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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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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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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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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 Uriah Daugaard, for his article ‘Warming can destabilize predator–prey interactions by shifting the functional response from Type III to Type II’. A topical challenge in ecology is to understand how temperature affects the complex ways … Continue reading 2019 Elton Prize Winner: Uriah Daugaard

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Welcome to our new Associate Editors

We are pleased to welcome Matt Barbour, University of Zurich, Isabella Capellini, University Belfast, James Kitson, University of Newcastle and Ben Longdon, University of Exeter who have joined the Journal of Animal Ecology Associate Editor Board today! Matt Barbour Matt is an evolutionary community ecologist. He uses experiments and theory to study the dynamic interplay between genes, phenotypes, and species that emerge in interaction networks, … Continue reading Welcome to our new Associate Editors

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Second Journal of Animal Ecology Sidnie Manton – Shortlisted papers

Today we are excited to announce the shortlisted papers for the second Sidnie Manton Award. The Sidnie Manton Award was launched in 2016 as new competition for early-career ecologists to write a Synthesis or Review article for the journal. We’re delighted to have four highly topical review papers lead by early career researchers to choose from. On the blog, we’ll have posts from authors of … Continue reading Second Journal of Animal Ecology Sidnie Manton – Shortlisted papers

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