• M. de Jager, F. J. Weissing, P. M. J. Herman, B. A. Nolet, J. van de Koppel (2011). Lévy Walks Evolve Through Interaction Between Movement and Environmental Complexity. Science 332, 1551-1554.

• M. de Jager, F. J. Weissing, P. M. J. Herman, B. A. Nolet, J. van de Koppel (2012). Response to Comment on “Lévy Walks Evolve Through Interaction Between Movement and Environmental Complexity”. Science 335, 918.

• M. de Jager, F. Bartumeus, A. Kölzsch, F. J. Weissing, G. M. Hengeveld, B. A. Nolet, P. M. J. Herman, J. van de Koppel (2014). How superdiffusion gets arrested: ecological encounters explain shift from Lévy to Brownian movement. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281, 20132605.

• M. de Jager, M. B. Soons (2023). Critical transitions and evolutionary hysteresis in movement: Habitat fragmentation can cause abrupt shifts in dispersal that are difficult to revert. Ecology and Evolution. doi: 10.1002/ece3.10147

• M. B. Soons, G. A. de Groot, M. T. Cuesta Ramirez, R. G. A. Fraaije, J. T. A. Verhoeven, M. de Jager (2017). Directed dispersal by an abiotic vector: Wetland plants disperse their seeds selectively to suitable sites along the hydrological gradient via water. Functional Ecology 31, 499-508. 

All publications

• M. de Jager, N. H. Buitendijk, J. N. Wiegers, J. M. Baveco & B. A. Nolet (2024). More management, less damage? With increasing population size, economic costs of managing geese to minimize yield losses may outweigh benefits. Journal of Environmental Management 351 119949. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.119949
• M. de Jager, M. B. Soons (2023). Critical transitions and evolutionary hysteresis in movement: Habitat fragmentation can cause abrupt shifts in dispersal that are difficult to revert. Ecology and Evolution. doi: 10.1002/ece3.10147
• De Jager, M. Buitendijk, N. H., Baveco, J. M., van Els, P. & Nolet, B. (2023). Limiting scaring activities reduces economic costs associated with foraging barnacle geese: Results from an individual-based model. Journal of Applied Ecology 60, 1790-1802.
• N. H. Buitendijk, M. de Jager, M. Hornman, H. Kruckenberg, A. Koelzsch, S. Moonen, B. A. Nolet (2022). More grazing, more damage? Assessed yield loss on agricultural grassland relates nonlinearly to goose grazing pressure. Journal of Applied Ecology. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.14306
• M. van Kuijk, M. de Jager, M. van Oosterhout, L. de Leander, M. Parahoe (2022). Local abundances of terrestrial mammal and bird species around indigenous villages in Suriname. Conservation Science and Practice e12699. doi: 10.1111/csp2.12699
• I. Zardi, K.N. Nicastro, C.D. McQuaid, M. de Jager, J. van de Koppel, L. Seuront (2021). Density-dependent and species specific effects on self-organization modulate the resistance of mussel bed ecosystems to hydrodynamic stress. The American Naturalist. doi: 10.1086/713738.
• J. Treep, M. de Jager, F. Bartumeus, M.B. Soons (2021). Seed dispersal as a search strategy: dynamic and fragmented landscapes select for multi-scale movement strategies in plants. Movement Ecology 9, 4. doi: 10.1186/s40462-020-00239-1
• M. de Jager, J. van de Koppel, E. J. Weerman, F. J. Weissing (2020). Patterning in mussel beds explained by the interplay of multi-level selection and spatial self-organization. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8:7. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2020.00007
• M. de Jager, G. M. Hengeveld, W. M. Mooij, E. Slooten (2019). Modelling the spatial dynamics of Maui dolphins using individual-based models. Ecological Modelling 402, 59-65.
• M. de Jager, B. Kaphingst, E. L. Janse, R. Buisman, S. G. T. Rinzema, M. B. Soons (2019). Seed size regulates plant dispersal distances in flowing water. Journal of Ecology 107, 307-317.
• H. J. Treep., M. de Jager, L. S. Kuiper, T. Duman, G. G. Katul, M. B. Soons (2018). Costs and benefits of non-random seed release for long-distance dispersal in wind-dispersed plant species. Oikos (DOI 10.1111/oik.04430).

• M. de Jager, F. J. Weissing, J. van de Koppel (2017). Why mussels stick together: spatial self-organization affects the evolution of cooperation. Evolutionary Ecology  31(4), 547-558 (DOI 10.1007/s10682-017-9888-1).

• E. Kleyheeg, H. J. Treep, M. de Jager, B. A. Nolet, M. B. Soons (2017). Seed dispersal distributions resulting from landscape-dependent daily movement behaviour of a key vector species. Journal of Ecology 105(5), 1279-1289 (DOI 10.1111/1365-2745.12738).  

• M. B. Soons, G. A. de Groot, M. T. Cuesta Ramirez, R. G. A. Fraaije, J. T. A. Verhoeven, M. de Jager (2017). Directed dispersal by an abiotic vector: Wetland plants disperse their seeds selectively to suitable sites along the hydrological gradient via water. Functional Ecology 31(2), 499-508 (DOI 1365-2435.12771).

• A. Kölzsch, A. Alzate, F. Bartumeus, M. de Jager, E.J. Weerman, G.M. Hengeveld, M. Naguib, B.A. Nolet, J. van de Koppel (2015). Experimental evidence for inherent Lévy search behaviour in foraging animals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 282, 20150424.

• M. de Jager, F. Bartumeus, A. Kölzsch, F. J. Weissing, G. M. Hengeveld, B. A. Nolet, P. M. J. Herman, J. van de Koppel (2014). How superdiffusion gets arrested: ecological encounters explain shift from Lévy to Brownian movement. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281, 20132605.

• Q.X. Liu, A. Doelman, V. Rottschäfer, M. de Jager, P. M. J. Herman, M. Rietkerk, J. van de Koppel (2013). Phase separation explains a new class of self-organized spatial patterns in ecological systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110, 11905-11910.

• M. de Jager, F. J. Weissing, P. M. J. Herman, B. A. Nolet, J. van de Koppel (2012). Response to Comment on “Lévy Walks Evolve Through Interaction Between Movement and Environmental Complexity”. Science 335, 918.

• M. de Jager, F. J. Weissing, P. M. J. Herman, B. A. Nolet, J. van de Koppel (2011). Lévy Walks Evolve Through Interaction Between Movement and Environmental Complexity. Science 332, 1551-1554.

PhD thesis