Navigating through the R packages for movement
In the biologging Special Issue of the journal, we have new Review paper lead by Rocío Joo on Navigating through the r packages for movement. Rocío is a movement statistician […]
Author Archives: Simon Hoggart
Light‐Level Geolocator Analyses: A user’s guide
In the biologging Special Issue of the journal, we have new ‘How to…’ paper lead by Simeon Lisovski from the Swiss Ornithological Institute on Light‐Level Geolocator Analyses. In this blog […]
How to make your ORCID iD work for you
The BES journals require authors to include an ORCID iD when submitting a manuscript. ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier (an ORCID iD) that you own and control, that distinguishes […]
Self-medication: how to use macronutrients to better survive infections
This blog post is provided by Fleur Ponton, Senior Lecturer in Insect Biology at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Fleur and her team are investigating the relationship between nutrition, immunology […]
Speed Review at the BES Annual Meeting: Get a Senior Editor’s Opinion on YOUR Manuscript
Coming to the BES Annual Meeting? Planning to submit a paper to a BES journal? Then you should sign up for the Speed Review Session on Thursday 12 December! (sign-up […]
Wildlife Disease Ecology: Linking Theory to Data and Application
Infectious diseases are ubiquitous and account for some of the most dramatic impacts in human history. They are, however, equally prevalent and important to wild animals and plants, potentially being […]
Journal news: New Senior Editors
The journal is pleased to welcome Lesley Lancaster and Darren Evens to the Senior Editor board of Journal of Animal Ecology. Lesley is no stranger to Journal of Animal Ecology, having […]
Meet the Editor: Lesley Lancaster
What do you remember of the first paper you published? My first first-authored paper was ‘Adaptive social and maternal induction of antipredator dorsal patterns in a lizard with alternative social […]
Meet the Editor: Darren Evans
What do you remember of the first paper you published? I was an undergraduate working on my final year dissertation examining the impacts of recreational disturbance on wintering wildfowl. My […]
Call for papers: Special Feature on citizen science
Ecological projects involving citizen scientists have rapidly increased in number and there is now a general consensus that they can produce high-quality data. Citizen science projects generate large datasets that […]
Echolocating bats can use the social information provided by the calls of other bats to help find food
This blog post is provided by the Acoustic & Functional Ecology Group at the Max Plank Institute for Ornithology and describes a bat tour to the local lake and how […]
How to make the most out of machine learning models and what can go wrong
In the latest issue of the journal we have a new ‘How to…’ paper lead by Nick Fountain‐Jones from the University of Tasmania on How to make more from exposure […]
The multiple facets of behavioural plasticity: A symposium at Behaviour 2019 and a celebration for Louis Lefebvre
Behavioural plasticity is an important concept in ecology and evolution. The term has been applied to a broad range of biological phenomena, from developmental changes occurring in a canalized fashion […]
New Associate Editors
We are pleased to welcome Rob Salguero-Gómez, University of Oxford, Hannah White, University Colluge Dublin and Elise Zipkin, Michigan State University to the Journal of Aniamal Ecology Associate Editor Board. […]
Climate impacts on trophic interactions in grasslands
By Colin Beale and Sue Hartley Over the past few weeks the BES journal blogs have been taking a look at the impacts of climate change on grasslands, celebrating the […]
BES Journal Blogs Round Up: March 2019
March was a busy month across the British Ecological Society blogs. Methods in Ecology and Evolution and Journal of Animal Ecology launched an open call for submissions for a joint […]
Animal Social Networks: Joint Special Feature Open Call
The recent focus on the study of animal social networks has led to some fundamental new insights. These have spanned across fields in ecology and evolution, ranging from epidemiology and […]
Research gaps in Animal Social Network Analysis
Post provided by Damien Farine, Sebastian Sosa, David Jacoby, Mathieu Lihoreau and Cédric Sueur Here at Methods in Ecology & Evolution and the Journal of Animal Ecology we are excited […]
The baboons of Amboseli
Founded in 1971, the Amboseli Baboon Project is one of the longest-running studies of wild primates in the world. The project centres on the savannah baboon, Papio cynocephalus that lives […]
Meet the Blog Editor: Sarah Marley
Next up in our Meet the Editor series is our Blog Editor Sarah Marley, marine biologist and fan of ancient woodlands. Catch Sarah at any of the breaks at the […]
