Category: #StoryBehindThePaper

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Environmental constraints can explain clutch size differences between urban and forest blue tits: Insights from an egg removal experiment

This blog post is provided by Mark Pitt and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Environmental constraints can explain clutch size differences between urban and forest blue tits: Insights from an egg removal experiment” which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. The authors find that urban blue tits lay fewer eggs than their non-urban counterparts, possibly as a response to limited resources. … Continue reading Environmental constraints can explain clutch size differences between urban and forest blue tits: Insights from an egg removal experiment

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Lizard population responses to climate and fire regimes: new pathways to ecological resilience

This blog post is provided by Heitor Sousa and Rob Salguero-Gómez and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Severe fire regimes decrease resilience of ectothermic populations”, which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. In their study, Heitor, Rob and colleagues found that intermediate fire regimes may be the most conducive to resistance for several Cerrado lizard species, and that variation in life … Continue reading Lizard population responses to climate and fire regimes: new pathways to ecological resilience

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Disrupting the Pace of Life: The Hidden Impact of Antidepressant Pollution on Guppies

This blog post is provided by Dr Upama Aich and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Long-term effects of widespread pharmaceutical pollution on trade-offs between behavioural, life-history, and reproductive traits in fish“. The study, led by Dr Upama Aich from the Monash University School of Biological Sciences and Assistant Professor Giovanni Polverino from the University of Tuscia, was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. Upama, … Continue reading Disrupting the Pace of Life: The Hidden Impact of Antidepressant Pollution on Guppies

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Lengthy legacies affect growth in Walleye

This blog post is provided by Zoe Almeida and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Lingering legacies: Past growth and parental experience influence somatic growth in a fish population” which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. In their study, Zoe and colleagues find that growth in Walleye fish is more affected by growth in the previous year and parental experience than by … Continue reading Lengthy legacies affect growth in Walleye

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Happy coexistence when all have equal energy

This blog post is provided by Leonna Szangolies and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Individual energetics scale up to community coexistence: Movement, metabolism and biodiversity dynamics in fragmented landscapes” which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. Together with colleagues, Leonna models how habitat fragmentation affects coexistence among species of different body sizes. The coexistence riddle Why do species coexist? In particular, … Continue reading Happy coexistence when all have equal energy

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Climate change alters bull shark migrations

This blog post is provided by Philip Matich and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Long-term effects of climate change on juvenile bull shark migratory patterns” which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. The authors explore the effects of warming water temperatures on juvenile bull shark migrations. Wildebeest, humpback whales, copepods… these are among the thousands of animals that migrate because of … Continue reading Climate change alters bull shark migrations

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How are North American butterflies shifting their ranges in response to climate change?

This blog post is provided by Carmen da Silva and Sarah Diamond and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Local climate change velocities and evolutionary history explains range shifts in a North American butterfly assemblage” which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. da Silva and Diamond use a large database of citizen science collected butterfly occurrence records over an 18-year time period … Continue reading How are North American butterflies shifting their ranges in response to climate change?

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Out of shape: ocean acidification simplifies coral reef architecture and reshuffles fish assemblages

This blog post is provided by Jamie Priest, Camilo M. Ferreira, Philip L. Munday, Amelia Roberts, Riccardo Rodolfo-Metalpa, Jodie L. Rummer, Celia Schunter, Timothy Ravasi, and Ivan Nagelkerken and tells the #StoryBehindthePaper for the paper “Out of shape: ocean acidification simplifies coral reef architecture and reshuffles fish assemblages”, which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. In their study, the authors compare a … Continue reading Out of shape: ocean acidification simplifies coral reef architecture and reshuffles fish assemblages

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To migrate, or not to migrate, that is the question.

This blog post is provided by Stephanie Witczak and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Sex and size shape the ontogeny of partial migration” which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. With colleagues, Stephanie explores whether and how red kite migratory behaviour has changed since 2015. They find that age, sex and size all affect migration. Our questions and motivation This paper … Continue reading To migrate, or not to migrate, that is the question.

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Unveiling a Toolkit to Process and Explore Animal Tracking Data

This blog post is provided by Liam Patrick Langley, Stephen Lang, Luke Ozsanlav-Harris, Alice Trevail and tells the #StoryBehindthePaper for the paper “ExMove: An open source toolkit for processing and exploring animal tracking data in R”, which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. In their paper, they present an R toolkit for cleaning and processing raw data files from animal tracking devices. … Continue reading Unveiling a Toolkit to Process and Explore Animal Tracking Data

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