An underwater unravelling of the immune landscape
This blog post is provided by Christyn Bailey and Helmut Segner and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper ‘It’s a hard knock life for some: heterogeneity in infection life-history of […]
Studying Abroad With A Bahamian Coastal Fish
This blog post tells the #StoryBehindThePaper from the perspective of one author, Matt Jenkins, for the article “Natural and anthropogenic sources of habitat variation influence exploration behaviour, stress response and […]
Alliance of ecologists and physiologists to study the effect of size and food quantity on muscle metabolism in the European sardine Sardina pilchardus
This blog post is provided by Elisa Thoral, Claire Saraux and Loïc Teulier and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper ‘Changes in foraging mode caused by a decline in prey size have major […]
Songbirds harbour different microbes depending on where they live
This blog post is provided by Leanne Grieves and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper ‘Preen gland microbiota of songbirds differ across populations but not sexes’, which was recently published in the […]
KALAHARI APARTMENT BLOCKS
This blog post is provided by Anthony M. Lowney and Robert L. Thomson from the Fitzpatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper […]
Sharks surf the slope: current updrafts reduce energy expenditure of aggregating marine predators
This blog post is provided by Yannis P. Papastamatiou, Gil Iosilevskii, Valentina Di Santo, Charlie Huveneers, Tarek Hattab, Serge Planes, Laurent Ballesta and Johann Mourier and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the […]
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 […]
Native predator loss opens all-year roadkill buffet for remaining scavengers
This blog post is provided by Matthew Fielding and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper ‘Roadkill islands: Carnivore extinction shifts seasonal use of roadside carrion by generalist avian scavenger’, which was […]
Rainbow Research: Nature
To celebrate UK Pride Month, the British Ecological Society journal blogs are hosting a ‘Rainbow Research’ series, which aims to promote visibility of STEM researchers from the LGBTQ+ community. Each post […]
MEET THE EDITOR: Rob Salguero-Gómez
We are thrilled to announce that Rob Salguero-Gómez has been appointed as the new Commissioning Editor for Journal of Animal Ecology. Read on to find out a bit about Rob and […]
Can a generalist parasitoid act like Paine’s starfish?
This blog post is provided by Jinlin Chen and Chris Terry and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper ‘Natural enemies have inconsistent impacts on the coexistence of competing species’, which was […]
Animals in the driver’s seat: a methodological roadmap to animal-mediated nutrient translocation
This blog post is provided by Kristy M. Ferraro and Diego Ellis-Soto and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for their article “A methodological roadmap to quantify animal-vectored spatial ecosystem subsidies“, which was recently […]
HOW DOES A FOOD WEB MAINTAIN ITS RESILIENCE?
This blog post is provided by Xiaoxiao Li and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper ‘Energetic constraints imposed on trophic interaction strengths enhance resilience in empirical and model food webs’, which […]
Effects of sea temperature on wild fish behaviour
This blog post is provided by Carla Freitas, David Villegas‐Ríos, Even Moland and Esben Moland Olsen and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for their article “Sea temperature effects on depth use and habitat […]
LET’S EAT TOGETHER: ATOMS FROM AMINO ACIDS REVEAL COMMON DOLPHINS’ FEEDING STRATEGY
This blog post is provided by Rocio Iliana Ruiz-Cooley, Tim Gerrodette and Susan Chivers and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Cooperative feeding in common dolphins as suggested by ontogenetic […]
Rainbow Research: Contribute to our Pride Month Blog Series!
Originally posted on Methods Blog:
We are inviting contributions from LGBTQ+ ecologists and evolutionary biologists for a series of blog posts across the British Ecological Society journals for UK Pride Month,…
Does your research intersect with a natural history collection?
Associate Editor Alison Davis Rabosky introduces our exciting new cross-journal Special Feature ‘Leveraging Natural History Collections to Understand the Impacts of Global Change‘. Below you can find out all about the […]
How global heating can disconnect tropical forests from freshwater ecosystems
This blog post is provided by Liam Nash and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for his article “Warming of aquatic ecosystems disrupts aquatic-terrestrial linkages in the tropics“, with co-authors Pablo Antiqueira, Gustavo Romero, […]
The enemy of my enemy is my friend: Nematode infection of non-pollinating fig wasps in Ficus petiolaris
This blog post is provided by Justin Van Goor, Finn Piatscheck, Derek Houston, and John Nason and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for their article “Differential effects of nematode infection on pollinating and […]
Journal of Animal Ecology Elton Prize awarded to Natalie Jones
The Elton Prize is awarded annually to the best article by an early career researcher in Journal of Animal Ecology. We are delighted to announce that the winner of the […]
Testing how global warming changes freshwater communities
Elton Prize shortlisted Article This blog post is provided by Natalie T. Jones and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Predators drive community reorganization during experimental range shifts”. Natalie has […]
