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When the Roads Went Quiet: What Pikas Taught Us About Wildlife Responses to the Anthropause

This blog post is provided by Yangheshan Yang and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Unexpected asymmetric Qinghai-Tibetan wildlife dietary response to anthropause: rapid initial shifts and a slow return”, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. In their study, Yang and colleagues show the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the diets of roadside pika populations on the northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. We did … Continue reading When the Roads Went Quiet: What Pikas Taught Us About Wildlife Responses to the Anthropause

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#StoryBehindThePaper, Guest post

Happy coexistence when all have equal energy

This blog post is provided by Leonna Szangolies and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Individual energetics scale up to community coexistence: Movement, metabolism and biodiversity dynamics in fragmented landscapes” which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. Together with colleagues, Leonna models how habitat fragmentation affects coexistence among species of different body sizes. The coexistence riddle Why do species coexist? In particular, … Continue reading Happy coexistence when all have equal energy

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