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The tell-tale isotopes
Jouta, Jeltje
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Jouta, J. (2019). The tell-tale isotopes: Towards indicators of the health of the Wadden Sea ecosystem.
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Biography
Jeltje Mooiman-Jouta is an ecologist, specialized in stable isotopes and ecosystems,
with interdisciplinary skills in education and arts. Her doctoral studies she dedicated
to the food web of the Wadden Sea.
She was born and raised in the countryside of Fryslân, The Netherlands, where she
lived with her parents, brother and sister. She enjoyed a serene childhood, with a lot
of outdoor playing and other free and unbounded creative activities. Already as a
toddler she caught birds barehanded to admire them closely and spend hours making
detailed drawings, skills that turned out to be useful in her adult life.
After high school she did her bachelor Biology, followed up by a master Ecology and
master Education at the University of Groningen, with part of the master Scientific
Illustration at the University of Maastricht and Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts as
an intermezzo. She got the opportunity to work with a group of leading scientists
during her PhD studies within project Waddensleutels, being supervised by Prof.
Theunis Piersma and Prof. Han Olff at the NIOZ and University of Groningen.
Jeltje lives with her husband Maarten and their children Wout and Bregje, aged 4 and
3, in the forest landscape of Oranjewoud. While finishing her dissertation she worked
as a biology and art teacher at a high school, where she aimed to trigger pupils’
won-derment, enthusiasm and care for life. She’s devoted to raising their children, loves to
create things, is interested in and likes to contemplate the human way of living and its
impact on nature and is passionate about the beauty of nature.
List of publications:
BIOGRAPHY
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Jouta, J., P. de Goeij, T. Lok, E. Velilla, C. J. Camphuysen, M. Leopold, H. W. van der Veer, H. Olff, O. Overdijk, and T. Piersma. 2018. Unexpected dietary preferences of Eurasian Spoonbills in the Dutch Wadden Sea: spoonbills mainly feed on small fish not shrimp. Journal of Orni
-thology 159: 839–849.
Jouta, J., M. W. Dietz, J. Reneerkens, T. Piersma, E. Rakhimberdiev, G. T. Hallgrimsson, and I. Pen. 2017. Ecological forensics: using single point stable isotope values to infer seasonal sched-ules of animals after two diet switches. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 8: 492–500. Christianen, M. J. A., J. J. Middelburg, S. J. Holthuijsen, J. Jouta, T. J. Compton, T. van der Heide,
T. Piersma, J. S. S. Damste, H. W. van der Veer, S. Schouten, and H. Olff. 2017. Benthic pri-mary producers are key to sustain the Wadden Sea food web: stable carbon isotope analysis at landscape scale. Ecology 98: 1498–1512.
Bijleveld, A. I., J. A. van Gils, J. Jouta, and T. Piersma. 2015. Benefits of foraging in small groups: An experimental study on public information use in red knots Calidris canutus. Behavioural
Processes 117: 74–81.
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Cardoso, J., V. Freitas, I. Quilez, J. Jouta, J. I. Witte, and H. W. Van der Veer. 2015. The European sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax in the Dutch Wadden Sea: from visitor to resident species.
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 95: 839–850.
El-Hacen, E. M., T. Piersma, J. Jouta, O. Overdijk, and T. Lok. 2014. Seasonal variation in the diet of Spoonbill chicks in the Wadden Sea: a stable isotopes approach. Journal of Ornithology 155: 611–619.
Schrama, M., J. Jouta, M. P. Berg, and H. Olff. 2013. Food Web Assembly at the Landscape Scale: Using Stable Isotopes to Reveal Changes in Trophic Structure During Succession. Ecosystems 16: 627–638.
