Dr. Thomas Lameris

Research interests

I am an ecologist with a passion for migratory birds and the Arctic, with a special focus on the Russian Arctic. My main research focus is to study how climate warming impacts fitness of migrants, and whether they are capable to adjust timing decisions in a warming climate. To do so, I study animals and their food using long-term tracking and reproduction data, field experiments and models. I am interested in a wide range of species, including shorebirds (Red Knots, Grey Plovers, Turnstones), geese (Barnacle Geese, Brent Geese) and Arctic migratory birds in general.

Since April 2021 I work as a Veni laureate to find out whether Red Knots can adjust timing of migratory departure from the Wadden Sea, and whether they are limited by available food. I study this using experiments on captive birds in combination with tracking of wild birds.

Also, I am involved in a consortium where we study how climate warming impacts fitness and spatial distributions of a range of Arctic migratory bird species, in order to find out which species are more vulnerable.

Finally, I am still involved in other projects, including studies on the impacts of changing food phenology on chick growth, and on migration timing of Barnacle Geese.

Functions

2021 - current:  Veni-fellow at NIOZ

2018 - 2020:      Postdoctoral researcher at NIOZ (NWO Polar Programme)

2013 - 2018:      PhD-student at NIOO-KNAW / Universiy of Amsterdam (NWO Polar Programme)

Key-publications

Lameris, T. K., van der Jeugd, H. P., Eichhorn, G., Dokter, A. M., Bouten, W., Boom, M. P., … Nolet, B. A. (2018). Arctic Geese Tune Migration to a Warming Climate but Still Suffer from a Phenological Mismatch. Current Biology. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.05.077

Lameris, T. K., Scholten, I., Bauer, S., Cobben, M. M. P., Ens, B. J., & Nolet, B. A. (2017). Potential for an Arctic-breeding migratory bird to adjust spring migration phenology to Arctic amplification. Global Change Biology, 23(10), 4058–4067. doi:10.1111/gcb.13684

Lameris, T. K., Jochems, F., van der Graaf, A. J., Andersson, M., Limpens, J., & Nolet, B. A. (2017). Forage plants of an Arctic-nesting herbivore show larger warming response in breeding than wintering grounds, potentially disrupting migration phenology. Ecology and Evolution, 7(8), 2652–2660. doi:10.1002/ece3.2859

Lameris, T. K., De Jong, M.E., Boom, M.P., van der Jeugd, H.P., Litvin, K.E., Loonen, M.J.J.E., Nolet, B.A., & Prop, J. (2019). Climate warming may affect the optimal timing of reproduction for migratory geese differently in the low and high Arctic. Oecologia, 191(4, 1003-1014. doi:10.1007/s00442-019-04533-7

Lameris, T. K., Dokter, A. M., van der Jeugd, H. P., Bouten, W., Koster, J., Sand, S. H., ... & Nolet, B. A. (2021). Nocturnal foraging lifts time constraints in winter for migratory geese but hardly speeds up fueling. Behavioral Ecology, 32(3), 539-552. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/araa152

Please find my complete list of (NIOZ-)publications at the bottom of this webpage or on Google Scholar

You can download most of my publications on ResearchGate

You can find my PhD-thesis here

Professional education

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