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Papers directly dealing with Soay Sheep appear in green.

1957

  • Begining of scientific research in St Kilda islands
  • The archipelago of St kilda becomes National Nature Reserve and researches start collecting data about the flora and fauna of the islands.
  • “Major histocompatibility complex variation associated with juvenile survival and parasite resistance in a large unmanaged ungulate population (Ovis aries L.)” by Paterson, S., Wilson, K., Pemberton, J.M.

 

1986

  • St Kilda becomes UNESCO World Heritage Site

 

1999

  •  ”Repeated Selection of Morphometric Traits in the Soay Sheep on St Kilda” by J. M. Milner, S. D. Albon, A. W. Illius, J. M. Pemberton, T. H. Clutton-Brock

 

2002

  • “Global warming, Bergmannʼs rule and body mass – are they related? The chukar partridge (Alectoris chukai) case”, by Yoram Yom-Tov, Yoav Benjamini, Salit Kark, in Journal of Zoology

 

2004

  • “Soay Sheep: Dynamics and Selection in an Island Population”, by T. H. Clutton-Brock, J. M. Pemberton, Cambridge University Press

 

2005

  • “Alaska shrews getting larger because theyʼre warmer?”, by Ned Rozell

 

2006

  • “Body size changes among otters, Lutra lutra, in Norway: the possible effects of food availability and global warming”, by Yoram Yom-Tov, Thrine Moen Heggberget, Øystein Wiig and Shlomith Yom-Tov, in Oecologia

 

2007

  • “Development of a linkage map and mapping of phenotypic polymorphisms in a free-living population of Soay sheep (Ovis aries)” by Beraldi D, McRae AF, Gratten J, Slate J, Visscher PM, Pemberton JM

 

2008

  • “A localized negative genetic correlation constrains microevolution of coat color in wild sheep”, by Gratten J, Wilson AJ, McRae AF, Beraldi D, Visscher PM, Pemberton JM, Slate J, in Science 319: 318-320

 

2009

  • “The Dynamics of Phenotypic Change and the Shrinking Sheep of St. Kilda”, by Arpat Ozgul, Shripad Tuljapurkar, Tim G Benton, Josephine M Pemberton, TH Clutton-Brock, Tim Coulson, in Science
  • “Climate change: is the dark Soay sheep endangered?” by Maloney SK, Fuller A, Mitchell D, in Biology Letters
  • “The genetic basis of recessive self colour pattern in a wild sheep population”, by Gratten J, Pilkington JG, Brown EA, Beraldi D, Pemberton JM & Slate J
  • “Recent Changes in Body Size of the Eurasian Otter Lutra lutra in Sweden”, by Yoram Yom-Tov, Anna Roos, Peter Mortensen, Øystein Wiig, Shlomith Yom-Tov, Thrine M. Heggberget

 

2010

  •  “Temperature trends and recent decline in body size of the stone marten Martes foina in Denmark”, by Yoram Yom-Tov, Noam Leader, Shlomith Yom-Tov, Hans J. Baagøe, in Mammalian Biology – Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde, Volume 75, Issue 2
  • “Recent spatial and temporal changes in body size of terrestrial vertebrates: probable causes and pitfalls”, by Yoram Yom-Tov, Eli Geffen, in Biological Reviews, 86: 531–541
  • “No evidence for warming climate theory of coat colour change in Soay sheep: a comment on Maloney et al”, by J. Gratten, A. J. Wilson, A. F. McRae, D. Beraldi, P. M. Visscher, J. M. Pemberton and J. Slate., in Biol. Lett.
  • “Global change biology: A warming climate remains a plausible hypothesis for the decrease in dark Soay sheep” by Shane K. Maloney, Andrea Fuller, and Duncan Mitchell, in Biol. Lett.

 

2011

  •  “Lynx body size in Norway is related to its main prey (Roe deer) density, climate, and latitude”, by Yoram Yom-Tov, Tor Kvam and Øystein Wiig, in Ambio
  • “Declining body size: a third universal response to global warming?”, by Janet L. Gardner,Anne Peters, Michael R. Kearney, Leo Joseph and Robert Heinsohn, in Trends in Ecology and Evolution

 

 

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