Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social

Journal of Animal Ecology publishes the best #AnimalEcology research that develops, tests and advances broad ecological principles. A @britishecologicalsociety.org journal.

Spider mite genotypes with higher growth rate suffer more from competition but exert stronger reproductive interference 🕷️ 🧬

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social
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Watch the recording of our latest MEE live! 📺️

In this webinar, Dr. Ludmilla Figueiredo and Dr. Viktoriia Radchuk introduced the R package estar.

Keep an eye out for our next MEE live! 🌟
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Development time and host-parasitoid stability: An experimental test

Age structure and development time are critical determinants of host-parasitoid population dynamics🪱 🌍

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Torpor-assisted migration: Regular use of shallow torpor reduces rest-phase energy expenditure for songbirds during migration🐦‍⬛ 🎶

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🪽read the story behind Maria del Mar Labrador's paper, “Host space, not energy or symbiont size, constrains feather mite abundance across passerine bird species“, shortlisted for the 2025 Elton prize!
📝https://buff.ly/D26AGc8
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🚨 read the story behind Lucas Invernizzi's paper, “the expensive son hypothesis“, shortlisted for the 2025 Elton prize!
📝https://buff.ly/PfRUYt2
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🗻 we're accepting proposals for a new Special Feature, "Mountain Biodiversity in the Anthropocene", which will also be included in @funecology.bsky.social and @journalofecology.bsky.social
📩 submit your proposal before 17 May here: buff.ly/vBbRmgH
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We're accepting proposals for our Special Feature!

We invite scientists and practitioners to share experiences from management projects that didn't go to plan, but still provided important insights into how best to manage ecosystems and species🌱

⏰Submit by 30th April

More here👇
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social
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We're looking for proposals for our recent special feature! 🌍 🧪

Contributions will explore empirical evidence, methodological challenges, and statistical frameworks for detecting and interpreting rate variation over time 🕰️

⏰️1st May deadline!

Find out more and submit here 👉 buff.ly/cVDgT51
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Effects of temperature and browning on the functional response of a freshwater top predator🐟️

This study explores for the first time how temperature and browning affect the functional response of a freshwater piscivore, the northern pike 👇️

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🪸 read the story behind Angus Mitchell's paper, “tropical fishes can benefit more from novel than familiar species interactions at their cold-range edges“, shortlisted for the 2025 Elton prize!
📝https://buff.ly/nkxIOK9
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🪲 read the story behind Ameli Kirse's paper, “the clockwork of insect activity: advancing ecological understanding through automation“, shortlisted for the 2025 Elton prize!
📝https://buff.ly/1lEGCTL
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New research in Journal of Animal Ecology👇️

On traits matching and the modular organization of food web and occurrence networks 🖥️ 🌍 🐟️

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☀️ read the story behind Marco Fioratti's paper, “herbivory mediates the response of below-ground food-webs to invasive grasses“, shortlisted for the 2025 Elton prize!
📝https://buff.ly/UdYdHO0
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📖 Tracing the Battle: The role of mucus trails in information warfare between predator snail and prey limpet

These results suggest a potential strategy whereby predators exploit prey mucus trails for localization🐌 🐚

🔎Read more:https://buff.ly/Sqg52f9
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📖 Predation on sea turtles at sea: A multi-source synthesis and research perspectives

This study synthesizes multiple, rarely integrated data sources—including unpublished data—to examine global patterns of sea turtle predation at sea🐢 🌊

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🔍️ read the story behind Alex Maisey's paper, "foraging activity by an ecosystem engineer, the superb lyrebird, ‘farms’ its invertebrate prey", shortlisted for the 2025 Elton prize!
📝https://buff.ly/PG2ZhNF
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Freddie Mckendrick @freddiemckendrick.bsky.social
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Behind schedule with this but it was also very nice to see one of my PhD chapters officially come out in @animalecology.bsky.social last week! This one felt like a long road but came from a great collaboration and highlights the importance of long-term time series! 🧵below...
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📖 New article!

🧬 Foraging offsets declining fitness: Evidence of behavioural compensation for reproductive senescence

🔎 Find out more:https://buff.ly/f5QHoNr
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💦 read the story behind Jeremy Van Driessche's paper, "Water economics of African savanna herbivores: how much does plant moisture matter?", shortlisted for the 2025 Elton prize!
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🚨 new blog post!... "when biological theory doesn't capture reality"
📝 read it here: buff.ly/U1GfURm
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New article 🌍

📖 Eco-evolutionary dynamics of partially migratory metapopulations in spatially and seasonally varying environments

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🌿 read the story behind Elizabeth Postema's paper, "Eyespot peek-a-boo: Leaf rolls enhance the antipredator effect of insect eyespots", shortlisted for the 2025 Elton prize!
📝https://buff.ly/ChXK03l
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🌊 read the story behind Dr Arostegui's paper, "cranial endothermy in mobulid rays: evolutionary and ecological implications of a thermogenic brain", shortlisted for the 2025 Elton prize!
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📖 Foraging offsets declining fitness: Evidence of behavioural compensation for reproductive senescence

When facing their final opportunities to reproduce, animals may use behaviour to compensate for the declines associated with aging to improve their reproductive success🧬

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Published 📖

Functional and phylogenetic clustering shape rodent co-occurrence via multi-scale mechanisms in a subtropical forest🌳 🐁

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New paper!

Environmental drivers of metapopulation dynamics throughout the full annual cycle in a declining Arctic-nesting migratory herbivore 🐧

A framework for extending commonly used integrated population models to a metapopulation framework🖥️

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🚨 shortlisted candidates for the 2025 Elton prize have been announced!
📝 you can find the full list of papers here: buff.ly/gcWnKyt
🤍 congratulations to our shortlisted candidates, who were selected from over 450 candidates!
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A blog by Arthemis Moraru, Stefano Anile, and Sébastien Devillard tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article, “Global determinants of home range sizes in Felids: evidence of human disturbance impact”, recently published in the journal.
read it here: buff.ly/WmMdzdd
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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org
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We have a growing collection of resources for women in ecology that support, celebrate and advocate for women's roles in research and practice. 

Check our collection of resources here 👇
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