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Author Archives: Beth Preston

Raising young from a bird’s eye view – adjusted social interactions keep a male godwit’s brood alive

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This blog post is provided by Luke Wilde and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Behavioral adjustments in the social associations of a precocial shorebird mediate the costs and benefits […]

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Migrating through a storm: how do songbirds respond to environmental pressures across the annual cycle?

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This blog post is provided by Devin de Zwaan and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “The relative influence of cross-seasonal and local weather effects on the breeding success of […]

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Data type matters when known hosts are used to guide future virus surveillance

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This blog post is provided by Nathaniel Mull and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Virus isolation data improve host predictions for New World rodent orthohantaviruses“, which was recently published […]

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Predicting heat stress on seasonal tropical shores: why are “suboptimal” temperatures preferred by an intertidal snail?

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This blog post is provided by Tommy Hui and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Why are “suboptimal” temperatures preferred in a tropical intertidal ectotherm?”, which was recently published in […]

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Kalahari Apartment Blocks part two: retail value increases in harsher environments

April 25, 2022by Beth Preston Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Anthony M. Lowney and Robert L. Thomson from the Fitzpatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper ‘Ecological engineering across a spatial gradient: […]

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How timing shapes scientific stories

March 21, 2022by Beth Preston Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Rachel Dickson and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Behavioral responses by a bumble bee to competition with a niche-constructing congener”, which was recently […]

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Florida scrub-jays move elsewhere when competition gets tough

February 28, 2022by Beth Preston Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Young Ha Suh and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Staging to join non-kin groups in a classical cooperative breeder, the Florida scrub-jay”, which […]

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¿Qué determina la estructura en una red trófica?

February 14, 2022by Beth Preston Leave a comment

Este posteo fue proporcionado por Tomás I. Marina y Leonardo A. Saravia y cuenta la #LaHistoriaDetrasDelPaper para el artículo “Ecological network assembly: how the regional metaweb influences local food webs”,  publicado recientemente […]

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What determines the structure of a food web?

February 14, 2022by Beth Preston Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Tomás I. Marina and Leonardo A. Saravia and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Ecological network assembly: how the regional metaweb influences local food […]

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Do predators create healthier prey populations?

January 25, 2022by Beth Preston 1 Comment

This blog post is provided by Ellen E. Brandell and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Examination of the interaction between age-specific predation and chronic disease in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem”, […]

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Dung beetle-mammal dung interaction networks are resilient across a gradient of forest disturbance

January 11, 2022by Beth Preston Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Li Yuen Chiew and Eleanor M. Slade and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Tropical forest dung beetle-mammal dung interaction networks remain similar across […]

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Finding out when rare and common species change their interactions using multi-site interaction turnover

January 6, 2022by Beth Preston Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Marie V. Henriksen and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “A multi-site method to capture turnover in rare to common interactions in bipartite species […]

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How do mesocarnivores interact in an urban environment? And how did the SARS-CoV-2 lockdown affect it?

December 13, 2021by Beth Preston Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Julie Louvrier (Twitter: @LouvrierJulie) and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Spatiotemporal interactions of a novel mesocarnivore community in an urban environment before and […]

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“Home sweet home”: how limiting between-group interactions of young individuals can favour epidemic fade-out in social species

August 6, 2021by Beth Preston Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by L Marescot, M Franz, S Benhaiem, H Hofer, C Scherer, M L East, and S Kramer-Schadt and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “‘Keeping the kids at home’ can […]

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EFFECTS OF CHANGING HABITATS ON BAT-VIRUS DYNAMICS

August 4, 2021by Beth Preston Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Tamika Lunn, Alison Peel, Hamish McCallum, Peggy Eby, Maureen Kessler, Raina Plowright and Olivier Restif, and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for their article “Spatial dynamics […]

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Studying Abroad With A Bahamian Coastal Fish

July 8, 2021by Beth Preston 1 Comment

This blog post tells the #StoryBehindThePaper from the perspective of one author, Matt Jenkins, for the article “Natural and anthropogenic sources of habitat variation influence exploration behaviour, stress response and […]

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Alliance of ecologists and physiologists to study the effect of size and food quantity on muscle metabolism in the European sardine Sardina pilchardus

July 1, 2021by Beth Preston Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Elisa Thoral, Claire Saraux and Loïc Teulier and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper ‘Changes in foraging mode caused by a decline in prey size have major […]

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Songbirds harbour different microbes depending on where they live

June 29, 2021by Beth Preston 1 Comment

This blog post is provided by Leanne Grieves and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper ‘Preen gland microbiota of songbirds differ across populations but not sexes’, which was recently published in the […]

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KALAHARI APARTMENT BLOCKS

June 21, 2021by Beth Preston Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Anthony M. Lowney and Robert L. Thomson from the Fitzpatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper […]

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Can a generalist parasitoid act like Paine’s starfish?

June 2, 2021by Beth Preston 1 Comment

This blog post is provided by Jinlin Chen and Chris Terry and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper ‘Natural enemies have inconsistent impacts on the coexistence of competing species’, which was […]

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