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Tag Archives: #StoryBehindThePaper

Up silt creek without a niche: how do stream food webs respond to sedimentation?

September 10, 2020by Julie Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Francis J. Burdon, Angus McIntosh, and Jon Harding and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for their article ”Mechanisms of landscape disturbance: evidence from landscape disturbance”. Food […]

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Untangling community dynamics using spatially explicit Bayesian networks

August 10, 2020by Journal of Animal Ecology 1 Comment

In this article, Nick Fountain-Jones from the University of Tasmania introduces how advances in Bayesian networks can be used to untangle community dynamics and, in particular, the moose microbiome by […]

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There are no second acts in animal life cycles

April 17, 2020by Journal of Animal Ecology Leave a comment

This blog post has been provided by Mike Moore, a post-doctoral fellow with the Living Earth Collaborative in St. Louis, USA. It tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for “On the evolution of […]

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Large mammals at Mt. Kilimanjaro: the importance of resource availability and protected areas

March 25, 2020by Journal of Animal Ecology 1 Comment

This blog post is provided by Friederike Gebert from the University of Würzburg and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for her article  Primary productivity and habitat protection predict elevational species richness and […]

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How good are we at identifying cues for breeding?

March 23, 2020by Journal of Animal Ecology Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Emily Simmonds from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for her article  Cue identification in phenology: A case […]

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

January 21, 2020by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

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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Disease Ecology: The Lion’s Share

May 23, 2018by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

For the 2017 Elton Prize, the Editors selected one winning paper and two highly-commended papers. Last month we featured a blog post about prize winner Natalie Clay, and now we are […]

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Frogs and Herbicides: A Gut Feeling

March 14, 2018by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

Dr. Sarah Knutie led a study to explore whether a commonly-used herbicide affects the gut microbes of frogs and if the gut microbes could mediate the effect of the herbicide […]

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Behind the scenes: An evolutionary framework outlining the integration of individual social and spatial ecology

March 6, 2018by Sarah Marley 1 Comment

Our latest #StoryBehindThePaper comes from Quinn Webber, a PhD student working with Dr Eric Vander Wal in the Wildlife Evolutionary Ecology Lab at Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada. Quinn is studying social and […]

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A practical guide for inferring reliable dominance hierarchies and estimating their uncertainty

January 16, 2018by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

There are thousands of academic papers published each year. But how do they all come about? Damien Farine and Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar share the ‘behind the scenes’ story of their recent paper on […]

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