Van De Pol, Martijn - The Australian National University

个人简介

For my PhD I studied life-history decisions in a long-lived shorebird on a tiny barrier island in the Netherlands. When my field experiments were flooded 3 years in a row, I decided to take this as a sign and switch fields to study the climate change ecology of birds. I first headed up north for a postdoctoral fellowship at the Norwegian University for Science & Technology to get acquainted with theory on stochastic population dynamics. Wondering where the sun had gone, I then headed down south to work as a research fellow at ANU. There I got an opportunity for hands on experience with long-term field studies on iconic fairy-wrens. Although fairy-wrens have quite a reputation because of their extreme promiscuity and complex behavioural strategies, they are actually also an extremely useful model system to study the mechanisms by which individuals and populations respond to climate change (they really, really love rain…). In 2013 I started up a new lab, in which we are focussing on long-term studies of a variety of bird species to further our understanding of the eco-evolutionary dynamics in a changing environment. I am also an honorary Senior Researcher at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Animal Ecology.

研究领域

What are the mechanisms by which animals adapt to climate change and is it fast enough to keep up with the rapidly changing environment (i.e. eco-evolutionary dynamics)? How do individuals and populations respond to stochastic extreme climatic events, such as increased flooding risks and heatwaves? What determines why some type of species are more prone to extinction than others? What is the interactive effect of different threaths to species (climate change, habitat fragmentation, predation)? Optimal life-history strategies of species with age-structured life-cycles living in a stochastic environment (e.g. bet-hedging).

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van de Pol, M., Osmond, H & Cockburn, A. (2012) Fluctuations in population composition dampen the impact of phenotypic plasticity on trait dynamics in superb fairy-wrens. Journal of Animal Ecology, 81: 411-421. Dingemanse, N., Bouwman, K., van de Pol, M., van Overveld, T., Patrick, S., Matthysen, E. & Quinn, J. (2012) Variation in personality and behavioural plasticity across four populations of great tit Parus Major. Journal of Animal Ecology, 81: 116–126. van de Pol, M., Vindenes, Y,, S?ther, B.E., Engen, S., Ens, B.J., Oosterbeek, K., Tinbergen, J.M. (2011). Poor environmental tracking can make extinction risk insensitive to the colour of environmental noise. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences, 278: 3713-3722. van de Pol, M. & Cockburn, A. (2011) Identifying the critical climatic time-window that affects trait expression. The American Naturalist 177: 698-707. Brouwer, L., van de Pol, M., Atema, E. & Cockburn, A. (2011) Strategic promiscuity helps avoid inbreeding at multiple levels in a cooperative breeder where both sexes are philopatric. Molecular Ecology, 20: 4796–4807. van de Pol, M., Ens,B.J., Heg,D.H., Brouwer,L., Krol,J., Maier,M., Exo,K-M., Oosterbeek, K., Lok,T., Eising,C., Koffijberg,K. (2010) Do changes in the frequency, magnitude and timing of extreme climatic events threaten the population viability of coastal birds? Journal of Applied Ecology 47: 720-730. van de Pol, M., Vindenes, Y, S?ther, B.E., Engen, S., Ens, B.J., Oosterbeek, K., Tinbergen, J.M. (2010). Effects of climate change and variability on population dynamics in a long-lived shorebird. Ecology 91: 1192-1204. Brouwer, L., Barr, I., van de Pol, M., Burke, T., Komdeur, J. & Richardson, D.S. (2010) MHC-dependent survival in a wild population: evidence for hidden genetic benefits gained through extra-pair fertilisations. Molecular Ecology 19: 3444-3455 van de Pol, M., Brouwer, L., Ens, B.J., Oosterbeek, K., Tinbergen, J.M. (2010). Fluctuating selection and the maintenance of individual and sex-specific diet specialization in free-living oystercatchers. Evolution 64: 836-851.