Our publications in movement ecology, demography and conservation methods.
Oortwijn, T.; Lameris, T. K.; Zhemchuzhnikov, M. K.; Dekinga, A.; Ten Horn, J.; Kutcherov, D.; Lisovski, S.; Piersma, T.; Rakhimberdiev, E.; Soloviev, M. Y.; Spaans, B.; Syroechkovsky, E. E.; Tomkovich, P. S.; Zhemchuzhnikova, E.; Van Gils, J. A. Demand‐Resource Mismatch Explains Body Shrinkage in a Migratory Shorebird. Global Change Biology 2025, 31 (4), e70170.
Lok, T.; De Goeij, P.; Rakhimberdiev, E.; Piersma, T.; Vansteelant, W. Eurasian Spoonbill Chicks Receive Parental Care up to Several Months after Fledging, but Not into Migration. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2025, 79 (11), 109.
Lok, T.; Van Der Geest, M.; De Goeij, P.; Rakhimberdiev, E.; Piersma, T. Sex-Specific Nest Attendance Rhythm and Foraging Habitat Use in a Colony-Breeding Waterbird. Behavioral Ecology 2024, 35 (3), arae020.
Bom, R. A.; Piersma, T.; Alves, J. A.; Rakhimberdiev, E. Global Temperature Homogenization Can Obliterate Temporal Isolation in Migratory Animals with Potential Loss of Population Structure. Global Change Biology 2024, 30 (1), e17069.
Peng, H.; Ma, Z.; Rakhimberdiev, E.; van Gils, J. A.; Battley, P. F.; Rogers, D. I.; Choi, C.; Wu, W.; Feng, X.; Ma, Q.; Hua, N.; Minton, C.; Hassell, C. J.; Piersma, T. Arriving Late and Lean at a Stopover Site Is Selected against in a Declining Migratory Bird Population. Journal of Animal Ecology 2023, 92 (10), 2109–2118.
Basso, E.; Horstmann, J.; Rakhimberdiev, E.; Abad-Gómez, J. M.; Masero, J. A.; Gutiérrez, J. S.; Valenzuela, J.; Ruiz, J.; Navedo, J. G. GPS Tracking Analyses Reveal Finely-Tuned Shorebird Space Use and Movement Patterns throughout the Non-Breeding Season in High-Latitude Austral Intertidal Areas. Mov Ecol 2023, 11 (1), 55.
Van Der Kolk, H.-J.; Desmet, P.; Oosterbeek, K.; Allen, A. M.; Baptist, M. J.; Bom, R. A.; Davidson, S. C.; De Jong, J.; De Kroon, H.; Dijkstra, B.; Dillerop, R.; Dokter, A. M.; Frauendorf, M.; Milotić, T.; Rakhimberdiev, E.; Shamoun-Baranes, J.; Spanoghe, G.; Van De Pol, M.; Van Ryckegem, G.; Vanoverbeke, J.; Jongejans, E.; Ens, B. J. GPS Tracking Data of Eurasian Oystercatchers (Haematopus Ostralegus) from the Netherlands and Belgium. ZK 2022, 1123, 31–45.
Rakhimberdiev, E.; Karagicheva, J.; Saveliev, A.; Loonstra, A. H. J.; Verhoeven, M. A.; Hooijmeijer, J. C. E. W.; Schaub, M.; Piersma, T. Misidentification Errors in Reencounters Result in Biased Estimates of Survival Probability from CJS Models: Evidence and a Solution Using the Robust Design. Methods Ecol Evol 2022, 13 (5), 1106–1118.
Bom, R. A.; Conklin, J. R.; Verkuil, Y. I.; Alves, J. A.; De Fouw, J.; Dekinga, A.; Hassell, C. J.; Klaassen, R. H. G.; Kwarteng, A. Y.; Rakhimberdiev, E.; Rocha, A.; Ten Horn, J.; Tibbitts, T. L.; Tomkovich, P. S.; Victor, R.; Piersma, T. Central‐West Siberian‐breeding Bar‐tailed Godwits (Limosa Lapponica) Segregate in Two Morphologically Distinct Flyway Populations. Ibis 2022, 164 (2), 468–485.
Piersma, T.; Kok, E. M. A.; Hassell, C. J.; Peng, H.; Verkuil, Y. I.; Lei, G.; Karagicheva, J.; Rakhimberdiev, E.; Howey, P. W.; Tibbitts, T. L.; Chan, Y. When a Typical Jumper Skips: Itineraries and Staging Habitats Used by Red Knots (Calidris Canutus Piersmai) Migrating between Northwest Australia and the New Siberian Islands. Ibis 2021, 163 (4), 1235–1251.
Goretskaia, M.; Rakhimberdiev, E.; Naidenko, S.; Moskalenko, V.; Veselovskaya, E.; Gavrilov, V.; Vostretsova, E.; Beme, I. Testosterone Increase in Free-Living Young Blackcaps Sylvia Atricapilla and Wood Warblers Phylloscopus Sibilatrix during Post-Juvenile Molt with Possible Implications for Juvenile Dispersal. Acta Ornithologica 2021, 55 (2).
Lisovski, S.; Bauer, S.; Briedis, M.; Davidson, S. C.; Dhanjal‐Adams, K. L.; Hallworth, M. T.; Karagicheva, J.; Meier, C. M.; Merkel, B.; Ouwehand, J.; Pedersen, L.; Rakhimberdiev, E.; Roberto‐Charron, A.; Seavy, N. E.; Sumner, M. D.; Taylor, C. M.; Wotherspoon, S. J.; Bridge, E. S. Light‐level Geolocator Analyses: A User’s Guide. Journal of Animal Ecology 2020, 89 (1), 221–236.
Lamers, K. P.; Nicolaus, M.; Rakhimberdiev, E.; Nilsson, J.; Both, C. Descriptive and Experimental Evidence for Timing‐mediated Polygyny Risk in a Pied Flycatcher Ficedula Hypoleuca Population. Journal of Avian Biology 2020, 51 (2), jav.02190.
Bulla, M.; Reneerkens, J.; Weiser, E. L.; Sokolov, A.; Taylor, A. R.; Sittler, B.; McCaffery, B. J.; Ruthrauff, D. R.; Catlin, D. H.; Payer, D. C.; Ward, D. H.; Solovyeva, D. V.; Santos, E. S. A.; Rakhimberdiev, E.; Nol, E.; Kwon, E.; Brown, G. S.; Hevia, G. D.; Gates, H. R.; Johnson, J. A.; Van Gils, J. A.; Hansen, J.; Lamarre, J.-F.; Rausch, J.; Conklin, J. R.; Liebezeit, J.; Bêty, J.; Lang, J.; Alves, J. A.; Fernández-Elipe, J.; Exo, K.-M.; Bollache, L.; Bertellotti, M.; Giroux, M.-A.; Van De Pol, M.; Johnson, M.; Boldenow, M. L.; Valcu, M.; Soloviev, M.; Sokolova, N.; Senner, N. R.; Lecomte, N.; Meyer, N.; Schmidt, N. M.; Gilg, O.; Smith, P. A.; Machín, P.; McGuire, R. L.; Cerboncini, R. A. S.; Ottvall, R.; Van Bemmelen, R. S. A.; Swift, R. J.; Saalfeld, S. T.; Jamieson, S. E.; Brown, S.; Piersma, T.; Albrecht, T.; D’Amico, V.; Lanctot, R. B.; Kempenaers, B. Comment on “Global Pattern of Nest Predation Is Disrupted by Climate Change in Shorebirds.” Science 2019, 364 (6445), eaaw8529.
Rakhimberdiev, E.; Duijns, S.; Karagicheva, J.; Camphuysen, C. J.; VRS Castricum; Van Loon, A.; Wijker, A.; Keijl, G.; Levering, H.; Jan Visser; Heemskerk, L.; Knijnsberg, L.; Van Roomen, M.; Ruiters, P.; Admiraal, P.; Veldt, P.; Reijnders, R.; Beentjes, W.; Dekinga, A.; Dekker, R.; Gavrilov, A.; Ten Horn, J.; Jukema, J.; Saveliev, A.; Soloviev, M.; Tibbitts, T. L.; Van Gils, J. A.; Piersma, T. Fuelling Conditions at Staging Sites Can Mitigate Arctic Warming Effects in a Migratory Bird. Nat Commun 2018, 9 (1), 4263.
Lisovski, S.; Schmaljohann, H.; Bridge, E. S.; Bauer, S.; Farnsworth, A.; Gauthreaux, S. A.; Hahn, S.; Hallworth, M. T.; Hewson, C. M.; Kelly, J. F.; Liechti, F.; Marra, P. P.; Rakhimberdiev, E.; Ross, J. D.; Seavy, N. E.; Sumner, M. D.; Taylor, C. M.; Winkler, D. W.; Wotherspoon, S. J.; Wunder, M. B. Inherent Limits of Light-Level Geolocation May Lead to over-Interpretation. Current Biology 2018, 28 (3), R99–R100.
Karagicheva, J.; Rakhimberdiev, E.; Saveliev, A.; Piersma, T. Annual Chronotypes Functionally Link Life Histories and Life Cycles in Birds. Funct Ecol 2018, 32, 2369–2379.
Winkler, D. W.; Gandoy, F. A.; Areta, J. I.; Iliff, M. J.; Rakhimberdiev, E.; Kardynal, K. J.; Hobson, K. A. Long-Distance Range Expansion and Rapid Adjustment of Migration in a Newly Established Population of Barn Swallows Breeding in Argentina. Current Biology 2017, 27 (7), 1080–1084.
Rakhimberdiev, E.; Saveliev, A.; Piersma, T.; Karagicheva, J. FLightR: An r Package for Reconstructing Animal Paths from Solar Geolocation Loggers. Methods Ecol Evol 2017, 8 (11), 1482–1487.
Perlut, N. G.; Klak, T. C.; Rakhimberdiev, E. Geolocator Data Reveal the Migration Route and Wintering Location of a Caribbean Martin ( Progne Dominicensis ). The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 2017, 129 (3), 605–610.
Jouta, J.; Dietz, M. W.; Reneerkens, J.; Piersma, T.; Rakhimberdiev, E.; Hallgrímsson, G. T.; Pen, I. Ecological Forensics: Using Single Point Stable Isotope Values to Infer Seasonal Schedules of Animals after Two Diet Switches. Methods Ecol Evol 2017, 8 (4), 492–500.
Åkesson, S.; Ilieva, M.; Karagicheva, J.; Rakhimberdiev, E.; Tomotani, B.; Helm, B. Timing Avian Long-Distance Migration: From Internal Clock Mechanisms to Global Flights. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2017, 372 (1734), 20160252.
van Gils, J. A.; Lisovski, S.; Lok, T.; Meissner, W.; Ozarowska, A.; de Fouw, J.; Rakhimberdiev, E.; Soloviev, M. Y.; Piersma, T.; Klaassen, M. Body Shrinkage Due to Arctic Warming Reduces Red Knot Fitness in Tropical Wintering Range. Science 2016, 352 (6287), 819–821.
Rakhimberdiev, E.; Senner, N. R.; Verhoeven, M. A.; Winkler, D. W.; Bouten, W.; Piersma, T. Comparing Inferences of Solar Geolocation Data against High-Precision GPS Data: Annual Movements of a Double-Tagged Black-Tailed Godwit. Journal of Avian Biology 2016, 47 (4), 589–596.
Rakhimberdiev, E. Ornithology by Light Levels Today: Dealing with a Developing Teenager. Wader Study 2016, 123 (1), 1–3.
Karagicheva, J.; Liebers, M.; Rakhimberdiev, E.; Hallinger, K. K.; Saveliev, A.; Winkler, David. W. Differences in Size between First and Replacement Clutches Match the Seasonal Decline in Single Clutches in Tree Swallows Tachycineta Bicolor. Ibis 2016, 158 (3), 607–613.
Karagicheva, J.; Rakhimberdiev, E.; Dekinga, A.; Brugge, M.; Koolhaas, A.; ten Horn, J.; Piersma, T. Seasonal Time Keeping in a Long-Distance Migrating Shorebird. Journal of Biological Rhythms 2016, 31 (5), 509–521.
Rakhimberdiev, E.; Winkler, D. W.; Bridge, E.; Seavy, N. E.; Sheldon, D.; Piersma, T.; Saveliev, A. A Hidden Markov Model for Reconstructing Animal Paths from Solar Geolocation Loggers Using Templates for Light Intensity. Movement Ecology 2015, 3 (1), 25.
Rakhimberdiev, E.; van den Hout, P. J.; Brugge, M.; Spaans, B.; Piersma, T. Seasonal Mortality and Sequential Density Dependence in a Migratory Bird. Journal of Avian Biology 2015, 46 (4), 332–341.
Winkler, D. W.; Ringelman, K. M.; Dunn, P. O.; Whittingham, L.; Hussell, D. J. T.; Clark, R. G.; Dawson, R. D.; Johnson, L. S.; Rose, A.; Austin, S. H.; Robinson, W. D.; Lombardo, M. P.; Thorpe, P. A.; Shutler, D.; Robertson, R. J.; Stager, M.; Leonard, M.; Horn, A. G.; Dickinson, J.; Ferretti, V.; Massoni, V.; Bulit, F.; Reboreda, J. C.; Liljesthröm, M.; Quiroga, M.; Rakhimberdiev, E.; Ardia, D. R. Latitudinal Variation in Clutch Size–Lay Date Regressions in Tachycineta Swallows: Effects of Food Supply or Demography? Ecography 2014, no-no.
Rakhimberdiev, E.; Karagicheva, J.; Jaatinen, K.; Winkler, D. W.; Phillips, J. B.; Piersma, T. Naïve Migrants and the Use of Magnetic Cues: Temporal Fluctuations in the Geomagnetic Field Differentially Affect Male and Female Ruff Philomachus Pugnax during Their First Migration. Ibis 2014, 156 (4), 864–869.
Winkler, D. W.; Luo, M. K.; Rakhimberdiev, E. Temperature Effects on Food Supply and Chick Mortality in Tree Swallows (Tachycineta Bicolor). Oecologia 2013, 173 (1), 129–138.
Verkuil, Y. I.; Karlionova, N.; Rakhimberdiev, E. N.; Jukema, J.; Wijmenga, J. J.; Hooijmeijer, J. C. E. W.; Pinchuk, P.; Wymenga, E.; Baker, A. J.; Piersma, T. Losing a Staging Area: Eastward Redistribution of Afro-Eurasian Ruffs Is Associated with Deteriorating Fuelling Conditions along the Western Flyway. Biological Conservation 2012, 149 (1), 51–59.
Rakhimberdiev, E.; Verkuil, Y. I.; Saveliev, A. A.; Väisänen, R. A.; Karagicheva, J.; Soloviev, M. Y.; Tomkovich, P. S.; Piersma, T. A Global Population Redistribution in a Migrant Shorebird Detected with Continent-Wide Qualitative Breeding Survey Data: Eastward Redistribution of Arctic Breeding Ruffs. Diversity and Distributions 2011, 17 (1), 144–151.
Karagicheva, J.; Rakhimberdiev, E.; Dobrynin, D.; Saveliev, A.; Rozenfeld, S.; Pokrovskaya, O.; Stahl, J.; Prop, J.; Litvin, K. Individual Inter-Annual Nest-Site Relocation Behaviour Drives Dynamics of a Recently Established Barnacle Goose Branta Leucopsis Colony in Sub-Arctic Russia. Ibis 2011, 153 (3), 622–626.
Rakhimberdiev, E.; Soloviev, M. Y.; Golovnyuk, V.; Sviridova, T. The Influence of Snow Cover on Selection of Nesting Grounds by Charadrii Waders in South-Eastern Taimyr Peninsula. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 2007, 86 (12), 1490–1497.