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#StoryBehindThePaper, Guest post

When the Roads Went Quiet: What Pikas Taught Us About Wildlife Responses to the Anthropause

This blog post is provided by Yangheshan Yang and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Unexpected asymmetric Qinghai-Tibetan wildlife dietary response to anthropause: rapid initial shifts and a slow return”, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. In their study, Yang and colleagues show the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the diets of roadside pika populations on the northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. We did … Continue reading When the Roads Went Quiet: What Pikas Taught Us About Wildlife Responses to the Anthropause

Unknown's avatarEdie AbrahamsLeave a comment
#StoryBehindThePaper, Guest post

How dietary competition leads to a native shrew being rapidly replaced by an invasive shrew

This blog post is provided by Allan McDevitt and Samuel Browett and tells the #StoryBehindthePaper for the paper “Resource competition drives an invasion-replacement event among shrew species on an island”, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. In their paper they determine how a recently invading shrew is outcompeting a native shrew for prey resources, ultimately leading to the rapid disappearance of the native … Continue reading How dietary competition leads to a native shrew being rapidly replaced by an invasive shrew

Unknown's avatarBeth PrestonLeave a comment