Dr Ellen Garland
Principal Research Fellow
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
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Humpback whale song complexity and evolution on a North-western Pacific breeding ground: Okinawa, Japan
Marwood, E. M., Eichenberger, F., Kobayashi, N., Okabe, H., Ozawa, S., Rendell, L. E. & Garland, E. C., Feb 2025, In: Royal Society Open Science. 12, 2, 15 p., 241388.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Patterns of paternity: insights into mating competition and gene flow in a recovering population of humpback whales
Eichenberger, F., Garrigue, C., Steele, D., Bonneville, C. D., Rendell, L. E. & Garland, E. C., 8 Jan 2025, In: Royal Society Open Science. 12, 1, 20 p., 241424.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Whale song shows language-like statistical structure
Arnon, I., Kirby, S., Allen, J. A., Garrigue, C., Carroll, E. L. & Garland, E. C., 7 Feb 2025, In: Science. 387, 6734, p. 649 - 653 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Whalesong patterns follow a universal law of human language, new research finds
Allen, J., Garland, E. C., Arnon, I. & Kirby, S., 6 Feb 2025, The Conversation.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. 469-498Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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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
