Journal of Animal Ecology
@animalecology
Journal of Animal Ecology publishes the best #AnimalEcology research that develops, tests and advances broad ecological principles. A @britishecologicalsociety.org journal.
📢our Managing Editor is at #ISBE2026! 👋say hello to Jenny at the BES stand, between Sala Copenaghen and Sala Dublino
📖 Published📖 Convergent digestive adaptation to resource limitation in an insular lizard across a microgeographic archipelago🌍 🦎 🌊 🔎 buff.ly/VWorYzt
⏲️"when you study who meets whom in nature, always remember to ask what time it is..." 🐝read our latest blog post, "the clock matters when we study pollination" 📜https://buff.ly/hxyyhcy 🎨painting by Antonio Isla
📖 Published📖 Between-species contagion drives HPAI transmission and mass mortality in seabirds 🦠 'This study demonstrates that carcass data can provide epidemiological insights but also act as an early warning system for continent-wide patterns of spread'🕊️ 👇️ buff.ly/Zo6d8WH
🌱 Landscape configuration and soil properties shape ant-mediated seed dispersal in tropical dry forest agricultural landscapes 🌍 🔎 buff.ly/nop2Pfm
🐟️ Native habitat affinities predict fish invasions with post-invasion habitat shifts 🐟️ 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/ePh561L
📖 Understanding mammal avoidance of human settlements These findings suggest that animals living alongside humans exhibit greater plasticity when people change their behaviour🐵 🌍 🏙️ 🔎 buff.ly/Me6U2go
🐝 Pollinator community composition and pollen resource use in calcareous grasslands under different landscape contexts across Europe 🌸 👇️ Read more buff.ly/xkK503Z
📖 New paper📖 A global comparison of structural properties across ecological network types: The role of connectance, degree distribution and sampling inconsistencies🌍 🏔️ 🌲 🔎 buff.ly/MG4BWts
📖 Leukocyte profiles reveal sex and age differences in immune investment in a polygynous bat These findings provide evidence from a long-lived bat that investment in innate immunity increases while adaptive immunity declines over the lifespan🧬🦇 👇️
📖 Published! Environmental factors associated with nesting habits and age shape the composition and connection between skin and uropygial gland microbiomes of birds🐦⬛ 🦠 🌳 🔎Find out more: buff.ly/JE1qj2G
🚨 new blog post! 🐘 read the story behind the paper, "elephant space use and habitat selection change across drought timescales" 📝 blog here: buff.ly/t1L3XwI
Can human hunters, often termed ‘super-predators’, functionally substitute for the complex regulation once provided by their natural counterparts?🌍 🐕️ 🌳 👇️ Find out here buff.ly/taMgxed
We are accepting proposals for a Special Feature celebrating 100 years since the publication of Charles Elton's Animal Ecology. We're interested in contributions that return to Elton’s text and use it as a starting point to ask what we have learned over the past century. buff.ly/PMAqfUC
🎧️ New podcast episode! Does geography effect life history? A case study in Storks 🌍 🕊️ 👇️ Listen here buff.ly/2fA8Ts1 buff.ly/VfjOe4S
📖 New research Temperate forest heterogeneity decreases local and landscape-scale spider diversity through habitat filtering despite increasing species turnover🌳 🌍 🕷️ 🔎 buff.ly/H2DTAvZ
📖 Published From individuals to networks: The role of variation in plant–pollinator communities' responses to global change🌍 🐝 🌻 🔎 Read more: buff.ly/Ad9V0oN
📖 Elephant space use and habitat selection change across drought timescales Elephants have smaller home ranges and movement distances when their environment became drier at a 1-month timescale🐘 🌍 ☀️ 👇️ buff.ly/tvHhn00
New research📖 Playing it safe at early life stages: Balancing energy allocations to maximize fitness under seasonal pathogen dynamics🧪 🦠 🖥️ 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/XofOXf2
25 years, 4 colonies across the Arctic: satellite snowmelt data & nest monitoring show that earlier snowmelt advances hatching in little auks — but fitness consequences are mixed. Will earlier breeding help in future? 📝 paper: buff.ly/G49YbQW 🎙️ podcast: buff.ly/LPMOT9w 🧊 blog: buff.ly/lMPDKkD
new research: "offshore wind farm avoidance by a discard-feeding seabird is independent of local fishing activity" 🪽 🐟 🌬️ read it here: buff.ly/c184xf1
"Social organization and habitat use shape the gut microbiome of a marine fish" 🐟 read the full paper here: buff.ly/2xqdDqv
"Hotter, faster, sicker? Warming shifts the cost of infection from individuals to populations" 📝 read the full paper here: buff.ly/OSOTKbN
new research! "When top-down is also bottom-up: Examining consumer-driven nutrient recycling in an arctic herbivore population" 📝 buff.ly/RlJismD
Check out this research methods guide 👇️ Deep blueprint: A literature review and guide to automated image classification for ecologists🖥️ 🔎 buff.ly/hWbUWKq
📖 New research article Asymmetric niche partitioning in large omnivores in response to anthropogenic disturbances within subarctic ecosystems🌍 🐱 👇️ buff.ly/b0HzOOY
📖 This long term study spatially analysed decades of territory maps to identify all nontrivial instances of natal territory inheritance in first-time breeding Florida Scrub-Jays (Aphelocoma coerulescens) 🔎 Read more: buff.ly/sm6s37g
In this blog post @dillensegerg.bsky.social discuss how forest patches can negatively affect ground nests in grassland species, and how lapwings mitigate this effect by being more aggressive when nesting near trees🌳 🌍 🔎 buff.ly/LZFCvZl
Check out this new review👇️ malddaba: An open-access database of age-specific mammalian demography for comparative analyses in evolutionary biology and demography🌍 🐵 🔎 buff.ly/sUF7wDu
🚨 new blog post! "The Hidden Architecture of Ecological Networks Under Biodiversity Loss" read the blog here: buff.ly/prUJfco and paper here: buff.ly/FXpXodA