Dr Matt Carter

Research Fellow

Researcher profile

Email

midc@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

My research interests focus on the behaviour and habitat use of marine vertebrates at sea. Using biologging technologies to track marine predators, I investigate the factors that affect their movement strategies and how they interact with both natural and anthropogenic features in their environment. I am particularly interested in how behavioural strategies develop in juvenile animals, and quantifying behaviours from animal movement data using emerging statistical modelling techniques. My recent work has focussed on understanding the distribution and foraging behaviour of grey and harbour seals across North West Europe.

PhD supervision

• Chris Berglund

Selected publications

• Open access

  At-sea distribution of seals on the Northwest European Shelf: towards transboundary conservation and management

  Carter, M. I. D., Aarts, G., van Beest, F. M., Bivins, M., Brasseur, S. M. J. M., Dietz, R., Duck, C. D., Galatius, A., Gilles, A., Haelters, J., Hastie, G. D., Jessop, M., Morris, C. D., Moss, S. E. W., Nabe-Nielsen, J., Nachtsheim, D. A., Schaffeld, T., Schop, J., Siebert, U. & Teilmann, J. & 4 others, Thompson, D., Thompson, P. M., Vincent, C. & Russell, D. J. F., Jan 2026, In: Journal of Applied Ecology. 63, 1, p. 1-16 16 p., e70236.

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

• Open access

  Scale-dependent foraging behaviour and habitat associations of two sympatric marine top predators

  Carter, M. I. D., Aarts, G., Brasseur, S. M. J. M., Hastie, G. D., Moss, S. E. W., Nabe-Nielsen, J., Teilmann, J., Thompson, D., Thompson, P. M., Vincent, C. & Russell, D. J. F., Feb 2026, In: Landscape Ecology. 41, 2, p. 1-22 22 p., 21.

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

• Open access

  From pup to predator: generalized hidden Markov models reveal rapid development of movement strategies in a naïve long-lived vertebrate

  Carter, M., McClintock, B. T., Embling, C. B., Bennett, K. A., Thompson, D. & Russell, D. J. F., May 2020, In: Oikos. 129, 5, p. 630-642 12 p.

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

• Open access

  Navigating uncertain waters: a critical review of inferring foraging behaviour from location and dive data in pinnipeds

  Carter, M. I. D., Bennett, K. A., Embling, C. B., Hosegood, P. J. & Russell, D. J. F., 26 Oct 2016, In: Movement Ecology. 4, 20 p., 25.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

• Open access

  Vulnerability of marine megafauna to global at‐sea anthropogenic threats

  VanCompernolle, M., Morris, J., Calich, H. J., Rodríguez, J. P., Marley, S. A., Pearce, J. R., Abrahms, B., Abrantes, K., Afonso, A. S., Aguilar, A., Agyekumhene, A., Akamatsu, T., Åkesson, S., Alawa, N. G., Alfaro‐Shigueto, J., Anderson, R. C., Anker‐Nilssen, T., Arata, J. A., Araujo, G. & Arostegui, M. C. & 290 others, Arrizabalaga, H., Arrowsmith, L. M., Auger‐Méthé, M., Avila, I. C., Bailleul, F., Barker, J., Barlow, D. R., Barnett, A., Barrios‐Garrido, H., Baylis, A. M. M., Bearzi, G., Bejder, L., Belda, E. J., Benson, S. R., Berumen, M. L., Bestley, S., Bezerra, N. P. A., Blaison, A. V., Boehme, L., Bograd, S. J., Abimbola, B. D., Bond, M. E., Borrell, A., Bouchet, P. J., Boveng, P., Braulik, G., Braun, C. D., Brodie, S., Bugoni, L., Bustamante, C., Campana, S. E., Cárdenas‐Alayza, S., Carmichael, R. H., Carroll, G., Carter, M. I. D., Ceia, F. R., Cerchio, S., Ferreira, L. C., Chambault, P., Chapple, T. K., Charvet, P., Chavez, E. J., Chevallier, D., Chiaradia, A., Chilvers, B. L., Cimino, M. A., Clark, B. L., Clarke, C. R., Clay, T. A., Cloyed, C. S., Cochran, J. E. M., Collins, T., Cortes, E., Cuevas, E., Curnick, D. J., Dann, P., de Bruyn, P. J. N., de Vos, A., Derville, S., Dias, M. P., Diaz‐Lopez, B., Dodge, K. L., Dove, A. D. M., Doyle, T. K., Drymon, J. M., Dudgeon, C. L., Dutton, P. H., Ellenberg, U., Elwen, S. H., Emmerson, L., Eniang, E. A., Espinoza, M., Esteban, N., Mul, E., Fadely, B. S., Fayet, A. L., Feare, C., Ferguson, S. H., Feyrer, L. J., Finucci, B., Florko, K. R. N., Fontes, J., Fortuna, C. M., Fossette, S., Fouda, L., Frere, E., Fuentes, M. M. P. B., Gallagher, A. J., Borboroglu, P. G., Garrigue, C., Gauffier, P., Gennari, E., Genov, T., Germanov, E. S., Giménez, J., Godfrey, M. H., Godley, B. J., Goldsworthy, S. D., Gollock, M., Carman, V. G., Gownaris, N. J., Grecian, W. J., Guzman, H. M., Hamann, M., Hammerschlag, N., Hansen, E. S., Harris, M. P., Hastie, G., Haulsee, D. E., Hazen, E. L., Heide‐Jørgensen, M. P., Hieb, E. E., Higdon, J. W., Hindell, M. A., Hinke, J. T., Hoenner, X., Hofmeyr, G. J. G., Holmes, B. J., Hoyt, E., Huckstadt, L. A., Hussey, N. E., Huveneers, C., Irvine, L. G., Jabado, R. W., Jacoby, D. M. P., Jaeger, A., Jagielski, P. M., Jessopp, M., Jewell, O. J. D., Alvarado, D. J., Jordan, L. K. B., Jorgensen, S. J., Kahn, B., Karamanlidis, A. A., Kato, A., Keith‐Diagne, L. W., Kiani, M. S., Kiszka, J. J., Kock, A. A., Kopf, R. K., Kuhn, C., Kyne, P. M., Laidre, K. L., Lana, F. O., Lander, M. E., Corre, M. L., Lee, O. A., Leeney, R. H., Levengood, A. L., Levenson, J. J., Libertelli, M., Liu, K., Mendilaharsu, M. L., Loveridge, A., Lowe, C. G., Lynch, H. J., Macena, B. C. L., Mackay, A. I., Madrigal‐Mesén, J., Mallory, M. L., Mangel, J. C., Mansfield, K. L., March, D., Marcoux, M., Marsh, H., Marshall, A. D., Mattern, T., Maxwell, S. M., McGuire, R. L., McLeay, L., McMahon, C. R., Methion, S., Meyers, E. K. M., Michelot, C., Masere, C., Minton, G., Morales‐Vela, B., Mucientes, G., Murua, H., Nicoll, M. A. C., Niella, Y., Notarbartolo Di Sciara, G., Oppel, S., Orgeret, F., Oswald, J. N., Owen, E., Pacoureau, N., Paiva, V. H., Palacios, D. M., Panigada, S., Papastamatiou, Y. P., Parra, G. J., Parsons, S. K., Patterson‐Fraser, D. L., Peckham, S. H., Petersen, S. D., Pichegru, L., Pierce, S. J., Pipa, T., Pirotta, E., Pistorius, P., Pollom, R. A., Prieto, R., Prosdocimi, L., Pütz, K., Queiroz, N., Quinn, J. L., Ramos, J. A., Raudino, H. C., Recalde‐Salas, A., Rees, A. F., Reina, R. D., Reisinger, R. R., Reynolds, S. D., Richardson, A. J., Riddoch, N. G., Riet‐Sapriza, F. G., Robbins, J. R., Robinson, D. P., Rodríguez, A., Rogers, T. L., Rohner, C. A., Rojas‐Cañizales, D., Ruhomaun, K., Kent, C. S., Sato, K., Scales, K. L., Scheidat, M., Schofield, G., Serena, F., Setyawan, E., Shaffer, S. A., Shea, B. D., Shearer, L., Sheaves, M., Sherley, R. B., Shillinger, G. L., Shimada, T., Silva, M. A., Skomal, G., Smith, R. A., Smoothey, A. F., Soldo, A., Southall, E. J., Steinfurth, A., Stewart, D. B., Stewart, J. D., Takahashi, A., Tatayah, V., Thalmann, S., Thiebot, J., Tomás, J., Torres, L. G., Trathan, P. N., Trillmich, F., Ueda, K., Vandeperre, F., Vanstreels, R. E. T., Vedor, M., Villegas‐Amtmann, S., Waller, L. J., Waller, M., Wanless, S., Waples, K., Watt, C. A., Wege, M., Weir, C. R., Wells, R. S., Wensveen, P. J., White, T. D., Whiting, S. D., Wiig, Ø., Wildermann, N. E., Wiley, D. N., Williams, J. L., Williams, R. S., Wilson, K., Witt, M. J., Womersley, F. C., Yurkowski, D. J., Zhang, J., Costa, D. P., Duarte, C. M., Meekan, M. G., Harcourt, R., Sims, D. W., Hays, G. C., Pattiaratchi, C., Eguíluz, V. M. & Sequeira, A. M. M., 14 Nov 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Conservation Biology. Early View, p. 1-25 25 p., e70147.

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