CURRICULUM VITAE
Pim (Wilhelmus M. C.) Edelaar
Born 10 October 1970 in The Netherlands, male, married, two children
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http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HJud5cEAAAAJ
ORCID: 0000-0003-4649-6366
ResearcherID: P-5650-2014
HIGHER EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
PhD: University of Groningen and Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), 23 December
2002, Marine Biology / Evolutionary Ecology, Profs. T. Piersma & W.J. Wolff
Thesis: The Ecology and Evolution of Anti-Predation Traits in a Burrowing Bivalve, Macoma balthica
MSc: Leiden University, 31 August 1995, Animal Ecology / Evolutionary Biology
RESEARCH LINES
Evolutionary ecology, evolutionary genetics, sexual and natural selection, local adaptation,
population differentiation, genetic divergence, biogeography, speciation, invasion biology,
behavioural ecology, animal communication, population ecology, intra- and interspecific interactions,
parasitism and predation, habitat selection, conservation, ornithology, entomology.
CURRENT POSITION
June 2012 – current
RAMÓN Y CAJAL JUNIOR GROUP LEADER – University Pablo de Olavide, Spain
Five-year tenure track-like position at one of the most research-intensive universities of
Spain (per-capita 2nd most productive). Provided with a beautiful new laboratory and office,
it is a great opportunity to expand my research on the effects of phenotype-dependent
habitat choice and non-random gene flow on local adaptation, speciation, and biological
invasion. I coordinate my own research lab comprising one full-time technician, two postdocs, one PhD student, and two master students.
PAST EMPLOYMENT AND PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Note that during 2005 - 2009 I have taken a total of 13 months of paternal leave
Aug 2009 – May 2012 JAE-DOC POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW - Estación Biológica de Doñana, Spain
Three-year post-doctoral grant, personally obtained in open competition. I worked on
understanding patterns of invasion success in birds, including the evolution of invasiveness.
I also explored and developed a number of promising related lines such as phenotypedependent habitat choice and methodological issues of comparisons of quantitative and
neutral genetic variation.
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July 2005 – Aug 2009 MARIE CURIE OUTGOING INTERNATIONAL FELLOW – University of Uppsala, Sweden
Highly competitive three-year post-doctoral fellowship funded by the European Union,
covering salary, training and research costs. Including a three-month stay at the lab of Prof.
A. Badyaev (Univ. of Arizona, USA), one year at the lab of Prof. T. DeWitt (Texas A&M
University, USA), and the rest at the Department of Animal Ecology lead by Prof. M.
Björklund (University of Uppsala). The project involved the assessment of the drivers and
limits in the adaptive radiation of crossbills, e.g. geographical context, genetic correlations
among traits, distribution of ecological resources, role of vocalisations and individual-based
habitat selection. This was investigated by a combination of field work, museum
measurements, and genetic and vocal analyses in the lab.
June 2004 – May 2008 ASSOCIATED SCIENTIST - Centro Nacional Patagónico, Argentina
This association enabled me to assist my wife setting up and executing her PhD at this
institute, to interact with other researchers at the institute, and to do some local research.
This was done both prior to my Marie Curie fellowship in the USA and during several
paternal leaves to join my wife and children in Argentina.
Oct 2003 – May 2004 ASSOCIATED SCIENTIST - University of Leiden, The Netherlands
This association was established in order to initiate research on the importance of cultural
inheritance, specifically of the population/species-specific vocalisations in sympatric
crossbill populations. Currently co-supervising one MSc student.
Nov 2003 – Jan 2004 HONORARY FELLOW - University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Scholarship for writing a grant application, hosted by the Theoretical Biology Group of Prof.
Franjo Weissing. Our interaction resulted in a full paper in Science.
July 2002 – Sept 2003 TALENT RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP - New Mexico State University, USA
One-year postdoctoral research scholarship within the TALENT-program of the Netherlands
Council for Scientific Research (NWO), covering salary and research expenses. Field
research project on crossbills, investigating whether population divergence and speciation
is driven by ecological interactions in a geographic mosaic of coevolution or by geographic
factors unrelated to community composition. Hosted by Prof. C. Benkman, and including a
two-month stay at the lab of Prof. D. Schluter (University of British Columbia, Vancouver,
Canada).
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PERSONAL RESEARCH GRANTS
Ever since obtaining my PhD I personally secured all funding for my post-doctoral contracts and
research through national and european competitive calls, totalling more than ¾ million Euros.
2002
44,000 €
TALENT Scholarship (NWO-Netherlands)
2003
4,500 €
Honorary Scholarship (University of Groningen-Netherlands)
2005
2,500 €
260,000 €
Small Research Grant (Schure-Beijerinck-Popping fund)
Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellowship (European Union)
2007
1,500 €
SYNTHESYS Visitation Grant (European Union)
2009
100,000 €
JAE-Doc Fellowship (CSIC-Spain)
2012
180,000 €
1,000 €
187,000 €
Ramón y Cajal Fellowship (Ministry of Science, Spain)
FroSpects Visitation Grant (European Science Foundation)
Plan Nacional Research Grant (Ministry of Economy & Competitiveness, Spain)
2014
69,000 €
EXPLORA Research Grant (Ministry of Economy & Competitiveness, Spain)
PUBLICATIONS
SUMMARY
My work has appeared in high-quality international peer-reviewed journals such as Science (twice),
Trends in Ecology and Evolution (three times), Evolution, Molecular Ecology (four times),
Proceedings of the Royal Society-B (twice), Biology Letters, Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal
of Evolutionary Biology (twice), Oecologia, Oikos, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, and
Behavioral Ecology (twice). The vast majority of my publications (76%) have been published in
journals within the top 25% of their field as based on ISI-JCR impact factors. The average impact
factor of the journals in which I published is 5.53, and increasing to 7.95 over the last five years. I am
first or single author on 58% of my publications, which (according to Web of Science/Google Scholar
Citations) have been cited 623/889 times, giving an h-index of 15/17. Since not all cites have the
same impact, it is worth listing that my work has been cited in no less than 26 scientific text books
(that I know of) to illustrate topics ranging from dispersal to biomechanics, from cooperative
breeding to parasitism, from variation to self-organisation, and many others. It has also been cited 34
times in top journals like Science, Nature, Nature Comm., Nature Rev. Genetics, PNAS, TREE and Ecol.
Letters. As a testimony of my scientific independence, the median number of coauthors is only two,
and I have published at the most 5 papers with the same coauthor.
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PAPERS IN INTERNATIONAL, PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS (INCLUDED IN ISI-JCR)
SUBMITTED/IN PREPARATION:
1. Dispersal barriers in a changing world. Resubmitted to FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE
ENVIRONMENT (second author)
2. Background colour matching increases with risk of predation in a morphologically colourchanging grasshopper. Submitted to BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY (first author)
3. Should I change or should I go? Phenotypic plasticity meets matching habitat choice in the
adaptation to environmental heterogeneity. In preparation for AMERICAN NATURALIST (was
reviewed for ECOLOGY LETTERS, first author)
4. Matching Habitat Choice causes fine-scale population divergence during the colonisation of a
novel urban habitat. In preparation for NATURE (first author)
PUBLISHED/ACCEPTED:
1. SANZ-AGUILAR, A, CARRETE, M, EDELAAR, P, POTTI, J & TELLA, JL 2015. The empty temporal niche:
breeding phenology differs between native and invasive birds. BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS, early
online
2. GALVÁN, I, JORGE, A, EDELAAR, P & WAKAMATSU, K 2015. Insects synthesize pheomelanin.
PIGMENT CELL & MELANOMA RESEARCH (in press)
3. BRENNAN, A, WOODWARD, G, SEEHAUSEN, O, MUÑOZ-FUENTES, V, MORITZ, C, GUELMAMI, A, ABBOTT, RJ
& EDELAAR, P 2015 Hybridization due to changing species distributions: adding problems or
solutions to conservation of biodiversity during global change? EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY
RESEARCH (corresponding author)
4. NINNES, C, ADRION, M, EDELAAR, P, TELLA, JL & ANDERSSON, S 2015. A receiver bias for red predates the convergent evolution of red color in widowbirds and bishops. BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY
(in press)
5. EDELAAR, P, ROQUES, S, HOBSON, EA, GONÇALVES DA SILVA, A, AVERY, ML, RUSSELLO, MA, SENAR, JC,
WRIGHT, TF, CARRETE, M & TELLA, JL 2015 Shared genetic diversity across the global invasive
range of the Monk parakeet suggests a common restricted geographic origin and the
possibility of convergent selection. MOLECULAR ECOLOGY 24: 2164–2176
6. ARIZAGA, J, ALONSO, D & EDELAAR, P 2015. Stable isotopes in a southern European crossbill
population indicate restricted movement between regions with different pine species.
JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY 295: 49-55
7. SANZ-AGUILAR, A, ANADÓN, JD, EDELAAR, P, CARRETE, M & TELLA, JL 2014. Can establishment
success be determined through demographic parameters? A case study on five introduced
bird species. PLOS ONE 9: e110019
8. MUELLER, JC, EDELAAR, P, CARRETE, M, SERRANO, D, POTTI, J, BLAS, J, DINGEMANSE, NJ, KEMPENAERS, B
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& TELLA, JL 2014. Behaviour-related DRD4 polymorphisms in invasive bird populations.
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY 23: 2876–2885
9. GRACIÁ, E, BOTELLA, F, ANADON, JD, EDELAAR, P, HARRIS, J & GIMÉNEZ, A 2013. Surfing in tortoises?
Empirical signs of genetic structuring due to range expansion. BIOLOGY LETTERS 9:20121091
10. BJÖRKLUND, M, ALONSO, D & EDELAAR, P 2013. The genetic structure of crossbills suggests rapid
diversification with little niche conservatism. BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY
109: 908-922
11. EDELAAR, P 2013. Comment on ´Evolutionary Trade-Offs, Pareto Optimality, and the Geometry
of Phenotype Space´. SCIENCE 339:757
12. EDELAAR, P & BOLNICK, DI 2012. Non-random gene flow: an underappreciated force in ecology
and evolution. TRENDS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 27: 659-665 (invited paper)
13. CARRETE, M, EDELAAR, P, BLAS, J, SERRANO, D, POTTI, J, DINGEMANSE, NJ & TELLA JL 2012. Don´t
neglect pre-establishment selection in deliberate alien introductions. TRENDS IN ECOLOGY AND
EVOLUTION 27: 67-68
14. EDELAAR, P, SERRANO, D, CARRETE, M, BLAS, J, POTTI, J & TELLA, JL 2012. Tonic Immobility is a
measure of boldness towards predators: an application of Bayesian Structural Equation
Modeling. BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY 23: 619-626
15. EDELAAR, P, ALONSO, D, LAGERVELD, S, SENAR, JC & BJÖRKLUND, M 2012. Population differentiation
and restricted gene flow in Spanish crossbills: not isolation-by-distance but isolation-byecology. JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY 25: 417-430 (highlighted as Editor´s Choice on the
journal website)
16. EDELAAR, P & TELLA, JL 2012. Managing non-native species: don´t wait until their impacts are
proven. IBIS 154: 635-637
17. ESCUDERO, G, NAVEDO, JG, PIERSMA, T, DE GOEIJ, P & EDELAAR, P 2012. Foraging conditions ´at the
end of the world´ in the context of long-distance migration and population declines in red
knots. AUSTRAL ECOLOGY 37: 355-364
18. EDELAAR, P, BURRACO, P & GOMEZ-MESTRE, I 2011. Comparisons between QST and FST – how
wrong have we been? MOLECULAR ECOLOGY 20: 4830-4839.
19. EDELAAR, P & BJÖRKLUND, M 2011. If Fst does not measure genetic differentiation, then
comparing it with Qst is misleading. Or is it? MOLECULAR ECOLOGY 20: 1805-1812
20. WEISSING, FJ, EDELAAR, P & VAN DOORN, GS 2011. Adaptive speciation theory: a conceptual
review. BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY 65: 461-480 (in top-10 of most frequently
downloaded papers in 2011)
21. EDELAAR, P et al. (15 authors) 2011. Apparent selective advantage of leucism in a coastal
population of Southern caracaras (Falconidae). EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY RESEARCH 13: 187196
22. EDELAAR, P & VAN EERDE, K 2011. Non-random infection across individuals and populations
supports that parasites can change morphology within an adaptive radiation. JOURNAL OF
ZOOLOGY 283: 135-142
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23. DINGEMANSE, NJ, EDELAAR, P & KEMPENAERS, B 2010. Why is there variation in baseline
glucocorticoid levels? TRENDS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 25: 261-262
24. VAN DOORN*, GS, EDELAAR*, P & WEISSING, FJ 2009. On the origin of species by natural and sexual
selection. SCIENCE 326:1704-1707 (*first authorship shared)
25. NICOLAUS, M, BOTH, C, UBELS, R, EDELAAR, P & TINBERGEN, J 2009. No experimental evidence for
local competition in the nestling phase as a driving force for density-dependent avian clutch
size. JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY 78: 828-838
26. EDELAAR, P, SIEPIELSKI, AM & CLOBERT, J 2008. Matching habitat choice causes directed gene
flow: a neglected dimension in evolution and ecology. EVOLUTION 62: 2462-2472 (high-lighted
on front cover)
27. ESCUDERO, G, MUNSTER, VJ, BERTELLOTTI, M & EDELAAR, P 2008. Perpetuation of avian influenza A
viruses in The Americas: testing the role of shorebirds in Patagonia. AUK 125: 494–495
28. EDELAAR, P 2008. Assortative mating also indicates that common crossbill Loxia curvirostra
vocal types are species. JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY 39: 9-12
29. EDELAAR, P, VAN EERDE, K & TERPSTRA, K 2008. Is the nominate subspecies of the common
crossbill Loxia c. curvirostra polytypic? II. Differentiation among vocal types in functional
traits. JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY 39: 108-115
30. EDELAAR, P 2008. Rediscovery of a second kind of crossbill for The Himalayan region, and the
hypothesis that ecological opportunity drives crossbill diversification. IBIS 150: 405-408
31. EDELAAR, P & BENKMAN, CW 2006. Replicated population divergence caused by localised
coevolution? A test of three hypotheses in the red crossbill-lodgepole pine system. JOURNAL
OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY 19: 1651-1659
32. EDELAAR, P & WRIGHT, J 2006. Potential prey make excellent ornithologists: adaptive, flexible
responses towards avian predation threat by Arabian Babblers living at a migratory hotspot.
IBIS 148: 664-671
33. EDELAAR, P, POSTMA, E & PIERSMA, T 2005. No reduction in plasticity of anti-predation behavior
in the absence of a predator: gene flow or small costs of plasticity? EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY
RESEARCH 7: 489-495
34. EDELAAR, P, POSTMA, E, KNOPS, P & PHILLIPS, R 2005. No support for a genetic basis for mandible
crossing direction in crossbills (Loxia spp.). AUK 122: 1123-1129
35. EDELAAR, P, PHILLIPS, RE & KNOPS, P 2005. Sexually dimorphic body plumage in juvenile
crossbills. WILSON BULLETIN 117: 390-393
36. EDELAAR, P & TERPSTRA, K 2004. Is the nominate subspecies of the Common Crossbill Loxia c.
curvirostra polytypic? I. Morphological differences among years at a single site. ARDEA 92: 93102 (with dedicated editorial)
37. VAN GILS, J, EDELAAR, P, ESCUDERO, G & PIERSMA, T 2004. Carrying capacity models should not
use fixed prey density thresholds: a plea for using more tools of behavioural ecology. OIKOS
104:197-204
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38. BOTH, C, EDELAAR, P & RENEMA, W 2003. Interference between the sexes in foraging Bar-tailed
Godwits. ARDEA 91:268-272
39. EDELAAR, P, DRENT, J & DE GOEIJ, P 2003. A double test of the parasite manipulation hypothesis
in a burrowing bivalve. OECOLOGIA 134:66-71
40. KOMDEUR, J & EDELAAR, P 2001. Evidence that helping at the nest does not result in territory
inheritance in the Seychelles warbler. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON B
268:2007-2012
41. KOMDEUR, J & EDELAAR, P 2001. Male Seychelles warblers use territory budding to maximize
lifetime fitness in a saturated environment. BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY 12:706-715
42. KOMDEUR, J, KRAAIJEVELD-SMIT, F, KRAAIJEVELD, K & EDELAAR, P 1999. Explicit experimental
evidence for the role of mate guarding in minimising loss of paternity in the Seychelles
warbler. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON B 266:2075-2081
BOOK CHAPTERS:
43. EDELAAR, P 2000. Phenotypic plasticity of burrowing depth in the bivalve Macoma balthica:
experimental evidence and general implications. In: The Evolutionary Biology of the Bivalvia
(Eds. Harper, E.M., Taylor, J.D. & Crame, J.A.). GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, SPECIAL
PUBLICATIONS 177:451-458
PAPERS IN PEER-REVIEWED INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS NOT (YET) INCLUDED IN ISI-JCR
1. ESCUDERO, G, FERRARI, S, ALBRIEU, C, MATUS, R, IMBERTI, S, STOYANOFF, P, WEBB, A, CASTRO, M,
ABRIL, M, BENEGAS, L, MORRISON, RIG, ROSS, RK, EDELAAR P, SITTERS, HP, NILES, LJ & DEY, AD 2014.
Conservation assessment and ecology of the Magellanic Oystercatcher (Haematopus
leucopodus). INTERNATIONAL WADER STUDY GROUP BULLETIN 20: 173-181
2. TESSON, SVM & EDELAAR, P 2013. Dispersal in a changing world: opportunities, insights and
challenges. MOVEMENT ECOLOGY 1:10 (6 pages, online only)
3. EDELAAR, P, TORRES DOWDALL, J & ABRIL, M 2005. Probable first record of a drinking seedsnipe
(Family Thinocoridae) in the wild. INTERNATIONAL WADER STUDY GROUP BULLETIN 106: 62-63
4. EDELAAR, P, SUMMERS, R & IOVCHENKO, N 2003. The ecology and evolution of crossbills Loxia
spp: the need for a fresh look and an international research programme. AVIAN SCIENCE 3:8593
5. EDELAAR, P, DIJKSTRA, K-D & DINGEMANSE, NJ 1996. Hemianax ephippiger: a new dragonfly for
The Netherlands. ENTOMOLOGISCHE BERICHTEN, AMST. 56:192-195
PAPERS IN PEER-REVIEWED NATIONAL JOURNALS NOT INCLUDED IN ISI-JCR
1. EDELAAR, P & ESCUDERO, G 2007. Primer registro de la Torcacita colorada (Columbina
talpacoti) en Patagonia argentina. NUESTRAS AVES 27:114
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2. EDELAAR, P, ROBB, M, VAN EERDE, K, BIJLSMA, R, TERPSTRA, K, MAASSEN, E & RINGGROEP NEBULARIAWESTENSCHOUWEN 2004. Zijn er meerdere soorten ‘Gewone’ kruisbek in Nederland? LIMOSA
77:31-38
3. EDELAAR, P 1997. Vluchtherkenning van keizerlibellen (Anax Leach). BRACHYTRON 1:56-59.
In addition, I published 4 abstracts in international peer-reviewed journals, and 13 non-refereed and
popular scientific articles and book reviews (not further listed here).
PARTICIPATION IN GOVERNMENT-FUNDED PROJECTS
(N=18, Principal Investigator=9)
Since 2002 I have obtained all the necessary funding for my research (>750,000 Euros) by writing
nationally and internationally competitive proposals.
PROJECT TITLE: ‘Puede producirse la adaptacion por otro mecanismo que por la seleccion natural?
Una prueba experimental´
FINANCIAL ENTITY: proyecto EXPLORA, Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Spain
LENGHT FROM: January 2015 TO: December 2016
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Dr. Pim Edelaar
PROJECT TITLE: ‘European Network on Invasive Parakeets: Understanding Invasion Dynamics and
Risks to Agriculture and Society (ParrotNet)´
FINANCIAL ENTITY: COST Action; European Commission & European Science Foundation (ESF)
LENGHT FROM: October 2013 TO: October 2017
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Dr. Jim Groombridge
PROJECT TITLE: ‘Neglected Mechanisms of Adaptation to a Changing World´
FINANCIAL ENTITY: Plan Nacional, Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Spain
LENGHT FROM: January 2013 TO: December 2015
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Dr. Pim Edelaar
PROJECT TITLE: ‘Evolution of Invasiveness in Exotic Species: Mechanisms and Implications´
FINANCIAL ENTITY: Program Ramón y Cajal, Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain
LENGHT FROM: June 2012 TO: May 2017
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Dr. Pim Edelaar
PROJECT TITLE: ‘Exploring the Potential of Zebra finches for Experimental Speciation Research´
FINANCIAL ENTITY: European Science Foundation (ESF – FroSpects Visitation Program)
LENGHT FROM: March 2012 TO: March 2012
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Dr. Pim Edelaar
PROJECT TITLE: ‘Assessing Contemporary Evolution in Invasive Species’
FINANCIAL ENTITY: Program JAE-Doc, CSIC, Spain
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LENGHT FROM: August 2009 TO: August 2012
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Dr. Pim Edelaar and Dr. José L. Tella (Estación Biológica de Doñana)
PROJECT TITLE: ‘Las Aves Exóticas Invasoras como Transmisoras de Patógenos: Enfermedades
Emergentes y Procesos de Selección en los Hospedadores’
FINANCIAL ENTITY: Proyecto de Excelencia, Consejería de Educación y Ciencia, Junta de Andalucía,
Spain
LENGHT FROM: 2009 TO: 2012
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Dr. José L. Tella (Estación Biológica de Doñana)
PROJECT TITLE: ‘Una Aproximación Multidisciplinar al Estudio de las Invasiones Biológicas: el Caso de
las Aves Exóticas en Andalucía’
FINANCIAL ENTITY: Proyecto de Excelencia, Consejería de Educación y Ciencia, Junta de Andalucía,
Spain
LENGHT FROM: 2008 TO: 2012
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Dr. Fernando Hiraldo (Estación Biológica de Doñana)
PROJECT TITLE: ‘Interacciones entre el Parasitismo, la Ecología Trófica y el Comportamiento de Aves
Migratorias y Peces en la Costa de la Península Valdés (Argentina)’
FINANCIAL ENTITY: CONICET (PIP), Argentina
LENGHT FROM: June 2006 TO: June 2008
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Dra. Graciela Navone (Centro de Parásitos y Vectores - CONICET)
PROJECT TITLE: ‘Adaptation Unlimited? The Struggle between Natural Selection and Genetic
Constraints in Shaping the Adaptive Radiation of Crossbills’
FINANCIAL ENTITY: European Commission – Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellowship
LENGHT FROM: July 2005 TO: July 2009
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Dr. Pim Edelaar
PROJECT TITLE: ‘Interacciones entre el Parasitismo, la Ecología Trófica y el Comportamiento de Aves
Migratorias y Peces en la Costa de la Península Valdés’
FINANCIAL ENTITY: Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (PICT), Argentina
LENGHT FROM: May 2004 TO: May 2007
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Dra. Graciela Navone (Centro de Parásitos y Vectores- CONICET)
PROJECT TITLE: ‘Isótopos Estables en Áreas de Invernada de Aves Playeras Migratorias en Humedales
del Sector Este de la Provincia del Chubut’
FINANCIAL ENTITY: U.S. Geological Survey, United States of America
LENGHT FROM: Jan. 2004 TO: Jan. 2006
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Dr. Adrian Farmer (U.S. Geological Survey)
PROJECT TITLE: Honorary Fellowship
FINANCIAL ENTITY: University of Groningen, The Netherlands
LENGHT FROM: Nov. 2003 TO: Jan 2004
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Dr. Pim Edelaar
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PROJECT TITLE: ‘Testing for Local Co-evolution as a Driver of Adaptive Radiation in Crossbills’
FINANCIAL ENTITY: Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research – TALENT stipend, The
Netherlands
LENGHT FROM: July 2002 TO: Sept. 2003
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Dr. Pim Edelaar
PROJECT TITLE: ‘Quantifying the Impact of Predators on Infaunal Bivalves across France’
FINANCIAL ENTITY: Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, The Netherlands
LENGHT FROM: Jan. 2001 TO: March 2001
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Pim Edelaar
PROJECT TITLE: ‘Global Flyways and Intertidal Soft-Sediments’
FINANCIAL ENTITY: Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research – PIONIER award, The
Netherlands
LENGHT FROM: January 1997 TO: July 2002
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Prof. Theunis Piersma
PROJECT TITLE: ‘Helping-at-the-Nest in Order to Gain Social Prestige? Explaining altruism in Arabian
babblers’
FINANCIAL ENTITY: University of Wales, United Kingdom
LENGHT FROM: March 1996 TO: May 1996
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Prof. Jonathan Wright
PROJECT TITLE: ‘Cooperative Breeding in the Seychelles Warbler’
FINANCIAL ENTITY: University of Groningen, The Netherlands
LENGHT FROM: July 1996 TO: Aug. 1996
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Prof. Jan Komdeur
PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH CONTRACTS WITH COMPANIES, PRIVATE OR PUBLIC FUNDING
BODIES (N=5, Principal Investigator=2)
CONTRACT TITLE: ‘Un Nuevo Puente de Unión entre Argentina y España: Afrontando los Retos del
Cambio Global´
FINANCIAL ENTITY: REPSOL-YPF
LENGHT FROM: 2009 TO: 2014
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Dr. José L. Tella (Estación Biológica de Doñana)
CONTRACT TITLE: ‘Aves en Cota 130’
FINANCIAL ENTITY: Convenio Municipalidad de Puerto Madryn
LENGHT FROM: Jan. 2006 TO: Jan. 2009
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Dr. Pablo Yorio (Centro Nacional Patagónico - CONICET)
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CONTRACT TITLE: ‘Testing the Acoustic Adaptation Hypothesis in Patagonian Rufous-Collared
Sparrows’
FINANCIAL ENTITY: Schure-Beijerink Popping Fund (The Netherlands)
LENGHT FROM: Oct. 2005 TO: March 2006
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Dr. Pim Edelaar
CONTRACT TITLE: ‘The Hidden Impact of Parasites and Pathogens on the Distribution and Habitat
Choice of Shorebirds’
FINANCIAL ENTITY: Schure-Beijerinck Popping Fund (The Netherlands)
LENGHT FROM: March 2005 TO: March 2006
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Lic. Graciela Escudero (Centro Nacional Patagónico- CONICET)
CONTRACT TITLE: ‘Unravelling the Evolutionary Significance of European Crossbill Vocal Types’
FINANCIAL ENTITY: Huib Kluijver Fund (The Netherlands)
LENGHT FROM: 2003 TO: 2004
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Dr. Pim Edelaar
PRESENTATIONS AT INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
[NB: a long list of national meetings (Dutch, US, Spanish, etc.) is not included]
Presentations at international meetings have been well-received, incl. a 1st prize for best talk, 2nd and 3rd
prizes for best poster, and two nominations for best talk (all as single or first author)
1. 15th Conference of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, 10-14 August 2015,
Lausanne, Switzerland (poster)
2. 1st International Movement and Dispersel Conference, 10-11 November 2013, Aberdeen, U.K.
(talk)
3. 3rd international conference of EcoGenes, 18-20 September 2013, Sevilla, Spain
(conference co-organiser + poster)
4. 2nd European Conference on Speciation Research (ESF Research Networking Programme
FroSpects), 27-29 May 2013, Montpellier, France (talk)
5. European Science Foundation (ESF) - FroSpects “Behaviour and Speciation” Workshop, 6-8
Feb. 2013, Oslo, Norway (talk)
6. CAnMove international symposium on “Causes and Consequences of Dispersal”, 30 Jan.-1 Feb.
2013, Lund, Sweden (poster + symposium report published in Movement Ecology)
7. Specialists´ meeting on Dispersal, 7-11 Oct. 2012, Moulis, France (talk)
8. 14th National and 11th Ibero-American Ethology Conference, 11-14 Sept. 2012, Sevilla, Spain
(talk)
9. 12th European Ecological Federation Congress, 25-29 Sept. 2011, Avila, Spain (talk)
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10. 8th Conference of the European Ornithologists’ Union, 26-30 Aug. 2011, Riga, Latvia
(symposium organiser plus talk)
11. 12th Conference of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, 24-29 August 2009, Turin,
Italy (talk)
12. 6th Kristineberg Symposium “Origin of Species – 150 years later”, 10-13 June 2009,
Kristineberg, Sweden (invited attendant)
13. Conference of The International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of
Biology, 14-18 July 2009, Brisbane, Australia (talk)
14. Duke University’s 8th Annual Conference in Philosophy & Biology and the Annual Consortium
for the History and Philosophy of Biology: Form, Function and Homology, 22-24 May 2009,
Durham, USA (keynote talk)
15. 11th Conference of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, 20-25 Aug 2007, Uppsala,
Sweden (symposium organiser)
16. 8th Congress of Neotropical Ornithology, 13-19 May 2007, Maturin, Venezuela (talk)
17. 34th International Wader Study Group Conference, 2007, La Rochelle, France (poster)
18. 24th International Ornithological Conference, 13-19 Aug 2006, Hamburg, Germany (3rd prize
for best poster out of 500 entries)
19. 11th Reunion Argentino de Ornitologia, 11-13 Nov 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina (4 posters)
20. 4th Conference of the European Ornithologists’ Union, 16-20 Aug 2003, Chemnitz, Germany
(symposium organiser, 2 talks, symposium synthesis published in Avian Science)
21. 2001 International Wader Study Group Annual Meeting, 31 Aug-2 Sept 2001, Kollumerpomp,
The Neth. (poster, 2nd best poster)
22. 8th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, 20-25 Aug 2001, Aarhus,
Denmark (poster)
23. 3rd Conference of the European Ornithologists’ Union, 21-25 Aug 2001, Groningen, The Neth.
(poster)
24. 7th PhD-meeting for students in Evolutionary Biology, 21-24 March 2001, Bernried, Germany
(talk, nominated for best talk)
25. The Evolutionary Ecology of Sex, 31 Aug – 1 Sept 2000, Groningen, The Neth. (poster)
26. 8th International Behavioural Ecology Congress, 8-12 Aug 2000, Zurich, Switzerland (talk)
27. 1999 International Wader Study Group Annual Meeting, 24-26 Sept 1999, Ile de Berder,
France (talk and poster)
28. Biology & Evolution of the Bivalvia, 14-17 Sept 1999, Cambridge, UK (talk, book chapter
published in The Evolutionary Biology of the Bivalvia, Geological Society, London)
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29. Easter Meeting of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour, 2-4 April 1999,
Newcastle, UK (poster)
30. Edward Grey Institute student-conference, 2-5 Jan 1998, Oxford, UK (talk).
31. Ethologentreffen, 25-30 Aug 1996, Groningen, The Netherlands (talk)
32. Edward Grey Institute student-conference, 6-9 Jan 1996, Oxford, UK (talk, best talk, special
abstract publication in Ibis)
33. 2nd Benelux-congress of Zoology, 17-18 Nov. 1995, Leiden, The Neth. (talk, 2nd runner-up for
best talk)
Furthermore, I have given invited seminars in 9 countries on 3 continents.
DIRECTION OF STUDENTS AND THESES
I am director of PhD student:
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Adrian Baños Villalba “Neglected Mechanisms of Adaptation to a Changing World”
(co-director: Dr. José Luis Tella, EBD-CSIC)
I independently supervised 9 MSc students in Biology in The Netherlands, Sweden and Spain:
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Karin de Boer (MSc Biology - University of Groningen) “Burying decisions of Macoma balthica”
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Bart Groeneveld (MSc Biology - University of Amsterdam) “Effects of human hunting of birds
on bivalve ecology in French estuaries”
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Maaike de Heij (MSc Biology - University of Groningen) “The interactions between crabs and
burying bivalves”
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Femke de Smit (MSc Biology - University of Groningen) “The interactions between birds and
burying bivalves”
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Erik Postma (MSc Biology - Wageningen University) “Burying depth of Macoma balthica as a
trade-off between food and safety”
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Tianhong Gong (MSc Biology - Uppsala University) “Signatures of natural selection on
crossbills by comparing morphology and genetic markers across populations and age cohorts”
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Clara Alcántara-Dominguez (MSc Biodiversity and Conservation Biology – Universidad
Pablo de Olavide) “Making the best of a bad job? Brown plumage when red cannot be
produced in weavers”
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Alvaro Luna (MSc Biodiversity and Conservation Biology – Universidad Pablo de Olavide)
“Getting to know our new neighbour: adaptation of reproductive timing and social perception
of the invasive Rose-ringed parakeet”
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David Pablo Queveda Colmena (MSc Biodiversity and Conservation Biology – Universidad
Pablo de Olavide) “Testing for genetic and environmental effects on habitat choice as a
mechanism to enhance local crypsis in a grasshopper”
I am currently supervising:
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Sander Lagerveld (MSc Biology - University of Amsterdam) “Vocal variation in crossbills:
isolation-by-distance or isolation-by-ecology?”
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Aída Jordán Andrade (MSc Biodiversity and Conservation Biology – Universidad Pablo de
Olavide) “Experimental tests of Matching Habitat Choice in grasshoppers”
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Francisco Javier García de Andoín (MSc Ethology and Applied Animal Behaviour – Universidad
Pablo de Olavide) “Experimental tests of Matching Habitat Choice in grasshoppers”
In addition, I supervised a number of additional students doing projects (´tesinas´) as part of their
degrees at professional higher education institutions (non-university students), and a Leonardo da
Vinci visiting post-graduate.
EXTERNAL MEMBER OF PHD ADVISORY COMMITTEE
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Yimen Araya MSc, PhD completed and defended at the INTERNATIONAL MAX PLANCK RESEARCH
SCHOOL FOR ORGANISMAL BIOLOGY, Dept. of Behavioural Ecology and Evolutionary Genetics, Max
Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany
STAYS AT INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED RESEARCH CENTRES
KEY: D=PhD student, P=postdoctoral. G= guest, S=staff, O=other
CENTRE: University of Uppsala
PLACE: Uppsala
COUNTRY: Sweden YEAR: 2007 - 2009
TOPIC: Adaptive radiation of crossbills
LENGTH: 1.5 years
KEY: P
CENTRE: Texas A&M University
PLACE: College Station, Tx. COUNTRY: USA
TOPIC: Adaptive radiation of crossbills
YEAR: 2006 - 2007
LENGTH: 9 months
KEY: P
CENTRE: University of Arizona
PLACE: Tucson, Arizona COUNTRY: USA
TOPIC: Adaptive radiation of crossbills
YEAR: 2005
LENGTH: 3 months
KEY: P
CENTRE: Centro Nacional Patagónico
PLACE: Puerto Madryn
COUNTRY: ArgentinaYEAR: 2004 - 2007
TOPIC: Field studies in shorebird ecology and physiology
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LENGTH: 4 years
KEY: G
CENTRE: University of Groningen
PLACE: Groningen
COUNTRY: The NetherlandsYEAR: 2003-2004
LENGTH: 2 months
TOPIC: Adaptive speciation by sexual and natural selection
KEY: O (Honorary Fellow)
CENTRE: New Mexico State University
PLACE: Las Cruces
COUNTRY: USA
YEAR: 2002-2003
TOPIC: Geographic mosaic of coevolution in crossbills
LENGTH: 1.2 years
KEY: P
CENTRE: University of British Columbia
PLACE: Vancouver
COUNTRY: Canada YEAR: 2003
TOPIC: Geographic mosaic of coevolution in crossbills
LENGTH: 2 months
KEY: P
CENTRE: University of Groningen
PLACE: Groningen
COUNTRY: The NetherlandsYEAR: 1997-2002
LENGTH: 5.5.years
TOPIC: Anti-predator behaviour against birds and crabs in intertidal bivalves
KEY: D
OTHER ACADEMIC MERITS
SCIENTIFIC MANUAL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT
ABRIL, M, ESCUDERO, G & EDELAAR, P 2004. AVES DEL GOLFO SAN JORGE. Published by REPSOL
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
PIERSMA, T, DEKINGA, A, DEKKER, A, EDELAAR, P, VAN GILS, J, DE GOEIJ, P, KOOLHAAS, A, VAN DER MEER, J &
NEBEL, S 1999. Het konijn uit de zwarte doos: kokkels en visserij-effecten in de westelijke
Waddenzee. (The rabbit out of the black box: cockles and fishery effects in the western Wadden Sea).
WADDENBULLETIN 34:33-35
EDELAAR, P 2000. Zeldzame libellen in Nederland in 1997. (Rare dragonflies in The Netherlands in
1997). BRACHYTRON 4:3-12
SCIENTIFIC ASSESSMENTS OF BOOKS AND THESES
EDELAAR, P 2008. Thesis review: Veen, T. (2008). Mating decisions in a hybrid zone. ARDEA 96:307310
EDELAAR P 2005. Thesis review: Van der Meij, M. (2004). A Tough Nut to Crack – Adaptation to Seed
Cracking in Finches. ARDEA 92:261-263
EDELAAR, P 2003. Book review: Newton, I. (2003). The Biogeography and Speciation of Birds. ARDEA
92:126-129
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EDELAAR, P 2002. Book review: Howell, S.N.G. (2002). Hummingbirds of North America. ARDEA
90:341-343
EDELAAR, P 2002. Book review: Schilthuizen, M. (2001). Frogs, Flies and Dandelions: the Making of
Species. ARDEA 90:173-175
REVIEWER OF RESEARCH PROPOSALS
I reviewed a COST Trans-Domain Proposal (European Commission & ESF), and many projects for
ANEP (convocatorias Plan Nacional, Parques Nacionales, CONICET-Argentina)
REVIEWER OF RESEARCH CANDIDATES
I was committee-member for the evaluation of 137 candidates for Ramón y Cajal positions (11-12
March 2013, Madrid) (and asked for Juan de la Cierva as well, but declined due to a conflict of
interest)
REGULAR REVIEWER FOR INTERNATIONAL, PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
I pride myself in giving thorough, extensive and constructive reviews. I currently take about 2 per
month, and decline the rest. Many journals are the absolute top in their fields.
Science, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Ecology Letters, Evolution, Proceedings of the Royal Society B,
Molecular Ecology (´Top-Reviewer 2012 and 2014´), American Naturalist, PlosOne, Journal of
Evolutionary Biology, Journal of Animal Ecology, Functional Ecology, Current Zoology, Behavioral
Ecology, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Heredity, Conservation Genetics, Biological Journal of the
Linnean Society, Evolutionary Ecology, Oikos, BMC Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Evolution, Journal
of Avian Biology, Auk, Ibis, Journal of Ornithology, Ethology, Evolutionary Ecology Research, Animal
Biodiversity and Conservation, Ardea, Journal of Sea Research, Ardeola, International Wader Study
Group Bulletin.
I will start in as member of the Board of Reviewing Editors of the Journal of Evolutionary Biology
(2016-2019)
Reviews Editor for Frontiers in Ecology & Evolution (2013-current)
I am a Guest Editor for a special issue on non-random and asymmetric gene flow of the journal
Evolutionary Ecology
Member of Editorial Board Zoological Research (2008-2011)
ORGANISER OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
1. Symposium “The Ecology and Evolution of the Crossbill-complex (Loxia)”.
4th Conference of the European Ornithologists’ Union (EOU), 16-20 August 2003, Chemnitz,
Germany. (As chief-organiser: co-organisers were Dr. Ron Summers, Royal Society for the
Protection of Birds, U.K., and Dr. Natalia Iovchenko, University of St. Petersburg, Russia).
Symposium synthesis published in Avian Science (3: 85-93)
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2. Symposium “Process and implications of phenotype-dependent dispersal and settlement”.
11th Conference of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), 20-25 August 2007,
Uppsala, Sweden. (As chief-organiser: co-organised with Prof. Jean Clobert, Université Pierre
et Marie Curie, France)
3. Symposium “Non-native birds in Europe: driving forces, mechanisms and consequences”.
8th Conference of the European Ornithologists’ Union (EOU), 26-30 August 2011, Riga, Latvia.
(Co-organised with Dr. Diederik Strubbe, University of Antwerp, Belgium and Dr. Darius
Stiels, Germany)
4. One-day meeting “Invasion Day”.
Estación Biológica de Doñana, 17 Feb. 2012, Sevilla, Spain. (Co-organised with Dr. Montserrat
Vila)
5. Panel discussion “Invasive Species”
21nd Spanish Ornithological Conference, 7 December 2012, Vitoria, Spain
(organiser and moderator)
6. 3rd International Conference of EcoGenes “Adaptation to Global Change in the Mediterranean
Hotspot”, 18-20 September 2013, Sevilla, Spain (member of Scientific Committee)
7. One-day workshop “Hybridisation and Global Change”
17 September 2013, Sevilla, Spain. Publication submitted to Evolutionary Ecology Research
8. Symposium “Birds in space: does individual variation matter?”
26th International Ornithologists´ Union (IOC), 18-24 August 2014, Tokyo, Japan. (Coorganised with Dr. Niels Dingemanse, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany)
TEACHING
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Mentoring of students doing PhD, masters and ´tesinas´ (The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden)
Full-time teaching assistant for two months (University of Leiden, The Netherlands)
Designed projects and supervised groups of up to 24 students during courses in Animal
Ecology (three years), Marine Biology, and Marine Ecosystems (The Netherlands)
Currently Main Responsible for course ´Bases Genéticas de la Conservación´ (University Pablo
de Olavide, 4th year degree Environmental Sciences)
Host lecture on ´Introduction to Bayesian Statistics´
Lecturer in Master Degree Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Univ. Pablo de Olavide
Lecturer in Master Degree Applied Ethology and Animal Behaviour, Univ. Pablo de Olavide
Steering Member of the Academic Committee of the PhD program “Environmental Sciences and
Society”, Univ. Pablo de Olavide, Spain (incl. review of PhD plans and progress reports,
organisation of doctoral courses)
RECENT POST-GRADUATE COURSES
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Analysis of Next-Generation Sequencing Data, 5-8 March 2013
Landscape Genetics. 4 July 2012
Animal Experimentation, category B. 28 May – 18 July 2012
Bayesian Population Analysis using WinBUGS. 22-26 Aug 2011
Structural Equation Modelling using R and AMOS. 31 Jan – 2 Feb 2011
Modern Methodology for Phylogenetic Comparative Biology. 20-23 Oct 2010
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Generalised Regression Models in R. 9-13 Sept 2010
Demographic Inference and Statistical Analysis of Capture-Recapture Data. 16-20 June 2010
Genetic Coalescent Modelling as a Bridge between Ecology and Evolution. 22-25 Aug 2008
Geometric Morphometrics. 21-26 Sept 2006
PUBLIC OUTREACH
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My work has featured in several TV programs, newspapers and magazines
A children´s program featured my PhD work in a 15-minute special for national television
I conducted a live interview for BBC radio
I visited several primary schools for talks and projects about science
I published >10 popular scientific papers
LANGUAGES
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Dutch:
English:
Spanish:
German:
French:
native speaker
fluent
fluent
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