Curriculum Vitae
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- since 2000 : senior researcher (tenure), Netherlands Institute of Ecology
- 2008 : also senior researcher (parttime) at Alterra
- 2000 : associated graduate faculty, John Fryxell's lab, University of Guelph (Canada)
- 1998-99 : researcher, Netherlands Institute of Ecology
- 1995-97 : postdoc, Netherlands Institute of Ecology
- 1988-94 : junior researcher, Institute for Forestry and Nature Research (IBN-DLO)
EDUCATION
- 1994 : PhD University of Groningen (with Rudi Drent)
- 1988 : MSc University of Groningen (cum laude)
- 1987/8 : Pat Butler's Lab, University of Birmingham (UK)
- 1986 : Jan Veen's Group, University of Groningen
- 1984/5 : Hans Kruuk's Lab, Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Banchory (UK)
- 1983 : BSc University of Groningen
- 1980 : VWO, Canisius College, Nijmegen (cum laude)
RESEARCH INTEREST
I try to understand and predict patterns at the population level (i.e., animal distribution and abundance) from processes acting at the individual level. Within an optimality framework, I study decisions of where and when to move: how animals (should) explore their surroundings and exploit their resources. The scale of movement varies from 10^0-10^7 body lengths. In the course of time, my main study system has changed from otters foraging on bottom-dwelling fish, beavers foraging on willows, swans foraging on pondweeds to, more recently, geese foraging on (sea)grass. Currently the focus is on arctic-breeding waterbirds, which migrate through and to the Netherlands in numbers of international importance (Bewick’s Swan, Pink-footed Goose, Brent Goose). How will these birds respond to climatic changes in the Arctic and land-use changes in the temperate region? The approach taken is a combination of field, experimental and modelling work.
PUBLICATION RECORD
I have written >100 publications, including >60 papers in international scientific journals (see Overview publications and citations).
AWARDS
NERN Best paper award 2012 1st prize (De Jager et al. 2011 Science)
NERN Best paper award 2011 2nd prize (Kurvers et al. 2010 Ecol. Lett.)
JOURNAL REFEREEING
I have been referee for >50 different journals:
Acta Oecologica - Acta Theriologica - Ambio - American Midland Naturalist - American Naturalist - Animal Behaviour - Animal Conservation - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics - Aquatic Botany - Aquatic Conservation - Aquatic Ecology - Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology - Ardea - Baltic Forestry - Basic and Applied Ecology - Behavioral Ecology - Biological Conservation - Biology Letters - Canadian Journal of Zoology - Chemospere - Condor - Ecological Modelling - Ecological Monographs - Ecology - Ecology Letters - Ecoscience - Ethology- Evolutionary Ecology - Freshwater Biology - Global Change Biology - Hydrobiologia - Ibis - Integrative and Comparative Biology - Interface Focus - Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution - Journal of Animal Ecology - Journal of Applied Ecology - Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology - Journal of Zoology - Lutra - Marine Ecology Progress Series - Netherlands Journal of Zoology - Oecologia - Oikos - Physiological & Biochemical Zoology - PNAS - Polar Biology - Regulated Rivers: Research and Management - Waterbirds - Wildfowl - Wildlife Biology - Wilson Bulletin
EXPERTISE
Projects
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Co-Operation
Host-pathogen interaction: the effects of avian influenza viruses on free-living mallards
Funded by NWO (to Marcel Klaassen)
PhD Jacintha van Dijk
Adaptive management of migratory populations
Funded by Research Council of Norway (to Ingunn Tombre)
PhD Caroline Ernberg Simonsen
Workpackage Brent goose (Metawad-I)
Funded by Waddenfonds (to Henk v/d Jeugd)
Postdoc Adriaan Dokter
Seed dispersal by mallards
Funded by NWO (to Merel Soons)
PhD Erik Kleyheeg
EGNOS and EDAS enhanced tracking of animal movement and behaviour
Funded by European Commission (to Lucas Noldus)
Migration timing and stopover selection by barnacle geese
Funded by ITC (to Andrew Skidmore)
PhD Mitra Shariati Najafabadi
Selected Publications
Overview publications and citations
Reprints or PDFs can be requested at library@nioo.knaw.nl or through the KNAW Repository
Hoye, B. J., Hahn, S., Nolet, B.A. & Klaassen, M. (2012) Habitat use throughout migration: linking individual consistency, prior breeding success and future breeding potential. Journal of Animal Ecology (in press)
Hidding, B., Klaassen, M., de Boer, T., de Vries, P.P. & Nolet, B.A. (2011) Aquatic plant shows flexible avoidance by escape from tuber predation by swans. Basic and Applied Ecology (online)
Gyimesi, A., Varghese, S., De Leeuw, J. & Nolet, B.A. (2012) Net energy intake rate as a common currency to explain swan spatial distribution in a shallow lake. Wetlands 32: 119-127
Van Dijk, J.G.B., Duijns, S., Gyimesi. A., de Boer, W.F. & Nolet, B.A. (2012) Mallards feed longer to maintain intake rate under competition on a natural food distribution. Ethology 118: 169-177
Van Wijk, R.E., Kölzsch, A., Kruckenberg, H., Ebbinge, B.S., Müskens, G.J.D.M. & Nolet, B.A. (2011) Individually tracked geese follow peaks of tgemperature acceleration during spring migration. Oikos (online)
Baveco, J.M., Kuipers, H. & Nolet, B.A. (2011) A large-scale multi-species spatial depletion model for overwintering waterfowl. Ecological Modelling 222: 3773-3784
De Jager, M., Weissing, F.J., Herman, P.M.J., Nolet, B.A. & van de Koppel, J. (2011) Lévy walks evolve through interaction between movement and environmental complexity. Science 332: 1551-1553
Hedenström, A., Bowlin, M.S., Nathan, R., Nolet, B.A. & Wikelski, M. (2011) Mechanistic principles of locomotion performance in migrating animals. In: Milner-Gulland, E.J., Fryxell, J.M. & Sinclair, A.R.E. (eds) Animal Migration: A Synthesis. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 35-51.
Bauer, S., Nolet, B.A., Giske, J., Chapman, J.W., Åkesson, S., Hedenström, A. & Fryxell, J.M. (2011) Cues and decision rules in animal migration. In: Milner-Gulland, E.J., Fryxell, J.M. & Sinclair, A.R.E. (eds) Animal Migration: A Synthesis. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 68-87.
Gyimesi, A., de Vries, P.P., de Boer, T. & Nolet, B.A. (2011) Reduced tuber banks of fennel pondweed due to summer grazing of waterfowl. Aquatic Botany 94: 24-28
Gyimesi, A., Stillmann, R.A. & Nolet, B.A. (2010) Cryptic interference competition in swans foraging on cryptic prey. Animal Behaviour 80: 791-797
Gyimesi, A., van Rooij, E.P. & Nolet, B.A. (2010) Nonlinear effects of food aggregation on interference competition in mallards. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 64: 1897-1904
Bakker, E.S., van Donk, E., Declerck, S.A.J., Helmsing, N.R., Hidding, B. & Nolet, B.A. (2010) Effect of macrophyte community composition and nutrient enrichment on plant biomass and algal blooms. Basic and Applied Ecology 11: 432-439
Kurvers, R.H.J.M., van Oers, K., Nolet, B.A., Jonker, R.M., van Wieren, S.E., Prins, H.H.T. & Ydenberg, R.C. (2010) Personality predicts the use of social information. Ecology Letters 13: 829-837
Hidding, B., Bakker, E.S., Keuper, F., de Boer, T., de Vries, P.P. & Nolet, B.A. (2010) Differences in tolerance of pondweeds and charophytes to vertebrate herbivores in a shallow Baltic estuary. Aquatic Botany 93: 123-128
Hidding, B., Brederveld, R.J. & Nolet, B.A. (2010) How a bottom-dweller beats the canopy: inhibition of an aquatic weed (Potamogeton pectinatus) by macroalgae (Chara spp.). Freshwater Biology 55: 1758-1768
Klaassen, M., Hangelbroek, H.H., de Boer, T. & Nolet, B.A. (2010) Insights from the eco-physiological book of records: Bewick’s swans outperform the canonical intake-maximizing vertebrate. Oikos 119: 1156-1160 PDF
Hidding, B., Nolet, B.A., de Boer, T., de Vries, P.P. & Klaassen, M. (2010) Above- and below-ground vertebrate herbivory may each favour a different subordinate species in an aquatic plant community. Oecologia 162: 199-208
Kurvers, R.H.J.M., Prins, H.H.T., van Wieren, S.E., van Oers, K., Nolet, B.A. & Ydenberg, R.C. (2010) The efect of personality on social foraging: shy barnacle geese scrounge more. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London B 277: 601-608
Hidding, B., Nolet, B.A., de Boer, T., de Vries, P.P. & Klaassen, M. (2009) Compensatory growth in an aquatic plant mediates exploitative competition between seasonally tied herbivores. Ecology 90: 1891-1899. PDF
Hidding, B., Nolet, B.A., Rienks, F. (2009) Seizoenstiming bepalend voor concurrentie Kleine zwanen en Knobbelzwanen. De Levende Natuur 110: 361-363 PDF
Duriez, O., Bauer, S. Destin, A., Madsen, J., Nolet, B.A., Stillman, R.A. & Klaassen, M. (2009) What decision rules might pink-footed geese use to depart on migration? An individual-based model. Behavioral Ecology 20: 560-569
Nolet, B.A. & Klaassen, M. (2009) Retrodicting patch use by foraging swans in a heterogeneous environment using a set of functional responses. Oikos 118: 431-439 PDF
Hidding, B., Nolet, B.A., van Eerden, M.R., Guillemain, M. & Klaassen, M. (2009) Burial depth distribution of fennel pondweed (Potamogeton pectinatus) in relation to foraging by Bewick's swans. Aquatic Botany 90: 321-327
Klaassen, R.H.G. & Nolet, B.A. (2008) Persistence of spatial variance and spatial pattern in the abundance of a submerged plant. Ecology 89: 2973-2979 PDF
Klaassen, M. & Nolet, B.A. (2008) Stoichiometry of endothermy: shifting the quest from nitrogen to carbon. Ecology Letters 11: 785-792
Nolet, B.A., De Boer, T. & De Vries, P.P. (2007) Habitat quality estimated from head-dipping time in trampling swans. Israel Journal of Ecology & Evolution 53: 317-328
Klaassen, M. & Nolet, B.A. (2007) The role of herbivorous water birds in aquatic systems through interactions with aquatic macrophytes, with special reference to the Bewick’s Swan – Fennel Pondweed system. Hydrobiologia 584: 205-213
Klaassen, R.H.G., Nolet, B.A. & Van Leeuwen, C.H.A. (2007) Prior knowledge about spatial pattern affects patch assessment rather than movement between patches in tactile-feeding mallard. Journal of Animal Ecology 76: 20-29
Nolet, B.A. (2006) Speed of spring migration of Tundra Swans Cygnus columbianus in accordance with income or capital breeding strategy? Ardea 94: 579-591
Klaassen, R.H.G., Nolet, B.A. & Bankert, D. (2006) The influence of social interactions on the foraging path of Bewick's swans. Ardea 94: 477-484
Veraart, A.J., Nolet, B.A., Rosell, F. & de Vries, P.P. (2006) Simulated winter browsing may lead to induced susceptibility of willows to beavers in spring. Canadian Journal of Zoology 84:1733-1742
Klaassen, R.H.G., Nolet, B.A., van Gils, J.A., Bauer, S. (2006) Optimal movement between patches under incomplete information about the spatial distribution of food items. Theoretical Population Biology 70: 452-463
Nolet, B.A., Gyimesi, A. & Klaassen, R.H.G. (2006) Prediction of bird-day carrying capacity on a staging site: a test of depletion models. Journal of Animal Ecology 75: 1285-1292
Klaassen, R.H.G., Nolet, B.A. & Bankert, D. (2006) Movement of foraging Tundra Swans explained by spatial pattern in cryptic food densities. Ecology 87: 2244-2254 PDF
Nolet, B.A. & Klaassen, M. (2006) Time and energy constraints: reply to comments by Jeschke et al. Oikos 114: 555 PDF
Nolet, B.A., Fuld, V.N. & Van Rijswijk, M.E.C. (2006) Foraging costs and accessibility as determinants of giving-up densities in a swan-pondweed system. Oikos 112: 353-362 PDF
Nolet, B.A., Klaassen, R.H.G. & Mooij, W.M. (2006) The use of a flexible patch leaving rule under exploitative competition: a field test with swans. Oikos 112: 342-352 PDF
Klaassen, R.H.G., Nolet, B.A. & de Fouw, J. (2006) Intake rate at differently scaled heterogeneous food distributions explained by the ability of tactile-foraging mallard to concentrate foraging effort within profitable areas. Oikos 112: 322-331 PDF
Nolet, B.A., Spitzen, A., Van Leijsen, J.P.A. & Dijkstra, V.A.A. (2006) Bevers in de Biesbosch: griendwerkers van de toekomst? Landschap 23: 171-180 PDF
Nolet, B. & Heitkönig, I. (2006) Waarom was de Biesbosch geen beverparadijs? Zoogdier 17: 3-6
Nolet, B.A., Broftová, L., Heitkönig, I., Vorel, A. & Kostkan, V. (2005) Slow growth of translocated beaver population partly due to a climatic shift in food quality. Oikos 111: 632-640 PDF
Nolet, B.A. & Klaassen, M. (2005) Time and energy constraints in demanding phases of the annual cycle: an example of time limitation in refuelling migratory swans. Oikos 111: 302-310 PDF
Mooij, W.M., Hülsmann, S., De Senerpont Domis, L.N., Nolet, B.A., Bodelier, P.L.E., Boers, P.C.M., Dionisio Pires, L.M., Gons, H.J., Ibelings, B.W., Noordhuis, R., Portielje, R., Wolfstein, K. & Lammens, E.H.R.R. (2005) The impact of climate change on lakes in the Netherlands: a review. Aquatic Ecology 39: 381-400
Campbell, R.D., Rosell, F., Nolet, B.A. & Dijkstra, V.A.A. (2005) Territory and group sizes in Eurasian beavers (Castor fiber): echoes of settlement and reproduction? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 58: 597-607
Charalambidou, I., Santamaría, L., Jansen, C. & Nolet, B.A. (2005) Digestive plasticity in Mallard ducks modulates dispersal probabilities of aquatic plants and crustaceans. Functional Ecology 19: 513-519
Nolet, B. (2005) Nature's engineers: The beaver's return to the Netherlands. Seeking Nature's Limits. Ecologists in the field. 259-264. Publisher: KNNV Publishing PDF
Nolet, B.A. (2004) Overcompensation and grazing optimisation in a swan-pondweed system? Freshwater Biology 49: 1391-1399
Klaassen, M., Beekman, J.H., Kontiokorpi, J., Mulder, R.W.J. & Nolet, B.A. (2004) Migrating swans profit from favourable changes in wind conditions at low altitude. Journal of Ornithology 145: 142-151
Beekman, J.H., Nolet, B.A. & Klaassen, M. (2002) Skipping swans: fuelling rates and wind conditions determine differential use of migratory stopover sites of Bewick's Swans Cygnus bewickii. Ardea 90: 437-460 PDF
Nolet, B.A., Bevan, R.M., Klaassen, M., Langevoord, O. & Van der Heijden, Y.G.J.T. (2002) Habitat switching by Bewick’s swans: maximisation of average long-term energy gain? Journal of Animal Ecology 71: 979-993
Nolet, B.A. (2002) Efficiency as a currency in animals attaining a gain below the energetic ceiling. Behavioral Ecology 13: 571-574
Clausen, P., Nolet, B.A., Fox, A.D. & Klaassen, M. (2002) Long-distance endozoochorous dispersal of submerged macrophyte seeds by migratory waterbirds in Northern Europe – a critical review of possibilities and limitations. Acta Oecologica 23: 191-203
Nolet, B.A. & Mooij, W.M. (2002) Search paths of swans foraging on spatially autocorrelated tubers. Journal of Animal Ecology 71: 451-462
Jonzén, N, Nolet, B.A., Santamaría, L. & Svensson, M.G.E. (2002) Seasonal herbivory and mortality compensation in a swan-pondweed system. Ecological Modelling 147: 209-219
Nolet, B.A., Langevoord, O., Bevan, R.M., Engelaar, K.R., Klaassen, M., Mulder, R.J.W. & Van Dijk, S. (2001) Spatial variation in tuber depletion by swans explained by differences in net intake rates. Ecology 82: 1655-1667 PDF
Nolet, B.A., Andreev, V.A., Clausen, P., Poot, M.J.M. & Wessel, E.G.J. (2001) Significance of the White Sea as a stopover for Bewick’s Swans Cygnus columbianus bewickii in spring. Ibis 143: 63-71
Nolet, B.A., Beekman, J.H., Klaassen, M., Langevoord, O. & Santamaria, L. (2000) Waterplanten en Kleine Zwanen Cygnus columbianus bewickii: een wederzijdse afhankelijkheid? Limosa 73: 105-108
Nolet, B.A. & Drent, R.H. (1998) Bewick's Swans refuelling on pondweed tubers in the Dvina Bay (White Sea) during their spring migration: first come, first served. Journal of Avian Biology 29: 574-581
Nolet, B.A. & Rosell, F. (1998) Come back of the beaver Castor fiber: an overview of old and new conservation problems. Biological Conservation 83: 165-173
Nolet, B.A., Broekhuizen, S., Dorrestein, G.M. & Rienks, K.M. (1997) Infectious diseases as main causes of mortality to beavers Castor fiber after translocation to the Netherlands. Journal of Zoology 241: 35-42
Rosell F. & Nolet, B.A. (1997) Factors affecting scent marking behavior in the European beaver. Journal of Chemical Ecology 23: 673-689
Nolet, B.A. & Baveco, J.M. (1996) Development and viability of a translocated beaver Castor fiber population in the Netherlands. Biological Conservation 75: 125-137
Nolet, B.A., Van der Veer, P.J., Evers, E.G.J. & Ottenheim, M.M. (1995) A linear programming model of diet choice of free-living beavers. Netherlands Journal of Zoology 45: 315-337 PDF
Nolet, B.A. (1995) Distribution and number of the beaver Castor fiber in the Netherlands in the period 1988-1994. Lutra 38: 30-40 PDF
Nolet, B.A. & Rosell, F. (1994) Territoriality and time budgets in beavers during sequential settlement. Canadian Journal of Zoology 72: 1227-1237
Nolet, B.A., Hoekstra, A. & Ottenheim, M.M. (1994) Selective foraging on woody species by the beaver Castor fiber, and its impact on a riparian willow forest. Biological Conservation 70: 117-128
Nolet, B.A., Dijkstra, V.A.A. & Heidecke, D. (1994) Cadmium in beavers translocated from the Elbe river to the Rhine/Meuse estuary, and the possible effect on population growth rate. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 27: 154-161
Nolet, B.A. & Kruuk, H. (1994) Hunting yield and daily food intake of a lactating otter (Lutra lutra) in Shetland. Journal of Zoology 233: 326-331
Nolet, B.A., Wansink, D.E.H. & Kruuk, H. (1993) Diving of otters (Lutra lutra) in a marine habitat: use of depths by a single-prey loader. Journal of Animal Ecology 62: 22-32
Nolet, B.A., Butler, P.J., Masman, D. & Woakes, A.J. (1992) Estimation of daily energy expenditure from heart rate and doubly labeled water in exercising geese. Physiological Zoology 65: 1188-1216
Huijser, M.P. & Nolet, B.A. (1991) First observation of a beaver Castor fiber in Belgium since 1848. Lutra 34: 43-44 PDF
Videler, J.J. & Nolet, B.A. (1990) Cost of swimming measured at optimum speed: scale effects, differences between swimming styles, taxonomic groups and submerged and surface swimming. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 97A: 91-99
Bekker, D.L. & Nolet, B.A. (1990) The diet of otters Lutra lutra in the Netherlands in winter and early spring. Lutra 33: 134-144 PDF
Nolet, B.A. & Kruuk, H. (1989) Grooming and resting of otters Lutra lutra in a marine habitat. Journal of Zoology 218: 433-440
Nolet, B.A. & Martens, V. (1989) The decline of the Otter Lutra lutra in the Netherlands. De Levende Natuur 90: 34-37
Kruuk, H., Nolet, B. & French, D. (1988) Fluctuations in numbers and activity of inshore demersal fishes in Shetland. Journal of the marine biological Association of the United Kingdom 68: 601-617
Nolet, B.A. (1988) Breeding success of some coastal birds in a Herring Gull Larus argentatus colony. Limosa 61: 79-84
Nolet, B.A. & Killingley, C.A. (1987) The effects of a change in food availability on group and territory size of a clan of badgers Meles meles (L.,1758).
Lutra 30: 1-8 PDF
Nolet, B.A. (1984) A scheme for the conservation of the otter Lutra lutra and its habitat in The Netherlands. Lutra 27: 42-44.
Links
Large-scale depletion model for wintering geese
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Eindexamen biologie havo 2007
Bevers in de Biesbosch
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