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Overview

Damien R. Farine is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Their research spans multiple fields and subfields, primarily within the realms of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Within these areas, their work particularly focuses on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, Social Psychology, Developmental Biology, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics covered in Farine's research include Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Primate Behavior and Ecology, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior, Plant and animal studies, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, and Avian ecology and behavior.

Farine's most frequent publication venues are bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 28 publications, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences with 11, Journal of Animal Ecology with 9, Animal Behaviour with 9, and Current Biology with 8 publications.

Their recent papers illustrate a focus on animal social behavior and ecology. These include:

  • Deep learning-based methods for individual recognition in small birds, 2020, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • The importance of individual-to-society feedbacks in animal ecology and evolution, 2020, Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Mixed company: a framework for understanding the composition and organization of mixed-species animal groups, 2020, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Behavioural ecology at the spatial-social interface, 2023, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Group size and composition influence collective movement in a highly social terrestrial bird, 2020, eLife

Frequent co-authors associated with Damien R. Farine include Brendah Nyaguthii, James A. Klarevas-Irby, Danai Papageorgiou, Lucy M. Aplin, and Maurício Cantor. These collaborations demonstrate a consistent network of research partnerships across different studies.

Best Publications

  • Constructing, conducting and interpreting animal social network analysis

    Damien R. Farine;Damien R. Farine;Damien R. Farine;Hal Whitehead

  • Experimentally induced innovations lead to persistent culture via conformity in wild birds

    Lucy M. Aplin;Damien R. Farine;Julie Morand-Ferron;Andrew Cockburn

  • Shared decision-making drives collective movement in wild baboons

    Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin;Damien R. Farine;Damien R. Farine;Damien R. Farine;Iain D. Couzin;Margaret Chatham Crofoot;Margaret Chatham Crofoot

  • Social networks predict patch discovery in a wild population of songbirds

    Lucy M. Aplin;Damien R. Farine;Julie Morand-Ferron;Ben C. Sheldon

  • Individual personalities predict social behaviour in wild networks of great tits (Parus major)

    Lucy M. Aplin;Lucy M. Aplin;Damien R. Farine;Julie Morand-Ferron;Julie Morand-Ferron;Ella F. Cole

  • A guide to null models for animal social network analysis.

    Damien R. Farine;Damien R. Farine;Damien R. Farine

  • Animal social network inference and permutations for ecologists in R using asnipe

    Damien R. Farine

  • Individual-level personality influences social foraging and collective behaviour in wild birds

    Lucy M. Aplin;Damien R. Farine;Richard P. Mann;Ben C. Sheldon

  • A practical guide for inferring reliable dominance hierarchies and estimating their uncertainty

    Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar;Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar;Julia Schroeder;Julia Schroeder;Damien Roger Farine;Damien Roger Farine;Damien Roger Farine

  • Measuring phenotypic assortment in animal social networks: weighted associations are more robust than binary edges

    Damien R. Farine

  • From Individuals to Groups and Back: The Evolutionary Implications of Group Phenotypic Composition.

    Damien R. Farine;Damien R. Farine;Damien R. Farine;Pierre-Olivier Montiglio;Orr Spiegel

  • Association indices for quantifying social relationships: how to deal with missing observations of individuals or groups

    William J. E. Hoppitt;Damien R. Farine

  • Interspecific social networks promote information transmission in wild songbirds

    Damien R. Farine;Lucy M. Aplin;Ben C. Sheldon;William Hoppitt

  • Deep learning-based methods for individual recognition in small birds

    André C. Ferreira;Liliana R. Silva;Francesco Renna;Hanja B. Brandl;Hanja B. Brandl

  • Consistent individual differences in the social phenotypes of wild great tits, Parus major

    Lucy M. Aplin;J. A. Firth;Damien R. Farine;B. Voelkl

  • Feeder use predicts both acquisition and transmission of a contagious pathogen in a North American songbird.

    James S. Adelman;Sahnzi C. Moyers;Damien R. Farine;Dana M. Hawley

  • The role of habitat configuration in shaping social structure: a gap in studies of animal social complexity

    Peng He;Peng He;Adriana Alexandra Maldonado-Chaparro;Adriana Alexandra Maldonado-Chaparro;Damien R. Farine;Damien R. Farine

  • Phylogenetic community structure metrics and null models: a review with new methods and software

    Eliot T. Miller;Damien R. Farine;Damien R. Farine;Damien R. Farine;Christopher H. Trisos

  • Habitat and social factors shape individual decisions and emergent group structure during baboon collective movement

    Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin;Damien R. Farine;Damien R. Farine;Damien R. Farine;Margaret Chatham Crofoot;Margaret Chatham Crofoot;Iain D. Couzin;Iain D. Couzin

  • Proximity as a proxy for interactions: issues of scale in social network analysis

    Damien R. Farine

  • Social network analysis of mixed-species flocks: exploring the structure and evolution of interspecific social behaviour

    Damien R. Farine;Colin J. Garroway;Ben C. Sheldon

  • An assessment of biomass for bioelectricity and biofuel, and for greenhouse gas emission reduction in Australia

    Damien R. Farine;Deborah A. O'Connell;Robert John Raison;Barrie M. May

Frequent Co-Authors

Ben C. Sheldon
Ben C. Sheldon University of Oxford
Colin J. Garroway
Colin J. Garroway University of Manitoba
Claire Doutrelant
Claire Doutrelant University of Montpellier
Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf
Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf The Ohio State University
Dana M. Hawley
Dana M. Hawley Virginia Tech
Simon C. Griffith
Simon C. Griffith Macquarie University
Marion Valeix
Marion Valeix Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Bart Kempenaers
Bart Kempenaers Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Gerald S. Wilkinson
Gerald S. Wilkinson University of Maryland, College Park
Andrew Cockburn
Andrew Cockburn Australian National University

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