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Preprints and submitted manuscripts:​

• Berthelsen AL, Caspers BA, Chakarov N, Childs A, Coculla A, Dammhahn M, Moiron M, Mühlenhaupt M, Müller C, Petit J, Rapp TM. Individual variation in perceived density and its impacts on the realization of ecological niches. EcoEvoRxiv (doi: 10.32942/X21W65) [preprint link] ​

• Moiron M, Haest B, Teplitsky C, Dänhardt A, Bouwhuis S†, Charmantier A†; Quantitative genetics of multidimensional plasticity in spring phenology. OSF Preprints (doi: 10.31219/osf.io/4upxd)​ [preprint link]  

• Mühlenhaupt M, Bohny HJ, Moiron M, Schmidt M, Schulte L, Caspers BA;The bright, the bold and the toxic: do coloration, personality, and toxicity represent an integrated phenotype in fire salamanders? EcoEvoRxiv (doi: 10.32942/X24W8V)  [preprint link] 

2025​​

• Bertram M, Ågerstrand M, Balshine S, Brand J, Brooks B, Dang Z, Ford A, Hollert H, LeFauve M, Manera J, Martin J, Michelangeli M, Moiron M, Moore E, Puglis H, Sih A, Steevens J, Thoré E, Wong B, Zink L, Brodin T (2025) Are behavioural ecotoxicity endpoints relevant at the population level? Evidence-based insights for environmental protection. Environmental Science & Technology (accepted, doi: 10.1021/acs.est.5c07777 )

• Bertram J, Kürten N, Bichet C, Moiron M, Schupp PJ, Bouwhuis S (2025). Parental blood mercury levels are correlated, and predictive of those in eggs in a long-lived seabird. Environmental Research 121437 (doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2025.121437)​

• Bertram J, Bichet C, Moiron M, Beccardi M, Kürten N, Schupp PJ, Bouwhuis S (2025). Mercury levels in chicks of a long-lived seabird–parental effects and links with growth and survival. Environmental Research, 122283 (doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2025.122283)​

• Bichet C, Moiron M, Kürten N, Vedder O, Bouwhuis S (2025) Egg characteristics of female common terns are repeatable, and vary with maternal age and laying order. Ecology and Evolution, 15,11:e72455 (doi: 10.1002/ece3.72455)​​

• Class B, Araya-Ajoy YG, Dingemanse N, Dochtermann NA, Martin JS, Moiron M, Westneat DF (2025) Disentangling non-random assortment, indirect effects, and joint plasticity as causes of phenotypic (dis)similarity between social partners. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 38 (8), 1082–1092 (doi: 10.1093/jeb/voaf057) 

• Gould E,  Fraser HS, Parker TH,..., Moiron M,... et al. (2025) Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology. BMC Biology 23, 35 (doi: 10.1186/s12915-024-02101-x) [preprint link]​  

• Wynn J, Kürten N, Moiron M, Bouwhuis S (2025) Selective disappearance based on navigational efficiency in a long-lived seabird. Journal of Animal Ecology  94, 535–544 (doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.14231) 

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2024​

• ​Beccardi M, Moiron M, Salmón P, Tschirren B, Vedder O (2024) Does inbreeding affect personality traits? An experimental study in a precocial bird. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 78, 123 (doi: 10.1007/s00265-024-03524-w) ​

• Bertram J, Bichet C, Moiron M, Schupp PJ, Bouwhuis S (2024) Sex- and age-specific mercury accumulation in a long-lived seabird. Science of The Total Environment  927, 172330 (doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.172330) 

• Bertram J†, Moiron M†, Bichet C, Kürten N, Schupp PJ, Bouwhuis S (2024) Mercury concentrations in blood and back feathers are repeatable, heritable and correlated in a long-lived seabird. Science of The Total Environment 955, 176939 (doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.176939) 

• Chang C, Moiron M, Sánchez-Tójar A, Niemela P, Laskowski K (2024) What's the meta-analytic evidence for life-history trade-offs at the genetic level? Ecology letters  27, e14354 (doi: 10.1111/ele.14354) [preprint link]​​

• Moiron M, Bouwhuis S (2024) Age-dependent shaping of the social environment in a long-lived seabird – a quantitative genetic approach. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 379: 20220465 (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0465) 

• Reichert MS, de la Hera I, Moiron M (2024) Partitioning variance in a signalling trade-off under sexual selection reveals among-individual covariance in trait allocation. Evolution  78(6), 1150-1160 (doi: 10.1093/evolut/qpae050) [preprint link]​​

• Santostefano F†, Moiron M†, Sánchez-Tójar A†, Fisher DN† (2024) Indirect genetic effects increase the heritable variation available to selection and are largest for behaviours: a meta-analysis. Evolution letters 9(1), 89-104 (doi: 10.1093/evlett/qrae051) [preprint link]

2023

• Moiron M,  Teplitsky C,  Haest B, Charmantier A†, Bouwhuis S† (2023) Micro-evolutionary response of spring migration timing in a wild seabird. Evolution letters 8(1), 8-17 (doi: 10.1093/evlett/qrad014)  [preprint link]​

• Vedder O, Tschirren B, Postma E, Moiron M (2023) Rapid decline of prenatal maternal effects with age is independent of postnatal environment in a precocial bird. Evolution 77(11), 2484-2491 (doi: 10.1093/evolut/qpad159)  [preprint link]​

• Meyer BS, Moiron M, Caswara C, Chow W, Fedrigo O, Formenti G, Haase B, Howe K, Mountcastle J, Uliano-Silva M, Wood J, Jarvis ED, Liedvogel M †, Bouwhuis S † (2023) Sex-specific changes in autosomal methylation rate in ageing common terns. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11:982443 (doi: 10.3389/fevo.2023.982443) [preprint link] ​

• ​Urban MC, Swaegers J, Stoks R, Snook RR, Otto SP, Noble DWA, Moiron M, Hällfors M, Gómez-Llano M, Fior S, Cote J, Charmantier A, Bestion E, Berger D, Baur J, Alexander JM, Saastamoinen M, Edelsparre A, Teplitsky C (2023) When and how can we predict adaptive responses to climate change?​ Evolution letters  8(1), 172-187 (doi: 10.1093/evlett/qrad038)

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2022

• Moiron M, Charmantier A†, Bouwhuis S† (2022) The quantitative genetics of fitness in a wild bird population. Evolution 76:443-1452 (doi: 10.1111/evo.14516) [preprint link] 

• Moiron M,  Winkler L, Martin OY,  Janicke T (2022) Sexual selection moderates heat stress response in males and females. Functional Ecology 36, 3096– 3106 (doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.14204) [preprint link] 

• Sánchez-Tójar A†, Moiron M†, Niemelä PT† (2022) Terminology use in animal personality research: a self-report questionnaire and a systematic review. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289:20212259 (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.2259)​

• Hau M, Deimel C, Moiron M (2022) Great tits differ in glucocorticoid plasticity in response to spring temperature. Proceedings of the Royal Society B  289:20221235 (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2022.1235) [preprint link] 

• Fay R, Hamel S, van de Pol M, Gaillard J-M, Yoccoz N, Acker P, Authier M, Larue B, Le Cœur C, Macdonald K, Nicol-Harper A, Barbraud C, Bonenfant C, Van Vuren DH, Cam E, Delord K, Gamelon M, Moiron M, Pelletier F, Rotella J, Teplitsky, Visser M, Wells C, Wheelwright NT, C, Touzot L, Jenouvrier S†, Sæther B-E† (2022) Temporal correlations among demographic parameters rates are ubiquitous but highly variable across species. Ecology Letters 25:1640– 1654 (doi: 10.1111/ele.14026) 

2021

• Bichet C, Moiron M, Matson K, Vedder O, Bouwhuis S (2021) Immunosenescence in the wild? A longitudinal study in a long-lived seabird. Journal of Animal Ecology 91, 458– 469 (doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13642) 

• Winkler L, Moiron M, Morrow E, Janicke T (2021) Stronger net selection on males  across the animal kingdom. eLife  10:e68316  (doi: 10.7554/eLife.68316) [preprint link] 

• Fay R, Authier M, Hamel S, Jenouvrier S, van de Pol M, Cam E, Gaillard J-M, Yoccoz N, Acker P, Allen A, Aubry L, Bonenfant C, Caswell H, Coste C, Larue B, Le Cœur C, Gamelon M, Macdonald K, Moiron M, Nicol-Harper A, Pelletier F, Rotella J, Teplitsky C, Touzot L, Wells C, Sæther B-E (2021) Quantifying fixed individual heterogeneity in vital rates: Performance of correlated random effects for Bernoulli variables. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 13, 91– 104 (doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.13728) 

• Laskowski KL, Moiron M, Niemelä PT (2021) Integrating behavior in life-history theory: allocation versus acquisition?  Trends in Ecology and Evolution 36:132–138 (doi:  10.1016/j.tree.2020.10.017) 

• Vedder O, Moiron M, Bichet C, Bauch C, Verhulst S, Becker PH, Bouwhuis S  (2021) Telomere length is heritable and genetically correlated with lifespan in a wild bird. Molecular Ecology 31: 6297-6307 (doi: 10.1111/mec.15807)​​

2020

• Moiron M,  Araya-Ajoy YG, Teplitsky C, Bouwhuis S†, Charmantier A† (2020) Understanding the social dynamics of breeding phenology: indirect genetic effects and assortative mating in a long distance migrant. The American Naturalist  196(5):566-76 (doi: 10.1086/711045)​

• Moiron M,  Laskowski KL, Niemelä PT  (2020) Individual differences in behaviour explain variation in survival: a meta-analysis. Ecology Letters 23: 399-408​ (doi:10.1111/ele.13438) 

• Mentesana L†, Moiron M†, Guedes E, Cavalli E, Tassino B, Adreani NM† (2020) Defending as a unit: sex- and context-specific aggressiveness in a duetting bird. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 74, 111  (doi: 10.1007/s00265-020-02891-4)

2019

• Dingemanse NJ, Moiron M, Araya-Ajoy YG, Mouchet A; Abbey-Lee, RA (2019) Individual variation in age-dependent reproduction: fast explorers live fast but senesce young? Journal of Animal Ecology 89: 601– 613 (doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13122)

•  Moiron M, ​Araya-Ajoy YG, Mathot KJ, Mouchet A, Dingemanse NJ (2019) Functional relations between body mass and risk-taking behavior in wild great tits. Behavioral  Ecology 30 (3), 617-623 (doi: 10.1093/beheco/ary199)

2018

• Moiron M, Mathot KJ, Dingemanse NJ (2018) To eat and not be eaten: diurnal mass gain and foraging strategies in wintering great tits. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 285 (1874), 20172868 (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.2868)

•  Abbey-Lee RA,  Araya Ajoy YG, Mouchet A, Moiron M,  Stuber E,  Kempenaers B, Dingemanse NJ (2018) Does perceived predation risk affect patterns of extra-pair paternity? A field experiment in a passerine bird. Functional Ecology 32 (4), 1001-1010 (doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.13052)

2016

• Moiron M, Mathot KJ, Dingemanse NJ (2016) A multi-level approach to quantify speed-accuracy trade-offs in great tits (Parus major) Behavioral Ecology  27 (5), 1539-1546 (doi: 10.1093/beheco/arw077)

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2015

• Sih A, Mathot KJ, Moirón M, Montiglio P-O, Wolf M, Dingemanse NJ (2015) Animal personality and state–behaviour feedbacks: a review and guide for empiricists. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 30 (1), 50-60 (doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.11.004) 

• Moiron M, Gonzalez-Lagos C, Slabbekoorn H, Sol D (2015) Singing in the city: high song frequencies are no guarantee for urban success in birds. Behavioral Ecology. 26 (3), 843-850 (doi: 10.1093/beheco/arv026)

†  = shared authorship