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Joachim G. Frommen

Joachim G. Frommen

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Ecology and Evolution

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33
Citations
3044
World Ranking
7972
National Ranking
144

Overview

Joachim G. Frommen is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with significant contributions in subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Social Psychology, and Global and Planetary Change.

Frommen's work covers a range of topics including Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Plant and Animal Studies, Primate Behavior and Ecology, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior.

The scientist has published research in several venues, most notably:

  • Behavioral Ecology (2 publications)
  • Behaviour (2 publications)
  • Science Advances (1 publication)
  • Functional Ecology (1 publication)
  • Evolution (1 publication)

Among the recent papers authored by Frommen are:

  • "Philopatry yields higher fitness than dispersal in a cooperative breeder with sex-specific life history trajectories," 2023, Science Advances
  • "Ecological variation drives morphological differentiation in a highly social vertebrate," 2021, Functional Ecology
  • "Experimental predator intrusions in a cooperative breeder reveal threat-dependent task partitioning," 2020, Behavioral Ecology
  • "Age- and sex-dependent variation in relatedness corresponds to reproductive skew, territory inheritance, and workload in cooperatively breeding cichlids," 2021, Evolution
  • "Group-size preferences in a shoaling cichlid," 2020, Behaviour

They frequently collaborate with several researchers, including Dario Josi, Michael Taborsky, Nick Jones, Allison B. Kaufman, and Catarina Vila Pouca. The strongest collaborations appear with Dario Josi and Michael Taborsky, each having coauthored six publications with Frommen.

In addition to journal articles, Frommen has contributed to book publications, notably with Cambridge University Press. One such contribution is to "The Cambridge Handbook of Animal Cognition" published in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Kin recognition: an overview of conceptual issues, mechanisms and evolutionary theory

    Dustin J. Penn;Joachim G. Frommen

  • Mirror, mirror on the wall: the predictive value of mirror tests for measuring aggression in fish

    Valentina Balzarini;Michael Taborsky;Sandro Wanner;Felizia Koch

  • Predation risk drives social complexity in cooperative breeders

    Frank Groenewoud;Joachim Gerhard Frommen;Dario Josi;Hirokazu Tanaka

  • Correlated pay-offs are key to cooperation.

    Michael Taborsky;Joachim Gerhard Frommen;Christina Riehl

  • Smells like sib spirit: kin recognition in three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) is mediated by olfactory cues

    Marion Mehlis;Theo C. M. Bakker;Joachim G. Frommen

  • Infection with an acanthocephalan manipulates an amphipod's reaction to a fish predator's odours

    Sebastian A. Baldauf;Timo Thünken;Joachim G. Frommen;Theo C.M. Bakker

  • The relative importance of prey-borne and predator-borne chemical cues for inducible antipredator responses in tadpoles

    Attila Hettyey;Attila Hettyey;Attila Hettyey;Zoltan Toth;Zoltan Toth;Kerstin E. Thonhauser;Joachim Gerhard Frommen;Joachim Gerhard Frommen

  • Technical and conceptual considerations for using animated stimuli in studies of animal behavior.

    Laura Chouinard-Thuly;Stefanie Gierszewski;Gil G. Rosenthal;Simon M. Reader

  • Inbreeding avoidance through non-random mating in sticklebacks.

    Joachim G Frommen;Theo C.M Bakker

  • To eat or not to eat: egg-based assessment of paternity triggers fine-tuned decisions about filial cannibalism

    Marion Mehlis;Theo C. M. Bakker;Leif Engqvist;Joachim G. Frommen;Joachim G. Frommen

  • Predator-inspection behaviour in female three-spined sticklebacks Gasterosteus aculeatus is associated with status of gravidity.

    J. G. Frommen;J. G. Frommen;M. Mehlis;T. C. M. Bakker

  • Costly plastic morphological responses to predator specific odour cues in three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

    Joachim G. Frommen;Joachim G. Frommen;Fabian Herder;Leif Engqvist;Leif Engqvist;Marion Mehlis

  • Shoaling decisions in three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus)—familiarity, kinship and inbreeding

    Joachim G. Frommen;Marion Mehlis;Christina Brendler;Theo C. M. Bakker

  • Adult Three-Spined Sticklebacks Prefer to Shoal with Familiar Kin

    Theo Bakker;Joachim Frommen

  • Disentangling the effects of group size and density on shoaling decisions of three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

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  • Disentangling the effects of group size and density on shoaling decisions of three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

    Joachim G. Frommen;Joachim G. Frommen;Meike Hiermes;Theo C. M. Bakker

  • Group size adjustment to ecological demand in a cooperative breeder.

    Markus Zöttl;Markus Zöttl;Joachim G. Frommen;Michael Taborsky

  • Nutritional state influences shoaling preference for familiars.

    Joachim G. Frommen;Corinna Luz;Theo C.M. Bakker

  • Quantification acuity in spontaneous shoaling decisions of three-spined sticklebacks

    Marion Mehlis;Timo Thünken;Theo C. M. Bakker;Joachim Gerhard Frommen

  • Fish odour triggers conspecific attraction behaviour in an aquatic invertebrate.

    Harald Kullmann;Timo Thünken;Sebastian A Baldauf;Theo C.M Bakker

  • Kin discrimination in sticklebacks is mediated by social learning rather than innate recognition

    Joachim G. Frommen;Corinna Luz;Theo C. M. Bakker

  • Adaptive parasitic manipulation as exemplified by acanthocephalans

    Theo C. M. Bakker;Joachim G. Frommen;Timo Thünken

  • Inbreeding depression affects fertilization success and survival but not breeding coloration in threespine

    Joachim G. Frommen;Corinna Luz;Dominique Mazzi

Frequent Co-Authors

Theo C. M. Bakker
Theo C. M. Bakker University of Bonn
Michael Taborsky
Michael Taborsky University of Bern
Dustin J. Penn
Dustin J. Penn University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Stephan Koblmüller
Stephan Koblmüller University of Graz
Kristina M. Sefc
Kristina M. Sefc University of Graz
Gil G. Rosenthal
Gil G. Rosenthal University of Padua
Josh Van Buskirk
Josh Van Buskirk University of Zurich
Barbara Taborsky
Barbara Taborsky University of Bern
Simon M. Reader
Simon M. Reader McGill University
Robert Gerlai
Robert Gerlai University of Toronto

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