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

Open Call for Papers: Joint Special Feature on ecological resilience

Resilience has emerged as a key concept in ecology and conservation biology to understand and predict ecosystem responses to global change. In its broadest and original sense, resilience describes the ability of an ecosystem to resist, and recover from, a disturbance. However, the application of such a concept in different sub-disciplines of ecology and in different study systems has resulted in a wide disparity of … Continue reading Open Call for Papers: Joint Special Feature on ecological resilience