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International Women’s Day 2021: #ChooseToChallenge

Originally posted on The Applied Ecologist:
The theme for International Women’s Day 2021 is #ChooseToChallenge. “A challenged world is an alert world. Individually, we’re all responsible for our own thoughts and actions – all day, every day. We can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality. We can all choose to seek out and celebrate women’s achievements. Collectively, we can all… Continue reading International Women’s Day 2021: #ChooseToChallenge

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Our guide to the Festival of Ecology

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 few highlights we have picked out for the readers of Animal Ecology In Focus. The Journal of Animal Ecology playlist  Talks Annette FayetUniversity of OxfordForaging ecology and niche separation in two closely-related sympatric tropical seabirds … Continue reading Our guide to the Festival of Ecology

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Welcome to our new Associate Editors

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 our first editors from Colombia and Mexico. We are delighted to further expanded the expertise and diversity of our board. You can find out more about all our new editors, below. Please join me in … Continue reading Welcome to our new Associate Editors

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

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 commissioning content for the blog and working with authors to promote their papers. Julie is a postdoc at the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, GLOBE Institute, Copenhagen University, where she also recently completed her … Continue reading Welcome to Beth Preston and Julie Koch Sheard our new Blog Associate Editors

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#StoryBehindThePaper

Untangling community dynamics using spatially explicit Bayesian networks

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 telling us the #StoryBehindThePaper. Microbial communities are inherently complex systems with potentially hundreds of millions of interacting species. Every surface of the body is occupied by a diverse set of microbes; interactions between them, mediated … Continue reading Untangling community dynamics using spatially explicit Bayesian networks

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

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 conservation and mitigation strategies as global temperatures continue to rise. It is now becoming increasingly feasible to generate data at genome and population-wide scales for many species, including those at the greatest risk from the … Continue reading Open call for papers: Special Feature on understanding climate change response in the age of genomics

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When the world burns, how do predators respond?

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 systematic review and meta‐analysis, which has been shortlisted for the 2020 Sidnie Manton Award. Over the past year, many regions of the world have experienced extensive and severe fires. More than ten million hectares across … Continue reading When the world burns, how do predators respond?

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

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 wildlife immune defence’. Daniel is a postdoctoral fellow at Indiana University. His research explores the ecological and evolutionary factors that shape infectious disease dynamics in wildlife and cross-species transmission. Daniel’s paper was selected as a … Continue reading Congratulations to Daniel J. Becker on winning the Sidnie Manton Award

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We are recruiting for a Blog Associate Editor

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 important new findings in animal ecology. After three fantastic years leading and growing the blog our current Editor, Sarah Marley is stepping down. Here is what Sarah had to say about the role: It is … Continue reading We are recruiting for a Blog Associate Editor

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Characterizing the “landscape of immunity” across wildlife systems

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“, Daniel Becker and colleagues discuss the expanding efforts to apply large-scale approaches to ecological immunology. Daniel is a postdoctoral fellow at Indiana University and will be starting as an Assistant Professor at the University of … Continue reading Characterizing the “landscape of immunity” across wildlife systems

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