Fritz Francisco                  

Publications

Peer Reviewed

  1. Bierbach, D., Lukas, J., Gómez-Nava, L.,Francisco, F. A., Arias-Rodriguez, L., Krause, S., Pacher, K., Sevinchan, Y., Romanczuk, P. and Krause, J., "Collective escape waves provide a generic defence against different avian predators"

    Royal Society Open Science (2015), 12(3), p.241055., doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241055

  2. Barr, T.S., Richards, A.,Francisco, F. A. and Vidal, M.C., "Diet C: N ratio and temperature influence the performance and colouration of tobacco hornworms"

    Ecological Entomology (2025), doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/een.13436

  3. Sampaio, E., Sridhar, V.H.,Francisco, F. A., Nagy, M., Sacchi, A., Strandburg-Peshkin, A., Nührenberg, P., Rosa, R., Couzin, I.D. and Gingins, S., "Multidimensional social influence drives leadership and composition-dependent success in octopus–fish hunting groups"

    Nature Ecology & Evolution (2024), 8(11), pp.2072-2084., doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02525-2

  4. Kao, A. B., Banerjee, S. C., Francisco, F. A., & Berdahl, A. M., "Timing decisions as the next frontier for collective intelligence"

    Trends in Ecology & Evolution (2024), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2024.06.003

  5. Escurra-Alegre, A., Francisco, F. A., Schäfer, F., Wuertz, S., Kloas, W., & Bierbach, D., "Behavioral repertoire of Arapaima gigas (Schinz, 1822) reared in captivity and its implication for welfare protocols: Behavior of the arapaima"

    Tropical Aquaculture; Vol. 2 No. 1 (2024), Tropical Aquaculture; Vol. 2 Núm. 1 (2024), 3061-7642, doi: https://doi.org/10.19136/ta.a2n1.5730

  6. Ehlman, S. M., U. Scherer, D. Bierbach, F. A. Francisco, K. L. Laskowski, J. Krause, and M. Wolf, "Leveraging big data to uncover the eco-evolutionary factors shaping behavioural development"

    Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 290, no. 1992, Feb. 2023. doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.2115

  7. J. E. Majoris, F. A. Francisco, C. M. Burns, S. J. Brandl, K. M. Warkentin, and P. M. Buston, “Paternal care regulates the timing, synchrony and success of hatching in a coral reef fish”,

    Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 289, no. 1982, Sep. 2022. doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.1466

  8. D. Bierbach, L. Gómez-Nava, F. A. Francisco, J. Lukas, L. Musiolek, V. V. Hafner, Tim Landgraf, P. Romanczuk, J. Krause, "Live fish learn to anticipate the movement of a fish-like robot"

    Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 2022,
    doi: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3190/ac8e3e

  9. Bierbach, D., Francisco, F. A., Lukas, J., Landgraf, T., Maxeiner, M., Romanczuk, P., Musiolek, L., Hafner, V.V. and Krause, J., 2021, July. "Biomimetic robots promote the 3Rs Principle in animal testing"

    In ALIFE 2021: The 2021 Conference on Artificial Life., 2021, July, MIT Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00375

  10. Mariana Rodriguez-Santiago, Paul Nührenberg, James Derry, Oliver Deussen, Fritz A. Francisco, Linda K. Garrison, Sylvia F. Garza, Hans A. Hofmann, Alex Jordan
    "Behavioral traits that define social dominance are the same that reduce social influence in a consensus task"

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Jul 2020, 202000158;
    doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2000158117

  11. Fritz A. Francisco & Paul Nührenberg and Alex Jordan
    "High-resolution, non-invasive animal tracking and reconstruction of local environment in aquatic ecosystems"

    Movement Ecology, 8, 27 (2020). doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-020-00214-w

  12. John Majoris, Fritz A. Francisco, Jelle Atema and Pete Buston
    "Reproduction, early development, and larval rearing strategies for two sponge-dwelling neon gobies, Elacatinus lori and E. colini"

    2018,Aquaculture, 483:286-295

Preprints

  1. Albert Kao, Shoubhik Banerjee, Fritz A. Francisco, Andrew Berdahl, "Timing decisions as the next frontier for collective intelligence", arxiv, 2023

    2023,arXiv, doi: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2312.02187

  2. Fritz A. Francisco, et al. "Experienced social partners hinder learning performance in naive clonal fish", bioRxiv, 2022

    2022,bioRxiv,doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.13.512085

  3. Bierbach, David, et al. "Discovery of a new but established population of the guppy in Germany", bioRxiv, 2022

    2022,bioRxiv,doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.02.01.478389

  4. Fritz A. Francisco & Paul Nührenberg, Alex Jordan "High-resolution animal tracking with integration of environmental information in aquatic systems", bioRxiv, 2020

    2020,bioRxiv,doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.25.963926

  5. Mariana Rodriguez-Santiago, Paul Nührenberg, James Derry, Oliver Deussen, Linda K Garrison, Sylvia F Garza ,Fritz A. Francisco, Hans A Hofmann, Alex Jordan ,"Behavioral traits that define social dominance are the same that reduce social influence in a consensus task", bioRxiv, 2020

    2020,bioRxiv,doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/845628