Category: Guest post

Credit: Grégoire Delanos, Recherche sans filtre, Sorbonne Université, 2024.
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Paler within the city: Across Europe, great tits (Parus major) are paler in more impervious neighbourhoods.

This blog post is provided by Nicolas Bekka and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Paler within the city: carotenoid-based colouration covaries negatively with the proportion of impervious surface in great tit (Parus major) territories across Europe”, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. In their study, Bekka and colleagues explore how fine-scale urbanisation shapes plumage colour in great tits across six European … Continue reading Paler within the city: Across Europe, great tits (Parus major) are paler in more impervious neighbourhoods.

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The Value of Reproductive Value

This blog post is provided by Jean-Dominique Lebreton and Madan K. Oli and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Reproductive value as a key concept in ecology and evolutionary biology”, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. In their study, Lebreton, Oli and colleagues break down the meaning of reproductive value, an idea first proposed by R. A. Fisher almost a century ago to … Continue reading The Value of Reproductive Value

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Small colonies, big environmental challenges: how the intensity and duration of heat exposure shape ant colony foraging

This blog post is provided by Rafael Carvalho da Silva, Maëlys Prost, Angélique Bultelle, and Thibaud Monnin, and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Effects of heat stress on the foraging activity of incipient ant colonies”, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. In their study, da Silva and colleagues explored the impacts of prolonged heat exposure on the foraging activities of black garden … Continue reading Small colonies, big environmental challenges: how the intensity and duration of heat exposure shape ant colony foraging

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When the Roads Went Quiet: What Pikas Taught Us About Wildlife Responses to the Anthropause

This blog post is provided by Yangheshan Yang and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Unexpected asymmetric Qinghai-Tibetan wildlife dietary response to anthropause: rapid initial shifts and a slow return”, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. In their study, Yang and colleagues show the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the diets of roadside pika populations on the northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. We did … Continue reading When the Roads Went Quiet: What Pikas Taught Us About Wildlife Responses to the Anthropause

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From simple rules to complex networks

In this blog post, Blanca Arroyo-Correa tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Mutual networks emerge from the interplay of abundance, behaviour and spatial constraints“, recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. The study utilised agent-based models to understand if individual interactions can be used to understand complex plant-pollinator networks . From forests and coral reefs to the microbes living inside our bodies, nature is … Continue reading From simple rules to complex networks

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The clock matters when we study pollination

This blog post is provided by Caio S. Ballarin and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article, “Optimising daily sampling of plant–bee interaction networks”, which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. This study tracked plant-bee interaction networks throughout the day, revealing how interactions shift from dawn to dusk. They provide a framework to optimise sampling strategies that capture ecological network structure more accurately and … Continue reading The clock matters when we study pollination

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Who is next in line? Predicting which Red Sea fish will invade the Mediterranean Sea

This blog post is provided by Shahar Chaikin and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article, “Native habitat affinities predict fish invasions with post-invasion habitat shifts”, which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. This study tracked fish populations within their native Red Sea range and into their invaded Eastern Mediterranean range, revealing traits that drive invasion success and highlighting how pre-invasion adaptations can better … Continue reading Who is next in line? Predicting which Red Sea fish will invade the Mediterranean Sea

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Where do elephants go during drought? Lessons from 19 years of GPS tracking

This blog post is provided by Irene Bouwman and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Elephant space use and habitat selection change across drought timescales“, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. This study examined how drought affects the spatial use and habitat selection of African elephants. As charismatic as elephants may be in David Attenborough documentaries, my first encounter with the elephant … Continue reading Where do elephants go during drought? Lessons from 19 years of GPS tracking

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Celebrating 100 years since the publication of Charles Elton’s Animal Ecology

Reflections from our Executive Editor, Dr Nate Sanders Nearly 100 years ago, a 27-year-old Charles Elton published Animal Ecology, a foundational book that helped launch a new science. The book launched and defined the scientific study of how animals interact with one another and their environment. Drawing inspiration from the emerging study of plant communities, Elton argued that animal communities also had structure, dynamics, and … Continue reading Celebrating 100 years since the publication of Charles Elton’s Animal Ecology

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Same species, different life histories: how survival and age at first breeding vary across space

In this blog post, Matia Haïm Muller tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Assessment of large-scale spatial variation in age-specific survival and age at first breeding in a long-lived species”, recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. The study uses long-term ringing, resighting and dead-recovery data from more than 90,000 white storks across Germany to reveal how survival and age at first breeding differ … Continue reading Same species, different life histories: how survival and age at first breeding vary across space

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