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Author Archives: Simon Hoggart

Our guide to the Festival of Ecology

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Attending the British Ecological Society’s Annual Meeting, a Festival of Ecology? There are many exciting live presentations, workshops, as well as on-demand content for our first fully virtual conference. Here are a […]

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Welcome to our new Associate Editors

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Following our open call for applicants we are pleased to welcome 20 new Associate Editors to the Journal of Animal Ecology Editorial Board. The researchers are based across 13 different countries, including […]

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Welcome to Beth Preston and Julie Koch Sheard our new Blog Associate Editors

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We are excited to announce Beth Preston and Julie Koch Sheard as our new Blog Associate Editors. Beth and Julie will be working together to drive the blog forward by […]

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Untangling community dynamics using spatially explicit Bayesian networks

August 10, 2020by Simon Hoggart 1 Comment

In this article, Nick Fountain-Jones from the University of Tasmania introduces how advances in Bayesian networks can be used to untangle community dynamics and, in particular, the moose microbiome by […]

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Open call for papers: Special Feature on understanding climate change response in the age of genomics

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Anthropogenic climate change is rapidly transforming environments and poses a major threat to species and ecosystems worldwide. Understanding how animal populations respond to these changing environments is crucial for developing […]

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When the world burns, how do predators respond?

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This blog post is provided by William Geary, Tim Doherty, Dale Nimmo, Ayesha Tulloch and Euan Ritchie and tells the  #StoryBehindThePaper for their article Predator responses to fire: A global […]

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Congratulations to Daniel J. Becker on winning the Sidnie Manton Award

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Today we are pleased to announce that to Daniel J. Becker has won the second Sidnie Manton Award for his paper ‘Macroimmunology: The drivers and consequences of spatial patterns in […]

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We are recruiting for a Blog Associate Editor

June 16, 2020by Simon Hoggart Leave a comment

We’re really excited to be advertising for a new Associate Editor for the blog. This is a great opportunity for an active ecologist with a passion for helping researchers communicate […]

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Characterizing the “landscape of immunity” across wildlife systems

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How does animal susceptibility to pathogens vary across landscapes? In this shortlisted paper for the Sidnie Manton Award “Macroimmunology: The drivers and consequences of spatial patterns in wildlife immune defence“, […]

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2019 Elton Prize Winner: Uriah Daugaard

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The Elton Prize is awarded annually for the best paper published in Journal of Animal Ecology by an Early Career Researcher. We’re delighted to announce that the 2019 winner is […]

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There are no second acts in animal life cycles

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This blog post has been provided by Mike Moore, a post-doctoral fellow with the Living Earth Collaborative in St. Louis, USA. It tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for “On the evolution of […]

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Welcome to our new Associate Editors

April 10, 2020by Simon Hoggart Leave a comment

We are pleased to welcome Matt Barbour, University of Zurich, Isabella Capellini, University Belfast, James Kitson, University of Newcastle and Ben Longdon, University of Exeter who have joined the Journal […]

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Second Journal of Animal Ecology Sidnie Manton – Shortlisted papers

April 6, 2020by Simon Hoggart 2 Comments

Today we are excited to announce the shortlisted papers for the second Sidnie Manton Award. The Sidnie Manton Award was launched in 2016 as new competition for early-career ecologists to […]

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Large mammals at Mt. Kilimanjaro: the importance of resource availability and protected areas

March 25, 2020by Simon Hoggart Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Friederike Gebert from the University of Würzburg and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for her article  Primary productivity and habitat protection predict elevational species richness and […]

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How good are we at identifying cues for breeding?

March 23, 2020by Simon Hoggart Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Emily Simmonds from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for her article  Cue identification in phenology: A case […]

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Microbiomes of soils, plants and animals

March 13, 2020by Simon Hoggart Leave a comment

A new book in the BES Ecological Reviews series explores how microbiomes contribute to a range of important functions in their hosts, from nutrition, to behaviour and disease susceptibility. Here, […]

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Welcome to our new Associate Editors

March 9, 2020by Simon Hoggart Leave a comment

We are pleased to welcome Greta Bocedi University of Aberdeen and Beatriz Willink University of Costa Rica who have  joined the Journal of Animal Ecology Associate Editor Board today! Greta Bocedi […]

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Welcome to our new Associate Editors

March 5, 2020by Simon Hoggart Leave a comment

We are pleased to welcome Rachael Antwis, Jon Bielby, Fleur Ponton and Rafael L. G. Raimundo who have all recently joined the Journal of Animal Ecology Associate Editor Board. Rachael […]

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Open Call for Papers: Joint Special Feature on ecological resilience

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Resilience has emerged as a key concept in ecology and conservation biology to understand and predict ecosystem responses to global change. In its broadest and original sense, resilience describes the […]

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2019 Elton Prize shortlist: Journal of Animal Ecology award for early career researchers

February 25, 2020by Simon Hoggart Leave a comment

The Elton Prize is awarded by the British Ecological Society each year for the best paper in Journal of Animal Ecology written by an early career author at the start […]

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