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Marcel Klaassen

Marcel Klaassen

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
68
Citations
13408
World Ranking
1560
National Ranking
130

Overview

Marcel Klaassen is affiliated with Deakin University in Australia and has contributed to research primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Medicine. Their work spans a range of subfields including Ecology, Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Agronomy and Crop Science, and Ecological Modeling.

Their research focuses on key topics such as Influenza Virus Research Studies, Avian ecology and behavior, Viral Infections and Vectors, Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Animal Virus Infections Studies.

Recent notable publications include:

  • "Shape-shifting: changing animal morphologies as a response to climatic warming" (2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution)
  • "Metagenomic characterisation of avian parvoviruses and picornaviruses from Australian wild ducks" (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • "The plight and role of wild birds in the current bird flu panzootic" (2023, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • "RNA virome abundance and diversity is associated with host age in a bird species" (2021, Virology)
  • "Metagenomic characterisation of additional and novel avian viruses from Australian wild ducks" (2020, Scientific Reports)

Marcel Klaassen frequently collaborates with other researchers such as Michelle Wille, Ariful Islam, Mohammad Mahmudul Hassan, Tobias A. Ross, and Sara Ryding. The collaboration counts indicate repeated partnerships, reflecting active engagement within their research community.

They have published extensively in various venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), followed by Movement Ecology, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Scientific Reports, and the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Best Publications

  • Flying, fasting, and feeding in birds during migration: a nutritional and physiological ecology perspective

    Scott R. McWilliams;Christopher Guglielmo;Barbara Pierce;Marcel Klaassen

  • 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

  • METABOLIC CONSTRAINTS ON LONG-DISTANCE MIGRATION IN BIRDS

    Marcel Klaassen

  • 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

  • Ornithology. Arctic waders are not capital breeders.

    Marcel Klaassen;Åke Lindström;Åke Lindström;Hans Meltofte;Theunis Piersma

  • ENERGY-EXPENDITURE DURING FREE FLIGHT IN TRAINED AND FREE-LIVING EURASIAN KESTRELS (FALCO-TINNUNCULUS)

    Dirkjan Masman;Marcel Klaassen

  • Long-distance endozoochorous dispersal of submerged macrophyte seeds by migratory waterbirds in northern Europe - a critical review of possibilities and limitations

    Preben Clausen;Bart A. Nolet;A.D. Fox;Marcel Klaassen

  • Wingbeat frequency and the body drag anomaly: wind-tunnel observations on a thrush nightingale (Luscinia luscinia) and a teal (Anas crecca)

    C. J. Pennycuick;Marcel Klaassen;Anders Kvist;Åke Lindström

  • Small seed size increases the potential for dispersal of wetland plants by ducks

    Merel B. Soons;Cornelis Van Der Vlugt;Bart Van Lith;Gerrit W. Heil

  • Juveniles and migrants as drivers for seasonal epizootics of avian influenza virus.

    Jacintha G. B. van Dijk;Bethany J. Hoye;Josanne H. Verhagen;Bart A. Nolet

  • Gut travellers: Internal dispersal of aquatic organisms by waterfowl

    Casper H. A. van Leeuwen;Casper H. A. van Leeuwen;Gerard van der Velde;Gerard van der Velde;Jan M. van Groenendael;Marcel Klaassen;Marcel Klaassen;Marcel Klaassen

  • Cues and the optimal timing of activities under environmental changes

    John M. McNamara;Zoltan Barta;Marcel Klaassen;Silke Bauer

  • Moult and basal metabolic costs in males of two subspecies of stonechats: the European Saxicola torquata rubicula and the East African S. t. axillaris

    Marcel Klaassen

  • ENERGETICS OF FATTENING AND STARVATION IN THE LONG-DISTANCE MIGRATORY GARDEN WARBLER, SYLVIA BORIN, DURING THE MIGRATORY PHASE

    M. Klaassen;M. Klaassen;H. Biebach

  • Surveillance of wild birds for avian influenza virus.

    Bethany J. Hoye;Vincent J. Munster;Hiroshi Nishiura;Marcel Klaassen

  • Ecophysiology of avian migration in the face of current global hazards

    Marcel Klaassen;Bethany J. Hoye;Bart A. Nolet;William A. Buttemer

  • How did this snail get here? Several dispersal vectors inferred for an aquatic invasive species

    C.H.A. Van Leeuwen;N. Huig;G. Van der velde;G. Van der velde;T.A. Van Alen

  • Unexpected diversity in socially synchronized rhythms of shorebirds

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

  • Modelling behavioural and fitness consequences of disturbance for geese along their spring flyway

    Marcel Klaassen;Silke Bauer;Jesper Madsen;Ingunn Tombre

  • Effects of snow cover on the timing and success of reproduction in high-Arctic pink-footed geese Anser brachyrhynchus

    Jesper Madsen;Mikkel Tamstorf;Marcel Klaassen;Nina Eide

  • Factors affecting the site of investment, and the reliance on savings for arctic breeders : the capital–income dichotomy revisited

    Marcel Klaassen;Kenneth F. Abraham;Robert L. Jefferies;Mark Vrtiska

  • Estimating the contribution of carnivorous waterbirds to nutrient loading in freshwater habitats

    Steffen Hahn;Silke Bauer;Marcel Klaassen

Frequent Co-Authors

Bart A. Nolet
Bart A. Nolet University of Amsterdam
Åke Lindström
Åke Lindström Lund University
Theunis Piersma
Theunis Piersma University of Groningen
Soren Alexandersen
Soren Alexandersen Deakin University
Ron A. M. Fouchier
Ron A. M. Fouchier Erasmus University Rotterdam
Bruno J. Ens
Bruno J. Ens University of Groningen
Jesper Madsen
Jesper Madsen Aarhus University
Aeron C. Hurt
Aeron C. Hurt Roche (Switzerland)
Mang Shi
Mang Shi Sun Yat-sen University
Edward C. Holmes
Edward C. Holmes University of Sydney

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