Prof Phil Hammond

Emeritus Professor

Researcher profile

Email

psh2@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

Population dynamics and ecology

Foraging behaviour and diet of seals and cetaceans. Estimation of animal abundance. Statistical and mathematical modelling of marine mammal population parameters and processes. Interactions between marine mammals and human activities: management of whaling, cetacean bycatch in fisheries, seal-fishery interactions; conservation of vulnerable species.

PhD supervision

• Georgina Whittome

Selected publications

• Circum-island line-transect abundance estimates of spinner dolphins around Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi

  Lacey, C., Hill, M. C., Bradford, A. L., Oleson, E. M., Vivier, F., Pacini, A. F., Hammond, P. S. & Bejder, L., Jan 2026, In: Marine Mammal Science. 42, 1, p. 1-15 15 p., e70055.

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

• Estimates of Abundance and Predicted Distribution of the Main Cetacean Species in Madeira Archipelago Inshore Waters for 2007–2012

  Freitas, L., Ribeiro, C., Carvalho, A., Cañadas, A. & Hammond, P. S., 1 Jan 2026, In: Marine Mammal Science. 42, e70065, e70065.

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

• Open access

  Density-dependent network structuring within and across wild animal systems

  Albery, G. F., Becker, D. J., Firth, J. A., De Moor, D., Ravindran, S., Silk, M., Sweeny, A. R., Vander Wal, E., Webber, Q., Allen, B., Babayan, S. A., Barve, S., Begon, M., Birtles, R. J., Block, T. A., Block, B. A., Bradley, J. E., Budischak, S., Buesching, C. & Burthe, S. J. & 90 others, Carlisle, A. B., Caselle, J. E., Cattuto, C., Chaine, A. S., Chapple, T. K., Cheney, B. J., Clutton-Brock, T., Collier, M., Curnick, D. J., Delahay, R. J., Farine, D. R., Fenton, A., Ferretti, F., Feyrer, L., Fielding, H., Foroughirad, V., Frere, C., Gardner, M. G., Geffen, E., Godfrey, S. S., Graham, A. L., Hammond, P. S., Henrich, M., Heurich, M., Hopwood, P., Ilany, A., Jackson, J. A., Jackson, N., Jacoby, D. M. P., Jacoby, A. M., Ježek, M., Kirkpatrick, L., Klamm, A., Klarevas-Irby, J. A., Knowles, S., Koren, L., Krzyszczyk, E., Kusch, J. M., Lambin, X., Lane, J. E., Leirs, H., Leu, S. T., Lyon, B. E., Macdonald, D. W., Madsen, A. E., Mann, J., Manser, M., Mariën, J., Massawe, A., McDonald, R. A., Morelle, K., Mourier, J., Newman, C., Nussear, K., Nyaguthii, B., Ogino, M., Ozella, L., Packer, C., Papastamatiou, Y. P., Paterson, S., Payne, E., Pedersen, A. B., Pemberton, J. M., Pinter-Wollman, N., Planes, S., Raulo, A., Rodríguez-Muñoz, R., Rudd, L., Sabuni, C., Sah, P., Schallert, R. J., Sheldon, B. C., Shizuka, D., Sih, A., Sinn, D. L., Sluydts, V., Spiegel, O., Telfer, S., Thomason, C. A., Tickler, D. M., Tregenza, T., VanderWaal, K., Walmsley, S., Walters, E. L., Wanelik, K. M., Whitehead, H., Wielgus, E., Wilson-Aggarwal, J., Wohlfeil, C. & Bansal, S., Nov 2025, In: Nature Ecology and Evolution. 9, 11, p. 2002-2013 12 p.

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

• In memoriam Finn Larsen 1953-2024

  Berube, M., Clapham, P., Donovan, G., Hammond, P. S., Kindt-Larsen, L., Martin, A. R., Mattila, D. K., Palsboll, P. J., Reeves, R. R., Robbins, J., Sears, R. & Oien, N., 1 Apr 2025, In: Marine Mammal Science. 41, 2, 4 p., e13227.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• Open access

  Intra-population isotopic niche variation in common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) from the northern Adriatic Sea

  Genov, T., Vighi, M. & Hammond, P. S., 20 Oct 2025, In: Science of the Total Environment. 1000, p. 1-13 13 p., 180316.

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

• Open access

  Using spatial capture-recapture methods to estimate long-term spatiotemporal variation of a wide-ranging marine species

  Whittome, G., Calambokidis, J., Hammond, P. S., Smout, S. & Sutherland, C., 1 Oct 2025, In: Ecography. 2025, 10, 14 p., e07878.

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

• Open access

  Assessing spatial patterns and density of a dolphin population through signature whistles

  Romeu, B., Daura-Jorge, F. G., Hammond, P. S., Castilho, P. V. & Simões-Lopes, P. C., 1 Jan 2024, In: Marine Mammal Science. 40, 1, p. 222-236 15 p.

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

• Open access

  Changes in blue whale survival and abundance in the Gulf of California

  Whittome, G., Calambokidis, J., Douglas, A. B., Fishbach, M., Sears, R. & Hammond, P. S., 3 May 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Marine Mammal Science. Early View, 17 p., e13132.

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

• Open access

  Distribution and habitat use of deep-diving cetaceans in the central and north-eastern North Atlantic

  Ramirez-Martinez, N. C., Víkingsson, G. A., Øien, N. I., Mikkelsen, B., Gunnlaugsson, T. & Hammond, P. S., 19 Dec 2024, In: NAMMCO Scientific Publications. 13, p. 1-27 27 p., 7416.

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

• Open access

  Seasonal and diel patterns in Black Sea harbour porpoise acoustic activity in 2020–2022

  Ivanchikova, J., Tregenza, N., Popov, D., Meshkova, G., Paiu, R., Timofte, C., Amaha Öztürk, A., Tonay, A. M., Dede, A., Özsandıkçı, U., Kopaliani, N., Dekanoidze, D., Gurielidze, Z., Vishnyakova, K., Hammond, P. S. & Gol'din, P., Oct 2024, In: Ecology and Evolution. 14, 10, 14 p., e70182.

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

 

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