Dr. J.A. (Joeri) Zwerts

Hugo R. Kruytgebouw
Padualaan 8
Kamer N308
3584 CH Utrecht

Dr. J.A. (Joeri) Zwerts

Universitair docent
Wildlife Ecology
030 253 6835
j.a.zwerts@uu.nl

Publicaties

2025

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Koloski, V., van Kuijk, M., Imron, M. A., Marhaento, H., Sari, I. S., Wirada, F., & Zwerts, J. A. (2025). Orangutan population monitoring methods: Strengths, challenges, and opportunities. Biological Conservation, 309, Article 111320. [DOI] [Portal]
Pringle, S., Dallimer, M., Goddard, M. A., Le Goff, L. K., Hart, E., Langdale, S. J., Fisher, J. C., Abad, S. A., Ancrenaz, M., Angeoletto, F., Auat Cheein, F., Austen, G. E., Bailey, J. J., Baldock, K. C. R., Banin, L. F., Banks-Leite, C., Barau, A. S., Bashyal, R., Bates, A. J., ... Davies, Z. G. (2025). Opportunities and challenges for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity in the robotics age. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 9(6), 1031-1042. [DOI] [Portal]
Sullivan, M. J. P., Phillips, O. L., Galbraith, D., Almeida, E., de Oliveira, E. A., Almeida, J., Dávila, E. Á., Alves, L. F., Andrade, A., Aragão, L., Araujo-Murakami, A., Arets, E., Arroyo, L., Cruz, O. A. M., Baccaro, F., Baker, T. R., Banki, O., Baraloto, C., Barlow, J., ... Zwerts, J. A. (2025). Variation in wood density across South American tropical forests. Nature Communications, 16(1), Article 2351. [DOI] [Portal]
Aguirre-Gutiérrez, J., Díaz, S., Rifai, S. W., Corral-Rivas, J. J., Nava-Miranda, M. G., González-M, R., Hurtado-M, A. B., Revilla, N. S., Vilanova, E., Almeida, E., de Oliveira, E. A., Alvarez-Davila, E., Alves, L. F., de Andrade, A. C. S., Lola da Costa, A. C., Vieira, S. A., Aragão, L., Arets, E., Aymard C, G. A., ... Malhi, Y. (2025). Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change. Science (New York, N.Y.), 387(6738), Article eadl5414. [DOI] [Portal]

2024

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Zwerts, J., Treep, J., Zahedi, P., & Kaandorp, C. (2024). Central African Primate vocalization bioacoustics dataset: Yoda Data publication platform of Utrecht University. . Data set/Database [DOI]
Bialic-Murphy, L., McElderry, R. M., Esquivel-Muelbert, A., van den Hoogen, J., Zuidema, P. A., Phillips, O. L., de Oliveira, E. A., Loayza, P. A., Alvarez-Davila, E., Alves, L. F., Maia, V. A., Vieira, S. A., Arantes da Silva, L. C., Araujo-Murakami, A., Arets, E., Astigarraga, J., Baccaro, F., Baker, T., Banki, O., ... Crowther, T. W. (2024). The pace of life for forest trees. Science (New York, N.Y.), 386(6717), 92-98. [DOI] [Portal]
Zwerts, J. A., van der Linde, C. M., Praamstra, G. J., Schipper, J., Trolliet, F., Waeber, P. O., & Garcia, C. A. (2024). Feasibility and effectiveness of global intact forest landscape protection through forest certification: the conservation burden of intact forest landscapes. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 7, Article 1335430. [DOI] [Portal]
Zwerts, J. A., Sterck, E. H. M., Verweij, P. A., Maisels, F., van der Waarde, J., Geelen, E. A. M., Tchoumba, G. B., Donfouet Zebaze, H. F., & van Kuijk, M. (2024). FSC-certified forest management benefits large mammals compared to non-FSC. Nature, 628(8008), 563-568. [DOI] [Repository]

2023

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Whytock, R., Suijten, T., Deursen, T. V., Świeżewski, J., Mermiaghe, H., Madamba, N., Mouckoumou, N., Zwerts, J. A., Pambo, A. F. K., Bahaa‐el‐din, L., Brittain, S., Cardoso, A. W., Henschel, P., Lehmann, D., Momboua, B. R., Makaga, L., Orbell, C., White, L. J. T., Iponga, D. M., & Abernethy, K. (2023). Real‐time alerts from AI‐enabled camera traps using the Iridium satellite network: A case‐study in Gabon, Central Africa. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14(3), 867-874. [DOI] [Repository]
Zwerts, J. A. (2023). Conservation and monitoring of wildlife in logged tropical forests: A study in Western Equatorial Africa. [Doctoral thesis 1 (Research UU / Graduation UU), Universiteit Utrecht]. Utrecht University. [DOI] [Repository]

2022

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Zuidema, P. A., & Zwerts, J. A. (2022). An energetic look at the life in logged forests. Nature, 612, 636-637. [DOI] [Repository]
Sousa, T. R., Schietti, J., Ribeiro, I. O., Emílio, T., Fernández, R. H., ter Steege, H., Castilho, C. V., Esquivel-Muelbert, A., Baker, T., Pontes-Lopes, A., Silva, C. V. J., Silveira, J. M., Derroire, G., Castro, W., Mendoza, A. M., Ruschel, A., Prieto, A., Lima, A. J. N., Rudas, A., ... Costa, F. R. C. (2022). Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 31(8), 1571-1588. [DOI]
Zwerts, J. A., Wiegers, J. N., Sterck, E. H. M., & Van Kuijk, M. (2022). Exploring spatio-temporal variation in soundscape saturation of an African tropical forest landscape. Ecological Indicators, 137, 1-10. Article 108712. [DOI] [Repository]

2021

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Whytock, R. C., Suijten, T., Deursen, T. V., Świeżewski, J., Mermiaghe, H., Madamba, N., Moukoumou, N., Zwerts, J. A., Pambo, A. F. K., Bahaa-el-din, L., Brittain, S., Cardoso, A. W., Henschel, P., Lehmann, D., Momboua, B. R., Makaga, L., Orbell, C., White, L. JT., Iponga, D. M., & Abernethy, K. A. (2021). Real-time alerts from AI-enabled camera traps using the Iridium satellite network: a case-study in Gabon, Central Africa. bioRxiv. [DOI] [Repository]
Whytock, R. C., Świeżewski, J., Zwerts, J. A., Bara-Słupski, T., Koumba Pambo, A. F., Rogala, M., Bahaa-el-din, L., Boekee, K., Brittain, S., Cardoso, A. W., Henschel, P., Lehmann, D., Momboua, B., Kiebou Opepa, C., Orbell, C., Pitman, R. T., Robinson, H. S., & Abernethy, K. A. (2021). Robust ecological analysis of camera trap data labelled by a machine learning model. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12(6), 1080-1092. [DOI] [Repository]
Forest, P. N., Blundo, C., Carilla, J., Grau, R., Malizia, A., Malizia, L., Osinaga-Acosta, O., Bird, M., Bradford, M., Catchpole, D., Ford, A., Graham, A., Hilbert, D., Kemp, J., Laurance, S., Laurance, W., Ishida, F. Y., Marshall, A., Waite, C., ... Tran, H. D. (2021). Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots. Biological Conservation, 260, 1-27. Article 108849. [DOI] [Repository]
Pauwels, O. S. G., Zwerts, J., Bonnin, J. L., Boupoya-Mapikou , C.-A., Albert , J.-L., Dupeyras, P. A., Fourie, J., Ndonda Makemba, R., Ruizendaal, A. E., Vigna, C., & Vermeulen, C. (2021). Miscellanea Herpetologica Gabonica XVII. The Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society, 56(5), 61-68. https://orbi.uliege.be/bitstream/2268/260842/1/MHG_17_2021.pdf [Repository]
Ramirez, J. I., Zwerts, J. A., van Kuijk, M., Iacobelli, P., Li, X., Herdoiza, N., & Jansen, P. A. (2021). Density dependence of daily activity in three ungulate species. Ecology and Evolution, 11(12), 7390-7398. [DOI] [Repository]
Zwerts, J. A., Stephenson, P. J., Maisels, F., Rowcliffe, M., Astaras, C., Jansen, P. A., Waarde, J., Sterck, L. E. H. M., Verweij, P. A., Bruce, T., Brittain, S., & Kuijk, M. (2021). Methods for wildlife monitoring in tropical forests: Comparing human observations, camera traps, and passive acoustic sensors. Conservation Science and Practice, 3(12), 1-19. Article e568. [DOI] [Repository]
Schuller, B. W., Batliner, A., Bergler, C., Mascolo, C., Han, J., Lefter, I., Kaya, H., Amiriparian, S., Baird, A., Stappen, L., Ottl, S., Gerczuk, M., Tzirakis, P., Brown, C., Chauhan, J., Grammenos, A., Hasthanasombat, A., Spathis, D., Xia, T., ... Kaandorp, C. S. (2021). The INTERSPEECH 2021 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge: COVID-19 Cough, COVID-19 Speech, Escalation & Primates. 431-435. Paper presented at INTERSPEECH 2021, Brno, Czech Republic. [DOI]
Zwerts, J. A., Treep, J., Kaandorp, C., Meewis, F., Koot, A. C., & Kaya, H. (2021). Introducing a Central African Primate Vocalisation Dataset for Automated Species Classification. 466-470. Paper presented at INTERSPEECH 2021, Brno, Czech Republic. [DOI]

2020

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Whytock, R., Świeżewski, J., Zwerts, J. A., Bara-Słupski, T., Flore Koumba Pambo, A., Rogala, M., Bahaa-el-din, L., Boekee, K., Brittain, S., Cardoso, A. W., Henschel, P., Lehmann, D., Momboua, B., Kiebou Opepa, C., Orbell, C., Pitman, R. T., Robinson, H. S., & Abernethy, K. A. (2020). High performance machine learning models can fully automate labeling of camera trap images for ecological analyses. [DOI] [Repository]
Sullivan, M. J. P., Lewis, S. L., Affum-baffoe, K., Castilho, C., Costa, F., Sanchez, A. C., Ewango, C. E. N., Hubau, W., Marimon, B., Monteagudo-mendoza, A., Qie, L., Sonké, B., Martinez, R. V., Baker, T. R., Brienen, R. J. W., Feldpausch, T. R., Galbraith, D., Gloor, M., Malhi, Y., ... Phillips, O. L. (2020). Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests. Science, 368(6493), 869-874. [DOI] [Repository]

2015

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Ferreira, J., Blanc, L., Kanashiro, M., Lees, A. C., Bourgoin, C., Veloso de Freitas, J., Bentes Gama, M., Laurent, F., Bonifacio Martins, M., Moura, N., Vinicius d'Oliveira, M., Doff Sotta, E., Rodrigues de Souza, C., Ruschel, A. R., Schwartz, G., Zwerts, J. A., & Sist, P. (2015). Degradação florestal na Amaẑonia: como ultrapassar os limites conceituais, cient́ıficos e técnicos para mudar esse cenário. Documentos. http://chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://ainfo.cnptia.embrapa.br/digital/bitstream/item/132200/1/DOC413.pdf
Zwerts, J. A., Prins, H. H. T., Bomhoff, D., Verhagen, I., Swart, J. M., & de Boer, W. F. (2015). Competition between a Lawn-Forming Cynodon dactylon and a Tufted Grass Species Hyparrhenia hirta on a South-African Dystrophic Savanna. PLoS One, 10(10). [DOI]