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Tag Archives: population ecology

Persistence (and a bit of luck) pays off: Costs of reproduction in mountain ungulates

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Fitness costs of reproduction are expected when resources are limited. This can drive the evolution of life‐history strategies and can affect population dynamics, particularly if females change their allocation of […]

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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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Explaining population variability in marine fishes

January 29, 2019by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

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 […]

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Understanding what’s driving Arctic skua declines in Scotland

October 16, 2018by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

Dr Allan Perkins is a Senior Conservation Scientist at the RSPB Centre for Conservation Science. Here, he describes some of the challenges faced by Arctic skuas and his paper assessing […]

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Ecological inference from occupancy estimates depends on sampling scale

August 20, 2018by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

Understanding animal occupancy should be relatively simple – but actually requires some complex thinking. In this blog post, Jonathon J. Valente (Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Migratory Bird Center) […]

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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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Lessons from two decades of detailing an invasion front

March 2, 2018by Simon Hoggart 2 Comments

What can we learn about population dynamics from invasive species? A recent synthesis article published in the Journal of Animal Ecology examines the contributions from one of the best-documented cases […]

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Giving a hoot about owl populations

August 5, 2017by Sarah Marley 1 Comment

International Owl Day – who gives a hoot?  Dr Sarah Hoy sure does!  Sarah completed her PhD at the University of Aberdeen, which studied how the demography and dynamics of […]

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When Some Choughs Do Better Than Others

July 3, 2017by Sarah Marley 1 Comment

Red-billed choughs are a species of conservation concern, as discussed a recent Journal of Animal Ecology publication investigating their effective population size.  Amanda Trask, lead author of the study, recently finished her […]

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Social networks and disease transmission – A story of giraffes

June 23, 2017by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

World Giraffe Day celebrates the longest-necked animal on the longest day (or night, depending on your hemisphere!) of the year – 21st June.  Yet many aspects of giraffe ecology remain […]

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Volume 86:4 slideshow

June 16, 2017by Simon Hoggart Leave a comment

Issue 86:4 is now out. The In Focus in this issue is by Jonathan De Long and looks at the paper by Yuanhu Shao on “Nitrogen deposition cancels out exotic […]

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Volume 86:3 slideshow

May 25, 2017by Simon Hoggart Leave a comment

Issue 86:3 is now out. The In Focus in this issue is by Damien Farine and looks at the paper by Andrea Springer on “Dynamic vs. static social networks in […]

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Demography beyond the population: Integrated demography comes of age

March 1, 2016by Simon Hoggart Leave a comment

Assessing variation in population abundance over time and across space is a long-standing goal of population ecologists. Up to now, two main approaches have been mostly used to identify the […]

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