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Tag Archives: population dynamics

Historical data show serious threats facing freshwater mussels in major UK river

November 30, 2022by Julie Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Isobel Ollard and tells the #StoryBehindthePaper for the paper ‘Declines in freshwater mussel density, size and productivity in the River Thames over the past […]

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The invisible interplay between herbivorous insects and their monitoring ants on a chemically diverse plant

May 21, 2019by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

Plants exhibit impressive genetic and chemical diversity, and this variation is important for structuring ecological communities. A recent paper in the Journal of Animal Ecology investigated this with regard to […]

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Live fast, don’t die young

March 9, 2019by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

Understanding the trade-offs between survival and reproduction is essential for the study of population dynamics. A recent paper in the Journal of Animal Ecology used a novel statistical framework to reveal previously […]

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A high cost of infidelity for swift parrots

February 12, 2019by Sarah Marley 1 Comment

A recent paper published in the Journal of Animal Ecology has found that a chronic shortage of females in a critically endangered parrot species has led to love triangles, sneaky […]

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Aging in Eagles

July 31, 2018by Sarah Marley 1 Comment

For many species, breeding performance changes as an individual ages. So in order to properly monitor and manage animal populations, it is important to understand how different species age. But […]

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Can traits of individuals inform on how populations respond to change?

July 17, 2018by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

We are in great need of an integrative framework that allows ecologists to predict life history strategies from functional traits that inform on population performance. The aim of a recent […]

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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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Global demography in the animal kingdom

January 27, 2016by Journal of Animal Ecology 1 Comment

Today the paper that introduces the COMADRE Animal Matrix Database was published in Journal of Animal Ecology (Salguero-Gómez et al. 2016). This is an international effort in collaboration with ca. […]

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