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“, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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…
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Bats can carry various diseases, including many which are transferable to humans. A recent study published in the Journal of Animal Ecology investigated disease extent, seasonality, and mechanisms of transmission […]
Eco-evolutionary dynamics are well studied but the term is applied to a wide variety of effects and interactions. Yet comparing these different types of studies on eco-evolutionary dynamics will inform […]
