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Theunis Piersma

Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ)

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Published Papers 141
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Avian prey exhibit repeatable abundances on intertidal mudflats
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errEmma Penning; Selin Ersoy; Laura L. Govers; Anne Dekinga; Sander J. Holthuijsen; Theunis Piersma; Allert I. Bijleveld
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Molluscivorous red knots rapidly adjust to a plant diet
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errDe Wilde, Marie; Maarsingh, Berber; de Monte, Luc G. G.; Dekinga, Anne; Bijleveld, Allert I.; Kressin, Hidde; Zomer, Aldert L.; Piersma, Theunis
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A “demand and supply” approach to monitoring habitat and population changes of migratory birds
err2026-03-12
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errTong Mu; Mo A Verhoeven; Micha V Jackson; Theunis Piersma; Richard A Fuller; David S Wilcove
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Male and female Black-tailed Godwits Limosa limosa bohaii show differences in habitat use and daily rhythms during spring staging in China
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errZhu, Bing-Run; Verhoeven, Mo A.; Craft, Taylor B.; Sanchez-Aguilar, Lisa; Lei, Weipan; Zhang, Zhengwang; Piersma, Theunis
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Free-living Black-tailed Godwits maintain constant intake rates across varying grassland habitat conditions by adjusting their foraging behaviour
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errVeenstra, Renee; Henriques, Mohamed; Keuning, Timo; Onrust, Jeroen; Berg, Matty P.; Piersma, Theunis
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China’s intertidal mariculture as an unexpected lifeline sustaining the world’s most threatened shorebird flyway
err2025-12-09
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errHe-Bo Peng; Zhenchang Zhu; Chi-Yeung Choi; Tong Mu; Yingrong Huang; Jing Li; Weipan Lei; Tjeerd J. Bouma; David S. Melville; Zhengwang Zhang; Zhijun Ma; Guangchun Lei; Zhifeng Yang; Theunis Piersma
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Experimentally increased food availability allows for earlier departure in a long-distance migratory shorebird
err2025-11-06
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errThomas K. Lameris; Allert I. Bijleveld; Roeland A. Bom; Julia Karagicheva; Hidde Kressin; Eva M. A. Kok; Sander Lagerveld; Luc G. G. de Monte; Barbara Helm; Theunis Piersma
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Shallow water habitats provide high-quality foraging environments for the Spoon-billed Sandpiper at a critical staging site (vol 16, 100233, 2025)
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errSun, Lili; Yang, Hongyan; Lu, Xiuyuan; Fu, Ting; Guo, Jia; Ren, Sicheng; Liang, Waner; Chen, Qing; Li, Dongming; Piersma, Theunis; Crockford, Nicola; Jia, Yifei; Lei, Guangchun
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Maintaining shallow waters to maximize the potential of saltpans as foraging habitat for migratory shorebirds along an endangered flyway
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errLei, Weipan; Masero, Jose A.; Chai, Ziwen; Zhu, Bing-Run; Mu, Tong; Peng, He-Bo; Zhang, Zhengwang; Piersma, Theunis
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Demand-Resource Mismatch Explains Body Shrinkage in a Migratory Shorebird
err2025-04-16
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errOortwijn, Tim; Lameris, Thomas K.; Zhemchuzhnikov, Mikhail K.; Dekinga, Anne; ten Horn, Job; Kutcherov, Dmitry; Lisovski, Simeon; Piersma, Theunis; Rakhimberdiev, Eldar; Soloviev, Mikhail Y.; Spaans, Bernard; Syroechkovsky, Evgeny E.; Tomkovich, Pavel S.; Zhemchuzhnikova, Elena; van Gils, Jan A.
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Large-scale sampling of potential breeding sites in male ruffs
err2025-01-08
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errKempenaers, Bart; Valcu, Mihai; Piersma, Theunis; Santema, Peter; Vervoort, Raf
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Site-level connectivity identified from multiple sources of movement data to inform conservation of a migratory bird
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errBeal, Martin; Nightingale, Josh; Belo, Joao R.; Batey, Chris; Belting, Heinrich; Bocher, Pierrick; Burgess, Malcolm; Craft, Taylor B.; Crockford, Nicola; Delaporte, Philippe; Donaldson, Lynda; Gelinaud, Guillaume; Gill, Jennifer A.; Gunnarsson, Tomas G.; Thorisson, Bodvar; Gutierrez, Jorge S.; Hooijmeijer, Jos C. E. W.; Howison, Ruth A.; Hunke, Philip; Jomat, Loic; Lemke, Hilger; Ludwig, Juergen; Majoor, Frank A.; Marlow, Christopher; Masero, Jose A.; Melter, Johannes; Nicholson, Ian; Parejo, Manuel; O'Mahony, Barry; Pasanen, Esko; Pessa, Jorma; Piersma, Theunis; Rocha, Afonso D.; Robin, Frederic; Roodbergen, Maja; Rousseau, Pierre; Salewski, Volker; Schmidt, Luis; Smart, Jennifer; Staneva, Anna; Tibbitts, T. Lee; Timonen, Sami; Alves, Jose A.; Dias, Maria P.
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Are they even there? How agri-environment schemes investments reach their target species in Dutch dairy-farmland, the case of meadow birds
err2024-12-01
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errBarba-Escoto, Luis; Howison, Ruth A.; Fokkema, Rienk W.; Duriaux-Chavarria, Jean-Yves; Stessens, Marie; van der Velde, Egbert; Hooijmeijer, Jos C. E. W.; Piersma, Theunis; Tittonell, Pablo A.
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Remote sensing and GPS tracking reveal temporal shifts in habitat use in nonbreeding Black-tailed Godwits
err2024-11-13
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errCraft, Taylor B.; Piersma, Theunis; Hooijmeijer, Jos C. E. W.; Zhu, Bing-Run; D'Souza, Malaika; O'Reilly, Eoghan; Fokkema, Rienk W.; Stessens, Marie; Belting, Heinrich; Marlow, Christopher; Ludwig, Juergen; Melter, Johannes; Alves, Jose A.; Esteban-Pineda, Arturo; Gutierrez, Jorge S.; Masero, Jose A.; Rocha, Afonso D.; Dreef, Camilla; Howison, Ruth A.
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Intraseasonal movements between staging sites by migrating great knots: Longer distances to alternatives decrease the probability of such moves
err2024-04-01
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errPeng, He-Bo; Chan, Ying-Chi; Huang, Yingrong; Choi, Chi-Yeung; Zhang, Shou-Dong; Ren, Sicheng; Hassell, Chris J.; Zhu, Zhenchang; Melville, David S.; Ma, Zhijun; Lei, Guangchun; Piersma, Theunis
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The chronology of overfishing in a remote West-African coastal ecosystem
err2024-01-01
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errLemrabott, Sidi Yahya C.; van Leeuwen, Anieke; Piersma, Theunis; Braham, Cheikh-Baye; Ball, Abou Cire; Araujo, Antonio; Olff, Han; El-Hacen, El-Hacen M.
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Site fidelity of migratory shorebirds facing habitat deterioration: insights from satellite tracking and mark-resighting
err2023-12-21
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errChan, Ying-Chi; Chan, David Tsz Chung; Tibbitts, T. Lee; Hassell, Chris J.; Piersma, Theunis
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