Predation, parasitism, mutualism, or just good old competition. . . You name it, species interactions are interesting. And let’s not forget speciation itself!
| Gupta, A., Lindstedt, C., Gerber, N., Ritter, R. & Kokko, H. In press. Sex-biased cooperation among immature peers: it matters who helps whom. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. (OK so here we do not model predators explicitly, but there is an antipredatory behaviour in here, so we list this paper here too) | |
| Brenninger, F.A., Zug, R. & Kokko, H. 2025. Infection dynamics of endosymbionts that manipulate arthropod reproduction. Biological Reviews. | |
| Brenninger, F.A., Kovalov, V. & Kokko, H. 2025. Sex-specific immunocompetence: resistance and tolerance can both be futile but not under the same circumstances. Evolution Letters 9:249–258. | |
| Sistermans, T., Darras, H., Ronget, V., Beros, S., Hartke, J., Stoldt, M., Libbrecht, R., Kokko, H. & Foitzik, S. 2025. Parasite prevalence in a social host has colony-wide impacts on transcriptional activity and survival. Evolution. | |
| Kokko, H. 2024. Who is afraid of modelling time as a continuous variable? Methods in Ecology and Evolution. (Contains quite a bit of thoughts about Lotka-Volterra predator-prey dynamics, hence mentioned in this section of my papers) | |
| McLean, D.J., Herberstein, M.E. & Kokko, H. 2024. Asymmetric arms races between predators and prey: a tug of war between the life-dinner principle and the rare-enemy principle. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 291:20241052. | |
| Karisto, P., Duplouy, A., de Vries, C. & Kokko, H. 2022. Positive fitness effects help explain the broad range of Wolbachia prevalences in natural populations. Peer Community Journal (Ecology section) 2: e76. | |
| Brunton-Martin, A.L., Gaskett, A.C. & Kokko, H. 2021. Resilience of haplodiploids to being exploited by sexually deceptive plants. Oikos 130: 2053–2063. | |
| Knauer, A.C., Kokko, H. & Schiestl, F.P. 2021. Pollinator behaviour and resource limitation maintain honest floral signaling. Functional Ecology 35: 2536–2549. | |
| Heinsohn, R., Au, J., Kokko, H., Webb, M.H., Deans, R.M. & Stojanovic, D. 2021. Can an introduced predator select for adaptive sex allocation? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B288: 20210093. | |
| Ashby, B., Shaw, A.K. & Kokko, H. 2020. An inordinate fondness for species with intermediate dispersal abilities. Oikos 129:311–319. | |
| Kyogoku, D. & Kokko, H. 2020. Species coexist more easily if reinforcement is based on habitat preferences than on species recognition. Journal of Animal Ecology 89: 2605–2616. | |
| Aubier, T., Kokko, H. & Joron, M. 2019. Coevolution of male and female mate choice can destabilise reproductive isolation. Nature Communications 10: 5122. | |
| Thorogood, R., Kokko, H. & Mappes, J. 2018. Social transmission of avoidance among predators facilitates the spread of novel prey. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2: 254-261. | |
| Medina, I., Langmore, N.E., Lanfear, R. & Kokko H. 2017. The evolution of clutch size in hosts of avian brood parasites. American Naturalist 190: E112-E123. | |
| Harts, A., Kristensen, K. & Kokko, H. 2016. Predation can select for later and more synchronous arrival times in migrating species. Oikos 125: 1528-1538. | |
| haiku pdf | Gordon, S.P., Kokko, H., Rojas, B., Nokelainen, O. & Mappes, J. 2015. Colour polymorphism torn apart by opposing positive frequency-dependent selection, yet maintained in space. Journal of Animal Ecology 84: 1555-1564. |
| Mappes, J., Kokko, H., Ojala, K. & Lindström, L. 2014. Seasonal changes in predator community switch the direction of selection for prey defenses. Nature Communications 5: 5016. | |
| Harmer, A.M.T., Kokko, H., Herberstein, M.E. & Madin, J.S. 2012. Optimal web design in sub-optimal foraging conditions. Naturwissenschaften 99: 65-70. | |
| Heubel, K.U., Rankin, D.J. & Kokko, H. 2009. How to go extinct by mating too much: Population consequences of male mate choice and efficiency in a sexual-asexual species complex. Oikos 118: 513-520. | |
| Kokko, H., Heubel, K. & Rankin, D.J. 2008. How populations persist when asexuality requires sex: the spatial dynamics of coping with sperm parasites. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 275: 817-825. | |
| Rankin, D.J., López-Sepulcre, A., Foster, K.R. & Kokko, H. 2007. Species-level selection reduces selfishness through competitive exclusion. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20: 1459-1468. | |
| Foster, K.R. & Kokko, H. 2006. Cheating can stabilise cooperation in mutualisms. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 273: 2233-2239. | |
| Kokko, H., Mappes, J. & Lindström, L. 2003. Alternative prey can change model-mimic dynamics between parasitism and mutualism. Ecology Letters 6: 1068-1076. | |
| Kokko, H. & Ruxton, G. D. 2000. Breeding suppression and predator-prey dynamics. Ecology 81: 252-260. |