Droevendaalsesteeg 10
6708 PB Wageningen
The Netherlands
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I address challenges in eco-evolutionary feedbacks between the movement behaviour of individuals, population dynamics, and environmental changes. Currenlty, I research goose migration and famer-goose conflicts using individual-based models.
Biografie
Dr Monique de Jager (1984) graduated from Leiden University in 2008, after which she started her PhD at the Spatial Ecology group of NIOO-CEME (now NIOZ-Yerseke). Here, she worked on eco-evolutionary feedbacks between individual mussel's cooperative and movement behaviour and the spatial patterns that emerge in self-organized mussel beds. In 2013, she moved to Zurich, Switzerland, to work on evolution of seed dispersal strategies in alpine plants, as a postdoc at the Plant Ecology group of ETH Zurich. In 2014, she moved back to the Netherlands to work on seed dispersal strategies of water-dispersed plants, as a postdoc at the Ecology and Biology group of Utrecht University. She defended her thesis at Groningen University in 2015.
After two postdocs on seed dispersal evolution, Monique switched back to research animal movements in 2017, as a postdoc at Biometris, Wageningen University and Research. Here, she modelled movements of critically endangered Maui dolphins to obtain an estimate of their population distribution. In 2018, she returned to the NIOO for her current postdoc at the Animal Ecology group.
Onderzoeksgroepen
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Employment
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2018–2022Postdoctoral researcher at Animal Ecology, NIOO-KNAW
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2017–2018Postdoctoral researcher at Biometris, Wageningen University and Research
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2014–2017Postdoctoral researcher at Ecology & Biodiversity, Utrecht University
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2013–2014Postdoctoral researcher at Plant Ecology, ETH Zurich
Education
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2008–2013PhD at Spatial Ecology, NIOO-CEME / NIOZ
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2006–2008MSc in Biology, Biodiversity and Sustainability, Leiden University
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2003–2006BSc in Biology, Leiden University
Publicaties
Belangrijkste publicaties
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Lévy Walks Evolve Through Interaction Between Movement and Environmental Complexity
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How superdiffusion gets arrested: ecological encounters explain shift from Lévy to Brownian movement
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Directed dispersal by an abiotic vector: Wetland plants disperse their seeds selectively to suitable sites along the hydrologica
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Modelling the spatial dynamics of Maui dolphins using individual-based models
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Seed size regulates plant dispersal distances in flowing water
Projecten & samenwerkingen
Projecten
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ArcticPinkfeet: Response of geese to climate warming in the Arctic
Climate is warming faster in the Arctic than elsewhere in the northern hemisphere. As a result, migratory Arctic-nesting birds may arrive too late to benefit from the Arctic growth pulse.
Getagd in
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Verjagen van grasetende brandganzen kost vaak meer dan het oplevert
Het verjagen van brandganzen van weilanden in Friesland, wat nu de praktijk is, kost bij de huidige aantallen ganzen waarschijnlijk meer dan dat het oplevert. Dat blijkt uit een modelstudie van ecoloog Monique de Jager en collega’s van het Nederlands Instituut voor Ecologie (NIOO-KNAW), Universiteit Utrecht, Wageningen University and Research en de Universiteit van Amsterdam. De studie werd uitgevoerd in het kader van de Nederlandse bijdrage aan het Europese ganzenbeheer. Het wegjagen van ganzen lijkt alleen kosteneffectief als er minder ganzen in het gebied zijn.