Category: #StoryBehindThePaper

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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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Take Cover: Even a post-fire specialist needs a break from the burn for part of its life cycle

This blog post is provided by Meredith Walker, Communications Specialist at The Institute for Bird Populations, and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Juvenile survival of a burned forest specialist in response to variation in fire characteristics“, led by Andrew Stillman, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. When Andrew Stillman and field crews from The Institute for Bird Populations (IBP) tagged fledgling … Continue reading Take Cover: Even a post-fire specialist needs a break from the burn for part of its life cycle

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EL VIAJE DE UN AVE MIGRATORIA DESDE LOS ANDES DE COLOMBIA A NORTE AMÉRICA: ¿SALIR TEMPRANO Y TOMARLO CON CALMA O SALIR MAS TARDE Y MIGRAR RÁPIDO?

This blog post is provided by Ana M Gonzalaez and is the Spanish version of the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Earlier and slower or later and faster: Spring migration pace linked to departure time in a Neotropical migrant songbird” which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology.  You can find the English version here. Este blog fue escrito por Ana M. González y cuenta la … Continue reading EL VIAJE DE UN AVE MIGRATORIA DESDE LOS ANDES DE COLOMBIA A NORTE AMÉRICA: ¿SALIR TEMPRANO Y TOMARLO CON CALMA O SALIR MAS TARDE Y MIGRAR RÁPIDO?

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Catching the parasite: three-spined sticklebacks eat trematode free-living stages

This blog post is provided by Ana Born-Torrijos and Miroslava Soldánová and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for their article “Cercarial behaviour alters the consumer functional response of three-spined sticklebacks“, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. When we see a small fish swimming about in a lake, we might assume they are searching for something to eat, perhaps some copepods, cladocerans or ostracods. What … Continue reading Catching the parasite: three-spined sticklebacks eat trematode free-living stages

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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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