Publications of Van Wieren in Wageningen Yield

Biography
Educated in Biology at Groningen University (Drs., 1977), I obtained my Doctorate at Wageningen Agricultural University in 1996 on the subject of digestive strategies in ruminants and non ruminants. My past research focussed on the role of grazing herbivores in the conservation and management of temperate systems, and on the differences in the various digestive systems that can be found in the group of ungulates.
At present my main interest is in studying plant-animal interactions (optimal foraging), population dynamics of herbivores (roe deer, brown hare), and problems in the field of wildlife management and wildlife utilization.
I teach courses in animal ecology and wildlife management. Supervising postgraduates and PhD students is part of the daily routine.

Publications

Scientific publications

Kurvers R.H.J.M., Eijkelenkamp B., van Oers K., Lith B., van Wieren S.E., Ydenberg R. & Prins H.H.T. (2009). Personality differences explain leadership in barnacle geese. Animal Behaviour, 78, 447-453.

van der Waal C., de Kroon H., de Boer W.F., Heitkonig I.M.A., Skidmore A.K., de Knegt H.J., van Langevelde F., van Wieren S.E., Grant R.C., Page B.R., Slotow R., Kohi E., Mwakiwa E. & Prins H.H.T. (2009). Water and nutrients alter herbaceous competitive effects on tree seedlings in a semi-arid savanna. Journal of Ecology, 97, 430-439

Prins H.H.T., van Wieren S.E. & Brunsting A.M.H. 2008. Comments on "Spatial statistics to quantify patterns of herd dispersion in a savanna herbivore community". In: Prins HHT & van Langevelde F (eds.) (2008) Resource Ecology. Spatial and temporal dynamics of foraging. Kluwer/Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 53-56.

Van Wieren S.E. & van Langevelde F. 2008. Structuring animal communities. In: Prins HHT & van Langevelde F (eds.) (2008) Resource Ecology. Spatial and temporal dynamics of foraging. Kluwer/Spinger, Dordrecht, pp. 237-262.

Van Wieren S.E., Drescher M.F. & de Boer W.F. 2008. Comments on "Mechanisms determining herbivore distribution". In: Prins HHT & van Langevelde F (eds.) (2008) Resource Ecology. Spatial and temporal dynamics of foraging. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 29-31.

Van Wieren S.E. & Bakker J.P. 2008. The impact of browsing and grazing herbivores on biodiversity. In: Gordon IJ & Prins HHT (eds.) (2008) The ecology of browsing and grazing. Springer, Berlin, pp. 263-292.

Dekker, J.J.A., Groeneveld, M., & Wieren, S.E. van 2006. No effects of dominance or sex spatial behaviour of rabbits. Lutra, 49(1), 59-66.

Wieren, S.E. van, 2005. Populations: re-introductions. In: J. van Andel and J.Aronson (editors). Restoration ecology: the new frontier. Blackwell Publishing. Oxford. pp. 82-94

Wieren, S.E. van, & Prins, H.H.T. 2005. Controllers and modifiers of savannas: dynamic interactions between long-living trees and ungulates. In Ninth International Mammological Congress, Sapporo, Japan, 31 July - 5 August 2005 (pp. 111).

Kuijper, D.P.J., Van Wieren, S.E. and Bakker, J.P. 2004. Digestive strategies in two sympatrically occurring lagomorphs. Journal of Zoology 264:171-178.

Mishra, C., Van Wieren, S.E., Ketner, P.,Heitkönig, I.M.A. and Prins, H.H.T. 2004. Competition between domestic livestock and wild bharal Pseudois nayaur in the Indian Trans-Himalaya. Journal of Animal Ecology 73: 344 –354.

Mutanga, O., Prins, H.H.T., Skidmore, A.K. Van Wieren, S.E., Huizing, H., Grant, R., Peel, M. and Biggs, H. 2004. Explaining grass-nutrient patterns in a savanna rangeland of southern Africa. J. Biogeogr. 31: 819–829.

De Boer, H.Y., Van Breukelen, L., Hootsmans, M.J.M. & Van Wieren, S.E. 2004. Flight distance in roe deer Capreolus capreolus and fallow deer Dama dama as related to hunting and other factors. Wildlife Biology 10(1): 35-41.

De Jong, C.B., Van Wieren, S.E., Gill, R. & Munro, R. 2004. Relationship between diet and liver carcinomas in roe deer in Kielder forest and Galloway Forest. Veterinary Record 155: 197-200.

Prins, H.H.T. & Van Wieren, S.E. 2004. Number, population structure and habitat use of bar-headed geese Anser indicus in Ladakh (India) during the brood-rearing period. Acta Zoologica Sinica 50(5): 738-744.

Mutanga, O., Skidmore, A.K. & Van Wieren, S.E. 2003. Discriminating tropical grass (Cenchrus ciliaris) canopies grown under different nitrogen treatments using spectroradiometry. J. of Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing 57: 263-272.

Van Bommel, S., Roling, N.G. & Van Wieren, S.E. & Gossow, H. 2003. Social causes of the cormorant revival in the Netherlands. Cormorant Research Group Bulletin 5:16-25.

Kramer, K, Groen T.A & Van Wieren, S.E. 2003.The interacting effects of ungulates and fire on forest dynamics: an analysis using the model FORSPACE. Forest Ecology and Management 181(1,2): 205-222.

Van Wieren,S.E. & Said, M. 2003. Decreasing wildlife in Kenya: effect of increasing pastoralism. African Journal of Range & Forage Science 20: 108.

Charudutt Mishra, Herbert H. T. Prins & Sipke E. Van Wieren. 2003. Diversity, Risk Mediation, and Change in a Trans-Himalayan Agropastoral System. Human Ecology, 31 ( 4).

Daniëlle Bankert, Kim C.G. in 't Groen & Sipke E. van Wieren. 2003. A review of the transect method by comparing it with three other counting methods to estimate rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) density . Lutra 46 (1): 27-34.

Chardutt Mishra, Sipke E. Van Wieren, Ignas M. A. Heitkönig and Herbert H. T. Prins. 2002. A theoretical analysis of competitive exclusion in a Trans-Himalayan large-herbivore assemblage. Animal Conservation 5:251-258.

Kunst, P., Van der Wal, R. & Van Wieren, S.E. 2001. Home ranges of brown hares in a natural salt marsh: comparisons with agricultural systems. Acta Theriologica 46 (3): 287-294.

Mishra, C., Prins, H.H.T. & Van Wieren, S.E. 2001. Overstocking in the trans-Himalayan rangelands of India. Environmental Conservation 28(3): 279-283.

Postma, E., Van Hooft, W.F., Van Wieren, S.E. & Van Breukelen, L. 2001. Microsatellite variation in Dutch roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) populations. Neth. J. Zool. 51(1): 85-95.

Van Wieren, S.E. & Worm P.B. 2001. The use of a motorway wildlife overpass by large mammals. Neth. J. Zool. 51(1): 97-105.

Van Wieren, S.E. 2001. Lowland wetlands grazed by hungry herds. Lutra 44(1): 65-67.

Van der Wal, R., Van Wijnen, H., Van Wieren, S.E., Beucher, O. and Bos, D. 2000. On facilitation between herbivores: how brent geese profit from brown hares. Ecology 81(4): 969-980.

Van Wieren, S.E. 2000. Digestibility and voluntary intake of roughages by wild boar and Meishan pigs. Animal Science 71:149-156.

Van Wieren, S.E. 2000. Diet composition and diet quality of roe deer, red deer, cattle and horses in mixed pine forests. Advances in Ethology 35: 78-79.

Van Breukelen, L. & Van Wieren, S.E. 2000. Growth limitation in an expanding roe deer population. Advances in Ethology 35: 119-120.

Van der Wal, C.A., Keizer, R. & Van Wieren, S.E. 1999. Twenty-five years Hen Harriers Circus cyaneus on the Island of Schiermonnikoog. Limosa 72, 11-22.

Van Wieren, S.E. & Worm, P.B. 1998. The use of a wildlife overpass by large and and small mammals. The Journal of Wildlife Research 2(2): 191-194.

Van Wieren, S.E. 1996. Do large herbivores select a diet that maximizes short term digestible energy intake? For. Ecol. Manage. 88:149-156.

Kuiters, A.T., Mohren, G.J.M. & Van Wieren, S.E. 1996. Ungulates in temperate forest ecosystems. For. Ecol. Manage. 88:1-5.

Van Wieren, S.E. 1996. Browsers and grazers: foraging strategies in ruminants. In: S.E. van Wieren. Digestive strategies in ruminants and nonruminants. Wageningen University, Wageningen. pp. 119-145.

De Jong, C.B., Gill, R.M.A., Van Wieren, S.E. & Burlton, F.W.E. 1995. Diet selection by roe deer Capreolus capreolus in Kielder Forest in relation to plant cover. For. Ecol. Manage. 79:91-97.

Van Wieren, S.E. 1995. The potential role of large herbivores in nature conservation and extensive land use in Europe. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 56:11-23.

Van Wieren, S.E. 1995. Composition and cell wall content of diets selected by Roe deer, Red deer, Highland cattle and Konik ponies. Ann. Zootech. 44:121.

Siepel, H. & Van Wieren, S.E. 1990. Decomposition of leaves of Avenella flexuosa and microarthropod succession in grazed and ungrazed grasslands. II. Chemical data and comparison of decomposition rates. Pedobiologia 34:31-36.

Bakker, J.P., De Leeuw, J. & Van Wieren, S.E. 1984. Micro patterns ingrassland vegetation created and sustained by sheep grazing. Vegetatio 55:153-161.

De Bie, S. & Van Wieren, S.E. 1980. Mortality patterns in wild reindeer on Edgeoya (Svalbard).In: Reimers, E. Gaare, E. & Skjenneberg, S. (eds.). Proc. 2nd Int. Reindeer/Caribou Symp. Roros, Norway.Trondheim.

Alendal, E., de Bie, S. & Van Wieren, S.E. 1979. Size and composition of the wild reindeer Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus population in the Southeast Svalbard Nature Reserve. Holarctic Ecology 2:101‑107.

Van Wieren, S.E. & Vreugdenhil, A. 1979. Heathland regeneration from grassland by means of grazing, mowing and cutting of sods. Acta Bot. Neerl. 28(2/3):233‑234.

Books, chapters in books

Bos D., van Belle J., Goedhart P.W., van Wieren S.E. & Ydenberg R. (2009). Populatiedynamica van muskusratten. Huidige en alternatieve strategieenn van bestrijding in Nederland. In. Altennurg & Wymenga ecologisch onderzoek, Feanwalden.

Bokdam, J., Gleichman, J.M., Van Wieren, S.E. & WallisDeVries, M.F. 2003. Free-ranging cattle as opportunistic exploiters of a successional woodland-grassland-heathland mosaic. In: J.Bokdam. Nature conservation and grazing management. Free ranging cattle as a driving force for cyclic vegetation succession. PhD thesis. Wageningen University, Wageningen. The Netherlands. Pp. 87-116.

Jansen, P., Bartholomeus, M.., Bongers, F.J.M.., Elzinga, J.A., Den Ouden, J. & Van Wieren, S.E. 2002. The role of seed size in dispersal by a scatterhoarding rodent. In: Levey, D., Silva, W.R. and Galetti (eds). Seed dispersal and frugivory: ecology, evolution and conservation. CAB International.

Van Wieren, S.E. 1999. Towards the sustainable use of wildlife in tropical forests. In: Tropenbos. Seminar Proceedings ‘NTFP Research in the Tropenbos Programme: Results and Perspectives’. (Ed. by M.A.F. Ros- Tonen), pp. 175-178. The Tropenbos Foundation, Wageningen.

Van Breukelen, L. & Van Wieren, S.E. 1999. Ending Roe deer hunting: effects on a Dutch dune ecostem. In: Herbivore feeding strategies, population processes and impact on biodiversity. (Ed. by P. Duncan & T. Micol ), pp. 153-157. Centre d’ Etudes Biologiques de Chize. Chize.

Iason, G. & Van Wieren, S.E. 1999. Digestive and ingestive adaptations of mammalian herbivores to low-quality forage. In: H. Olff, V.K. Brown & R.H. Drent (eds) Herbivores: Between Plants and Predators. BES Symp. Vol. 38, pp. 337-370. Blackwell Scientific, Oxford.

Van Wieren, S.E. 1998.Grazing for conservation in the twenty-first century. In: WallisDeVries, M.F., Bakker, J.P. & Van Wieren, S.E. (eds). 1998. Grazing and conservation management. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Dordrecht, 349-364.

Van Wieren, S.E. 1998. Effects of large herbivores upon the animal community. In: WallisDeVries, M.F., Bakker, J.P. & Van Wieren, S.E. (eds). 1998. Grazing and conservation management. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Dordrecht, 185:214.

WallisDeVries, M.F., Bakker, J.P. & Van Wieren, S.E. (eds). 1998. Grazing and conservation management. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Dordrecht. 375 pp.

Kuiters, A.T., Mohren, G.J.M. & Van Wieren, S.E. 1996. Ungulates in temperate forest ecosystems (eds.). Forest Ecology and Management, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, 214 pp.

Van Wieren, S.E. 1991. The management of populations of large mammals. In: I.F. Spellerberg, F.B. Goldsmith & M.G. Morris (eds.). The scientific management of temperate communities for conservation.Blackwell. Oxford.

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