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Parasitism and Host Diet Quality in Natural Populations

March 10, 2019by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

Parasite-host relationships can be amazingly complex. Parasites can even alter host diets. But how exactly does this work? Dr Charlotte Narr, a Research Scientist at Colorado State University’s Natural Resource […]

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Meet the Editor: Jean-Michel Gaillard

December 15, 2018by Simon Hoggart Leave a comment

Next up in our new Meet the Editor series is AS Saint-Etienne and Tintin fan Jean-Michel Gaillard. You can catch Jean-Michel over lunch at British Ecological Society Annual Meeting.   […]

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Understanding what’s driving Arctic skua declines in Scotland

October 16, 2018by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

Dr Allan Perkins is a Senior Conservation Scientist at the RSPB Centre for Conservation Science. Here, he describes some of the challenges faced by Arctic skuas and his paper assessing […]

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Ecology & Evolution of Infectious Diseases Conference

June 19, 2018by Sarah Marley 1 Comment

A few weeks ago, Dr Lauren White from the University of Minnesota told us about the intersection of wildlife conservation, disease and human health for Endangered Species Day. Now she […]

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Conference Report, Uncategorized

Video: Animal host–microbe interactions special feature open call – find out more

December 21, 2016by Simon Hoggart Leave a comment

Originally posted on Animal Ecology In Focus:
There is only one month to go before the open call for papers for the special feature on animal host-microbe interactions closes. In…

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Sarah Hoy wins Watson Raptor Science Prize for paper on impact of selective predation

September 30, 2016by Simon Hoggart 1 Comment

We are delighted to learn that Sarah Hoy has won 2016 Watson Raptor Science Prize for her paper ‘Age and sex-selective predation moderate the overall impact of predators’ published in […]

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What is the future of peer review in ecology?

September 21, 2016by Simon Hoggart Leave a comment

Originally posted on The Applied Ecologist:
Peer review is critical to the research process, but is also the subject of much criticism and debate. Review bias, reviewer recognition and the…

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What Makes a Good Peer Review: Peer Review Week 2016 — methods.blog

September 20, 2016by Simon Hoggart Leave a comment

For many academics, especially Early Career Researchers, writing a review can seem like quite a daunting task. Direct training is often hard to come by and not all senior academics […]

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Peer review week: Encouraging collaborative peer review

September 19, 2016by Simon Hoggart Leave a comment

Originally posted on Journal of Ecology Blog:
Post from Managing Editor Emilie Aimé. Check out the methods.blog later in the week for some of the Methods in Ecology and Evolution Associate Editors’…

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New Associate Editors

September 2, 2016by Simon Hoggart Leave a comment

Journal of Animal Ecology is pleased to welcome Niels Dingemanse (Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich), Jenny Dunn (RSPB), Andrew Jackson (University of Dublin), Lesley Lancaster (University of Aberdeen), Katie Marske […]

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Devotion to rearing chicks can come at a cost for migratory birds

August 31, 2016by Simon Hoggart Leave a comment

This post is a press release from the authors of Journal of Animal Ecology paper “Carry-Over Effects on the Annual Cycle of a Migratory Seabird: an Experimental Study” by Annette Fayet […]

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Journal of Animal Ecology prize for early career ecologists

May 25, 2016by Simon Hoggart 3 Comments

Both the British Ecological Society and Journal of Animal Ecology have long been champions of research by early career ecologists. Indeed, there are many examples of early career researchers publishing […]

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The curious case of turtles and ecological “rules”

May 23, 2016by Simon Hoggart 1 Comment

Turtles (and tortoises) are among the most outstanding and recognizable groups of animals on the planet. Despite being a relatively species poor clade (only 327 extant species), they are easily […]

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The colour of survival – how parental morph influences the fitness of the offspring in black sparrowhawks

May 16, 2016by Simon Hoggart 1 Comment

Most South Africans may have never noticed one of the largest forest raptors breeding in the city of Cape Town – the black sparrowhawk . However a new research project […]

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Researchers discover complex effects of temperature shifts on both hosts and parasites

April 5, 2016by Simon Hoggart Leave a comment

This blog post is a press release from the authors of Journal of Animal Ecology paper “Host and parasite thermal acclimation responses depend on the stage of infection” by Karie A. Altman […]

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Lethal genetic blindness found in a rare Scottish bird

March 21, 2016by Simon Hoggart Leave a comment

This blog post is a press release from the authors of Journal of Animal Ecology paper “Evidence of the phenotypic expression of a lethal recessive allele under inbreeding in a wild […]

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Demography Beyond the Population

February 22, 2016by Simon Hoggart Leave a comment

This exciting collaborative and interdisciplinary special feature integrates novel lines of research in the vast field of demography that directly interact with other ecological and evolutionary disciplines. The goal of […]

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A Look Back At 2015 … And A Little Peek Forward

January 22, 2016by Simon Hoggart Leave a comment

It’s been another busy year at Journal of Animal Ecology, with more personnel changes and a few new initiatives. Here, we review some of these developments. Papers and other media […]

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Do animals exercise to keep fit?

January 21, 2016by Simon Hoggart Leave a comment

This blog post is a press release of the Journal of Animal Ecology paper “Do animals exercise to keep fit?” by Lewis Halsey. Press release issued by The British Ecological Society […]

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How a Special Feature can help wildlife “Stuck in Motion” – Video post

January 14, 2016by Simon Hoggart 1 Comment

In an epoch that will likely be remembered as “The Anthropocene”, wildlife is struggling to cope with anthropogenic habitat loss, fragmentation and disturbance. Ancient migration routes are being lost as […]

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