Theunis Piersma

Research interests

Publications

• Two sides of a coin: ecological and chronobiological perspectives of timing in the wild

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0246

• Body shrinkage due to Arctic warming reduces red knot fitness in tropical wintering range

  Science · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aad6351

• Simultaneous declines in summer survival of three shorebird species signals a flyway at risk

  Journal of Applied Ecology · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12582

• A supergene determines highly divergent male reproductive morphs in the ruff

  Nature Genetics · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3443

• Rethinking China's new great wall

  Science · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1257258

• The interplay between habitat availability and population differentiation

  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society · 2012

• A Three-Stage Symbiosis Forms the Foundation of Seagrass Ecosystems

  Science · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1219973

• The Flexible Phenotype: A Body-Centred Integration of Ecology, Physiology, and Behaviour

  Journal · 2010

• Extreme endurance flights by landbirds crossing the Pacific Ocean: ecological corridor rather than barrier?

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2008.1142

• Travelling on a budget: predictions and ecological evidence for bottlenecks in the annual cycle of long-distance migrants

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2007.2138

• Rapid population decline in red knots: fitness consequences of decreased refuelling rates and late arrival in Delaware Bay

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2003.2663

• Phenotypic flexibility and the evolution of organismal design

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0169-5347(03)00036-3

• Pay‐offs and penalties of competing migratory schedules

  Oikos · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1034/j.1600-0706.2003.12274.x

• High Levels of Energy Expenditure in Shorebirds; Metabolic Adaptations to an Energetically Expensive Way of Life

  Ardea · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.5253/arde.v75.p175

• Arctic waders are not capital breeders

  Nature · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1038/35101654

• Empirical evidence for differential organ reductions during trans–oceanic bird flight

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2000.0986

• Rapid Changes in the Size of Different Functional Organ and Muscle Groups during Refueling in a Long‐Distance Migrating Shorebird

  Physiological and Biochemical Zoology · 1999 · https://doi.org/10.1086/316680

• Guts Don't Fly: Small Digestive Organs in Obese Bar-Tailed Godwits

  The Auk · 1998 · https://doi.org/10.2307/4089124

• Phenotypic Flexibility during Migration: Optimization of Organ Size Contingent on the Risks and Rewards of Fueling and Flight?

  Journal of Avian Biology · 1998 · https://doi.org/10.2307/3677170

• Do Global Patterns of Habitat Use and Migration Strategies Co-Evolve with Relative Investments in Immunocompetence due to Spatial Variation in Parasite Pressure?

  Oikos · 1997 · https://doi.org/10.2307/3546640

• Rapid reversible changes in organ size as a component of adaptive behaviour

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 1997 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0169-5347(97)01003-3

• Effects of Microhabitat, Flocking, Climate and Migratory Goal on Energy Expenditure in the Annual Cycle of Red Knots

  Ornithological Applications · 1994 · https://doi.org/10.2307/1369313

• Mass changes in migrating birds: the evidence for fat and protein storage re‐examined

  Ibis · 1993 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919x.1993.tb02811.x

• Scale and intensity of intertidal habitat use by knots Calidris canutus in the Western Wadden Sea in relation to food, friends and foes

  Netherlands Journal of Sea Research · 1993 · https://doi.org/10.1016/0077-7579(93)90052-t

• Interactions between Stomach Structure and Diet Choice in Shorebirds

  The Auk · 1993 · https://doi.org/10.2307/4088419

Current projects

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