David Bierbach

2.5k total citations
78 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

David Bierbach is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, David Bierbach has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 37 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 25 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in David Bierbach's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (48 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (31 papers) and Plant and animal studies (16 papers). David Bierbach is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (48 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (31 papers) and Plant and animal studies (16 papers). David Bierbach collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Mexico and United States. David Bierbach's co-authors include Martin Plath, Max Wolf, Kate L. Laskowski, Jens Krause, Lenin Arias‐Rodríguez, Paweł Romańczuk, Tim Landgraf, Juliane Lukas, Bruno Streit and Michael Tobler and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

David Bierbach

78 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Bierbach Germany	23	819	545	499	428	282	78	1.6k
Jennifer L. Kelley Australia	24	1.3k 1.5×	519 1.0×	576 1.2×	492 1.1×	324 1.1×	53	1.9k
Timo Thünken Germany	24	1.0k 1.3×	460 0.8×	412 0.8×	357 0.8×	246 0.9×	61	1.4k
Stéphan G. Reebs Canada	18	625 0.8×	543 1.0×	574 1.2×	362 0.8×	142 0.5×	39	1.9k
Alexander D. M. Wilson Canada	28	1.3k 1.6×	933 1.7×	882 1.8×	624 1.5×	268 1.0×	74	2.4k
Rebecca C. Fuller United States	28	1.4k 1.7×	821 1.5×	554 1.1×	518 1.2×	565 2.0×	77	2.3k
Julie K. Desjardins Canada	20	1.1k 1.4×	332 0.6×	402 0.8×	273 0.6×	236 0.8×	23	1.4k
Penelope J. Watt United Kingdom	25	767 0.9×	326 0.6×	340 0.7×	358 0.8×	176 0.6×	46	1.3k
Molly R. Morris United States	27	1.5k 1.8×	439 0.8×	294 0.6×	660 1.5×	530 1.9×	77	2.0k
Alejandro González‐Voyer Spain	23	1.1k 1.3×	467 0.9×	696 1.4×	485 1.1×	309 1.1×	57	1.8k
J.-G. J. Godin Canada	12	1.1k 1.3×	448 0.8×	428 0.9×	470 1.1×	202 0.7×	14	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Bierbach

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Bierbach, David, et al.. (2025). Better and faster decisions by larger fish shoals in the wild. Science Advances. 11(31). eadt8600–eadt8600. 1 indexed citations

Bierbach, David, Juliane Lukas, Lenin Arias‐Rodríguez, et al.. (2025). Collective escape waves provide a generic defence against different avian predators. Royal Society Open Science. 12(3). 241055–241055. 1 indexed citations

Lukas, Juliane, et al.. (2024). Thermal tolerance in an extremophile fish from Mexico is not affected by environmental hypoxia. Biology Open. 13(2). 3 indexed citations

Lukas, Juliane, Jens Krause, Paweł Romańczuk, et al.. (2023). Multispecies collective waving behaviour in fish. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 378(1874). 20220069–20220069. 10 indexed citations

Lange, Robert Tjarko, Juliane Lukas, Lenin Arias‐Rodríguez, et al.. (2023). Fish shoals resemble a stochastic excitable system driven by environmental perturbations. Nature Physics. 19(5). 663–669. 25 indexed citations

Makowicz, Amber M., et al.. (2022). Cascading indirect genetic effects in a clonal vertebrate. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1978). 20220731–20220731. 5 indexed citations

Bierbach, David, Juliane Lukas, Verena V. Hafner, et al.. (2022). Live fish learn to anticipate the movement of a fish-like robot ^*. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 17(6). 65007–65007. 4 indexed citations

Doran, Carolina, David Bierbach, Juliane Lukas, et al.. (2021). Fish waves as emergent collective antipredator behavior. Current Biology. 32(3). 708–714.e4. 36 indexed citations

Roy, Tamal, et al.. (2021). Size Selective Harvesting Does Not Result in Reproductive Isolation among Experimental Lines of Zebrafish, Danio rerio: Implications for Managing Harvest-Induced Evolution. Biology. 10(2). 113–113. 5 indexed citations

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Lukas, Juliane, et al.. (2021). Acoustic and visual stimuli combined promote stronger responses to aerial predation in fish. Behavioral Ecology. 32(6). 1094–1102. 21 indexed citations

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Jolles, Jolle W., et al.. (2020). Group-level patterns emerge from individual speed as revealed by an extremely social robotic fish. Biology Letters. 16(9). 20200436–20200436. 17 indexed citations

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Sbragaglia, Valerio, et al.. (2019). Size‐selective harvesting fosters adaptations in mating behaviour and reproductive allocation, affecting sexual selection in fish. Journal of Animal Ecology. 88(9). 1343–1354. 17 indexed citations

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Laskowski, Kate L., Carolina Doran, David Bierbach, Jens Krause, & Max Wolf. (2019). Naturally clonal vertebrates are an untapped resource in ecology and evolution research. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3(2). 161–169. 26 indexed citations

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Uusi‐Heikkilä, Silva, et al.. (2018). Relatively large males lower reproductive success in female zebrafish. Environmental Biology of Fishes. 101(11). 1625–1638. 5 indexed citations

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Bierbach, David, Tim Landgraf, Paweł Romańczuk, et al.. (2018). Using a robotic fish to investigate individual differences in social responsiveness in the guppy. Royal Society Open Science. 5(8). 181026–181026. 38 indexed citations

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Bierbach, David, Juliane Lukas, Christiane Weber, et al.. (2018). 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. 5. 3–3. 26 indexed citations

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Lukas, Juliane, et al.. (2017). On the occurrence of three non-native cichlid species including the first record of a feral population ofPelmatolapia(Tilapia)mariae(Boulenger, 1899) in Europe. Royal Society Open Science. 4(6). 170160–170160. 13 indexed citations

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Landgraf, Tim, et al.. (2016). RoboFish: increased acceptance of interactive robotic fish with realistic eyes and natural motion patterns by live Trinidadian guppies. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 11(1). 15001–15001. 70 indexed citations

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Bierbach, David, Philipp T. Meyer, Raoul Wolf, et al.. (2013). Gradient Evolution of Body Colouration in Surface- and Cave-DwellingPoecilia mexicanaand the Role of Phenotype-Assortative Female Mate Choice. BioMed Research International. 2013. 1–15. 13 indexed citations

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Bierbach, David, et al.. (2012). Homosexual behaviour increases male attractiveness to females. Biology Letters. 9(1). 20121038–20121038. 22 indexed citations

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