Dr Ellen Garland

Senior Research Fellow

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 463620

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

• Franca Eichenberger
• Sara Niksic
• Alexander South

Selected publications

• A giant?s dance: underwater social and vocal behavior of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) recorded on the Northern Coast of Ecuador

  Oña, J., Duque, E., Garland, E. C., Seger, K., Narváez, M., Maldonado, J. & Denkinger, J., 12 Jul 2019, In : Aquatic Mammals. 45, 4, p. 456-464

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• Animal cultures matter for conservation

  Brakes, P., Dall, S. R. X., Aplin, L. M., Bearhop, S., Carroll, E. L., Ciucci, P., Fishlock, V., Ford, J. K. B., Garland, E. C., Keith, S. A., McGregor, P. K., Mesnick, S. L., Noad, M. J., Notarbartolo di Sciara, G., Robbins, M. M., Simmonds, M. P., Spina, F., Thornton, A., Wade, P. R., Whiting, M. J., Williams, J., Rendell, L., Whitehead, H., Whiten, A. & Rutz, C., 8 Mar 2019, In : Science. 363, 6431, p. 1032-1034 5 p.

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• Migratory convergence facilitates cultural transmission of humpback whale song

  Owen, C., Rendell, L., Constantine, R., Noad, M. J., Allen, J., Andrews, O., Garrigue, C., Poole, M. M., Donnelly, D., Hauser, N. & Garland, E. C., 4 Sep 2019, In : Royal Society Open Science. 6, 9, 15 p., 190337.

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• Network analysis reveals underlying syntactic features in a vocally learnt mammalian display, humpback whale song

  Allen, J. A., Garland, E. C., Dunlop, R. A. & Noad, M. J., 18 Dec 2019, In : Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 286, 1917, 20192014.

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• Beluga whales in the western Beaufort Sea: current state of knowledge on timing, distribution, habitat use and environmental drivers

  Stafford, K. M., Ferguson, M. C., Hauser, D. D. W., Okkonen, S. R., Berchok, C. L., Citta, J. J., Clarke, J. T., Garland, E. C., Jones, J. & Suydam, R. S., Jun 2018, In : Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 152, p. 182-194

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• Cultural revolutions reduce complexity in the songs of humpback whales

  Allen, J. A., Garland, E. C., Dunlop, R. A. & Noad, M. J., 21 Nov 2018, In : Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 285, 1891, 6 p., 20182088.

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• Culturally transmitted song exchange between humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in the southeast Atlantic and southwest Indian Ocean basins

  Rekdahl, M. L., Garland, E. C., Carvajal, G. A., King, C. D., Collins, T., Razafindrakoto, Y. & Rosenbaum, H., Nov 2018, In : Royal Society Open Science. 5, 15 p., 172305.

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• Using agent-based models to understand the role of individuals in the song evolution of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae)

  Mcloughlin, M., Lamoni, L., Garland, E. C., Ingram, S., Kirke, A., Noad, M. J., Rendell, L. & Miranda, E., 2018, In : Music & Science. 1, 17 p.

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• Song hybridization events during revolutionary song change provide insights into cultural transmission in humpback whales

  Garland, E. C., Rendell, L., Lamoni, L., Poole, M. M. & Noad, M. J., 25 Jul 2017, In : Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 114, 30, p. 7822-7829

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• Southeastern Pacific humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) and their breeding grounds : distribution and habitat preference of singers and social groups off the coast of Ecuador

  Oña, J., Garland, E. C. & Denkinger, J., Jan 2017, In : Marine Mammal Science. 33, 1, p. 219-235 17 p.

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