Research Fields 

• Animal social behavior
• Evolutionary game theory
• Climate change biology

期刊論文

1. Shen Sheng-Feng*, Reeve H. Kern, Emlen Stephen T., Liu Ming, Rubenstein Dustin, 2023, “Group size and the resolution of insider–outsider conflict in animal societies”, Animal Behaviour, 205, 107-116. (SCIE) (IF: 3.041; SCI ranking: 60.4%,9.6%)
2. Chan Shih-Fan, Rubenstein Dustin R., Chen I-Ching, Fan Yu-Meng, Tsai Hsiang-Yu, Zheng Yuan-Wen, Shen Sheng-Feng, 2023, “Higher temperature variability in deforested mountain regions impacts the competitive advantage of nocturnal species”, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290(1999), 1-13. (SCIE, SSCI) (IF: 　; 　)
3. Lin Yu‐Heng, Chen Ying‐Yu, Rubenstein Dustin R., Liu Ming, Liu Mark, Shen Sheng‐Feng*, 2023, “Environmental quality mediates the ecological dominance of cooperatively breeding birds”, Ecology Letters, 26(7), 1145-1156. (SCIE) (IF: 11.274; SCI ranking: 3.4%)
4. Jang Yi‐Shin, Shen Sheng‐Feng, Juang Jehn‐Yih, Huang Cho‐ying, Lo Min‐Hui*, 2022, “Discontinuity of Diurnal Temperature Range Along Elevated Regions”, Geophysical Research Letters, 49(6), 1-10. (SCIE) (IF: 5.576; SCI ranking: 12.3%)
5. Chen Ying-Yu, Rubenstein Dustin R., Shen Sheng-Feng*, 2022, “Cooperation and Lateral Forces: Moving Beyond Bottom-Up and Top-Down Drivers of Animal Population Dynamics”, Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 1-12. (SSCI) (IF: 4.232; SSCI ranking: 23.5%)
6. Ming Liu, Dustin R. Rubenstein, Siew Ann Cheong and Sheng-Feng Shen*, 2021, “Antagonistic effects of long- and short- term environmental variation on species coexistence”, PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 1958, 1-10. (SCIE) (IF: 5.531; SCI ranking: 20.2%,17.2%,17.3%)
7. Liu, C. W.-J., S.-F. Shen , W.-C. Liu, 2021, “On the evolution of social ties as an instrumental tool for resource competition in resource patch networks”, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 8(1), 78. (SSCI) (IF: 2.731; SSCI ranking: 33%)
8. Wang, H.-Y.*, S.-F. Shen, Y.-S. Chen, Y.-K. K, and M. Heino, 2020, “Life histories determine divergent population trends for fishes under climate warming”, NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 11, 4088. (SCIE) (IF: 17.694; SCI ranking: 8.1%)
9. Tibbetts, E. A., M. Liu, E. C. Laub, S.-F. Shen, 2020, “Complex signals alter recognition accuracy and conspecific acceptance thresholds”, PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 375(1802). (SCIE) (IF: 6.671; SCI ranking: 14.9%)
10. Tsai H.-Y., D.R. Rubenstein, B.-F. Chen, M. Liu, S.-F. Chan, D.-P. Chen, S.-J. Sun, T.-N. Yuan, and S.-F. Shen*, 2020, “Antagonistic effects of intraspecific cooperation and interspecific competition on thermal performance”, ELIFE, 9:e57022, 1-15. (SCIE) (IF: 8.713; SCI ranking: 8.5%)
11. Liu, M. S.-F. Chan, D. R. Rubenstein, S.-J. Sun, B.-F. Chen, and S.-F Shen*, 2020, “Ecological transitions in grouping benefits explain the paradox of environmental quality and sociality.”, AMERICAN NATURALIST, 195(5), 818-832. (SCIE) (IF: 4.367; SCI ranking: 28.2%,28.8%)
12. Chen B.-F. , M. Liu , D. R. Rubenstein, S.-J. Sun , J.-N. Liu , Y.-H. Lin and S.-F. Shen*, 2020, “A Chemically-triggered Transition from Conflict to Cooperation in Burying Beetles”, ECOLOGY LETTERS, 23(3), 467-475. (SCIE) (IF: 11.274; SCI ranking: 3.4%)
13. Tsai, H-Y, D.R. Rubenstein, Y.-M. Fan, T.-N. Yuan, B.-F. Chen, Y. Tang, I.-C. Chen and S.-F. Shen*, 2020, “Locally-adapted Reproductive Photoperiodism Determines Population Vulnerability to Climate Change in Burying Beetles”, NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 11, 1398. (SCIE) (IF: 17.694; SCI ranking: 8.1%)
14. Liu Mark, Chen Bo-Fei, Rubenstein Dustin R., Shen Sheng-Feng, 2020, “Social rank modulates how environmental quality influences cooperation and conflict within animal societies”, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1935), 20201720.
15. Lin Y.-H, S.-F. Chan, D. R. Rubenstein , M. Liu, S.-F. Shen*, 2019, “Resolving the paradox of environmental quality and sociality: the ecological causes and consequences of cooperative breeding in two lineages of birds”, The American Naturalist, 194(2),207-216.. (SCIE) (IF: 4.367; SCI ranking: 28.2%,28.8%)
16. Cheng, Y.-R.,D. R. Rubenstein, S.-F. Shen, 2019, “Nest predation predicts infanticide in a cooperatively breeding bird”, Biology Letters, 15(8) 20190314. (SCIE) (IF: 3.904; SCI ranking: 30.9%,34.5%,36.5%)
17. Chan, S.-F. , W.-K. Shih, A.-Y. Chang#, S.-F. Shen* and I.-C. Chen*, 2019, “Contrasting forms of competition set elevational range limits of species”, Ecology Letters, 22(10),1668-1679. (SCIE) (IF: 11.274; SCI ranking: 3.4%)
18. Liu, M. , D. R. Rubenstein, W.-C. Liu, and S.-F. Shen*, 2019, “Adaptation in fluctuating environments: a continuum from bet-hedging to the rising-tide”, PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1623. (SCIE) (IF: 5.531; SCI ranking: 20.2%,17.2%,17.3%)
19. Wu, S. , C.-M. Chang, D.R. Rubenstein, C.-M. Yang, Y.-T. Huang, H.-H. Lin, L.-C. Shih, S.-W. Chen* and S.-F. Shen*., 2019, “Artificial intelligence reveals environmental constraints on colour diversity in insects”, NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 10,4554, 1-9. (SCIE) (IF: 17.694; SCI ranking: 8.1%)
20. Chan, W.-P. #, I.-C. Chen#, R. K. Colwell, W.-C. Liu, C.-Y. Huang, S.-F. Shen*, 2018, “Response to Qian et al. (2017): Daily and seasonal climate variations are both critical in the evolution of species’ elevational range size”, JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY, 45(12), 2832-2836. (SCIE) (IF: 4.81; SCI ranking: 23.6%,18%)
21. Wilkins, M.R.*, Scordato, E.S., Semenov, G.A., Karaardiç, H., Shizuka, D., Rubtsov, A., Pap, P.L., Shen, S.-F. and Safran, R.J., 2018, “Global song divergence in barn swallows (Hirundo rustica): exploring the roles of genetic, geographical and climatic distance in sympatry and allopatry”, BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY, 123(4), 825-849. (SCIE) (IF: 2.277; SCI ranking: 75%)
22. Liu, M., D. R. Rubenstein, S.-A. Cheong, and S.-F. Shen*, 2018, “Multitasking and the evolution of optimal clutch size in fluctuating environment”, ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 8(17), 8803-8817. (SCIE) (IF: 3.167; SCI ranking: 43.1%,51.9%)

專書(論文集)之一章

1. Shen, S.-F.* and D. R. Rubenstein, 2019, “Environmental uncertainty and social behavior”, editor(s): Choe, J,, Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, 2nd Edition, pp. 807–815, Cambridge, M.A.: Elsevier, Academic Press.