Wikelski Publications:

Some personal favorites (see below for chronological order)

Holland RA, Thorup K, Vonhof MJ, Cochran WW, Wikelski M. Bat orientation using Earth’s magnetic field. Nature 445, 702 (Nature supplement).

Wikelski M, Moskowitz D, Adelman JS, Cochran J, Wilcove DS, May ML. 2006. Biology Letters, 1-5.

Wikelski M, Cooke SJ. 2006. Conservation physiology. TREE 21, 38-46.

Wikelski M. 2005. Evolution of body size in Galapagos marine iguanas. Proc Roy Soc Lond B 272, 1985-1993.

Cochran WW, Mouritsen H, Wikelski M. 2004. Migrating songbirds recalibrate their magnetic compass daily from twilight cues. Science 304, 405-408 and supporting online material.

Wikelski M, Tarlow E, Raim A, Diehl RH, Larkin RP, Visser GH. 2003. Costs of migration in free-flying songbirds. Nature 423, 703-704.

Wikelski M, Hau M, Wingfield JC. 2000. Seasonality of reproduction in a neotropical rainforest bird. Ecology 81, 2458-2472.

 

Publications in chronological order

Martin LB, Pless M, Wikelski M. 2007. Greater seasonal variation in blood and ectoparasite infections in a temperate than a tropical population of House Sparrows Passer domesticus in North America . Ibis, in press.

Lee K, Martin LB, Hasselquist D, Ricklefs RE, Wikelski M. 2006. Contrasting adaptive immune defenses and blood parasite prevalence in closely related Passer sparrows. Oecologia, published online.

Wikelski M, Kays RW, Kasdin J, Thorup K, Smith JA, Cochran WW, Swenson GW Jr. 2007. Going wild – what a global small-animal tracking system could do for experimental biologists. J Exp Bio, in press.

Wikelski M, Martin LB, Robinson MT, Robinson ND, Scheuerlein A, Helm B, Hau M, Gwinner E. 2007. Avian circannual clocks: Adaptive significance and possible proximate control by energy turnover. Trans Roy Soc London, in press.

Holland RA, Thorup K, Vonhof MJ, Cochran WW, Wikelski M. Bat orientation using Earth’s magnetic field. Nature 445, 702 (Nature supplement).

Holland RA, Wikelski M, Wilcove DS. 2006. How and why do insects migrate? Science 313, 794-796.

Rödl T, Berger S, Romero LM, Wikelski M. 2006. Tameness and stress physiology in a predator-naïve island species confronted with novel predation threat. Proc Roy Soc Lond B 274, 577-582. (highlighted in Nature 2006)

Wikelski M, Cooke SJ. 2006. Conservation physiology. TREE 21, 38-46.

Wikelski M, Tarlow E, Hau M, Groothuis T, Eising C, Gwinner E. 2006. Do ‘shift-working’ animals have no melatonin rhythm? A case study in a diurnal and a nocturnal gull species. J Ornithol 147, 107-111.

Martin L, Han P, Lewittes J, Kuhlman J, Klasing K, Wikelski M. in press. What do phytohemagglutinin (PHA)-induced skin swellings tell us about avian immunocompetence? Funct Ecol 20, 290-299. (highlighted in TREE 2006)

Swenson GW, Wikelski M, Smith JA. 2005. Tracking very low-power ground transmitters from near Earth orbit. Proc IEEE Internat Geosci Remote Sensing Symp Anchorage, Alaska, 19–24 September 2004.

Martin, LB, D Hasselquist, and M Wikelski. 2006. Investment in immune defense is linked to pace of life in house sparrows. Oecologia, published online.

Hawley DM, Lindström KM, Wikelski M. 2005. Experimentally increased social competition compromises humoral immune responses in house finches. Hormon Behav, in press.

Romero ML, Wikelski M. 2006. Diurnal and nocturnal differences in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function in Galápagos marine iguanas. Gen Comp Endocrinol 145, 177-181.

Lee K, Martin LB, Wikelski M. 2005. Responding to inflammatory challenges is less costly for a successful avian invader, the house sparrow (Passer domesticus), than its less-invasive congener. Oecologia, in press.

Cochran WW, Wikelski M. 2005. Individual migratory tactics of New World Catharus thrushes: current knowledge and future tracking options from space. In: Birds of Two Worlds:  Ecology and Evolution of Migration  (Ed. by R.  Greenberg and P. Marra), pp. 274-289. Baltimore :  Johns Hopkins University Press.

Fusani L, Canoine V, Goymann W, Wikelski M, Hau M. 2005. Difficulties and special issues associated with field research in behavioral neuroendocrinololgy. Hormon Behav, in press.

Lindström KM, Hasselquist D, Wikelski M. 2005. House sparrows (Passer domesticus) adjust their social status position to their physiological costs. Hormon Behav, in press.

Lindström, K.M., Hawley, D., Davis , A., Wikelski, M. 2005. Stress responses and disease in three wintering house finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) populations along a latitudinal gradient. Gen Comp Endocrinol, in press.

Rubenstein D, Wikelski M. 2005. Steroid hormones and aggression in female Galapagos marine iguanas. Hormon Behav, in press.

Wikelski M, Tarlow E, Hau M, Groothuis T, Eising C, Gwinner E. 2005. Do ‘shift-working’ animals have no melatonin rhythm? A case study in a diurnal and a nocturnal gull species. J Ornithol (invited paper, in press)

Wikelski M. 2005. Evolution of body size in Galapagos marine iguanas. Proc Roy Soc Lond B 272, 1985-1993. (invited paper)

Berger S, Martin LB, Wikelski M, Romero LM, Kalko EKV, Vitousek MN, Rödl T. 2004. Corticosterone suppresses immune activity in territorial Galapagos marine iguanas during reproduction. Hormon Behav 47, 419-429.

Wikelski M, Steiger S, Gall B, Nelson KN. 2005. Sex, drugs and mating role: Testosterone-induced phenotype-switching in Galapagos marine iguanas. Behav Ecol 16, 260-268.

Martin LB, Gilliam J, Han P, Lee K, Wikelski M. 2004. Corticosterone suppresses cutaneous immune function in temperate but not tropical House Sparrows, Passer domesticus. Gen Comp Endocrinol 140, 126-135.

Bowlin MS, Cochran WW, Wikelski M. 2005. Biotelemetry of New World thrushes during migration: Physiology, energetics and orientation in the wild. Integr Comp Biol 45, 295-304.

Nathan R, Sapir N, Trakhtenbrot A, Katul GG, Bohrer G, Otte M, Avissar R, Soons MB, Horn HS, Wikelski M, Levin SA. 2005. Long-distance biological transport processes through the air: can nature’s complexity be unfolded in-silico? Diversity Distributions 11:131-137 .

Wrege PH, Wikelski M, Mandel JT, Rassweiler T, Couzin ID. 2004. Antbirds parasitize foraging army ants. Ecology 85, 555-559.

Ferree ED, Wikelski M, Anderson DJ. 2004. Hormonal correlates of siblicide in Nazca boobies: support for the challenge hypothesis. Hormon Behav 46, 655-662.

Martin LB, Pless M, Svoboda J, Wikelski M. 2004. Immune activity in temperate and tropical House sparrows: a common-garden experiment. Ecology 85, 2323-2331.

Rattenborg NC, Mandt BH, Obermeyer WH, Winsauer P, Huber R, Wikelski W, Benca RM. 2004. Migratory Sleeplessness in the White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii). PLOS 2, 0924-0936.

Cooke SJ, Hinch SG, Wikelski M, Andrews RD , Kuchel LJ, Wolcott TG, Butler PJ. 2004. Biotelemetry: a mechanistic approach to ecology. TREE 19, 335-343.

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

Cochran, W.W., Mouritsen, H. and Wikelski, M. 2004. Migrating songbirds recalibrate their magnetic compass daily from twilight cues. Science 304, 405-408 and supporting online material.

Wikelski, M. & Carbone, C. 2004. Environmental scaling of body size in island populations of Galapagos marine iguanas. Pp. 148-157 in Alberts, A.C, Carter, R.L., Hayes, W.K. & E.P. Martins (eds.), Biology and Conservation of Iguanas. University of California Press, Berkeley.

Wikelski, M., Foufopoulos, J., Vargas, H. and Snell, H. 2004. Galápagos Birds and Diseases: Invasive Pathogens as Threats for Island Species. Ecology and Society 9(1): 5. [online]

Wikelski, M. & Romero, L.M. (2003) Body size, performance and fitness in Galapagos marine iguanas. Integr. Comp. Biol. 43, 376-386.

Rubenstein, D.R. & Wikelski, M. (2003) Seasonal changes in food quality: a proximate cue for reproductive timing in marine iguanas. Ecology 84, 3013-3023.

Wikelski, M., Spinney, L., Schelsky, W., Scheuerlein, A. & Gwinner, E. (2003) Slow pace of life in tropical sedentary birds: a common-garden experiment on four stonechat populations from different latitudes. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 270, 2383-2388.

Wikelski, M., Hau, M., Robinson, D.W. & Wingfield, J.C. (2003) Seasonality in tropical rainforest habitats: seasonal changes in life-history parameters of 7 neotropical bird species. Condor 105, 683-695.

Tarlow, E.M., Hau, M., Anderson, D.J. & Wikelski, M. (2003) Diel changes in plasma melatonin and corticosterone concentrations in tropical Nazca boobies (Sula granti) in relation to moon phase and age. Gen. Comp. Endo. 133, 297-304.

Wikelski, M., Tarlow, E., Raim, A., Diehl, R.H., Larkin, R.P. & Visser, G.H. (2003) Costs of migration in free-flying songbirds. Nature 423, 703-704.

Woodley, S.K., Painter, D.L., Moore, M.C., Wikelski, M. & Romero, L.M. (2003) Effect of tidal cycle and food intake on the baseline plasma corticosterone rhythm in intertidally foraging marine iguanas. Gen. Comp. Endo. 132, 216-222.

Martin, L. B. II., Scheuerlein, A. & Wikelski, M. (2003) Linking physiological and fitness costs of immune activity: increased immune activity elevates energy expenditure of house sparrows. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 270(1511), 153-158.

Romero, L.M. & Wikelski, M. (2002) Severe effects of low-level oil contamination on wildlife predicted by the corticosterone-stress response: preliminary data and a research agenda. Spill Science & Tech. Bulletin 7, 309-311.