Journal of Animal Ecology

14/10/2025

🦌 Synching with seasonality: Predicting roe deer parturition phenology across its distributional range, we identified a shift towards later parturition from west to east. ➡️ https://buff.ly/xI4GTtD

13/10/2025

🦫 This article highlights a recent study reporting cascade effects of beaver ecosystem engineering, which positively impact bat populations. The study authors show behavioural responses with increasing foraging activity, indirectly due to beaver presence➡️https://buff.ly/EpQyz14

10/10/2025

🪵Birds that nest in tree cavities are sometimes dependent on a few cavity-excavating bird species to make nesting sites available. Such interdependency, however, does not always materialize because excavated cavities may be unsuitable for continued use➡️ https://buff.ly/xR9c5qc

09/10/2025

🚨New Research Highlight on: Dri, G. Bogdziewicz, M. Hunter, M., Witham, J. and Mortelliti, A. 2025. Coupled effects of forest growth and climate change on small mammal abundance and body weight: results of a 39-year field study. ➡️ https://buff.ly/ad1mAqf

08/10/2025

🪽 Microclimatic niche predicts little bustards’ movements; birds with scarce microclimate refugia travel further to post-breeding areas maintaining similar niches, while short-distance migrants show greater niche shifts. ➡️ https://buff.ly/B6By2tN

07/10/2025

🐸Poison frog chemical defences are influenced by environmental availability and dietary selectivity for ants ➡️ https://buff.ly/NyBIPVP

Rodriguez et al., link spatial variation in leaf litter ant communities to frog chemical defences.

06/10/2025

🐝Complex effects of climatic variation on bumblebee queen fitness ➡️ https://buff.ly/072FsSd

03/10/2025

🪸Habitat loss triggers a social chain reaction: adult reef fish crowd onto remaining coral, then spill over onto dead coral - and juveniles follow. This study reveals a novel, socially driven “bandwagon effect” that may lead to ecological traps. ➡️ https://buff.ly/MnxFMFK

03/10/2025

"In this collaborative study, Doyle et al. utilise samples from an oil rig operator to determine migratory movements of and the pollen they transport across the North Sea and discuss long-distance ." 🛢️
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This blog post is provided by Toby D. Doyle and tells the for the article “Long-range pollen transport across the North Sea: Insights from migratory hoverflies landing on a rem…

02/10/2025

🛢️Long-range pollen transport across the North Sea: Insights from migratory hoverflies landing on a remote oil rig ➡️ https://buff.ly/C6Jp8UK

This study identifies pollen from over 100 plant species—including wildflowers, food and crops—carried by hoverflies alighting onto an oilrig 200 km off the coast during seasonal migrations. Analysis of their movements indicates a huge potential to enhance long distance gene flow between plants and increase pollination services.

01/10/2025

🚨 Research Highlight: Plasticity in a key life-history trait contributes to population cycles in an insect herbivore ➡️ https://buff.ly/55qz8HA

01/10/2025

"Long-term research reveals new insights about the interplay between life-history trade-offs and environmental variation, and how they shape the reproductive demography of climate-sensitive mountain wildlife." 🌨️
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