List of works by Marcel E Visser

11 Pressing Research Questions on How Light Pollution Affects Biodiversity

scientific article published in 2021

A high density SNP chip for genotyping great tit (Parus major) populations and its application to studying the genetic architecture of exploration behaviour.

scientific article published on 23 March 2018

A new method for catching cavity-nesting birds during egg laying and incubation

article by Luc te Marvelde et al published 24 August 2011 in Journal of Field Ornithology

A new statistical tool to predict phenology under climate change scenarios

scholarly article by Phillip Gienapp et al published April 2005 in Global Change Biology

A single long day triggers follicle growth in captive female great tits (Parus major) in winter but does not affect laying dates in the wild in spring

scientific article

Activity patterns during food provisioning are affected by artificial light in free living great tits (Parus major).

scientific article

Adaptive phenological mismatches of birds and their food in a warming world

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Adaptive responses of animals to climate change are most likely insufficient

scientific article published on 23 July 2019

Analysing population numbers of the house sparrow in the Netherlands with a matrix model and suggestions for conservation measures.

scientific article published in September 2006

Archiving Primary Data: Solutions for Long-Term Studies

scientific article

Are naïve birds attracted to herbivore-induced plant defences?

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Artificial light at night as a driver of evolution across urban-rural landscapes

article by Gareth R Hopkins et al published 13 September 2018 in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Artificial light at night shifts daily activity patterns but not the internal clock in the great tit (Parus major).

scientific article published in March 2018

Artificial light at night, in interaction with spring temperature, modulates timing of reproduction in a passerine bird

scientific article published on 13 January 2020

Behavioural, ecological and evolutionary responses to extreme climatic events: challenges and directions

scientific article

Between- and Within-Individual Variation of Maternal Thyroid Hormone Deposition in Wild Great Tits (Parus major)

scientific article published on 09 August 2019

Birds exploit herbivore-induced plant volatiles to locate herbivorous prey

scientific article

Brominated flame retardants and organochlorines in the European environment using great tit eggs as a biomonitoring tool

scientific article

CNVs are associated with genomic architecture in a songbird.

scientific article published on 13 March 2018

CONTRASTING PATTERNS OF PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY IN REPRODUCTIVE TRAITS IN TWO GREAT TIT (PARUS MAJOR) POPULATIONS

scientific article published on 18 March 2010

Central assumptions of predator-prey models fail in a semi-natural experimental system.

scientific article published in February 2004

Chronobiology of interspecific interactions in a changing world

scientific article published in November 2017

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 leads to decreasing bird migration distances

scholarly article by Marcel E Visser et al published August 2009 in Global Change Biology

Climate change leads to differential shifts in the timing of annual cycle stages in a migratory bird

scientific article

Climate change relaxes the time constraints for late-born offspring in a long-distance migrant

scientific article published in September 2016

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

scientific article

Climate change, phenological shifts, eco-evolutionary responses and population viability: toward a unifying predictive approach

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

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Comparing two measures of phenological synchrony in a predator-prey interaction: Simpler works better

scientific article published on 17 December 2019

Connecting the data landscape of long-term ecological studies: the SPI-Birds data hub

scientific article published on 17 November 2020

Continent-wide genomic signatures of adaptation to urbanisation in a songbird across Europe

scientific article published on 20 May 2021

Covariation and phenotypic integration in chemical communication displays: biosynthetic constraints and eco-evolutionary implications.

scientific article published on 3 March 2017

Decline in the frequency and benefits of multiple brooding in great tits as a consequence of a changing environment.

scientific article published on 25 February 2009

Demographic routes to variability and regulation in bird populations

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Density dependence and microevolution interactively determine effects of phenology mismatch on population dynamics

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Density dependence in an age-structured population of great tits: identifying the critical age classes

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Disrupted seasonal biology impacts health, food security and ecosystems

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Do Wild Great Tits Avoid Exposure to Light at Night?

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Dose-dependent responses of avian daily rhythms to artificial light at night

scientific article published on 15 December 2015

Dose-response effects of light at night on the reproductive physiology of great tits (Parus major): Integrating morphological analyses with candidate gene expression.

scientific article published on 29 July 2018

Early Birds by Light at Night: Effects of Light Color and Intensity on Daily Activity Patterns in Blue Tits

scientific article published in July 2017

Early arrival is not associated with more extra-pair fertilizations in a long-distance migratory bird

Effects of Temperature on Circadian Clock and Chronotype: An Experimental Study on a Passerine Bird

scientific article published on 10 August 2012

Effects of experimentally manipulated yolk thyroid hormone levels on offspring development in a wild bird species

scientific article published on 4 April 2016

Effects of nocturnal illumination on life-history decisions and fitness in two wild songbird species

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

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Energy expenditure during egg laying is equal for early and late breeding free-living female great tits

scientific article published on 21 September 2011

Environment-Dependent Genotype-Phenotype Associations in Avian Breeding Time

scientific article

Environmental coupling of heritability and selection is rare and of minor evolutionary significance in wild populations

scientific article published on 18 June 2018

Estimating the variation, autocorrelation, and environmental sensitivity of phenotypic selection.

scientific article published on 30 July 2015

Evidence for r- and K-selection in a wild bird population: a reciprocal link between ecology and evolution

scientific article published in April 2016

Evolution: Adapting to a Warming World

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Evolutionary and demographic consequences of phenological mismatches

scientific article published on 22 April 2019

Evolutionary response of the egg hatching date of a herbivorous insect under climate change

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Evolutionary signals of selection on cognition from the great tit genome and methylome.

scientific article published on 25 January 2016

Experimental illumination of a forest: no effects of lights of different colours on the onset of the dawn chorus in songbirds.

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Experimental illumination of natural habitat--an experimental set-up to assess the direct and indirect ecological consequences of artificial light of different spectral composition

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Experimental manipulation of food availability leads to short-term intra-clutch adjustment in egg mass but not in yolk androgen or thyroid hormones

article by Suvi Ruuskanen et al published 20 August 2015 in Journal of Avian Biology

Exploration of tissue-specific gene expression patterns underlying timing of breeding in contrasting temperature environments in a song bird

scientific article published on 02 September 2019

Exploring the unmapped DNA and RNA reads in a songbird genome

scientific article published on 08 January 2019

Fatter marmots on the rise

scientific article published in Nature

Feather mass and winter moult extent are heritable but not associated with fitness-related traits in a long-distance migratory bird

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Fine-tuning of seasonal timing of breeding is regulated downstream in the underlying neuro-endocrine system in a small songbird

scientific article published on 03 September 2019

Fluctuating optimum and temporally variable selection on breeding date in birds and mammals

scientific article published on 30 November 2020

Generation time and temporal scaling of bird population dynamics

scientific article

Genetic background, and not ontogenetic effects, affects avian seasonal timing of reproduction.

scientific article

Genetic variation in cue sensitivity involved in avian timing of reproduction

scientific article published in 2011

Genetic variation in variability: Phenotypic variability of fledging weight and its evolution in a songbird population.

scientific article

Genome-wide SNP detection in the great tit Parus major using high throughput sequencing.

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Genomic selection on breeding time in a wild bird population

scientific article published on 05 March 2019

Geographical trends in the yolk carotenoid composition of the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca)

scientific article

Geographical variation in egg mass and egg content in a passerine bird

scientific article

Global Climate Change Leads to Mistimed Avian Reproduction

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

Great tits (Parus major) reduce caterpillar damage in commercial apple orchards

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Great tits provided with ad libitum food lay larger eggs when exposed to colder temperatures

Heritability of gonad size varies across season in a wild songbird.

scientific article

Heritable circadian period length in a wild bird population.

scientific article published on 9 June 2010

Heritable variation in maternally derived yolk androgens, thyroid hormones and immune factors

scientific article published on 6 July 2016

Host dispersal shapes the population structure of a tick-borne bacterial pathogen

scientific article published on 09 January 2020

How to do meta-analysis of open datasets

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Increasing temperature, not mean temperature, is a cue for avian timing of reproduction

scientific article

Individual variation in avian reproductive physiology does not reliably predict variation in laying date.

scientific article published on 3 August 2012

Integrating Causal and Evolutionary Analysis of Life-History Evolution: Arrival Date in a Long-Distant Migrant

scientific article published in 2021

International scientists formulate a roadmap for insect conservation and recovery

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Interspecific transfer of parasites following a range-shift in Ficedula flycatchers. ⬇️

scientific article published on 11 November 2018

Introduction. Integration of ecology and endocrinology in avian reproduction: a new synthesis

scientific article published on May 2008

Is microevolution the only emergency exit in a warming world? Temperature influences egg laying but not its underlying mechanisms in great tits

scientific article

Keeping up with a warming world; assessing the rate of adaptation to climate change.

scientific article published in March 2008

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

Large-scale geographical variation in eggshell metal and calcium content in a passerine bird (Ficedula hypoleuca).

scientific article published in March 2014

Longitudinal data reveal ontogenetic changes in the wing morphology of a long-distance migratory bird

scientific article published in 2013

Low but contrasting neutral genetic differentiation shaped by winter temperature in European great tits

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Manipulation of life-history decisions using leptin in a wild passerine

scientific article published on 20 March 2012

Mate preference of female blue tits varies with experimental photoperiod

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Maternal effects in an insect herbivore as a mechanism to adapt to host plant phenology

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Meta-analysis of multidecadal biodiversity trends in Europe

scientific article published on 13 July 2020

Mismatched reproduction is energetically costly for chick feeding female great tits

scientific article published in 2011

Modeling winter moth Operophtera brumata egg phenology: nonlinear effects of temperature and developmental stage on developmental rate

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Multisensory pollution: Artificial light at night and anthropogenic noise have interactive effects on activity patterns of great tits (Parus major)

scientific article published on 13 November 2019

Navigating the unfolding open data landscape in ecology and evolution

article by Antica Culina et al published March 2018 in Nature Ecology and Evolution

Personality and gonadal development as sources of individual variation in response to GnRH challenge in female great tits

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Phenological mismatch drives selection on elevation, but not on slope, of breeding time plasticity in a wild songbird

scientific article published on 21 December 2018

Phenological mismatch strongly affects individual fitness but not population demography in a woodland passerine

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Phenology of forest caterpillars and their host trees: the importance of synchrony

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Phenology, seasonal timing and circannual rhythms: towards a unified framework

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Photoperiodic cues regulate phenological carry-over effects in an herbivorous insect

article by Lucia Salis et al published 7 September 2017 in Functional Ecology

Population growth in a wild bird is buffered against phenological mismatch

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Predicting adaptation of phenology in response to climate change, an insect herbivore example

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Predicting demographically sustainable rates of adaptation: can great tit breeding time keep pace with climate change?

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Predicting species distribution and abundance responses to climate change: why it is essential to include biotic interactions across trophic levels ⬇️

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Quantifying individual variation in reaction norms: Mind the residual

scientific article published on 09 December 2019

Rapid changes in DNA methylation associated with the initiation of reproduction in a small songbird

scientific article published on 02 February 2021

Recent natural selection causes adaptive evolution of an avian polygenic trait.

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Replicated analysis of the genetic architecture of quantitative traits in two wild great tit populations

scientific article published on 10 December 2015

Replicated high-density genetic maps of two great tit populations reveal fine-scale genomic departures from sex-equal recombination rates.

scientific article published on 23 October 2013

Reply to: More evidence is needed to show that heritability and selection are not associated

scientific article published on 23 September 2019

Response of bats to light with different spectra: light-shy and agile bat presence is affected by white and green, but not red light

scientific article published in May 2017

Response to Perrier and Charmantier: On the importance of time scales when studying adaptive evolution.

scientific article published on 4 April 2019

Restless roosts: Light pollution affects behavior, sleep, and physiology in a free-living songbird

scientific article published on 9 June 2017

Seasonal Variation in Genome-Wide DNA Methylation Patterns and the Onset of Seasonal Timing of Reproduction in Great Tits

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Selection on heritable phenotypic plasticity in a wild bird population

scientific article

Shifts in caterpillar biomass phenology due to climate change and its impact on the breeding biology of an insectivorous bird

scientific article

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

scientific article published in December 2005

Short-term, but not long-term, increased daytime workload leads to decreased night-time energetics in a free-living song bird

scientific article published on 19 July 2019

Similar patterns of age-specific reproduction in an island and mainland population of great tits Parus major

Simulated moult reduces flight performance but overlap with breeding does not affect breeding success in a long-distance migrant

scientific article published in 2017

Singing Activity Reveals Personality Traits in Great Tits

Sleeping birds do not respond to predator odour

scientific article

Solar activity affects avian timing of reproduction

scientific article published on 2 July 2009

Solutions for Archiving Data in Long-Term Studies: A Reply to Whitlock et al.

scientific article published on 6 January 2016

Spatial and temporal variation in the relative contribution of density dependence, climate variation and migration to fluctuations in the size of great tit populations

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Speeding up microevolution: the effects of increasing temperature on selection and genetic variance in a wild bird population

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Spring phenology does not affect timing of reproduction in the great tit (Parus major).

scientific article published in November 2011

Stressful colours: corticosterone concentrations in a free-living songbird vary with the spectral composition of experimental illumination

scientific article

Temperature has a causal and plastic effect on timing of breeding in a small songbird

scientific article published on 23 March 2020

Temperature has a causal effect on avian timing of reproduction.

scientific article published on 25 March 2009

Temperature-induced elevation of basal metabolic rate does not affect testis growth in great tits.

scientific article published in July 2009

Temperature-induced variation in yolk androgen and thyroid hormone levels in avian eggs

scientific article published on 30 May 2016

Temporal correlations among demographic parameters are ubiquitous but highly variable across species

scientific article published on 24 May 2022

Temporal differences in food abundance promote coexistence between two congeneric passerines

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Temporally replicated DNA methylation patterns in great tit using reduced representation bisulfite sequencing

scientific article published on 24 July 2019

Testing for biases in selection on avian reproductive traits and partitioning direct and indirect selection using quantitative genetic models

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Testing for effects of climate change on competitive relationships and coexistence between two bird species.

scientific article published in May 2015

Testing mechanisms of Bergmann's rule: phenotypic decline but no genetic change in body size in three passerine bird populations

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The Genome of Winter Moth (Operophtera brumata) Provides a Genomic Perspective on Sexual Dimorphism and Phenology.

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The Genomic Complexity of a Large Inversion in Great Tits

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

The biological impacts of artificial light at night: the research challenge

scientific article (publication date: 16 March 2015)

The case of the missing mechanism: how does temperature influence seasonal timing in endotherms?

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The design and cross-population application of a genome-wide SNP chip for the great tit Parus major.

scientific article published on 5 April 2012

The effect of climate change on avian offspring production: A global meta-analysis

scientific article published in May 2023

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

The extended Moran effect and large-scale synchronous fluctuations in the size of great tit and blue tit populations

scientific article published in March 2007

The preference and costs of sleeping under light at night in forest and urban great tits

scientific article published on 19 June 2019

Timing in a fluctuating environment: environmental variability and asymmetric fitness curves can lead to adaptively mismatched avian reproduction.

scientific article published on 23 May 2012

Timing manipulations reveal the lack of a causal link across timing of annual-cycle stages in a long-distance migrant

scientific article published on 09 September 2019

Two sides of a coin: ecological and chronobiological perspectives of timing in the wild.

scientific article published in November 2017

Understanding Evolutionary Impacts of Seasonality: An Introduction to the Symposium

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Urban street lighting differentially affects community attributes of airborne and ground‐dwelling invertebrate assemblages

scientific article published in 2021

Variable responses to large-scale climate change in European Parus populations

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Variation in eggshell traits between geographically distant populations of pied flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca

What type of rigorous experiments are needed to investigate the impact of artificial light at night on individuals and populations?

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Why climate change will invariably alter selection pressures on phenology

scientific article published in October 2014

Wild great and blue tits do not avoid chemical cues of predators when selecting cavities for roosting

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

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