List of works - Jan van Gils

A facultative mutualistic feedback enhances the stability of tropical intertidal seagrass beds

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Avian herbivory: an experiment, a field test, and an allometric comparison with mammals.

scientific article

Benefits of foraging in small groups: An experimental study on public information use in red knots Calidris canutus

scientific article published on 11 September 2014

Beyond the information centre hypothesis: communal roosting for information on food, predators, travel companions and mates?

scientific article published in 2010

Biological information in an ecological context

scientific article published in 2010

Body shrinkage due to Arctic warming reduces red knot fitness in tropical wintering range

scientific article published on May 2016

Burrowing Behavior of a Deposit Feeding Bivalve Predicts Change in Intertidal Ecosystem State

article published in 2016

Carrying capacity models should not use fixed prey density thresholds: a plea for using more tools of behavioural ecology

article published in 2004

Chronobiology of interspecific interactions in a changing world

scientific article published in November 2017

Comment on "Global pattern of nest predation is disrupted by climate change in shorebirds"

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Cost-benefit analysis of mollusc eating in a shorebird. I. Foraging and processing costs estimated by the doubly labelled water method

scientific article published on 01 October 2003

Cost-benefit analysis of mollusc-eating in a shorebird. II. Optimizing gizzard size in the face of seasonal demands

scientific article published in October 2003

Diet preferences as the cause of individual differences rather than the consequence

scientific article published on 16 June 2016

Diet selection in a molluscivore shorebird across Western Europe: does it show short- or long-term intake rate-maximization?

scientific article published on 6 August 2009

Digestive capacity and toxicity cause mixed diets in red knots that maximize energy intake rate

scientific article published on 31 March 2014

Drought, Mutualism Breakdown, and Landscape-Scale Degradation of Seagrass Beds

scientific article

Economic design in a long-distance migrating molluscivore: how fast-fuelling red knots in Bohai Bay, China, get away with small gizzards

scientific article

Erratum: Publisher Correction: Resource landscapes explain contrasting patterns of aggregation and site fidelity by red knots at two wintering sites

article

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

scientific article published in 2021

Field measurements give biased estimates of functional response parameters, but help explain foraging distributions

scientific article published on 19 November 2014

Food web consequences of an evolutionary arms race: Molluscs subject to crab predation on intertidal mudflats in Oman are unavailable to shorebirds

article by Roeland A. Bom et al published 13 November 2017 in Journal of Biogeography

Foraging in a tidally structured environment by Red Knots (Calidris canutus): ideal, but not free

scientific article published in May 2006

Fuelling conditions at staging sites can mitigate Arctic warming effects in a migratory bird

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Global biogeography of chemosynthetic symbionts reveals both localized and globally distributed symbiont groups

scientific article

Hampered foraging and migratory performance in swans infected with low-pathogenic avian influenza A virus

scientific article

Hampered performance of migratory swans: intra- and inter-seasonal effects of avian influenza virus

scientific article published in June 2016

How habitat-modifying organisms structure the food web of two coastal ecosystems

scientific article published in March 2016

Incompletely informed shorebirds that face a digestive constraint maximize net energy gain when exploiting patches

scientific article published on 2 May 2003

Individual diet differences in a molluscivore shorebird are associated with the size of body instruments for internal processing rather than for feeding

scientific article published in October 2019

Landscape-scale experiment demonstrates that Wadden Sea intertidal flats are used to capacity by molluscivore migrant shorebirds.

scientific article published on 28 May 2009

Longer guts and higher food quality increase energy intake in migratory swans

scientific article published on 25 July 2008

Mismatch‐induced growth reductions in a clade of Arctic‐breeding shorebirds are rarely mitigated by increasing temperatures

Morphological and digestive adjustments buffer performance: How staging shorebirds cope with severe food declines

scientific article published in 2019

Moving on with foraging theory: incorporating movement decisions into the functional response of a gregarious shorebird

scientific article

Natural selection by pulsed predation: survival of the thickest

scientific article published in July 2015

Optimal movement between patches under incomplete information about the spatial distribution of food items

scientific article published on 25 April 2006

Optimizing acceleration-based ethograms: the use of variable-time versus fixed-time segmentation

scientific article

Personality drives physiological adjustments and is not related to survival

scientific article published on 26 March 2014

Phenotype-limited distributions: short-billed birds move away during times that prey bury deeply

scientific article (publication date: June 2015)

Publisher Correction: Fuelling conditions at staging sites can mitigate Arctic warming effects in a migratory bird

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Reinterpretation of gizzard sizes of red knots world-wide emphasises overriding importance of prey quality at migratory stopover sites

scientific article

Resource landscapes explain contrasting patterns of aggregation and site fidelity by red knots at two wintering sites

article

Reversed optimality and predictive ecology: burrowing depth forecasts population change in a bivalve

scientific article published on February 2009

Scaling up ideals to freedom: are densities of red knots across western Europe consistent with ideal free distribution?

scientific article (publication date: 22 September 2011)

Sex-specific winter distribution in a sexually dimorphic shorebird is explained by resource partitioning

scientific article

Shellfish dredging pushes a flexible avian top predator out of a marine protected area

scientific article

Short-term foraging costs and long-term fueling rates in central-place foraging swans revealed by giving-up exploitation times

scientific article published on 16 March 2007

Small-scale demographic structure suggests preemptive behavior in a flocking shorebird

scientific article published in 2012

Stomach fullness shapes prey choice decisions in crab plovers (Dromas ardeola).

scientific article

Structurally complex sea grass obstructs the sixth sense of a specialized avian molluscivore

The Effect of Digestive Capacity on the Intake Rate of Toxic and Non-Toxic Prey in an Ecological Context

scientific article published on 19 August 2015

The ecology of information: an overview on the ecological significance of making informed decisions

scientific article published in 2010

The exception to the rule: retreating ice front makes Bewick's swansCygnus columbianus bewickiimigrate slower in spring than in autumn

article

The interactive role of predation, competition and habitat conditions in structuring an intertidal bivalve population

scientific article published in 2020

The intertidal mudflats of Barr Al Hikman, Sultanate of Oman, as feeding, reproduction and nursery grounds for brachyuran crabs

scientific article

Toxin constraint explains diet choice, survival and population dynamics in a molluscivore shorebird

scientific article published on 5 June 2013

Trophic cascade induced by molluscivore predator alters pore-water biogeochemistry via competitive release of prey

scientific article

Understanding spatial distributions: negative density-dependence in prey causes predators to trade-off prey quantity with quality.

scientific article published in April 2016

Validating the Incorporation of 13C and 15N in a Shorebird That Consumes an Isotopically Distinct Chemosymbiotic Bivalve

scientific article

Ways to be different: foraging adaptations that facilitate higher intake rates in a northerly wintering shorebird compared with a low-latitude conspecific

scientific article published on 24 February 2015

List of works by Jan van Gils

A facultative mutualistic feedback enhances the stability of tropical intertidal seagrass beds

Avian herbivory: an experiment, a field test, and an allometric comparison with mammals.

Benefits of foraging in small groups: An experimental study on public information use in red knots Calidris canutus

Beyond the information centre hypothesis: communal roosting for information on food, predators, travel companions and mates?

Biological information in an ecological context

Body shrinkage due to Arctic warming reduces red knot fitness in tropical wintering range

Burrowing Behavior of a Deposit Feeding Bivalve Predicts Change in Intertidal Ecosystem State

Carrying capacity models should not use fixed prey density thresholds: a plea for using more tools of behavioural ecology

Chronobiology of interspecific interactions in a changing world

Comment on "Global pattern of nest predation is disrupted by climate change in shorebirds"

Cost-benefit analysis of mollusc eating in a shorebird. I. Foraging and processing costs estimated by the doubly labelled water method

Cost-benefit analysis of mollusc-eating in a shorebird. II. Optimizing gizzard size in the face of seasonal demands

Diet preferences as the cause of individual differences rather than the consequence

Diet selection in a molluscivore shorebird across Western Europe: does it show short- or long-term intake rate-maximization?

Digestive capacity and toxicity cause mixed diets in red knots that maximize energy intake rate

Drought, Mutualism Breakdown, and Landscape-Scale Degradation of Seagrass Beds

Economic design in a long-distance migrating molluscivore: how fast-fuelling red knots in Bohai Bay, China, get away with small gizzards

Erratum: Publisher Correction: Resource landscapes explain contrasting patterns of aggregation and site fidelity by red knots at two wintering sites

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

Field measurements give biased estimates of functional response parameters, but help explain foraging distributions

Food web consequences of an evolutionary arms race: Molluscs subject to crab predation on intertidal mudflats in Oman are unavailable to shorebirds

Foraging in a tidally structured environment by Red Knots (Calidris canutus): ideal, but not free

Fuelling conditions at staging sites can mitigate Arctic warming effects in a migratory bird

Global biogeography of chemosynthetic symbionts reveals both localized and globally distributed symbiont groups

Hampered foraging and migratory performance in swans infected with low-pathogenic avian influenza A virus

Hampered performance of migratory swans: intra- and inter-seasonal effects of avian influenza virus

How habitat-modifying organisms structure the food web of two coastal ecosystems

Incompletely informed shorebirds that face a digestive constraint maximize net energy gain when exploiting patches

Individual diet differences in a molluscivore shorebird are associated with the size of body instruments for internal processing rather than for feeding

Landscape-scale experiment demonstrates that Wadden Sea intertidal flats are used to capacity by molluscivore migrant shorebirds.

Longer guts and higher food quality increase energy intake in migratory swans

Mismatch‐induced growth reductions in a clade of Arctic‐breeding shorebirds are rarely mitigated by increasing temperatures

Morphological and digestive adjustments buffer performance: How staging shorebirds cope with severe food declines

Moving on with foraging theory: incorporating movement decisions into the functional response of a gregarious shorebird

Natural selection by pulsed predation: survival of the thickest

Optimal movement between patches under incomplete information about the spatial distribution of food items

Optimizing acceleration-based ethograms: the use of variable-time versus fixed-time segmentation

Personality drives physiological adjustments and is not related to survival

Phenotype-limited distributions: short-billed birds move away during times that prey bury deeply

Publisher Correction: Fuelling conditions at staging sites can mitigate Arctic warming effects in a migratory bird

Reinterpretation of gizzard sizes of red knots world-wide emphasises overriding importance of prey quality at migratory stopover sites

Resource landscapes explain contrasting patterns of aggregation and site fidelity by red knots at two wintering sites

Reversed optimality and predictive ecology: burrowing depth forecasts population change in a bivalve

Scaling up ideals to freedom: are densities of red knots across western Europe consistent with ideal free distribution?

Sex-specific winter distribution in a sexually dimorphic shorebird is explained by resource partitioning

Shellfish dredging pushes a flexible avian top predator out of a marine protected area

Short-term foraging costs and long-term fueling rates in central-place foraging swans revealed by giving-up exploitation times

Small-scale demographic structure suggests preemptive behavior in a flocking shorebird

Stomach fullness shapes prey choice decisions in crab plovers (Dromas ardeola).

Structurally complex sea grass obstructs the sixth sense of a specialized avian molluscivore

The Effect of Digestive Capacity on the Intake Rate of Toxic and Non-Toxic Prey in an Ecological Context

The ecology of information: an overview on the ecological significance of making informed decisions

The exception to the rule: retreating ice front makes Bewick's swansCygnus columbianus bewickiimigrate slower in spring than in autumn

The interactive role of predation, competition and habitat conditions in structuring an intertidal bivalve population

The intertidal mudflats of Barr Al Hikman, Sultanate of Oman, as feeding, reproduction and nursery grounds for brachyuran crabs

Toxin constraint explains diet choice, survival and population dynamics in a molluscivore shorebird

Trophic cascade induced by molluscivore predator alters pore-water biogeochemistry via competitive release of prey

Understanding spatial distributions: negative density-dependence in prey causes predators to trade-off prey quantity with quality.

Validating the Incorporation of 13C and 15N in a Shorebird That Consumes an Isotopically Distinct Chemosymbiotic Bivalve

Ways to be different: foraging adaptations that facilitate higher intake rates in a northerly wintering shorebird compared with a low-latitude conspecific