van Gils, J.A., P.F. Battley, T. Piersma & R. Drent. 2005. Reinterpretation of gizzard sizes of red knots world-wide emphasises overriding importance of prey quality at migratory stopover sites. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 272: 2609-2618. Download PDF (263 kb)
Battley, P.F., D.I. Rogers, T. Piersma, C.J. Hassell, A. Boyle & H.-Y. Yang. 2005. How do red knots (Calidris canutus) leave Northwest Australia in May and reach the breeding grounds in June? Predictions of stopover times, fuelling rates and prey quality in the Yellow Sea. Journal of Avian Biology 36: 494-500. Download PDF (133 kb)
Battley, P.F. & T. Piersma. 2005. Body composition and flight ranges of Bar-tailed Godwits (Limosa lapponica baueri) from New Zealand. Auk 122: 922-937. Download PDF (340 kb)
Gill, R.E., Jr., T. Piersma, G. Hufford, R. Servranckx & A. Riegen. 2005. Crossing the ultimate ecological barrier: Evidence for an 11 000-km-long nonstop flight from Alaska to New Zealand and Eastern Australia by Bar-tailed Godwits. Condor 107: 1-20. Download PDF (645 kb)
Battley, P.F. & T. Piersma. 2005. Adaptive interplay between feeding ecology and features of the digestive tract. Pp. 201-227 In Starck, J.M. & T. Wang (eds). Physiological and ecological adaptations to feeding in vertebrates. Science Publishers, Enfield, USA. Download PDF (522 kb)
van Gils, J.A. & T. Piersma. 2004 Digestively constrained predators evade the cost of interference competition. Journal of Animal Ecology 73: 386-398.
Landys-Ciannelli, M.M., T. Piersma & J. Jukema. 2003. Strategic size changes of internal organs and muscle tissue in the bar-tailed godwit during fat storage on a spring stopover site. Functional Ecology 17: 151-159.
Piersma, T. & A.J. Baker. 2000. Life history characteristics and the conservation of migratory shorebirds. In Behaviour and Conservation, vol. 2 (ed. L. M. Gosling & W. J. Sutherlands), pp. 105-124. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Piersma, T., M.W. Dietz, A. Dekinga, S. Nebel, J. van Gils, P.F. Battley & B. Spaans. 2000. Reversible size-changes in stomachs of shorebirds: When, to what extent, and why? Acta Ornithologica 34: 175-181.
Piersma, T., G.A. Gudmundsson & K. Lilliendahl. 1999. Rapid changes in the size of different functional organ and muscle groups during refueling in a long-distance migrating shorebird. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 72: 405-415.
Piersma, T. 1998. Phenotypic flexibility during migration: optimization of organ size contingent on the risks and rewards of fueling and flight? Journal of Avian Biology 29: 511-520.
Piersma, T. & R.E. Gill, Jr. 1998. Guts don’t fly: Small digestive organs in obese Bar-tailed Godwits. Auk 115: 196-203.
Piersma, T. 1997. Do global patterns of habitat use and migration strategies co-evolve with relative investments in immunocompetence due to spatial variation in parasite pressure? Oikos 80: 623-631.
Piersma, T., J.M. Everaarts & J. Jukema. 1996. Build-up of red blood cells in refuelling Bar-tailed Godwits in relation to individual migratory quality. Condor 98: 363-370.
Piersma, T. & Jukema, J. 1993. Red breasts as honest signals of migratory quality in a long-distance migrant, the Bar-tailed Godwit. Condor 95: 163-177.
Piersma, T., Koolhaas, A. & Dekinga, A. 1993. Interactions between stomach structure and diet choice in shorebirds. Auk 110: 552-564.
Piersma, T. & N.C. Davidson. 1992. The migrations and annual cycles of five subspecies of Knots in perspective. Wader Study Group Bulletin 64, Supplement: 187-197.
Piersma, T. & Jukema, J. 1990. Budgeting the flight of a long-distance migrant: changes in nutrient reserves levels of Bar-tailed Godwits at successive staging sites. Ardea 78: 315-337.
Piersma, T. 1987. Hop, skip or jump? Constraints on migration of arctic waders by feeding, fattening and flight speed. Limosa 60: 185-194.