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Tag Archives: Physiological ecology

A Colourful Distribution

January 15, 2019by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

Skinks come in a variety of colours and patterns. But why and how are these colour polymorphisms maintained? Genevieve Matthews, a PhD student at Monash University, has been studying skinks […]

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Ecophysiological feedbacks under climate change

October 26, 2018by Sarah Marley 2 Comments

Variability in heat tolerance among populations modifies the climate-driven periods of diurnal activity expected for ectotherm species. This phenomenon is illustrated for Iberian lizards in a paper recently published in […]

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Stopovers for sickly songbirds

September 8, 2018by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

The understanding of the interplay of movement, behaviour and physiology that biologging offers has applied relevance for a range of fields, including evolutionary ecology, wildlife conservation and behavioural ecology. In […]

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Stressed-Out Squirrels

August 23, 2018by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

A recently-published paper in the Journal of Animal Ecology has discovered that the grey squirrel (one of the most impacting alien invasive species in Europe) causes an increase in chronic stress […]

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Effects of a maternal stress hormone across life stages

August 16, 2018by Sarah Marley 2 Comments

Anthropogenic disturbance is a growing threat, and the physiological consequences of exposure to such stressors is gaining increasing attention. A recent paper published in the Journal of Animal Ecology explores […]

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Volume 85:6 a slideshow

October 26, 2016by Simon Hoggart Leave a comment

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 […]

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