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Research interests
Since first studying animal behaviour I’ve been interested in the evolution of group living and also how groups form and are maintained over short time scales. My research has covered multiple aspects of group living, particularly the interaction between the behaviour of predators and social interactions in prey, and how inter-individual differences in groups interacts with group decision making. More recently, my research is including how predator and collective behaviour is affected by anthropogenic change in environmental variables, such as turbidity and anthropogenic noise. I use fish as a model system, both in the laboratory and in the field, because they are awesome.
Collective behaviour is a very inter-disciplinary area of research as it has importance to any organism that interacts socially, from microbes and plants all the way to humans. Although my training is very much in animal behaviour and behavioural ecology, I try to keep a broad perspective and collaborate with researchers in other fields. This includes physics and mathematics which provides a solid theoretical grounding for group processes and new analytic tools, and psychology which has a long history of studying social relationships in humans, many aspects of which apply to non-human animals as well.
Keywords
- Fish behaviour
- Collective behaviour
- Predators
- Behavioural ecology
- Animal behaviour
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
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Effects of Climate-Change Associated Stressors on Fish Social Behaviours
1/10/20 → 30/09/23
Project: Research
Research output
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Information can explain the dynamics of group order in animal collective behaviour
MacGregor, H. E. A., Herbert-Read, J. E. & Ioannou, C. C., 1 Jun 2020, In: Nature Communications. 11, 8 p., 2737 (2020).Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Open AccessFile32 Citations (Scopus)61 Downloads (Pure) -
Response to resources and parasites depends on health status in extensively grazed sheep
Liddell, C., Morgan, E. R., Bull, K. & Ioannou, C. C., 5 Feb 2020, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Predators attacking virtual prey reveal the costs and benefits of leadership
Ioannou, C. C., Rocque, F., Herbert-Read, J. E., Duffield, C. & Firth, J. A., 30 Apr 2019, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116, 18, p. 8925-8930 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Open AccessFile38 Citations (Scopus)277 Downloads (Pure)
Datasets
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Virtual prey with Lévy motion are preferentially attacked by predatory fish
Ioannou, C. C. (Creator), Arrochela Braga Carvalho, L. (Creator), Budleigh, C. (Creator) & Ruxton, G. (Creator), Dryad, 26 Apr 2023
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.h18931zrm, http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.h18931zrm and one more link, https://zenodo.org/record/7868478 (show fewer)
Dataset
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Temperature and turbidity interact synergistically to alter anti-predator behaviour in the Trinidadian guppy
Zanghi, C. (Creator), Munro, M. (Creator) & Ioannou, C. C. (Creator), Zenodo, 2023
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.5tb2rbp8x, https://zenodo.org/record/8070693
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Time series of trajectory data for individual three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) swimming in groups of eight individuals
MacGregor, H. (Contributor) & Ioannou, C. C. (Contributor), Natural Environment Research Council, 24 Sept 2021
DOI: 10.5285/08305a43-79b5-432f-ad20-2ddffe0d1077, https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/08305a43-79b5-432f-ad20-2ddffe0d1077
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Prizes
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Christopher Barnard Award
Ioannou, Christos C (Recipient), 2013
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
Activities
- 2 Fellowship awarded competitively
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Research Fellowship - Using real predators and robot prey to investigate the importance of predators in prey responses.
Christos C Ioannou (Recipient)
1 Oct 2013 → 1 Oct 2018Activity: Other activity types › Fellowship awarded competitively
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Early Career Fellowship - Causes and consequences of emergent leadership distributions
Christos C Ioannou (Recipient)
1 Oct 2011 → 1 Oct 2013Activity: Other activity types › Fellowship awarded competitively