Of the total of 567 titles, 10 refer to books, 257 are journal papers or similarly refereed contributions, 155 are popular and opinion articles and columns, 26 are book reviews and 109 refer to published abstracts, reports, progress notes, discussion notes and edited journal volumes. The references to the books, the refereed papers and the popular articles are listed below.
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NOTE the pdf's of most papers in recent year can be accessed through the publication listing for the entire Animal Ecology Group >Publicationlist
BOOKS
Piersma, T. (2006). Waarom nonnetjes samen klaarkomen en andere wonderen van het wad. Utrecht: KNNV Uitgeverij.
Drent, R., Tinbergen, J.M., Bakker, J.P. & Piersma, T. (eds.)(2005). Seeking nature's limits. Ecologists in the field. Utrecht: KNNV Publishing.
Rogers, D.I., Piersma, T., Lavaleye, M., Pearson, G.P., 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.
van de Kam, J., Ens, B.J., Piersma, T., & Zwarts, L. (2004). Shorebirds.
An illustrated behavioural ecology.
Utrecht: KNNV Publishers.
Jukema, J., Piersma, T., Hulscher, J.B., Bunskoeke, E.J., Koolhaas, A., & Veenstra, A. (2001). Goudplevieren en
wilsterflappers: eeuwenoude fascinatie voor trekvogels
. Ljouwert/Utrecht: Fryske Akademy/KNNV Uitgeverij.
Piersma, T. & van de Kam, J. (2000). Op de vleugels van de wind. Wadvogelverhalen. Abcoude: Uitgeverij Uniepers.
Tinbergen, J.M., Bakker, J.P., Piersma, T., & van den Broek, J.M., Eds. (2000). De onvrije natuur. Verkenningen van natuurlijke grenzen. Utrecht: KNNV Uitgeverij.
van de Kam, J., Ens, B.J., Piersma, T., & Zwarts, L. (1999). Ecologische Atlas van de Nederlandse Wadvogels.
Haarlem: Schuyt & Co.
Piersma, T. (1994). Close to the edge. Energetic bottlenecks and the evolution of migratory pathways in Knots.
Den Burg, Texel: Uitgeverij Het Open Boek.
Altenburg, W., Engelmoer, M., Mes, R., & Piersma, T. (1982).
Wintering waders on the Banc d'Arguin, Mauritania. Report of the Netherlands Ornithological Mauritanian Expedition 1980
. Leiden: Stichting Veth tot steun aan Waddenonderzoek.
Habitat selection, foraging and daily rhythms
Rogers, D. I., Battley, P. F., Piersma, T., van Gils, J. A. & Rogers, K. G. (2006). High-tide habitat choice: modelling roost site selection by shorebirds around a tropical bay. Animal Behaviour
72: 563-575
Rogers, D. I., Piersma, T. & Hassell, C. J. (2006). Roost availability may constrain shorebird distribution: exploring the energetic costs of roosting and disturbance around a tropical bay. Biological Conservation
133: 225-235
Kraan, C., Piersma, T., Dekinga, A. & Fey, B. (2006). New moulting area for shelduck Tadorna tadorna in the western Dutch Wadden Sea offers plenty of mudshrimps Corophium volutator and little disturbance. Limosa
79, 19-24.
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.
Leyrer, J., Spaans, B., Camara, M. & Piersma, T. (2006). Small home ranges and high site fidelity in red knots (Calidris c. canutus) wintering on the Banc d' Arguin, Mauritania. Journal of Ornithology
147, 376-384.
Piersma, T., Gill, R. E. J., de Goeij, P., Dekinga, A., Shepherd, M. L., Ruthrauff, D. & Tibbitts, L. (2006). Shorebird avoidance of nearshore feeding and roosting areas at night correlates with presence of a nocturnal avian predator. Wader Study Group Bulletin
109, 73-76.
Vahl, W. K., van der Meer, J., Weissing, F. J., van Dullemen, D. & Piersma, T. (2005). The mechanisms of interference competition: two experiments on foraging waders. Behavioral Ecology 16, 845-855.
Vahl, W. K., Lok, T., van der Meer, J., Piersma, T. & Weissing, F. J. (2005). Spatial clumping of food and social dominance affect interference competition among ruddy turnstones. Behavioral Ecology
16, 834-844.
van Gils, J. A., Dekinga, A., Spaans, B., Vahl, W. K. & Piersma, T. 2005. Digestive bottleneck affects foraging decisions in red knots Calidris canutus. II. Patch choice and length of working day. Journal of Animal Ecology
74, 120-130.
van Gils, J. A., de Rooij, S. R., van Belle, J., van der Meer, J., Dekinga, A., Piersma, T. & Drent, R. (2005). Digestive bottleneck affects foraging decisions in red knots Calidris canutus. I. Prey choice. Journal of Animal Ecology
74, 105-119.
van Gils, J. A., Battley, P. F., Piersma, T. & Drent, R. (2005). Reinterpretation of gizzard sizes of red knots world-wide emphasises overriding importance of prey quality at migratory stopover sites. Proceedings of the Royal Society B
272, 2609-2618.
van Gils, J. A. & Piersma, T. (2004). Digestively constrained predators evade the cost of interference competition. Journal of Animal Ecology, 73, 386-398.
van Gils, J. A., Edelaar, P., Escudero, G. B.
&
Piersma, T.
(
2004
)
. Carrying capacity models should not use fixed prey density thresholds: a plea for using more tools of behavioural ecology. Oikos
104
,
197-204.
Battley, P. F., Rogers, D. I., Piersma, T.
&
Koolhaas, A.
(
2003
)
. Behavioural evidence for heat-load problems in Great Knots in tropical Australia fuell
ing for long-distance flight.
Emu 103
,
97-103.
Battley, P. F., Poot, M., Wiersma, P., Gordon, C., Ntiamoa-Baidu, Y. & Piersma, T. (2003). Social foraging by waterbirds in shallow coastal lagoons in Ghana. Waterbirds
26: 26-34.
Piersma, T.
(
2003
)
. "Coastal" versus "inland" shorebird species: interlinked fundamental dichotomies between their life- and demographic histories?
Wader Study Group Bulletin
100
,
5-9.
van Gils, J.A., Schenk, I.W., Bos, O., & Piersma, T. (2003).
Incompletely informed shorebirds (Red Knots, Calidris canutus) that face a digestive bottleneck exploit patches the way they should. American Naturalist, 161, 777-793
Piersma, T., Spaans, B., & Dekinga, A. (2002). Are shorebirds sometimes forced to roost on water in thick fog? Wader Study Group Bulletin, 97, 42-44.
Sitters, H.P., Gonzalez, P.M., Piersma, T., Baker, A.J., & Price, D.J. (2001). Day and night feeding habitat of Red Knots in Patagonia: profitability versus safety? Journal of Field Ornithology, 72, 86-95.
van Gils, J. & Piersma, T. (1999). Day- and nighttime movements of radiomarked Red Knots staging in the western Wadden Sea in July-August 1995. Wader Study Group Bulletin, 89, 36-44.
Ntiamoa-Baidu, Y., Piersma, T., Wiersma, P., Poot, M., Battley, P.F., & Gordon, C. (1998). Water depth selection, daily feeding routines and diets of waterbirds in coastal lagoons in Ghana.
Ibis
, 140, 89-103.
Piersma, T., van Aelst, R., Kurk, K., Berkhoudt, H., & Maas, L.R.M. (1998).
A new pressure sensory mechanism for prey detection in birds: the use of principles of seabed dynamics? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 265, 1377-1383.
Gonzalez, P.M., Piersma, T., & Verkuil, Y. (1996). Food, feeding and refuelling of Red Knots during northward migration at San Antonio Oeste, Rio Negro, Argentina.
Journal of Field Ornithology
, 67, 575-591.
Piersma, T., van Gils, J., de Goeij, P., & van der Meer, J. (1995).
Holling's functional response model as a tool to link the food-finding mechanism of a probing shorebird with its spatial distribution. Journal of Animal Ecology, 64, 493-504.
Piersma, T. & Ntiamoa-Baidu, Y. (1995). Waterbird ecology and the management of coastal wetlands in Ghana. Texel: NIOZ.
Piersma, T., Verkuil, Y., & Tulp, I. (1994). Resources for long-distance migration of Knots Calidris canutus islandica and C. c. canutus: how broad is the temporal exploitation window of benthic prey in the western and eastern Wadden Sea. Oikos, 71, 393-407.
Dekinga, A. & Piersma, T. (1993). Reconstructing diet composition on the basis of faeces in a mollusc-eating wader, the Knot Calidris canutus. Bird Study, 40, 144-156.
Koolhaas, A., Dekinga, A., & Piersma, T. (1993). Disturbance of foraging Knots by aircraft in the Dutch Wadden Sea in August-October 1992. Wader Study Group Bulletin, 68, 20-22.
Piersma, T., Hoekstra, R., Dekinga, A., Koolhaas, A., Wolf, P., Battley, P.F., & Wiersma, P. (1993). 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, 31, 331-357.
van Eerden, M.R., Piersma, T., & Lindeboom, R. (1993). Competitive food exploitation of Smelt Osmerus eperlanus by Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus and Perch Perca fluviatilis at Lake IJsselmeer, The Netherlands. Oecologia, 93, 463-474.
Piersma, T. (1991). Red Knots in New Zealand eat molluscs too: preliminary diet observations at Miranda, Firth of Thames and Farewell Spit in November 1990. Stilt, 19, 30-35.
Piersma, T. (1988). Body size, nutrient reserves and diet of Red-necked and Slavonian Grebes Podiceps grisegena and P. auritus on Lake IJsselmeer, The Netherlands.
Bird Study
, 35, 13-24.
Piersma, T., Lindeboom, R., & van Eerden, M.R. (1988).
Foraging rhythm of Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus adjusted to diel variations in the vertical distribution of their prey Osmerus eperlanus in a shallow eutrophic lake in The Netherlands. Oecologia, 76, 481-486.
Piersma, T. & Bloksma, N. (1987). Large flock of Choughs Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax harvesting caterpillars in pinewood on La Palma, Canary Islands. Bird Study, 34, 127-128.
Piersma, T. (1986). Feeding method of Spoon-billed Sandpipers on a mudflat in South Korea. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 83, Suppl. 206-208.
Piersma, T. (1986). Foraging behaviour of Terek Sandpipers Xenus cinereus feeding Sand-bubbling Crabs Scopimera globosa. Journal für Ornithologie, 127, 475-486.
Piersma, T. (1986). Eastern Curlews Numenius madagascariensis feeding on Macrophthalmus and other ocypodid crabs in the Nakdong Estuary, South Korea. Emu, 86, 155-160.
Piersma, T. (1985). Foot-vibration and crouching in foraging Mongolian Plovers and a "crocodile posture" in Grey-tailed Tattlers. Stilt, 6, 29-30.
Piersma, T. (1985). Dispersion during foraging, and prey choice, of waders in the Nakdong Estuary, South Korea. Wader Study Group Bulletin, 45, 32-33.
Kersten, M. & Piersma, T. (1984). Prey choice and food intake of Grey Plovers Pluvialis squatarola in the Wadden Sea during spring and autumn migration. Limosa, 57, 105-111.
Piersma, T. (1983). Communal roosting of Black-tailed Godwits Limosa limosa on the Mokkebank. Limosa, 56, 1-8.
Piersma, T. (1980). Lepelaars op de Mokkebank. Vanellus, 33, 54-57.
Energetics
Mendes, L., Piersma, T. & Hasselquist, D. (2006). Two estimates of the metabolic costs of antibody production in migratory shorebirds: low costs, internal reallocation, or both? Journal of Ornithology
147, 274-300.
Piersma, T., Rogers, D. I., Gonzalez, P. M., Zwarts, L., Niles, L. J., de Lima S.do Nascimento, I., Minton, C. D. T. & Baker, A. J. (2005). Fuel storage rates before northward flights in red knots worldwide: facing the severest ecological constraint in tropical intertidal environments? In: Greenberg, R. and Marra, P. P. (eds.), Birds of two worlds: ecology and evolution of migration. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 262-273.
Piersma, T., Gessaman, J. A., Dekinga, A. & Visser, G. H. (2004). Gizzard and other lean components increase, yet Basal Metabolic Rates decrease, when red knots Calidris canutus are shifted from soft to hard-shelled food. Journal of Avian Biology
35, 99-104.
Piersma, T., Dekinga, A., van Gils, J. A., Achterkamp, B. & Visser, G. H. (2003). Cost-benefit analysis of mollusc-eating in a shorebird. I. Foraging and processing costs estimated by the doubly labelled water method. Journal of Experimental Biology
206, 3361-3368.
Piersma, T., Lindström, Å., Drent, R., Tulp, I., Jukema, J., Morrison, R. I. G., Reneerkens, J., Schekkerman, H. & Visser, G. H. (2003). High daily energy expenditure of incubating shorebirds on High Arctic tundra: a circumpolar study. Functional Ecology
17, 356-362.
van Gils, J. A., Piersma, T., Dekinga, A. & Dietz, M. W. (2003). Cost-benefit analysis of mollusc-eating in a shorebird. II. Optimizing gizzard size in the face of seasonal demands. Journal of Experimental Biology
206, 3369-3380.
Battley, P.F., Dekinga, A., Dietz, M.W., Piersma, T., Tang, S., & Hulsman, K. (2001). Basal metabolic rate declines during long-distance migratory flight in Great Knots. Condor, 103, 838-845.
Klaassen, M., Lindström, Å., Meltofte, H., & Piersma, T. (2001). Arctic waders are not capital breeders.
Nature
, 413, 794
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.
Bruinzeel, L.W., Piersma, T., & Kersten, M. (1999). Low costs of terrestrial locomotion in waders. Ardea, 87, 199-205.
Bruinzeel, L.W. & Piersma, T. (1998). Cost reduction in the cold: heat generated by terrestrial locomotion partly substitutes for thermoregulation costs in Knot Calidris canutus.
Ibis
, 140, 323-328.
Kersten, M., Bruinzeel, L.W., Wiersma, P., & Piersma, T. (1998).
Reduced basal metabolic rate of migratory waders wintering in coastal Africa. Ardea, 86, 71-80.
Morrison, R.I.G., Davidson, N.C., & Piersma, T. (1997). Daily energy expenditure and water turnover of shorebirds at Alert, Ellesmere Island, N.W.T. Progress Notes Canadian Wildlife Service, 211, 1-8.
Piersma, T., Hedenström, A., & Bruggemann, J.H. (1997).
Climb and flight speeds of shorebirds embarking on an intercontinental flight; do they achieve the predicted optimal behaviour? Ibis, 139, 299-304.
Piersma, T. (1996). Energetic constraints on the non-breeding distribution of coastal shorebirds. International Wader Studies, 8, 122-135.
Verboven, N. & Piersma, T. (1995). Is the evaporative water loss of Knot Calidris canutus higher in tropical than in temperate climates? Ibis, 137, 308-316.
Wiersma, P., Piersma, T., & van Eerden, M.R. (1995). Food intake of Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus wintering on cold water as a function of various cost factors. Ardea, 83, 339-350.
Piersma, T. (1994). Close to the edge. Energetic bottlenecks and the evolution of migratory pathways in Knots.
Den Burg, Texel: Uitgeverij Het Open Boek.
Piersma, T. & Morrison, R.I.G. (1994).
Energy expenditure and water turnover of incubating Ruddy Turnstones: high costs under high arctic climatic conditions. Auk, 111, 366-376.
Wiersma, P. & Piersma, T. (1994). Effects of microhabitat, flocking, climate and migratory goal on energy expenditure in the annual cycle of Red Knots. Condor, 96, 257-279.
Wiersma, P., Bruinzeel, L.W., & Piersma, T. (1993). Energy savings in waders: studies on the insulation of Knots. Limosa, 66, 41-52.
Piersma, T. & van de Sant, S. (1992). Pattern and predictability of potential wind assistance for waders and geese migrating from West Africa and the Wadden Sea to Siberia. Ornis Svecica, 2, 55-66.
Piersma, T., Drent, R., & Wiersma, P. (1991). Temperate versus tropical wintering in the world's northernmost breeder, the Knot: metabolic scope and resource levels restrict subspecific options. Acta XX Congressus Internationalis Ornithologici (Christchurch), II, 761-772.
Drent, R. & Piersma, T. (1990). An exploration of the energetics of leap-frog migration in arctic breeding waders. In E. Gwinner (Ed.), Bird migration: physiology and ecophysiology (pp. 399-412). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Kersten, M. & Piersma, T. (1987). High levels of energy expenditure in shorebirds; metabolic adaptations to an energetically expensive way of life. Ardea, 75, 175-187.
Phenotypic flexibility and body composition
Dietz, M. W., Piersma, T., Hedenstrom, A. & Brugge, M. (2006). Intraspecific variation in pectoral muscle mass: maintaining maneouvrability with increasing body mass. Functional Ecology
xx, in press.
van den Hout, P. J., Piersma, T., Dekinga, A., Lubbe, S. K. & Visser, G. H. (2006). Ruddy turnstones rapidly build pectoral muscles after a raptor scare. Journal of Avian Biology
37: 425-430
van Gils, J. A., Piersma, T., Dekinga, A. and Battley, P. F. 2006. Modelling phenotypic flexibility: an optimality analysis of gizzard size in red knots (Calidris canutus). Ardea
94: 409-420
Vézina, F., Jalvingh, K. M., Dekinga, A. & Piersma, T. (2006). Acclimation to different thermal conditions in a northerly wintering shorebird is driven by body mass-related changes in organ size. Journal of Experimental Biology
209: 3141-3154
Kerstel, E. R. T., Piersma, T., Gessaman, J. A., Dekinga, A., Meijer, H. A. J. & Visser, G. H. (2006). Assessment of the amount of body water in the red knot (Calidris canutus): an evaluation of the principle of isotope dilution with 2H, 17O, and 18O as measured with laser spectrometry and isotope ratio mass spectrometry. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies 42, 1-7.
Battley, P. F. & Piersma, T. (2005). Body composition and flight ranges of bar-tailed godwits (Limosa lapponica baueri) from New Zealand. Auk
122, 922-937.
Battley, P. F. & Piersma, T. (2005). Adaptive interplay between feeding ecology and features of the digestive tract in birds. In: Starck, J. M. and Wang, T. (eds.), Physiological and ecological adaptations to feeding in vertebrates. USA: Science Publishers, pp. 201-228.
Morrison, R. I. G., Davidson, N. C. & Piersma, T. (2005). Transformations at high latitudes: why do red knots bring body stores to the breeding grounds? Condor
107, 449-457.
Komdeur, J., Richardson, D. S., Piersma, T., Kraaijeveld, K. & Kraaijeveld-Smit, F. (2004). Why Seychelles warblers fail to recolonize nearby islands: unable or unwilling to fly there? Ibis
146, 298-302.
Landys-Ciannelli, M. M., Piersma, T. & Jukema, J. (2003). Strategic size changes of internal organs and muscle tissue in the bar-tailed godwit during fat storage on a spring stopover site. Functional Ecology
17, 151-179.
Piersma, T. & Drent, J. (2003). Phenotypic flexibility and the evolution of organismal design. Trends in Ecology and Evolution
18, 228-233.
Piersma, T. & Jukema, J. (2002). Contrast in adaptive mass gains: Eurasian Golden Plovers store fat before midwinter and protein before prebreeding flight. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 269, 1101-1105.
Dekinga, A., Dietz, M.W., Koolhaas, A., & Piersma, T. (2001). Time course and reversibility of changes in the gizzards of Red Knots alternately eating hard and soft food. Journal of Experimental Biology, 204, 2167-2173.
Starck, J.M., Dietz, M.W., & Piersma, T. (2001). The assessment of body composition and other parameters by ultrasound scanning. In J.R. Speakman (Ed.), Body composition analysis of animals. A handbook of non-destructive methods (pp. 188-210). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Battley, P.F., Piersma, T., Dietz, M.W., Tang, S., Dekinga, A., & Hulsman, K. (2000). Empirical evidence for differential organ reductions during trans-oceanic bird flight. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 267, 191-196.
Lindström, Å., Kvist, A., Piersma, T., Dekinga, A., & Dietz, M.W. (2000). Avian pectoral muscle size rapidly tracks body mass changes during flight, fasting and fuelling. Journal of Experimental Biology, 203, 913-919.
Dietz, M.W., Dekinga, A., Piersma, T., & Verhulst, S. (1999). Estimating organ size in small migrating shorebirds with ultrasonography: an intercalibration exercise. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 72, 28-37.
Dietz, M.W., Piersma, T., & Dekinga, A. (1999). Body-building without power training: endogenously regulated pectoral muscle hypertrophy in confined shorebirds. Journal of Experimental Biology, 202, 2831-2837.
Piersma, T. & Klaassen, M. (1999). Methods of studying the functional ecology of protein and organ dynamics in birds. In N.J. Adams & R.H. Slotow (Eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd International Ornithological Congress, Durban (pp. 36-51). Johannesburg: BirdLife South Africa.
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 migrating shorebird. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 72, 405-415.
Piersma, T., Dietz, M.W., Dekinga, A., Nebel, S., van Gils, J., Battley, P.F., & Spaans, B. (1999). Reversible size-changes in stomachs of shorebirds: when, to what extent, and why? Acta ornithologica, 34, 175-181.
Piersma, T. (1998). Phenotypic flexibility during migration: optimization of organ size contingent on the risks and rewards of fueling and flight? Journal of Avian Biology, 29, 511-520.
Piersma, T. & Gill, R.E., Jr (1998). Guts don't fly: small digestive organs in obese Bar-tailed Godwits. Auk, 115, 196-203.
Summers, R.W., Piersma, T., Strann, K.-B., & Wiersma, P. (1998). How do Purple Sandpipers Calidris maritima survive the winter north of the arctic circle? Ardea, 86, 51-58.
Battley, P.F. & Piersma, T. (1997). Body composition of Lesser Knots (Calidris canutus rogersi) preparing to take off on migration from northern New Zealand. Notornis, 44, 137-150.
Dietz, M.W., Dekinga, A., & Piersma, T. (1997). Ultrasonic measurement of organ size in small birds to study physiological correlates: basal metabolic rate and thermogenic capacity. In B.D. Johannsen & R. Nielsen (Eds.), Thermal physiology 1997. Proceedings from the 1997 Symposium on Thermal Physiology (pp. 405-408). Copenhagen: The August Krogh Institute.
Piersma, T. & Lindström, Å. (1997). Rapid reversible changes in organ size as a component of adaptive behaviour. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 12, 134-138.
Camphuysen, C.J., Piersma, T., & Gronert, A. (1996). (Unusual mortality among Turnstones in Noord-Holland, September 1995).
Sula
, 10, 89-94.
Piersma, T., Bruinzeel, L.W., Drent, R., Kersten, M., van der Meer, J., & Wiersma, P. (1996).
Variability in basal metabolic rate of a long-distance migrant shorebird (Red Knot, Calidris canutus) reflects shifts in organ sizes. Physiological Zoology, 69, 191-217.
Piersma, T., Gudmundsson, G.A., Davidson, N.C., & Morrison, R.I.G. (1996). Do arctic-breeding Red Knots (Calidris canutus) accumulate skeletal calcium before egg laying? Canadian Journal of Zoology, 74, 2257-2261.
Wiersma, P. & Piersma, T. (1995). Scoring abdominal profiles to characterize migratory cohorts of shorebirds: an example with Red Knots. Journal of Field Ornithology, 66, 88-98.
van der Meer, J. & Piersma, T. (1994). Physiologically inspired regression models for estimating and predicting nutrient stores and their composition in birds. Physiological Zoology, 67, 305-329.
Lindström, Å. & Piersma, T. (1993). Mass changes in migrating birds: the evidence for fat and protein storage re-examined. Ibis, 135, 70-78.
Piersma, T., Koolhaas, A., & Dekinga, A. (1993). Interactions between stomach structure and diet choice in shorebirds. Auk, 110, 552-564.
Summers, R.W., Underhill, L.G., Nicoll, M., Rae, R., & Piersma, T. (1992). Seasonal, size- and age-related patterns in body mass and composition of Purple Sandpipers Calidris maritima in Britain. Ibis, 134, 346-354.
Piersma, T. & Barter, M. (1991). Wader catching casualties for body condition analyses: rationale and first results for Great Knots. Stilt, 19, 36-38.
Piersma, T. & Davidson, N.C. (1991). Confusions of size and mass. Auk, 108, 441-443.
Piersma, T. & van Brederode, N.E. (1990). The estimation of fat reserves in coastal waders before their departure from northwest Africa in spring. Ardea, 78, 221-236.
Piersma, T. & Jukema, J. (1990). Budgeting the flight of a long-distance migrant: changes in nutrient reserve levels of Bar-tailed Godwits at successive spring staging sites. Ardea, 78, 315-337.
Piersma, T. (1990). Pre-migratory "fattening" usually involves more than the deposition of fat alone.
Ringing & Migration
, 11, 113-115.
Zwarts, L., Ens, B.J., Kersten, M., & Piersma, T. (1990).
Moult, mass and flight range of waders ready to take off for long-distance migrations. Ardea, 78, 339-364.
Piersma, T. (1988). Breast muscle atrophy and constraints on foraging during the flightless period of wing moulting Great Crested Grebes. Ardea, 76, 96-106.
Piersma, T. (1984). Estimating energy reserves of Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus on the basis of body dimensions. Ardea, 72, 119-126.
Piersma, T., Davidson, N.C., & Evans, P.R. (1984). Estimation of protein reserves of waders: the use and misuse of Standard Muscle Volume. Wader Study Group Bulletin, 42, 19-22.
Hormones and metabolic physiology
Landys, M. M., Piersma, T., Guglielmo, C. G., Jukema, J., Ramenofsky, M. & Wingfield, J. C. (2005). Metabolic profile of long-distance migratory flight and stopover in a shorebird. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B
272, 295-302.
Landys, M. M., Piersma, T., Ramenofsky, M. & Wingfield, J. C. (2004). Role of the low-affinity glucocorticoid receptor in the regulation of behavior and energy metabolism in the migratory red knot Calidris canutus islandica. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology
77, 658-668.
Landys-Ciannelli, M. M., Jukema, J. & Piersma, T. (2002). Blood parameter changes during stopover in a long-distance migratory shorebird, the bar-tailed godwit Limosa lapponica taymyrensis. Journal of Avian Biology
33, 451-455.
Jenni-Eiermann, S., Jenni, L., & Piersma, T. (2002). Temporal uncoupling of thyroid hormones in Red Knots: T3 peaks in cold weather, T4 during moult. Journal für Ornithologie, 143, 331-340
Jenni-Eiermann, S., Jenni, L., Kvist, A., Lindström, Å., Piersma, T., & Visser, G.H. (2002). Fuel use and metabolic response to endurance exercise: a wind tunnel study of a long-distance migrant shorebird. Journal of Experimental Biology, 205, 2453-2460.
Jenni-Eiermann, S., Jenni, L., & Piersma, T. (2002). Plasma metabolites reflect seasonally changing metabolic processes in a long-distance migrant shorebird (Calidris canutus). Zoology, 105, in press
Landys-Ciannelli, M.M., Ramenofsky, M., Piersma, T., Jukema, J., Castricum Ringing Group, & Wingfield, J.C. (2002). Baseline and stress-induced plasma corticosterone during long-distance migration in the Bar-tailed Godwit, Limosa lapponica. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 75, 101-110.
Reneerkens, J., Piersma, T., & Ramenofsky, M. (2002). An experimental test of the relationship between temporal variability of feeding opportunities and baseline levels of corticosterone in a shorebird. Journal of Experimental Zoology, 293, 81-88.
Reneerkens, J., Morrison, R.I.G., Ramenofsky, M., Piersma, T., & Wingfield, J.C. (2002). Baseline and stress-induced levels of corticosterone during different life cycle substages in a shorebird on the High Arctic breeding grounds. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 75, 200-208.
Schwilch, R., Piersma, T., Holmgren, N., & Jenni, L. (2002). Do migratory birds need a nap after a long non-stop flight? Ardea, 90, 149-154.
Battley, P.F., Dietz, M.W., Piersma, T., Dekinga, A., Tang, S., & Hulsman, K. (2001). Is long-distance bird flight equivalent to a high-energy fast? Body composition changes in freely migrating and captive fasting great knots. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 74, 435-449.
Guglielmo, C.G., Piersma, T., & Williams, T.D. (2001). A sport-physiological perspective on bird migration: evidence for flight-induced muscle damage. Journal of Experimental Biology, 204, 2683-2690.
Dekker, M.H.A., Piersma, T., & Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2000). Molecular analysis of intact preen waxes of Calidris canutus (Aves: Scolopacidae) by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. Lipids, 35, 533-541.
Landys, M.M., Piersma, T., Visser, G.H., Jukema, J., & Wijker, A. (2000). Water balance during real and simulated long-distance migratory flight in the Bar-tailed Godwit. Condor, 102, 645-652.
Piersma, T., Koolhaas, A., Dekinga, A., & Gwinner, E. (2000). Red blood cell and white blood cell counts in sandpipers (Philomachus pugnax, Calidris canutus): effects of captivity, season, nutritional status, and frequent bleedings. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 78, 1349-1355.
Piersma, T., Reneerkens, J., & Ramenofsky, M. (2000). Baseline corticosterone peaks in shorebirds with maximal energy stores for migration: a general preparatory mechanism for rapid behavioral and metabolic transitions? General and Comparative Endocrinology, 120, 118-126.
Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., Dekker, M.H.A., van Dongen, B.E., Schouten, S., & Piersma, T. (2000). Structural identification of the diester preen-gland waxes of the Red Knot (Calidris canutus). Journal of Natural Products, 63, 381-384.
Visser, G.H., Dekinga, A., Achterkamp, B., & Piersma, T. (2000). Ingested water equilibrates isotopically with the body water pool of a shorebird with unrivaled water fluxes. AmericanJournal ofPhysiologyRegulatory Integrative Comparative Physiology, 279, R1795-R1804.
Piersma, T. & Ramenofsky, M. (1998). Long-term decreases of corticosterone in captive migrant shorebirds that maintain seasonal mass and moult cycles. Journal of Avian Biology, 29, 97-104.
Piersma, T., Everaarts, J.M., & Jukema, J. (1996). Build-up of red blood cells in refuelling Bar-tailed Godwits in relation to individual migratory quality. Condor, 98, 363-370.
Weber, T.P. & Piersma, T. (1996). Basal metabolic rate and the mass of tissues differing in metabolic scope: migration-related covariation between individual Knots Calidris canutus. Journal of Avian Biology, 27, 215-224.
Ramenofsky, M., Piersma, T., & Jukema, J. (1995). Plasma corticosterone in Bar-tailed Godwits at a major stop-over site during spring migration. Condor, 97, 580-585.
Piersma, T. & Poot, M. (1993). Where waders may parallel penguins: spontaneous increase in locomotor activity triggered by fat depletion in a voluntarily fasting Knot. Ardea, 81, 1-8.
Annual cycle phenomena and moult
Buehler, D. M. & Piersma, T. (2006). 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
xx, in press.
Helm, B., Piersma, T. & van der Jeugd, H. P. (2006). Sociable schedules: the role of behavioural negotiation in fine-tuning avian seasonal activities. Animal Behaviour
72: 245-262.
Battley, P. F., Rogers, D. I., van Gils, J. A., Piersma, T., Hassell, C. J., Boyle, A. & Hong-Yan, Y. (2005). How do red knots Calidris canutus leave Northwest Australia in May and reach the breeding grounds in June? Predictions of stopover times, fuelling rates and prey quality in the Yellow Sea. Journal of Avian Biology
36, 494-500.
Bauchinger, U., Both, C. & Piersma, T. (2005). Are there specific adaptations for long-distance migration in birds? The search for adaptive syndromes. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
1046, 214-215.
Piersma, T., Perez-Tris, J., Mouritsen, H., Bauchinger, U. & Bairlein, F. (2005). Is there a "migratory syndrome" common to all migrant birds? Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
1046, 282-293.
Both, C., Piersma, T. & Roodbergen, S. P. (2005). Climatic change explains much of the 20th century advance in laying date of Northern lapwing Vanellus vanellus in The Netherlands. Ardea
93, 79-88.
Battley, P. F., Piersma, T., Dekinga, A., Rogers, D. I., Spaans, B. & van Gils, J. A. (2004). Do body composition and plumage during fuelling predict northward departure dates of great knots (Calidris tenuirostris) from north-west Australia? Ibis
146, 46-60.
Piersma, T. (2004). Understanding evolution of plumages and other cyclic avian life-history phenomena: role for an improved molt terminology. Condor
106, 196-198.
Drent, R., Both, C., Green, M., Madsen, J. & Piersma, T. (2003). Pay-offs and penalties of competing migratory schedules. Oikos
103, 274-292.
Piersma, T., Koolhaas, A. & Jukema, J. (2003). Seasonal body mass changes in Eurasian Golden Plovers Pluvialis apricaria staging in The Netherlands: decline in late autumn mass peak correlates with increase in raptor numbers. Ibis
145, 565-571.
Piersma, T. (2002). Energetic bottlenecks and other design constraints in avian annual cycles. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 42, 51-67.
Piersma, T. (2002). When a year takes 18 months: evidence for a strong circannual clock in a shorebird. Naturwissenschaften, 89, 278-279.
Piersma, T. & Lindström, Å. (2002). Fine-tuned travel planning for hazardous journeys.
Journal of Avian Biology
, 33, 3-4.
Lindström, Å., Klaassen, M., Piersma, T., Holmgren, N., & Wennerberg, L. (2002).
Fuel stores of juvenile waders on autumn migration in high arctic Canada. Ardea, 90, 93-101.
Reneerkens, J., Piersma, T., & Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2002). Sandpipers (Scolopacidae) switch from mono- to diester preen waxes during courtship and incubation, but why? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 269, in press
Jukema, J. & Piersma, T. (2000). Contour feather moult of Ruffs Philomachus pugnax during northward migration, with notes on homology of nuptial plumages in scolopacid waders.
Ibis
, 142, 289-296.
Nebel, S., Piersma, T., van Gils, J., Dekinga, A., & Spaans, B. (2000).
Length of stopover, fuel storage and a sex-bias in the occurrence of Red Knots Calidris c. canutus and C. c. islandica in the Wadden Sea during southward migration. Ardea, 88, 165-176.
Cadée, N., Piersma, T., & Daan, S. (1996). Endogenous circannual rhythmicity in a non-passerine migrant, the Knot Calidris canutus.
Ardea
, 84, 75-84.
Zwarts, L., Hulscher, J.B., Koopman, K., Piersma, T., & Zegers, P.M. (1996).
Seasonal and annual variation in body weight, nutrient stores and mortality of Oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus. Ardea, 84A, 327-356.
Piersma, T., Cadée, N., & Daan, S. (1995). Seasonality in basal metabolic rate and thermal conductance in a long-distance migrant shorebird, the Knot (Calidris canutus). Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 165, 37-45.
Piersma, T. & Davidson, N.C. (1992). The migrations and annual cycles of five subspecies of Knots in perspective. Wader Study Group Bulletin, 64, Suppl. 187-197.
Piersma, T., Klaassen, M., Bruggemann, J.H., Blomert, A.-M., Gueye, A., Ntiamoa-Baidu, Y., & van Brederode, N.E. (1990). Seasonal timing of the spring departure of waders from the Banc d'Arguin, Mauritania. Ardea, 78, 123-134.
Piersma, T. (1988). The annual moult cycle of Great Crested Grebes. Ardea, 76, 82-95.
Piersma, T. (1988). Morphological variation in a European population of Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus in relation to age, sex and season. Journal fur Ornithologie, 129, 299-316.
Jukema, J. & Piersma, T. (1987). Special moult of breast and belly feathers during breeding in Golden Plovers Pluvialis apricaria. Ornis Scandinavica, 18, 157-162.
Piersma, T. (1987). Population turnover in groups of wing-moulting waterbirds: the use of a natural marker in Great Crested Grebes. Wildfowl, 38, 37-45.
Piersma, T., Vlug, J.J., & Westhof, J.H.P. (1986).
Twintig jaar ruiende Futen Podiceps cristatus bij de Mokkebank, 1966-1985.
Vanellus
, 39, 27-37.
Piersma, T. (1984). Growth bars in the wings of a Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus? Limosa, 57, 112-113.
Shorebirds and shorebird flyway studies
Buehler, D. M., Baker, A. J. & Piersma, T. (2006). Reconstructing palaeoflyways of the late Pleistocene and early Holocene red knot (Calidris canutus). Ardea
94: 485-498
Green, M. & Piersma, T. (2006). It pays to be choosy: waders migrating from Europe to Siberia fly on days with favourable winds and make considerable savings on travel costs. Ibis
xx, in press.
Piersma, T., Meltofte, H., Jukema, J., Reneerkens, J., de Goeij, P. & Ekster, W. (2006). A single-year comparison of two methods of censusing breeding red knot and sanderling in High Arctic Greenland. Wader Study Group Bulletin
109, 83-87.
Gill, R. E. J., Piersma, T., Hufford, G., Servranckx, R. & Riegen, A. (2005). Crossing the ultimate ecological barrier: evidence for an 11 000-km-long nonstop flight from Alaska to New Zealand and eastern Australia by bar-tailed godwits. Condor
107, 1-20.
Robinson, R. A., Clark, N. A., Lanctot, R., Nebel, S., Harrington, B., Clark, J. A., Gill, J. A., Meltofte, H., Rogers, D. I., Rogers, K. G., Ens, B. J., Reynolds, C. M., Ward, R. M., Piersma, T. & Atkinson, P. W. (2005). Long term demographic monitoring of wader populations in non-breeding areas. Wader Study Group Bulletin
106, 17-29.
Jukema, J. & Piersma, T. (2004). Were slender-billed curlews Numenius tenuirostris once common in The Netherlands, and do they have patches of powder feathers? Ibis
146, 165-167.
Piersma, T. & Lindström, Å. (2004). Migrating shorebirds as integrative sentinels of global environmental change. Ibis
146, S61-S69.
Piersma, T. (2003). Wandernde Kustenvogel im Wattenmeer als Indikatoren globaler Umweltfaktoren. In: Lozan, J. L., Rachor, E., Reise, K., Sundermann, J. and von Westernhagen, H. (eds.), Warnsignale aus Nordsee & Wattenmeer - Eine aktuelle Umweltbilanz. Hamburg: Wissenschaftliche Auswertungen, pp. 176-181.
Green, M., Piersma, T., Jukema, J., de Goeij, P., Spaans, B., & van Gils, J. (2002).
Radio-telemetry observations of the first 650 km of the migration of Bar-tailed Godwits Limosa lapponica from the Wadden Sea to the Russian Arctic. Ardea, 90, 71-80.
Jukema, J. & Piersma, T. (2002). Occurrence of Pacific Golden Plovers in The Netherlands; historical perspectives from the "wilsternetters". Waterbirds, 25, 93-99.
Boyd, H. & Piersma, T. (2001). Why do few Afro-Siberian Knots Calidris canutus canutus now visit Britain? Bird Study, 48, 147-158.
Jukema, J., Wymenga, E., & Piersma, T. (2001). Stopping over in SW Friesland: fattening and moulting in Ruffs Philomachus pugnax during northward migration in The Netherlands. Limosa, 74, 17-26.
Prummel, W. & Piersma, T. (2000). Sandpipers as grave gifts in the early Middle Ages. Wader Study Group Bulletin, 92, 38-41.
Baker, A.J., Gonzalez, P.M., Piersma, T., Minton, C.D.T., Wilson, J.R., Sitters, H.P., Graham, D., Jessop, R., Collins, P., de Goeij, P., Peck, M., Lini, R., Bala, L., Pagnoni, G., Vila, A., Bremer, E., Bastida, R., Ieno, E., Blanco, D., de Lima S. do Nascimento, I., Scherer, S.S., Schneider, M.P., Silva, A., & Rodriguez, A.A.F. (1999). Northbound migration of Red Knots Calidris canutus rufa in Argentina and Brazil: report on results obtained by an international expedition in March-April 1997. Wader Study Group Bulletin, 88, 64-75.
Piersma, T., Wiersma, P., & van Gils, J. (1997). The many unknowns about plovers and sandpipers of the world: introduction to a wealth of research opportunities highly relevant for shorebird conservation. Wader Study Group Bulletin, 82, 23-33.
Baker, A.J., Manriquez, R.E., Benegas, L.G., Blanco, D.E., Borowik, O., Ferrando, E., de Goeij, P., Gonzalez, P.M., Gonzalez, J., Minton, C.D.T., Peck, M., Piersma, T., & Ramirez, M.S. (1996). Red Knots Calidris canutus at their farthest south: an international expedition to Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, in February 1995. Wader Study Group Bulletin, 79, 103-108.
Minton, C.D.T., Piersma, T., Blanco, D.E., Baker, A.J., Benegas, L.G., de Goeij, P., Manriquez, R.E., Peck, M., & Ramirez, M.S. (1996). Wader numbers and the use of high tide roosts at the Hemispheric Reserve "Costa Atlantica de Tierro del Fuego", Argentina -January and February 1995. Wader Study Group Bulletin, 79, 109-114.
Piersma, T., van Gils, J., & Wiersma, P. (1996). Family Scolopacidae (sandpipers, snipes and phalaropes). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, & J. Sargatal (Eds.), Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 3. Hoatzin to Auks (pp. 444-533). Barcelona: Lynx Edicions.
Piersma, T. & Wiersma, P. (1996). Family Charadriidae (plovers). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, & J. Sargatal (Eds.), Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 3. Hoatzin to Auks (pp. 384-442). Barcelona: Lynx Edicions.
Jukema, J., Piersma, T., Louwsma, L., Monkel, C., Rijpma, U., Visser, K., & van der Zee, D. (1995). (Moult and mass changes of northward migrating Ruffs in Friesland, March-April 1993 and 1994). Vanellus, 48, 55-61.
Piersma, T. (1995). Morph and sex composition of Ruffs on Russian tundra in June 1994: are satellite males more prone to migrate northwards than resident males? Wader Study Group Bulletin, 78, 31-32.
Baker, A.J., Piersma, T., & Rosenmeier, L. (1994). Unraveling the intraspecific phylogeography of Knots Calidris canutus: a progress report on the search for genetic markers.
Journal für Ornithologie
, 135, 599-608.
Ens, B.J., Piersma, T., & Drent, R. (1994).
The dependence of waders and waterfowl migrating along the East Atlantic Flyway on their coastal food supplies: what is the most profitable research programme? Ophelia, Suppl. 6, 127-151.
Davidson, N.C. & Piersma, T. (1992). The migration of Knots: conservation needs and implications. Wader Study Group Bulletin, 64, Suppl. 198-209.
Jukema, J. & Piersma, T. (1992). Golden Plovers Pluvialis apricaria do not show sexual dimorphy in external and internal linear dimensions. Limosa, 65, 147-154.
Piersma, T., Prokosch, P., & Bredin, D. (1992). The migration system of Afro-siberian Knots Calidris canutus canutus. Wader Study Group Bulletin, 64, Suppl. 52-63.
Ens, B.J., Piersma, T., Wolff, W.J., & Zwarts, L. (1990). Homeward bound: problems waders face when migrating from the Banc d'Arguin, Mauritania, to their northern breeding grounds in spring. Ardea, 78, 1-16.
Zwarts, L. & Piersma, T. (1990). How important is the Banc d'Arguin, Mauritania, as a temporary staging area for waders in spring? Ardea, 78, 113-121.
Smit, C.J. & Piersma, T. (1989). Numbers, midwinter distribution, and migration of wader populations using the East Atlantic flyway. In H. Boyd & J.-Y. Pirot (Eds.), Flyways and reserve networks for water birds (pp. 24-63).
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van Dijk, A.J., van Dijk, G., Piersma, T., & SOVON (1989). Weidevogelpopulaties in Nederland: de jongste aantalsschattingen in internationaal perspectief.
Vogeljaar
, 37, 60-68.
Dick, W.J.A., Piersma, T., & Prokosch, P. (1987). Spring migration of the Siberian Knots Calidris canutus canutus: results of a co-operative Wader Study Group project. Ornis Scandinavica, 18, 5-16.
Nogales, M., Piersma, T., & Bloksma, N. (1987). First records of Night Herons (Nycticorax nycticorax) on the island of El Hierro, Canary Islands. Malimbus, 9, 59
Piersma, T., Beintema, A.J., Davidson, N.C., OAG Münster, & Pienkowski, M.W. (1987). Wader migration systems in the East Atlantic. Wader Study Group Bulletin, 49, Suppl. 35-56.
Piersma, T. (1987). Hop, skip or jump? Constraints on migration of arctic waders by feeding, fattening, and flight speed. Limosa, 60, 185-194.
Piersma, T. (1986). Breeding waders in Europe: a review of population size estimates and a bibliography of information sources. Wader Study Group Bulletin, 48, Suppl. 1-116.
Piersma, T. (1986). Coastal waders on three Canary Islands in March-April 1986. Wader Study Group Bulletin, 48, 19-20.
Piersma, T. (1985). Abundance of waders in the Nakdong Estuary, South Korea, in September 1984. Wader Study Group Bulletin, 44, 21-26.
Engelmoer, M., Piersma, T., Altenburg, W., & Mes, R. (1984). The Banc d'Arguin (Mauritania). In P.R. Evans, J.D. Goss-Custard, & W.G. Hale (Eds.), Coastal waders and wildfowl in winter (pp. 293-310).
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Altenburg, W., Engelmoer, M., Mes, R., & Piersma, T. (1983). Recensement des limicoles et autres oiseaux aquatiques au Banc d'Arguin, Mauritanie.
Gerfaut
, 73, 243-264.
Piersma, T., Engelmoer, M., Altenburg, W., & Mes, R. (1980). Wad- en watervogels op de Banc d'Arguin (Mauritanie).
Watervogels
, 5, 180-185.
Invertebrates and benthic communities
Honkoop, P. J. C., Pearson, G. B., Lavaleye, M. S. S. & Piersma, T. (2006). Spatial variation of the intertidal sediments and macro-zoobenthic assemblages along
Eighty-mile
Beach
, North-western
Australia
. Journal of Sea Research
55, 278-291.
Bakker, J. P. & Piersma, T. (2005). Restoration of intertidal flats and tidal salt marshes. In: van Andel, J. and Aronson, J. (eds.), Restoration ecology. The new frontier.
Oxford
: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 174-192.
Drent, J., Luttikhuizen, P. C. & Piersma, T. (2004). Morphological dynamics in the foraging apparatus of a deposit feeding marine bivalve: phenotypic plasticity and heritable effects. Functional Ecology
18, 349-356.
Edelaar, P., Piersma, T. & Postma, E. (2005). Retained non-adaptive plasticity: gene flow or small inherent costs of plasticity? Evolutionary Ecology Research
7, 489-495.
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.
Luttikhuizen, P.C., Koolhaas, A., Bol, A., & Piersma, T. (2003). Mytilus galloprovincialis-type foot protein 1 alleles occur at low frequency among mussels in the Dutch Wadden Sea.
Journal of Sea Research
48, 241-245
de Goeij, P., Luttikhuizen, P.C., van der Meer, J., & Piersma, T. (2001).
Facilitation on an intertidal mudflat: the effect of siphon nipping by flatfish on burying depth of the bivalve Macoma balthica.
Oecologia
, 126, 500-506.
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.
Pepping, M., Piersma, T., Pearson, G., & Lavaleye, M., Eds. (1999). Intertidal sediments and benthic animals of Roebuck Bay, Western Australia.
Texel
: Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ).
Honkoop, P.J.C., Luttikhuizen, P.C., & Piersma, T. (1999). Experimentally extending the spawning season of a marine bivalve using temperature change and fluoxetine as synergistic triggers. Marine Ecology - Progress Series, 180, 297-300.
Piersma, T. & Koolhaas, A. (1997). Shorebirds, shellfish(
eries
) and sediments around Griend, western Wadden Sea, 1988-1996
.
Texel
: Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ).
Piersma, T., de Goeij, P., & Tulp,
I.
(1993). An evaluation of intertidal feeding habitats from a shorebird perspective: towards comparisons between temperate and tropical mudflats.
Netherlands
Journal of Sea Research
, 31, 503-512.
Cadée, G.C. & Piersma, T. (1990). A tropical drift seed of Entada gigas from the French coast. Cahiers Biologie Marine, 31, 517-518.
Moolenbeek, R.G. & Piersma, T. (1990). A new Setia species from
Mauritania
(Gastropoda: Rissoidae).
Gloria Maris
, 29, 31-33.
Piersma, T. (1990). Mollusken van een Westafrikaans waddengebied, de Banc d'Arguin in Mauretanie.
Correspondentieblad van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging
, 255, 697-704.
Piersma, T. (1987). Production by intertidal benthic animals and limits to their predation by shorebirds: a heuristic model. Marine Ecology - Progress Series, 38, 187-196.
Wolff, W.J., Gueye, A., Meijboom, A., Piersma, T., & Sall, M.A. (1987). Distribution, biomass, recruitment and productivity of Anadara senilis (L.) (Mollusca, Bivalvia) on the Banc d'Arguin,
Mauritania
.
Netherlands
Journal of Sea Research
, 21, 243-253.
Piersma, T. & Ramdani, M. (1984). Semi-benthisch levende mollusken in een brakke sloot bij Sidi Moussa, Marokko.
Correspondentieblad van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging
, 216, 1450-1454.
Piersma, T. & Moolenbeek, R.G. (1982). De malacofauna van de Banc d'Arguin (Mauritania, West Afrika). Correspondentieblad van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging, 204, 1207-1221.
Piersma, T. & Kersten, M. (1980). Enkele gegevens over een populatie van Haliotis tuberculata aan de Franse Middellandse Zee-kust. Correspondentieblad van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging, 192, 975-982.
Signalling and sexual selection
Jukema, J. & Piersma, T. (2006).
Permanent female mimics in a lekking shorebird. Biology Letters
2, 161-164.
Reneerkens, J., Piersma, T. & Sinninghe Damste, J. S. (2005). Switch to diester preen waxes may reduce avian nest predation by mammalian predators using olfactory cues. Journal of Experimental Biology
208, 4199-4202.
Jukema, J. & Piersma, T. (2004). Small male ruffs Philomachus pugnax with feminine plumages: evidence for a third reproductive strategy, the faeder?
Limosa
77, 1-10.
Piersma, T., Mendes, L., Hennekens, J., Ratiarison, S., Groenewold, S., & Jukema, J. (2001). Breeding plumage honestly signals likelihood of tapeworm infestation in females of a long-distance migrating shorebird, the Bar-tailed Godwit. Zoology, 104, 41-48.
Piersma, T. (2000). Age asymmetries in the aerial display of Little Gulls Larus minutus. Atlantic Seabirds, 2, 57-67.
Piersma, T., Dekker, M.H.A., & Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (1999). An avian equivalent of make-up? Ecology Letters, 2, 201-203.
Piersma, T., Gonzalez, P.M., de Goeij, P., Gudmundsson, G.A., & Lindström, Å. (1996). Knots, White-rumped Sandpipers and other wader species performing bat-like acrobatics on staging sites. Wader Study Group Bulletin, 79, 69-70.
Piersma, T. & Jukema, J. (1993). Red breasts as honest signals of migratory quality in a long-distance migrant, the Bar-tailed Godwit. Condor, 95, 163-177.
Piersma, T., Tulp, I., Verkuil, Y., Wiersma, P., Gudmundsson, G.A., & Lindström, Å. (1991). Arctic sounds on temperate shores: the occurrence of song and ground display in Knots Calidris canutus at spring staging sites. Ornis Scandinavica, 22, 404-407.
Piersma, T., Zwarts, L., & Bruggemann, J.H. (1990). Behavioural aspects of the departure of waders before long-distance flights: flocking, vocalizations, flight paths and diurnal timing. Ardea, 78, 157-184.
Piersma, T. & Veen, J. (1988). An analysis of the communication function of attack calls in Little Gulls. Animal Behaviour, 36, 773-779.
Veen, J. & Piersma, T. (1986). Causation and function of different vocal reactions of Little Gulls Larus minutus to intruders near the nest. Behaviour, 96, 241-264.
(Macro-) parasites and diseases
Mendes, L., Piersma, T., Lecoq, M., Spaans, B. & Ricklefs, R. A. 2005. Disease-limited distributions? Contrasts in the prevalence of avian malaria in shorebird species using marine and freshwater habitats. Oikos
109, 396-404.
Mendes, L., Piersma, T., Hasselquist, D., Matson, K. D. & Ricklefs, R. A. 2006. Variation in the innate and acquired arms of the immune system among five shorebird species. Journal of Experimental Biology
209, 284-291.
Piersma, T. & Honkoop, P.J.C. (1998). Waterbirds with broken hearts: three cases of ruptured ventricles. Sula, 12, 89-91.
Piersma, T. (1997). Do global patterns of habitat use and migration strategies co-evolve with relative investments in immunocompetence due to spatial variation in parasite pressure? Oikos, 80, 623-631.
Underhill, L.G., Earlé, R.A., Piersma, T., Tulp,
I.
, & Verster, A. (1994). Knots (Calidris canutus) from
Germany
and
South Africa
parasitised by trematode Cyclocoelum mutabile.
Journal für Ornithologie
, 135, 236-239.
Piersma, T., Klaassen, M., & Blomert, A.-M. (1991).
Valium against leg cramp in waders.
Wader Study Group Bulletin
, 63, 39-41.
Piersma, T. & van Eerden, M.R. (1989).
Feather eating in Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus: a unique solution to the problems of debris and gastric parasites in fish-eating birds. Ibis, 131, 477-486.
Demographics and life history
van Gils, J. A., Piersma, T., Dekinga, A., Spaans, B. & Kraan, C. (2006). Shellfish-dredging pushes a flexible avian toppredator out of a protected marine ecosystem. PLoS Biology
4: 2399-2404 (e376)
Piersma, T., Rogers, K. G., Boyd, H., Bunskoeke, E. J. & Jukema, J. (2005). Demography of Eurasian golden plovers Pluvialis apricaria staging in The
Netherlands
, 1949-2000. Ardea
93, 49-64.
Rogers, K. G. & Piersma, T. (2005). Monitoring vital rates of migrant shorebird populations: the case of 'wilsternetted' Eurasian golden plovers.
Ardea
93, 65-77.
Reneerkens, J., Piersma, T., Jukema, J., de Goeij, P., Bol, A. & Meltofte, H. (2005).
Sex-ratio and body size of sandpiper chicks at Zackenberg, north-east
Greenland
in 2003. Wader Study Group Bulletin
106, 12-16.
Baker, A. J., Gonzalez, P. M., Piersma, T., Niles, L. J., de Lima S.do Nascimento, I., Atkinson, P. W., Collins, P., Clark, N. A., Minton, C. D. T., Peck, M. K. & Aarts, G. (2004). Rapid population decline in red knots: fitness consequences of decreased refuelling rates and late arrival in
Delaware Bay
. Proceedings of the Royal Society of
London
B
271, 875-882.
Piersma, T. & Spaans, B. (2004). The power of comparison; ecological studies on waders worldwide. Limosa
77, 43-54.
Schekkerman, H., Tulp,
I.
, Piersma, T. & Visser, G. H. (2003). Mechanisms promoting higher growth rates in arctic than temperate shorebirds. Oecologia
134, 332-342.
Brochard, C., Spaans, B., Prop, J., & Piersma, T. (2002). Use of individual colour-ringing to estimate annual survival in male and female Red Knot Calidris canutus islandica: a progress report for 1998-2001. Wader Study Group Bulletin, 99, in press
Camphuysen, C.J., Berrevoets, C.M., Cremers, H.J.W.M., Dekinga, A., Dekker, R., Ens, B.J., van der Have, T.M., Kats, R.K.H., Kuiken, T., Leopold, M.F., van der Meer, J., & Piersma, T. (2002). Mass mortality of Common Eiders (Somateria mollissima) in the Dutch Wadden Sea, winter 1999/2000: starvation in a commercially exploited wetland of international importance. Biological Conservation, 106, 303-317.
Boyd, H. & Piersma, T. (2001). Changing balance between survival and recruitment explains population trends in Red Knots Calidris canutus islandica wintering in Britain, 1969-1995.
Ardea
, 89, 301-317.
van der Meer, J., Piersma, T., & Beukema, J.J. (2001).
Population dynamics of benthic species on tidal flats: the possible roles of shorebird predation. In K. Reise (Ed.), Ecological comparisons of sedimentary shores (pp. 317-335). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Piersma, T. & Baker, A.J. (2000). Life history characteristics and the conservation of migratory shorebirds. In L.M. Gosling & W.J. Sutherland (Eds.), Behaviour and conservation (pp. 105-124). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Baker, A.J., Piersma, T., & Greenslade, A.D. (1999). Molecular versus phenotypic sexing in Red Knots. Condor, 101, 887-893.
Piersma, T. (1997). The biology of migratory shorebirds. In P. Straw (Ed.), Shorebird conservation in the Asia-Pacific region (pp. 2-12). Hawthorn East, Victoria: Birds Australia.
Evans, P.R., Davidson, N.C., Piersma, T., & Pienkowski, M.W. (1991). Implications of habitat loss at migration staging posts for shorebird populations. Acta XX Congressus Internationalis Ornithologici (Christchurch), IV, 2228-2235.
From 2006 onwards (not categorized):
Leyrer, J., Spaans, B. & Piersma, T. 2006. Zeigt her eure Füsse - Farbberingungsprojekte und ihe Bedeutung für populationsökologische Untersuchungen. Ornithologische Rundbrief Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
45: Sonderheft 1, 64-71
Mendes, L., Piersma, T., Hasselquist, D., Matson, K.D. & Ricklefs, R. 2006. Variation in the innate and acquired arms of the immune system among five shorebird species. Journal of Experimental Biology
209: 284-291
Piersma, T. 2006. Understanding the numbers and distribution of waders and other animals in a changing world: habitat choice as the lock and the key. The Stilt
50: 3-14
Reneerkens, J., Piersma, T. & Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. 2006. Discerning adaptive value of seasonal variation in preen waxes: comparative and experimental approaches. Acta Zoologica Sinica
52 (Supplement): 272-275
Schroeder, J. Hooijmeijer, J. Both, C. & Piersma, T. (2006). The importance of early breeding in Black-tailed Godwits (Limosa limosa). Osnabrucker Naturwissenschaftliche Mitteilungen. Band 32, S.239-241
Atkinson, P.W., Baker, A.J., Bennett, K.A., Clark, N.A., Clark, J.A., Cole, K.B., Dekinga, A., Dey, A., Gillings, S., González, P.M., Kalasz, K., Minton, C.D.T., Newton, J., Niles, L.J., Piersma, T., Robinson, R.A. & Sitters, H.P. 2007. Rates of mass gain and energy deposition in red knot on their final spring staging site is both time- and condition-dependent. Journal of Applied Ecology
44: 885-895
Bocher, P., Piersma, T., Dekinga, A., Kraan, C., Yates, M.G., Guyot, T., Folmer, E.O. & Radenac, G. 2007. Site- and species specific distribution patterns of molluscs at five intertidal soft-sediment areas in northwest Europe. Marine Biology
151: 577-594
Compton , T.J., Drent, J., Kentie, R., Pearson, G.B., Meer, van der, J. & Piersma, T. (2007). Overlap in the feeding morphology of bivalves from species-rich and species-poor intertidal flats using gill:palp ratios for comparative analyses of mollusc assemblages. Marine Ecology Progress Seriers.
348: 213-220
Dietz, M.W., Piersma, T., Hedenström, A. & Brugge, M. 2007. Intraspecific variation in avian pectoral muscle mass: constraints on maintaining manoeuvrability with increasing body mass. Functional Ecology
21: 317-326
Dietz, M.W. & Piersma, T. (2007). Red knots give up flight capacity and defend food processing capacity during winter starvation. Functional Ecology
21: 899-904
Folmer, H. & Piersma, T. (2007). Ecological and Environmental Policies versus a Steady-State Economy in Times of Crisis. Conservation Biology.
Hasselquist, D., Lindström, Å., Jenni-Eiermann, S., Koolhaas, A. & Piersma, T. 2007. Long flights do not influence immune responses of a long-distance migrant bird: a wind-tunnel experiment. Journal of Experimental Biology
210: 1123-1131
Kraan, C., Piersma, T., Dekinga, A., Koolhaas, A. & Meer, van der, J. (2007) Dredging for edible cockles (Cerastoderma edule) on intertidal flats: short-term consequences of fisher patch-choice decisions for target and non-target benthic fauna. ICES Journal of Marine Science Access. October 22, 2007: 1753 – 1742
Hans Meltofte, Theunis Piersma, Hugh Boyd, Brian McCaffery, Barbara Ganter, Viktor V. Golovnyuk, Katherine Graham, Cheri L. Gratto-Trevor, R.I.G. Morrison, Erica Nol, Hans-Ulrich Rösner, Douglas Schamel, Hans Schekkerman, Mikhail Y. Soloviev, Pavel S. Tomkovich, Diane M. Tracy, Ingrid Tulp & Liv Wennerberg (2007) Effects of climate variation on the breeding ecology of Arctic shorebirds. Bioscience
59, 1-48
Piersma, T. (2007) Using the power of comparison to explain habitat use and migration strategies of shorebirds worldwide. J Ornithol (2007) 148 (Suppl 1): S45-S59
Piersma, T. & Dietz, M.W. (2007).Twofold seasonal variation in the supposedly constant, species-specific, ratio of upstroke to downstroke flight muscles in red knots Calidris canutus. Journal Avian Biology 38: 536-540
Reneerkens, J., Piersma, T. & Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. 2007. Expression of annual cycles in preen wax composition in red knots: Constraints on the changing phenotype. Journal of Experimental Zoology
307A: 127-139
Reneerkens, J., Almeida, J.B., Lank, D.B., Jukema, J., Lanctot, R.B., Morrison, R.I.G., Rijpstra, W.I.C., Schamel, D., Schekkerman, H., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., Tomkovich, P.S., Tracy, D.M., Tulp, I. & Piersma, T. 2007. Parental role division predicts avian preen wax cycles. Ibis
149: 721-729
Rijpstra, W.I.C., Reneerkens, J., Piersma, T. & Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.(2007). Structural Identification of the ß -hydroxy fatty acid-based diester preen gland waxes of shorebirds. Journal of Natural Products. Vol. 70: 1804-1807
Vahl, W.K., van der Meer, J., Meijer, K., Piersma, T. & Weissing, F.J.(2007) Interference competition, the spatial distribution of food and free-living foragers. Animal Behaviour, 2007, 74, 1493 - 1503
Van Gils, J.A., Dekinga, A., Van den Hout, P.J., Spaans, B. & Piersma, T. 2007. Digestive organ size and behavior of red knots (Calidris Canutus) indicate the quality of their benthic food stocks. Israel Journal of Ecology & Evolotution. 53: 329 – 346
Vézina, F., Jalvingh, K.M., Dekinga, A. & Piersma, T. 2007. Thermogenic side effects to migratory predisposition in shorebirds. American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
292: 1287-1297
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
Buehler, D.M., Piersma, T. & Tieleman, B.I. 2008. Captive and free-living red knots Calidris canutus exhibit differences in non-induced immunity that
suggest different immune strategies in different environments. Journal of Avian Biology 39: 560-566
Compton , T.J., Kentie, R., Storey, A.W., Veltheim, I., Pearson, G.B. & Piersma, T. 2008. Carbon isotope signatures reveal that diet is related to the relative sizes of the gills and palps in bivalves. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 361. 104-110
Gill, J.A., Langston, R.H.W., Alves, J.A., Atkinson P.W., Bocher, P., Cidraes Vieira, N., Crockford, N.J. Gelinaud, G., Groen, N., Gunnersson, T.G., Hayhow, B., Hooijmeijer, J., Kentie, R., Kleijn, D. Lourenço, P.M., Masero, J.A., Meunier, F., Potts, P.M., Roodbergen, J., Schekkerman, H., Schroeder, J., Wymenga, E. & Piersma, T. 2008. Contrasting trends in two Black-tailed Godwit populations: a review of causes and recommendations. Wader Studie Group Bulletin 114
Lourenço, P.M. & Piersma, T. 2008. Stopover ecology of Black-tailed Godwits Limosa limosa limosa in Portuguese rice fields: a guide on where to feed in winter. Bird Study
55: 194-202
Martin, G.R. & Piersma, T. 2008. Vision and touch in relation to foraging and predator detection: insightful contrasts between a plover and a sandpiper. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. In press
Piersma, T. 2008. Female House Martin Delichon urbica provisions chicks at nests in two separate subcolonies. ARDEA
96(1)
Piersma, T., Brugge, M., Spaans, B. & Battley, P.F. 2008. Endogenous circonnual rhythmicity in body mass, molt, and plumage of great knots (calidris tenuirostris). The Auk. 0: 1-9
Schroeder, J., Lourenço, P.M., Van der Velde, M., Hooijmeijer, J.C.E.W.,Both, C. & Piersma, T. 2008. Sexual dimorphism in plumage and size in Black-tailed Godwits Limosa limosa limosa. ARDEA 96(1)
Van de Brink, V., Schroeder, J. Both, C., Lourenco, P.M., Hooijmeijer, J.C.E.W. & Piersma, T. 2008. Space use by Black-tailed Godwits Limosa limosa limosa during settlement at a previous or a new nest location. Bird Study
55: 188-193
Van Gils, J.A., Kraan, C., Dekinga, A., Koolhaas, A., Drent, J., De Goeij, P. & Piersma, T. 2008 Reversed optimality and predictive ecology: burrowing depth forecasts population change in a bivalve. Biology Letters. Animal Behaviour.
Verkuil, Y.I., Jukema, J., Gill, J.A., Karlionova, N., Melter, J., Hooijmeijer, J.C.E.W. & Piersma, T. 2008. Non-breeding fæder Ruffs Philomachus pugnax associate according to sex, not morphology. Bird Study
55: 241 - 246
