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Overview

Barbara Helm is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines within environmental and biological sciences, with a particular focus on avian ecology and behavior.

The scientist's main fields of study include environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. More specifically, their subfields of research comprise ecology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, global and planetary change, ecological modeling, and endocrine and autonomic systems.

The main topics covered in their work reflect a strong emphasis on animal biology and ecosystem interactions. These topics include:

  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Animal behavior and reproduction
  • Species distribution and climate change
  • Impact of light on environment and health
  • Circadian rhythm and melatonin
  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Wildlife ecology and conservation

Barbara Helm's publication record includes papers in various peer-reviewed journals. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Endogenous Programs and Flexibility in Bird Migration" (2020), published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Continent-wide Genomic Signatures of Adaptation to Urbanisation in a Songbird Across Europe" (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • "Drivers of Infectious Disease Seasonality: Potential Implications for COVID-19" (2021), published in Journal of Biological Rhythms
  • "Multi-sensor Geolocators Unveil Global and Local Movements in an Alpine-breeding Long-distance Migrant" (2023), published in Movement Ecology
  • "Bitter Fruits of Hard Labour: Diet Metabarcoding and Telemetry Reveal That Urban Songbirds Travel Further for Lower-quality Food" (2020), published in Oecologia

Frequent publication venues for this researcher include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biology Letters
  • Journal für Ornithologie
  • Movement Ecology
  • Scientific Reports

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their research practice. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Davide M. Dominoni
  • Marcel E. Visser
  • Crinan Jarrett
  • Yann Rime
  • Luke L. Powell

Best Publications

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

    Marcel E. Visser;Samuel P. Caro;Kees van Oers;Sonja von Schaper

  • Annual rhythms that underlie phenology: biological time-keeping meets environmental change

    Barbara Helm;Rachel Ben-Shlomo;Michael J. Sheriff;Roelof A. Hut

  • Circannual and circadian contributions to the timing of avian migration

    Eberhard Gwinner;Barbara Helm

  • Urban-like night illumination reduces melatonin release in European blackbirds (Turdus merula): implications of city life for biological time-keeping of songbirds

    Davide M Dominoni;Wolfgang Goymann;Barbara Helm;Jesko Partecke

  • Disrupted seasonal biology impacts health, food security and ecosystems

    T. J. Stevenson;Marcel E. Visser;W. Arnold;P. Barrett

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

    Barbara Helm;Marcel E. Visser;William Schwartz;Noga Kronfeld-Schor

  • Clocks for the city: circadian differences between forest and city songbirds

    Davide M Dominoni;Barbara Helm;Marina Lehmann;Harold B Dowse

  • Animal activity around the clock with no overt circadian rhythms: patterns, mechanisms and adaptive value

    Guy Bloch;Brian M. Barnes;Menno P. Gerkema;Barbara Helm

  • Unexpected diversity in socially synchronized rhythms of shorebirds

    Martin Bulla;Mihai Valcu;Adriaan M. Dokter;Alexei G. Dondua

  • Sociable schedules: interplay between avian seasonal and social behaviour

    Barbara Helm;Theunis Piersma;Henk Van der Jeugd

  • Endogenous programs and flexibility in bird migration

    Susanne Åkesson;Barbara Helm

  • The influence of biological rhythms on host–parasite interactions

    Micaela Martinez-Bakker;Barbara Helm

  • Timing avian long-distance migration : From internal clock mechanisms to global flights

    Susanne Åkesson;Mihaela Ilieva;Julia Karagicheva;Eldar Rakhimberdiev;Eldar Rakhimberdiev

  • Avian circannual clocks: adaptive significance and possible involvement of energy turnover in their proximate control

    Martin Wikelski;Lynn B Martin;Lynn B Martin;Alex Scheuerlein;Maisha T Robinson

  • Digital epidemiology reveals global childhood disease seasonality and the effects of immunization

    Kevin M. Bakker;Micaela Elvira Martinez-Bakker;Barbara Helm;Tyler J. Stevenson

  • Wing pointedness associated with migratory distance in common-garden and comparative studies of stonechats (Saxicola torquata).

    Maude W Baldwin;Hans Winkler;CL Organ;Barbara Helm

  • Heritable circadian period length in a wild bird population

    Barbara Helm;Marcel E. Visser

  • Correlated patterns of genetic diversity and differentiation across an avian family

    Benjamin M Van Doren;Leonardo Campagna;Barbara Helm;Juan Carlos Illera

  • Evolutionary response to climate change in migratory Pied flycatchers

    Barbara Helm;Barbara Helm;Benjamin M Van Doren;Dieter Hoffmann;Ute Hoffmann

  • Circannual basis of geographically distinct bird schedules

    Barbara Helm;Ingrid Schwabl;Eberhard Gwinner

  • Supporting Information for 'Unexpected diversity in socially synchronized rhythms of shorebirds'

    Martin Bulla;Mihai Valcu;Adriaan M. Dokter;Alexei G. Dondua

Frequent Co-Authors

Eberhard Gwinner
Eberhard Gwinner Max Planck Society
Marcel E. Visser
Marcel E. Visser University of Groningen
Juan Carlos Illera
Juan Carlos Illera University of Oviedo
Theunis Piersma
Theunis Piersma University of Groningen
Niels Jeroen Dingemanse
Niels Jeroen Dingemanse Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Wolfgang Goymann
Wolfgang Goymann Max Planck Society
Phil F. Battley
Phil F. Battley Massey University
Mihai Valcu
Mihai Valcu Max Planck Society
Michaela Hau
Michaela Hau University of Konstanz
William J. Schwartz
William J. Schwartz The University of Texas at Austin

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