Marcel E. Visser

32.5k total citations · 13 hit papers
246 papers, 21.2k citations indexed

About

Marcel E. Visser is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Marcel E. Visser has authored 246 papers receiving a total of 21.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 162 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 143 papers in Ecology and 62 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Marcel E. Visser's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (114 papers), Avian ecology and behavior (105 papers) and Plant and animal studies (71 papers). Marcel E. Visser is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (114 papers), Avian ecology and behavior (105 papers) and Plant and animal studies (71 papers). Marcel E. Visser collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and Finland. Marcel E. Visser's co-authors include Christiaan Both, Phillip Gienapp, C. M. Lessells, Erik Postma, Leonard J. M. Holleman, Margriet van Asch, Sandra Bouwhuis, Arie J. van Noordwijk, P. Samuel and Nanette Verboven and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Marcel E. Visser

245 papers receiving 20.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. WHY BREEDING TIME HAS NOT RESPONDED TO SELECTION FOR EARLIER BREEDING IN A SONGBIRD POPULATION
    2006 1.2k citations Phillip Gienapp, Marcel E. Visser et al. Evolution profile →
  2. Climate change and population declines in a long-distance migratory bird
    2006 1.1k citations Christiaan Both, Marcel E. Visser et al. profile →
  3. Shifts in phenology due to global climate change: the need for a yardstick
    2005 1.1k citations Marcel E. Visser, Christiaan Both Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →
  4. Keeping up with a warming world; assessing the rate of adaptation to climate change
    2008 812 citations Marcel E. Visser Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →
  5. Adjustment to climate change is constrained by arrival date in a long-distance migrant bird
    2001 804 citations Christiaan Both, Marcel E. Visser profile →
  6. Warmer springs lead to mistimed reproduction in great tits (Parus major)
    1998 790 citations Marcel E. Visser et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →
  7. Predicting species distribution and abundance responses to climate change: why it is essential to include biotic interactions across trophic levels
    2010 600 citations Marcel E. Visser et al. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →
  8. Superparasitism as an Adaptive Strategy for Insect Parasitoids
    1990 566 citations Marcel E. Visser et al. profile →
  9. Selection on Heritable Phenotypic Plasticity in a Wild Bird Population
    2005 526 citations Phillip Gienapp, Marcel E. Visser et al. Science profile →
  10. Shifts in caterpillar biomass phenology due to climate change and its impact on the breeding biology of an insectivorous bird
    2005 523 citations Marcel E. Visser, Phillip Gienapp et al. profile →
  11. Climate change and unequal phenological changes across four trophic levels: constraints or adaptations?
    2008 519 citations Christiaan Both, Marcel E. Visser et al. profile →
  12. The biological impacts of artificial light at night: the research challenge
    2015 359 citations Marcel E. Visser et al. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →
  13. Evolutionary and demographic consequences of phenological mismatches
    2019 295 citations Marcel E. Visser, Phillip Gienapp profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Marcel E. Visser Netherlands 71 12.3k 10.4k 7.3k 4.9k 4.4k 246 21.2k
Theunis Piersma Netherlands 85 23.3k 1.9× 10.7k 1.0× 3.0k 0.4× 5.4k 1.1× 6.6k 1.5× 696 33.6k
Raymond B. Huey United States 86 16.5k 1.3× 14.0k 1.3× 9.2k 1.3× 5.4k 1.1× 12.2k 2.8× 173 30.8k
Stan Boutin Canada 77 16.4k 1.3× 6.1k 0.6× 2.8k 0.4× 4.7k 1.0× 3.3k 0.8× 383 21.0k
Steven L. Chown South Africa 87 19.6k 1.6× 10.7k 1.0× 7.4k 1.0× 5.9k 1.2× 4.6k 1.0× 503 30.3k
Charles J. Krebs Canada 78 17.3k 1.4× 5.8k 0.6× 2.5k 0.3× 8.0k 1.6× 3.3k 0.7× 345 23.5k
Andy Purvis United Kingdom 74 10.3k 0.8× 7.9k 0.8× 5.3k 0.7× 6.8k 1.4× 4.1k 0.9× 196 23.6k
Andrew Sih United States 87 14.9k 1.2× 20.8k 2.0× 2.1k 0.3× 9.3k 1.9× 9.1k 2.1× 277 35.0k
Steven L. Lima United States 57 12.4k 1.0× 11.1k 1.1× 1.1k 0.1× 4.9k 1.0× 3.9k 0.9× 120 20.0k
Anthony R. Ives United States 74 8.6k 0.7× 10.1k 1.0× 2.9k 0.4× 7.7k 1.6× 4.9k 1.1× 243 23.8k
Robert E. Ricklefs United States 106 22.4k 1.8× 19.9k 1.9× 6.5k 0.9× 14.8k 3.0× 5.0k 1.1× 496 43.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Visser, Marcel E., Kees van Oers, Anne Charmantier, et al.. (2025). Geographic differences in the phenology of gonadal development and moult, but not of egg laying, are genetically based in a small songbird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2039). 20242286–20242286. 3 indexed citations
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Stavenga, Doekele G., et al.. (2025). Intensity and colour of artificial light at night affect insect attraction in a taxon‐dependent manner. Insect Conservation and Diversity. 18(6). 1099–1108.
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Visser, Marcel E., et al.. (2025). Temperature amplifies the effect of anthropogenic light on foraging common pipistrelle bats. Biology Letters. 21(6). 20250049–20250049. 1 indexed citations
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Visser, Marcel E., et al.. (2024). Revisiting Perdeck's massive avian migration experiments debunks alternative social interpretations. Biology Letters. 20(7). 20240217–20240217. 2 indexed citations
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Lindner, Melanie, Irene Verhagen, A. Christa Mateman, et al.. (2024). Genetic and epigenetic differentiation in response to genomic selection for avian lay date. Evolutionary Applications. 17(7). e13703–e13703. 2 indexed citations
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Oers, Kees van, et al.. (2023). Female great tits (Parus major) reproduce earlier when paired with a male they prefer. Ethology. 129(9). 461–471. 4 indexed citations
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Koblitz, Jens C., et al.. (2023). Combining acoustic tracking and LiDAR to study bat flight behaviour in three-dimensional space. Movement Ecology. 11(1). 25–25. 8 indexed citations
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Lindner, Melanie, Jip J. C. Ramakers, Irene Verhagen, et al.. (2023). Genotypes selected for early and late avian lay date differ in their phenotype, but not fitness, in the wild. Science Advances. 9(23). eade6350–eade6350. 3 indexed citations
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Blankers, Thomas, Janine Mariën, Meike T. Wortel, et al.. (2022). Population bottleneck has only marginal effect on fitness evolution and its repeatability in dioecious Caenorhabditis elegans. Evolution. 76(8). 1896–1904. 1 indexed citations
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Zee, Maurijn van der, et al.. (2021). Timing of increased temperature sensitivity coincides with nervous system development in winter moth embryos. Journal of Experimental Biology. 224(17). 4 indexed citations
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Silva, Vinicius Henrique da, Veronika N. Laine, Mirte Bosse, et al.. (2019). The Genomic Complexity of a Large Inversion in Great Tits. Genome Biology and Evolution. 11(7). 1870–1881. 12 indexed citations
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Laine, Veronika N., Irene Verhagen, A. Christa Mateman, et al.. (2019). Exploration of tissue-specific gene expression patterns underlying timing of breeding in contrasting temperature environments in a song bird. BMC Genomics. 20(1). 693–693. 16 indexed citations
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Samuel, P., Charlotte A. Cornil, Kees van Oers, & Marcel E. Visser. (2019). Personality and gonadal development as sources of individual variation in response to GnRH challenge in female great tits. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1902). 20190142–20190142. 9 indexed citations
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Silva, Vinicius Henrique da, Veronika N. Laine, Mirte Bosse, et al.. (2018). CNVs are associated with genomic architecture in a songbird. BMC Genomics. 19(1). 195–195. 11 indexed citations
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Kim, Jun‐Mo, Anna W. Santure, John L. Quinn, et al.. (2018). A high‐density SNP chip for genotyping great tit (Parus major) populations and its application to studying the genetic architecture of exploration behaviour. Molecular Ecology Resources. 18(4). 877–891. 29 indexed citations
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Bosse, Mirte, Lewis G. Spurgin, Veronika N. Laine, et al.. (2017). Recent natural selection causes adaptive evolution of an avian polygenic trait. Science. 358(6361). 365–368. 137 indexed citations
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Helm, Barbara, Marcel E. Visser, William J. Schwartz, et al.. (2017). Two sides of a coin: ecological and chronobiological perspectives of timing in the wild. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 372(1734). 20160246–20160246. 130 indexed citations
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Amo, Luisa, Jeroen J. Jansen, Nicole M. van Dam, Marcel Dicke, & Marcel E. Visser. (2013). Birds exploit herbivore‐induced plant volatiles to locate herbivorous prey. Ecology Letters. 16(11). 1348–1355. 105 indexed citations
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Both, Christiaan, Juan José Sanz, Richard J. Cowie, et al.. (2006). Pied Flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca travelling from Africa to breed in Europe: Differential effects of winter and migration conditions on breeding date. Ardea. 94(3). 511–525. 41 indexed citations
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Perdeck, A.C., Marcel E. Visser, & J.H. Van Balen. (2000). Great Tit Parus major survival and the beech-crop cycle.. Ardea. 88(1). 99–108. 50 indexed citations

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