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🎙️ our latest podcast episode is live!
👨‍🔬 we spoke with our incredible Research Highlights Editor, Mariano Rodriguez-Cabal, about his research and his experience working as an editor on our journal.
🔉 listen in English here: buff.ly/9ZICMim
🔉 Escucha en español aquí: buff.ly/LX5Hw6k

Nutrient Enrichment Increases Blue Carbon Potential of Subtropical Seagrass Beds

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Don't forget to submit your proposal for our Sidnie Manton award!

🚨 our August issue is now live! buff.ly/HzYBKQL
🪸 it includes papers from our latest cross-journal Special Feature, "Marine Heatwaves". You can read the full list of papers in the feature, including papers from @funecology.bsky.social & @journalofecology.bsky.social, here: buff.ly/qXHEMjS

🐝 Our latest Special Feature, "Network Ecology in the Anthropocene", is now accepting proposals.
📝 The Special Feature will be accepting submissions to all 7 of our British Ecological Society journals.

Guild diversity impacts demographic outcomes of novel species interactions following range shifts This study applies the theory of biotic resistance, a common concept in invasion ecology, to the world of climate driven range shifts, and finds support that biotic resistance may create a life-stage....

Quote: "We investigated not only how biotic resistance could restrict the success of a range-shifting species, but also how it could positively impact the fitness of an individual resident species by sheltering it from novel competition."
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Know an Evolutionary Genomicist looking for a faculty position? Join us in EEB @utknoxville.bsky.social Position is open for studying any organism, but personally I have some botany bias. 🌱 Apply before Sept 19 for full consideration. apply.interfolio.com/170735 Please share widely. Thanks!

"subtle stressors—Strong responses. Consistent negative effects of avian blood parasites on phenotypic and demographic traits across songbirds" 🐦

"Our findings reveal a notable resilience in the co-occurrence patterns of understorey birds to selective logging in Borneo, underscoring the long-term conservation value of logged tropical forests..." 🪵
Read the full paper here: buff.ly/BKmDRyi

Myrmecia ant carrying an Isopod, photo: François Brassard

Hot off the press: Metabolic traits are shaped by phylogenetic conservatism and environment, not just body size

Our article in PNAS explores several controversies in metabolic theory in a macroscale study of 🐜 #aridity #temp #SMR #DGC 📸:François Brassard

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501541122

🚨 new research: "effects of competition and predation risk from a life history intraguild predator on individual specialisation"
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On how and why I took more than 22,500 colour measurements in a month and survived This blog post is provided by David Lopez-Idiaquez and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Global patterns of colouration complexity in the Paridae: effects of climate and species chara…

On how and why I took more than 22,500 colour measurements in a month and survived animalecologyinfocus.com/2025/07/02/o...

Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...

There is one month left to apply for our Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution! These awards provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in #ecology and #evolution. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons... #science

The Global Energy Transition: Ecological Impact, Mitigation and Restoration

Super proud of this Special Feature on the Global Energy Transition 🌏💡- read our editorial and exciting contributions here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/global-e...

It's time for @animalecology.bsky.social 's Sidnie Manton Award for Early Career Researchers! Send in those ideas!

"An experimental test of the importance of isolated trees for frog diversity in tropical landscapes" 🐸
read the full paper here: buff.ly/df82hJL

Plant Science CDT: Plant thermal tolerances across scales: from a single tree to global trends at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Plant Science CDT: Plant thermal tolerances across scales: from a single tree to global trends at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com

Exciting opportunity for a PhD project to expand our knowledge of plant thermal tolerances- from a single tree to trends! 🌳 🌎🌡️🔥❄️

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

BioTIME 2.0: Expanding and Improving a Database of Biodiversity Time Series Motivation Here, we make available a second version of the BioTIME database, which compiles records of abundance estimates for species in sample events of ecological assemblages through time. The up...

BioTime v2 is out!!🚨 - Explore the largest #database of #biodiversity time-series studies in the world.

Now with more studies🗄️🔍👩‍💻, more species 🌱🦎🦇🐟🌳🐜🐚🪸🐀, more locations 🌐…just more!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Free to download, free to use!
#BioTime #Macroecology #GlobalChange

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What I wish I knew: 33 thoughts for early career researchers Thirty three reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career.

What I wish I knew: 33 thoughts for early career researchers
Reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career.

predirections.substack.com/p/what-i-wis...

The new era of global bird phylogenies begins – this one built over several years by @snacktavish.bsky.social and team massively increases sample size and will be a fantastic resource for macroevolution and macroecology. 🪶 🌐 🧪

A photo collage of the 2025 class of ESA's fellows and early career fellows. Click through the link for a full list of fellows and their individual bona fides.

🌟Announcing the 2025 ESA Fellows and Early Career Fellows!🌟ESA's fellowship program recognizes the many ways in which our members contribute to ecological research, communication, education, management & policy. Learn more about this year's cohort: esa.org/blog/2025/04...

It's Undergrad Poster Day in EEB. It's one of my favorite days of the year when we get to hear from future leaders in ecology and evolution talk about their impactful research experiences.

In defense of our institutional independence This University is a proud public university that belongs to all of us and generations to follow. It is a place to test ideas, shape futures and pursue, not prescribe, truth.

University of Michigan Regents come out squarely and publicly in defense of academic freedom against political coercion and the role of higher education and research in making America prosperous, secure ... and well ... maybe even Great? www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...

Well done, Leonna Szangolies, for winning the 2024 Elton Prize in @animalecology.bsky.social!🏆 

Leonna’s research models how habitat fragmentation affects coexistence among species of different body sizes. 🐁 

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2656.14134

Welcoming our new Senior Editor, Ana (Guida) Margarida C. Santos. We are happy to announce that Ana (Guida) Margarida C. Santos will be taking on the role of Senior Editor for the Journal of Animal Ecology. She is taking over from Jean-Michel Gaillard, who is ste…

...but with each ending comes a new beginning. We would like to announce that Ana Margarida C. Santos (Guida) will replace Jean-Michel as Senior Editor. You can read a blog post she has written to introduce herself below:
animalecologyinfocus.com/welcoming-ou...

Journal of Animal Ecology | Editor Expertise: Professor Jean-Michel Gaillard For our ‘Editor Expertise’ series, we will be meeting with each of our Senior Editors, who will share the reason they went into animal ecology, their current and future research focus, and their exper

We are sad to announce that Professor Jean-Michel Gaillard will be leaving the board as Senior Editor of our journal after 11 years of editorial service. We will miss him greatly. You can listen to his podcast episode where he reflects on his time on the journal here:
soundcloud.com/besjournals/...

Born on March 29, 125 years ago:
One of the most influential ecologists of the 20th century and the father of animal ecology, who turned natural history into a science: Charles Sutherland Elton (1900-1991).
A birthday thread… 🧵[1/8]

Jordan Cuff provides the story behind his paper, “Networking nutrients: How nutrition determines the structure of ecological networks“, which was shortlisted for this year’s Elton Prize 🕷️
animalecologyinfocus.com/jordan-cuff-...
@JordanCuff.bsky.social