Journal of Animal Ecology

🕔️ we've published a new long term study, "environmental phenology drives spring migration timing"
📝 read it here: buff.ly/qsynYqB
📸 : Oleg Bourski

🚨 new blog post on the story behind the paper, "environmental phenology drives spring migration timing"
📝 read it here: buff.ly/DLJU8lF

How do you design a camera-trap workflow that is field-resilient and analysis-ready?

Join our webinar as Dr. Hugo Magaldi and Prof. Sabrina Krief discuss camera‑trapping in Uganda and their development of DeepForestVision for AI species labelling and quality control 📸

See here 👇
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🤝 we're recruiting an Associate Blog Editor!
📝 join us in identifying, commissioning, and editing blog posts for Animal Ecology in Focus
🐝 more information on the role and how to apply can be found here: buff.ly/I9Kf6Er

A research article, "functional response predicts invasiveness but not trophic impact", has been published!
🐟 read it below:
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🚨 new research: "Prey depletion by a predator guild suggests spatial differences in competitive ability, but not prey partitioning, consistent with functional trade-offs"
🦎 read it here: buff.ly/Ar0Uozg
📸 : Amber Wright

Read the story behind the paper, "energetics link long-term environmental variations to breeding success in a wild penguin population", below 🐧
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@bendps.bsky.social

I had the privilege of attending #BES2025 this past December and writing about the wonderful work being done by just three of MANY ecologists to form equitable collaborations! You can read about Amanda, Karla, and Niru's work in the blog:

Our Associate Blog Editor, @rowankuminski.bsky.social, has written a blog post on "showcasing equitable collaborations at the BES annual meeting 2025". 📝
Read it here: buff.ly/ahpdLG0

📝 new blog post on the story behind the paper, "herbivore and mesocarnivore carcasses trigger divergent short-term changes in soil properties"
🔎 read it in English here: buff.ly/VtWHZaf
🔎 Léalo en español aquí: buff.ly/8TETFCB
📸 : Adrián Colino Barea

🚨 we're looking for Associate Editors to join our editorial board!
🐜 join some of the world's best animal ecologists and get the chance to handle exceptional submissions to our journal
📝 deadline is 8 March - more information can be found below:
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New paper on empirical and theoretical #modeling shows that long-term trends of epibionts reflect #dolphin abundance shifts caused by #morbillivirus #epidemics. A @UV_EG & @Princeton collaboration - @ten_seas, @gatesdupont, @Andy2Dobson
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🔬 From crisis to partial recovery: Demographic changes in female Alpine ibex following a pneumonia outbreak

📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/ZSsqASj

🐬 New paper on empirical and theoretical #modeling shows that long-term trends of epibionts reflect #dolphin abundance shifts caused by #morbillivirus #epidemics.

📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/skud6lQ

🦟 Generation cycles in experimental populations of a multivoltine insect

📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/CuRiHjN

🐆 Global determinants of home range sizes in felids: Evidence of human disturbance impact

"Felids are a taxon of major interest in conservation biology, and gaining a comprehensive view of their spatial ecology will help derive global conservation recommendations"

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🐺 New Research Methods Guide - Demographic buffering in natural populations: A multi-level perspective

📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/gfpcHRB

Delighted to see our paper featured on the cover of the Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org

Thanks Pam Hurkens for the lovely image of a heavily pregnant meerkat being weighed at our field site.

This system is incredibly cool and provided another outstanding example of rigorous epidemiological science - congrats to all authors

🪶 New Research reveals that hormonal plasticity to food restriction is heritable in the house sparrow, Passer domesticus

📖 Read the full paper here! ➡️ buff.ly/BoWB3Dt

🦋 New research challenges the Temperature-Size Rule and highlights climate change’s potential to profoundly reshape butterfly life cycles, population dynamics, and ecological interactions.

📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/zFrpO7t

🦇 "Seasonal disease outbreaks in wildlife are often attributed to birth pulses introducing susceptible juveniles. Our four-year study of Hendra virus in Australian flying foxes challenges this assumption for an important zoonotic virus"

📖 Read here! buff.ly/3oAtfrO

🪿 Early-life stasis in partial seasonal migration is underpinned by among-cohort variation in migratory plasticity and selective disappearance

📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/9mleVea

🦓 New research out now!

"Our study demonstrates that savanna arthropod communities are largely resilient to changes in mammalian herbivory but undergo significant changes at extreme levels."

📖 Read the full paper ➡️ buff.ly/TXFWHJ0

🐧 Energetics link long-term environmental variations to breeding success in a wild penguin population

📖 Full paper out now! ➡️ buff.ly/G6ALac1

🚨 New Research Methods Guide out now!

Should you use data integration for your distribution model?
📖 Read the full guide here ➡️ buff.ly/SBACHbd

🌊 Parasites are not always bad! In blue mussels (Mytilus edulis), trematode infection can buffer acute heat stress, linked to increased heat shock protein expression. A surprising twist on host-parasite interactions under warming conditions

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Did you catch Tom's keynote at our latest Annual Meeting in Edinburgh?

Is the collective will to tackle the biodiversity and climate crisis slipping down the political agenda? If so, how do we turn this around?

Tom will be exploring this in a fascinating-sounding talk in Norwich later this year👇

🌟 Research highlight - Do large carnivores fare better in savannas when they get drier?

📖 Read the paper here ➡️ buff.ly/a9v23Dz

New paper out in @animalecology.bsky.social: Social information about others' affective states in a human-altered world. Link: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
With @jackdawjordan.bsky.social, @margauxvanhussel.bsky.social, Mike Mendl, and @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social