Oliver Shipley
Assistant Professor
Education:
Ph.D.2020
- Stony Brook University
Research Topics:
Bulk and compound specific stable isotope systems, food-webs, ecological niches, community
dynamics, ecosystem ecology, energy flow
- Bio/Research
Bio/Research
Oliver Shipley's research combines long standing ecological principles, such as niche theory, with chemical tracer and telemetry techniques to provide a thorough understanding of species’ functional role(s), and how these modulate food web dynamics. His research addresses several fundamental questions: 1) what drives ecological niche variation at various levels of biological organization? 2) how can ecophysiological principles be used to predict the timing of important biological events? 3) what are the fitness consequences of niche variation and how does this impact ecosystem dynamics? His current research explores linkages between energy flow, community assembly, and fitness variation in aquatic consumers in both historical and modern contexts.
- Publications
Publications
Articles Submitted or In Review
Campbell, B. A., Shipley, O. N., Jones T. R., Gallagher, A. J., Sulikowski, J. A. (In Review). Evidence for biennial reproduction in Caribbean reef sharks Carcharhinus perezi. Frontiers in Marine Science.
Davis, B. R., Shipley, O. N., Gallagher, A. J., Shearer, P., Parrish, M., Bogantes, V. E., and Jaonsik, A. M. (In Review). Complete mitochondrial genome of the lemon shark, Negaprion brevirostris (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae). Mitochondrial DNA Part B
Stephens, R., Shipley, O. N., Moll, R. J. (In Review). Revising variation in vertebrate trophic discrimination factors Δ13C and Δ15N. Functional Ecology.
Talwar, B. S., Brooks, E J., Abercrombie, D. L., Anderson, B., Bond, M. E., Brooks, A. M. L., Chapman, D. D., Clementi, G. M., Fields, C. Y. A., Gelsleichter, J., Grubbs, R. D., Howey, L. A., Jordan, L. K. B., Kiszka J. J., Knotek, R. J., Papastamatiou, Y. P., Peterson, C. T., Schneider, E. V. C., Shipley, O. N., Williams, S., Winchester, M. M., Heithaus, M. R. (In Review). Spatial variation in the relative abundance of oceanic sharks in the eastern Bahamas. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems.
Lübcker, N., Whiteman, J. P., Shipley, O. N., Hobson, K. A., Newsome, S. D. (In Review). Use of amino acid stable isotopes to investigate capital versus income breeding strategies by three species of Arctic-breeding migratory geese. Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Shipley, O. N., McMeans, B. C., Besser, A. C., Bloomfield, E., Newsome, S. D. Energy channeling and food-chain length impact body condition in a northern lake predator (In Review). Freshwater Biology.
Gallagher, A. J., Harris, S. D., de Silva, C., Delaney, D., Phillips, B. T., Sulikowski, J. A., Duarte, C. M., Shipley, O. N., Giddens, J. (In Review). First in-situ observations of suspected mating scars in a deep-sea elasmobranch, the bluntnose sixgill shark Hexanchus griseus. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.
Articles in Press or Published with Volume and/or DOI
Gallagher, A. J., Shipley, O. N., De Silva, C., Kohler, J. K., Fernandes, T. F., Austin, T., Ormond, R. F. G., Gore, M. (2023). First records of the blurred lantern shark Etmopterus bigelowi from the Cayman Islands, Western Atlantic. Frontiers in Marine Science.
Shipley, O. N. Matich, P., Hussey, N. E., et al. (2023). Energetic connectivity of diverse elasmobranch populations – implications for ecological resilience. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Marsaly, B. P., Boyd, N., Fisher, M., Gelpi, C., Daugherty, D., Davis, J., Shipley, O. N., Matich, P. (In
Press). Contrasting but complimentary patterns of resource use among two estuarine apex predators in the Western Gulf of Mexico. Marine Ecology Progress Series.
Besnard, L., Lucca, B. M., Shipley, O. N., Le Croizier, G., Martinez-Rincon, R. O., Sonke, J. E., Point, D., Galvan-Magana, F., Kraffe, E., Kwon, S. Y., Schaal, G. (2023). Mercury isotope clocks predict coastal residency and migrating timing of hammerhead sharks. Journal of Applied Ecology.
Parton, K. J., Doherty, P. D., Parrish, M., Shearer, P., Myrick, K., Shipley, O. N., Gallagher, A. J. (2023). Foraging behaviors in a widespread reef predator, the nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum), including the first descriptions of locomotory ‘walking’. Environmental Biology of Fishes.
Gallagher, A. J., Brownscombe, J. W., Alsudairy, N. A., Casagrande, A. B., Harding, L., Hammerschlag, N., Howe, W., Delgado Huertas, A., Kattan, S., Kough, A. S., Musgrove, A., Payne, N. L., Phillips, A., Shea, B., D., Shipley, O. N., Rashid, U., Hossain, M. S., Duarte, C. M. (2022). Tiger sharks guide the discovery of the world’s largest seagrass meadow. Nature Communications.
Shipley, O. N., Fitzgerald, J., Horne, B, Crowe, S., & Gallagher, A. J. (2022). Observations of hypomelanosis in the nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum). Journal of Fish Biology.
Shipley, O. N., Manlick, P. J., Newton, A., Matich, P., Camhi, M., Cerrato, R. M., Frisk, M. G., Henkes, G. A., LaBelle, J., Nye, J. A., Walters, H., Newsome, S. D., Olin, J. A. (2022). Nutritional consequences of intraspecific diet variation in a marine carnivore. Oecologia.
Hamilton, B. R., Shipley, O. N., Grubbs, R. D. (2022). Multi-channel feeding by migratory sharks in a fluvial-dominated estuary – Implications for natural resource management. Estuarine and Coastal Shelf Science.
Knotek, R. J., Brooks, E. J., Howey, L. A., Gelsleichter, J. G., Talwar, B. S., Winchester, M. M., Jordan, L. K. B., Williams, S., Bond, M. E., Brooks, A. M. L., Shipley, O. N., Bacon, T., Kneebone, J. R., Mandelman, J. W. (2022). Merging technologies and supervised classification methods to quantify capture behavior on hook-and-line. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 555, 151782.
Andrzejaczek, S., Lucas, T. C., Goodman, M. C., Hussey, N. E., et al (Inc. Shipley, O. N.). (2022). Diving into the vertical dimension of elasmobranch movement ecology. Science advances, 8, eabo1754.
Talwar, B. S., Bradley, D., Berry, C., Bond, M. E., Bouyoucos, I. A., Brooks, A., Fields, C. Y. A., Gallagher, A. J., Guttridge, T. L., Guttridge, A. E., Hammerschlag, N., Hamilton, I., Keller, B .A., Kessel, S. T., Matich, M., O’Shea, O. R., Papastamatiou, Y. P., Raguse, C., Schneider, E. V. C., Shipley, O. N., Smukall, M. J., van Zinnicq Bergmann, M. P. M., Brooks, E. J. (2022). Estimated life history traits and movements of Caribbean ref sharks Carcharhinus perezi in The Bahamas based on conventional tagging data. Marine Biology, 169, 1-19.
Shipley, O. N., Olin, J. A., Whiteman, J. P., Bathea, D., Newsome, S. D. (2022). Physiological controls on nitrogen isotope dynamics – new insight from individual amino acids in elasmobranchs. Oecologia.
Ye, X., Lee, C. S., Shipley, O. N., Frisk, M. G., Fisher, N. S. (2022). Risk assessment for seafood consumers exposed to mercury and other trace elements in Long Island fish. Marine Pollution Bulletin.
Brownscombe, J. W., Shipley, O. N., Griffin, L. P., Morley, D., Acosta, A., Adams, A. J., Danylchuk, A. J., Cooke, S. J., Power, M. (2022). Novel application of telemetry and stable isotope analysis to inform resource ecology and management of a marine fish. Journal of Applied Ecology.
Gallagher, A. J., Shipley, O. N., Reese, B., Singh, Vijender, A. (2021). Complete mitochondrial genome of the Caribbean reef shark, Carcharhinus perezi (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae). Mitochondrial DNA Part B, 6, 2662-2664.
Bates, E., Primack, R.B., PAN-Environmental Consortium of 337 authors (inc Shipley, O.N.), Duarte, C.M. (2021). Diverse human-nature interactions revealed by the global COVID-19 lockdown. Biological Conservation.
Shipley, O. N., Henkes, G. A., Gelsleichter, J., Morgan, C., Schneider E. V., Talwar, B., Frisk, M. G., (2021). Shark tooth collagen stable isotopes (δ15N and δ13C) as ecological proxies. Journal of Animal Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13518
Shipley, O. N., Newton, A. L., Frisk, M. G., Henkes, G. A., LaBelle, J. S., Camhi, M. D., et al. (2021). Telemetry-validated nitrogen stable isotope clocks identify ocean-to-estuarine habitat shifts in mobile organisms. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12, 897-908.
Matich, P., Bizzarro, J. J., Shipley, O. N. (2021). Are stable isotope ratios suitable for describing niche partitioning and individual specialization. Ecological Applications, e2392.
Matich, P., Shipley, O. N., Weideli, O. C. (2021). Quantifying spatial variation in isotopic baselines reveals size-based feeding in a model estuarine predator: implications for trophic studies in dynamic ecotones. Marine Biology, 168(7), 1-12.
Madigan, D. J., Shipley, O. N., Carlisle, A, Dewar, H., Snodgrass, O. E., Hussey, N. E. (2021). Isotopic tracers suggest limited trans-oceanic movements and regional residency in North pacific blue sharks (Prionace glauca). Frontiers in Marine Science, 8, 489.
Dunton, K. C., Shipley, O. N., Martinez C. M., Zacharias, J., Frisk M. G. (2021). First observation of movement rates and repeated migration in a Western Atlantic torpedo ray (Tetronarce occidentalis, Storer, 1843) in the northwest Atlantic Ocean. Northeastern Naturalist, 28(2), N7.
Gallagher, A. J., Shipley, O. N., van Zinnicq Bergmann, M. P., Brownscombe, J. W., Dahlgren, C. P., Frisk, M. G. et al. (2021). Spatial Connectivity and Drivers of Shark Habitat Use Within a Large Marine Protected Area in the Caribbean, The Bahamas Shark Sanctuary. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7, 1223.
Shipley, O. N., Lee, C. S., Fisher, N. S., Sternlicht, J. K., Kattan, S., Staaterman, E., Hammerschlag, N., Gallagher, A. J. (2021). Patterns of metal concentrations in coastal shark species from The Bahamas with a focus on a common reef predator, the Caribbean Reef shark. Scientific Reports 11, 218.
Clementi, G. M., Babcock, E. A., Valentin-Albanese, J., Bond, M. E., Flowers, K. I., Heithaus, M. R., Whitman, E. R., Van Zinnicz Germann, M. P. M., Guttridge, T. L., O’Shea, O. R., Shipley, O. N., Brooks, E. J., Kessel, S. T. & Chapman, D. D. (2021). Anthropogenic pressures on reef associated sharks in jurisdictions with and without directed shark fishing. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 661, 175-186.
Shipley, O. N., Kelly, J. B., Bizzarro, J. J., Olin, J. A., Cerrato, R. M., Power, M., & Frisk, M. G. (2021). Evolution of realized Eltonian niches across Rajidae species. Ecosphere, 12, e03368.Olin, J. A., Shipley, O. N., Cerrato, R. M., Nitschke, P., Magen, C., & Frisk, M. G. (2020). Separation of realized ecological niche axes among sympatric tilefishes provides insight into potential drivers of co-occurrence in the NW Atlantic. Ecology and Evolution, 10, 10886-10898.
Gelsleichter, J., Sparkman, G., Howey, L. A., Brooks, E. J., & Shipley, O. N. (2020). Elevated accumulation of the toxic metal mercury in the Critically Endangered oceanic whitetip shark Carcharhinus longimanus from the northwestern Atlantic Ocean. Endangered Species Research, 43, 267-279.
Shipley, O. N., Matich, P. (2020). A contemporary framework for studying animal niches using bulk stable isotope ratios Oecologia 193, 27-51.
Bouyoucos, I. A., Shipley, O. N., Jones, E., Brooks, E. J., & Mandelman, J. W. (2020). Wound healing in an elasmobranch fish is not impaired by high-CO2 exposure. Journal of Fish Biology, 96, 1508-1511.
Petta, J., Shipley, O. N., Wintner, S., Cliff, G., Dicken, M., & Hussey, N. E. (2020). Are you really what you eat? Stomach content analysis and stable isotope ratios do not uniformly estimate trophic niche characteristics in three marine predators. Oecologia. 192, 1111-1126.
Gallagher, A. J., Amon, D. J., Bervoets, T., Shipley, O. N., Hammerschlag, N., & Sims, D. W. (2020). The Caribbean needs big marine protected areas. Science, 367, 749-1.
Morgan, C., Shipley, O. N., & Gelsleichter, J. (2020). Resource-use dynamics of co-occurring chondrichthyans from the First Coast, North Florida, USA. Journal of Fish Biology, 96, 570- 579.
Shipley, O. N., Gallagher, A. J., Shiffman, D. S., Kaufman, L., & Hammerschlag, N. (2019). Diverse resource-use strategies in a large-bodied marine predator guild: evidence from differential use of resource subsidies and intraspecific isotopic variation. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 623, 71- 83.
Frisk, M. G., Shipley, O. N., Martinez, C. M., McKown, K. A., Zacharias, J. P., & Dunton, K. J.
(2019). First Observations of Long-Distance Migration in a Large Skate Species, the Winter Skate: Implications for Population Connectivity, Ecosystem Dynamics, and Management. Marine and Coastal Fisheries, 11, 202-212.
Shipley, O. N., Olin, J. A., Power, M., Cerrato, R. M., & Frisk, M. G. (2019). Questioning assumptions of trophic behavior in a broadly ranging marine predator guild. Ecography 42, 1037-1049 Siskey, M. R., Shipley, O. N., & Frisk, M. G. (2019). Skating on thin ice: Identifying the need for species-specific data and defined migration ecology of Rajidae spp. Fish and Fisheries, 20, 286- 302.
Ciezarek, A. G., Osborne, O. G., Shipley, O. N., Brooks, E. J., Tracey, S. R., McAllister, et al. (2019). Phylotranscriptomic insights into the diversification of endothermic Thunnus tunas. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 36, 84-96.
Phillips, B. T., Shipley, O. N., Halvorson, J., Sternlicht, J. K., & Gallagher, A. J. (2019). First in situ observations of the sharpnose sevengill shark (Heptranchias perlo), from the Tongue of the Ocean, Bahamas. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 32, 17-22.
Shipley, O. N., Lee, C. S., Fisher, N. S., Burruss, G., Frisk, G. M., Brooks, E. J., Zuckerman, Z. C., Herrmann, A. D., & Madigan, D. J. (2019). Trophodynamics and mercury
bioaccumulation in reef and open-ocean fishes from The Bahamas with a focus on two teleost predators Marine Ecology Progress Series, 608, 221-232.
Murchie, K. J., Haak, C. R., Power, M., Shipley, O. N., Danylchuk, A. J., & Cooke, S. J. (2018). Ontogenetic patterns in resource use dynamics of bonefish (Albula vulpes) in the Bahamas. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 101, 1097-1104.
Shipley, O. N., Murchie, K. J., Frisk, M. G., Brooks, E. J., Shea, O. R., & Power, M. (2017). Low lipid and urea effects and inter-tissue comparisons of stable isotope signatures in three nearshore elasmobranchs. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 579, 233-238.
Shipley, O. N., Murchie, K. J., Frisk, M. G., O’Shea, O. R., Brooks, E. J., & Power, M. (2018). Trophic niche dynamics of three nearshore benthic predators in The Bahamas. Hydrobiologia, 813, 177- 188.
Olin. J. A., Shipley, O. N., & McMeans, B. (2018). Stable isotope fractionation between maternal and embryo tissues in the Bonnethead Shark (Sphyrna tiburo). Environmental Biology of Fishes, 101(3), 489-499.
Shipley, O. N., Brownscombe, J. W., Danylchuk, A. J., Cooke, S. J., O’Shea, O. R., & Brooks, E. J. (2018). Fine-scale movement and activity patterns of Caribbean reef sharks (Carcharhinus perezi) in the Bahamas. Environmental biology of fishes, 101(7), 10971104.
Bird, C. S., Trueman, C. N., Verissimo, A., Magozzi, S., Abrantes K. G. Shipley, O. N., et al. (2018). A global perspective on the trophic geography of sharks. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2, 299. Tolentino, E. R., Howey, R. P., Howey, L. A., Jordan, L. K., Grubbs, R. D., Brooks, A., Williams, S., Brooks, E. J., Shipley, O. N. (2017). Was my science project eaten? A novel approach to validate consumption of marine biologging instruments. Animal Biotelemetry, 1, 1-9.
Shipley, O. N., Olin, J. A., Polunin, N. V., Sweeting, C. J., Newman, S. P., Brooks, E. J. et al. (2017). Polar compounds preclude mathematical lipid correction of carbon stable isotopes in deep-water sharks. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 494, 69-74.
Shipley, O., Talwar, B., Grubbs, D., & Brooks, E. (2017). Isopods present on deep-water sharks Squalus cubensis and Heptranchias perlo from The Bahamas. Marine Biodiversity, 47, 789-790. Shipley, O. N., Polunin, N. V., Newman, S. P., Sweeting, C. J., Barker, S., Witt, M. J., & Brooks, E. J. (2017). Stable isotopes reveal food web dynamics of a data-poor deep-sea island slope community. Food Webs, 10, 22-25.
Shipley, O. N., Howey, L. A., Tolentino, E. R., Jordan, L. K., Ruppert, J. L., & Brooks, E. J. (2017). Horizontal and vertical movements of Caribbean reef sharks (Carcharhinus perezi): conservation implications of limited migration in a marine sanctuary. Royal Society Open Science, 4, 160611.
Shipley, O. N., Howey, L. A., Tolentino, E. R., Jordan, L. K., & Brooks, E. J. (2017). Novel techniques and insights into the deployment of pop-up satellite archival tags on a smallbodied deep-water chondrichthyan. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 119, 81-90.
Talwar, B., Bouyoucos, I. A., Shipley, O., Rummer, J. L., Mandelman, J. W., Brooks, E. J., & Grubbs, R. D. (2017). Validation of a portable, waterproof blood pH analyser for elasmobranchs. Conservation Physiology, 5.
Shipley, O. N., Brooks, E. J., Madigan, D. J., Sweeting, C. J., & Grubbs, R. D. (2017). Stable isotope analysis in deep-sea chondrichthyans: recent challenges, ecological insights, and future directions. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 27, 481-497.
Shipley, O. N., Bruce, N. L., Violich, M., Baco, A., Morgan, N., Rawlins, S., & Brooks, E. J. (2016). A new species of Bathynomus Milne Edwards, 1879 (Isopoda: Cirolanidae) from The Bahamas, Western Atlantic. Zootaxa, 4147, 82-88.
Shipley, O. N., O’Shea, O. R., Brooks, E. J., & Zuckerman, Z. C. (2016). Sighting of three female Gervais beaked whales (Mesoplodon europaeus) from the Exuma Sound, The Bahamas. Caribbean Naturalist, 32, 1-4.
Book Chapters and Encyclopedia Entries
Wosnick, N., Prado, A. C., Martins, M., Merly, L., Chaves, A. P., Hammerschlag, N., Shipley, O. N. & Hauser-Davis, R. A. (2023). Reviewing Cd, Hg and Pb Assessments and Effects in Elasmobranchs. In Lead, Mercury and Cadmium in the Aquatic Environment (pp. 46-75). CRC Press.
Shipley, O. N. (2022). Animating the blue carbon cycle and the role of wildlife. In: Blue Natural Capital. Eds Gallagher, A. J., and Duarte C. M.
Madigan, D. J., Shipley, O. N., Hussey, N. E. (2021). Applying isotopic clocks to reconstruct retrospective migration patterns in mobile marine predators. In: Conservation Physiology (pp. 69-86). Oxford University Press.
Arnold, G. P., Shipley, O. N., Siskey, M. R. (2018). Fish migration, horizontal. In: Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, 3rd Edition. Elsevier Publishing.
Gordon, J. D., Shipley, O. N. (2018). Open Ocean fisheries for Deep-water species. In: Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, 3rd Edition. Elsevier Publishing.
Joseph, J., Shipley, O. N., Siskey, M. R. (2018). Open Ocean Fisheries for Large Pelagic Species. In: Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, 3rd Edition. Elsevier Publishing.
Cushing, D. H., Shipley, O. N., Siskey, M. R. (2018). Pelagic Fishes. In: Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, 3rd Edition. Elsevier Publishing.
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