Ecology and Evolution

Riddle Me This, Riddle Me That: Who Can Explain the Glowing Green Bats?

Riddle Me This, Riddle Me That: Who Can Explain the Glowing Green #Bats? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/s...

An apparently invasive island iguana, slated for eradication, actually arrived from mainland Mexico over 400,000 years ago: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Quantifying reviewer declines in scientific publishing: twenty-one years of data from biological invasions 2002–2024 - Biological Invasions The peer review process has been fundamental to scientific publishing since the mid-twentieth century because it helps to ensure scientific rigor and integrity. However, as fewer scientists seem willi...

Interesting paper that documents, with data, a phenomenon we all know it's real

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The sample size of the typical ecological correlation coefficient is small and slowly declining Larger sample sizes are desirable because they minimize sampling error. However, they are not the only desideratum, and it is unknown if sample sizes in ecology trade off with other desiderata. Here ...

Fox et al. The sample size of the typical ecological correlation coefficient is small and slowly declining nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🌱🦋 Urban parks are critical for butterfly´ trait diversity! 🌐
Our new study investigates how vegetation structure and landscape heterogeneity affect butterfly diversity in urban parks in the Andean city of #Bogotá 🌎
👇🧵 #UrbanEcology #Conservation #FunctionalEcology

The Bug‐Network (BugNet): A Global Experimental Network Testing the Effects of Invertebrate Herbivores and Fungal Pathogens on Plant Communities and Ecosystem Function in Open Ecosystems The Bug-Network (BugNet) is a novel global collaborative research network that implements standardized consumer-reduction experiments in herbaceous- or shrub-dominated ecosystems to assess the impact...

Our first paper from the Bug-Network (BugNet) is out! 🎉

BugNet is a global network studying how invertebrate herbivores and fungal pathogens shape plant diversity & ecosystem functioning worldwide. The paper reports on the methods of the experimental part:

📄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

How can we make scientific events such as #conferences more #inclusive? Read about the study we conducted during #Behaviour2023 as a nice and concise summary in the press-release here 👉 aktuell.uni-bielefeld.de/2025/10/06/r...

Ejaculate Ejection by Female Fruit Flies Does Not Correlate With Mating Latency or Male Presence, Irrespective of How Ejection Is Measured How to measure female ejaculate ejection, is it related to pre-mating sexual selection, or influenced by post-mating sexual environment? We explore these questions in fruit flies.

How should ejaculate ejection behaviour by females be measured? And does it correlate with female pre-mating preference?
Find out in our new paper!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Diets of Three Sympatric Grebe Species in Lake Titicaca Indicate Possible Dietary Niche Partitioning Lake Titicaca is home to three grebe species whose diets have not been thoroughly studied. In this natural history note, we provide the first description of the diets of these species and how they ov...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Nice to have this article on Grebe diets in Lake Titicaca out as a Nature Note in @ecol-evol.bsky.social #ornithology #natural_history

Experimental Exposure to Noise Affects Hunting Behavior Already From a Young Age in a Nocturnal Acoustic Predator This study experimentally investigates the effect of traffic noise on the hunting behavior of young and subadult Tawny Owls (Strix aluco). We show that noise lowers the rate of prey detection and inc....

Our new paper in @ecol-evol.bsky.social shows that noise reduces owl prey detectability and it generates adverse effects already at an early life stage, with potential carry-over effects on adulthood. Paper: doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
@dmdominoni.bsky.social
#owls #RaptorResearch #ecology #noise

New manuscript out today in @ecol-evol.bsky.social, led by my grad student Anais. We collated data from thousands of recent animal pop-gen studies to test 3 simple hypotheses: does genomic (1) diversity decrease (yes), (2) differentiation increase (yes), both with increased IUCN-endangerment?

An Intergeneric Hybrid Between Historically Isolated Temperate and Tropical Jays Following Recent Range Expansion | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

Traits of the Leaf Economics Spectrum Do Not Always Relate to Species Biomass Proportions in Grassland Communities of Varying Diversity We studied traits of the “leaf economics spectrum” (LES) in 138 experimental grassland communities composed of 20 grassland species, which represented different strategies in spatial resource acquisi...

Two new studies from our site show that

1. Plant diversity decreases the competitive superiority of non-native invaders (Roscher 2025)
doi.org/10.3897/neob...

2. Traits of the leaf economics spectrum do not always relate to species biomass (Bachmann et al. 2025)
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1st recordings of vocal behavior in female Albert's lyrebird, from @drbackhouse.bsky.social @lyrebirdlab.bsky.social @westsyduhie.bsky.social

🐦 documents song from 2 females during nesting and nest construction
🐦 shows ♀️s produce mimicry, conspecific song & alarm calls

#prattle 💬
#bioacoustics

Dwarf Mongooses Lose Body Mass in Hot Weather due to Limited Behavioural Plasticity Using long-term data from wild dwarf mongooses (Helogale parvula), we demonstrate that on hot days (≥ 35°C) compared to matched cooler ones (≤ 33°C), mongooses emerged and commenced foraging earlier ...

☀️New Paper!☀️ In @ecol-evol.bsky.social

Dwarf mongooses lose body mass in hot weather due to limited behavioural plasticity

With top co-authors: @josharbon.bsky.social, Amy Morris-Drake, @juliekern.bsky.social, @andyradford.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71963
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social

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Functional and Phylogenetic Structure of Forest Bird Assemblages Along an Afrotropical Elevational Gradient On Mt. Cameroon, functional richness and taxonomic diversity decreased with elevation, while functional nearest neighbor distance, functional evenness, and mean nearest taxon distance showed positive...

doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

With great pleasure, I announce that another chapter of my doctoral thesis has been published in @ecol-evol.bsky.social. In our study, we explored how bird diversity varies with altitude—taxonomically, functionally, and phylogenetically—on Mt. Cameroon

✨ New paper out in @ecol-evol.bsky.social! Sequel to Coralcraft, our 3D model annacresswell.bsky.social 🪸

We found there is no "one-size-fits-all" way to measure #habitatcomplexity on coral reefs. #Coral community composition and #morphology matter! 🐠

Full paper here: doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Shining a Light on Patterns of Photoperiod Sensitivity in Germination and Flowering Across Latitudes, Ecosystems and Functional Traits Our study investigated the role of photoperiod sensitivity in plant phenology, focusing on germination and flowering patterns across species in Australia and globally. We found that most species show...

Our #OpenAccess paper showing no trends in photoperiod sensitivity in germination 🌱 & flowering time 🌸 across a range of predictors out now in @ecol-evol.bsky.social Led by brilliant Honours student Ashika and my first 'senior author' paper 😀 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Ever wondered what a jaguar’s love life looks like? Neither had we — until we captured the first-ever video of jaguar mating in the wild, featuring a rare black jaguar. 🐆😍🐈‍⬛ 🧪🌏🌐🍁. Check out the full video here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#Ecology #Conservation #Biodiversity #Wildlife

Gone With the Wind: Exploring a Vanished Rock Dove Hybrid Zone in the Sahara Desert: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #ornithology

Gene Flow and Vertical Stratification of Pollination in the Bat‐Pollinated Liana Marcgravia longifolia This study investigates pollen dispersal, vertical stratification of gene flow, and spatial genetic structure in the bat-pollinated liana Marcgravia longifolia in a western Amazonian forest. Flowers ...

From the forest floor to the canopy, bats keep rainforest vines genetically connected through pollination 🦇 Check out our new paper published in @ecol-evol.bsky.social. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @katrinheer.bsky.social

From Science to Sovereignty: Indigenizing Western Scientific Approaches for Culturally Appropriate Wildfire Recovery This study reanalyzes post-wildfire vegetation trajectory data with Indigenous plant classification systems co-developed with St'át'imc communities, revealing that conventional “native/non-native” pl....

From Science to Sovereignty: Indigenizing Western Scientific Approaches for Culturally Appropriate Wildfire Recovery - Oeggerli - 2025 - Ecology and Evolution onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #IndigenousScience #EcoEvo

The BOU being so on it they beat me to posting about our own paper!

Any folk interested in using bioacoustics to monitor petrels/ #seabirds do get in touch- we're continuing this work at @btoscotland.bsky.social and always keen for more collaborations in this emerging field

By far my favorite paper this year.
A collaboration between Mapuche elders—including Machi Patricia—and ecologists, reflecting on building trust and shared understanding in the face of environmental crisis.
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Very excited to announce my first paper!
With @sjportugal.bsky.social, published in @ecol-evol.bsky.social 🧪🌍

We studied how flocks of homing pigeons change their flight in response to different ground cover, with some surprising results...

doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

#movementecology #ornithology

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 🧵
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
@treedi.bsky.social
@geobotanymluhalle.bsky.social
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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]