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Fritz Trillmich

Fritz Trillmich

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
62
Citations
9826
World Ranking
2121
National Ranking
117

Fritz Trillmich publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Fritz Trillmich sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 189 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Fritz Trillmich D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Fritz Trillmich sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Fritz Trillmich is affiliated with Bielefeld University in Germany, focusing primarily on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields including ecology, animal science and zoology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, social psychology, and nature and landscape conservation.

The main topics addressed in their work encompass rabbits' nutrition, reproduction, and health, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, marine animal studies, cephalopods and marine biology, animal ecology and behavior studies, ichthyology and marine biology, as well as marine and fisheries research.

Trillmich has published papers in several scientific venues, with frequent contributions to Ethology. Other publication venues include Ecology and Evolution, Current Biology, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, and BMC Zoology.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Cooperation and opportunism in Galapagos sea lion hunting for shoaling fish, 2021, Ecology and Evolution
  • A stable foraging polymorphism buffers Galápagos sea lions against environmental change, 2022, Current Biology
  • California sea lions interfere with striped marlin hunting behaviour in multi-species predator aggregations, 2023, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Fitness consequences of seasonally different life histories? A match-mismatch experiment, 2020, Behavioral Ecology
  • Reproduction affects immune defenses in the guinea pig even under ad libitum food, 2020, PLoS ONE

Frequent co-authors working with Trillmich include:

  • Anja Guenther
  • Sabine Kraus
  • Tui De Roy
  • Eduardo Espinoza
  • Jonas F. L. Schwarz

Best Publications

  • Global threats to pinnipeds

    Kit M. Kovacs;Alex Aguilar;David Aurioles;Vladimir Burkanov

  • Drastic effects of El Niño on Galapagos pinnipeds.

    Fritz Trillmich;Dominique Limberger

  • Social structure in a colonial mammal: unravelling hidden structural layers and their foundations by network analysis☆

    Jochen B.W. Wolf;David Mawdsley;Fritz Trillmich;Richard James

  • BODY SIZE AND SEXUAL SIZE DIMORPHISM IN MARINE IGUANAS FLUCTUATE AS A RESULT OF OPPOSING NATURAL AND SEXUAL SELECTION: AN ISLAND COMPARISON

    Martin Wikelski;Fritz Trillmich

  • Mutual Mother-Pup Recognition in Galápagos Fur Seals and Sea Lions: Cues Used and Functional Significance

    Fritz Trillmich

  • Sibling competition and cooperation in mammals: challenges, developments and prospects

    Robyn Hudson;Fritz Trillmich

  • Unfolding personalities: the importance of studying ontogeny.

    Ton G. G. Groothuis;Fritz Trillmich

  • Pinnipeds and El Niño : responses to environmental stress

    Fritz Trillmich;Kathryn A. Ono

  • Maternal investment and sex-allocation in the Galapagos fur seal, Arctocephalus galapagoensis

    Fritz Trillmich

  • The Behavioral Ecology of Maternal Effort in Fur Seals and Sea Lions

    Fritz Trillmich

  • Estimating diet composition from scat analysis in otariid seals (Otariidae): is it reliable?

    T. Dellinger;Fritz Trillmich

  • The microevolution of the Galápagos marine iguana Amblyrhynchus cristatus assessed by nuclear and mitochondrial genetic analyses

    K Rassmann;D Tautz;Fritz Trillmich;C Gliddon

  • Parent-offspring and sibling conflict in Galapagos fur seals and sea lions

    Fritz Trillmich;Jochen B. W. Wolf

  • Ontogeny of Diving Behaviour in the Galápagos Fur Seal

    Markus Horning;Fritz Trillmich

  • Lunar cycles in diel prey migrations exert a stronger effect on the diving of juveniles than adult Galápagos fur seals.

    Markus Horning;Fritz Trillmich

  • Swimming velocities in otariids

    Paul J. Ponganis;Edward P. Ponganis;Katherine V. Ponganis;Gerald L. Kooyman

  • Parental Investment in Pinnipeds

    Fritz Trillmich

  • The mating systems of pinnipeds and marine iguanas : convergent evolution of polygyny

    Fritz Trillmich;Krisztina G. K. Trillmich

  • Are Precocial Young Cheaper? Lactation Energetics in the Guinea Pig

    Joachim Künkele;Fritz Trillmich

  • Lekking in marine iguanas: female grouping and male reproductive strategies

    Martin Wikelski;Martin Wikelski;Chris Carbone;Fritz Trillmich

Frequent Co-Authors

Jochen B. W. Wolf
Jochen B. W. Wolf Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Daniel P. Costa
Daniel P. Costa University of California, Santa Cruz
Diethard Tautz
Diethard Tautz Max Planck Society
Gerald L. Kooyman
Gerald L. Kooyman University of California, San Diego
Marc Naguib
Marc Naguib Wageningen University & Research
Christiane Werner
Christiane Werner University of Freiburg
Norbert Sachser
Norbert Sachser University of Münster
Caroline Müller
Caroline Müller Bielefeld University
Ton G. G. Groothuis
Ton G. G. Groothuis University of Groningen
Gábor Á. Czirják
Gábor Á. Czirják Leibniz Association

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