Theunis Piersma
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Selected publications

 

Books

Piersma, T. & van Gils, J.A. (2010). The flexible phenotype. Towards a body-centred integration of physiology, ecology and behaviour. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

van de Kam, J., Battley, P.F., McCaffery, B.J., Rogers, D.I., Jae-Sang Hong, Moores, N., Ju-Yong Ki, Lewis, J. & Piersma, T. (2008). Invisible connections. Why migrating shorebirds need the Yellow Sea. Wageningen: Wetlands International.

Piersma, T. (2007). Waarom nonnetjes samen klaarkomen en andere wonderen van het wad. Utrecht: KNNV Uitgeverij. (met strips van Gerrie Hondius)

Drent, R., Tinbergen, J.M., Bakker, J.P. & Piersma, T. (eds.) (2005). Seeking nature's limits. Ecologists in the field. Utrecht: KNNV Publishing.

van de Kam, J., Ens, B.J., Piersma, T. & Zwarts, L. (2004). Shorebirds. An illustrated behavioural ecology. Utrecht: KNNV Publishers.

Rogers, D.I., Piersma, T., Lavaleye, M., Pearson, G.B., de Goeij, P. & van de Kam, J. (2003). Life along land's edge. Wildlife on the shores of Roebuck Bay, Broome. Perth: Department of Conservation and Land Management.

Jukema, J., Piersma, T., Hulscher, J.B., Bunskoeke, E.J., Koolhaas, A. & Veenstra, A. (2001). Golden plovers and wilsternetters: a deeply rooted fascination with migrating birds. Ljouwert/Utrecht: Fryske Akademy/KNNV Uitgeverij.

 

Key journal publications

Piersma, T., Gudmundsson, G.A. & Lilliendahl, K. (1999). Rapid changes in the size of different functional organ and muscle groups during refueling in a long-distance shorebird. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 72, 405-415.

Kvist, A., Lindström, Å., Green, M., Piersma, T. & Visser, G.H. (2001). Carrying large fuel loads during sustained bird flight is cheaper than expected. Nature 413, 730-732.

Klaassen, M., Lindström, Å., Meltofte, H. & Piersma, T. (2001). Arctic waders are not capital breeders. Nature 413, 794.

Piersma, T., Koolhaas, A., Dekinga, A., Beukema, J.J., Dekker, R. & Essink, K. (2001). Long-term indirect effects of mechanical cockle-dredging on intertidal bivalve stocks in the Wadden Sea. Journal of Applied Ecology 38, 976-990.

Piersma, T. (2002). Energetic bottlenecks and other design constraints in avian annual cycles. Integrative and Comparative Biology 42, 51-67.

Piersma, T. & Drent, J. (2003). Phenotypic flexibility and the evolution of organismal design. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 18, 228-233.

Luttikhuizen, P.C., Drent, J., van Delden, W. & Piersma, T. (2003). Spatially structured genetic variation in a broadcast spawning bivalve: quantitative vs. molecular traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 16, 260-272.

van Gils, J. A., Schenk, I. W., Bos, O. & Piersma, T. (2003). Incompletely informed shorebirds that face a digestive bottleneck maximize net energy gain when exploiting patches. American Naturalist 161, 777-793.

van Gils, J.A., Spaans, B., Dekinga, A. & Piersma, T. (2006). Foraging in a tidally structured environment by red knots (Calidris canutus): ideal, but not free. Ecology 87, 1189-1202.

Buehler, D.M. & Piersma, T. (2008) Travelling on a budget: predictions and ecological evidence for bottlenecks in the annual cycle of long-distance migrants. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B 363, 247-266.