Sara Iverson
#120,453
Most Influential Person Now
American biologist
Sara Iverson's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings
Sara Iversonbiology Degrees
Biology
#9562
World Rank
#12782
Historical Rank
Marine Biology
#243
World Rank
#270
Historical Rank
Ecology
#942
World Rank
#1017
Historical Rank
Download Badge
Biology
Sara Iverson's Degrees
- Bachelors Biology University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Marine Biology Stanford University
Similar Degrees You Can Earn
Why Is Sara Iverson Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sara Iverson is a professor of biology at Dalhousie University, and the Scientific Director of the Ocean Tracking Network . Iverson was selected by Mattel Inc. and National Geographic as an influential Canadian scientist and role model for Barbie's You Can Be Anything campaign as part of the doll's 60th anniversary. This effort is aimed at helping young girls can have a career in a scientific fields where women have historically been underrepresented.
Sara Iverson's Published Works
Number of citations in a given year to any of this author's works
Total number of citations to an author for the works they published in a given year. This highlights publication of the most important work(s) by the author
Published Works
- Aquatic animal telemetry: A panoramic window into the underwater world (2015) (957)
- QUANTITATIVE FATTY ACID SIGNATURE ANALYSIS: A NEW METHOD OF ESTIMATING PREDATOR DIETS (2004) (683)
- Comparison of the bligh and dyer and folch methods for total lipid determination in a broad range of marine tissue (2001) (649)
- STUDYING TROPHIC ECOLOGY IN MARINE ECOSYSTEMS USING FATTY ACIDS: A PRIMER ON ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION (2006) (560)
- Fatty acid signatures reveal fine scale structure of foraging distribution of harbor seals and their prey in Prince William Sound, Alaska (1997) (315)
- POLAR BEAR DIETS AND ARCTIC MARINE FOOD WEBS: INSIGHTS FROM FATTY ACID ANALYSIS (2008) (297)
- Tracing aquatic food webs using fatty acids: from qualitative indicators to quantitative determination (2009) (282)
- Among- and within-species variability in fatty acid signatures of marine fish and invertebrates on the Scotian Shelf, Georges Bank, and southern Gulf of St. Lawrence (2002) (257)
- Fat content and fatty acid composition of forage fish and invertebrates in Prince William Sound, Alaska: factors contributing to among and within species variability (2002) (256)
- Sex differences in grey seal diet reflect seasonal variation in foraging behaviour and reproductive expenditure: evidence from quantitative fatty acid signature analysis. (2007) (206)
- The Effect of Maternal Size and Milk Energy Output on Pup Growth in Grey Seals (Halichoerus grypus) (1993) (204)
- Diet of northern bottlenose whales inferred from fatty-acid and stable-isotope analyses of biopsy samples (2001) (198)
- Tracing carbon flow in an arctic marine food web using fatty acid-stable isotope analysis (2008) (194)
- Stratification and age-related differences in blubber fatty acids of the male harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) (2004) (184)
- Linking movement, diving, and habitat to foraging success in a large marine predator. (2006) (168)
- Dietary effects on the fatty acid signature of whole Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) (1998) (159)
- Methods of estimating marine mammal diets: A review of validation experiments and sources of bias and uncertainty (2012) (157)
- Seabirds as indicators of food web structure and ecosystem variability: qualitative and quantitative diet analyses using fatty acids (2007) (146)
- Variation in Milk Production and Lactation Performance in Grey Seals and Consequences for Pup Growth and Weaning Characteristics (1999) (145)
- Global change effects on the long‐term feeding ecology and contaminant exposures of East Greenland polar bears (2013) (142)
- Foraging effort, food intake and lactation performance depend on maternal mass in a small phocid seal (2001) (133)
- Sex differences in the seasonal patterns of energy storage and expenditure in a phocid seal (2003) (130)
- Effect of a Low‐Fat Diet on Body Composition and Blubber Fatty Acids of Captive Juvenile Harp Seals (Phoca groenlandica) (2000) (126)
- Sex differences in the diving behaviour of a size-dimorphic capital breeder: the grey seal (2003) (120)
- Reproductive performance in grey seals: age-related improvement and senescence in a capital breeder. (2006) (119)
- Milk fatty acid signatures indicate both major and minor shifts in the diet of lactating Antarctic fur seals (1997) (119)
- Marine Mammal Ecology and Conservation: A Handbook of Techniques (2010) (115)
- Maternal and newborn life‐history traits during periods of contrasting population trends: implications for explaining the decline of harbour seals (Phoca vitulina), on Sable Island (2003) (115)
- Diving behaviour of lactating harbour seals and their pups during maternal foraging trips (1999) (115)
- Animal-Borne Telemetry: An Integral Component of the Ocean Observing Toolkit (2019) (115)
- Seasonal changes in buoyancy and diving behaviour of adult grey seals. (2000) (113)
- Seasonal changes in diets of seabirds in the North Water Polynya: a multiple-indicator approach (2008) (109)
- Milk and Energy Intakes of Suckling California Sea Lion Zalophus californianus Pups in Relation to Sex, Growth, and Predicted Maintenance Requirements (1987) (108)
- Envisioning the Future of Aquatic Animal Tracking: Technology, Science, and Application (2017) (102)
- Development of the Blood and Muscle Oxygen Stores in Gray Seals (Halichoerus grypus): Implications for Juvenile Diving Capacity and the Necessity of a Terrestrial Postweaning Fast (2005) (101)
- Fatty acid signatures and classification trees: new tools for investigating the foraging ecology of seals (1997) (100)
- Jellyfish Support High Energy Intake of Leatherback Sea Turtles (Dermochelys coriacea): Video Evidence from Animal-Borne Cameras (2012) (97)
- From lavage to lipids: Estimating diets of seabirds (2012) (96)
- Ocean Tracking Network Canada: A Network Approach to Addressing Critical Issues in Fisheries and Resource Management with Implications for Ocean Governance (2011) (89)
- VARIABILITY IN THE BLUBBER FATTY ACID COMPOSITION OF RINGED SEALS (PHOCA HISPIDA) ACROSS THE CANADIAN ARCTIC (2007) (89)
- Evaluating quantitative fatty acid signature analysis (QFASA) using harbour seals Phoca vitulina richardsi in captive feeding studies (2008) (85)
- Prenatal and postnatal transfer of fatty acids from mother to pup in the hooded seal (2004) (85)
- Balancing foraging and reproduction in the male harbour seal, an aquatically mating pinniped (1997) (80)
- Comparative Analysis of Nonhuman Milks (1995) (77)
- The effect of maternal age and other factors on birth mass in the harbour seal (1994) (77)
- Fatty acid biomarkers reveal niche separation in an Arctic benthic food web (2007) (74)
- Maternal effects on offspring growth rate and weaning mass in harbour seals (2001) (74)
- Top Predators in Marine Ecosystems: Spatial and temporal variation in the diets of polar bears across the Canadian Arctic: indicators of changes in prey populations and environment (2006) (74)
- Estimation of Total Body Water in Pinnipeds Using Hydrogen‐Isotope Dilution (1998) (69)
- Does male harassment of females contribute to reproductive synchrony in the grey seal by affecting maternal performance? (2004) (66)
- Individual patterns of prey selection and dietary specialization in an Arctic marine carnivore (2011) (63)
- Milk lipid digestion in the neonatal dog: the combined actions of gastric and bile salt stimulated lipases. (1991) (62)
- Variation in blubber fatty acid composition among marine mammals in the Canadian Arctic (2008) (62)
- High concentrations of isovaleric acid in the fats of odontocetes: variation and patterns of accumulation in blubber vs. stability in the melon (2003) (61)
- Topographical distribution of lipids inside the mandibular fat bodies of odontocetes: remarkable complexity and consistency (2006) (60)
- Blubber fatty acids of gray seals reveal sex differences in the diet of a size-dimorphic marine carnivore (2005) (59)
- Fatty acid profiles in the gonads of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis on natural algal diets (2008) (56)
- Blubber fatty acid composition of bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus: Implications for diet assessment and ecosystem monitoring (2008) (55)
- Validating quantitative fatty acid signature analysis to estimate diets of spectacled and Steller’s eiders (Somateria fischeri and Polysticta stelleri) (2009) (53)
- Body Condition at Weaning Affects the Duration of the Postweaning Fast in Gray Seal Pups (Halichoerus grypus) (2008) (53)
- Seasonal, sexual and anatomical variability in the adipose tissue of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) (2006) (52)
- Sex differences in diving at multiple temporal scales in a size‐dimorphic capital breeder (2003) (52)
- Weaning Mass Affects Changes in Body Composition and Food Intake in Harbour Seal Pups during the First Month of Independence (2003) (52)
- Dimensions of diet segregation in grey seals Halichoerus grypus revealed through stable isotopes of carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) (2007) (51)
- Estimating diet composition in sea lions: Which technique to choose? (2006) (49)
- Long term diet differences between morphs in trophically polymorphic Percichthys trucha (Pisces : Percichthyidae) populations from the southern Andes (2000) (48)
- Fat transfer and energetics during lactation in the hooded seal: the roles of tissue lipoprotein lipase in milk fat secretion and pup blubber deposition (1999) (48)
- Stable isotopes and fatty acid signatures reveal age- and stage-dependent foraging niches in tufted puffins (2008) (47)
- Sources of variation in diets of harp and hooded seals estimated from quantitative fatty acid signature analysis (QFASA) (2009) (46)
- Demonstration of the Deposition and Modification of Dietary Fatty Acids in Pinniped Blubber Using Radiolabelled Precursors (2004) (46)
- MATERNAL EFFECTS ON OFFSPRING MASS AND STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT AT BIRTH IN THE HARBOR SEAL, PHOCA VITULINA (2000) (45)
- Fatty acid signatures of stomach oil and adipose tissue of northern fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) in Alaska: implications for diet analysis of Procellariiform birds (2007) (44)
- Offspring size at weaning affects survival to recruitment and reproductive performance of primiparous gray seals (2015) (44)
- Influence of storms and maternal size on mother–pup separations and fostering in the harbor seal, Phoca vitulina (1992) (44)
- Characterization of forage fish and invertebrates in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands using fatty acid signatures: species and ecological groups (2010) (44)
- B – Philogenetic and Ecological Variation in the Fatty Acid Composition of Milks (1995) (43)
- Changes in the diet of free-ranging black bears in years of contrasting food availability revealed through milk fatty acids (2001) (41)
- Hot oceanography: planktivorous seabirds reveal ecosystem responses to warming of the Bering Sea (2007) (41)
- Dynamics of blood chylomicron fatty acids in a marine carnivore: implications for lipid metabolism and quantitative estimation of predator diets (2005) (40)
- Lipoprotein lipase activity and its relationship to high milk fat transfer during lactation in grey seals (2004) (40)
- Primiparous and multiparous females differ in mammary gland alveolar development: implications for milk production (2012) (38)
- Convergence of diet estimates derived from fatty acids and stable isotopes within individual grey seals (2008) (38)
- Validation of adipose lipid content as a body condition index for polar bears (2014) (38)
- Animal-Borne Acoustic Transceivers Reveal Patterns of at-Sea Associations in an Upper-Trophic Level Predator (2012) (37)
- Individual variation in milk composition over lactation in harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) and the potential consequences of intermittent attendance (2005) (37)
- DETERMINING BLUBBER FATTY ACID COMPOSITION: A COMPARISON OF IN SITU DIRECT AND TRADITIONAL METHODS (2004) (37)
- The Energetics of Male Reproduction in an Aquatically Mating Pinniped, the Harbour Seal (1998) (37)
- Unusual fatty acid biomarkers reveal age-and sex-specific foraging in polar bears (Ursus maritimus) (2007) (36)
- Bioelectrical impedance analysis as a means of estimating total body water in grey seals (1999) (36)
- Metabolism of Dietary Cetoleic Acid (22:1n‐11) in Mink (Mustela vison) and Gray Seals (Halichoerus grypus) Studied Using Radiolabeled Fatty Acids (2006) (34)
- The Sun, Moon, Wind, and Biological Imperative–Shaping Contrasting Wintertime Migration and Foraging Strategies of Adult Male and Female Northern Fur Seals (Callorhinus ursinus) (2014) (33)
- Blubber fatty acid profiles reveal regional, seasonal, age-class and sex differences in the diet of young Steller sea lions in Alaska (2007) (33)
- Predator-borne acoustic transceivers and GPS tracking reveal spatiotemporal patterns of encounters with acoustically tagged fish in the open ocean (2014) (33)
- Repeatability in lactation performance and the consequences for maternal reproductive success in gray seals. (2009) (31)
- Quantitative analysis of fatty acid precursors in marine samples: direct conversion of wax ester alcohols and dimethylacetals to FAMEs. (2003) (29)
- Top Predators in Marine Ecosystems: Linking predator foraging behaviour and diet with variability in continental shelf ecosystems: grey seals of eastern Canada (2006) (29)
- Temporal complexity of southern Beaufort Sea polar bear diets during a period of increasing land use (2017) (29)
- Blood metabolites as indicators of nutrient utilization in fasting, lactating phocid seals: does depletion of nutrient reserves terminate lactation? (2001) (28)
- Positional specificity of gastric hydrolysis of long-chain n−3 polyunsaturated fatty acids of seal milk triglycerides (1992) (27)
- A comparison of the composition of milks from Meishan and crossbred pigs (2000) (27)
- A practical method to account for variation in detection range in acoustic telemetry arrays to accurately quantify the spatial ecology of aquatic animals (2019) (26)
- The Ocean Tracking Network: Advancing frontiers in aquatic science and management (2019) (26)
- Spatial and temporal diet segregation in northern fulmars Fulmarus glacialis breeding in Alaska: insights from fatty acid signatures (2009) (25)
- The Influence of Reproductive Experience on Milk Energy Output and Lactation Performance in the Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus) (2011) (23)
- The effects of diet and caloric restriction on adipose tissue fatty acid signatures of tufted puffin (Fratercula cirrhata) nestlings (2009) (22)
- Diet of yellow-billed loons (Gavia adamsii) in Arctic lakes during the nesting season inferred from fatty acid analysis (2015) (22)
- Intrinsic and extrinsic sources of variation in the diets of harp and hooded seals revealed by fatty acid profiles (2009) (22)
- Fatty acids tracers for native and invasive macroalgae in an experimental food web (2009) (21)
- Milk lipids and neonatal fat digestion: relationship between fatty acid composition, endogenous and exogenous digestive enzymes and digestion of milk fat. (1994) (21)
- Testing predictions of optimal diving theory using animal-borne video from harbour seals ( Phoca vitulina concolor ) (2014) (20)
- Interspecific and Intraspecific Variation in Proximate, Mineral, and Fatty Acid Composition of Milk in Old World Fruit Bats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) (2001) (18)
- Comment on Grahl-Nielsen et al. (2003) 'Fatty acid composition of the adipose tissue of polar bears and of their prey: ringed seals, bearded seals and harp seals' (2004) (17)
- A Novel Framework to Protect Animal Data in a World of Ecosurveillance (2020) (17)
- Testing for a change in diet using fatty acid signatures (2014) (16)
- Fatty acid composition of black bear (Ursus americanus) milk during and after the period of winter dormancy (1992) (15)
- Maternal effects on offspring mass and stage of development at birth in the harbour seal (2000) (14)
- Estimating the carrying capacity of French Frigate Shoals for the endangered Hawaiian monk seal using Ecopath with Ecosim (2012) (14)
- Feeding habits of a new Arctic predator: insight from full-depth blubber fatty acid signatures of Greenland, Faroe Islands, Denmark, and managed-care killer whales Orcinus orca (2018) (13)
- Correction: Jellyfish Support High Energy Intake of Leatherback Sea Turtles (Dermochelys coriacea): Video Evidence from Animal-Borne Cameras (2012) (13)
- Local contamination, and not feeding preferences, explains elevated PCB concentrations in Labrador ringed seals (Pusa hispida). (2015) (13)
- Probability of Detecting Marine Predator-Prey and Species Interactions Using Novel Hybrid Acoustic Transmitter-Receiver Tags (2014) (12)
- Transmitting species‐interaction data from animal‐borne transceivers through Service Argos using Bluetooth communication (2014) (12)
- Reply : Fatty acid signatures and classification trees : new tools for investigating the foraging ecology of seals 1 (1999) (12)
- Hawaiian monk seals and their prey assessing characteristics of prey species fatty acid signatures and consequences for estimating monk seal diets using quantitative fatty acid signature analysis (2011) (12)
- Year-round tracking reveals multiple migratory tactics in a sentinel North Pacific seabird, Cassin’s auklet (2019) (12)
- MILK AND ENERGY INTAKES OF SUCKLING (12)
- Seasonal occupancy and connectivity amongst nearshore flats and reef habitats by permit Trachinotus falcatus: considerations for fisheries management. (2019) (11)
- Stable Isotope Models Predict Foraging Habitat of Northern Fur Seals (Callorhinus ursinus) in Alaska (2015) (11)
- Using fatty acids to study marine mammal foraging : The evidence from an extensive and growing literature (2009) (11)
- Measurement of individual and population energetics of marine mammals (2010) (11)
- Estimation of total body water in harbor seals : How useful is bioelectrical impedance analysis? (1998) (11)
- POSTPARTUM DYNAMICS OF REPRODUCTIVE HORMONES IN GRAY AND HOODED SEALS (2005) (10)
- Body composition in mink (Mustela vison) kits during 21-42 days postpartum using estimates of hydrogen isotope dilution and direct carcass analysis. (2000) (9)
- Age estimation of belugas, Delphinapterus leucas, using fatty acid composition: A promising method (2015) (9)
- Lipase and pepsin activities in the stomach mucosa of the suckling dog. (1991) (8)
- Characterization of blubber fatty acid signatures in northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) over the postweaning fast (2013) (8)
- Primiparous females do not exhibit reduced maternal care in gray seals (Halichoerus grypus) (2011) (7)
- Inorganic carbon in a high latitude estuary-fjord system in Canada’s eastern Arctic (2016) (7)
- A Canadian contribution to an integrated Atlantic ocean observing system (IAOOS) (2014) (6)
- A novel approach to quantifying the spatiotemporal behavior of instrumented grey seals used to sample the environment (2015) (6)
- Fueling phocids: Divergent exploitation of primary energy sources and parallel ontogenetic diet switches among three species of subarctic seals (2012) (6)
- Sex-differences in fine-scale home-range use in an upper-trophic level marine predator (2020) (5)
- Report on Validation and Calibration of Fatty Acid Signatures in Blubber as Indicators of Prey in Hawaiian Monk Seal Diet (2010) (5)
- The Effect of El Niño on Pup Development in the California Sea Lion ( Zalophus californianus ) II. Milk Intake (1991) (5)
- Animal-Borne Telemetry: An Integral (2019) (4)
- Foraging behaviour of a continental shelf marine predator, the grey seal (Halichoerus grypus), is associated with in situ, subsurface oceanographic conditions (2020) (4)
- A case for restoring unity between biotelemetry and bio-logging to enhance animal tracking research (2021) (3)
- MILK COMPOSITION AND LACTATION STRATEGIES ACROSS MAMMALIAN TAXA: IMPLICATIONS FOR HAND-REARING NEONATES (2014) (3)
- Correction: Jellyfish Support High Energy Intake of Leatherback Sea Turtles (): Video Evidence from Animal-Borne Cameras. (2012) (2)
- Identification of fatty acids by picolinyl ester derivatives (2007) (2)
- Individual and population dietary specialization decline in fin whales during a period of ecosystem shift (2021) (2)
- Exploring causal components of plasticity in grey seal birthdates: Effects of intrinsic traits, demography, and climate (2020) (2)
- Strategies for survival: Marine mammals (2007) (1)
- A novel approach to quantifying the spatiotemporal behavior of instrumented grey seals used to sample the environment (2015) (1)
- Quantitative analysis of fatty acid precursors in marine samples Published, JLR Papers in Press, June 16, 2003. DOI 10.1194/jlr.D300009-JLR200 (2003) (1)
- Egg size is independent of variation in pre-breeding feather corticosterone in Cassin's auklets during favorable oceanographic conditions. (2018) (1)
- The use of fatty acid profiles in determining the diet of Steller sea lions (1997) (1)
- Determination of body composition in mink (Mustela vison) kits using hydrogen isotope dilution and direct carcass analysis. (2000) (1)
- Technological innovation in marine ornithology (2012) (1)
- Grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) as bioprobes: Fine-scale measurements of oceanographic properties using an instrumented large marine predator (2020) (1)
- Marine mammal populations (2007) (1)
- Validation of quantitative fatty acid signature analysis for estimating the diet composition of free-ranging killer whales (2022) (1)
- Strategies for survival: Stellar sea lions, harbor seals and sea otters Chapter 4.9 (2007) (0)
- NMML Acquisitions : September 2001 (0)
- Reply to Wetzel et al.'s comment: "Identification of fatty acids by picolinyl esterderivatives" (2007) (0)
- Sex-differences in fine-scale home-range use in an upper-trophic level marine predator (2020) (0)
- Hussey_pages 1..10 (2015) (0)
- Characterization of blubber fatty acid signatures in northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) over the postweaning fast (2013) (0)
- Foraging behaviour of a continental shelf marine predator, the grey seal (Halichoerus grypus), is associated with in situ, subsurface oceanographic conditions (2020) (0)
- Sara J. Iverson (Draft Profile) (2013) (0)
- Variability of Lipids and Fatty Acids in Pacific Walrus Blubber (2021) (0)
- 19 The EITect of EI Nifio on Pup Development in the California Sea Lion (Zalophus calijomianus) ll. Milk Intake (1991) (0)
- Fatty acid signature data of potential yellow-billed loon prey in the Arctic coastal plain of Alaska, 2009-2011 (2016) (0)
- Diet of yellow-billed loons (Gavia adamsii) in Arctic lakes during the nesting season inferred from fatty acid analysis (2015) (0)
- Diet affects the adrenocortical function in northern fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) (2005) (0)
- Egg yolk fatty acids as a proxy to quantify diets of female Spectacled Eiders ( Somateria fischeri ) (2014) (0)
- Measuring repeatability of compositional diet estimates: An example using quantitative fatty acid signature analysis (2022) (0)
- Testing for a change in diet using fatty acid signatures (2014) (0)
This paper list is powered by the following services:
Other Resources About Sara Iverson
What Schools Are Affiliated With Sara Iverson?
Sara Iverson is affiliated with the following schools:
