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88
Citations
28750
World Ranking
527
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42

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Hanna Kokko is affiliated with Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany and has a body of research spanning Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work covers significant subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Ecology, Sociology and Political Science, and Insect Science.

Their main topics of study include Plant and animal studies, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • The stagnation paradox: the ever-improving but (more or less) stationary population fitness, 2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Optimal germination timing in unpredictable environments: the importance of dormancy for both among- and within-season variation, 2020, Ecology Letters
  • Adaptation and plasticity in life-history theory: How to derive predictions., 2020, Evolution and Human Behavior
  • Extrinsic mortality and senescence: a guide for the perplexed, 2023, Peer Community Journal
  • Crayfish plague dilemma: how to be a courteous killer?, 2024, Helda (University of Helsinki)

Frequent coauthors in their research include:

  • Viktor Kovalov (7 publications)
  • Charlotte de Vries (6 publications)
  • Anna Toljamo (6 publications)
  • Japo Jussila (6 publications)
  • E. Yagmur Erten (6 publications)

Hanna Kokko's publications commonly appear in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Journal of Animal Ecology, and Evolution.

They have also contributed to book publications through the University of Eastern Finland and Natural Resources Institute Finland. Notable titles include "Menestyvä mesimarjaverkosto: tieteestä käytäntöön" (2020) and "Jokirapujen ja täplärapujen esiintymisen selvittäminen eDNA-menetelmällä" (2021).

Hanna Kokko was recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Parental investment, sexual selection and sex ratios

    Hanna Kokko;Michael D. Jennions

  • The evolution of mate choice and mating biases

    Hanna Kokko;Robert Brooks;Michael D. Jennions;Josephine Morley

  • Competition for early arrival in migratory birds

    Hanna Kokko

  • Identification of 100 fundamental ecological questions

    William J. Sutherland;Robert P. Freckleton;H. Charles J. Godfray;Steven R. Beissinger

  • Lonely hearts or sex in the city? Density-dependent effects in mating systems

    Hanna Kokko;Daniel J Rankin

  • The evolution of cooperative breeding through group augmentation

    Hanna Kokko;Rufus A. Johnstone;T H Clutton-Brock

  • Unifying and Testing Models of Sexual Selection

    Hanna Kokko;Michael D. Jennions;Robert Brooks

  • Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

    Patrick Abbot;Jun Abe;John Alcock;Samuel Alizon

  • The sexual selection continuum.

    Hanna Kokko;Robert Brooks;John M. McNamara;Alasdair I. Houston

  • The tragedy of the commons in evolutionary biology

    Daniel J. Rankin;Daniel J. Rankin;Katja Bargum;Hanna Kokko

  • It takes two to tango

    Hanna Kokko;Hanna Kokko;Michael Jennions

  • Population size and the rate of evolution

    Robert Lanfear;Robert Lanfear;Hanna Kokko;Adam Eyre-Walker

  • From Individual Dispersal to Species Ranges: Perspectives for a Changing World

    Hanna Kokko;Andrés López-Sepulcre;Andrés López-Sepulcre

  • Why is mutual mate choice not the norm? Operational sex ratios, sex roles and the evolution of sexually dimorphic and monomorphic signalling.

    Hanna Kokko;Rufus A Johnstone

  • Bet-hedging--a triple trade-off between means, variances and correlations.

    Jostein Starrfelt;Hanna Kokko;Hanna Kokko

  • WHEN NOT TO AVOID INBREEDING

    Hanna Kokko;Indrek Ots

  • Ecological traps in changing environments: Ecological and evolutionary consequences of a behaviourally mediated Allee effect

    Hanna Kokko;William J. Sutherland

  • The Ecology and Evolutionary Dynamics of Meiotic Drive

    Anna K. Lindholm;Kelly A. Dyer;Renée C. Firman;Lila Fishman

  • Social queuing in animal societies: a dynamic model of reproductive skew

    Hanna Kokko;Rufus A. Johnstone

  • Evolutionarily stable strategies of age-dependent sexual advertisement

    Hanna Kokko

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael D. Jennions
Michael D. Jennions Australian National University
Jonathan M. Jeschke
Jonathan M. Jeschke Freie Universität Berlin
Bob B. M. Wong
Bob B. M. Wong Monash University
William J. Sutherland
William J. Sutherland University of Cambridge
Robert Brooks
Robert Brooks University of New South Wales
Jan Lindström
Jan Lindström University of Glasgow
Johanna Mappes
Johanna Mappes University of Helsinki
Rufus A. Johnstone
Rufus A. Johnstone University of Cambridge
Kevin R. Foster
Kevin R. Foster University of Oxford
Martin Wikelski
Martin Wikelski Max Planck Institute for Ornithology

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