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Malte Andersson is affiliated with the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Their research spans multiple fields, including Social Sciences, Medicine, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on several specialized subfields such as Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Gender Studies, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Demography, and General Health Professions.

The scientist's work addresses numerous main topics, with a particular emphasis on Global Maternal and Child Health, Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences, Family Dynamics and Relationships, Global Health Care Issues, Plant and Animal Studies, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation.

Malte Andersson has published research in the following venues:

  • BMC Public Health
  • Sustainable Development
  • Behavioral Ecology

Frequent co-authorship includes collaboration with Frank Götmark, with whom Andersson co-authored multiple papers.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Human fertility in relation to education, economy, religion, contraception, and family planning programs, 2020, BMC Public Health
  • Achieving sustainable population: Fertility decline in many developing countries follows modern contraception, not economic growth, 2022, Sustainable Development
  • Amending Darwin on "sexual selection": a comment on Shuker and Kvarnemo, 2021, Behavioral Ecology

Best Publications

  • Sexual selection and mate choice.

    Malte Andersson;Leigh W. Simmons

  • Female choice selects for extreme tail length in a widowbird

    Malte Andersson

  • SEXUAL SELECTION AND THE EVOLUTION OF SONG

    William A. Searcy;Malte Andersson

  • EVOLUTION OF CONDITION-DEPENDENT SEX ORNAMENTS AND MATING PREFERENCES: SEXUAL SELECTION BASED ON VIABILITY DIFFERENCES.

    Malte Andersson

  • Sexual selection, natural selection and quality advertisement

    M. Andersson

  • Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

    Patrick Abbot;Jun Abe;John Alcock;Samuel Alizon

  • Ultraviolet sexual dimorphism and assortative mating in blue tits

    Staffan Andersson;Jonas rnborg;Malte Andersson

  • Evolution of reversed sexual size dimorphism and role partitioning among predatory birds, with a size scaling of flight performance

    Malte Andersson;R. Åke Norberg

  • Influence of predation on rodent populations

    M. Andersson;S. Erlinge

  • The Evolution of Eusociality

    Malte Andersson

  • Parental defence of offspring: A model and an example

    Malte Andersson;Christer G. Wiklund;Helen Rundgren

  • Multiple receivers, multiple ornaments, and a trade-off between agonistic and epigamic signaling in a widowbird.

    Staffan Andersson;Sarah R. Pryke;Jonas Örnborg;Michael J. Lawes

  • On the evolution of hoarding behaviour

    Malte Andersson;John Krebs

  • Genetic similarity between mates and extra-pair parentage in three species of shorebirds

    Donald Blomqvist;Malte Andersson;Clemens Küpper;Innes C. Cuthill

  • Brood Parasitism within Species

    Malte Andersson

  • NEST PARASITISM IN GOLDENEYES BUCEPHALA CLANGULA: SOME EVOLUTIONARY ASPECTS

    Malte Andersson;Mats O. G. Eriksson

  • Optimal foraging area: Size and allocation of search effort

    Malte Andersson

  • Clumping versus spacing out: Experiments on nest predation in fieldfares (Turdus pilaris)

    Malte Andersson;Christer G. Wiklund

  • Flock-feeding on fish schools increases individual success in gulls.

    Frank Götmark;David W. Winkler;David W. Winkler;Malte Andersson

  • Plant Phenols and Nutrients in Relation to Variations in Climate and Rodent Grazing

    Sven Jonasson;John P. Bryant;F. Stuart Chapin;Malte Andersson

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Götmark
Frank Götmark University of Gothenburg
Donald Blomqvist
Donald Blomqvist University of Gothenburg
Brett K. Sandercock
Brett K. Sandercock Kansas State University
Richard B. Lanctot
Richard B. Lanctot United States Fish and Wildlife Service
Bart Kempenaers
Bart Kempenaers Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Innes C. Cuthill
Innes C. Cuthill University of Bristol
Tamás Székely
Tamás Székely University of Bath
Staffan Andersson
Staffan Andersson University of Gothenburg
Christer Erséus
Christer Erséus University of Gothenburg
Robert Montgomerie
Robert Montgomerie Queen's University

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