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D-Index
40
Citations
6027
World Ranking
6139
National Ranking
95

Trond Amundsen 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 Trond Amundsen sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 71 publications — 3rd percentile

3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Trond Amundsen 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 Trond Amundsen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Trond Amundsen is affiliated with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions in subfields such as ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, global and planetary change, immunology, and nature and landscape conservation.

The scientist's work spans several main topics, including animal behavior and reproduction, plant and animal studies, avian ecology and behavior, wildlife ecology and conservation, parasite biology and host interactions, aquaculture disease management and microbiota, and fish ecology and management studies.

Frequent coauthors contributing to their research include Ivain Martinossi-Allibert, Claudia Aparicio Estalella, Sebastian Wacker, Charlotta Kvarnemo, and Jan T. Lifjeld.

Key publication venues where their work appears are Journal of Animal Ecology, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Aquaculture, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Marine Ecology Progress Series.

Recent papers by Trond Amundsen include:

  • A test of operational sex ratio theory across latitudes reveals temporal variation in sex-specific behavioural reaction norms, 2025, Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Extrapair copulations in coal tits (Periparus ater): female insurance against male infertility?, 2025, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
  • Cleaning behavior of ballan wrasse (Labrus bergylta) studied using sea lice dummies in large scale sea cages, 2023, Aquaculture
  • Sexual display behaviour follows consistent sex-specific reaction norms across latitude in response to operational sex-ratio, 2024, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Meeting the challenge of latitude: a climatic gradient shapes the reproductive strategy of a nest-brooding marine fish, 2025, Marine Ecology Progress Series

Best Publications

  • Why are female birds ornamented

    Trond Amundsen

  • Male mate choice selects for female coloration in a fish

    Trond Amundsen;Elisabet Forsgren

  • Unusually dynamic sex roles in a fish

    Elisabet Forsgren;Elisabet Forsgren;Trond Amundsen;Åsa A. Borg;Åsa A. Borg;Jens Bjelvenmark

  • Ultraviolet colour vision and ornamentation in bluethroats

    Staffan Andersson;Trond Amundsen

  • On the function of female ornaments: male bluethroats prefer colourful females

    Trond Amundsen;Elisabet Forsgren;Lars T. T. Hansen

  • Animal signals : signalling and signal design in animal communication

    Yngve Espmark;Trond Amundsen;Gunilla Rosenqvist;Kongelige Norske videnskabers selskab

  • Female Coloration:: Review of Functional and Nonfunctional Hypotheses

    Trond Amundsen;Henrik Pärn

  • Adaptive significance of asynchronous hatching in the shag: a test of the brood reduction hypothesis

    Trond Amundsen;Jogeir N. Stokland

  • Egg size and parental quality influence nestling growth in the Shag

    Trond Amundsen;Jogeir N. Stokland

  • Initial Size Hierarchy in Broods of the Shag: Relative Significance of Egg Size and Hatching Asynchrony

    Jogeir N. Stokland;Trond Amundsen

  • Costs and benefits of hatching asynchrony in blue tits Parus caeruleus

    Tore Slagsvold;Trond Amundsen;Svein Dale

  • Paternity and paternity assurance behaviour in the bluethroat, Luscinia s. svecica

    Christin Krokene;Kristin Anthonisen;Jan T. Lifjeld;Trond Amundsen

  • Hormonal regulation of female nuptial coloration in a fish.

    Helen Nilsson Sköld;Trond Amundsen;Per Andreas Svensson;Ian Mayer

  • Elevated CO2 affects embryonic development and larval phototaxis in a temperate marine fish.

    Elisabet Forsgren;Sam Dupont;Fredrik Jutfelt;Trond Amundsen

  • Mate sampling behaviour of female pied flycatchers: evidence for active mate choice

    Svein Dale;Trond Amundsen;Jan T. Lifjeld;Tore Slagsvold

  • Fishes as models in studies of sexual selection and parental care

    T. Amundsen

  • Effects of egg size and parental quality on early nestling growth: An experiment with the Antarctic petrel

    Trond Amundsen;Svein-Hakon Lorentsen;Torkild Tveraa

  • Seasonal change in female choice for male size in the two-spotted goby

    Åsa A. Borg;Elisabet Forsgren;Trond Amundsen

  • Female Ornaments: Genetically Correlated or Sexually Selected?

    Trond Amundsen

  • MALE CHARACTERISTICS AND FERTILISATION SUCCESS IN BLUETHROATS

    Arild Johnsen;Jan T. Lifjeld;Staffan Andersson;Jonas Örnborg

Frequent Co-Authors

Elisabet Forsgren
Elisabet Forsgren Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Tore Slagsvold
Tore Slagsvold University of Oslo
Jan T. Lifjeld
Jan T. Lifjeld University of Oslo
Per T. Smiseth
Per T. Smiseth University of Edinburgh
Svein Dale
Svein Dale Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Iain Barber
Iain Barber Aberystwyth University
Jonathan D. Blount
Jonathan D. Blount University of Exeter
Staffan Andersson
Staffan Andersson University of Gothenburg
Gunilla Rosenqvist
Gunilla Rosenqvist Uppsala University
Arild Johnsen
Arild Johnsen University of Oslo

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