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Publications of Martin Wikelski

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Journal Article (344)

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Kunz, T. H.; Gauthreaux, S. A.,. J.; Hristov, N. I.; Horn, J. W.; Jones, G.; Kalko, E. K. V.; Larkin, R. P.; McCracken, G. F.; Swartz, S. M.; Srygley, R. B. et al.; Dudley, R.; Westbrook, J. K.; Wikelski, M.: Aeroecology: Probing and modeling the aerosphere. Integrative and Comparative Biology 48 (1), pp. 1 - 11 (2008)

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Lee, K. A.; Wikelski, M.; Robinson, W. D.; Robinson, T. R.; Klasing, K. C.: Constitutive immune defences correlate with life-history variables in tropical birds. Journal of Animal Ecology 77 (2), pp. 356 - 363 (2008)

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Mares, R.; Moreno, R. S.; Kays, R. W.; Wikelski, M.: Predispersal home range shift of an ocelot Leopardus pardalis (Carnivora: Felidae) on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Revista de Biologia Tropical 56 (2), pp. 779 - 787 (2008)

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McNamara, J. M.; Barta, Z.; Wikelski, M.; Houston, A. I.: A theoretical investigation of the effect of latitude on avian life histories. American Naturalist 172 (3), pp. 331 - 345 (2008)

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Rattenborg, N. C.; Voirin, B.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Kays, R. W.; Spoelstra, K.; Kuemmeth, F.; Heidrich, W.; Wikelski, M.: Sleeping outside the box: Electroencephalographic measures of sleep in sloths inhabiting a rainforest. Biology Letters 4 (4), pp. 402 - 405 (2008)

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Vitousek, M. N.; Rubenstein, D. R.; Nelson, K. N.; Wikelski, M.: Are hotshots always hot? A longitudinal study of hormones, behavior, and reproductive success in male marine iguanas. General and Comparative Endocrinology 157 (3), pp. 227 - 232 (2008)

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Wikelski, M.; Martin, L. B.; Scheuerlein, A.; Robinsoni, M. T.; Robinson, N. D.; Helm, B.; Hau, M.; Gwinner, E.: Avian circannual clocks: Adaptive significance and possible involvement of energy turnover in their proximate control. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 363 (1490), pp. 411 - 423 (2008)

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Wilcove, D. S.; Wikelski, M.: Going, going, gone: Is animal migration disappearing? PLoS Biology 6 (7), pp. 1361 - 1364 (2008)

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Berger, S.; Wikelski, M.; Romero, L. M.; Kalko, E. K. V.; Rödl, T.: Behavioral and physiological adjustments to new predators in an endemic island species, the Galapagos marine iguana. Hormones and Behavior 52 (5), pp. 653 - 663 (2007)

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Holland, R. A.; Thorup, K.; Wikelski, M.: Where the wild things go. Biologist (London) 54 (4), pp. 214 - 219 (2007)

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Holland, R. A.; Wikelski, M.: Orientation and navigation in bats: Known unknowns and unknown unknowns. Bat Research News 48 (4), pp. 232 - 233 (2007)

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Martin, L. B.,. I.; Pless, M. I.; Wikelski, M.: Greater seasonal variation in blood and ectoparasite infections in a temperate than a tropical population of House Sparrows Passer domesticus in North America. Ibis 149 (2), pp. 419 - 423 (2007)

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Rödl, T.; Berger, S.; Romero, L. M.; Wikelski, M.: Tameness and stress physiology in a predator-naive island species confronted with novel predation threat. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274 (1609), pp. 577 - 582 (2007)

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Thorup, K.; Bisson, I.-A.; Bowlin, M. S.; Holland, R. A.; Wingfield, J. C.; Ramenofsky, M.; Wikelski, M.: Evidence for a navigational map stretching across the continental US in a migratory songbird. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104 (46), pp. 18115 - 18119 (2007)

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Vitousek, M. N.; Mitchell, M. A.; Woakes, A. J.; Niemack, M. D.; Wikelski, M.: High costs of female choice in a lekking lizard. PLoS One 2 (6), e567 (2007)

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Wikelski, M.; Kays, R. W.; Kasdin, N. J.; Thorup, K.; Smith, J. A.; Swenson, G. W.,. J.: Going wild: What a global small-animal tracking system could do for experimental biologists. The Journal of Experimental Biology 210 (2), pp. 181 - 186 (2007)

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Hawley, D. M.; Lindström, K.; Wikelski, M.: Experimentally increased social competition compromises humoral immune responses in house finches. Hormones and Behavior 49 (4), pp. 417 - 424 (2006)

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Holland, R. A.; Thorup, K.; Vonhof, M. J.; Cochran, W. W.; Wikelski, M.: Navigation: Bat orientation using Earth's magnetic field. Nature 444 (7120), p. 702 - 702 (2006)

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Holland, R. A.; Wikelski, M.; Wilcove, D. S.: How and why do insects migrate? Science 313 (5788), pp. 794 - 796 (2006)

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Lee, K. A.; Martin, L. B.,. I.; Hasselquist, D.; Ricklefs, R. E.; Wikelski, M.: Contrasting adaptive immune defenses and blood parasite prevalence in closely related Passer sparrows. Oecologia 150 (3), pp. 383 - 392 (2006)

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Martin, L. B.; Han, P.; Lewittes, J.; Kuhlman, J. R.; Klasing, K. C.; Wikelski, M.: Phytohemagglutinin-induced skin swelling in birds: Histological support for a classic immunoecological technique. Functional Ecology 20 (2), pp. 290 - 299 (2006)

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Martin, L. B.; Hasselquist, D.; Wikelski, M.: Investment in immune defense is linked to pace of life in house sparrows. Oecologia 147 (4), pp. 565 - 575 (2006)

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Romero, L. M.; Wikelski, M.: Diurnal and nocturnal differences in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function in Galapagos marine iguanas. General and Comparative Endocrinology 145 (2), pp. 177 - 181 (2006)

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Rutte, C.; Taborsky, M.; Brinkhof, M. W.; Bergstrom, C. T.; Antia, R.; Ranz, J. M.; Machado, C. A.; Wikelski, M.; Cooke, S. J.; Monaghan, P. et al.; Haussmann, M. F.: Ecology and evolution. Ecology 21 (1), pp. 1 - 54 (2006)

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Wikelski, M.; Cooke, S. J.: Conservation physiology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21 (1), pp. 38 - 46 (2006)

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Wikelski, M.; Gwinner, E.: Periodic environmental changes: Understanding the physiological basis of life history adaptations. Acta Zoologica Sinica 52 (Suppl.), p. 702 (2006)

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Wikelski, M.; Moskowitz, D.; Adelman, J. S.; Cochran, J.; Wilcove, D. S.; May, M. L.: Simple rules guide dragonfly migration. Biology Letters 2 (3), pp. 325 - 329 (2006)

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Wikelski, M.; Tarlow, E. M.; Eising, C. M.; Groothuis, T. G. G.; Gwinner, E.: Do night-active birds lack daily melatonin rhythms? A case study comparing a diurnal and a nocturnal-foraging gull species. Journal of Ornithology 147 (1), pp. 107 - 111 (2006)

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Berger, S.; Martin, L. B.; Wikelski, M.; Romero, L. M.; Kalko, E. K. V.; Vitousek, M. N.; Rödl, T.: Corticosterone suppresses immune activity in territorial Galapagos marine iguanas during reproduction. Hormones and Behavior 47 (4), pp. 419 - 429 (2005)

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Bowlin, M. S.; Cochran, W. W.; Wikelski, M.: Biotelemetry of New World thrushes during migration: Physiology, energetics and orientation in the wild. Integrative and Comparative Biology 45 (2), pp. 295 - 304 (2005)

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Fusani, L.; Canoine, V.; Goymann, W.; Wikelski, M.; Hau, M.: Difficulties and special issues associated with field research in behavioral neuroendocrinology. Hormones and Behavior 48 (4), pp. 484 - 491 (2005)

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Lee, K. A.; Martin, L. B.; Wikelski, M.: Responding to inflammatory challenges is less costly for a successful avian invader, the house sparrow (Passer domesticus), than its less-invasive congener. Oecologia 145 (2), pp. 243 - 250 (2005)

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Lindström, K. M.; Hasselquist, D.; Wikelski, M.: House sparrows (Passer domesticus) adjust their social status position to their physiological costs. Hormones and Behavior 48 (3), pp. 311 - 320 (2005)

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Lindström, K. M.; Hawley, D. M.; Davis, A. K.; Wikelski, M.: Stress responses and disease in three wintering house finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) populations along a latitudinal gradient. General and Comparative Endocrinology 143 (3), pp. 231 - 239 (2005)

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Lindström, K. M.; Hellgren, O.; Parn, H.; Wikelski, M.; Connor, B. O.; Foufopoulos, J.: Parasites in paradise: The parasite fauna of small ground finches (Geospiza fuliginosa) in four island populations. Bulletin Scandinavian Society for Parasitology 14, pp. 96 - 97 (2005)

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Martin, L. B.; Gilliam, J.; Han, P.; Lee, K.; Wikelski, M.: Corticosterone suppresses cutaneous immune function in temperate but not tropical House Sparrows, Passer domesticus. General and Comparative Endocrinology 140 (2), pp. 126 - 135 (2005)

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Nathan, R.; Sapir, N.; Trakhtenbrot, A.; Katul, G. G.; Bohrer, G.; Otte, M.; Avissar, R.; Soons, M. B.; Horn, H. S.; Wikelski, M. et al.; Levin, S. A.: Long-distance biological transport processes through the air: Can nature's complexity be unfolded in silico? Diversity and Distributions 11 (2), pp. 131 - 137 (2005)

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Rubenstein, D. R.; Wikelski, M.: Steroid hormones and aggression in female Galapagos marine iguanas. Hormones and Behavior 48 (3), pp. 329 - 341 (2005)

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Wikelski, M.: Evolution of body size in Galapagos marine iguanas. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 272 (1576), pp. 1985 - 1993 (2005)

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Wikelski, M.; Steiger, S. S.; Gall, B.; Nelson, K. N.: Sex, drugs and mating role: Testosterone-induced phenotype-switching in Galapagos marine iguanas. Behavioral Ecology 16 (1), pp. 260 - 268 (2005)

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Wrege, P. H.; Wikelski, M.; Mandel, J. T.; Rassweiler, T.; Couzin, I. D.: Antbirds parasitize foraging army ants. Ecology 86 (3), pp. 555 - 559 (2005)

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Cochran, W. W.; Mouritsen, H.; Wikelski, M.: Migrating songbirds recalibrate their magnetic compass daily from twilight cues. Science 304 (5669), pp. 405 - 408 (2004)

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Cooke, S. J.; Hinch, S. G.; Wikelski, M.; Andrews, R. D.; Kuchel, L. J.; Wolcott, T. G.; Butler, P. J.: Biotelemetry: A mechanistic approach to ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19 (6), pp. 334 - 343 (2004)

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Ferree, E. D.; Wikelski, M.; Anderson, D. J.: Hormonal correlates of siblicide in Nazca boobies: Support for the Challenge Hypothesis. Hormones and Behavior 46 (5), pp. 655 - 662 (2004)

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Hau, M.; Wikelski, M.; Gwinner, H.; Gwinner, E.: Timing of reproduction in a Darwin's finch: Temporal opportunism under spatial constraints. Oikos 106 (3), pp. 489 - 500 (2004)

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Lindström, K. M.; Foufopoulos, J.; Parn, H.; Wikelski, M.: Immunological investments reflect parasite abundance in island populations of Darwin's finches. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 271 (1547), pp. 1513 - 1519 (2004)

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Mackie, R. I.; Rycyk, M.; Ruemmler, R. L.; Aminov, R. I.; Wikelski, M.: Biochemical and microbiological evidence for fermentative digestion in free-living land iguanas (Conolophus pallidus) and marine iguanas (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) on the Galapagos archipelago. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 77 (1), pp. 127 - 138 (2004)

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Martin, L. B.; Pless, M.; Svoboda, J.; Wikelski, M.: Immune activity in temperate and tropical house sparrows: A common-garden experiment. Ecology 85 (8), pp. 2323 - 2331 (2004)

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Müllner, A.; Linsenmair, K. E.; Wikelski, M.: Exposure to ecotourism reduces survival and affects stress response in hoatzin chicks (Opisthocomus hoazin). Biological Conservation 118 (4), pp. 549 - 558 (2004)

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Rattenborg, N. C.; Mandt, B. H.; Obermeyer, W. H.; Winsauer, P. J.; Huber, R.; Wikelski, M.; Benca, R. M.: Migratory sleeplessness in the white-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii). PLoS Biology 2 (7), pp. 924 - 936 (2004)

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