Meet the Associate Editor: Garrett Street

At JAE we’re taking the opportunity to showcase our wonderful Editorial Board by chatting to our Editors about their research, experience as an editor, and their advice to prospective authors. Editor Profile Name: Garret Street Associate Editor Since: January 2017 Location: Wildlife, Fisheries & Aquaculture, Mississippi State University, USA Keywords: behaviour, Cervidae, habitats, landscape, mammals, modeling, movement, production, resource selection, space use, Suidae Can you … Continue reading Meet the Associate Editor: Garrett Street

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Unveiling Seasonal Risk Landscapes: How Ecological Disturbance and Human Recreation Shape Panther and Deer Responses

This blog post is provided by Heather N. Abernathy and tells the #StoryBehindthePaper for the paper ‘Rain, recreation and risk: Human activity and ecological disturbance create seasonal risk landscapes for the prey of an ambush predator’, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. In their study, they show how panthers’ avoidance of human recreation and flooding create distinct schedules of risk for deer, … Continue reading Unveiling Seasonal Risk Landscapes: How Ecological Disturbance and Human Recreation Shape Panther and Deer Responses

Meet the Associate Editor – Jacob Allgeier

At JAE we’re taking the opportunity to showcase our wonderful Editorial Board by chatting to our Editors about their research, experience as an editor, and their advice to prospective authors. Associate Editor Profile Name: Jacob Allgeier Location: University of Michigan Website: https://www.jacoballgeier.com/  Keywords: Ecosystem ecology, community ecology, Experimentation, field ecology, statistics, movement studies, isotope ecology, aquatic, marine, coastal, coral reefs, mangroves, seagrass beds Can you … Continue reading Meet the Associate Editor – Jacob Allgeier

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Billfish use an oxygen minimum zone boundary to hunt

This blog post is provided by Ryan Logan and tells the #StoryBehindthePaper for the paper “Patrolling the border: billfish exploit the hypoxic boundary created by the world’s largest oxygen minimum zone”, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. Blue marlin and sailfish are top predators in the pelagic environment, but little is known about their hunting behavior. Ryan Logan, the lead author of the … Continue reading Billfish use an oxygen minimum zone boundary to hunt

What’s so great about macroecology?

Hi! I’m Tom, a lecturer at Cardiff University, assistant editor at Journal of Animal Ecology, and a self-described macroecologist. I’m writing on the JAE blog to promote the wonderful subfield of macroecology. JAE is packed with a wealth of great animal macroecology studies. In addition, there is a British Ecological Society Macroecology Special Interest Group Annual Meeting (that’s a serious mouthful) coming up in July. … Continue reading What’s so great about macroecology?

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Human land-uses homogenize stream assemblages and reduce animal biomass production

This blog post is provided by Dieison André Moi and tells the #StoryBehindthePaper for the paper ‘Human land-uses homogenize stream assemblages and reduce animal biomass production’, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. In their study, Dieison and colleagues evaluated the effects of four land-uses on taxonomic richness, functional and trait diversityof fishes, arthropods, and macrophytesbased on data from 61 stream sites in … Continue reading Human land-uses homogenize stream assemblages and reduce animal biomass production

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O uso do solo por humanos homogeniza assembleias de riachos e reduz a produção de biomassa animal

Este post no blog é fornecido por Dieison André Moi e conta o #StoryBehindthePaper para o manuscrito ‘O uso do solo por humanos homogeniza assembleias de riachos e reduz a produção de biomassa animal’, que foi recentemente publicado no Journal of Animal Ecology. Em seu estudo, Dieison e colegas avaliaram os efeitos de quatro usos da terra na riqueza taxonômica, diversidade funcional e de categorias … Continue reading O uso do solo por humanos homogeniza assembleias de riachos e reduz a produção de biomassa animal

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When species can decide whether to disperse or not

This blog post is provided by Xiaozhou Ye and tells the #StoryBehindthePaper for the paper “Maintenance of biodiversity in multitrophic metacommunities: dispersal mode matters”, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. In their paper they investigate whether distinct dispersal modes (such as random or fitness-dependent dispersal) impact residing metacommunity biodiversity. The answer is yes. Read on to find out more. Does species-level dispersal mode … Continue reading When species can decide whether to disperse or not

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Caribou acclimate timing of migration and birth to changes in snowmelt and green-up

This blog post is provided by Michel Laforge and tells the #StoryBehindthePaper for the paper “Plasticity and repeatability in spring migration and parturition dates with implications for annual reproductive success”, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. In their paper they find that caribou acclimate the timing of their migration and when they give birth to the timing of spring snow melt and plant … Continue reading Caribou acclimate timing of migration and birth to changes in snowmelt and green-up