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Tag Archives: Climate Change

Ants don’t change their behavior to avoid sublethal warming

Featuredby Beth Preston Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Elsa Youngsteadt and tells the #StoryBehindthePaper for the paper “Can behavior and physiology mitigate effects of warming on ectotherms? A test in urban ants”, which […]

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#StoryBehindThePaper, Guest post

Climate Change Genomics workshop: Vulnerability, adaptations & applications

October 31, 2022by Beth Preston Leave a comment

How can genetic and genomic tools improve our capacity to assess species vulnerability and study adaptations to climate change? Orly Razgour, Tin Hang (Henry) Hung, Regina Kolzenburg, and Brenna Forester […]

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Conference Report, Guest post

Are multi-brooded birds the current “winners” of climate change?

September 14, 2022by Beth Preston 1 Comment

This blog post is provided by Abigail Kimmitt and Daniel Becker and tells the #StoryBehindthePaper for the paper “Plasticity in female timing may explain earlier breeding in a North American […]

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#StoryBehindThePaper, Guest post

Bee declines: what’s the stress all about?

August 24, 2022by Julie Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Aoife Cantwell-Jones and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Signatures of increasing environmental stress in bumblebee wings over the past century: Insights from museum […]

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#StoryBehindThePaper, Guest post

Climate and genomic patterns in marine fish

December 10, 2021by Julie 1 Comment

This blog post is provided by Alicia Dalongeville, Emilie Boulanger and Stéphanie Manel and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Climate differently influences the genomic patterns of two sympatric marine […]

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#StoryBehindThePaper, Guest post

The impacts of climate change: from a butterfly’s microbiome to food security

October 22, 2021by Journal of Animal Ecology Leave a comment

This year’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) will be held in Glasgow in November, and now more than ever before, the pressure is on for world leaders to agree on […]

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Associate editor post, Guest post

Alliance of ecologists and physiologists to study the effect of size and food quantity on muscle metabolism in the European sardine Sardina pilchardus

July 1, 2021by Beth Preston Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Elisa Thoral, Claire Saraux and Loïc Teulier and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper ‘Changes in foraging mode caused by a decline in prey size have major […]

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#StoryBehindThePaper, Guest post

Effects of sea temperature on wild fish behaviour

May 21, 2021by Beth Preston 1 Comment

This blog post is provided by Carla Freitas, David Villegas‐Ríos, Even Moland and Esben Moland Olsen and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for their article “Sea temperature effects on depth use and habitat […]

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#StoryBehindThePaper, Guest post

Sex matters in the race to combat climate change

April 27, 2021by Julie 2 Comments

This blog post is provided by Rachael Y. Dudaniec, Alexander R. Carey, Erik I. Sve­­nsson, Bengt Hansson, Chuan Ji Yong and Lesley T. Lancaster and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper […]

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#StoryBehindThePaper, Guest post

Eurasian reed warbler (still) benefits from climate change

April 2, 2021by Beth Preston Leave a comment

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 […]

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#StoryBehindThePaper, Guest post

Skiing after Darwin wasps

February 23, 2021by Julie 1 Comment

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. […]

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#StoryBehindThePaper, Guest post

Citizen Science Podcast: Chris Latimer

February 15, 2021by Julie Leave a comment

The third episode in our Citizen Science Special Issue podcast is live. Chris Latimer tells us about their paper Habitat loss and thermal tolerances influence the sensitivity of resident bird […]

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Podcast, Special features

Natural selection in action on seasonal migration during extreme storms

January 28, 2021by Beth Preston Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Paul Acker, Francis Daunt, Sarah Burthe, Mark Newell, & Jane Reid and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Strong survival selection on seasonal migration versus residence induced by […]

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#StoryBehindThePaper, Guest post

Open call for papers: Special Feature on understanding climate change response in the age of genomics

August 3, 2020by Journal of Animal Ecology Leave a comment

Anthropogenic climate change is rapidly transforming environments and poses a major threat to species and ecosystems worldwide. Understanding how animal populations respond to these changing environments is crucial for developing […]

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Field Reports: Liam Bailey

July 11, 2019by Ravindra 1 Comment

Field reports: Liam Bailey

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Podcast

Penguin niche-partitioning resilient to climate change

February 5, 2019by Sarah Marley 1 Comment

Competition for limited food resources can be particularly fierce where similarly-related species overlap. Harriet L. Clewlow is a PhD student based at the British Antarctic Survey and linked with University of […]

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Guest post

Mild winters have butterflies in a flap

May 5, 2017by Sarah Marley 2 Comments

The study of phenology – cyclical patterns of biological events – has long been used to investigate relationships between climate and natural phenomena.  In this way, events such as bird […]

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What will the wasp plague be like this year?

January 18, 2017by Journal of Animal Ecology Leave a comment

New research published in Journal of Animal Ecology shows that wasp populations are increased by warmer and drier springs.

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Press release

Earlier nesting by generalist predatory bird is associated with human responses to climate change

November 22, 2016by Journal of Animal Ecology Leave a comment

This post is a press release from the authors of Journal of Animal Ecology paper “Earlier nesting by generalist predatory bird is associated with human responses to climate change by Shawn […]

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Press release

Competitive males are a blessing and a curse

November 14, 2016by Journal of Animal Ecology Leave a comment

This post is a press release from the authors of Journal of Animal Ecology paper “Sexual selection can both increase and decrease extinction probability: reconciling demographic and evolutionary factors” by Carlos […]

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