Moving forward with cheetah research and conservation
This blog post is provided by Cédric Scherer and Jörg Melzheimer after winning the ‘pretty map’ category of MoveMapCompetition from the BES Movement Ecology SIG The cheetah is the rarest big […]
Time flies: detecting seasonal declines in experimental populations of Drosophila
This blog post is provided by Joseph Burant and Ryan Norris and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Early warning indicators of population collapse in a seasonal environment“, which was […]
Daylength is an ultimate factor of migration
This blog post is provided by Ivan Pokrovsky, Andrea Kölzsch, Sherub Sherub, Wolfgang Fiedler, Peter Glazov, Olga Kulikova, Martin Wikelski and Andrea Flack and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Longer days […]
Rapid and repeated shifts in chemical signals in Greece
Elton Prize shortlisted Article This blog post is provided by Colin Donihue and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Rapid and Repeated Divergence of Animal Chemical Signals in an Island […]
Asymmetric foraging in aquatic animals
This blog post is provided by Junjie Zheng and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Asymmetric foraging lowers the trophic level and omnivory in natural food webs“, which was recently […]
Eurasian reed warbler (still) benefits from climate change
This blog post is provided by Lucyna Halupka and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for their article “Fitness consequences of longer breeding seasons of a migratory passerine under changing climatic conditions“, which […]
Integrating new technological advances and classical ecological methods to uncover the secret lives of social animals
This blog post is provided by Jennifer Smith and Noa Pinter-Wollman and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Observing the unwatchable: Integrating automated sensing, naturalistic observations and animal social network […]
Growing up hyena
The first in the behind-the-scenes series for the Journal of Animal Ecology’s Animal Social Network Special Issue, this blog post is provided by Julie Turner (@WanderingBiol) and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper […]
How animals fuel their reproduction: a new approach
This blog post is provided by John Whiteman and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Quantifying capital vs. income breeding: new promise with stable isotope measurements of individual amino acids“, which was recently published […]
Night fever at the Pantanal wetlands: night activity of anuran assemblages
“The nighttime environment provides the ecological theater for the nocturnal play” (Gaston 2019, American Naturalist) This blog post is provided by Dr Larissa Sugai and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article […]
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 […]
Visual contagion in prey defence signals can enhance honest defence
This blog post is provided by Shihao Dong, Ken Tan, and James C. Nieh and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for their article “Visual contagion in prey defence signals can enhance honest defence“, which was recently […]
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 […]
Stressful environments put bumblebees at risk
This blog post is provided by Cristina Botías and Dave Goulson and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Multiple stressors interact to impair the performance of bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) colonies”. Cristina […]
Personality and pace-of-life in free-ranging lemon sharks: a field recipe
This blog post is provided by Félicie Dhellemmes and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Personality‐driven life history trade‐offs differ in two subpopulations of free‐ranging predators”. Ingredients: Two (or more) wild populations […]
Navigating biological invasion and structural racism in urban systems
This blog post is provided by Piatã Santana Marques and tells their #StoryBehindThePaper for their article “Urbanization can increase the invasive potential of alien species“, which was recently published in […]
A Migratory Bird’s Journey from the Andes of Colombia to North America: leave early and take it easy or leave late and migrate fast?
This blog post is provided by Ana M. González and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Earlier and slower or later and faster: Spring migration pace linked to departure time […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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“, […]
2019 Elton Prize Winner: Uriah Daugaard
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 […]
There are no second acts in animal life cycles
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 […]
Blown away: How male pectoral sandpipers look for their next partner
This blog post is provided by Johannes Krietsch after winning the nerdy” category category of MoveMapCompetition from the BES Movement Ecology SIG. Congratulations Johannes! A key aspect in the study […]
When, where, and why are soaring migrants dying? Geographic differences in the survival of the globally threatened Egyptian vulture
This blog post is provided by Evan Buechley, Ron Efrat and Steffen Oppel and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for their article “Differential survival throughout the full annual cycle of a migratory […]
Uncovering climate and land-use impacts on Wisconsin’s common loons
This blog post is provided by Walter Piper and Sarah Saunders and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Interrelated impacts of climate and land-use change on a widespread waterbird“, which was recently published […]
Ecosystem restoration – insights from theory
This blog post is provided by Klementyna Gawecka and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Habitat restoration in spatially explicit metacommunity models“, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. Healthy […]
Devil in a blue dress: colour morph affects fitness in Arctic foxes
This blog post is provided by Cecilia Di Bernardi and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Fitness and fur colouration – testing the camouflage and thermoregulation hypotheses in an Arctic […]
A “How-to” Guide for Interpreting Parameters in Habitat-Selection Analyses
This blog post is provided by John Fieberg, Johannes Signer, Brian Smith and Tal Avgar and tells the “StoryBehindthePaper for the article “A ‘How-to’ Guide for Interpreting Parameters in Habitat-Selection […]
Sexual Selection and Personality in Red Junglefowl
This blog post is provided by Allison M. Roth and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Sexual selection and personality: Individual and group‐level effects on mating behavior in red junglefowl“, which was recently […]
Disentangling temporal food web structure
This blog post is provided by Susanne Kortsch, Romain Frelat, Ivars Putnis, and Marie Nordström and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for their article ‘Disentangling temporal food web dynamics facilitates understanding of ecosystem […]
2020 ELTON PRIZE SHORTLIST: JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY AWARD FOR EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS
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 of their research career. […]
Take Cover: Even a post-fire specialist needs a break from the burn for part of its life cycle
This blog post is provided by Meredith Walker, Communications Specialist at The Institute for Bird Populations, and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Juvenile survival of a burned forest specialist […]
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…
International Women’s Day 2021
This International Women’s Day we look back over the blogs from the last year, and highlight four of our favourites written by women. Celebrate women in science, and the awesome […]
EL VIAJE DE UN AVE MIGRATORIA DESDE LOS ANDES DE COLOMBIA A NORTE AMÉRICA: ¿SALIR TEMPRANO Y TOMARLO CON CALMA O SALIR MAS TARDE Y MIGRAR RÁPIDO?
This blog post is provided by Ana M Gonzalaez and is the Spanish version of the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Earlier and slower or later and faster: Spring migration pace […]
Catching the parasite: three-spined sticklebacks eat trematode free-living stages
This blog post is provided by Ana Born-Torrijos and Miroslava Soldánová and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for their article “Cercarial behaviour alters the consumer functional response of three-spined sticklebacks“, which was […]
