Arie van Noordwijk Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NL) Title Dispersal and inbreeding in an island population of Blue Tits Abstract In birds many observations can and have been made on movements of ringed individuals between site of birth and site of breeding. However, the resulting distributions are strongly affected by the distribution of suitable habitat and by the spatial distribution of observers. I will present a new method that filters out the effects of effort and use this method to study the effect of habitat discontinuities. Since most blue tits breeding on Vlieland were also born there, these data provide the largest numbers of breeding pairs where female and male are known to be related. I will show that there is no evidence for a relation between distance dispersed and chance to mate a close relative and I will further show that negative effects of inbreeding cause a selection that reduces the realised inbreeding by about 50 %.   Personal born 17 June 1949 in London (Ont.) Canada; nationality: Dutch and Canadian citizenship Education Biology study at the 'Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht' with: 1976 doctoraalexam: theoretical biology with population genetics and marine ecology 1980 Doctor of science (cum laude) Utrecht University (Prof Dr W. Scharloo) Thesis: "On the genetical ecology of the Great Tit, Parus major L." 1986 Habilitation in Zoology, University of Basel Major Professional positions: 1994-2004 Professor of Animal Population Ecology at Utrecht University 1991- the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (Centre for Terrestrial Ecology) in Heteren 1984-1991 Assistent (Professor) at the "Zoologisches Institut" of the University of Basel   Main research interests Quantitative genetics of life history traits. Mainly in birds, but also in e.g. Daphnia) Interaction between genetics and ecology in population structure (dispersal, inbreeding) Various theoretical topics in evolutionary biology, concerning methodological aspects of how (not) to measure important parameters The role of spatial heterogeneity in maintaining genetic variation   Selected recent publications van Noordwijk, A.J., J.H. van Balen & W. Scharloo 1980. Heritability of ecologically important traits in the Great Tit. Ardea 68: 193-203. van Noordwijk, A.J., J.H. van Balen & W. Scharloo 1981. Genetic and environmental variation in clutch size of the great tit (Parus major) Neth. J. Zool. 31: 342-372. van Noordwijk, A.J., J.H. van Balen & W. Scharloo 1981. Genetic variation in the timing of reproduction in the Great Tit Oecologia (Berl.) 49: 158-166. van Noordwijk, A.J. & W. Scharloo. 1981. Inbreeding in an island population of the great tit. Evolution 35: 674-688. van Noordwijk, A.J. 1984. Problems in the analysis of dispersal and a critique on its "heritability" in the Great Tit. J. Anim. Ecol. 53: 533-544. van Noordwijk, A.J. & G. de Jong, 1986. Acquisition and allocation of resources: their influence on variation in life history tactics. Am. Nat. 128: 137-142. Boag, P.T. & A.J. van Noordwijk 1987. Quantitative genetics in wild bird populations. pp 45-78 in F. Cooke & P.A. Buckley (eds) Avian Genetics, Academic Press 1987. van Noordwijk A.J., J.H. van Balen & W. Scharloo 1988. Heritability of body size in a natural population of the Great Tit (Parus major) and its relation to age and environmental conditions during growth. Genetical Research 51: 149-162. van Tienderen, P.H. & A.J. van Noordwijk 1988. Dispersal, Kinship and Inbreeding in an island population of the Great Tit. J. Evol. Biol. 1: 117-137 van Noordwijk, A.J. 1989. Reaction norms in genetical ecology. BioScience 39: 453-459. Gebhardt-Henrich, S.G. & A.J. van Noordwijk 1991. The genetical ecology of nestling growth in the Great Tit. I. Heritability estimates under different environmental conditions. J. Evol. Biol. 4: 341-362. Jong, G. de & A.J. van Noordwijk 1992. Acquisition and allocation of resources: Genetic (Co)variances, selection and life?histories. American Naturalist: 139: 749-770. Keller, L.F. & A.J. van Noordwijk 1993. A method to isolate environmental effects on nestling growth, illustrated with examples from the Great Tit (Parus major L.). Funct. Ecol. 7: 493-502. Graveland, J., van der Wal, R., van Balen, J.H. & A.J. van Noordwijk 1994. Poor reproduction in forest passerines from decline of snail abundance on acidified soils. Nature 368: 226-228. van Noordwijk, A.J., R.H. McCleery & C.M. Perrins 1995. Selection for the synchronisation of great tit (Parus major) breeding with caterpillar growth, using temperature as a predictor. J. Anim Ecol. 64: 451-458. Nager, R.G. & A.J. van Noordwijk 1995. Proximate and ultimate aspects of the great tit's breeding season in a heterogeneous environment. Amer Natur. 146: 454-474. van Noordwijk, A.J. 1995. Removing observer bias from the analysis of dispersal. J. Appl. Stat. 22: 683-694. Kempenaers, B., Adriaensen, F., van Noordwijk, A.J. & Dhondt, A.A. 1996. Genetic similarity, inbreeding and hatching failure in blue tits - are unhatched eggs infertile? Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 263: 179-185. Pulido, F, Berthold P & van Noordwijk, AJ. 1996. Frequency of migrants and migratory activity are genetically correlated in a bird population: evolutionary implications. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 93: 14642-14647. Nager, R.G., Rüegger, C. & A.J. van Noordwijk 1997. Nutrient or energy constraints on egg formation in great tits: a feeding experiment. J. Anim. Ecol. 66:495-507. van Noordwijk, A.J. & H.L. Marks 1998. Genetic aspects of growth. in Starck, M & R.E. Ricklefs (eds) Avian Growth and Development. Oxford Ornithology Series, 8: 305-323. Visser, M.E., A.J. van Noordwijk, J. M. Tinbergen & C. M. Lessells 1998. Warmer springs lead to mis-timed reproduction in Great Tits (Parus major). Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 265: 1867-1870. Nager, RG, LF Keller & AJ van Noordwijk. 2000. Understanding natural selection on traits that are influenced by environmental conditions. In: Adaptive Genetic Variation in the Wild, ed Mousseau, T, B Sinervo & J Endler) Oxford University Press. 99-115. Grieco F, van Noordwijk AJ, Visser ME (2002) Evidence for the effect of learning on timing of reproduction in blue tits. SCIENCE 296 (5565): 136-138. Weber, A & van Noordwijk A (2002) Swimming behaviour of Daphnia clones: differentiation through predator infochemicals. J Plankton Res 24: 1335-1348. Drent, P.J., van Oers,K. & van Noordwijk,A.J. (2003) Realized heritability of personalities in the great tit (Parus major). Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 270: 45-51. pdf, 0.2 MB Dingemanse, N. J., Both, C., Drent, P. J., van Oers, K. & van Noordwijk, A. J. 2002. Repeatability and heritability of exploratory behaviour in great tits from the wild. Animal Behaviour, 64: 929-938 Dingemanse, N.J., Both, C., van Noordwijk, A. J. , Rutten, A.L. & Drent, P. J., 2003. Natal dispersal and personalities in great tits (Parus major ). Proc R Soc Lond B 270: 741-747. pdf, 0.2 MB Thomson DL, van Noordwijk A, Hagemeijer W (2003) Estimating avian dispersal distances from data on ringed birds J APPL STAT 30 (9): 1003-1008 pdf, 0.08 MB van Oers K, Drent P, de Goede P, van Noordwijk AJ (2004) Realized heritability and repeatability of risk-taking behaviour in relation to avian personalities. P Roy Soc Lond B Bio 271: 65-73. pdf, 0.1 MB van Noordwijk, A.J., Spina, F., Baillie, S.R., Downie, I., Ferri, A., Marangoni, L. and Wassenaar, R. (2004) EURING Data Bank geographical index. http://www.euring.org/edb Van Oers, K; Drent, PJ; De Jong, G; et al. Additive And Nonadditive Genetic Variation In Avian Personality Traits HEREDITY, 93 (5): 496-503 NOV 2004 Van Oers, K; De Jong, G; Drent, PJ; et al. A Genetic Analysis Of Avian Personality Traits: Correlated, Response To Artificial Selection BEHAVIOR GENETICS, 34 (6): 611-619 NOV 2004 Postma, E; Van Noordwijk, AJ Gene Flow Maintains A Large Genetic Difference In Clutch Size At A Small Spatial Scale NATURE, 433 (7021): 65-68 JAN 6 2005 pdf, 0.3 MB Postma, E; Van Noordwijk, AJ Genetic Variation For Clutch Size In Natural Populations Of Birds From A Reaction Norm Perspective ECOLOGY, 86 (9): 2344-2357 SEP 2005 pdf, 0.1 MB   Institution address: Arie J van Noordwijk Netherlands Institute of Ecology P.O. box 40 Heteren 6666 ZG The Netherlands A.VANNOORDWIJK@NIOO.KNAW.NL