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

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, October 2014, Wiley

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

  2. Digestive Capacity and Toxicity Cause Mixed Diets in Red Knots That Maximize Energy Intake Rate

    Article • The American Naturalist, May 2014, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

  3. van den Hout, P. J., van Gils, J. A., Robin, F., van der Geest, M., Dekinga, A., & Piersma, T. (2014). Interference from adults forces young red knots to forage for longer and in dangerous places. Animal Behaviour, 88, 137–146.

    Article • Animal Behaviour, May 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

  4. Nutritional and reproductive strategies in a chemosymbiotic bivalve living in a tropical intertidal seagrass bed

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, March 2014, Inter-Research Science Center

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

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

    Article • Movement Ecology, March 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

  6. Personality drives physiological adjustments and is not related to survival

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, March 2014, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Jan A. van Gils, Dr Allert I Bijleveld

  7. Interference from adults forces young red knots to forage for longer and in dangerous places

    Article • Animal Behaviour, February 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

  8. Seasonal changes in mollusc abundance in a tropical intertidal ecosystem, Banc d'Arguin (Mauritania): Testing the ‘depletion by shorebirds’ hypothesis

    Article • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, January 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

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

    Article • Journal of Avian Biology, December 2013, Wiley

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

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

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, September 2013, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

  11. Red Knot diet reconstruction revisited: context dependence revealed by experiments at Banc d'Arguin, Mauritania

    Article • Bird Study, August 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

  12. Predators in chemosynthesis-based food webs need both toxic and non-toxic prey

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, June 2013, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

  13. Seagrass–Sediment Feedback: An Exploration Using a Non-recursive Structural Equation Model

    Article • Ecosystems, September 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

  14. The Flexible Phenotype: A Body-Centred Integration of Ecology, Physiology, and Behaviour . By Theunis Piersma and Jan A. van Gils. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. $117.00 (hardcover); $52.95 (paper). ix + 238 p.; ill.; name and subject i...

    Article • The Quarterly Review of Biology, September 2012, University of Chicago Press

    Dustin R. Rubenstein, Dr Jan A. van Gils

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

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, September 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

  16. A Three-Stage Symbiosis Forms the Foundation of Seagrass Ecosystems

    Article • Science, June 2012, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

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

    Article • Ecology, May 2012, Wiley

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

  18. The Flexible Phenotype: A Body-Centred Integration of Ecology, Physiology, and Behavior .— Theunis Piersma and Jan A. van Gils . 2011 . Oxford University Press , Oxford, UK . 256 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-959724-6 . $52.95 (paperback).

    Article • Ornithological Applications, May 2012, Cooper Ornithological Society

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

  19. Designing a benthic monitoring programme with multiple conflicting objectives

    Article • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, February 2012, Wiley

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

  20. The Flexible Phenotype: A Body-Centred Integration of Ecology, Physiology and Behaviour.— Piersma Theunis and van Gils Jan A. . 2011. Oxford University Press, New York. 238 pp. ISBN 9780199597246. Paper, $52.95.

    Article • Ornithology, January 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

  21. Suitability of calcein as an in situ growth marker in burrowing bivalves

    Article • Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, March 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

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

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, February 2011, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

  23. Habitat carrying capacity is reached for the European eel in a small coastal catchment: evidence and implications for managing eel stocks

    Article • Freshwater Biology, December 2010, Wiley

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

  24. Why Afro-Siberian Red Knots Calidris Canutus Canutus have Stopped Staging in the Western Dutch Wadden Sea During Southward Migration

    Article • Ardea, October 2010, Netherlands Ornithologists' Union

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

  25. State-dependent Bayesian foraging on spatially autocorrelated food distributions

    Article • Oikos, February 2010, Wiley

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

  26. Biological information in an ecological context

    Article • Oikos, February 2010, Wiley

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

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

    Article • Oikos, February 2010, Wiley

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

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

    Article • Oikos, February 2010, Wiley

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

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

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, January 2010, Wiley

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

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

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, November 2009, Wiley

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

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

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, February 2009, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

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

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, November 2008, Wiley

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

  33. AVIAN HERBIVORY: AN EXPERIMENT, A FIELD TEST, AND AN ALLOMETRIC COMPARISON WITH MAMMALS

    Article • Ecology, November 2007, Wiley

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

  34. Short‐Term Foraging Costs and Long‐Term Fueling Rates in Central‐Place Foraging Swans Revealed by Giving‐Up Exploitation Times

    Article • The American Naturalist, May 2007, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

  35. Hampered Foraging and Migratory Performance in Swans Infected with Low-Pathogenic Avian Influenza A Virus

    Article • PLoS ONE, January 2007, PLOS

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

  36. Digestive Organ Size and Behavior of Red Knots (Calidris Canutus) Indicate the Quality of Their Benthic Food Stocks

    Article • Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution, January 2007, Brill

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

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

    Article • Theoretical Population Biology, December 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

  38. Shellfish Dredging Pushes a Flexible Avian Top Predator out of a Marine Protected Area

    Article • PLoS Biology, November 2006, PLOS

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

  39. High-tide habitat choice: insights from modelling roost selection by shorebirds around a tropical bay

    Article • Animal Behaviour, September 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

  40. FORAGING IN A TIDALLY STRUCTURED ENVIRONMENT BY RED KNOTS (CALIDRIS CANUTUS): IDEAL, BUT NOT FREE

    Article • Ecology, May 2006, Wiley

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

  41. HIGHLY SOCIAL FORAGER

    Article • The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, April 2006, Wiley

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

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

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, December 2005, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

  43. How do red knotsCalidris canutusleave Northwest Australia in May and reach the breeding grounds in June? Predictions of stopover times, fuelling rates and prey quality in the Yellow Sea

    Article • Journal of Avian Biology, November 2005, Wiley

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

  44. 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

    Article • Journal of Avian Biology, September 2005, Wiley

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

  45. Digestive bottleneck affects foraging decisions in red knotsCalidris canutus. I. Prey choice

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, December 2004, Wiley

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

  46. Digestive bottleneck affects foraging decisions in red knotsCalidris canutus. II. Patch choice and length of working day

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, December 2004, Wiley

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

  47. Digestively constrained predators evade the cost of interference competition

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, March 2004, Wiley

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

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

    Article • Oikos, January 2004, Wiley

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

  49. Do body condition and plumage during fuelling predict northwards departure dates of Great Knots Calidris tenuirostris from north-west Australia?

    Article • Ibis, December 2003, Wiley

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

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

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, October 2003, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

  51. Incompletely Informed Shorebirds That Face a Digestive Constraint Maximize Net Energy Gain When Exploiting Patches

    Article • The American Naturalist, May 2003, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Jan A. van Gils

  52. Holling's Functional Response Model as a Tool to Link the Food-Finding Mechanism of a Probing Shorebird with its Spatial Distribution

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, July 1995, JSTOR

    Dr Jan A. van Gils