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Barbara  Tomotani's picture

Dr. Barbara Tomotani

Researcher

Animal Ecology


Research expertise
  • Annual cycles
  • Chronobiology
  • Ornithology

  • Page last updated: 03-12-2019

    • CV
    • Projects
    • Key publications
    • Peer-reviewed publications
    • Popular-scientific publications

    2017 - present: Post-doc at NIOO-KNAW. Impacts of carrying devices on passerine flight performance with Henk van der Jeugd.

    2017: Visiting researcher at Experimental Zoology Group (WUR). Effects of moult on flight performance in a long-distance migrant with Florian Muijres.

    2013 - 2016: PhD at NIOO-KNAW and Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (cum laude). Climate change and avian annual temporal organization with Prof. Marcel E. Visser and Prof. Domien Beersma.

    2012: Volunteer at the ornithological collection of the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil) with Prof. Luís Fábio Silveira

    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) with Prof. Gisele Akemi Oda and Verónica Sandra Valentinuzzi.

    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 with Prof. Luís Fábio Silveira.

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    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. doi:10.1111/gcb.14006

    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. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.12974

    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). doi:10.1098/rspb.2016.1366

      2019

    • 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
    • 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
    • 2018

    • 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
    • 2017

    • 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).
    • 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
    • 2016

    • 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).
    • 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
    • 2014

    • 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

      2017

    • 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).

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