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Category Archives: Guest post

Songbird parents coordinate in space and time

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This blog post is provided by Davide Baldan and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Songbird parents coordinate offspring provisioning at fine spatio-temporal scales“, which was recently published in the […]

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Raising young from a bird’s eye view – adjusted social interactions keep a male godwit’s brood alive

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This blog post is provided by Luke Wilde and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Behavioral adjustments in the social associations of a precocial shorebird mediate the costs and benefits […]

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Migrating through a storm: how do songbirds respond to environmental pressures across the annual cycle?

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This blog post is provided by Devin de Zwaan and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “The relative influence of cross-seasonal and local weather effects on the breeding success of […]

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Rainbow Research: Contribute to our Pride Month Blog Series!

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Originally posted on Methods Blog:
Following the success of last year’s Rainbow Research blog series, we are once again inviting contributions from LGBTQ+ ecologists and evolutionary biologists for a series of…

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Data type matters when known hosts are used to guide future virus surveillance

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This blog post is provided by Nathaniel Mull and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Virus isolation data improve host predictions for New World rodent orthohantaviruses“, which was recently published […]

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Predicting heat stress on seasonal tropical shores: why are “suboptimal” temperatures preferred by an intertidal snail?

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This blog post is provided by Tommy Hui and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Why are “suboptimal” temperatures preferred in a tropical intertidal ectotherm?”, which was recently published in […]

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Kalahari Apartment Blocks part two: retail value increases in harsher environments

April 25, 2022by Beth Preston Leave a comment

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 ‘Ecological engineering across a spatial gradient: […]

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Could apex predators limit the seed dispersal of fleshy-fruit plants? A rewilding scenario involving mammal carnivores.

March 28, 2022by Julie Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Tamara Burgos and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Predation risk can modify the foraging behaviour of frugivorous carnivores: implications of rewilding apex predators […]

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How high can you fly: butterflies fly according to the vertical distribution of their plant resources

March 23, 2022by Julie Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Denise Dalbosco Dell’Aglio, Sebastián Mena, Rémi Mauxion, W. Owen McMillan and Stephen H. Montgomery and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Divergence in Heliconius […]

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How timing shapes scientific stories

March 21, 2022by Beth Preston Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Rachel Dickson and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Behavioral responses by a bumble bee to competition with a niche-constructing congener”, which was recently […]

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Florida scrub-jays move elsewhere when competition gets tough

February 28, 2022by Beth Preston Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Young Ha Suh and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Staging to join non-kin groups in a classical cooperative breeder, the Florida scrub-jay”, which […]

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¿Qué determina la estructura en una red trófica?

February 14, 2022by Beth Preston Leave a comment

Este posteo fue proporcionado por Tomás I. Marina y Leonardo A. Saravia y cuenta la #LaHistoriaDetrasDelPaper para el artículo “Ecological network assembly: how the regional metaweb influences local food webs”,  publicado recientemente […]

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What determines the structure of a food web?

February 14, 2022by Beth Preston Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Tomás I. Marina and Leonardo A. Saravia and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Ecological network assembly: how the regional metaweb influences local food […]

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Why do the buffalo roam? Determining what drives seasonal strategies in large mammalian herbivores

January 26, 2022by Julie Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Joel O. Abraham and A. Carla Staver and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Seasonal strategies differ between tropical and extratropical herbivores”, which was […]

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Impact of land use on emerging diseases: a One Health perspective

January 24, 2022by Journal of Animal Ecology Leave a comment

How do rapid changes in the world around us affect the risk of emerging diseases in people and wildlife? Olivier Restif, Lucinda Kirkpatrick, Sandra Telfer, David Redding, Harriet Bartlett, Orly […]

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Long days but little time: Goslings grow faster at high latitudes

January 20, 2022by Julie Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Michiel Boom and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Postnatal growth rate varies with latitude in range-expanding geese – the role of plasticity and […]

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Dung beetle-mammal dung interaction networks are resilient across a gradient of forest disturbance

January 11, 2022by Beth Preston Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Li Yuen Chiew and Eleanor M. Slade and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Tropical forest dung beetle-mammal dung interaction networks remain similar across […]

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Finding out when rare and common species change their interactions using multi-site interaction turnover

January 6, 2022by Beth Preston Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Marie V. Henriksen and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “A multi-site method to capture turnover in rare to common interactions in bipartite species […]

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Connections Matter: How Patterns of Habitat Connectivity Affect Population Dynamics

January 4, 2022by Julie Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Paulina A. Arancibia and Peter J. Morin and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Network topology and patch connectivity affect dynamics in experimental and […]

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Hiding in plain sight: a mystery of colour-changing ability in the green lynx spider

December 23, 2021by Journal of Animal Ecology Leave a comment

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 series. […]

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