, D., Garland, E. C., Eichenberger, F., Garrigue, C., Vella, A., Baker, C. S. & Carroll, E. L., 23 Mar 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Molecular Ecology Resources. Early View, 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Culture in cetaceans

  Garland, E. C. & Rendell, L. E., 22 May 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) The Oxford handbook of cultural evolution. Tehrani, J. J., Kendal, J. & Kendal, R. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 20 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access

  Demographic and physiological signals of reproductive events in humpback whales on a southwest pacific breeding ground

  Pallin, L., Garrigue, C., Kellar, N., Baker, C., Bonneville, C., Derville, S., Garland, E. C., Steel, D. & Friedlaender, A., 18 Jun 2024, In: Conservation Physiology. 12, 1, coae038.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Phylogenetically controlled life history trait meta-analysis in cetaceans reveals unexpected negative brain size and longevity correlation

  Groot, N., Constantine, R., Garland, E. C. & Carroll, E. L., 1 Feb 2023, In: Evolution. 77, 2, 16 p., qpac050.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Reproductive tactics in baleen whales

  Eichenberger, F., Garland, E. C. & Carroll, E. L., 26 Sept 2023, Sex in Cetaceans: Morphology, Behavior, and the Evolution of Sexual Strategies. Wursig, B. & Orbach, D. N. (eds.). Cham: Springer Nature, p. 469-498

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access

  Variability in humpback whale songs reveals how individuals can be distinctive when sharing a complex vocal display

  Lamoni, L. U., Garland, E. C., Allen, J., Coxon, J., Noad, M. J. & Rendell, L. E., 12 Apr 2023, In: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 153, 4, p. 2238-2250 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Culture and social learning in baleen whales

  Garland, E. C. & Carroll, E. L., 3 Jul 2022, Ethology and behavioral ecology of mysticetes. Clark, C. W. & Garland, E. C. (eds.). Cham: Springer Nature, p. 177-191 15 p. (Ethology and behavioral ecology of marine mammals).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Ethology and behavioral ecology of mysticetes

  Clark, C. W. (Editor) & Garland, E. C. (Editor), 3 Jul 2022, Cham: Springer Nature. 384 p. (Ethology and behavioral ecology of marine mammals)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Open access

  Humpback whale song revolutions continue to spread from the central into the eastern South Pacific

  Schulze, J. N., Denkinger, J., Oña, J., Poole, M. & Garland, E. C., Aug 2022, In: Royal Society Open Science. 9, 8, 15 p., 220158.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Observing baleen whales

  Clark, C. W. & Garland, E. C., 3 Jul 2022, Ethology and behavioral ecology of mysticetes. Clark, C. W. & Garland, E. C. (eds.). Cham: Springer Nature, p. 3-10 8 p. (Ethology and behavioral ecology of marine mammals).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

 

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