Journal of Animal Ecology

🐆 New Research explores niche partitioning among neotropical felids

"This multi-dimensional perspective reshapes carnivore coexistence theory in structurally complex tropical forests"

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At the BES, we believe cost should not be a barrier to publishing. We have outlined how you can use resources that cover the fees for processing and publishing your research.

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🕷️ Evaluation of BugBox, a software platform for AI-assisted bioinventories of arthropods

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🚨Research Highlight: "Let’s solve the enigma of population cycles! Oli and colleagues provide a detailed mechanistic understanding of the demographic drivers causing cycles in population abundance of the snowshoe hare in Yukon, for more than 40 years"

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🐇 "Despite century-long research, demographic mechanisms underlying snowshoe hare population cycles have remained elusive"

New Research: Demographic mechanisms of snowshoe hare population cycles in Yukon, Canada ➡️ buff.ly/Qt1Xiuv

🐁 Land use gradients drive spatial variation in Lassa fever host communities in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone

"Considering these species interactions is critical for accurately predicting future zoonotic disease patterns"

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🦪 New Research: "For a Florida estuary, we blended data and mathematical models to show that future salinity variability could harm oysters, but that effect is balanced out by low salinities inhibiting oyster predators"

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🐦Community composition coupled with habitat fragmentation drives acoustic divergence in bird assemblages

"We demonstrate how birds adjust their sound frequencies via acoustic niche partitioning driven by both community composition and habitat fragmentation"

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🐆A struggle to survive: Guild hierarchy predicts drought benefit among large carnivores. This study highlights the complex, species-specific ecological pressures that must be understood to guide carnivore conservation under changing climate.

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🚨 New research methods guide - Estimating species occupancy across multiple sampling seasons with autologistic occupancy models via the autoOcc R package

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🪲 New research uses12 years of assembly patterns in saproxylic beetles to suggest early decay wood as ephemeral resource patch

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🪿"Moving to colder areas allows arctic geese to reduce negative effects of climate change (trophic mismatch), but this comes at a price for parents as they face harsher nesting conditions, which only parents capable of large investments can cope with"

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🌿 A great review is more than just a summary or description of past research! They integrate existing studies in new ways to promote discussion & offer new ideas & directions in plant ecology 🌷

📰 Read more about our reviews in our latest blog post 👇
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🪰 Density-dependent selection at high food levels leads to the evolution of persistence but not constancy in Drosophila melanogaster populations

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🦀 "An IPM2 creates a synergistic modelling framework useful for disentangling multiple size-structured demographic rates and understanding the effectiveness of invasive European green crab removal efforts."

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🐘 New research - Large herbivores are linked to higher herbaceous plant diversity and functional redundancy across spatial scales

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🪸 New study shows how reef structural complexity at multiple scales shapes fish-driven nutrient hotspots. By identifying thresholds in relief and fine-scale complexity, this study reveals when and where nutrient hotspots may form on coral reefs, offering practical guidance.

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Beautiful Sunset in Kaingo Private Game Reserve, one of our fieldsites

A white rhino in Dabchick Wildlife Reserve, one of our fieldsites

Woody savanna landscape in Swebeswebe Nature Reserve, on of our fieldsites

Overview of the reserves in our study sites. Shows the location of 10 included reserves with pictograms indicating the largest herbivore in each.

Excited to share that my first PhD chapter just got published in @animalecology.bsky.social! You can check it out here: doi.org/10.1111/1365.... Based on fieldwork in the beautiful Waterberg Biosphere Reserve in South Africa, we show that.. (1/3)

🐟 New Research disentangles the influence of density dependence, size dependence and environmental effects on fish population dynamics

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🐝 New research - "Our work demonstrates a key role for host-associated microbiota in the realization of induced immune defence, and contributes more broadly to our understanding of microbiota-immune interactions in the context of ecological immunology."

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🐌 "Poor alignment between thermal sensitivity and habitat temperature can be sufficient, and is likely maintained, so marine snail embryos can survive seasonally driven extreme temperature events. ‘Suboptimal’ good enough"

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📊 New review. Sweat the small stuff: A review of the use of accelerometers to estimate energy expenditure in wild animals ➡️ buff.ly/9XJbIwT

"The review will accelerate adoption of best practices so the field can continue to gain momentum"

🦎 New Research highlight of MacLeod, K., Bouffet-Halle, A., Wapstra, E., Uller, T., While, G. (2025). Maternal glucocorticoids have persistent effects on offspring social phenotype irrespective of opportunity for social buffering.

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🐜New study provides the first examination of social immunity in a supercolonial ant subject to attack by a specialist pathogen. The study directly manipulates the nest template to see how space shapes the outcome of social immune behaviours

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The authors of "an integrative, peer-reviewed and open-source cooperative-breeding database (Co-BreeD)", have written their story behind the paper. 📝
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🌡️ Alternative behavioral responses can buffer animals from environmental stress, yet the trade-offs of habitat selection remain poorly understood. Using a bioenergetics framework, researchers show different energetic strategies for a cold-water fish

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Wow, super interesting study on snow, wolves, and cougars!!!

🦭 New study reveals overlooked intraspecific variation in prey quality and its influence on predator energy budgets. By identifying key ecological drivers, they emphasize the need to integrate such variability into bioenergetic models.

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🐺 Advantageous snow conditions – in terms of snow depth and density – are among the most important features of the winter landscape for two apex predators, regardless of hunting strategy.

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