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Claudia Fichtel

Claudia Fichtel

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
45
Citations
7994
World Ranking
4842
National Ranking
255

Overview

Claudia Fichtel is affiliated with the German Primate Center in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a particular focus on subfields such as Social Psychology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Developmental Biology, Ecology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their work broadly addresses topics related to primate behavior and ecology, animal behavior and reproduction, animal vocal communication and behavior, wildlife ecology and conservation, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, bat biology and ecology studies, as well as evolutionary psychology and human behavior.

Among recent notable papers authored or coauthored by Claudia Fichtel are:

  • Effects of body size on estimation of mammalian area requirements, 2020, Conservation Biology
  • The long lives of primates and the 'invariant rate of ageing' hypothesis, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Sex roles and sex ratios in animals, 2022, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Validity of Cognitive Tests for Non-human Animals: Pitfalls and Prospects, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Drivers of gut microbiome variation within and between groups of a wild Malagasy primate, 2022, Microbiome

Frequent coauthors in Claudia Fichtel's publications include:

  • Peter M. Kappeler
  • Michael Heistermann
  • Julia Ostner
  • Lea Prox
  • Richard Vogg

Publishing frequently in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, International Journal of Primatology, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, their contributions reflect an interdisciplinary approach integrating behavioral science, ecology, and evolutionary studies.

Best Publications

  • Moving in the Anthropocene : global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements

    Marlee A. Tucker;Katrin Böhning-Gaese;William F. Fagan;John M. Fryxell

  • The evolutionary origin of human hyper-cooperation

    J. M. Burkart;O. Allon;Federica Amici;C. Fichtel

  • Anti-predator behavior of group-living Malagasy primates: mixed evidence for a referential alarm call system

    Claudia Fichtel;Peter M. Kappeler

  • A comprehensive analysis of autocorrelation and bias in home range estimation

    Michael J. Noonan;Michael J. Noonan;Marlee A. Tucker;Christen H. Fleming;Christen H. Fleming;Thomas S. Akre

  • Sex-biased survival predicts adult sex ratio variation in wild birds.

    Tamás Székely;Tamás Székely;András Liker;András Liker;Robert P. Freckleton;Claudia Fichtel

  • Social networks in primates: smart and tolerant species have more efficient networks

    Cristian Pasquaretta;Cristian Pasquaretta;Marine Levé;Marine Levé;Marine Levé;Nicolas Claidière;Erica van de Waal

  • The repeatability of cognitive performance: a meta-analysis

    Maxime Cauchoix;P Chow;P Chow;J van Horik;C Atance

  • ON THE VOCAL EXPRESSION OF EMOTION. A MULTI-PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENT STATES OF AVERSION IN THE SQUIRREL MONKEY

    Claudia Fichtel;Kurt Hammerschmidt;Uwe Jürgens

  • Establishing an infrastructure for collaboration in primate cognition research.

    Many Primates;Drew M. Altschul;Michael J. Beran;Manuel Bohn;Manuel Bohn

  • A 15-Year Perspective on the Social Organization and Life History of Sifaka in Kirindy Forest

    Peter M. Kappeler;Peter M. Kappeler;Claudia Fichtel

  • Coordination of Group Movements in Wild Verreaux's Sifakas (Propithecus Verreauxi)

    Julia Trillmich;Claudia Fichtel;Peter M. Kappeler

  • Influence of reproductive season and rank on fecal glucocorticoid levels in free-ranging male Verreaux's sifakas (Propithecus verreauxi)

    Claudia Fichtel;Cornelia Kraus;André Ganswindt;Michael Heistermann

  • Clarifying and expanding the social complexity hypothesis for communicative complexity

    Louise Peckre;Peter M. Kappeler;Peter M. Kappeler;Claudia Fichtel

  • Nightingales respond more strongly to vocal leaders of simulated dyadic interactions

    Marc Naguib;Claudia Fichtel;Dietmar Todt

  • Vocal Repertoire of Cebus capucinus: Acoustic Structure, Context, and Usage

    Julie J. Gros-Louis;Susan E. Perry;Claudia Fichtel;Eva Wikberg

  • Patterns of seasonality and group membership characterize the gut microbiota in a longitudinal study of wild Verreaux's sifakas (Propithecus verreauxi)

    Andrea Springer;Claudia Fichtel;Gabriel A. Al-Ghalith;Flávia Koch;Flávia Koch

  • Reciprocal recognition of sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi verreauxi) and redfronted lemur (Eulemur fulvus rufus) alarm calls

    Claudia Fichtel

  • Alarm calls of white-faced capuchin monkeys: an acoustic analysis

    Claudia Fichtel;Susan Perry;Julie Gros-Louis

  • Responses of Redfronted Lemurs to Experimentally Modified Alarm Calls: Evidence for Urgency-Based Changes in Call Structure

    Claudia Fichtel;Kurt Hammerschmidt

  • Vocal communication in social groups

    Claudia Fichtel;Marta Manser

  • Eco-evo-devo of the lemur syndrome: did adaptive behavioral plasticity get canalized in a large primate radiation?

    Peter M Kappeler;Claudia Fichtel

  • Female reproductive competition in Eulemur rufifrons: eviction and reproductive restraint in a plurally breeding Malagasy primate.

    Peter M. Kappeler;Peter M. Kappeler;Claudia Fichtel;Claudia Fichtel

  • Wild redfronted lemurs (Eulemur rufifrons) use social information to learn new foraging techniques.

    Anna Viktoria Schnoell;Anna Viktoria Schnoell;Claudia Fichtel;Claudia Fichtel

  • Linking cognition with fitness in a wild primate: fitness correlates of problem-solving performance and spatial learning ability.

    Franziska Huebner;Franziska Huebner;Claudia Fichtel;Claudia Fichtel;Peter M. Kappeler;Peter M. Kappeler

  • Social networks in primates: smart and tolerant species have more efficient

    Andrew J. J. MacIntosh;Marie Pele;Mackenzie L. Bergstrom;Sarah F. Brosnan

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter M. Kappeler
Peter M. Kappeler German Primate Center
Justin M. Calabrese
Justin M. Calabrese University of Maryland, College Park
Cédric Sueur
Cédric Sueur University of Strasbourg
Martha M. Robbins
Martha M. Robbins Max Planck Society
Oliver Schülke
Oliver Schülke University of Göttingen
Susan C. Alberts
Susan C. Alberts Duke University
Julia Ostner
Julia Ostner University of Göttingen
Michael Heistermann
Michael Heistermann German Primate Center
Lydia M. Hopper
Lydia M. Hopper Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Judith M. Burkart
Judith M. Burkart University of Zurich

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