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Overview

Christos C. Ioannou is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant focus on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, as well as Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their work encompasses a range of topics within animal behavior and ecology, including:

  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Amphibian and Reptile Biology
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior

Christos C. Ioannou has contributed extensively to scientific literature with recent publications including:

  • "Sociability as a personality trait in animals: methods, causes and consequences" (2021) published in Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • "Information can explain the dynamics of group order in animal collective behaviour" (2020) published in Nature Communications
  • "Predicting the impacts of chemical pollutants on animal groups" (2022) published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "Invasive Nile tilapia dominates a threatened indigenous tilapia in competition over shelter" (2020) published in Hydrobiologia
  • "Effects of multiple stressors on fish shoal collective motion are independent and vary with shoaling metric" (2020) published in Animal Behaviour

The scientist frequently publishes in a variety of journals, notably:

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

Collaborations are a notable aspect of their career, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Costanza Zanghi
  • Martin J. Genner
  • Hannah E. A. MacGregor
  • Andrew W. Szopa-Comley
  • James E. Herbert-Read

Best Publications

  • Inferring the structure and dynamics of interactions in schooling fish

    Yael Katz;Kolbjørn Tunstrøm;Christos C. Ioannou;Cristián Huepe

  • Emergent Sensing of Complex Environments by Mobile Animal Groups

    Andrew Berdahl;Colin J. Torney;Christos C. Ioannou;Christos C. Ioannou;Jolyon J. Faria

  • Collective states, multistability and transitional behavior in schooling fish

    Kolbjørn Tunstrøm;Yael Katz;Christos C. Ioannou;Cristián Huepe

  • Predatory Fish Select for Coordinated Collective Motion in Virtual Prey

    Christos C. Ioannou;Christos C. Ioannou;Vishwesha Guttal;Vishwesha Guttal;Iain D. Couzin

  • The Dynamics of Coordinated Group Hunting and Collective Information Transfer among Schooling Prey

    Nils Olav Handegard;Kevin M. Boswell;Kevin M. Boswell;Christos Christos C Ioannou;Christos Christos C Ioannou;Simon P. Leblanc

  • Consensus decision making in human crowds

    John R. G. Dyer;Christos C. Ioannou;Lesley J. Morrell;Darren P. Croft;Darren P. Croft

  • How predation shapes the social interaction rules of shoaling fish.

    James E. Herbert-Read;James E. Herbert-Read;Emil Rosén;Alex Szorkovszky;Christos C. Ioannou

  • Sociability as a personality trait in animals: methods, causes and consequences

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  • Predation risk as a driving force for sexual segregation: a cross-population comparison.

    Darren P. Croft;Lesley J. Morrell;Amy S. Wade;Chantima Piyapong

  • Anthropogenic noise pollution from pile-driving disrupts the structure and dynamics of fish shoals.

    James E. Herbert-Read;Louise Kremer;Rick Bruintjes;Andrew N. Radford

  • The confusion effect—from neural networks to reduced predation risk

    Christos C Ioannou;CR Tosh;L Neville;J Krause

  • Interactions between background matching and motion during visual detection can explain why cryptic animals keep still

    Christos C Ioannou;Jens Krause

  • Ecological consequences of the bold-shy continuum - the effect of predator boldness on prey risk

    Christos C Ioannou;M Payne;J Krause

  • Potential Leaders Trade Off Goal-Oriented and Socially Oriented Behavior in Mobile Animal Groups

    Christos C. Ioannou;Manvir Singh;Iain D. Couzin

  • Swarm intelligence in fish? The difficulty in demonstrating distributed and self-organised collective intelligence in (some) animal groups.

    Christos C Ioannou

  • Unified effects of aggregation reveal larger prey groups take longer to find

    Christos C. Ioannou;Frederic Bartumeus;Jens Krause;Jens Krause;Graeme D. Ruxton

  • High-predation habitats affect the social dynamics of collective exploration in a shoaling fish

    Christos C. Ioannou;Indar W. Ramnarine;Colin J. Torney

  • The Effect of Prey Density on Predators: Conspicuousness and Attack Success Are Sensitive to Spatial Scale

    Christos C. Ioannou;Lesley J. Morrell;Graeme D. Ruxton;Jens Krause

  • Towards of a firmer explanation of large shoal formation, maintenance and collective reactions in marine fish

    Guillaume Rieucau;Anders Fernö;Christos C. Ioannou;Nils Olav Handegard

  • Predicting the impacts of chemical pollutants on animal groups.

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  • The anti-predator role of within-nest emergence synchrony in sea turtle hatchlings

    Robson G. Santos;Hudson Tercio Pinheiro;Agnaldo Silva Martins;Pablo Riul

  • Searching for prey : the effects of group size and number

    Christos C Ioannou;J Krause

  • Social organisation and information transfer in schooling fish

    Christos C Ioannou;Iain D. Couzin;Richard James;Darren P Croft

  • Supplementary material from "How predation shapes the social interaction rules of shoaling fish"

    James E. Herbert-Read;Emil Rosén;Alex Szorkovszky;Christos C. Ioannou

Frequent Co-Authors

Jens Krause
Jens Krause Technical University of Berlin
Indar W. Ramnarine
Indar W. Ramnarine University of the West Indies
Darren P. Croft
Darren P. Croft University of Exeter
Eric R. Morgan
Eric R. Morgan Queen's University Belfast
Xingli Giam
Xingli Giam University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Graeme D. Ruxton
Graeme D. Ruxton University of St Andrews
Andrew N. Radford
Andrew N. Radford University of Bristol
Martin J. Genner
Martin J. Genner University of Bristol
Niclas Kolm
Niclas Kolm Stockholm University
Thilo Gross
Thilo Gross Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg

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