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Eggs and cooperation: a long-term study

This blog post is provided by Rita Fortuna and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Maternal allocation in relation to weather, predation and social factors in a colonial cooperative bird“, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. For almost a decade, we weighed over 9,000 sociable weaver eggs (Philetairus socius). Behind this paper, as with every long-term study, is an incredible amount of … Continue reading Eggs and cooperation: a long-term study

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Time to use some mussel: Exploring drivers of parasite community structure

This blog post is provided by Joshua Brian and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Abundance data applied to a novel model invertebrate host sheds new light on parasite community assembly in nature“, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. As much as we might try to avoid thinking about this, parasites are everywhere! However, the last couple of decades have seen a major shift in the … Continue reading Time to use some mussel: Exploring drivers of parasite community structure

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Skiing after Darwin wasps

This blog post is provided by Tuomas Kankaanpää and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Microclimate structures communities, predation and herbivory in the High Arctic“, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. While we can predict the physical nature of climate change with high accuracy, our understanding of how it will affect complex biological systems is still unarguably poor. In my PhD thesis, I, Tuomas Kankaanpää, set … Continue reading Skiing after Darwin wasps

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Plant volatile defenses rather than non-volatile defenses mediate evolutionary interactions between plants and tephritid flies

This blog post is provided by Hua Wang and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Plant volatiles mediate evolutionary interactions between plants and tephritid flies and are evolutionarily more labile than non-volatile defenses”, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. Why do I study the relationship between plants and flies? Even before starting my PhD research, I have known of and been fascinated by … Continue reading Plant volatile defenses rather than non-volatile defenses mediate evolutionary interactions between plants and tephritid flies

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Stay home order: why do some ungulates return to the same places?

This blog post is provided by Thomas Morrison from the Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Drivers of site fidelity in ungulates“, which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. In a classic study, inauspiciously titled “A lesson in the limitations of field experiments: shrubsteppe birds and habitat alteration”, John Wiens … Continue reading Stay home order: why do some ungulates return to the same places?

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Flexible or Familiar? Migrating Gulls are both!

This blog post is provided by Morgan Brown and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Long‐distance migrants vary migratory behaviour as much as short‐distance migrants: An individual‐level comparison from a seabird species with diverse migration strategies”, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. Morgan Brown is a PhD candidate with Prof. Judy Shamoun-Baranes and Prof. Willem Bouten in the Institute for Biodiversity and … Continue reading Flexible or Familiar? Migrating Gulls are both!

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Indirect interactions through shared predation can drive food-web responses to environmental change: lessons learnt from a lake mesocosm experiment

This blog post is provided by Fernando Chaguaceda and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Short-term apparent mutualism drives responses of aquatic prey to increasing productivity“, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. Mobile generalist predators that feed on more than one prey are common in nature, from the majestic whales that spread their feeding habitats from pole to pole to small animals … Continue reading Indirect interactions through shared predation can drive food-web responses to environmental change: lessons learnt from a lake mesocosm experiment

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Natural selection in action on seasonal migration during extreme storms

This blog post is provided by Paul Acker, Francis Daunt, Sarah Burthe, Mark Newell, & Jane Reid and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Strong survival selection on seasonal migration versus residence induced by extreme climatic events“, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. Ongoing global changes are causing rapid and substantial alterations of environments to which species had previously adapted. Resulting mismatches between individuals and their … Continue reading Natural selection in action on seasonal migration during extreme storms

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