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Tag Archives: ecology

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

Microbiomes of soils, plants and animals

March 13, 2020by Journal of Animal Ecology Leave a comment

A new book in the BES Ecological Reviews series explores how microbiomes contribute to a range of important functions in their hosts, from nutrition, to behaviour and disease susceptibility. Here, […]

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Book review

Lovers and fighters, and how their coexistence affects their evolution within an eco-evolutionary feedback loop

April 9, 2019by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

Eco-evolutionary dynamics are well studied but the term is applied to a wide variety of effects and interactions. Yet comparing these different types of studies on eco-evolutionary dynamics will inform […]

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Guest post

Diversity In Ecology

July 3, 2018by Sarah Marley 1 Comment

Blog Editor Sarah Marley introduces a new series of blog posts targeting #DiversityInEcology. One of the major goals of the British Ecological Society (BES) is to inspire, engage and recognise […]

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Announcements, Diversity in Ecology

Countdown to ISEC!

May 15, 2018by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

There are only three more days to register for the next International Statistical Ecology Conference (ISEC). Many workshops are now fully-booked, but there is still a significant line-up of invited sessions, […]

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Announcements, Conference Report

Population Cycles: Historical Notes from the Bureau of Animal Population to 2018

April 16, 2018by Sarah Marley 1 Comment

This guest post by Professor Charles J. Krebs (Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia) looks back at his experiences studying population cycles across several decades, his work with Charles […]

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Guest post

Evolution of dance and color in the birds of paradise

April 11, 2018by Sarah Marley 1 Comment

In this post, we take a behind-the-scenes look at a recent study into the drivers of complexity in bird of paradise displays. Meredith Miles, a PhD student in Dr Matthew […]

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Guest post

How do birds avoid their sibling-species competitors?

March 21, 2018by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

Being similar can be problematic. When ecologically-similar species co-occur, competition can result. So how can this be avoided? A recent paper published in the Journal of Animal Ecology shows how birds […]

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Guest post

Frogs and Herbicides: A Gut Feeling

March 14, 2018by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

Dr. Sarah Knutie led a study to explore whether a commonly-used herbicide affects the gut microbes of frogs and if the gut microbes could mediate the effect of the herbicide […]

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#StoryBehindThePaper, Guest post

Social or solitary: Does social network protect from disease?

March 5, 2018by Sarah Marley 1 Comment

The spread of infectious diseases is heavily influenced by the structure of animal social networks. So how do disease risks vary by different social systems? Dr Pratha Sah addresses this […]

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Guest post

Glimpsing evolutionary instability in mountains

February 22, 2018by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

There are many challenging environments on the planet, and the Andes Mountains are no exception. Animals living at height need to overcome a range of extremes – but how do […]

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Guest post

International Day of Women and Girls in Science

February 11, 2018by Sarah Marley 2 Comments

Science and gender equality are both vital for the achievement of the internationally-agreed Sustainable Development Goals. To help further gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, the United […]

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Diversity in Ecology

It’s a bear! Adopting a ‘computer vision for animal ecology’

February 6, 2018by Sarah Marley 4 Comments

How can automated image processing be applied for detecting, counting and identifying animals in natural landscapes? A recent review article published in the Journal of Animal Ecology covers this exact […]

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Guest post

How does infection alter animal migration performance? It’s complicated.

January 30, 2018by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

Animals move around. A lot. Migratory animals are widely assumed to play an important role in the long-distance dispersal of parasites and pathogens. But how does this affect the migratory […]

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Guest post

Estimating Species Populations – a critical step in understanding ecological processes

January 26, 2018by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

Understanding the size of animal populations is necessary – but also extremely challenging. Andrea Campos Candela, a PhD student with the Fish Ecology Lab in the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced […]

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Guest post

A practical guide for inferring reliable dominance hierarchies and estimating their uncertainty

January 16, 2018by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

There are thousands of academic papers published each year. But how do they all come about? Damien Farine and Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar share the ‘behind the scenes’ story of their recent paper on […]

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Guest post

Strategic pauses in female elephant seals

December 28, 2017by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

A recent paper published in the Journal of Animal Ecology has found that poor-quality female southern elephant seals use breeding pauses as a tactic to produce more offspring over their […]

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Guest post

Badgers and Disease Ecology

October 13, 2017by Sarah Marley 1 Comment

Traditionally one of the UK’s most charismatic (and certainly distinctive) mammals, the badger has received mixed attention in recent times as a result of their involvement in disease transmission.  To […]

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Guest post

Scaly Not Scary – Reconciling Humans and Snakes

July 12, 2017by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

Snakes have long been vilified in popular media – but do they deserve such a bad reputation?  Many people believe otherwise, with 16th July marking World Snake Day and providing the […]

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Guest post

Marine Mammal Conservation in the Light of Marine Spatial Use

June 1, 2017by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

Earlier this month, the European Cetacean Society (ECS) held their 31st annual conference in Middelfart, Denmark.  Established in 1987, ECS has several hundred members from more than 25 European countries […]

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