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prof. dr. T. (Theunis) Piersma

Hoogleraar Trekvogelecologie

2006-2013: grant from BirdLife Netherlands to develop the Global Flyway Network, the shorebirds ecological demographics and conservation initiative

2007: NWO-ALW-Open Competition PhD-grant on ‘demography and migration of spoonbills’

2007-2010: four major grants from the Ministry of Agriculture (Kenniskring Weidevogels) for the continuation of a long-term study on the ‘demography and metapopulation biology of black-tailed godwits in fragmented agricultural landscapes’

2008: ALW-ZKO programme grant ‘A human-driven regime shift through the loss of ecosystem engineers: consequences for the trophic structure and recovery potential of the WaddenSea ecosystem’ (with K. Eriksson, H. Olff & H.W. van der Veer)

2008-2013: Combination of two 5-year grants from ZKO and NAM, respectively, for the yearly ‘synoptic intertidal benthic mapping of the DutchWaddenSea’(with H.W. van der Veer & J. van der Meer)

2009: grant from Ministry of Agriculture for satellite tagging black-tailed godwits (with E. Wymenga) (60k€), with supplementary grant from Province of Fryslân

2010-2015: grant from the Dutch National Waddenfonds (Wadden Sea Fund) for ‘Waddensleutels’ (Keys to the WaddenSea foodweb), a research program underpinning ecological restoration of the WaddenSea intertidal (with H. Olff)

2011-2016: grant grant from the Dutch National Waddenfonds (Wadden Sea Fund) for ‘Metawad’-Ecological demography of key migrants connecting WaddenSea with ecosystems elsewhere

2011: TOP-grant ALW-NWO (Shorebirds in space)

2012: Grant for demography project Black-tailed Godwits SW Fryslân for year 2012 from Ministry of Economic Affairs

2012: University Campus Fryslân grant to work on earthworm ecology (with H. Olff)

2012: grants from World Wildlife Fund for work in China in 2012 and 2013

2013-2015: Grant for demography project Black-tailed Godwits SW Fryslân for the years 2013-2015 from the Province of Fryslân

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