Journal of Animal Ecology
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Journal of Animal Ecology publishes the best #AnimalEcology research that develops, tests and advances broad ecological principles. A @britishecologicalsociety.org journal.
🦭 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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November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
🦭 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.
Read the full paper here! ➡️ buff.ly/vecdcwH
Read the full paper here! ➡️ buff.ly/vecdcwH
🐺 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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November 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🐺 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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New research shows meerkat social group membership strongly shapes gut microbiomes and beneficial bacterial co-occurrence, beyond individual health or environmental exposure. ⬇️
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November 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
New research shows meerkat social group membership strongly shapes gut microbiomes and beneficial bacterial co-occurrence, beyond individual health or environmental exposure. ⬇️
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Time to rethink nature conservation?
Ecologists call for an ecosystem approach to halt UK wildlife decline and protect the vital services nature provides us in our new report with @nationaltrust.org.uk
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Ecologists call for an ecosystem approach to halt UK wildlife decline and protect the vital services nature provides us in our new report with @nationaltrust.org.uk
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November 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Time to rethink nature conservation?
Ecologists call for an ecosystem approach to halt UK wildlife decline and protect the vital services nature provides us in our new report with @nationaltrust.org.uk
@pettorelli.bsky.social
Ecologists call for an ecosystem approach to halt UK wildlife decline and protect the vital services nature provides us in our new report with @nationaltrust.org.uk
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We are looking for contributors to our series on the Methods Blog, exploring the experiences of ecologists conducting research in remote field stations during the holiday season 🎄
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See previous blogs here 👉 buff.ly/MnMcRqG (1/2)
November 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
We are looking for contributors to our series on the Methods Blog, exploring the experiences of ecologists conducting research in remote field stations during the holiday season 🎄
See previous blogs here 👉 buff.ly/MnMcRqG (1/2)
See previous blogs here 👉 buff.ly/MnMcRqG (1/2)
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Climate Change Special Interest Group is launching a series of online sessions, Coffee Morning for Early Career Researchers. A monthly session to connect with peers, spark new ideas, and explore critical climate-related topics together.
🗓️First session - 7 November 10:00 (GMT)
🗓️First session - 7 November 10:00 (GMT)
November 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Climate Change Special Interest Group is launching a series of online sessions, Coffee Morning for Early Career Researchers. A monthly session to connect with peers, spark new ideas, and explore critical climate-related topics together.
🗓️First session - 7 November 10:00 (GMT)
🗓️First session - 7 November 10:00 (GMT)
"Co-BreeD is the first updatable and open-source database dedicated to cooperative breeding. It enables continuous, non-binary measurement of cooperative breeding, transforming how we study breeding systems across taxa..."
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November 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
"Co-BreeD is the first updatable and open-source database dedicated to cooperative breeding. It enables continuous, non-binary measurement of cooperative breeding, transforming how we study breeding systems across taxa..."
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Our newest Special Feature, "Implications of Changing Snowscapes for Animal Ecology", is now accepting proposals. It aims to highlight the importance of changing snow conditions in animal ecology. 🌨️
Read more and submit your proposal here:
Read more and submit your proposal here:
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November 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Our newest Special Feature, "Implications of Changing Snowscapes for Animal Ecology", is now accepting proposals. It aims to highlight the importance of changing snow conditions in animal ecology. 🌨️
Read more and submit your proposal here:
Read more and submit your proposal here:
A new Research Highlight, "computer vision uncovers trait-based insect responses to habitat loss", has now been published to compliment a recently published paper, "life history induces markedly divergent insect responses to habitat loss"
Find them below:
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Find them below:
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November 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
A new Research Highlight, "computer vision uncovers trait-based insect responses to habitat loss", has now been published to compliment a recently published paper, "life history induces markedly divergent insect responses to habitat loss"
Find them below:
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Find them below:
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"Seascape heterogeneity and predictability drive movement strategy selection in estuarine predators"
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November 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"Seascape heterogeneity and predictability drive movement strategy selection in estuarine predators"
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Register for our next MEE live!
Join the authors of ‘DNA Divers: Volunteer-based eDNA capture for local and global marine biodiversity monitoring’ for this free online webinar! 🧬 ⭐
⏰ 27 November 2025, 16:30-17:30pm (GMT)
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Join the authors of ‘DNA Divers: Volunteer-based eDNA capture for local and global marine biodiversity monitoring’ for this free online webinar! 🧬 ⭐
⏰ 27 November 2025, 16:30-17:30pm (GMT)
Find out more and register 👇
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November 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Register for our next MEE live!
Join the authors of ‘DNA Divers: Volunteer-based eDNA capture for local and global marine biodiversity monitoring’ for this free online webinar! 🧬 ⭐
⏰ 27 November 2025, 16:30-17:30pm (GMT)
Find out more and register 👇
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Join the authors of ‘DNA Divers: Volunteer-based eDNA capture for local and global marine biodiversity monitoring’ for this free online webinar! 🧬 ⭐
⏰ 27 November 2025, 16:30-17:30pm (GMT)
Find out more and register 👇
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New research on "estimating the ecological drivers of insect abundance when detection is imperfect" 🐝 🪰
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October 31, 2025 at 11:02 AM
New research on "estimating the ecological drivers of insect abundance when detection is imperfect" 🐝 🪰
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🌼🌡️ 🐝 Thermal conditions can directly reshape species interaction networks under climate change.
⬇️ In this invited short piece, I discuss how temperature-driven shifts in pollinators’ foraging choices, revealed by a new study, can cascade through entire plant–pollinator networks.
⬇️ In this invited short piece, I discuss how temperature-driven shifts in pollinators’ foraging choices, revealed by a new study, can cascade through entire plant–pollinator networks.
🌷New Research highlight showcases Arrowsmith et al. (2025), which shows that temperature alone can shift pollinators’ floral choices in diverse plant–pollinator communities. Such thermally-driven species interaction rewiring may have important consequences. ➡️ buff.ly/i5QrFjd
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October 29, 2025 at 1:55 PM
🌼🌡️ 🐝 Thermal conditions can directly reshape species interaction networks under climate change.
⬇️ In this invited short piece, I discuss how temperature-driven shifts in pollinators’ foraging choices, revealed by a new study, can cascade through entire plant–pollinator networks.
⬇️ In this invited short piece, I discuss how temperature-driven shifts in pollinators’ foraging choices, revealed by a new study, can cascade through entire plant–pollinator networks.
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🎃 How are you celebrating spooky season? Help usher in Halloween with this blog post of some of our spookiest publications this year... If you dare! 👻🧪
🏰 Read the blog here: appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/10/30/2...
🏰 Read the blog here: appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/10/30/2...
To help usher in Halloween, let’s take a look at some recent articles from Journal of Applied Ecology that explore different spooky animals and their environments! Bats are probably the first creat…
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October 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
🎃 How are you celebrating spooky season? Help usher in Halloween with this blog post of some of our spookiest publications this year... If you dare! 👻🧪
🏰 Read the blog here: appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/10/30/2...
🏰 Read the blog here: appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/10/30/2...
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During the course of Black History Month, we have been collating a resource page of blogs, networks, literature and more, with the aim of consistently supporting and elevating Black ecologists.
October 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
During the course of Black History Month, we have been collating a resource page of blogs, networks, literature and more, with the aim of consistently supporting and elevating Black ecologists.
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🚨 Did you miss yesterday's webinar on 'Understanding the policy context of Integrated Nature-Climate Action'? 🚨
Don't fret! 🌎🧪
You can watch the full presentations and discussion over on our YouTube: youtu.be/KuytewU1-Vs?...
Don't fret! 🌎🧪
You can watch the full presentations and discussion over on our YouTube: youtu.be/KuytewU1-Vs?...
Understanding the policy context of Integrated Nature-Climate Action: Webinar
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October 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
🚨 Did you miss yesterday's webinar on 'Understanding the policy context of Integrated Nature-Climate Action'? 🚨
Don't fret! 🌎🧪
You can watch the full presentations and discussion over on our YouTube: youtu.be/KuytewU1-Vs?...
Don't fret! 🌎🧪
You can watch the full presentations and discussion over on our YouTube: youtu.be/KuytewU1-Vs?...
New research: "Hierarchical organization of life-history variation in a salmonid fish across riverscape: relevance of seasonal growth opportunity and maturation decision-window" 🐟
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Read it here: buff.ly/RWXKvbN
Hierarchical organization of life‐history variation in a salmonid fish across riverscape: Relevance of seasonal growth opportunity and maturation decision window
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October 30, 2025 at 10:01 AM
New research: "Hierarchical organization of life-history variation in a salmonid fish across riverscape: relevance of seasonal growth opportunity and maturation decision-window" 🐟
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Read it here: buff.ly/RWXKvbN
🐟 Hierarchical organization of life-history variation in a salmonid fish across riverscape: Relevance of seasonal growth opportunity and maturation decision window. This study is relevant for understanding life-history responses to climate change.
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October 29, 2025 at 11:03 AM
🐟 Hierarchical organization of life-history variation in a salmonid fish across riverscape: Relevance of seasonal growth opportunity and maturation decision window. This study is relevant for understanding life-history responses to climate change.
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🌷New Research highlight showcases Arrowsmith et al. (2025), which shows that temperature alone can shift pollinators’ floral choices in diverse plant–pollinator communities. Such thermally-driven species interaction rewiring may have important consequences. ➡️ buff.ly/i5QrFjd
@blancaac.bsky.social
@blancaac.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🌷New Research highlight showcases Arrowsmith et al. (2025), which shows that temperature alone can shift pollinators’ floral choices in diverse plant–pollinator communities. Such thermally-driven species interaction rewiring may have important consequences. ➡️ buff.ly/i5QrFjd
@blancaac.bsky.social
@blancaac.bsky.social
🐝Just like us, bees eat different things at different temperatures (who wants soup in the summer?). Bombus bifarius likes to visit a cinquefoil (Potentilla pulcherrima) when it’s cooler, but prefers aspen fleabane (Erigeron speciosus) when it’s warm.
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October 27, 2025 at 11:03 AM
🐝Just like us, bees eat different things at different temperatures (who wants soup in the summer?). Bombus bifarius likes to visit a cinquefoil (Potentilla pulcherrima) when it’s cooler, but prefers aspen fleabane (Erigeron speciosus) when it’s warm.
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Congratulations to our valued Executive Editor, @natejsanders.bsky.social, on becoming a BES fellow!
🌿 We’re celebrating our first round of BES Fellows!
20 ecologists recognised for excellence in research, teaching & the application of ecology.
👇 Meet them:
20 ecologists recognised for excellence in research, teaching & the application of ecology.
👇 Meet them:
Meet our first round of BES Fellows - British Ecological Society
We are delighted to announce the first round of BES Fellows, recognising outstanding contributions to ecology across research, teaching, and its application within our international community.
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October 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Congratulations to our valued Executive Editor, @natejsanders.bsky.social, on becoming a BES fellow!
🐿️New research tests a suite of hypotheses to explain variation in seasonal body mass dynamics of a fat-storing mammalian hibernator. They show that pre-hibernation mass gain mediates an annual allocation trade-off between current and future reproduction
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October 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🐿️New research tests a suite of hypotheses to explain variation in seasonal body mass dynamics of a fat-storing mammalian hibernator. They show that pre-hibernation mass gain mediates an annual allocation trade-off between current and future reproduction
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🦘 New Research Highlight - A field test demonstrates that herbivores mitigate some negative effects of African lovegrass invasion on soil biodiversity in Australia.
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October 24, 2025 at 10:02 AM
🦘 New Research Highlight - A field test demonstrates that herbivores mitigate some negative effects of African lovegrass invasion on soil biodiversity in Australia.
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🦌 Deer migration, deer density, tick distribution and incidence of a tick-borne zoonosis
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October 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🦌 Deer migration, deer density, tick distribution and incidence of a tick-borne zoonosis
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Congratulations @sheldonbirds.bsky.social!
Professor Ben Sheldon, @sheldonbirds.bsky.social is also the recipient of the Honorary Membership Award.
October 23, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Congratulations @sheldonbirds.bsky.social!