Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) can increase the resilience of reef communities to disturbances, playing a role in sheltering biodiversity from climate-related impacts. To determine if the protection st...

Regular light–dark cycles greatly affect organisms, and events like eclipses induce distinctive physiological and behavioural shifts. While well documented in animals, plant behaviour during eclipses ...

While humans are more boisterous than ever, other species are talking too – this is what you will hear if you really listen

Most of us are familiar with horse gaits: walk, trot, canter, etc. To our ears, these iconic sounds are intuitively rhythmic. Are they really? This study quantifies the rhythmic structure of these ga...

We explore how integrating behavioural ecology and macroecology can provide fundamental new insight into both fields, with particular relevance for understanding ecological responses to rapid environmental change. We outline the field of macrobehaviour, which aims to unite these disciplines explicitly, and highlight examples of research in this space. Macrobehaviour can be envisaged as a spectrum, where behavioural ecologists and macroecologists use new data and borrow tools and approaches from one another. At the heart of this spectrum, interdisciplinary research considers how selection in the context of large-scale factors can lead to systematic patterns in behavioural variation across space, time, and taxa, and in turn, influence macroecological patterns and processes. Macrobehaviour has the potential to enhance forecasts of future biodiversity change.

The Cesab – Centre for the Synthesis and Analysis of Biodiversity – of the FRB is opening the first session of the training course «Artifical Intelligence for ecologists: a toolkit». This five-day tra...

Researchers say the social-media platform — an alternative to X — offers more control over the content they see and the people they engage with.