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D-Index
57
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19398
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77

Christiaan Both publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christiaan Both sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 153 publications — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Christiaan Both D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christiaan Both sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Christiaan Both is affiliated with the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, focusing on research primarily within environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences.

Their work spans various subfields of study, including:

  • Ecology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Genetics
  • Molecular Biology

Key topics covered in their research include:

  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Identification and Quantification in Food

Christiaan Both has published extensively, with notable frequent publication venues being:

  • Ardea
  • Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Current Biology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Their recent papers include:

  • Connecting the data landscape of long-term ecological studies: The SPI-Birds data hub (2020, Journal of Animal Ecology)
  • DNA metabarcoding quantifies the relative biomass of arthropod taxa in songbird diets: Validation with camera-recorded diets (2022, Ecology and Evolution)
  • Age-dependent timing and routes demonstrate developmental plasticity in a long-distance migratory bird (2021, Journal of Animal Ecology)
  • Exploring the drivers of variation in trophic mismatches: A systematic review of long-term avian studies (2021, Ecology and Evolution)
  • Geolocators lead to better measures of timing and renesting in black-tailed godwits and reveal the bias of traditional observational methods (2020, Journal of Avian Biology)

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • A. H. Jelle Loonstra
  • Mo A. Verhoeven
  • Theunis Piersma
  • Marion Nicolaus
  • Richard Ubels

Best Publications

  • Climate change and population declines in a long-distance migratory bird

    Christiaan Both;Sandra Bouwhuis;Sandra Bouwhuis;C. M. Lessells;Marcel E. Visser

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

    Marcel E Visser;Christiaan Both

  • Adjustment to climate change is constrained by arrival date in a long-distance migrant bird

    Christiaan Both;Marcel E. Visser

  • Fitness consequences of avian personalities in a fluctuating environment

    Niels Jeroen Dingemanse;Christiaan Both;Piet J. Drent;Joost M. Tinbergen

  • Repeatability and heritability of exploratory behaviour in great tits from the wild

    Niels Jeroen Dingemanse;Christiaan Both;Piet J. Drent;Kees van Oers

  • Climate change and unequal phenological changes across four trophic levels: constraints or adaptations?

    Christiaan Both;Margriet Van Asch;Rob G. Bijlsma;Arnold B. Van Den Burg

  • Natal dispersal and personalities in great tits (Parus major)

    Niels Jeroen Dingemanse;Christiaan Both;Arie J. van Noordwijk;Anne L. Rutten

  • Avian population consequences of climate change are most severe for long-distance migrants in seasonal habitats

    Christiaan Both;Chris A. M. Van Turnhout;Rob G. Bijlsma;Henk Siepel

  • Global Climate Change Leads to Mistimed Avian Reproduction

    Marcel E. Visser;Christiaan Both;Marcel M. Lambrechts

  • Large–scale geographical variation confirms that climate change causes birds to lay earlier

    Christiaan Both;Aleksandr V. Artemyev;Bert Blaauw;Richard J. Cowie

  • Pairs of extreme avian personalities have highest reproductive success

    Christiaan Both;Niels Jeroen Dingemanse;Piet J. Drent;Joost M. Tinbergen

  • Challenging claims in the study of migratory birds and climate change

    Endre Knudsen;Andreas Linden;Christiaan Both;Niclas Jonzen

  • Climate change leads to decreasing bird migration distances

    Marcel E. Visser;Albert C. Perdeck;Johan H. van Balen;Christiaan Both

  • Pay-offs and penalties of competing migratory schedules

    Rudi Drent;Christiaan Both;Martin Green;Jesper Madsen

  • The effect of climate change on the correlation between avian life‐history traits

    Christiaan Both;Marcel E. Visser

  • Density-dependent recruitment rates in great tits: the importance of being heavier

    Christiaan Both;Marcel E. Visser;Nanette Verboven

  • Quality vs. quantity: energetic and nutritional trade-offs in parental provisioning strategies

    J. Wright;C. Both;P.A. Cotton;D. Bryant

  • Climatic effects on timing of spring migration and breeding in a long‐distance migrant, the pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca

    Christiaan Both;Rob G. Bijlsma;Marcel E. Visser

  • Predicting life-cycle adaptation of migratory birds to global climate change

    Timothy Coppack;Christiaan Both

  • Climate change and timing of avian breeding and migration throughout Europe

    Christiaan Both;Luc te Marvelde

Frequent Co-Authors

Theunis Piersma
Theunis Piersma University of Groningen
Marcel E. Visser
Marcel E. Visser University of Groningen
Joost M. Tinbergen
Joost M. Tinbergen University of Groningen
Jaime Potti
Jaime Potti Spanish National Research Council
Toni Laaksonen
Toni Laaksonen University of Turku
Indrikis Krams
Indrikis Krams University of Latvia
Jan Komdeur
Jan Komdeur University of Groningen
Niels Jeroen Dingemanse
Niels Jeroen Dingemanse Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Bart Kempenaers
Bart Kempenaers Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Jonathan Wright
Jonathan Wright Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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