Ecology and Evolution

Cold‐Induced Vomiting of a White‐Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) by an Invasive Burmese Python (Python bivittatus) in Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida, USA The Burmese python (Python bivittatus) has an established invasive population throughout South Florida. Here, we detail an observation of a radio-telemetered female Burmese python that ingested an ad...

"Observation of a radio-telemetered female Burmese python that ingested an adult white-tailed deer, retained the deer within the digestive tract for 10 days, and then vomited the deer...The python survived the vomiting and was alive at the time of publication" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Foliar Endophytic Fungal Communities Are Driven by Leaf Traits—Evidence From a Temperate Tree Diversity Experiment Our study demonstrates that functional leaf traits play a crucial role in shaping fungal endophyte richness and community composition, even beyond the effects of tree species identity. Traits associa...

🚨 New paper led by @michakoehlerbotany.bsky.social in @ecol-evol.bsky.social‬ 🍃 We found that the communities of foliar endophytic fungi are driven by leaf traits and intraindividual trait variability 🧵
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Faeces, Feathers and Flight: Understanding of Escape Behaviour in Incubating Eurasian Woodcocks (Scolopax rusticola) | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

Videos reveal behavior within a mountain lion nursery: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #MountainLion

Publication alert! ✨ Our recent paper in Ecology & Evolution addresses how to make conferences more inclusive. We collected observational and experimental data during Q&A sessions at the Behaviour 2023 congress hosted by Bielefeld University, and circulated a survey among conference attendees [1/4]

New PhD student paper!

Social conformity in lateralisation in guppies
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by Iestyn L. Penry-Williams, with Culum Brown
#openaccess at @ecol-evol.bsky.social

Host‐Specificity and Network Structure of Tick Microbiota in Co‐Distributed Species From the Iberian Peninsula We investigate the community composition and structure of microbiota across natural populations of three co-distributed tick species in the central Iberian Peninsula. Our results revealed a complex a...

📣 New #genomics paper on the #microbiota dynamics across different tick species under contrasting spatial and environmental contexts, published in @ecol-evol.bsky.social by @britishecologicalsociety.org

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Our new OA paper with Juri Felix and @philstevenson.bsky.social is out in @ecol-evol.bsky.social! We explored the role of leaf traits in driving genotypic diversity-mediated associational effects in silver birch #TreeDivNet 🌳🍁🌍🧪https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.71768

Advancing Seabird Diet Studies Through Buccal Swabbing for DNA Metabarcoding Determining the diet of wide-ranging, pelagic seabirds is challenging. In this study, we investigated buccal swabbing and DNA metabarcoding to describe the diet of Manx shearwaters (Puffinus puffinus....

Thrilled to say the first chapter of my PhD is out today in @ecol-evol.bsky.social!

We used buccal swabbing & DNA metabarcoding to explore the diet of Fulmars & Manx shearwaters 🧬🐧

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Female Brown Long‐Eared Bats (Plecotus auritus) Delay Roost Emergence at Elevated Natural Light Conditions Here we study responses to natural light conditions in foraging patterns of a light-averse bat species (Plecotus auritus) during the energetically expensive reproductive period. Our results highlight...

How do nocturnal animals like bats inhabiting northern latitudes adapt to reduced foraging times in summer due to short light nights? New paper from @marifjelldal.bsky.social @clarestawski.bsky.social et al: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Coastal Shorebirds Delay Maturity More Than Inland Ones Migratory shorebirds frequenting coastal non-breeding habitats delay maturity, as expressed in the age of first return migration, more than the species using inland freshwater habitats.

Coastal Shorebirds Delay Maturity More Than Inland Ones: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #ornithology

The most commonly sighted shark species in Norfolk Marine Park use the region in different ways: doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

New study led by Jordan Matley

@parksaustralia.bsky.social @imos-aus.bsky.social

Proud to share our newest gecko paper published @ecol-evol.bsky.social! We raised geckos either with or without their parents and found some effects on the development of behaviour and cognition! Read the rest here:
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Nursery Resource Use Dynamics in Great Hammerheads (Sphyrna mokarran) Across Ontogeny The ecological trade-offs required by nursery dependence are poorly understood. Using multi-tissue stable isotope analysis, this research provides evidence of constrained resource use in juvenile gre....

🚨NEW🦈PAPER🚨
Excited to announce my first publication with @drcatmac.bsky.social on the ontogenetic and seasonal trophic ecology of great hammerheads around the Biscayne Bay nursery! Linked below
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The Greater the Tilt, the Taller the Nest? The Effect of Solar Array Type on Bird Nest Architecture and Nest Microclimate Solar energy is increasing at an exponential rate, but little is known about how birds respond to solar arrays, including their nest-building behaviors. Solar arrays can be tilting that move to face ....

How do birds adapt to nesting on solar panels?

In our new paper, we explored how American robins use photovoltaic (PV) arrays as habitat—and how they change their nesting strategy depending on the type of solar infrastructure. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Julie Fortin delivers on innovative use of repeat photography for tracking songbird diversity in a mountain landscape. Research done while a MSc student in the School of Environmental Studies @uvic.ca

Figure of the eastern Canadian Arctic with colored boxes outlining the regions surveyed for the study and the panels outlined with the corresponding colour highlighting a more detailed map of the specific region with the survey lines flown for that survey (Blue/B: High Arctic, Yellow/C: Intermediate Arctic, Red/D: Low Arctic)

Birds eye view photograph of ringed seals hauled out on top of sea ice taken by cameras in the survey plane documenting the area along the transect lines of the survey

Excited to share this ms in @ecol-evol.bsky.social looking at ringed seal populations using aerial surveys conducted from low-Arctic Hudson Bay (59N) to the Last Ice Area in the high-Arctic Lincoln Sea (83N)

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Peering Into the Past Century of Mountain Diversity Change by Uniting Two Modes of Remote Sensing. New from @juliefortin.bsky.social, @random-blackbear.bsky.social & @ehiggs.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #ornithology

Comparison of Bayesian Models to Estimate Survival From Dead‐Recovery Alone and Together With Live‐Encounter Data: Challenges and Opportunities Different models in the Bayesian framework for analyzing dead-recovery data, either alone or together with live-encounter data to estimate survival, are presented and compared. Although all but one o...

Out now at @ecol-evol.bsky.social, we review different approaches to model mark-recapture data in #Jags and #Nimble, discuss their pros and cons, and compare their speed. We hope it will be useful to researchers willing to learn about CMR and/or speed up their models!
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Hard Mating Aggregation as Evidence of Polyandry in the Red‐Tailed Boa, Boa constrictor (Squamata: Boidae), in a Brazilian Caatinga Population This study reports a reproductive aggregation of a female Boa constrictor with five males in the Brazilian Caatinga. The observation reinforces the evidence of a polyandrous system, favoring larger f...

A Boa constrictor mating aggregation of 5 males and 1 female provides evidence for polyandry: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #snakes #herpetology

Prevalence and Diversity of Haemosporidian–Associated Matryoshka RNA Viruses in a Natural Population of Wild Birds | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

Anthropogenic Nest Cavities Used by Snow Buntings in an Urban Arctic Landscape. New from @birdbiologist.bsky.social et al: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #ornithology

A bowhead whale swimming in Arctic waters. Credit: Kit Kovacs and Christian Lydersen, Norwegian Polar Institute.

🐋 WHALE PAPER ALERT! 🐋

My 2nd #PhD Chapter is now out #OpenAccess in @ecol-evol.bsky.social where we built a 11,700 year-long ecological baseline of #bowhead whales in the #Arctic

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Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: Adjacent Honey Bee Colonies Locally Partition Their Foraging Across Landscapes: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #bees #honeybees

An aerial view of a Danish woodland

🚨We’re hiring a postdoc in Woodland Phenology & Climate Change at Uni Southern Denmark!🚨

Combines fieldwork (Sweden & Denmark), remote sensing (drone/camera) & genetics to study phenological response to climate.

Link: fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com.mcas.ms/hcmUI/Candid...

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Juvenile #octopus use empty bivalve shells as shelter, adapting to sandy conditions: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Would you like to run a thematic session at the BES Annual Meeting 2025?

Don't miss your chance—tomorrow is the final day to submit your proposal for organising and running a thematic session at this year's Annual Meeting.

⏰Deadline: 16 May at 17:00 (BST).

Check out our new paper in @ecol-evol.bsky.social about the curious interactions between ants & snails. Learn all about why ants carry snails to their nests. Research in collaboration with @jmvidalcordero.bsky.social @biojairo.bsky.social and Omar Sánchez.
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Avian senescence: patterns, mechanisms and new perspectives. Photo showing zebra finches of different ages. Photo: Paul Jerem & Glasgow University, courtesy of Pat Monaghan

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS - SPECIAL ISSUE 📣

Avian senescence: patterns, mechanisms and new perspectives

More info: vist.ly/3n45223

Guest editors: Julia Schroeder @jj255.bsky.social #RoxanaTorres, @brittheidinger.bsky.social @jaime-muriel.bsky.social @toblermichi.bsky.social

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Can Wolf Predation Immediately Alter the Foraging Behavior of Beavers?: Video of a Wolf Killing a Foraging Beaver: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...