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.
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At the BES, we believe cost should not be a barrier to publishing. We have outlined how you can use resources that cover the fees for processing and publishing your research.
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November 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Did you know that you may be able to publish your paper in our open access journals at no cost?
At the BES, we believe cost should not be a barrier to publishing. We have outlined how you can use resources that cover the fees for processing and publishing your research.
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At the BES, we believe cost should not be a barrier to publishing. We have outlined how you can use resources that cover the fees for processing and publishing your research.
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🕷️ Evaluation of BugBox, a software platform for AI-assisted bioinventories of arthropods
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November 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
🕷️ Evaluation of BugBox, a software platform for AI-assisted bioinventories of arthropods
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📖 Read the full paper here➡️ buff.ly/3GMV0Is
🚨Research Highlight: "Let’s solve the enigma of population cycles! Oli and colleagues provide a detailed mechanistic understanding of the demographic drivers causing cycles in population abundance of the snowshoe hare in Yukon, for more than 40 years"
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November 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🚨Research Highlight: "Let’s solve the enigma of population cycles! Oli and colleagues provide a detailed mechanistic understanding of the demographic drivers causing cycles in population abundance of the snowshoe hare in Yukon, for more than 40 years"
📖 Read here ➡️ buff.ly/u8Y9P39
📖 Read here ➡️ buff.ly/u8Y9P39
🐇 "Despite century-long research, demographic mechanisms underlying snowshoe hare population cycles have remained elusive"
New Research: Demographic mechanisms of snowshoe hare population cycles in Yukon, Canada ➡️ buff.ly/Qt1Xiuv
New Research: Demographic mechanisms of snowshoe hare population cycles in Yukon, Canada ➡️ buff.ly/Qt1Xiuv
November 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🐇 "Despite century-long research, demographic mechanisms underlying snowshoe hare population cycles have remained elusive"
New Research: Demographic mechanisms of snowshoe hare population cycles in Yukon, Canada ➡️ buff.ly/Qt1Xiuv
New Research: Demographic mechanisms of snowshoe hare population cycles in Yukon, Canada ➡️ buff.ly/Qt1Xiuv
🐁 Land use gradients drive spatial variation in Lassa fever host communities in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone
"Considering these species interactions is critical for accurately predicting future zoonotic disease patterns"
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"Considering these species interactions is critical for accurately predicting future zoonotic disease patterns"
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November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🐁 Land use gradients drive spatial variation in Lassa fever host communities in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone
"Considering these species interactions is critical for accurately predicting future zoonotic disease patterns"
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"Considering these species interactions is critical for accurately predicting future zoonotic disease patterns"
📖 Read the paper here➡️ buff.ly/K0yEvVV
🦪 New Research: "For a Florida estuary, we blended data and mathematical models to show that future salinity variability could harm oysters, but that effect is balanced out by low salinities inhibiting oyster predators"
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📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/qBFYrAx
November 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🦪 New Research: "For a Florida estuary, we blended data and mathematical models to show that future salinity variability could harm oysters, but that effect is balanced out by low salinities inhibiting oyster predators"
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📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/qBFYrAx
🐦Community composition coupled with habitat fragmentation drives acoustic divergence in bird assemblages
"We demonstrate how birds adjust their sound frequencies via acoustic niche partitioning driven by both community composition and habitat fragmentation"
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"We demonstrate how birds adjust their sound frequencies via acoustic niche partitioning driven by both community composition and habitat fragmentation"
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November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🐦Community composition coupled with habitat fragmentation drives acoustic divergence in bird assemblages
"We demonstrate how birds adjust their sound frequencies via acoustic niche partitioning driven by both community composition and habitat fragmentation"
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"We demonstrate how birds adjust their sound frequencies via acoustic niche partitioning driven by both community composition and habitat fragmentation"
📖 Read the full paper ➡️ buff.ly/B75UgYW
🐆A struggle to survive: Guild hierarchy predicts drought benefit among large carnivores. This study highlights the complex, species-specific ecological pressures that must be understood to guide carnivore conservation under changing climate.
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📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/x4mAi6k
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🐆A struggle to survive: Guild hierarchy predicts drought benefit among large carnivores. This study highlights the complex, species-specific ecological pressures that must be understood to guide carnivore conservation under changing climate.
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/x4mAi6k
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/x4mAi6k
🚨 New research methods guide - Estimating species occupancy across multiple sampling seasons with autologistic occupancy models via the autoOcc R package
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November 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🚨 New research methods guide - Estimating species occupancy across multiple sampling seasons with autologistic occupancy models via the autoOcc R package
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🪲 New research uses12 years of assembly patterns in saproxylic beetles to suggest early decay wood as ephemeral resource patch
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November 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🪲 New research uses12 years of assembly patterns in saproxylic beetles to suggest early decay wood as ephemeral resource patch
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Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/MQk5Rq8
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We're looking for a 6th Senior Editor!
If you…
👉are intrigued by the interface between ecology & biological resource management
👉are interested in contributing to the journal’s strategic vision
👉have editing experience
…we’d love to hear from you!
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/seni...
If you…
👉are intrigued by the interface between ecology & biological resource management
👉are interested in contributing to the journal’s strategic vision
👉have editing experience
…we’d love to hear from you!
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/seni...
Senior Editor for Journal of Applied Ecology - British Ecological Society
Join the editorial board on Journal of Applied Ecology! Apply by 21 Dec 2025.
www.britishecologicalsociety.org
November 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
We're looking for a 6th Senior Editor!
If you…
👉are intrigued by the interface between ecology & biological resource management
👉are interested in contributing to the journal’s strategic vision
👉have editing experience
…we’d love to hear from you!
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/seni...
If you…
👉are intrigued by the interface between ecology & biological resource management
👉are interested in contributing to the journal’s strategic vision
👉have editing experience
…we’d love to hear from you!
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/seni...
🪿"Moving to colder areas allows arctic geese to reduce negative effects of climate change (trophic mismatch), but this comes at a price for parents as they face harsher nesting conditions, which only parents capable of large investments can cope with"
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November 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🪿"Moving to colder areas allows arctic geese to reduce negative effects of climate change (trophic mismatch), but this comes at a price for parents as they face harsher nesting conditions, which only parents capable of large investments can cope with"
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🌿 A great review is more than just a summary or description of past research! They integrate existing studies in new ways to promote discussion & offer new ideas & directions in plant ecology 🌷
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📰 Read more about our reviews in our latest blog post 👇
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November 18, 2025 at 12:22 PM
🌿 A great review is more than just a summary or description of past research! They integrate existing studies in new ways to promote discussion & offer new ideas & directions in plant ecology 🌷
📰 Read more about our reviews in our latest blog post 👇
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📰 Read more about our reviews in our latest blog post 👇
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🪰 Density-dependent selection at high food levels leads to the evolution of persistence but not constancy in Drosophila melanogaster populations
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November 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🪰 Density-dependent selection at high food levels leads to the evolution of persistence but not constancy in Drosophila melanogaster populations
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Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/3vqUTal
🦀 "An IPM2 creates a synergistic modelling framework useful for disentangling multiple size-structured demographic rates and understanding the effectiveness of invasive European green crab removal efforts."
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November 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🦀 "An IPM2 creates a synergistic modelling framework useful for disentangling multiple size-structured demographic rates and understanding the effectiveness of invasive European green crab removal efforts."
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Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/TeGMbh2
🐘 New research - Large herbivores are linked to higher herbaceous plant diversity and functional redundancy across spatial scales
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November 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🐘 New research - Large herbivores are linked to higher herbaceous plant diversity and functional redundancy across spatial scales
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🪸 New study shows how reef structural complexity at multiple scales shapes fish-driven nutrient hotspots. By identifying thresholds in relief and fine-scale complexity, this study reveals when and where nutrient hotspots may form on coral reefs, offering practical guidance.
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November 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🪸 New study shows how reef structural complexity at multiple scales shapes fish-driven nutrient hotspots. By identifying thresholds in relief and fine-scale complexity, this study reveals when and where nutrient hotspots may form on coral reefs, offering practical guidance.
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➡️ buff.ly/jwNmzsr
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Excited to share that my first PhD chapter just got published in @animalecology.bsky.social! You can check it out here: doi.org/10.1111/1365.... Based on fieldwork in the beautiful Waterberg Biosphere Reserve in South Africa, we show that.. (1/3)
November 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Excited to share that my first PhD chapter just got published in @animalecology.bsky.social! You can check it out here: doi.org/10.1111/1365.... Based on fieldwork in the beautiful Waterberg Biosphere Reserve in South Africa, we show that.. (1/3)
🐟 New Research disentangles the influence of density dependence, size dependence and environmental effects on fish population dynamics
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📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/bFQCjsB
November 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🐟 New Research disentangles the influence of density dependence, size dependence and environmental effects on fish population dynamics
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📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/bFQCjsB
🐝 New research - "Our work demonstrates a key role for host-associated microbiota in the realization of induced immune defence, and contributes more broadly to our understanding of microbiota-immune interactions in the context of ecological immunology."
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Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/XqdrXbK
November 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🐝 New research - "Our work demonstrates a key role for host-associated microbiota in the realization of induced immune defence, and contributes more broadly to our understanding of microbiota-immune interactions in the context of ecological immunology."
Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/XqdrXbK
Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/XqdrXbK
🐌 "Poor alignment between thermal sensitivity and habitat temperature can be sufficient, and is likely maintained, so marine snail embryos can survive seasonally driven extreme temperature events. ‘Suboptimal’ good enough"
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@jacklitle.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🐌 "Poor alignment between thermal sensitivity and habitat temperature can be sufficient, and is likely maintained, so marine snail embryos can survive seasonally driven extreme temperature events. ‘Suboptimal’ good enough"
Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/ivDaFxW
@jacklitle.bsky.social
Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/ivDaFxW
@jacklitle.bsky.social
📊 New review. Sweat the small stuff: A review of the use of accelerometers to estimate energy expenditure in wild animals ➡️ buff.ly/9XJbIwT
"The review will accelerate adoption of best practices so the field can continue to gain momentum"
"The review will accelerate adoption of best practices so the field can continue to gain momentum"
November 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
📊 New review. Sweat the small stuff: A review of the use of accelerometers to estimate energy expenditure in wild animals ➡️ buff.ly/9XJbIwT
"The review will accelerate adoption of best practices so the field can continue to gain momentum"
"The review will accelerate adoption of best practices so the field can continue to gain momentum"
🦎 New Research highlight of MacLeod, K., Bouffet-Halle, A., Wapstra, E., Uller, T., While, G. (2025). Maternal glucocorticoids have persistent effects on offspring social phenotype irrespective of opportunity for social buffering.
Research Highlight ➡️ buff.ly/DUvn9XA
Research Highlight ➡️ buff.ly/DUvn9XA
November 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🦎 New Research highlight of MacLeod, K., Bouffet-Halle, A., Wapstra, E., Uller, T., While, G. (2025). Maternal glucocorticoids have persistent effects on offspring social phenotype irrespective of opportunity for social buffering.
Research Highlight ➡️ buff.ly/DUvn9XA
Research Highlight ➡️ buff.ly/DUvn9XA
🐜New study provides the first examination of social immunity in a supercolonial ant subject to attack by a specialist pathogen. The study directly manipulates the nest template to see how space shapes the outcome of social immune behaviours
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November 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🐜New study provides the first examination of social immunity in a supercolonial ant subject to attack by a specialist pathogen. The study directly manipulates the nest template to see how space shapes the outcome of social immune behaviours
➡️ buff.ly/NulFOSb
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The authors of "an integrative, peer-reviewed and open-source cooperative-breeding database (Co-BreeD)", have written their story behind the paper. 📝
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Blog here: buff.ly/Z5t3EvK
Paper here: buff.ly/L9UOyCg
November 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM
The authors of "an integrative, peer-reviewed and open-source cooperative-breeding database (Co-BreeD)", have written their story behind the paper. 📝
Blog here: buff.ly/Z5t3EvK
Paper here: buff.ly/L9UOyCg
Blog here: buff.ly/Z5t3EvK
Paper here: buff.ly/L9UOyCg