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Jan A. van Gils is affiliated with the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a substantial body of work in related subfields such as Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, and Ecological Modeling.

The scientist's work encompasses a range of topics including Species Distribution and Climate Change, Avian ecology and behavior, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, and Marine and fisheries research.

Jan A. van Gils has published extensively, with a number of recent papers illustrating key areas of their research:

  • "Exploring the drivers of variation in trophic mismatches: A systematic review of long-term avian studies" (2021, Ecology and Evolution)
  • "Global biogeography of chemosynthetic symbionts reveals both localized and globally distributed symbiont groups" (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Individual-Level Memory Is Sufficient to Create Spatial Segregation among Neighboring Colonies of Central Place Foragers" (2021, The American Naturalist)
  • "Mismatch-induced growth reductions in a clade of Arctic-breeding shorebirds are rarely mitigated by increasing temperatures" (2021, Global Change Biology)
  • "Migratory vertebrates shift migration timing and distributions in a warming Arctic" (2021, Animal Migration)

The scientist regularly contributes to a variety of academic venues. Frequent publication platforms include Birds of the World, SSRN Electronic Journal, Ecology and Evolution, Global Change Biology, and Hydrobiologia.

Jan A. van Gils collaborates with several coauthors often contributing to their research output. Frequent coauthors include Popko Wiersma, Guy M. Kirwan, Mikhail K. Zhemchuzhnikov, Theunis Piersma, and Dmitry Kutcherov.

In addition to articles, Jan A. van Gils has published books, including a work under the University of Groningen Press titled Aanpassingen van trekvogels aan een snel veranderende wereld published in 2022.

Best Publications

  • The Flexible Phenotype: A Body-Centred Integration of Ecology, Physiology, and Behaviour

    Theunis Piersma;Jan A. van Gils

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

    Kenneth A. Schmidt;Sasha R. X. Dall;Jan A. Van Gils

  • A Three-Stage Symbiosis Forms the Foundation of Seagrass Ecosystems

    Tjisse van der Heide;Laura L. Govers;Jimmy de Fouw;Han Olff

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

    Jan A. van Gils;Vincent J. Munster;Reinder Radersma;Daan Liefhebber

  • Body shrinkage due to Arctic warming reduces red knot fitness in tropical wintering range

    Jan A. van Gils;Simeon Lisovski;Tamar Lok;Tamar Lok;Włodzimierz Meissner

  • 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

  • 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

  • Family Scolopacidae (sandpipers, snipes and phalaropes)

    Theun Piersma;Jan A. van Gils;Popko Wiersma

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

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

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

    Danny I. Rogers;Phil F. Battley;Theunis Piersma;Jan A. Van Gils

  • 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

  • Holling's functional response model as a tool to link the food-finding mechanism of a probing shorebird with its spatial distribution

    Theunis Piersma;Jan van Gils;Petra de Goeij;Jaap van der Meer

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

    Jan A. van Gils;Ingrid W. Schenk;Oscar Bos;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

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

    Jan A van Gils;Phil F Battley;Theunis Piersma;Rudi Drent

  • Designing a benthic monitoring programme with multiple conflicting objectives

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

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

    Allert I. Bijleveld;Martijn Egas;Jan A. van Gils;Theunis Piersma

  • Fuelling conditions at staging sites can mitigate Arctic warming effects in a migratory bird

    Eldar Rakhimberdiev;Sjoerd Duijns;Julia Karagicheva;Cornelis J. Camphuysen

  • Chronobiology of interspecific interactions in a changing world

    Noga Kronfeld-Schor;Marcel E. Visser;Lucia Salis;Jan A. van Gils

  • Digestively constrained predators evade the cost of interference competition

    Jan A. Van Gils;Theunis Piersma

  • Supplementary Material for A Three-Stage Symbiosis Forms the Foundation of Seagrass Ecosystems

    Tjisse van der Heide;Laura L. Govers;Jimmy de Fouw;Han Olff

Frequent Co-Authors

Theunis Piersma
Theunis Piersma University of Groningen
Anne Dekinga
Anne Dekinga Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Tjisse van der Heide
Tjisse van der Heide Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Han Olff
Han Olff University of Groningen
Johan van de Koppel
Johan van de Koppel Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Henk W. van der Veer
Henk W. van der Veer Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Brian R. Silliman
Brian R. Silliman Duke University
Phil F. Battley
Phil F. Battley Massey University
Tomáš Albrecht
Tomáš Albrecht Charles University
Andrew H. Altieri
Andrew H. Altieri University of Florida

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