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PROFESSOR P. J. BUTLER
 
p.j.butler@bham.ac.uk

     

 
 

Prof. P. J. Butler
School of Biosciences
The University of Birmingham
Birmingham
B15 2TT, UK

Ph: +44 (0) 121 414 5470
Fax: +44 (0) 121 414 5925
p.j.butler@bham.ac.uk
 
 
 
 

 
 BOOKS, MONOGRAPHS AND MAJOR REVIEWS

1. Butler, P.J. & Jones, D.R. 1982. The comparative physiology of diving in vertebrates. In: Advances in Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry Vol. 8. Edited by O.E. Lowenstein, Academic Press, pp 179-364.

2. Butler, P.J. 1982. Control and co-ordination of respiration and circulation. Proceedings of a discussion meeting organised and edited by P.J. Butler. J. exp. Biol. 100.

3. Phillips, J.G., Butler, P.J. & Sharp, P.J. 1985. Physiological Strategies in Avian Biology. 218pp Blackie: Glasgow and London.

4. Bridges, C.R. & Butler, P.J. (eds.) 1989. Techniques in Comparative Respiratory Physiology: An experimental approach. 333pp. Cambridge University Press.

5. Butler, P.J. & Jones, D.R. 1997. The physiology of diving of birds and mammals. Physiol. Rev. 77, 837-899.

6. Butler, P.J. & Bishop, C.M. 2000. Flight. In: Sturkie’s Avian Physiology, 5th edn. Edited by G.C. Whittow, Academic Press, pp 391-435.

 

REVIEW ARTICLES

1.      Butler, P.J. 1976.  Gas exchange. In: Environmental Physiology of Animals. Edited by J. Bligh, J.L. Cloudsley-Thompson and A.G. Macdonald. Blackwell, pp 164-195.

 2.      Butler, P.J. and Woakes, A.J. 1976.  Changes in heart rate and respiratory frequency associated with spontaneous submersion of ducks.  In: Biotelemetry III.  Edited by T.B. Fryer, H.A. Miller and H. Sandler. Academic Press, pp 215-218.

3.      Butler, P.J. 1980.  The use of telemetry in the studies of diving and flying birds.  In: Handbook on Biotelemetry and Radiotracking. Edited by C.J. Amlaner and D.W. Macdonald, Pergamon Press, pp 569-577.

4.      Butler, P.J. 1981.  Respiration during flight.  In: Advances in Physiological Sciences Vol. 10. Edited by I. Hutas and L.A. Debreczeni, Pergamon Press, pp 155-164.

5.      Butler, P.J. and Woakes, A.J. 1982.  Telemetry of physiological variables from diving and flying birds. Symp. Zool. Soc. Lond. 49, 107-128.

6.      Butler, P.J. 1982. Respiration during flight and diving in birds.  In: Exogenous and Endogenous Influences on Metabolic and Neural Control. Edited by A.D.F. Addink and N. Spronk, Pergamon Press, pp 105-114.

7.      Butler, P.J. 1982.  Respiratory and cardiovascular control during diving in birds and mammals. J. exp. Biol. 100, 195-221.

8.      Butler, P.J. and Metcalfe, J.D. 1983.  Control of respiration and circulation.  In: Control Processes in Fish Physiology. Edited by J.C. Rankin, T.J. Pitcher and R.T. Duggan, Croom Helm, pp 141-65..

9.      Butler, P.J. 1985.  Telemetry from free flying birds.  In: BIONA Report 3. Edited by Nachtigall W. Stuttgart, Gustav Fisher, pp 391-396.

10.    Butler, P.J. 1985.  The diving reflex in free-diving birds.  In: Arctic Underwater Operations. Edited by L. Rey, Graham Trotman, pp 49-61.

11.    Butler, P.J. 1985.  Exercise in non-mammalian vertebrates:  a review. J. Roy. Soc. Med. 78, 739-747.

12.    Butler, P.J. and Woakes, A.J. 1985.  Exercise in normally ventilating and apnoeic birds.  In: Circulation, Respiration and Metabolism: current Comparative Approaches.  Edited by R. Gilles, Springer-Verlag, pp 39-55.

13.    Butler, P.J. 1985.  New techniques for studying respiration in free flying birds.  In: Acta XVIII Congressus Internationalis Ornithologici.  Edited by V.D. Ilyichev and V.M. Gavrilov, pp 995-1004.

14.    Butler, P.J. 1985.  Exercise in birds: a study using radiotelemetry. Biologist. 32, 75-82.

15.    Butler, P.J. 1986.  Exercise.  In: Fish Physiology: Recent Advances. Edited by S. Nilsson and S. Holmgren, Croom Helm, pp 102-118.

16.    Butler, P.J. and Stephenson, R. 1987.  Physiology of breath-hold diving: a bird's eye view. Sci. Prog. Oxf. 17, 439-458.

17.    Butler, P.J. and Woakes, A.J. 1987.  The cardiac response to breath‑hold diving at rest and while exercising (a comparison between man and diving homeotherms).  In: The Physiology of Breath‑hold Diving. Edited by C. Lundgren and M. Ferrigno, Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society Inc., pp 200-211

18.    Stephenson, R. and Butler, P.J. 1987.  Nervous control of the diving response in birds and mammals.  In: Neurobiology of the Cardiorespiratory System. Edited by E.W. Taylor,. Manchester University Press, pp 369-393.

19.    Butler, P.J. 1988.  The exercise response and the "classical" diving response during natural submersion in birds and mammals. Can. J. Zool. 66, 29-39.

20.    Butler, P.J. and Metcalfe, J.D. 1988.  Cardiovascular and respiratory systems.  In: Physiology of Elasmobranch Fishes. Edited by T.J. Shuttleworth, Springer-Verlag, pp 1-47.

21.    Butler, P.J. and Woakes, A.J. 1989.  Telemetry.  In: Techniques in Comparative Respiratory Physiology: An experimental approach. Edited by. C.R. Bridges and P.J. Butler, Cambridge University Press, pp 139‑170.

22.    Butler, P.J. 1989.  Telemetric recording of physiological data from free‑living animals.  In: Toward a More Exact Ecology. Edited by P.J. Grubb and J.B. Whittaker, Blackwell Scientific Publications, pp 63-84.

23.    Woakes, A.J. and Butler, P.J. 1989.  Wildlife studies in the laboratory - the application of e.c.g. telemetry to physiological research.  In: Biotelemetry X. Edited by C.J. Amlaner, The University of Arkansas Press, pp 317‑324.

24.    Butler, P.J. 1990.  Metabolic adjustments to breath‑holding in higher vertebrates. Can. J. Zool. 67, 3024‑3031.

25.    Butler, P.J. and Woakes. A.J. 1990.  The physiology of bird flight.  In: Physiological and Ecophysiological Aspects of Bird Migration. Edited by E. Gwinner,  Springer-Verlag, pp. 300-318.

26.    Butler, P.J. 1991.  Respiratory adaptations to limited oxygen supply during diving in birds and mammals.  In: Comparative Insights into Strategies for Gas exchange and Metabolism. Edited by A.J. Woakes, C.R. Bridges and M.K. Grieshaber, Cambridge University Press, pp 235-257.

27.    Butler P.J. 1991. Exercise in birds.  J. exp. Biol. 160, 233-262.

28.    Butler, P.J. 1991. Physiology of diving in ducks and other aquatic birds (excluding penguins).  Acta XX Congressus Internationalis Ornithologici: 1875-1886.

29.    Butler, P.J. and Bevan, R.M. 1992.  Blood flow distribution during voluntary diving of the tufted duck (Aythya fuligula).   Comp. Physiol. 11, 97-105.

30.    Butler, P.J. 1993. To what extent can heart rate be used as an indicator of metabolic rate in free‑living marine mammals?  In: Recent Advances in Marine Mammal Science. Edited by I.L. Boyd, Symp. Zool Soc., Oxford University Press, pp 317-332

31.    Taylor, E.W., Beaumont, M.W., Butler, P.J., Mair, J. and Mujallid, M.S.I.  1996.  Lethal and sub-lethal effects of copper upon fish: a role for ammonia toxicity?  In:  Toxicology of Aquatic Pollution.  Edited by E.W. Taylor, SEB Seminar Series 57,  Cambridge University Press, pp 85-113

32.    Taylor, E.W., Egginton, S., Taylor, S.E. and Butler, P.J. 1997. Factors which may limit swimming performance at different temperatures. In: Global Warming: Implications for Freshwater and Marine Fish. Edited by C.M. Wood and D.G. McDonald, SEB Seminar Series 61, Cambridge University Press, pp 105-133.

33.    Bevan, R.M., Bishop, C.M. and Butler, P.J. 1998. The physiology of polar birds. In:  Cold Ocean Physiology. Edited by H.O. Pörtner and R.C. Playle, SEB Seminar Series 66, Cambridge University Press, pp 432-460.          

34.    Butler, P.J.  1999.  Respiratory system.  In:  Biology of Elasmobranch Fishes.  Edited by W.C. Hamlett, The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp 174-197.

35.        Day, N. and Butler, P.J. 1999. Swimming performance and seasonality in brown trout Salmo trutta: are there implications for the study of tropical fish? In: Biology of Tropical Fishes. Edited by A.L.Val and V.M.F. Almeida-Val, INPA, pp 427-436.

36.        Beaumont, M.W., Butler, P.J. and Taylor, E.W. 2000 Tissue ammonia levels and swimming performance of brown trout exposed to copper in soft, acidic water. In: Fish Physiology, Toxicology and Water Quality. Edited by R.V. Thurston, Ecosystems Research Division, pp 51-68.

37.        Butler, P.J. 2000. Energy cost of surface swimming and diving of birds. Physiol. Biochem. Zool. 73, 699-705.

38.        Butler, P.J. 2001. Diving beyond the limits. News in Physiological Sciences. 16, 222-227

39.        Butler, P.J., Bishop, C.M. and Woakes, A.J. 2003. Chasing a wild goose: posthatch growth of locomotor muscles and behavioural physiology of migration of an Arctic goose. In: Avian Migration. Eds, P. Berthold, E. Gwinner and E Sonnenschein. Springer- Verlag. pp 527-541.

40.        Butler, P.J., Green, J.A., Boyd, I.L. and Speakman, J.R. 2004. Measuring metabolic rate in the field: the pros and cons of the doubly-labelled water and heart rate methods. Func. Ecol. 18, 168-183.

41.        Cooke, S.J., Hinch, S.G., Wikelski, M., Andrews, R., Kuchel, L.J., Walcott, T.G. and Butler, P.J. 2004. Biotelemetry: a mechanistic approach to ecology. TREE. 19, 334-343.

42.        Butler, P.J. 2004. Metabolic regulation in diving birds and mammals. Resp. Physiol and Neurobiol. 141, 297-315.

43.        Green, J. A., Halsey, L. G. and Butler, P. J. 2005. To what extent is the foraging behaviour of aquatic birds constrained by their physiology? Physiol. Biochem. Zool. 78, 766-781.

44.        Halsey, L.G. and Butler, P.J. 2006. Optimal diving behaviour and respiratory gas exchange in birds. Resp Physiol and Neurobiol. (in press)

 

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS


1. Butler, P.J. & Osborne, M.P. 1975. A new theory for the receptor mechanism of the carotid body. J. Physiol. 248, 22-23P.

2. Butler, P.J. & Woakes, A.J. 1976. Changes in heart rate and respiratory frequency associated with natural submersion of ducks. J. Physiol. 256, 73-74P.

3. Butler, P.J., Short, S. & Taylor, E.W. 1976. Factors affecting blood flow through the ventral aorta of the dogfish Scyliorhinus canicula. J. Physiol. 256, 74-76P.

4. Al-Wassia, A., Butler, P.J. & Taylor, E.W. 1976. Respiration in the shore crab Carcinus maenas. J. Physiol. 256, 76-77P.

5. McMahon, B.R., Butler, P.J. & Taylor, E.W. 1978. Hypoxic induced changes in acid base status in the lobster H. vulgaris. Fed. Proc. 37, 386.

6. Woakes, A.J. & Butler, P.J. 1980. An implantable transducer for the measurement of respiratory airflow. In: Handbook on Biotelemetry and Radiotracking. Edited by C.J. Amlaner & D.W. Macdonald, Pergamon Press, pp 287-292.

7. Butler, P.J. & Woakes, A.J. 1983. Heart rate and oxygen uptake in tufted ducks, Aythya fuligula, during swimming and spontaneous diving. J. Physiol. 338, 55-56P.

8. Butler, P.J., Stephenson, R. & Woakes, A.J. 1986. Variability of heart rate response during voluntary diving in the tufted duck Aythya fuligula. J. Physiol. 371, 69P.

9. Butler, P.J. & Woakes, A.J. 1986. The effect of exercise on heart rate in man during breath-hold submersion. J. Physiol. 373, 41P.

10. Butler, P.J. & Woakes, A.J. 1987. An ultrasonic phase-shift flowmeter for the measurement of respiratory airflow. J. Physiol. 394, 9P.

11. Butler, P.J. & Turner, D.L. 1987. Maximum oxygen uptake and capillarity and enzyme activity in the gastrocnemius muscle of trained and untrained tufted duck, Aythya fuligula. J. Physiol. 394, 131P.

12. Anderson, L.S., Butler, P.J., Roberts, C., Smale, K., Snow, D.H. & Woakes, A.J. 1989. Partial pressures of arterial and end-tidal gases during graded exercise in thoroughbred racehorses. J. Physiol. 418, 131P.

13. Bevan, R.M. & Butler, P.J. 1989. Oxygen consumption during voluntary diving in the tufted duck Aythya fuligula acclimated to summer and winter temperatures. J. Physiol. 418, 132P.

14. Anderson, L.S., Butler, P.J., Snow, D.H. & Woakes, A.J. 1990. The effect of gait on ventilation in the exercising thoroughbred horse. J. Physiol. 420, 68P.

15. Ranson, R.N., Butler, P.J. & Taylor, E.W. (1992). The localization of vagal preganglionic neurones in the ferret, Mustela putorius furo and the mink, Mustela vison.. J. Physiol. 452, 246P.
 

16. Young, M.J., Taylor, E.W. & Butler, P.J. (1992). Central electrical stimulation of the respiratory nerves of the anaesthetized, decerebrate dogfish (Scyliorhinus), and its effect on fictive respiration. J. Physiol. 459, 104P.
 

17. Ranson, R.N., Butler, P.J. & Taylor, E.W. (1993). Central localisation of the superior laryngeal nerve in the ferret and mink. J. Physiol. 473, 129P.

18. Young, M.J., Taylor, E.W. & Butler, P.J. (1993). Peripheral electrical stimulation of the cardiac nerves in the decerebrate dogfish (Scyliorhinus). J. Physiol. 473, 259P.

19. Beaumont, M.W., Butler, P.J. & Taylor, E.W. (1995). Impairment of sustained swimming performance of brown trout (Salmo trutta) exposed to sub-lethal copper in soft acidic water. J. Physiol. 483, 197-198P.

20. Bevan, R.M., Boyd, I.L., Butler, P.J., Reid, K.R. & Woakes, A.J. (1995). Cardiovascular and thermoregulatory adjustments associated with flying and diving in free-ranging blue-eyed shag, Phalacrocorax atriceps. J. Physiol. 483, 193P.

21. Boggs, D.F., Butler, P.J. & Wallace, S.E. 1997. Paddling-induced fluctuations in differential air sac pressure in diving tufted ducks. J. Physiol. 501, 62P-63P.

23. Butler, P.J. & Woakes, A.J. 2000. Seasonal hypothermia in migrating barnacle geese, Branta leucopsis. J. Physiol. 523, 281-282P

24. Beaumont, M.W., Butler, P.J. & Taylor, E.W. 2000. Exposure of brown trout, Salmo trutta, to copper in soft acidic water; elevated ammonia and muscle membrane potential. J. Physiol. 523, 282P

25. Butler, P.J. 2001. Vagal control of heart rate of birds. J. Physiol. 533P.

 

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

1. Butler, P.J. 1981. Breathing. In: The Oxford Companion to Animal Behaviour. Edited by D. McFarland, Oxford University Press, pp. 50-52.

2. Butler, P.J. 1985. Diving birds and mammals. In: Biology Study Guide I Part One. Edited by T. Turvey & C. Wood-Robinson, pp. 99-103. London, Longman Group Limited.

3. Butler, P.J. 1991. Swimming and diving. In: Cambridge Encylopedia of Ornithology. Edited by M. Brooke & T. Birkhead pp. 67-68. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.

4. Butler, P.J. 1993. Diving for a Living. Biol. Sci. Rev., 6, 6-11.

5. Butler, P.J. 1997. Bird migration. In: McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology, pp 49-51












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