Dr. Barbara Tomotani
PostdocAnimal Ecology |
Research themes
Research expertiseChronobiology Evolutionary ecology Global change
Page last updated: 14-09-2020
2020 - present: Post-doc at NIOO-KNAW (NWO VENI project) Urban evolutionary ecology: evolution of biological clocks.
2018 - 2019: Post-doc at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (NWO Rubicon project) Responses of avian feeding ecology to anthropogenic environmental change.
2017 - 2018: Post-doc at NIOO-KNAW. Impacts of carrying devices on passerine flight performance.
2017: Visiting researcher at Experimental Zoology Group (WUR). Effects of moult on flight performance in a long-distance migrant.
2013 - 2016: PhD at NIOO-KNAW and Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (cum laude). Climate change and avian annual temporal organization.
2012: Volunteer at the ornithological collection of the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil)
2009 - 2011: MSc student in General Physiology at Universidade de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil). Aftereffects of entrainment and the activity phase of the subterranean rodent tuco-tuco (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae).
2008 - 2009: Licenciate student in Biology at Universidade de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil)
2004 - 2008: Bachelor student in Biological Sciences at Universidade de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil). Project title: Distribution and taxonomy of Crypturellus noctivagus (Wied, 1820) (Tinamiformes: Tinamidae) based on morphological characters.
- Tomotani, B. M., & Muijres, F. T. (2019). A songbird compensates for wing molt during escape flights by reducing the molt gap and increasing angle of attack. Journal of Experimental Biology, 222(10), jeb195396. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.195396
- Tomotani, B. M., Bil, W., van der Jeugd, H. P., Pieters, R. P. M., & Muijres, F. T. (2019). Carrying a logger reduces escape flight speed in a passerine bird, but relative logger mass may be a misleading measure of this flight performance detriment. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 10(1), 70-79. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13112
- Visser, M. E., van Dooremalen, C., Tomotani, B. M., Bushuev, A., Meijer, H. A. J., Marvelde, L. T., & Gienapp, P. (2019). Short-term, but not long-term, increased daytime workload leads to decreased night-time energetics in a free-living song bird. Journal of Experimental Biology, 222(14), [jeb199513]. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.199513
- Fontenelle, J. H., Tomotani, B. M., & Salvador, R. B. (2019). Taxonomic reassessment of megalobulimus toriii (gastropoda, strophocheilidae). JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY, 43, 313-320. https://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/58782455/Fontenelle_et_al_2019_Taxonomic_reassesment_of_Megalobulimus_toriii.pdf?response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DTaxonomic_reassessment_of_Megalobulimus.pdf&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A%2F20200131%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20200131T081752Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=058c98f0b4368078f072c90cc8d28f825716e182900081b229614c74a7f6a510
- Tomotani, B. M., de la Hera, I., Lange, C. Y. M. J. G., van Lith, B., Meddle, S. L., Both, C., & Visser, M. E. (2019). Timing manipulations reveal the lack of a causal link across timing of annual-cycle stages in a long-distance migrant. Journal of Experimental Biology, 222(17), [jeb201467]. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.201467
- Tomotani, B. M., van der Jeugd, H. P., Gienapp, P., De la Hera, I., Pilzecker, J., Teichmann, C., & Visser, M. E. (2018). Climate change leads to differential shifts in the timing of annual cycle stages in a migratory bird. Global Change Biology, 24(2), 823-835. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14006
- Salvador, R. B., Tütken, T., Tomotani, B. M., Berthold, C., & Rasser, M. W. (2018). Paleoecological and isotopic analysis of fossil continental mollusks of Sandelzhausen (Miocene, Germany). Palaontologische Zeitschrift, 92(3), 395-409. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-017-0400-6
- Tomotani, B. M., Muijres, F. T., Koelman, J., Casagrande, S., & Visser, M. E. (2018). Simulated moult reduces flight performance but overlap with breeding does not affect breeding success in a long-distance migrant. Functional Ecology, 32(2), 389-401. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12974
- Tomotani, B. M., Caglar, E., de la Hera, I., Mateman, A. C., & Visser, M. E. (2017). Early arrival is not associated with more extra-pair fertilizations in a long-distance migratory bird. Journal of Avian Biology, 48(6), 854-861. https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.01317
- Tomotani, B. M. (2017). Managing time in a changing world: Timing of avian annual cycle stages under climate change (PhD Thesis). http://hdl.handle.net/11370/f449e110-14f5-42ad-b53d-904d7e467368
- Salvador, R. B., Van der Jeugd, H., & Tomotani, B. M. (2017). Taxonomy of the European Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca (Aves: Muscicapidae). Zootaxa, 4291(1), 171-182. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4291.1.10
- Åkesson, S., Ilieva, M., Karagicheva, J., Rakhimberdiev, E., Tomotani, B., & Helm, B. (2017). Timing avian long-distance migration: from internal clock mechanisms to global flights. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 372(1734). https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0252
- Tomotani, B. M., & Silveira, L. F. (2016). A reassessment of the taxonomy of Crypturellus noctivagus (Wied, 1820). Revista Brasileira de Ornitologi [Brazilian Journal of Ornithology], 24(1). http://www.revbrasilornitol.com.br/BJO/article/view/1356/pdf_952
- Tomotani, B. M., Gienapp, P., Beersma, D. G. M., & Visser, M. E. (2016). Climate change relaxes the time constraints for late-born offspring in a long-distance migrant. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 283(1839). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.1366
- Tomotani, B. M., Amaya, J. P., Oda, G. A., & Valentinuzzi, V. S. (2016). Social modulation of the daily activity rhythm in a solitary subterranean rodent, the tuco-tuco (Ctenomys sp): SI: Chronobiology in Latin America. Sleep Science, 9(4), 280-284. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.slsci.2016.06.001
- Salvador, R. B., & Tomotani, B. M. (2014). The Kraken: when myth encounters science. História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos, 21(3), 971-994. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-59702014000300010
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- Tomotani, B. M., Muijres, F. T., Koelman, J., Casagrande, S., & Visser, M. E. (2017). Male pied flycatchers with wing gaps are not so good at flying but maintain their breeding success: lay summary . (Functional Ecology; No. 20170822). https://fesummaries.wordpress.com/2017/08/22/male-pied-flycatchers-with-wing-gaps-are-not-so-good-at-flying-but-maintain-their-breeding-success/
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