Category: #StoryBehindThePaper

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

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 flight behaviour is associated with local adaptation to different forest structures”, which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. Butterflies are found everywhere in a tropical forest. Some are found very high in … Continue reading How high can you fly: butterflies fly according to the vertical distribution of their plant resources

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How timing shapes scientific stories

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 published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. Rachel Dickson has spent the past ten years working as a plant-pollinator ecologist. She has studied bumble bees in Argentina, honey bees in Kenya and the phenologies and … Continue reading How timing shapes scientific stories

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Florida scrub-jays move elsewhere when competition gets tough

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 was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. Young Ha Suh is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University and is also a collaborator of the Archbold … Continue reading Florida scrub-jays move elsewhere when competition gets tough

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What determines the structure of a food web?

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 webs”, which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. Leonardo is a senior researcher and a professor at Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento (UNGS), near Buenos Aires city, though in the coming weeks … Continue reading What determines the structure of a food web?

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¿Qué determina la estructura en una red trófica?

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 en el Journal of Animal Ecology. Leonardo es investigador principal y profesor de la Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento (UNGS), cerca de la ciudad de Buenos Aires, aunque en las próximas semanas se mudará a … Continue reading ¿Qué determina la estructura en una red trófica?

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

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 recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. The idea for this project came from a project several of us worked on a few years ago, examining the responses of savanna herbivores to drought (published … Continue reading Why do the buffalo roam? Determining what drives seasonal strategies in large mammalian herbivores

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Do predators create healthier prey populations?

This blog post is provided by Ellen E. Brandell and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Examination of the interaction between age-specific predation and chronic disease in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem”, which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. The debate about if and how predators kill their prey to result in “healthier” prey populations has been ongoing for the past three decades, but … Continue reading Do predators create healthier prey populations?

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

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 day length”, which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. While some species are clearly struggling to adapt to this rapidly changing world, the barnacle goose seems to be prospering. Contrary to other … Continue reading Long days but little time: Goslings grow faster at high latitudes

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

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 an environmental disturbance gradient”, which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. Li Yuen Chiew: I am a conservation ecologist, whose research focuses on biodiversity conservation and ecosystem ecology, with a particular interest … Continue reading Dung beetle-mammal dung interaction networks are resilient across a gradient of forest disturbance

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

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 networks”, which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. In ecological networks, species are linked by their interactions to form complex interaction networks. How species interact in these networks reveals what role they … Continue reading Finding out when rare and common species change their interactions using multi-site interaction turnover

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