Department of Bird Migration
Swiss Ornithological Institute
Seerose 1
CH - 6204 Sempach
Switzerland
Telefon: +41 41 462 99 23
christoph.meier@vogelwarte.ch
© Marcel Burkhardt
Telefon: +41 41 462 99 23
christoph.meier@vogelwarte.ch
Function: researcher
Collecting geolocator data, analysis, and publication
Supervision of students
Since 2015 | Researcher at the Swiss Ornithological Institute, Department of Bird Migration |
2012 | Internship at the Fachstelle Naturschutz of canton Zürich |
2007 – 2012 | Ph.D. Evolutionary Ecology, University Helsinki (FIN) and University Ghent (BEL) |
2006 | MSc Zoologie, Zoological museum, University Zürich |
Brlík, V. et al. (inklusive Hahn S, Briedis M, Emmenegger T, Lisovski S, Meier C. M). (2020). Weak effects of geolocators on small birds: a meta‐analysis controlled for phylogeny and publication bias. – Journal of Animal Ecology 89: 207–220. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12962
Briedis, M., Bauer, S., Adamík, P., Alves, J. A., Costa, J. S., Emmenegger, T., Gustafsson, L., Koleček, J., Krist, M., Liechti, F., Lisovski, S., Meier, C. M., Procházka, P., Hahn, S. and McGill, B. (2020). Broad - scale patterns of the Afro - Palaearctic landbird migration. – Global Ecology and Biogeography 29: 722–735. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13063
Lisovski, S., Bauer, S., Briedis, M., Davidson, S. C., Dhanjal-Adams, K. L., Hallworth, M. T., Karagicheva, J., Meier, C. M., Merkel, B., Ouwehand, J., Pedersen, L., Rakhimberdiev, E., Roberto-Charron, A., Seavy, N. E., Sumner, M. D., Taylor, C. M., Wotherspoon, S. J. and Bridge, E. S. (2020). Light-level geolocator analyses: A user's guide. – The Journal of animal ecology 89: 221–236. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13036
Meier, C. M., Karaardıç, H., Aymí, R., Peev, S. G., Witvliet, W. and Liechti, F. (2020). Population‐specific adjustment of the annual cycle in a super - swift trans - Saharan migrant. – Journal of Avian Biology 51: 258. https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.02515
Robinson, R. A., Meier, C. M., Witvliet, W., Kéry, M. and Schaub, M. (2020). Survival varies seasonally in a migratory bird: Linkages between breeding and non-breeding periods. – Journal of animal ecology 89: 2111–2121. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13250
Briedis, M., Bauer, S., Adamík, P., Alves, J. A., Costa, J. S., Emmenegger, T., Gustafsson, L., Koleček, J., Liechti, F., Meier, C. M., Procházka, P. and Hahn, S. (2019). A full annual perspective on sex-biased migration timing in long-distance migratory birds. – Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286: 20182821. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.2821
Meier, C. M., Karaardıç, H., Aymí, R., Peev, S. G., Bächler, E., Weber, R., Witvliet, W. and Liechti, F. (2018). What makes Alpine swift ascend at twilight? Novel geolocators reveal year-round flight behaviour. – Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 72: 45. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-017-2438-6
Alonso, D., Arizaga, J., Meier, C. M. and Liechti, F. (2016). Light-level geolocators confirm resident status of a southern European common crossbill population. – Journal of Ornithology 158: 75–81. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-016-1388-5
Schmaljohann, H., Meier, C. M., Arlt, D., Bairlein, F., van Oosten, H., Morbey, Y. E., Åkesson, S., Buchmann, M., Chernetsov, N., Desaever, R., Elliott, J., Hellström, M., Liechti, F., López, A., Middleton, J., Ottosson, U., Pärt, T., Spina, F. and Eikenaar, C. 2016. Proximate causes of avian protandry differ between subspecies with contrasting migration challenges. – Behavioral Ecology 27: 321–331. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arv160
Jaakkonen, T., Kivelä, S. M., Meier, C. M. and Forsman, J. T. (2015). The use and relative importance of intraspecific and interspecific social information in a bird community. – Behavioral Ecology 26: 55–64. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/aru144
Meier, C. M., Bonte, D., Kaitala, A. and Ovaskainen, O. (2014). Invasion rate of deer ked depends on spatiotemporal variation in host density. – Bulletin of entomological research 104: 314–322. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007485314000042
Bonte, D., van Dyck, H., Bullock, J. M., Coulon, A., Delgado, M., Gibbs, M., Lehouck, V., Matthysen, E., Mustin, K., Saastamoinen, M., Schtickzelle, N., Stevens, V. M., Vandewoestijne, S., Baguette, M., Barton, K., Benton, T. G., Chaput-Bardy, A., Clobert, J., Dytham, C., Hovestadt, T., Meier, C. M., Palmer, S. C. F., Turlure, C. and Travis, J. M. J. (2012). Costs of dispersal. – Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 87: 290–312. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-185X.2011.00201.x
Meier, C. M., Starrfelt, J. and Kokko, H. (2011). Mate limitation causes sexes to coevolve towards more similar dispersal kernels. – Oikos 120: 1459–1468. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19487.x
Blanckenhorn, W. U., Birrer M., Meier, C. M., Reim, C., Teuschl Y., and Weibel D. (2008). Size‐Dependent Mating Success at Various Nutritional States in the Yellow Dung Fly. – Ethology 114: 752–759. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0310.2008.01521.x