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David Bierbach

Berliner Hochschule für Technik · DE
Area of research
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics · Nature and Landscape Conservation
Research interest
Research interests include Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Plant and animal studies, and Amphibian and Reptile Biology.
h-index
28
citations
2,524
works
171
NIH funding
primary concept
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Recent publications

Better and faster decisions by larger fish shoals in the wild
Science Advances 2025cited by 9position: middledoi
Collective escape waves provide a generic defence against different avian predators
Royal Society Open Science 2025cited by 6position: firstdoi
European perspectives on Litopenaeus vannamei aquaculture: An expert’s survey
Aquaculture Reports 2025cited by 4position: middledoi
Thermal tolerance in an extremophile fish from Mexico is not affected by environmental hypoxia
Biology Open 2024cited by 6position: lastdoi
Predator exposure early in life shapes behavioral development and individual variation in a clonal fish
Scientific Reports 2024cited by 4position: lastdoi
Fish shoals resemble a stochastic excitable system driven by environmental perturbations
Nature Physics 2023cited by 45position: middledoi
Multispecies collective waving behaviour in fish
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 2023cited by 15position: lastdoi
Reproductive individuality of clonal fish raised in near-identical environments and its link to early-life behavioral individuality
Nature Communications 2023cited by 15position: middledoi
Leveraging big data to uncover the eco-evolutionary factors shaping behavioural development
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 2023cited by 15position: middledoi
Social competence improves the performance of biomimetic robots leading live fish
Bioinspiration & Biomimetics 2023cited by 9position: middledoi
The emergence and development of behavioral individuality in clonal fish
Nature Communications 2022cited by 70position: middledoi
Live fish learn to anticipate the movement of a fish-like robot <sup>*</sup>
Bioinspiration & Biomimetics 2022cited by 10position: firstdoi
Cascading indirect genetic effects in a clonal vertebrate
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 2022cited by 6position: middledoi
Acoustic and visual stimuli combined promote stronger responses to aerial predation in fish
Behavioral Ecology 2021cited by 28position: lastdoi
Consistent Behavioral Syndrome Across Seasons in an Invasive Freshwater Fish
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 2021cited by 26position: lastdoi
Diurnal Changes in Hypoxia Shape Predator-Prey Interaction in a Bird-Fish System
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 2021cited by 26position: lastdoi
Size Selective Harvesting Does Not Result in Reproductive Isolation among Experimental Lines of Zebrafish, Danio rerio: Implications for Managing Harvest-Induced Evolution
Biology 2021cited by 11position: middledoi
Parasite infection impairs the shoaling behaviour of uninfected shoal members under predator attack
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 2021cited by 9position: middledoi
Male Sexual Preference for Female Swimming Activity in the Guppy (Poecilia reticulata)
Biology 2021cited by 6position: firstdoi
Cascading indirect genetic effects in a clonal vertebrate
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2021cited by 1position: middledoi
Animal-in-the-Loop: Using Interactive Robotic Conspecifics to Study Social Behavior in Animal Groups
Annual Review of Control Robotics and Autonomous Systems 2020cited by 38position: middledoi
Group-level patterns emerge from individual speed as revealed by an extremely social robotic fish
Biology Letters 2020cited by 34position: lastdoi
Guppies Prefer to Follow Large (Robot) Leaders Irrespective of Own Size
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology 2020cited by 19position: firstdoi
An interaction mechanism for the maintenance of fission–fusion dynamics under different individual densities
PeerJ 2020cited by 16position: firstdoi
Naturally clonal vertebrates are an untapped resource in ecology and evolution research
Nature Ecology & Evolution 2019cited by 39position: middledoi
Size‐selective harvesting fosters adaptations in mating behaviour and reproductive allocation, affecting sexual selection in fish
Journal of Animal Ecology 2019cited by 28position: middledoi
Eye fluke (Tylodelphys clavata) infection impairs visual ability and hampers foraging success in European perch
Parasitology Research 2019cited by 19position: middledoi
Artificial Light at Night Affects Emergence from a Refuge and Space Use in Guppies
Scientific Reports 2018cited by 61position: lastdoi
Using a robotic fish to investigate individual differences in social responsiveness in the guppy
Royal Society Open Science 2018cited by 56position: firstdoi
Insights into the Social Behavior of Surface and Cave-Dwelling Fish (Poecilia mexicana) in Light and Darkness through the Use of a Biomimetic Robot
Frontiers in Robotics and AI 2018cited by 37position: firstdoi

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Frequent collaborators

Jens Krause · Berliner Hochschule für Technik22 papers (2014–2025)Paweł Romańczuk · Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin13 papers (2018–2025)Juliane Lukas · Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin13 papers (2017–2025) · 10 papers (2014–2025)Tim Landgraf · Freie Universität Berlin8 papers (2018–2023) · 7 papers (2018–2025)Kate L. Laskowski · University of California, Davis4 papers (2019–2024)Robert Arlinghaus · Forschungsverbund Berlin4 papers (2015–2021) · 4 papers (2020–2025)Pascal Klamser · Technische Universität Dresden3 papers (2021–2023)Nils Weimar · University of Bonn3 papers (2018–2023)Ulrike Scherer · University of South Carolina3 papers (2023–2024)Sean M. Ehlman · Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin3 papers (2023–2024)Luis Gómez-Nava · Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin3 papers (2022–2025)Silva Uusi‐Heikkilä · University of Turku3 papers (2015–2019)Fritz A. Francisco · University of Massachusetts Boston3 papers (2022–2025)Lea Musiolek · Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin3 papers (2020–2023)Yunus Sevinchan · Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin3 papers (2024–2025)Korbinian Pacher · Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin3 papers (2024–2025)Kimberly A. Hughes · Florida State University2 papers (2021–2022)