Dr. Boris W. Berkhout

I am a teacher at the University of Amsterdam.

I teach on the Professional Skills track and teach courses, such as Scientific Writing, Science Communication, and Data management and visualization.

My research focuses on the evolutionary ecology of host-parasite interactions and how environmental changes affect these. I highly value Open Science principles, therefore most of my work is freely available. See the publications below.

For more information about the research or options for student projects contact me at contact[at]boriswberkhout.com







Publications in scientific journals
Click on the doi to go to the publication, indicates that the publication is freely accessible.

Kok, A.C.M., Berkhout, B.W., Carlson, N., Evans, N.P., Khan, N., Potvin, D., Radford, A., Sebire, M., Shafiei Sabet, S., Shannon, G. & Wascher, C.A.F. (2023)
How chronic anthropogenic noise can affect communities. Frontiers Ecology and Evolution.
doi: 10.3389/fevo.2023.1130075

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Berkhout, B.W. Budria, A., Thieltges, D.W. & Slabbekoorn, H. (2023)
Anthropogenic noise pollution and wildlife diseases. Trends in Parasitology.
doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2022.12.002
Poppelier, T., Bonsberger, J., Berkhout, B.W. Pollmanns, R. & Schluessel, V. (2022)
Acoustic discrimination in the grey bamboo shark Chiloscyllium griseum. Scientific Reports.
doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-10257-1

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Berkhout, B.W. & Morozov, A. (2022)
Assassin snails (Anentome helena) as a biological model for exploring the effects of individual specialisation within generalist predators. PLOS ONE.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264996

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Berkhout, B.W. Borregaard, M.K., Brandl, R., Brдndle, M., Dehling, D.M, Hof, C., Poulin, R. & Thieltges, D.W. (2019)
Host assemblage and environment shape β-diversity of freshwater parasites across diverse taxa at a continental scale. Global Ecology and Biogeography.
doi: 10.1111/geb.13005
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Falk-Andersson, J., Berkhout, B.W. & Abate, T.G. (2019)
Citizen science for better management: Lessons learned from three Norwegian beach litter data sets. Marine Pollution Bulletin.
doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.11.021

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Barber, I., Berkhout, B.W. & Ismail, Z. (2016)
Thermal change and the dynamics of multi-host parasite life cycles in aquatic ecosystems. Integrative and Comparative Biology.
doi: 10.1093/icb/icw025

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Pashalidou, F.G., Gols, R., Berkhout, B.W., Weldegergis, B.T., van Loon, J.J.A., Dicke, M. & Fatouros, N.E. (2015)
To be in time: egg deposition enhances plant-mediated detection of young caterpillars by parasitoids. Oecologia.
doi: 10.1007/s00442-014-3098-0
Berkhout, B.W., Lloyd, M.M., Poulin, R. & Studer, A. (2014)
Variation among genotypes in responses to increasing temperature in a marine parasite: evolutionary potential in the face of global warming? International Journal for Parasitology.
doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2014.07.002
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Other work (selected)
Behind the scenes: Publishing a scientific paper (blog post; 2020)
PhDetails post (2018)
CENTA conference 2018 poster (2018)
FRONTIER article (2016)




Past funding by
University of Amsterdam
NERC CENTA
Unitas Malacologia
British Ecological Society
Department of Genetics and Genome Biology - University of Leicester