Publications

Eldridge, AliceGuyot, PatriceMoscoso, PaolaJohnston, AlisonEyre-walker, Ying and Peck, Mika (2018) Sounding out ecoacoustic metrics: avian species richness is predicted by acoustic indices in temperate but not tropical habitats.Ecological Indicators. ISSN 1470-160X (Accepted)

Moscoso, PaolaPeck, Mika and Eldridge, Alice (2018) Systematic literature review on the association between soundscape and ecological/human wellbeing. PeerJ Preprints, 6. e6570v2. ISSN 2167-9843

Moscoso, PaolaEldridge, Alice and Peck, Mika (2018) Emotional associations with soundscape reflect human-environment relationships. Journal of Ecoacoustics, 1.

Peck, Mika RobertKaina, Graham SHazell, Richard JohnIsua, BrusAlok, ClantPaul, Luda and Stewart, Alan J A(2017) Estimating carbon stock in lowland Papua New Guinean forest – low density of large trees results in lower than global average carbon stock. Austral Ecology, 42 (8). pp. 964-975. ISSN 1442-9985

Svensson, M SShanee, SShanee, Bannister, F BCervera, LDonati, GHuck, MJerusalinsky, LJuarez, C PMaldonado, A MMartinez Mollinedo, JMéndez-Carvajal, P GMolina Argandoña, M AMollo Vino, A DNekaris, K A IPeck, M, Rey-Goyeneche, JSpaan, D and Nijman, V (2017) Disappearing in the night: an overview on trade and legislation of night monkeys in South and Central America. Folia Primatologica, 87 (5). pp. 332-348. ISSN 0015-5713

Eldridge, Alice, Casey, Michael, Moscoso, Paola and Peck, Mika (2016) A new method for ecoacoustics? Toward the extraction and evaluation of ecologically-meaningful soundscape components using sparse coding methods. PeerJ, 4. e210. ISSN 2376-5992

Bayron R. Calle-Rendón, Mika Peck, Sara E. Bennett, Citlalli Morelos-Juarez and Felipe Alfonso (2016) Comparison of forest regeneration in two sites with different primate abundances in Northwestern Ecuador. Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation. Vol 64, No 2

Tolhurst, Bryony A, Aguirre Peñafiel, Vanessa, Mafla-Endara, Paola, Berg, Maureen J, Peck, Mika R and Maddock, Simon T (2015) Lizard diversity in response to human-induced disturbance in Andean Ecuador. Herpetological Journal, 26. pp. 33-39. ISSN 0268-0130

Peck M.R., Maddock S.T., Morales J.N., Oñate H., Mafla-Endara P., Aguirre Peñafiel V., Pozo-Rivera W.E., Cueva-Arroyo X.A., Tolhurst B.A. (2014) Cost-effectiveness of using small vertebrates as indicators of habitat. Conservation Biology 28(5):1331-41. doi: 10.1111/cobi.12373.

Aguirre-Penafiel V., Torres-Carvajal O.,Sales Nunes P., Peck M.R., Maddock S.T (2014) A new species of Riama Gray, 1858 (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the Tropical Andes. Zootaxa. 3866 (2)246-260

Maldonado A. & Peck M.R. (2014) Research and in situ conservation of Owl monkeys enhances environmental law enforcement at the Colombian-Peruvian border (2014)  American Journal of Primatology Vol 76 (7): 658 - 669.

Maldonado A. & Peck M.R. (2013) The Role of Primate Conservation to Fight the Illegal Trade in Primates: The Case of the Owl Monkeys in the Colombian-Peruvian Amazon. Folia Primatologica. 84(3-5):299 - 300.

Spaan D., Morelos-Juarez C., Peck M. Nijman V. (2013) Factors Affecting the Presence of the Critically Endangered Brown-Headed Spider Monkey (Ateles fusciceps fusciceps) in NW Ecuador. 84 (3-5): 322-322.

Cueva X. A., Pozo W.E., Peck M.R. (2013) Chiroptera of Junín, with the first record of Vampyrum spectrum (Linnaeus, 1758) for the Province of Imbabura – Ecuador. Bol. Téc. 11, Ser. Zool. 8-9: 1-15

Ciocan C.,  Cubero-Leon E., Peck, M., Langston W., Pope N., Minier C., Rotchell J. (2013) Intersex in Scrobicularia plana: transcriptomic analysis reveals novel genes involved in endocrine disruption. Environmental Science and Technology.4;46(23):12936-42. doi: 10.1021/es302948g.

Peck M.R., Mariscal A., Cane T., Padbury M., Kniveton D. (2012). Identifying tropical Ecuadorian Andean trees from inter-crown pixel distributions in hyperspatial aerial imagery. Applied Vegetation Science . DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-109X.2012.01196.

Maddock, S.T., Smith, E.F., Peck, M.R., Morales, J.N (2012) Tantilla melanocephala (Black-headed snake) diet. Herpetological Review. (in  press)

Peck M.R. (2011) Brown-headed spider monkey (Ateles fusciceps). Pp 73-75 in: Red Book of Mammals of Ecuador 2011 (D.G. Tirira ed.), 2a edition. Fundacion Mamiferos y Conservacion, Pontifica Universidad Catolica del Ecuador y Ministerio del Ambiente del Ecuador.

Peck M.R., Tirira D., Thorne J. Baird A. & Kniveton D. (2011). Focusing conservation efforts for the critically endangered brown-headed spider monkey (Ateles fusciceps) using remote sensing, modelling and playback survey methods. International Journal of Primatology  Volume 32, Number 1, 134-148.

Maddock, S.T.,  Tolhurst, B., Brown, M., Peck,  M.R, Villacis Perez, E., Morales, J. (2011) Body bending behaviour – more widespread than previously thought? New reports from two snake species of Northwest Ecuador. Herpetology Notes, volume 4: 079-081.

Maddock, S.T., Smith, E.F., Peck, M.R., Morales, J.N. (2011) Riama oculata (NCN) prehensile tail and new habitat type. Herpetological Review 42:277–278.

Maddock, S.T., Aguirre P., V., Torres-Carvajal, O., Morales, J.N., Peck, M.R. (2011) Riama unicolor (NCN). Feeding and new altitudinal range. Herpetological Review 42:278.

Peck M.R. (2010) Tropical Rainforests – explaining Darwin’s riot. Trends in Ecology and Evolution (25) : 493

Fosci M., Mecham J., Cueva J., DeCoux J. & Peck M. R. (2010), Protecting populated tropical forests beyond the “hands-off” approach: a strategy for the sustainable development and community-based conservation of the Intag-Manduriacos forests in Ecuador, ITTO/CBD Conference paper, CBD website

Cueva X.A., Morales N., Brown M., & M.R. Peck (2010) Macro y mesomamíferos de la Reserva Comunitaria Santa Lucía, Pichincha – Ecuador. Boletin tecnico, Serie Zoologica

Tolhurst B., Peck M., Morales J.N., Cane T., & Recchio I. (2010) Extended distribution of a recently described dipsadine colubrid snake: Atractus gigas. Herpetology Notes (3): 73-75

Menezes S., Soares A.M.V.M., Guilhermino L., Peck M.R. (2010) Can AChE and GST activities of Crangon crangon (L.) be used as biomarkers of fuel oil exposure? Water, Air and Soil Pollution 208: 317-322

Kniveton D. R., Layberry R., Williams C. J. R., Peck M.R. (2009). Trends in the start of the wet season over Africa. International Journal of Climatology. 29, (9): 1216-1225 

Gavilanez-E. M.M., Peck M.R., Tirira D.G. & Burneo S.F. (2009) Estudio preliminar sobre la densidad y estructura poblacional de tres especies de primates en un bosque nublado del noroccidente de Ecuador. Neotropical Primates

Shanee S., Peck M.R. (2008) Elevational changes in a neotropical Fig (sp.p.) community in north western Ecuador. iForest (1): 104-106

Lima I., Peck M.R., Rendon-Von Osten J., Soares A.M.M., Guilhermino L, Rotchell J. M. (2008) Ras gene in marine mussels: A molecular level response to petrochemical exposure. Marine Pollution Bulletin 56 (4): 633-640

Peck M.R., Labadie P., Minier C. & Hill E.M. (2007). Profiles of environmental and endogenous estrogens in the zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha). Chemosphere (69):  1 – 8.

Labadie P., Peck M., Minier C. & Hill E.M. (2007). Identification of the steroid fatty acid ester conjugates formed in vivo in Mytilus edulis as a result of exposure to estrogens. Steroids (72): 41-49

Menezes S., Soares A.M.V.M., Guilhermino L. & Peck M.R. (2006). Biomarker responses of the estuarine brown shrimp Crangon crangon L. to non-toxic stressors: Temperature, salinity and handling stress effects. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 335 (1): 114-122

Hogan A., Peck M.,  Van Dam R. & Kennett R. (2005). Screening for endocrine disrupting activity in surface waters of Kakadu National Park. Ecological Management & Restoration 6(3): 219-227

Peck M., Gibson R., Kortenkamp A. &  Hill E. (2004). Sediments are major sinks of steroidal estrogens in two United Kingdom Rivers. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 23 (4): 945–952

M. Peck, D. Klessa & D.J. Baird (2002). A tropical sediment toxicity test using the dipteran Chironomus crassiforceps to test metal bioavailability with sediment pH change in tropical acid-sulphate sediments. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 21(4): 720-728

Monaghan K., Peck M., Brewin P., Masiero M., Zarate E., Turcotte P. & Ormerod S.J. (2000). Macroinvertebrate distribution in Ecuadorian Hillstreams: the effect of altitude and land-use. Archive fur Hydrobiologie 149 (3): 421-440