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Phillip Gienapp is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these fields, their work covers subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's research topics include a range of subjects focused on animal behavior, genetics, species distribution, and climate change. The main topics are:

  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • Climate Change Communication and Perception

Phillip Gienapp has contributed to numerous publications in various scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Global Change Biology
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Heredity

Their recent papers exemplify a focus on climate-related ecological studies and phenological research:

  • "Civil disobedience movements such as School Strike for the Climate are raising public awareness of the climate change emergency" (2020) published in Global Change Biology
  • "Recent natural variability in global warming weakened phenological mismatch and selection on seasonal timing in great tits (Parus major)" (2021) published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Temperature has a causal and plastic effect on timing of breeding in a small songbird" (2020) published in Journal of Experimental Biology
  • "Species-specific effects of thermal stress on the expression of genetic variation across a diverse group of plant and animal taxa under experimental conditions" (2020) published in Heredity
  • "A partial migrant relies upon a range-wide cue set but uses population-specific weighting for migratory timing" (2021) published in Movement Ecology

Phillip Gienapp collaborates frequently with a set of co-authors, including Marcel E. Visser, Barbara M. Tomotani, Melanie Lindner, Irene Verhagen, and Jip J. C. Ramakers. These collaborations likely contribute to interdisciplinary insights across their research areas.

Best Publications

  • Climate change and evolution: disentangling environmental and genetic responses

    P. Gienapp;C. Teplitsky;J. S. Alho;J. A. Mills

  • Shifts in caterpillar biomass phenology due to climate change and its impact on the breeding biology of an insectivorous bird.

    Marcel E. Visser;Leonard J. M. Holleman;Phillip Gienapp

  • Selection on heritable phenotypic plasticity in a wild bird population

    Daniel H. Nussey;Erik Postma;Phillip Gienapp;Marcel E. Visser

  • Evolutionary and demographic consequences of phenological mismatches.

    Marcel E. Visser;Phillip Gienapp

  • Climate change and timing of avian breeding and migration: evolutionary versus plastic changes

    Anne Charmantier;Phillip Gienapp

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

    Endre Knudsen;Andreas Linden;Christiaan Both;Niclas Jonzen

  • Recent natural selection causes adaptive evolution of an avian polygenic trait

    Mirte Bosse;Lewis G. Spurgin;Lewis G. Spurgin;Veronika N. Laine;Ella F. Cole

  • Genomic Quantitative Genetics to Study Evolution in the Wild

    Phillip Gienapp;Simone Fior;Frédéric Guillaume;Jesse R. Lasky

  • Responses to climate change in avian migration time - microevolution versus phenotypic plasticity

    Phillip Gienapp;Roosa Leimu;Juha Merilä

  • Increasing temperature, not mean temperature, is a cue for avian timing of reproduction.

    Sonja V. Schaper;Alistair Dawson;Peter J. Sharp;Phillip Gienapp

  • Environment-dependent use of mate choice cues in sticklebacks

    Jan Heuschele;Miia Mannerla;Phillip Gienapp;Ulrika Candolin

  • Experimental illumination of natural habitat—an experimental set-up to assess the direct and indirect ecological consequences of artificial light of different spectral composition

    Kamiel Spoelstra;Roy H. A. van Grunsven;Maurice Donners;Phillip Gienapp

  • Predicting demographically sustainable rates of adaptation: can great tit breeding time keep pace with climate change?

    Phillip Gienapp;Marjolein Lof;Thomas E. Reed;John McNamara

  • Effects of spring temperatures on the strength of selection on timing of reproduction in a long-distance migratory bird.

    Marcel E. Visser;Phillip Gienapp;Arild Husby;Michael Morrisey

  • THE RELEVANCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS FOR DEPARTURE DECISION CHANGES EN ROUTE IN MIGRATING GEESE

    Silke Bauer;Phillip Gienapp;Jesper Madsen

  • Climate change leads to differential shifts in the timing of annual cycle stages in a migratory bird.

    Barbara M Tomotani;Henk van der Jeugd;Phillip Gienapp;Iván de la Hera

  • A new statistical tool to predict phenology under climate change scenarios

    Phillip Gienapp;Lia Hemerik;Marcel E. Visser

  • Why climate change will invariably alter selection pressures on phenology

    Phillip Gienapp;Thomas E. Reed;Marcel E. Visser

  • Why breeding time has not responded to selection for earlier breeding in a songbird population.

    Phillip Gienapp;Erik Postma;Marcel E. Visser

  • What genomic data can reveal about eco-evolutionary dynamics.

    Seth M. Rudman;Matthew A. Barbour;Katalin Csilléry;Phillip Gienapp

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcel E. Visser
Marcel E. Visser University of Groningen
Juha Merilä
Juha Merilä University of Hong Kong
Kees van Oers
Kees van Oers Wageningen University & Research
Jon Slate
Jon Slate University of Sheffield
Martien A. M. Groenen
Martien A. M. Groenen Wageningen University & Research
Mirte Bosse
Mirte Bosse Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Ben C. Sheldon
Ben C. Sheldon University of Oxford
Veerle Darras
Veerle Darras KU Leuven
Carl J. Bernacchi
Carl J. Bernacchi University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ton G. G. Groothuis
Ton G. G. Groothuis University of Groningen

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