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Ashley J. W. Ward

Ashley J. W. Ward

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
51
Citations
9224
World Ranking
3670
National Ranking
283

Overview

Ashley J. W. Ward is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research integrates aspects of ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics, with a particular focus on animal behavior and reproduction.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Amphibian and Reptile Biology
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Diffusion and Search Dynamics

The most frequent venues for Ashley J. W. Ward's publications are:

  • Royal Society Open Science
  • Animal Behaviour
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Recent publications by Ashley J. W. Ward include:

  • "Social Recognition and Social Attraction in Group-Living Fishes" (2020) published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Other relevant papers co-authored or linked with the scientific network around Ashley J. W. Ward are:

  • "A statistical method for identifying different rules of interaction between individuals in moving animal groups" (2021) in Journal of The Royal Society Interface
  • "Self-organization and information transfer in Antarctic krill swarms" (2022) in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "To clean or not to clean: Cleaning mutualism breakdown in a tidal environment" (2020) in Ecology and Evolution
  • "The effect of predation risk on group behaviour and information flow during repeated collective decisions" (2021) in Animal Behaviour

Frequent collaborators include:

  • T. M. Schaerf
  • Stella A. Encel
  • Alicia Burns
  • Joseph T. Lizier
  • Frank Seebacher

The subfields of study that this scientist concentrates on include:

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology
  • Sociology and Political Science

Best Publications

  • Inferring the rules of interaction of shoaling fish

    James E. Herbert-Read;Andrea Perna;Richard P. Mann;Timothy M. Schaerf

  • Quorum decision-making facilitates information transfer in fish shoals

    Ashley J. W. Ward;David J. T. Sumpter;Iain D. Couzin;Paul J. B. Hart

  • Sociality: The Behaviour of Group-Living Animals

    Ashley Ward

  • Correlates of boldness in three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

    Ashley J. W. Ward;Philip Thomas;Paul J. B. Hart;Jens Krause

  • Fast and accurate decisions through collective vigilance in fish shoals

    Ashley J. W. Ward;James E. Herbert-Read;David J. T. Sumpter;Jens Krause

  • Personality and social context

    Mike M. Webster;Ashley J. W. Ward

  • Assortative interactions and social networks in fish.

    D P Croft;R James;A J W Ward;M S Botham

  • Intraspecific food competition in fishes

    Ashley J. W. Ward;Michael M. Webster;Paul J. B. Hart

  • Consensus Decision Making by Fish

    David J. T. Sumpter;Jens Krause;Richard James;Iain D. Couzin

  • The effects of kin and familiarity on interactions between fish

    Ashley J W Ward;Paul J B Hart

  • A novel method for investigating the collective behaviour of fish: introducing ‘Robofish’

    Jolyon J. Faria;John R. G. Dyer;Romain O. Clément;Iain D. Couzin

  • Thermal acclimation of interactions: differential responses to temperature change alter predator–prey relationship

    Veronica S. Grigaltchik;Ashley J. W. Ward;Frank Seebacher

  • The role of individuality in collective group movement.

    James E. Herbert-Read;S. Krause;L. J. Morrell;T. M. Schaerf

  • Fish shoal composition: mechanisms and constraints

    Jens Krause;Daniel J. Hoare;Darren Croft;James Lawrence

  • Mixed-species shoaling in fish: the sensory mechanisms and costs of shoal choice

    Ashley J. W. Ward;Stephen Axford;Jens Krause

  • The effects of habitat- and diet-based cues on association preferences in three-spined sticklebacks

    Ashley J. W. Ward;Paul J. B. Hart;Jens Krause

  • Boldness and Reproductive Fitness Correlates in the Eastern Mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki

    Alexander D. M. Wilson;Jean-Guy J. Godin;Ashley J. W. Ward

  • Schooling and learning: early social environment predicts social learning ability in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata

    Ben B. Chapman;Ashley J.W. Ward;Jens Krause

  • Scents and scents-ability: pollution disrupts chemical social recognition and shoaling in fish

    Ashley J.W Ward;Alison J Duff;Jennifer S Horsfall;Suzanne Currie

  • Foraging nine-spined sticklebacks prefer to rely on public information over simpler social cues

    Isabelle Coolen;Ashley J.W. Ward;Paul J.B. Hart;Kevin N. Laland

  • Habitat-Specific Morphological Variation among Threespine Sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) within a Drainage Basin

    Mike M. Webster;Nicola Atton;Nicola Atton;Paul J. B. Hart;Ashley J. W. Ward;Ashley J. W. Ward

  • Individual boldness affects interspecific interactions in sticklebacks

    M. M. Webster;M. M. Webster;A. J. W. Ward;A. J. W. Ward;P. J. B. Hart

  • Association patterns and shoal fidelity in the three–spined stickleback

    Ashley J. W. Ward;Marc S. Botham;Daniel J. Hoare;Richard James

Frequent Co-Authors

Jens Krause
Jens Krause Technical University of Berlin
Paul J. B. Hart
Paul J. B. Hart University of Leicester
Joseph T. Lizier
Joseph T. Lizier University of Sydney
Frank Seebacher
Frank Seebacher University of Sydney
Alexander D. M. Wilson
Alexander D. M. Wilson Plymouth University
Darren P. Croft
Darren P. Croft University of Exeter
Indar W. Ramnarine
Indar W. Ramnarine University of the West Indies
Mikhail Prokopenko
Mikhail Prokopenko University of Sydney
Madeleine Beekman
Madeleine Beekman University of Sydney
Stephen J. Simpson
Stephen J. Simpson University of Sydney

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