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Anne Dekinga is affiliated with the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions in ecology and oceanography.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science

Within this broad field, Dekinga's subfields of study emphasize:

  • Ecology
  • Oceanography
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Computer Networks and Communications

Their research topics cover a range of areas related to animal and marine ecology:

  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction

Anne Dekinga has coauthored extensively with several researchers, indicating collaborative efforts within their field. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Allert I. Bijleveld
  • Christine E. Beardsworth
  • Ran Nathan
  • Sivan Toledo
  • Theunis Piersma

Their work has been published in a variety of journals, with notable frequent venues being:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Journal of Avian Biology

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Dekinga highlight studies related to bird tracking, foraging behavior, and population differentiation among migratory species:

  • "Validating ATLAS: A regional-scale high-throughput tracking system" (2022), Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Exploration speed in captivity predicts foraging tactics and diet in free-living red knots" (2021), Journal of Animal Ecology
  • "A red knot as a black swan: how a single bird shows navigational abilities during repeat crossings of the Greenland Icecap" (2020), Journal of Avian Biology
  • "Central-West Siberian-breeding Bar-tailed Godwits (Limosa lapponica) segregate in two morphologically distinct flyway populations" (2021), Ibis
  • "WATLAS: high-throughput and real-time tracking of many small birds in the Dutch Wadden Sea" (2022), Animal Biotelemetry

Best Publications

  • Empirical evidence for differential organ reductions during trans-oceanic bird flight

    Phil F Battley;Theunis Piersma;Maurine W Dietz;Sixian Tang

  • Long‐term indirect effects of mechanical cockle‐dredging on intertidal bivalve stocks in the Wadden Sea

    Theunis Piersma;Anita Koolhaas;Anne Dekinga;Jan J. Beukema

  • Scale and intensity of intertidal habitat use by knots Calidris canutus in the Western Wadden Sea in relation to food, friends and foes

    Theunis Piersma;Rinke Hoekstra;Anne Dekinga;Anita Koolhaas

  • Interactions Between Stomach Structure and Diet Choice in Shorebirds

    Theunis Piersma;Anita Koolhaas;Anne Dekinga

  • Avian pectoral muscle size rapidly tracks body mass changes during flight, fasting and fuelling.

    Åke Lindström;Anders Kvist;Theunis Piersma;Anne Dekinga

  • Mass mortality of common eiders (Somateria mollissima) in the Dutch Wadden Sea, winter 1999/2000: starvation in a commercially exploited wetland of international importance

    CJ Camphuysen;CM Berrevoets;Hjwm Cremers;A Dekinga

  • Foraging in a tidally structured environment by red knots (Calidris canutus): Ideal, but not free

    Jan A. van Gils;Bernard Spaans;Anne Dekinga;Theunis Piersma

  • Distinctly variable mudscapes: Distribution gradients of intertidal macrofauna across the Dutch Wadden Sea

    Tanya J. Compton;Sander Holthuijsen;Anita Koolhaas;Anne Dekinga

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

    Jan A. van Gils;Theunis Piersma;Anne Dekinga;Maurine W. Dietz

  • Digestive bottleneck affects foraging decisions in red knots Calidris canutus. I. Prey choice

    Jan A. Van Gils;Sem R. De Rooij;Jelmer Van Belle;Jaap Van Der Meer

  • Reconstructing diet composition on the basis of faeces in a mollusc-eating wader, the Knot Calidris canutus

    A. Dekinga;Theunis Piersma

  • Time course and reversibility of changes in the gizzards of red knots alternately eating hard and soft food

    Anne Dekinga;Maurine W. Dietz;Anita Koolhaas;Theunis Piersma

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

    Jan A van Gils;Theunis Piersma;Anne Dekinga;Bernard Spaans

  • Digestive bottleneck affects foraging decisions in red knots Calidris canutus. II. Patch choice and length of working day

    Jan A. Van Gils;Anne Dekinga;Bernard Spaans;Wouter K. Vahl

  • Acclimation to different thermal conditions in a northerly wintering shorebird is driven by body mass-related changes in organ size

    Francois Vezina;Kirsten M. Jalvingh;Anne Dekinga;Theunis Piersma

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

    Casper Kraan;Jan A. van Gils;Bernard Spaans;Anne Dekinga

  • Rates of mass gain and energy deposition in red knot on their final spring staging site is both time‐ and condition‐dependent

    Philip W. Atkinson;Allan J. Baker;Karen A. Bennett;Nigel A. Clark

  • Designing a benthic monitoring programme with multiple conflicting objectives

    Allert I. Bijleveld;Jan A. van Gils;Jaap van der Meer;Anne Dekinga

  • Estimating organ size in small migrating shorebirds with ultrasonography : An intercalibration exercise

    Maurine W. Dietz;Anne Dekinga;Theunis Piersma;Simon Verhulst

  • Is Long‐Distance Bird Flight Equivalent to a High‐Energy Fast? Body Composition Changes in Freely Migrating and Captive Fasting Great Knots

    Phil F. Battley;Maurine W. Dietz;Theunis Piersma;Anne Dekinga

  • Body-building without power training: endogenously regulated pectoral muscle hypertrophy in confined shorebirds

    Maurine W. Dietz;Theunis Piersma;Anne Dekinga

Frequent Co-Authors

Theunis Piersma
Theunis Piersma University of Groningen
Jan A. van Gils
Jan A. van Gils Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Phil F. Battley
Phil F. Battley Massey University
Marcel Klaassen
Marcel Klaassen Deakin University
Barbara Helm
Barbara Helm University of Glasgow
Eberhard Gwinner
Eberhard Gwinner Max Planck Society
Henk W. van der Veer
Henk W. van der Veer Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
David W. Winkler
David W. Winkler Cornell University
Åke Lindström
Åke Lindström Lund University
Sivan Toledo
Sivan Toledo Tel Aviv University

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