Barbara Mizumo Tomotani
Job description
I am an evolutionary ecologist interested in the evolution of biological clocks and calendars in wild organisms.
Marcel E. Visser,
Kees Van Oers,
Anne Charmantier,
Szymon M. Drobniak,
Carys V. Jones,
Erik Mathyssen
et al.:
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 of London. Biological Sciences 2025 DOI
Alan J. D. Tennyson,
Rodrigo Brincalepe Salvador,
Barbara Mizumo Tomotani,
Felix G. Marx
:
A New Diving Pliocene Ardenna Shearwater (Aves: Procellariidae) from New Zealand
Barbara Mizumo Tomotani,
Aurelia F. T. Strauß,
Dmitry Kishkinev,
Huib van de Haar,
Barbara Helm
:
Circadian clock period length is not consistently linked to chronotype in a wild songbird
Rodrigo Brincalepe Salvador,
Barbara Mizumo Tomotani
:
Clocks at a snail pace: biological rhythms in terrestrial gastropods
David Grey Hazlerigg,
Barbara Mizumo Tomotani,
Alexander Christopher West,
Daniel Appenroth,
Shona Hiedi Wood
:
Biological timekeeping in polar environments: lessons from terrestrial vertebrates
Barbara Mizumo Tomotani,
Fabian Timpen,
Kamiel Spoelstra
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Ingrained city rhythms: flexible activity timing but more persistent circadian pace in urban birds
Melanie Lindner,
Jip Jc Ramakers,
Irene Verhagen,
Barbara Mizumo Tomotani,
A Christa Mateman,
Phillip Gienapp
et al.:
Genotypes selected for early and late avian lay date differ in their phenotype, but not fitness, in the wild
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Research interests
I am interested in the evolution of clocks and calendars in wild organisms and how the timing of daily and seasonal events is affected by global environmental change. My research strategy involves a combination of field and laboratory experiments and analyzes of long-term datasets. My model study species are hole nest breeding birds and land snails
I am currently leading two projects:
EvoLight - funded by a TFS starting grant
Evolution of biological clocks in land snails - funded by the Velux Stiftung
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