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Tag Archives: Predator-prey

Do predators create healthier prey populations?

January 25, 2022by Beth Preston 1 Comment

This blog post is provided by Ellen E. Brandell and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Examination of the interaction between age-specific predation and chronic disease in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem”, […]

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Catching the parasite: three-spined sticklebacks eat trematode free-living stages

March 5, 2021by Beth Preston Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Ana Born-Torrijos and Miroslava Soldánová and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for their article “Cercarial behaviour alters the consumer functional response of three-spined sticklebacks“, which was […]

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Urbanization alters predator‐avoidance behaviours

April 2, 2019by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

Urbanisation is changing the natural landscape at a global scale. This obviously alters habitat structures, but what is the influence on predator-prey dynamics? A recent paper in the Journal of […]

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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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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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Go Big or Go Home: Pitcher plant hosts and their crab spider tenants

January 8, 2019by Sarah Marley 2 Comments

The carnivorous traps of Nepenthes pitcher plants are sometimes inhabited by a species of crab spider which ambushes insects as they arrive at traps. Recently published work by Weng Ngai […]

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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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Understanding ecosystem function (and each other)

September 21, 2018by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

Proponents of interdisciplinary work can range from grant reviewers to department chairs, but what goes into this type of collaboration? Alva Curtsdotter (ecologist) and Amanda Laubmeier (mathematician) talk about the […]

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I Set Out To Track Birds, but Ended Up Tracking Predators

August 31, 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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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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