List of works - Christiaan Both

A circannual perspective on daily and total flight distances in a long-distance migratory raptor, the Montagu's harrier, Circus pygargus.

scientific article published in June 2017

A possible case of contemporary selection leading to a decrease in sexual plumage dimorphism in a grassland-breeding shorebird

scientific article published in 2009

ADAPTIVE DENSITY DEPENDENCE OF AVIAN CLUTCH SIZE

scientific article published in December 2000

Adverse wind conditions during northward Sahara crossings increase the in-flight mortality of Black-tailed Godwits

scientific article published on 17 September 2019

African departure rather than migration speed determines variation in spring arrival in pied flycatchers

scientific article

Alternate non-stop migration strategies of pied flycatchers to cross the Sahara desert

scientific article published on April 2016

Avian population consequences of climate change are most severe for long-distance migrants in seasonal habitats

scientific article published on 16 December 2009

Begging signals more than just short-term need: cryptic effects of brood size in the pied flycatcher ( Ficedula hypoleuca )

scientific article published in June 2002

Challenging claims in the study of migratory birds and climate change

scientific article

Climate change and population declines in a long-distance migratory bird

scientific article

Climate change and unequal phenological changes across four trophic levels: constraints or adaptations?

scientific article

Climate change, breeding date and nestling diet: how temperature differentially affects seasonal changes in pied flycatcher diet depending on habitat variation

scientific article

Climate variation and regional gradients in population dynamics of two hole-nesting passerines.

scientific article

Comment on "Rapid advance of spring arrival dates in long-distance migratory birds".

scientific article

Competitor phenology as a social cue in breeding site selection

scientific article published on 24 January 2017

Cues, strategies, and outcomes: how migrating vertebrates track environmental change

article

DNA metabarcoding quantifies the relative biomass of arthropod taxa in songbird diets: Validation with camera-recorded diets

scientific article published on 06 May 2022

Density fluctuations represent a key process maintaining personality variation in a wild passerine bird

scientific article published on 29 February 2016

Differentiation in neutral genes and a candidate gene in the pied flycatcher: using biological archives to track global climate change

scientific article

Effects of spring temperatures on the strength of selection on timing of reproduction in a long-distance migratory bird

scientific article

Experimental evidence for adaptive personalities in a wild passerine bird.

scientific article published on 24 October 2012

Experimental evidence for density-dependent reproduction in a cooperatively breeding passerine

scientific article

Exploring the drivers of variation in trophic mismatches: A systematic review of long‐term avian studies

scientific article published in 2021

Fecundity selection does not vary along a large geographical cline of trait means in a passerine bird

Fitness consequences of avian personalities in a fluctuating environment.

scientific article

Fitness consequences of northward dispersal as possible adaptation to climate change, using experimental translocation of a migratory passerine

scientific article

Flexibility of timing of avian migration to climate change masked by environmental constraints en route

scientific article

Genetic and maternal determinants of effective dispersal: the effect of sire genotype and size at birth in side-blotched lizards.

scientific article published on 5 June 2006

Geographic patterns of genetic differentiation and plumage colour variation are different in the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca)

scientific article published on 01 October 2009

Global Climate Change Leads to Mistimed Avian Reproduction

scholarly article by Marcel E Visser et al published 2004 in Advances in Ecological Research

Hatching failure and accumulation of organic pollutants through the terrestrial food web of a declining songbird in Western Europe

How individual Montagu's Harriers cope with Moreau's Paradox during the Sahelian winter

scientific article

Immune function in a free-living bird varies over the annual cycle, but seasonal patterns differ between years

scientific article

Incorporating site and year-specific deuterium ratios (δ2H) from precipitation into geographic assignments of a migratory bird

Inheritance patterns of plumage coloration in common buzzards Buteo buteo do not support a one-locus two-allele model.

scientific article published in April 2018

Large-scale geographical variation confirms that climate change causes birds to lay earlier

scholarly article by Christiaan Both et al published 22 August 2004 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B

Local sex ratio affects the cost of reproduction.

scientific article published on 23 November 2011

Long-distance dispersal in migratory pied flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca is relatively common between the UK and the Netherlands

Natal dispersal and personalities in great tits ( Parus major ) ⬇️

scientific article published on April 7, 2003

Nest site preference depends on the relative density of conspecifics and heterospecifics in wild birds

scientific article published on 20 December 2017

No experimental evidence for local competition in the nestling phase as a driving force for density-dependent avian clutch size

scientific article published on 26 February 2009

No phenotypic plasticity in nest-site selection in response to extreme flooding events.

scientific article

Phenological mismatch and ontogenetic diet shifts interactively affect offspring condition in a passerine

scientific article

Phenological sensitivity to climate change is higher in resident than in migrant bird populations among European cavity breeders.

scientific article published on 6 April 2018

Repeatability and heritability of exploratory behaviour in great tits from the wild

Reproductive effort and future parental competitive ability: A nest box removal experiment

scientific article published on 11 August 2018

Reproductive timing and investment in relation to spring warming and advancing agricultural schedules

scientific article published on 3 September 2011

Scrutinizing assortative mating in birds

scientific article published on 21 February 2019

Sex-specific effects of altered competition on nestling growth and survival: an experimental manipulation of brood size and sex ratio

scientific article published on 2 December 2008

Sex-specific effects of the local social environment on juvenile post-fledging dispersal in great tits

scientific article

Shifts in phenology due to global climate change: the need for a yardstick.

scientific article published in December 2005

Social environment affects juvenile dispersal in great tits (Parus major).

scientific article published on 6 February 2012

The effect of climate change on the correlation between avian life-history traits

scholarly article by Christiaan Both & Marcel E Visser published October 2005 in Global Change Biology

Translocation as a novel approach to study effects of a new breeding habitat on reproductive output in wild birds

scientific article

Unravelling the causes and consequences of dispersal syndromes in a wild passerine

scientific article published in 2022

Warming springs and habitat alteration interact to impact timing of breeding and population dynamics in a migratory bird

article

Weak effects of geolocators on small birds: a meta-analysis controlled for phylogeny and publication bias

scientific article published on 16 February 2019

List of works by Christiaan Both

A circannual perspective on daily and total flight distances in a long-distance migratory raptor, the Montagu's harrier, Circus pygargus.

A possible case of contemporary selection leading to a decrease in sexual plumage dimorphism in a grassland-breeding shorebird

ADAPTIVE DENSITY DEPENDENCE OF AVIAN CLUTCH SIZE

Adverse wind conditions during northward Sahara crossings increase the in-flight mortality of Black-tailed Godwits

African departure rather than migration speed determines variation in spring arrival in pied flycatchers

Alternate non-stop migration strategies of pied flycatchers to cross the Sahara desert

Avian population consequences of climate change are most severe for long-distance migrants in seasonal habitats

Begging signals more than just short-term need: cryptic effects of brood size in the pied flycatcher ( Ficedula hypoleuca )

Challenging claims in the study of migratory birds and climate change

Climate change and population declines in a long-distance migratory bird

Climate change and unequal phenological changes across four trophic levels: constraints or adaptations?

Climate change, breeding date and nestling diet: how temperature differentially affects seasonal changes in pied flycatcher diet depending on habitat variation

Climate variation and regional gradients in population dynamics of two hole-nesting passerines.

Comment on "Rapid advance of spring arrival dates in long-distance migratory birds".

Competitor phenology as a social cue in breeding site selection

Cues, strategies, and outcomes: how migrating vertebrates track environmental change

DNA metabarcoding quantifies the relative biomass of arthropod taxa in songbird diets: Validation with camera-recorded diets

Density fluctuations represent a key process maintaining personality variation in a wild passerine bird

Differentiation in neutral genes and a candidate gene in the pied flycatcher: using biological archives to track global climate change

Effects of spring temperatures on the strength of selection on timing of reproduction in a long-distance migratory bird

Experimental evidence for adaptive personalities in a wild passerine bird.

Experimental evidence for density-dependent reproduction in a cooperatively breeding passerine

Exploring the drivers of variation in trophic mismatches: A systematic review of long‐term avian studies

Fecundity selection does not vary along a large geographical cline of trait means in a passerine bird

Fitness consequences of avian personalities in a fluctuating environment.

Fitness consequences of northward dispersal as possible adaptation to climate change, using experimental translocation of a migratory passerine

Flexibility of timing of avian migration to climate change masked by environmental constraints en route

Genetic and maternal determinants of effective dispersal: the effect of sire genotype and size at birth in side-blotched lizards.

Geographic patterns of genetic differentiation and plumage colour variation are different in the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca)

Global Climate Change Leads to Mistimed Avian Reproduction

Hatching failure and accumulation of organic pollutants through the terrestrial food web of a declining songbird in Western Europe

How individual Montagu's Harriers cope with Moreau's Paradox during the Sahelian winter

Immune function in a free-living bird varies over the annual cycle, but seasonal patterns differ between years

Incorporating site and year-specific deuterium ratios (δ2H) from precipitation into geographic assignments of a migratory bird

Inheritance patterns of plumage coloration in common buzzards Buteo buteo do not support a one-locus two-allele model.

Large-scale geographical variation confirms that climate change causes birds to lay earlier

Local sex ratio affects the cost of reproduction.

Long-distance dispersal in migratory pied flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca is relatively common between the UK and the Netherlands

Natal dispersal and personalities in great tits ( Parus major ) ⬇️

Nest site preference depends on the relative density of conspecifics and heterospecifics in wild birds

No experimental evidence for local competition in the nestling phase as a driving force for density-dependent avian clutch size

No phenotypic plasticity in nest-site selection in response to extreme flooding events.

Phenological mismatch and ontogenetic diet shifts interactively affect offspring condition in a passerine

Phenological sensitivity to climate change is higher in resident than in migrant bird populations among European cavity breeders.

Repeatability and heritability of exploratory behaviour in great tits from the wild

Reproductive effort and future parental competitive ability: A nest box removal experiment

Reproductive timing and investment in relation to spring warming and advancing agricultural schedules

Scrutinizing assortative mating in birds

Sex-specific effects of altered competition on nestling growth and survival: an experimental manipulation of brood size and sex ratio

Sex-specific effects of the local social environment on juvenile post-fledging dispersal in great tits

Shifts in phenology due to global climate change: the need for a yardstick.

Social environment affects juvenile dispersal in great tits (Parus major).

The effect of climate change on the correlation between avian life-history traits

Translocation as a novel approach to study effects of a new breeding habitat on reproductive output in wild birds

Unravelling the causes and consequences of dispersal syndromes in a wild passerine

Warming springs and habitat alteration interact to impact timing of breeding and population dynamics in a migratory bird

Weak effects of geolocators on small birds: a meta-analysis controlled for phylogeny and publication bias