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 […]
Category Archives: Guest post
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 […]
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“, […]
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 […]
Large mammals at Mt. Kilimanjaro: the importance of resource availability and protected areas
This blog post is provided by Friederike Gebert from the University of Würzburg and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for her article Primary productivity and habitat protection predict elevational species richness and […]
How good are we at identifying cues for breeding?
This blog post is provided by Emily Simmonds from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for her article Cue identification in phenology: A case […]
Showcasing developments in biologging and related methods in applied ecology
Originally posted on The Applied Ecologist:
Following the recent Journal of Animal Ecology Special Feature on biologging, Associate Editor, Steph Januchowski-Hartley takes a look at how research in this and…
Persistence (and a bit of luck) pays off: Costs of reproduction in mountain ungulates
Fitness costs of reproduction are expected when resources are limited. This can drive the evolution of life‐history strategies and can affect population dynamics, particularly if females change their allocation of […]
Navigating through the R packages for movement
In the biologging Special Issue of the journal, we have new Review paper lead by Rocío Joo on Navigating through the r packages for movement. Rocío is a movement statistician […]
Light‐Level Geolocator Analyses: A user’s guide
In the biologging Special Issue of the journal, we have new ‘How to…’ paper lead by Simeon Lisovski from the Swiss Ornithological Institute on Light‐Level Geolocator Analyses. In this blog […]
Birds in paradise: biogeography in the subtropics
Biogeography is often more complicated than the species-area relationship as discussed in a Journal of Animal Ecology paper testing multiple extensions of island biogeography theory. Sam Ross, lead author of […]
Self-medication: how to use macronutrients to better survive infections
This blog post is provided by Fleur Ponton, Senior Lecturer in Insect Biology at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Fleur and her team are investigating the relationship between nutrition, immunology […]
Meet the Editor: Darren Evans
What do you remember of the first paper you published? I was an undergraduate working on my final year dissertation examining the impacts of recreational disturbance on wintering wildfowl. My […]
How to make the most out of machine learning models and what can go wrong
In the latest issue of the journal we have a new ‘How to…’ paper lead by Nick Fountain‐Jones from the University of Tasmania on How to make more from exposure […]
Determinants of micro- and macroparasite diversity in birds: the fruits of comparing apples and oranges
Identifying the factors shaping variation in parasite diversity among host species is crucial to understand wildlife diseases. A recent paper in Journal of Animal Ecology investigated the role of host […]
The invisible interplay between herbivorous insects and their monitoring ants on a chemically diverse plant
Plants exhibit impressive genetic and chemical diversity, and this variation is important for structuring ecological communities. A recent paper in the Journal of Animal Ecology investigated this with regard to […]
Manipulation of gut microbiota during critical developmental windows affect host physiological performance and disease susceptibility across ontogeny
Colonisation of gut microbiomes during early life can shape metabolism and immunity of adult animals. However, most data are derived from antibiotic‐treated or germ‐free laboratory mammals. Furthermore, few studies have […]
Climate impacts on trophic interactions in grasslands
By Colin Beale and Sue Hartley Over the past few weeks the BES journal blogs have been taking a look at the impacts of climate change on grasslands, celebrating the […]
Which GLM?
Many papers refer to the use of GLMs in their analyses – but are you sure you know to which statistical approach they refer? Professor Daniel Blumstein and Associate Professor […]
Do spatial sampling scales influence the understanding of ant-plant interaction network architecture?
Despite great interest in metrics to quantify the structure of ecological networks, the effects of sampling and scale remain poorly understood. However, a recent paper published in Journal of Animal […]
