Category: #StoryBehindThePaper

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Rapid and repeated shifts in chemical signals in Greece

Elton Prize shortlisted Article This blog post is provided by Colin Donihue and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Rapid and Repeated Divergence of Animal Chemical Signals in an Island Introduction Experiment”. Colin has been shortlisted for the 2020 Elton Prize for this article. Colin is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society. He is interested in understanding the causes … Continue reading Rapid and repeated shifts in chemical signals in Greece

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Asymmetric foraging in aquatic animals

This blog post is provided by Junjie Zheng and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Asymmetric foraging lowers the trophic level and omnivory in natural food webs“, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. The authors found a prevalence of asymmetric foraging in natural aquatic food webs. Featured image by Tingnan Zhou Food webs depict the network of “who eats whom” in nature. … Continue reading Asymmetric foraging in aquatic animals

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Eurasian reed warbler (still) benefits from climate change

This blog post is provided by Lucyna Halupka and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for their article “Fitness consequences of longer breeding seasons of a migratory passerine under changing climatic conditions“, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology Most changes in the world have opposing effects, positive or negative, on different individuals or groups. This concerns for example the current situation during the Covid-19 pandemic, … Continue reading Eurasian reed warbler (still) benefits from climate change

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When, where, and why are soaring migrants dying? Geographic differences in the survival of the globally threatened Egyptian vulture

This blog post is provided by Evan Buechley, Ron Efrat and Steffen Oppel and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for their article “Differential survival throughout the full annual cycle of a migratory bird presents a life history trade-off“, which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. Evan Buechley received his PhD from the University of Utah with a thesis focused on the movement ecology and … Continue reading When, where, and why are soaring migrants dying? Geographic differences in the survival of the globally threatened Egyptian vulture

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Uncovering climate and land-use impacts on Wisconsin’s common loons

This blog post is provided by Walter Piper and Sarah Saunders and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Interrelated impacts of climate and land-use change on a widespread waterbird“, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. Loon capture is a peculiar annual ritual. Working from dusk until dawn, three members of the research team set out in a 12-foot motorboat to scour the surface of Wisconsin … Continue reading Uncovering climate and land-use impacts on Wisconsin’s common loons

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Ecosystem restoration – insights from theory

This blog post is provided by Klementyna Gawecka and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Habitat restoration in spatially explicit metacommunity models“, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. Healthy ecosystems are vital for supporting the great diversity of life on Earth and providing us, humans, with benefits such as clean water, flood mitigation or recreation. But our activities, such as pollution, overexploitation or clearing … Continue reading Ecosystem restoration – insights from theory

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Devil in a blue dress: colour morph affects fitness in Arctic foxes

This blog post is provided by Cecilia Di Bernardi and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Fitness and fur colouration – testing the camouflage and thermoregulation hypotheses in an Arctic mammal“, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. Living in extreme environments leads to a wide range of adaptations in Arctic and alpine animals, which have drawn scientists’ attention and fascination for a … Continue reading Devil in a blue dress: colour morph affects fitness in Arctic foxes

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A “How-to” Guide for Interpreting Parameters in Habitat-Selection Analyses

This blog post is provided by John Fieberg, Johannes Signer, Brian Smith and Tal Avgar and tells the “StoryBehindthePaper for the article “A ‘How-to’ Guide for Interpreting Parameters in Habitat-Selection Analyses”, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. John Fieberg (University of Minnesota), Johannes Signer (University of Goettingen), and Tal Avgar (Utah State University) teach quantitative courses at their institutions and have also … Continue reading A “How-to” Guide for Interpreting Parameters in Habitat-Selection Analyses

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Sexual Selection and Personality in Red Junglefowl

This blog post is provided by Allison M. Roth and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Sexual selection and personality: Individual and group‐level effects on mating behavior in red junglefowl“, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. Over the past two decades, behavioral ecologists have become increasingly interested in consistent between-individual differences in behavior, otherwise known as “animal personality”. It is, however, unclear why such between-individual … Continue reading Sexual Selection and Personality in Red Junglefowl

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Disentangling temporal food web structure

This blog post is provided by Susanne Kortsch, Romain Frelat, Ivars Putnis, and Marie Nordström and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for their article ‘Disentangling temporal food web dynamics facilitates understanding of ecosystem functioning’, which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. Communities are organized into consumer networks, or food webs, describing who eats whom. Food webs provide the “energetic” backbones of ecosystems and are essential … Continue reading Disentangling temporal food web structure

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