Watch out! Colours can inform about animal defences
This blog is part of our colourful countdown to the holiday season where we’re celebrating the diversity and beauty of the natural world. Click here to read the rest of the colour countdown […]
Category Archives: Guest post
Interacting elevational and latitudinal gradients determine bat diversity and distribution across the Neotropics
This blog post is provided by Juliano A. Bogoni, Vítor Carvalho-Rocha, Katia M. P. M. B. Ferraz & Carlos A. Peres and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Interacting elevational […]
How do you define resilience?
In this webinar, recorded on 27th September 2021, the Guest Editors and selected authors present research published in our cross-journal special feature: Reconciling resilience across ecological systems, species and subdisciplines. […]
A tight knot between exploratory personality, foraging tactics and diet
This blog post is provided by Selin Ersoy and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Exploration speed in captivity predicts foraging tactics and diet in free-living red knots” by S. […]
Kişilik, yiyecek arama taktikleri ve beslenme arasındaki iliski
Bu yazi ‘Journal of Animal Ecology’ dergisinde yayinlanan makalenin blog yazisinin turkcesidir. “Exploration speed in captivity predicts foraging tactics and diet in free-living red knots” S. Ersoy, C. E. Beardsworth, […]
Woodpeckers and other excavators build a legacy of diversity
This blog post is provided by Kurt Trzcinski and Andrea Norris and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Woodpeckers and other excavators maintain the diversity of cavity-nesting vertebrates”, which was […]
Professor Simon Leather FRES (aka @EntoProf): JAE Associate Editor (2005-2014)
Blog post by Ken Wilson (@spodoptera007)Former Executive Editor, Journal of Animal Ecology I was deeply saddened to hear of the recent death of Professor Simon Leather FRES following a period […]
Behavioural generalism could facilitate coexistence of tropical and temperate fishes under climate change
This blog post is provided by Ericka O. C. Coni, David J. Booth, Camilo M. Ferreira and Ivan Nagelkerken and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Behavioural generalism could facilitate […]
The impacts of climate change: from a butterfly’s microbiome to food security
This year’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) will be held in Glasgow in November, and now more than ever before, the pressure is on for world leaders to agree on […]
How complex should a model be? Inferences from a long-term study of an island reintroduction
This blog post is provided by Doug P. Armstrong and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Capturing the dynamics of small populations: A retrospective assessment using long-term data for an […]
Personality and human infrastructures shape the nest distribution of a farmland raptor
This blog post is provided by Juliette Rabdeau and Karine Monceau and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Do human infrastructures shape nest distribution in the landscape depending on individual personality […]
Leaving by staying: Dispersal decisions of young giraffes
This blog post is provided by Monica L. Bond, Derek E. Lee, Arpat Ozgul, Damien R. Farine, and Barbara König and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper ‘Leaving by staying: Social […]
“Home sweet home”: how limiting between-group interactions of young individuals can favour epidemic fade-out in social species
This blog post is provided by L Marescot, M Franz, S Benhaiem, H Hofer, C Scherer, M L East, and S Kramer-Schadt and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “‘Keeping the kids at home’ can […]
EFFECTS OF CHANGING HABITATS ON BAT-VIRUS DYNAMICS
This blog post is provided by Tamika Lunn, Alison Peel, Hamish McCallum, Peggy Eby, Maureen Kessler, Raina Plowright and Olivier Restif, and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for their article “Spatial dynamics […]
Invasive species and the carp-ocalypse
This blog post is provided by Victoria Dominguez Almela, Josie South & Robert Britton and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper ‘Predicting the competitive interactions and trophic niche consequences 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 […]
Animal Ecology In Focus 