Call for proposals : Marine Heatwaves

A new cross-journal special feature will explore the challenges facing marine ecosystems brought by increasing temperatures. The call for proposals closes 10th August 2023. As temperatures continue to rise in the oceans, marine systems are experiencing an increase in both the frequency and intensity of extreme climatic events. As such, marine heatwaves (MHWs), discrete periods of extreme warm water temperatures, are emerging as one of … Continue reading Call for proposals : Marine Heatwaves

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#StoryBehindThePaper, 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

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 bioenergetic consequences for a small pelagic fish’, which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. Elisa Thoral (PhD student) and Loïc Teulier (her thesis co-director), are from the University of Lyon in France. … Continue reading Alliance of ecologists and physiologists to study the effect of size and food quantity on muscle metabolism in the European sardine Sardina pilchardus

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Guest post

Explaining population variability in marine fishes

Populations are not stable. But despite decades of study, the drivers of population variability are yet to be fully understood. A new study in the Journal of Animal Ecology suggests that somatic growth variation can be as important as early life‐history survival in driving population fluctuations in some marine fish species. Quantitative ecologist Dr Christine Stawitz led the study as part of her dissertation research with … Continue reading Explaining population variability in marine fishes