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B. Irene Tieleman is affiliated with the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant number of publications centered around ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics. This includes subfields such as molecular biology, nature and landscape conservation, and genetics.

Their work largely revolves around topics including avian ecology and behavior, wildlife ecology and conservation, animal behavior and reproduction, genetic diversity and population structure, reproductive tract infections research, gut microbiota and health, as well as fish ecology and management studies.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Animal Microbiome
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Oecologia
  • Journal of Avian Biology
  • Avian Research

Some of the recent papers by B. Irene Tieleman are:

  • "Microbial environment shapes immune function and cloacal microbiota dynamics in zebra finches Taeniopygia guttata," 2020, Animal Microbiome
  • "Systematics of the avian family Alaudidae using multilocus and genomic data," 2023, Avian Research
  • "Physiological stress does not increase with urbanization in European blackbirds: Evidence from hormonal, immunological and cellular indicators," 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Gut microbiota of homing pigeons shows summer-winter variation under constant diet indicating a substantial effect of temperature," 2022, Animal Microbiome
  • "Costs of reproduction and migration are paid in later return to the colony, not in physical condition, in a long-lived seabird," 2020, Oecologia

B. Irene Tieleman frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Joana Falcão Salles
  • Maurine W. Dietz
  • Maaike A. Versteegh
  • Per Alström
  • Loïs Rancilhac

Best Publications

  • Constitutive innate immunity is a component of the pace-of-life syndrome in tropical birds

    B Irene Tieleman;Joseph B Williams;Robert E Ricklefs;Kirk C Klasing

  • Capture Stress and the Bactericidal Competence of Blood and Plasma in Five Species of Tropical Birds

    Kevin D. Matson;B. Irene Tieleman;Kirk C. Klasing

  • Adaptation of metabolism and evaporative water loss along an aridity gradient

    B. Irene Tieleman;Joseph B. Williams;Paulette Bloomer

  • The adjustment of avian metabolic rates and water fluxes to desert environments.

    B. Irene Tieleman;Joseph B. Williams

  • Phenotypic variation of larks along an aridity gradient: Are desert birds more flexible?

    B. Irene Tieleman;Joseph B. Williams;Michael E. Buschur;Chris R. Brown

  • Physiological Adaptation in Desert Birds

    Joseph B. Williams;B. Irene Tieleman

  • Seasonal Redistribution of Immune Function in a Migrant Shorebird: Annual‐Cycle Effects Override Adjustments to Thermal Regime

    Deborah M. Buehler;Theunis Piersma;Kevin D. Matson;B. Irene Tieleman

  • The role of hyperthermia in the water economy of desert birds.

    B.I. Tieleman;J.B. Williams

  • Physiological adjustments to arid and mesic environments in larks (Alaudidae)

    B. Irene Tieleman;Joseph B. Williams;Michael E. Buschur

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

    Arne Hegemann;Kevin D. Matson;Christiaan Both;B. Irene Tieleman

  • Baseline haptoglobin concentrations are repeatable and predictive of certain aspects of a subsequent experimentally-induced inflammatory response.

    Kevin D. Matson;Nicholas P.C. Horrocks;Maaike A. Versteegh;B. Irene Tieleman

  • Effects of immune supplementation and immune challenge on oxidative status and physiology in a model bird: implications for ecologists

    Janske van de Crommenacker;Nicholas P. C. Horrocks;Maaike A. Versteegh;Jan Komdeur

  • Nest Site Selection in a Hot Desert: Trade-Off Between Microclimate and Predation Risk

    B. Irene Tieleman;Hendrika J. Van Noordwijk;Joseph B. Williams

  • Multi-level comparisons of cloacal, skin, feather and nest-associated microbiota suggest considerable influence of horizontal acquisition on the microbiota assembly of sympatric woodlarks and skylarks

    H Pieter J van Veelen;Joana Falcao Salles;B Irene Tieleman

  • How Do Migratory Species Stay Healthy Over the Annual Cycle? A Conceptual Model for Immune Function and For Resistance to Disease

    Deborah M. Buehler;B. Irene Tieleman;Theunis Piersma

  • Constitutive Immune Function Responds More Slowly to Handling Stress than Corticosterone in a Shorebird

    Deborah M. Buehler;Nina Bhola;Daliborka Barjaktarov;Wolfgang Goymann

  • Captive and free-living red knots Calidris canutus exhibit differences in non-induced immunity that suggest different immune strategies in different environments

    Deborah M. Buehler;Theunis Piersma;B. Irene Tieleman

  • Lizard burrows provide thermal refugia for larks in the Arabian desert

    Joseph B. Williams;B. Irene Tieleman;Mohammed Shobrak

  • Effects of food supplementation on behavioural decisions of hoopoe-larks in the Arabian Desert: balancing water, energy and thermoregulation

    B.Irene Tieleman;Joseph B Williams

  • Causes and Consequences of Partial Migration in a Passerine Bird.

    Arne Hegemann;Peter P. Marra;B. Irene Tieleman

  • Wild Skylarks Seasonally Modulate Energy Budgets but Maintain Energetically Costly Inflammatory Immune Responses throughout the Annual Cycle

    Arne Hegemann;Kevin D. Matson;Maaike A. Versteegh;B. Irene Tieleman

  • Pathogen Pressure Puts Immune Defense into Perspective

    Nicholas P. C. Horrocks;Kevin D. Matson;B. Irene Tieleman

  • Physiological Ecology and Behavior of Desert Birds

    Joseph B. Williams;B. Irene Tieleman

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin D. Matson
Kevin D. Matson Wageningen University & Research
Joseph B. Williams
Joseph B. Williams The Ohio State University
Arne Hegemann
Arne Hegemann Lund University
Theunis Piersma
Theunis Piersma University of Groningen
Joana Falcão Salles
Joana Falcão Salles University of Groningen
Will Cresswell
Will Cresswell University of St Andrews
Kirk C. Klasing
Kirk C. Klasing University of California, Davis
Barbara Helm
Barbara Helm University of Glasgow
Ton G. G. Groothuis
Ton G. G. Groothuis University of Groningen
Manuel Soler
Manuel Soler University of Granada

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