Piersma, Prof. Theunis
Theunis Piersma is professor of Animal Ecology. Together with his international research team, he studies how the distribution and numbers of waders correlate to climate, food, predators, pathogens and their historical-genetic background. Research is being conducted within the Netherlands as well as in comparable ecosystems in Africa, Australia, North and South America and Asia. Moreover, Piersma works as a Wadden biologist for the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) on the island of Texel.
For the past years he has concentrated, inter alia, on population studies among black-tailed godwits. He is, for example, involved in a study that tracks godwits in their breeding grounds in Friesland and during their migration to and from southern Europe and Africa via a transmitter in their abdominal cavity. In 2023, Piersma showed that black-tailed godwit migration is learned, not innate. ‘The experiment clearly shows that genetics are not the decisive factor. These godwits mainly learn from their environment. They go to school, as it were.'
Piersma in De Wereld Draait Door on migratory birds (in Dutch)
Piersma awarded a Spinoza prize
Piersma Spinoza prize 2014
Black-tailed godwits en route to Africa with hypermodern satellite transmitters
Kemphanen (second part of video)
Thinking like a bird
In 2014 Piersma was awarded a Spinoza Prize, also referred to as the 'Dutch Nobel Prize'. In 2017 he received a top British ornithology award, followed by the Godman Salvin Prize in 2020.
Piersma is one of the main researchers of the Watch Birds project (‘Waakvogels’), launched in 2023, which will spend five years collecting information on six species that visit the Wadden Sea. By accurately measuring how these birds fare year after year, it is possible to study what the impact of climate change is, for example.
Because the measuring requires a lot of time and effort, Piersma has founded the research centre BirdEyes, housed in Leeuwarden. In this international centre for climate change research and education, the UG collaborates with the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), the University of Amsterdam and the Fryske Akademy. BirdEyes uses, among other things, the 'big data' birds provide with transmitters. Using this technology on the backs and legs of birds, a large amount of data is released. This provides a lot of information about birds' living conditions.
Previously in the news
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The Godwit’s Long, Long Nonstop Journey (New York Times)
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Piersma has been awarded a Spinoza Prize: ‘I embrace the fuzzy nature of ecology’
Contact and further information
2026
Mu,
T., Verhoeven, M. A., Jackson, M. V., Piersma, T.,
Fuller, R. A., & Wilcove, D. S. (2026). A “demand
and supply” approach to monitoring habitat and population
changes of migratory birds. Frontiers in Ecology
and the Environment, 24(3), Article e70035. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.70035
Penning,
E., Ersoy, S., Govers, L. L.,
Dekinga, A., Holthuijsen, S. J., Piersma, T.,
& Bijleveld, A. I. (2026). Avian prey exhibit
repeatable abundances on intertidal mudflats.
Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science,
336, Article 109900. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2026.109900
Conklin,
J. R., Bom, R. A., Lindström, Å., Bocher,
P., & Piersma, T. (2026). Challenges in
population monitoring: Bar-tailed Godwits (Limosa lapponica) on the
East Atlantic Flyway defy assumed population structure.
Ibis, 168(2), 824-832. https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13458
Veenstra,
R., Henriques, M., Keuning, T., Onrust,
J., Berg, M. P., & Piersma, T.
(2026). Free-living Black-tailed Godwits maintain constant
intake rates across varying grassland habitat conditions by
adjusting their foraging behaviour.
Ibis, 168(3), 876-889. https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.70031
Zhu,
B. R., Verhoeven, M. A., Craft, T. B.,
Sanchez-Aguilar, L., Lei, W., Zhang, Z., & Piersma,
T. (2026). Male and female Black-tailed Godwits
Limosa limosa bohaii show differences in habitat use and
daily rhythms during spring staging in China.
Journal of Ornithology. Advance online
publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-025-02355-4
de
Wilde, M., Maarsingh, B., de Monte, L. G. G., Dekinga,
A., Bijleveld, A. I., Kressin, H., Zomer, A. L., &
Piersma, T. (2026). Molluscivorous red knots rapidly
adjust to a plant diet. Biology Open,
15(4), Article bio062365. https://doi.org/10.1242/bio.062365
2025
Veenstra,
R., Hut, M., Onrust, J., Fokkema, R.
W., Piersma, T., & Berg, M. P.
(2026). During dry conditions, traditional surface-drained
grasslands support higher earthworm abundances than contemporary
deeply drained grasslands. Agriculture, Ecosystems
and Environment, 398, Article 110110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2025.110110
Lagendijk,
G., Beentjes, K., Belting, H., Hooijmeijer,
J., Howison, R., Lemke, H., Ligtelijn,
M., Ludwig, J., Marlow, C., Meltr, J., Piersma,
T., & Verkuil, Y. (2025). Arthropod taxa in faeces
of chicks of Black-tailed Godwits and Northern Lapwings in Germany
and the Netherlands revealed by DNA metabarcoding.
Wader Study, 132(1), 45-55. https://doi.org/10.18194/ws.00368
Henriques
Baldé, M., Piersma, T., Vansteelant,
W., de Goeij, P., & Lok, T.
(2025). A time and a place for everything: Eurasian
Spoonbills divide spring and summer activities across different
areas in the eastern Dutch Wadden Sea.
Ardea, 113(1), 3-20. https://doi.org/10.5253/arde.2024.a24
Peng,
H.-B., Zhu, Z., Choi, C.-Y., Mu, T., Huang, Y., Li, J., Lei,
W., Bouma, T. J., Melville, D. S., Zhang, Z., Ma, Z., Lei, G.,
Yang, Z., & Piersma, T. (2025).
China’s intertidal mariculture as an unexpected
lifeline sustaining the world’s most threatened shorebird
flyway. Nature Communications,
16(1), Article 10972. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-65948-w
Rogers,
D. I., Piersma, T., Minton, C. D. T., Boyle, A. N.,
Hassell, C. J., Rogers, K. G., Silcocks, A., & Gutiérrez,
J. S. (2025). Coastal shorebirds delay maturity more than
inland ones. Ecology and Evolution,
15(7), Article e71679. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71679
Sun,
L., Yang, H., Lu, X., Fu, T., Guo, J., Ren, S., Liang, W.,
Chen, Q., Li, D., Piersma, T., Crockford, N.,
Jia, Y., & Lei, G. (2025). Corrigendum: to “Shallow
water habitats provide high-quality foraging environments for the
Spoon-billed Sandpiper at a critical staging site” (Avian
Research, (2025), 16, 2, (100233), (S205371662500012X),
10.1016/j.avrs.2025.100233). Avian
Research, 16(4), Article 100309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avrs.2025.100309
Jansma,
H., Piersma, T., & de Goeij, P.
(2025). De lepelaar in een roerige wereld. Digital or
Visual Products, Hilco Jansma Productions. https://npo.nl/start/video/de-lepelaar
Oortwijn,
T., Lameris, T. K., Zhemchuzhnikov, M.
K., Dekinga, A., ten Horn, J., Kutcherov, D., Lisovski,
S., Piersma, T., Rakhimberdiev, E., Soloviev, M. Y.,
Spaans, B., Syroechkovsky, E. E., Tomkovich, P. S.,
Zhemchuzhnikova, E., & van Gils, J. A.
(2025). Demand-resource mismatch explains body shrinkage in a
migratory shorebird. Global Change
Biology, 31(4), Article e70170. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70170
Amarejeyat,
A., Camara, M. S., Mahmoud, L. Y. A., Qninba, A., El Agbani, M.
A., de Goeij, P., Camphuysen, K. C. J., &
Piersma, T. (2025). Diet of breeding Caspian Terns
Hydroprogne caspia at Banc d’Arguin, Mauritania, is
diverse and differs between an offshore and an inshore site.
Waterbirds, 47(4), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1675/063.047.0404
Lok,
T., de Goeij, P., Rakhimberdiev,
E., Piersma, T., & Vansteelant,
W. (2025). Eurasian spoonbill chicks receive parental
care up to several months after fledging, but not into
migration. Behavioral Ecology and
Sociobiology, 79(11), Article 109. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-025-03649-6
Lameris,
T. K., Bijleveld, A. I., Bom, R.
A., Karagicheva, J., Kressin, H., Kok, E. M.
A., Lagerveld, S., de Monte, L. G. G., Helm,
B., & Piersma, T. (2025).
Experimentally increased food availability allows for earlier
departure in a long-distance migratory shorebird.
Functional Ecology, 39(12),
3434-3445. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.70183
van
der Velde, E., Fokkema, R., Lagendijk,
G., Stessens, M., Zijlstra, N., Piersma,
T., & Hooijmeijer, J. (2025).
Grutto-Landschap-Project: Jaarrapport 2024.
University of Groningen.
Coelho,
A. P., Ramos, C., Regala de Barros, A., Piersma, T.,
& Alves, J. A. (2025). Human–wildlife interactions
on the tidal flats of the Bijagós Archipelago: Does
shellfishing affect migratory shorebirds? Wildlife
biology, 2025(1), Article e01134. https://doi.org/10.1002/wlb3.01134
Piersma,
T., Camara, M., De Goeij, P., Loos, B.,
Oortwijn, T., & El-Hacen, E. H. M. (2025).
Is the resident subspecies of the Eurasian spoonbill in
Mauritania, Platalea leucorodia balsaci, threatened by
introgression of genes from the migratory nominate subspecies
leucorodia? Oryx,
59(5), 579-583. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605325101737
Kempenaers,
B., Valcu, M., Piersma, T., Santema, P., &
Vervoort, R. (2025). Large-scale sampling of potential
breeding sites in male ruffs. Proceedings of the
Royal Society B: Biological Sciences,
292(2038), Article 20242225. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.2225
Lei,
W., Masero, J. A., Chai, Z., Zhu, B. R., Mu, T.,
Peng, H. B., Zhang, Z., & Piersma, T.
(2025). Maintaining shallow waters to maximize the potential
of saltpans as foraging habitat for migratory shorebirds along an
endangered flyway. Biological
Conservation, 306, Article 111100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111100
Piersma,
T., Prins, S., & Dekinga, A. (2025). Negotiating
the northern edge of a nonbreeding distribution: A case of winter
mortality in Eurasian Spoonbills. Journal of
Ornithology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-025-02276-2
Weiser,
E. L., Lanctot, R. B., Ruthrauff, D. R., Saalfeld, S. T., Tibbitts,
T. L., Abad-Gómez, J. M., Aldabe, J., Bom, R. A.,
Conklin, J. R., Hooijmeijer, J. C. E. W.,
Loonstra, A. H. J., Piersma, T.,
Verhoeven, M. A., & et al. (2025). Power source,
data retrieval method, and attachment type affect success of
dorsally mounted tracking tag deployments in 37 species of
shorebirds. Journal of Avian Biology,
2025(6), Article e03487. https://doi.org/10.1002/jav.03487
Craft,
T. B., Piersma, T., Hooijmeijer, J. C. E.
W., Zhu, B. R., D'Souza, M., O'Reilly,
E., Fokkema, R. W., Stessens, M.,
Belting, H., Marlow, C., Ludwig, J., Melter, J., Alves, J. A.,
Esteban-Pineda, A., Gutiérrez, J. S., Masero, J. A., Rocha, A.
D., Dreef, C., & Howison, R. A. (2025).
Remote sensing and GPS tracking reveal temporal shifts in
habitat use in nonbreeding Black-tailed Godwits.
Journal of Applied Ecology, 62(1),
119-131. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14827
Sun,
L., Yang, H., Lu, X., Fu, T., Guo, J., Ren, S., Liang, W., Chen,
Q., Li, D., Piersma, T., Crockford, N., Jia, Y., &
Lei, G. (2025). Shallow water habitats provide high-quality
foraging environments for the Spoon-billed Sandpiper at a critical
staging site. Avian Research,
16(2), Article 100233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avrs.2025.100233
Beal,
M., Nightingale, J., Belo, J. R., Batey, C., Belting, H., Bocher,
P., Burgess, M., Craft, T. B., Crockford, N.,
Delaporte, P., Donaldson, L., Gélinaud, G., Gill, J. A.,
Gunnarsson, T. G., Þórisson, B., Gutiérrez, J.
S., Hooijmeijer, J. C. E. W., Howison, R.
A., Hunke, P., ... Dias, M. P. (2025). Site-level
connectivity identified from multiple sources of movement data to
inform conservation of a migratory bird. Journal
of Applied Ecology, 62(2), 303-316. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14839
Das,
D. K., Vansteelant, W. M. G., Zhu,
B., Islam, S., Khandakar, N., van der Velde,
M., Hassell, C. J., Conklin, J. R., Bocher, P.,
Hooijmeijer, J. C. E. W., Verkuil, Y. I., &
Piersma, T. (2025). Three subspecies of Black-tailed
Godwit share non-breeding sites in the world's largest river
delta. Avian Research, 16(1),
Article 100226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avrs.2025.100226
Bom,
R. A., Piersma, T., Fijen, T. P. M.,
& van Gils, J. A. (2025). Wait a minute? Hiding
behavior of burrowing crabs and an oversized bill explain why crab
plovers prefer armored swimming crabs.
Ethology, 131(5), Article e13554. https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.13554
2024
Coelho,
A. P., Rocha, A. D., de Barros, A. R., Piersma, T.,
& Alves, J. A. (2025). An allometric approach to seasonal
changes in intake rates of migratory shorebirds in the Bijagós
Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau. Ibis,
167(1), 161-178. https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13348
Belfín,
O., Kempenaers, B., & Piersma, T. (2025).
Daily and seasonal use of vocalizations by nesting
black-tailed godwits. Journal of Avian
Biology, (2). https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.03362
Lemrabott,
S. Y. C., van Leeuwen, A., Leurs, G.,
El-Hacen, E. H. M., Piersma, T., Sall, A. A.,
Sidina, E., Yarba, L., & Olff, H. (2025).
Overfishing of threatened bycatch species in a marine
protected area: The elasmobranchs of Banc d'Arguin,
Mauritania. Fisheries Management and
Ecology, 32(4), 97-106. https://doi.org/10.1111/fme.12786
Barba-Escoto,
L., Howison, R. A., Fokkema, R.
W., Duriaux-Chavarría, J. Y.,
Stessens, M., van der Velde, E., Hooijmeijer, J. C. E.
W., Piersma, T., & Tittonell, P.
A. (2024). Are they even there? How agri-environment
schemes investments reach their target species in Dutch
dairy-farmland, the case of meadow birds. Global
Ecology and Conservation, 56, Article e03286.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2024.e03286
Dorofeev,
D., Ivanov, A., Khudyakova, E., Verkuil, Y., Piersma,
T., & Meissner, W. (2024). Biometric variability
and sexual size dimorphism in the Great Knot Calidris
tenuirostris. The European Zoological
Journal, 91(1), 64-74. https://doi.org/10.1080/24750263.2023.2293120
Khandakar,
N., Sultana, I., Akhtar, F., Piersma, T., &
Das, D. K. (2024). Birds feeding on date palm sap
during Bengali traditional sap harvesting on Nijhum Dweep,
Bangladesh. Wilson Journal of
Ornithology, 136(4), 485-492. https://doi.org/10.1676/24-00052
Hooijmeijer,
J., Stessens, M., Haaksma, L. R., Hotting, M.,
Jager, K. D., Tijsen, W., Brandhorst, W., Loos, B., de Vries, J.
J., & Piersma, T. (2024). Black-tailed
Godwits (Limosa limosa) in southern Iberia: Habitat
description and finding colour marked birds from 1 – 26
February 2024.
Hooijmeijer,
J., Das, D., & Piersma, T.
(2024). Black-tailed Godwits (Limosa limosa) in
southern Spain: Habitat description and finding colour marked birds
from 1 – 9 October 2024.
Hooijmeijer,
J., & Piersma, T. (2024).
Black-tailed Godwits (Limosa limosa limosa) in
France (Vendée & Charente Maritime) during spring
migration: Habitat descriptions and finding colour marked birds
from 6 – 15 March 2024. University of
Groningen.
Piersma,
T. (2024). De geest in het beest. Het zijn van Charles
Foster. De Gids.
van
den Bremer, L., Piersma, T., & van Turnhout, C. A.
M. (2024). Does the provisioning of artificial nest cups and
nesting structures help house martins Delichon
urbicum? Ardea, 112(1),
63-72. https://doi.org/10.5253/arde.2023.a21
Eren,
S., Beaulieu, A., Piersma, T.,
& Crockford, N. (2024). Flyways Beyond Migratory
Pathways: The Case of Waterbird Conservation.
Conservation and Society, 22(2),
74-85. https://doi.org/10.4103/cs.cs_109_22
Hooijmeijer,
J., Rakhimberdiev, E., van der Velde, E.,
Howison, R., Stessens, M., Kraamwinkel,
C., Craft, T., Fokkema, R.,
Lagendijk, G., Ligtelijn, M., Onrust,
J., Saarloos, A., Vansteelant, W., Belfin, O.,
Basting, S., Zijlstra, N., Verkuil, Y., & Piersma,
T. (2024). Grutto Landschap Project Jaarverslag
2023: De staat van ons landschap: Biomonitoring van duurzame
landbouw innovaties . University of Groningen.
Conklin,
J. R., Verkuil, Y. I., Lefebvre, M. J. M., Battley, P. F.,
Bom, R. A., Gill, R. E., Hassell, C. J., ten Horn, J.,
Ruthrauff, D. R., Tibbitts, T. L., Tomkovich, P. S., Warnock,
N., Piersma, T., & Fontaine, M. C.
(2024). High dispersal ability versus migratory traditions:
Fine-scale population structure and post-glacial colonisation in
bar-tailed godwits. Molecular Ecology,
33(15), Article e17452. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17452
Fokkema,
R. W., van der Velde, E., Stessens, M.,
Bos, D., Belfín, O., de Jong, M. E.,
Hooijmeijer, J. C. E. W., & Piersma, T.
(2024). Mapping mammalian meadow bird nest predators in a
Dutch dairy farming landscape. European Journal of
Wildlife Research, 70(6), Article 122. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-024-01878-0
Piersma,
T. (2024). Marathon migrants: What we've learnt about
Red Knots and Bar-tailed Godwits since 1973. In P. Prokosch
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Piersma,
T. (2024). Ornithology from the Flatlands: Humans
guiding the first migration of hand-raised Ibises: On social
learning and culture in birds. Ardea,
112(2), 165-170. https://doi.org/10.5253/arde.2024.a15
Ersoy,
S., Beardsworth, C. E., Duran, E., van der Meer, M. T.
J., Piersma, T., Groothuis, T. G.
G., & Bijleveld, A. I. (2024).
Pathway for personality development: Juvenile red knots vary
more in diet and exploratory behaviour than adults.
Animal Behaviour, 208, 31-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.11.018
de
Boer, A. P., Vansteelant, W. M. G., &
Piersma, T. (2024). Primary moult of Eurasian
Spoonbills Platalea l. leucorodia in the Wadden Sea in
Relation to age, breeding and migration.
Ardea, 112(2), 217-227. https://doi.org/10.5253/arde.2023.a19
Coelho,
A. P., Lopes, P., Rocha, A. D., Barros, A. R. D., Piersma,
T., & Alves, J. A. (2024). Seasonal Variation in
the Diet of Migratory Shorebirds Wintering in the Bijagós
Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau. Ardea,
112(1), 89-102. https://doi.org/10.5253/arde.2023.a17
Lok,
T., van der Geest, M., de Goeij, P.,
Rakhimberdiev, E., & Piersma, T. (2024).
Sex-specific nest attendance rhythm and foraging habitat use
in a colony-breeding waterbird. Behavioral
Ecology, 35(3), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arae020
Lemrabott,
S., van Leeuwen, A., Piersma, T., Braham,
C.-B., Ball, A. C., Araujo, A., Olff, H., &
El-Hacen, H. (2024). The chronology of overfishing in
a remote West-African coastal ecosystem. Ecology
and Society, 29(1), Article 9. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-13902-290109
El-Hacen,
E. H. M., ten Horn, J., Dekinga, A., Loos, B., &
Piersma, T. (2024). Two decades of change in
nonbreeding population sizes of shorebirds and other waterbirds in
the Iwik area of Parc National du Banc d’Arguin,
Mauritania. Wader Study,
131(2), 112-121. https://doi.org/10.18194/ws.00343
Ersoy,
S., Groothuis, T. G. G., Piersma,
T., & Bijleveld, A. I. (2024). When
slow explorers are fast: Personality-related differences in timing
of migration in Red Knots (Calidris canutus).
Ibis, 166(4), 1146-1156. https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13308
2023
Nightingale,
J., Gill, J. A., Gunnarsson, T. G., Rocha, A. D., Howison,
R., Hooijmeijer, J. C. E. W., Piersma, T.,
& Alves, J. A. (2024). Does early spring arrival lead to
early nesting in a migratory shorebird? Insights from remote
tracking. IBIS – International Journal of
Ornithology, 166(2), 424-439. https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13268
Bom,
R. A., Piersma, T., Alves, J. A., &
Rakhimberdiev, E. (2024). Global temperature
homogenization can obliterate temporal isolation in migratory
animals with potential loss of population structure.
Global Change Biology, 30(1),
Article e17069. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17069
Carneiro,
C., Gunnarsson, T. G., Kaasiku, T., Piersma, T., &
Alves, J. A. (2024). Icelandic Whimbrel first migration:
Non-stop until West Africa, yet later departure and slower travel
than adults. Ibis, 166(2),
715-722. https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13282
Ma,
Z., Choi, C. Y., Gan, X., Li, J., Liu, Y., Melville, D. S., Mu,
T., Piersma, T., & Zhang, Z. (2023).
Achievements, challenges, and recommendations for waterbird
conservation in China's coastal wetlands. Avian
Research, 14, Article 100123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avrs.2023.100123
Peng,
H. B., Ma, Z., Rakhimberdiev, E.,
van Gils, J. A., Battley, P. F., Rogers, D. I., Choi,
C. Y., Wu, W., Feng, X., Ma, Q., Hua, N., Minton, C., Hassell, C.
J., & Piersma, T. (2023). Arriving late and
lean at a stopover site is selected against in a declining
migratory bird population. Journal of Animal
Ecology, 92(10), 2109-2118. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.14001
Hooijmeijer,
J., Piersma, T., Hotting, M., Tijsen, W., de
Vries, J. J., Jager, K. D., Brandhorst, W., Jong, J. D., Zijlstra,
B., & van Eerden, A. (2023).
Black-tailed Godwits (Limosa limosa) in southern
Iberia, habitat description and finding colour marked birds from 1
– 26 February 2023: Portugal (Sado, Tejo & Algarve),
Spain (Doñana & Extremadura). University of
Groningen.
Vansteelant,
W., Piersma, T., & Hooijmeijer, J.
(2023). Black-tailed Godwits (Limosa limosa) in
southern Spain, habitat description and finding colour marked birds
from 5 – 13 October 2023: Doñana, Bonanza, Algaida,
Brazo del Este, Marismas de Cetina & Odiel.
University of Groningen.
Piersma,
T., Koolhaas, A., van Gils, J. A., &
Dekinga, A. (2023). Cause for caution: Response to Forum
Contribution by van der Meer and Folmer. Journal
of Applied Ecology, 60(11), 2494-2496. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14500
Ma,
Z., Choi, C. Y., Gan, X., Li, J., Liu, Y., Melville, D. S., Mu,
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