Why don’t all birds lay early? What makes a Manx Shearwater early or late?

This blog post is provided by Katrina Siddiqi-Davies and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article, “Why don’t all birds lay early? Causes and consequences of breeding timing for a long-lived migratory seabird“. This study investigated why some birds consistently return to their breeding colonies and lay their eggs earlier than others, finding that individual differences in migration timing, breeding partners and seasonal food availability all … Continue reading Why don’t all birds lay early? What makes a Manx Shearwater early or late?

Volume 85:6 a slideshow

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Male Montagu’s Harrier Edwin on the hunt for grasshoppers near Djilas, Senegal. Ellinor Schlaich et al. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12583

Issue 85:6 is now online and for the first time we have two In Focus papers in the issue as we no longer want to limit ourselves to championing only one great paper!

The First is by Pedro Jardano and takes a look at the paper by Sazatornil et al. on morphological matches and the assembly of mutualistic hawkmoth–plant networks. The second is by Shawn Wilder and Punidan Jeyasingh and they review the paper by Zhang et al. on how warming and predation risk shape stoichiometry.

To make the most of all the great photos from our authors we have included a slideshow of the best images.

Read the full November 2016 issue here.

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