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Dr Clive Trueman BSc, PhD

Associate Professor in Marine Ecology

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Dr Clive Trueman is Associate Professor in Marine Ecology within Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton at the University of Southampton.

BSc Geology Bristol, (1993)
PhD Geochemistry Bristol (1997)
Appointed Lecturer at Southampton (2006)

Research

Publications

Teaching

Contact

Research interests

Specialisms: Geochemical ecology, biominerals chemistry

Stable isotope ecology, particularly applied to fisheries

Spatial distribution, migration and trophic ecology of marine predators

Trace element and stable isotope chemistry of otoliths

Diagenetic alteration of biominerals, especially bone

Reconstruction of palaeoenvironmental and taphonomic information from fossil biominerals

Research group

Geochemistry

Research project(s)

Carbon isotopes in otoliths: a new palaeoecological proxy?

The effects of coastal sediment dynamics on bone taphonomy: archaeological/ forensic implications

Geochemistry of fish otoliths

Shark and other fish eye lenses – a window to cryptic life history behaviours.

Ontogenetic movement and larval survival in North Sea Herring: A stable isotope approach

Biominerals Diagenisis and Palaeoproxies

Movement patterns in pelagic sharks: stable isotope evidence

Nutrient flow and ecosystem structure in marine fish communities

Trophic and Spacial Ecology of Marine Predators

Evolution of Modern Marine Ecosystems

Articles

Bird, C. S., Veríssimo, A., Magozzi, S., Abrantes, K. G., Aguilar, A., Al-reasi, H., ... Trueman, C. N. (2018). A global perspective on the trophic geography of sharks. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2(2), 299-305. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-017-0432-z
St. John Glew, K., Wanless, S., Harris, M., Daunt, F., Erikstad, K. E., Strom, H., & Trueman, C. N. (2018). Moult location and diet of auks in the North Sea, inferred from coupled light-based and isotope-based geolocation. Marine Ecology Progress Series. DOI: 10.3354/meps12624.
Paris, J. R., Boulenger, C., Delord, C., El-Mahdi, M. B. M., Fairfield, E. A., Gutmann Roberts, C., ... Stevens, J. R. (2018). Understanding and managing fish populations: Keeping the toolbox fit for purpose. Journal of Fish Biology, 92(3), 727-751. DOI: 10.1111/jfb.13549
Trueman, C. N., Mackenzie, K. M., & St John Glew, K. (2017). Stable isotope-based location in a shelf sea setting:: accuracy and precision are comparable to light-based location methods. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 8(2), 232-240. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12651
Mackenzie, K. M., Trueman, C. N., Lucas, C. H., & Bortoluzzi, J. (2017). The preparation of jellyfish for stable isotope analysis. Marine Biology, 164, [219]. DOI: 10.1007/s00227-017-3242-6
Meier, R., Votier, S. C., Wynn, R. B., Guilford, T., McMinn Grivé, M., Rodríguez, A., ... Trueman, C. N. (2017). Tracking, feather moult and stable isotopes reveal foraging behaviour of a critically endangered seabird during the non-breeding season. Diversity and Distributions, 23(2), 130-145. DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12509
Magozzi, S., Yool, A., Vander Zanden, H. B., Wunder, M. B., & Trueman, C. N. (2017). Using ocean models to predict spatial and temporal variation in marine carbon isotopes. Ecosphere, 8(5), [e01763]. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1763
Sousa, L. L., Xavier, R., Costa, V., Humphries, N. E., Trueman, C., Rosa, R., ... Queiroz, N. (2016). DNA barcoding identifies a cosmopolitan diet in the ocean sunfish. Scientific Reports, 6(28762), 1-9. DOI: 10.1038/srep28762
Trueman, C. N., Chung, M-T., & Shores, D. (2016). Ecogeochemistry potential in deep time biodiversity illustrated using a modern deep-water case study. Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 371(1691), 20150223. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0223
Gernon, T., Sam, S., Trueman, C., Taylor, R., Rohling, E., Hatter, S. J., & Harding, I. (2015). Emplacement of the Cabezo Maria lamproite volcano (Miocene, SE Spain). Bulletin of Volcanology, 77(6), [52]. DOI: 0.1007/s00445-015-0934-y
Hess, C. A., Smith, M. J., Trueman, C., & Schutkowski, H. (2015). Longitudinal and contemporaneous manganese exposure in apartheid-era South Africa: Implications for the past and future. International Journal of Paleopathology, 8, 1-9. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpp.2014.09.005
Sturrock, A. M., Hunter, E., Milton, J. A., Johnson, R. C., Waring, C. P., & Trueman, C. N. (2015). Quantifying physiological influences on otolith microchemistry. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 6(7), 806-816. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12381
Darnaude, A. M., Sturrock, A., Trueman, C. N., Mouillot, D., Campana, S. E., & Hunter, E. (2014). Listening in on the past: what can otolith ?18O values really tell us about the environmental history of fishes? PLoS ONE, 9(10), 1-17. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108539
Longmore, C., Trueman, C. N., Neat, F., Jorde, P. E., Knutsen, H., Stefanni, S., ... Gillanders, B. (2014). Ocean-scale connectivity and life cycle reconstruction in a deep-sea fish. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 71(9), 1312-1323. DOI: 10.1139/cjfas-2013-0343
Sturrock, A. M., Trueman, C. N., Milton, J. A., Waring, C. P., Cooper, M. J., & Hunter, E. (2014). Physiological influences can outweigh environmental signals in otolith microchemistry research. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 500, 245-264. DOI: 10.3354/meps10699
Ryan, C., Berrow, S. D., McHugh, B., O'Donnell, C., Trueman, C. N., & O'Connor, I. (2014). Prey preferences of sympatric fin (Balaenoptera physalus) and humpback (Megaptera novaeangliae) whales revealed by stable isotope mixing models. Marine Mammal Science, 30(1), 242-258. DOI: 10.1111/mms.12034
MacKenzie, K. M., Longmore, C., Preece, C., Lucas, C. H., & Trueman, C. N. (2014). Testing the long-term stability of marine isoscapes in shelf seas using jellyfish tissues. Biogeochemistry, 121(2), 441-454. DOI: 10.1007/s10533-014-0011-1
Trueman, C. N., Johnston, G., O'Hea, B., & MacKenzie, K. M. (2014). Trophic interactions of fish communities at midwater depths enhance long-term carbon storage and benthic production on continental slopes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281(1787), 20140669. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.0669
Bailey, I., Hole, G. M., Foster, G. L., Wilson, P. A., Storey, C. D., Trueman, C. N., & Raymo, M. E. (2013). An alternative suggestion for the Pliocene onset of major northern hemisphere glaciation based on the geochemical provenance of North Atlantic Ocean ice-rafted debris. Quaternary Science Reviews, 75, 181-194. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.06.004
Sturrock, A. M., Hunter, E., Milton, J. A., & Trueman, C. N. (2013). Analysis methods and reference concentrations of 12 minor and trace elements in fish blood plasma. Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology, 27(4), 273-285. DOI: 10.1016/j.jtemb.2013.03.001
Trueman, C. N. (2013). Chemical taphonomy of biomineralized tissues. Palaeontology, 56(3), 475-486. DOI: 10.1111/pala.12041
Hess, C. A., Cooper, M. J., Smith, M. J., Trueman, C. N., & Schutkowski, H. (2013). Lead exposure in adult males in urban Transvaal Province, South Africa during the Apartheid era. PLoS ONE, 8(3), 1-7. [e58146]. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058146
Field, J., Wroe, S., Trueman, C. N., Garvey, J., & Wyatt-Spratt, S. (2013). Looking for the archaeological signature in Australian Megafaunal extinctions. Quaternary International, 285, 76-88. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.04.013
Ryan, C., McHugh, B., Trueman, C. N., Sabin, R., Deaville, R., Harrod, C., ... O’Connor, I. (2013). Stable isotope analysis of baleen reveals resource partitioning among sympatric rorquals and population structure in fin whales. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 479, 251-261. DOI: 10.3354/meps10231
Santos, A. R., Trueman, C., Connolly, P., & Rogan, E. (2013). Trophic ecology of black scabbardfish, Aphanopus carbo in the NE Atlantic—Assessment through stomach content and stable isotope analyses. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 77, 1-10. DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2013.02.009
Ryan, C., McHugh, B., Trueman, C. N., Harrod, C., Berrow, S. D., & O'Connor, I. (2012). Accounting for the effects of lipids in stable isotope (?13C and?15N values) analysis of skin and blubber of balaenopterid whales. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 26(23), 2745-2754. DOI: 10.1002/rcm.6394
Sturrock, A. M., Trueman, C. N., Darnaude, A. M., & Hunter, E. (2012). Can otolith elemental chemistry retrospectively track migrations in fully marine fishes? Journal of Fish Biology, 81(2), 766-795. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2012.03372.x
Bailey, I., Foster, G. L., Wilson, P. A., Jovane, L., Storey, C. D., Trueman, C. N., & Becker, J. (2012). Flux and provenance of ice-rafted debris in the earliest Pleistocene sub-polar North Atlantic Ocean comparable to the Last Glacial Maximum. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 341-344, 222-233. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.05.034
Trueman, C. N., MacKenzie, K. M., & Palmer, M. R. (2012). Identifying migrations in marine fishes through stable-isotope analysis. Journal of Fish Biology, 81(2), 826-847. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2012.03361.x
MacKenzie, K. M., Trueman, C. N., Palmer, M. R., Moore, A., Ibbotson, A. T., Beaumont, W. R. C., & Davidson, I. C. (2012). Stable isotopes reveal age-dependent trophic level and spatial segregation during adult marine feeding in populations of salmon. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 69(9), 1637-1645. DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fss074
Trueman, C. N., MacKenzie, K. M., & Palmer, M. R. (2012). Stable isotopes reveal linkages between ocean climate, plankton community dynamics, and survival of two populations of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). ICES Journal of Marine Science, 69(5), 784-794. DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fss066
Carlsson, J., Shephard, S., Coughlan, J., Trueman, C. N., Rogan, E., & Cross, T. F. (2011). Fine-scale population structure in a deep-sea teleost (orange roughy, Hoplostethus atlanticus). Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 58(6), 627-636. DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2011.03.009
Trueman, C. N., Kocsis, L., Palmer, M. R., & Dewdney, C. (2011). Fractionation of rare earth elements within bone mineral: A natural cation exchange system. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 310(1-2), 124-132. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.01.002
MacKenzie, K. M., Palmer, M. R., Moore, A., Ibbotson, A. T., Beaumont, W. R. C., Poulter, D. J. S., & Trueman, C. N. (2011). Locations of marine animals revealed by carbon isotopes. Scientific Reports, 1(21), 21. DOI: 10.1038/srep00021
Longmore, C., Trueman, C. N., Neat, F., O’Gorman, E. J., Milton, J. A., & Mariani, S. (2011). Otolith geochemistry indicates life-long spatial population structuring in a deep-sea fish, Coryphaenoides rupestris. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 435, 209-224. DOI: 10.3354/meps/09197
Longmore, C., Fogarty, K., Neat, F., Brophy, D., Trueman, C., Milton, A., & Mariani, S. (2010). A comparison of otolith microchemistry and otolith shape analysis for the study of spatial variation in a deep-sea teleost, Coryphaenoides rupestris. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 89(3-4), 591-605. DOI: 10.1007/s10641-010-9674-1
Allington-Jones, L., Braddy, S. J., & Trueman, C. N. (2010). Palaeoenvironmental implications of the ichnology and geochemistry of the Westbury Formation (Rhaetian), Westbury-on-Severn, south-west England. Palaeontology, 53(3), 491-596. DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00947.x
Kocsis, L., Trueman, C. N., & Palmer, M. R. (2010). Protracted diagenetic alteration of REE contents in fossil bioapatites: Direct evidence from Lu–Hf isotope systematics. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 74(21), 6077-6092. DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2010.08.007
Kocsis, L., Ősi, A., Vennemann, T., Trueman, C. N., & Palmer, M. R. (2009). Geochemical study of vertebrate fossils from the Upper Cretaceous (Santonian) Csehbánya Formation (Hungary): Evidence for a freshwater habitat of mosasaurs and pycnodont fish. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 280(3-4), 532-542. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.07.009
Adey, E. A., Black, K. D., Sawyer, T., Shimmield, T. M., & Trueman, C. N. (2009). Scale microchemistry as a tool to investigate the origin of wild and farmed Salmo salar. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 390, 225-235. DOI: 10.3354/meps08161
Koenig, A. E., Rogers, R. R., & Trueman, C. N. (2009). Visualizing fossilization using laser ablation–inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry maps of trace elements in Late Cretaceous bones. Geology, 37(6), 511-514. DOI: 10.1130/G25551A.1
Trueman, C. N., Palmer, M. R., Field, J., Privat, K., Ludgate, N., Chavagnac, V., ... Rogers, R. R. (2008). Comparing rates of recrystallisation and the potential preservation of biomolecules from the distribution of trace elements in fossil bones. Comptes Rendus Palevol, 7(2-3), 145-158. DOI: 10.1016/j.crpv.2008.02.006
Trueman, C. N., Privat, K., & Field, J. (2008). Why do crystallinity values fail to predict the extent of diagenetic alteration of bone mineral? Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 266(3-4), 160-167. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.03.038
Shephard, S., Trueman, C., Rickaby, R., & Rogan, R. (2007). Juvenile life history of NE Atlantic orange roughy from otolith stable isotopes. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 54(8), 1221-1230. DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2007.05.007
Anderson, P. E., Benton, M. J., Trueman, C. N., Paterson, B. A., & Curly, G. (2007). Palaeoenvironments of vertebrates on the southern shore of Tethys: the nonmarine Early Cretaceous of Tunisia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 243(1-2), 118-131. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.07.015
Chavagnac, V., Milton, J. A., Green, D. R. H., Breuer, J., Bruguier, O., Jacob, D. E., ... Yuan, H. (2007). Towards the development of a fossil bone geochemical standard: an inter-laboratory study. Analytica Chimica Acta, 599(2), 177-190. DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2007.08.015
Trueman, C. N., Behrensmeyer, A. K., Potts, R., & Tuross, N. (2006). High-resolution records of location and stratigraphic provenance from the rare earth element composition of fossil bones. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 70(17), 4343-4355. DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2006.06.1556
Hutchinson, J. J., & Trueman, C. N. (2006). Stable isotope analyses of collagen in fish scales: limitations set by scale architecture. Journal of Fish Biology, 69(6), 1874-1880. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2006.01234.x
Trueman, C. N. G., Field, J. H., Dortch, J., Charles, B., & Wroe, S. (2005). Prolonged coexistence of humans and megafauna in Pleistocene Australia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 102(23), 8381-8385. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0408975102
Trueman, C. N., McGill, R. A. R., & Guyard, P. H. (2005). The effect of growth rate on tissue-diet isotopic spacing in rapidly growing animals. An experimental study with Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 19(22), 3239-3247. DOI: 10.1002/rcm.2199
Trueman, C. N. G., Behrensmeyer, A. K., Tuross, N., & Weiner, S. (2004). Mineralogical and compositional changes in bones exposed on soil surfaces in Amboseli National Park, Kenya: diagenetic mechanisms and the role of sediment pore fluids. Journal of Archaeological Science, 31(6), 721-739. DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2003.11.003
Trueman, C. N., Chenery, C. A., Spiro, B. F., & Eberth, D. (2003). Alteration of the isotopic composition of oxygen in dinosaur bone. Journal of the Geological Society, 160(6), 895-901. DOI: 10.1144/0016-764903-019
Kemp, R. A., & Trueman, C. N. (2003). Rare earth elements in Solnhofen biogenic apatite: geochemical clues to the palaeoenvironment. Sedimentary Geology, 155(1-2), 109-127. DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(02)00163-X
Trueman, C. N., & Martill, D. M. (2002). The long–term survival of bone: the role of bioerosion. Archaeometry, 44(3), 371-382. DOI: 10.1111/1475-4754.t01-1-00070
Trueman, C. N., & Tuross, N. (2002). Trace elements in modern and ancient bone (in Phosphates: Geochemical, Geobiological, and Materials Importance, Matthew L. Kohn, John Rakovan & John M. Hughes, editors). Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 48, 489-522.
Benton, M. J., Bouaziz, S., Buffetaut, E., Martill, D., Ouaja, M., Soussi, M., & Trueman, C. N. (2000). Dinosaurs and other fossil vertebrates from fluvial deposits in the Lower Cretaceous of southern Tunisia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 157(3-4), 227-246. DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(99)00167-4
Varricchio, D. J., Jackson, F. J., & Trueman, C. N. (1999). A nesting trace with eggs for the Cretaceous theropod dinosaur Troodon formosus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 19(1), 91-100.
Trueman, C. N. (1999). Rare earth element geochemistry and taphonomy of terrestrial vertebrate assemblages. Palaios, 14(6), 555-568.
Trueman, C. N., & Benton, M. J. (1997). A geochemical method to trace the taphonomic history of reworked bones in sedimentary settings. Geology, 25(3), 263-266. DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0263:AGMTTT>2.3.CO;2
Trueman, C. N., & Palmer, M. R. (1997). Diagenetic origin of REE in vertebrate apatite: a reconsideration of Samoilov and Benjamini, 1996. Palaios, 12(5), 495-497.

Book Chapters

Trueman, C. N. (2008). Trace element geochemistry of bonebeds. In R. R. Rogers, D. A. Eberth, & A. R. Fiorillo (Eds.), Bonebeds: Genesis, analysis and paleobiological significance (pp. 397-436). Chicago, USA: University of Chicago Press.
Trueman, C. N. (2004). The forensic geology of bone mineral. In K. Pye, & D. J. Croft (Eds.), Forensic geoscience: principles, techniques and applications (pp. 249-256). (Geological Society Special Publication; No. 232). London, UK: Geological Society of London.

SOES 1010 Quantitative Methods (Unit leader)
SOES 3041 Communication and Undergraduate Ambassador scheme (Unit leader)
SOES 2001 Palaeobiology
SOES 3017 Fisheries
SOES 3008 Environmental Geochemistry

Dr Clive Trueman
Ocean and Earth Science
National Oceanography Centre Southampton
University of Southampton Waterfront Campus
European Way
Southampton SO14 3ZH
UK

Room Number:NOCS/186/12

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