Editor news: summer 2022

This summer, we’re pleased to welcome both a new Associate Editor, Kate Pereira Maia, and a new Research Highlights Editor in Mariano A. Rodriguez-Cabal. Get to know them here. Research Highlights Editor: Mariano A. Rodriguez-Cabal Grupo de Ecologia de Invasiones, INIBIOMA – CONICET – Universidad del Comahue, Patagonia, Argentina. Mariano is a community ecologist with broad interests in the factors that generate, maintain and threaten … Continue reading Editor news: summer 2022

LET’S TALK ABOUT HUMMINGBIRDS, SEX & FLOWERS

This blog post is provided by María A. Maglianesi and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Behavioural and morphological traits influence sex-specific floral resource use by hummingbirds“, which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. In their study, they investigate how the differences in behaviour and physical form of male and female hummingbirds, even of the same species, changes their relationship with the … Continue reading LET’S TALK ABOUT HUMMINGBIRDS, SEX & FLOWERS

How timing shapes scientific stories

This blog post is provided by Rachel Dickson and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Behavioral responses by a bumble bee to competition with a niche-constructing congener”, which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. Rachel Dickson has spent the past ten years working as a plant-pollinator ecologist. She has studied bumble bees in Argentina, honey bees in Kenya and the phenologies and … Continue reading How timing shapes scientific stories