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Author Archives: Julie

Determinants of community structure: parasites fight the environment, their hosts and each other

December 12, 2022by Julie Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Joshua Brian and tells the #StoryBehindthePaper for the paper ‘Factors at multiple scales drive parasite community structure’, which was recently published in Journal of […]

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Survival and dispersal drive population dynamics of UK breeding Pied flycatchers

December 9, 2022by Julie Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Malcolm Burgess and Chloé Nater and tells the #StoryBehindthePaper for the paper ‘Spatial consistency in drivers of population dynamics of a declining migratory bird‘, […]

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What do dung beetles actually do?

December 2, 2022by Julie Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Joaquín Hortal and Indradatta deCastro-Arrazola and tells the #StoryBehindthePaper for the paper ‘ A trait-based framework for dung beetle functional ecology’, which was recently […]

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Historical data show serious threats facing freshwater mussels in major UK river

November 30, 2022by Julie Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Isobel Ollard and tells the #StoryBehindthePaper for the paper ‘Declines in freshwater mussel density, size and productivity in the River Thames over the past […]

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Do birds build bigger nests when it’s cold?

November 10, 2022by Julie Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Karina Vanadzina and tells the #StoryBehindthePaper for the paper ‘Global drivers of variation in cup nest size in passerine birds‘, which was recently published […]

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To Breed or Not to Breed: Skipped Breeding Can Obscure True Population Dynamics in Colonially Breeding Seabirds

November 7, 2022by Julie Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Emma J. Talis and tells the #StoryBehindthePaper for the paper ‘Variability, Skipped Breeding, and Heavy-tailed Dynamics in an Antarctic Seabird‘, which was recently published […]

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Field experiments, ecology and physiology: studying cultural propensities in wild species

November 3, 2022by Julie Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Kelly Ray Mannion and tells the #StoryBehindthePaper for the paper ‘A multicomponent approach to study cultural propensities during foraging in the wild‘, which was […]

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Functional Traits Predict Sensitivity of Forest Birds to Habitat Disturbance in Tropical Countryside

October 18, 2022by Julie Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Ian Ausprey and tells the #StoryBehindthePaper for the paper ‘Functional response traits and altered ecological niches drive the disassembly of cloud forest bird communities […]

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To understand how mule deer use fire-impacted areas, consider the season and account for their predators

October 6, 2022by Julie Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Taylor Ganz and tells the #StoryBehindthePaper for the paper ‘Interactive effects of wildfires, season, and predator activity shape mule deer movements‘, which was recently […]

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El tamaño si importa: ¿Como afectan los rasgos el rol de los peces depredadores en las tramas tróficas y redes espaciales en el Río Paraná Medio?

August 29, 2022by Julie 1 Comment

Este posteo fue proporcionado por Dalmiro Borzone Mas y Pablo Scarabotti y nos cuenta #StoryBehindthePaper para el trabajo “Simetrías y asimetrías en los roles topológicos de los peces depredadores entre […]

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Size does matter: how do traits affect the role of predatory fish on food webs and spatial networks in the middle Paraná River?

August 29, 2022by Julie Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Dalmiro Borzone Mas and Pablo Scarabotti and tells the #StoryBehindthePaper for the paper “Symmetries and asymmetries in the topological roles of piscivorous fishes between […]

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Bee declines: what’s the stress all about?

August 24, 2022by Julie Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Aoife Cantwell-Jones and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Signatures of increasing environmental stress in bumblebee wings over the past century: Insights from museum […]

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Artificial selection in human-wildlife feeding interactions.

August 10, 2022by Julie Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Laura L. Griffin and tells the #StoryBehindthePaper for the paper “Artificial selection in human-wildlife feeding interactions“, which was recently published in the Journal of […]

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Mountain lion predation on wild donkeys rewires an ancient food web

July 25, 2022by Julie Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Erick Lundgren and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “A novel trophic cascade between cougars and feral donkeys shapes desert wetlands“, which was recently […]

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Which genes and functions respond to environmental change?

June 13, 2022by Julie Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Katharina Wollenberg Valero and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Functional genomics of abiotic environmental adaptation in lacertid lizards and other vertebrates“, which was […]

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SPECIAL FEATURE: Understanding climate change response in the age of genomics

June 10, 2022by Julie Leave a comment

The June issue of Journal of Animal Ecology is out now and includes a Special feature, Understanding climate change response in the age of genomics. As global temperatures continue to […]

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Podcast, Special features

Songbird parents coordinate in space and time

May 25, 2022by Julie Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Davide Baldan and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Songbird parents coordinate offspring provisioning at fine spatio-temporal scales“, which was recently published in the […]

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Could apex predators limit the seed dispersal of fleshy-fruit plants? A rewilding scenario involving mammal carnivores.

March 28, 2022by Julie Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Tamara Burgos and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Predation risk can modify the foraging behaviour of frugivorous carnivores: implications of rewilding apex predators […]

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How high can you fly: butterflies fly according to the vertical distribution of their plant resources

March 23, 2022by Julie Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Denise Dalbosco Dell’Aglio, Sebastián Mena, Rémi Mauxion, W. Owen McMillan and Stephen H. Montgomery and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Divergence in Heliconius […]

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Why do the buffalo roam? Determining what drives seasonal strategies in large mammalian herbivores

January 26, 2022by Julie Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Joel O. Abraham and A. Carla Staver and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Seasonal strategies differ between tropical and extratropical herbivores”, which was […]

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