📊🚨New Research Highlight - Quantifying drivers of biodiversity change through increasing data availability and improved analytical frameworks ➡️ buff.ly/IVfoQkh

🔬 🚨 New Research Highlight - Targeted ‘infectiosome’ for disease ecology: A new tool to answer old questions ➡️ buff.ly/5F2i8We

🕷️"Les aranyes de tela de llençol (Psechrus clavis) capturen les cuques de llum i durant una hora -quan encara emeten llum- fan que s’apropin altres potencials preses", via @monplaneta.bsky.social 📃Art. Ref. (@animalecology.bsky.social 27 August 2025): tinyurl.com/49js3re4 (🔒Subscrit)

PAPER hints at ecological traps for damselfish settlement - dead corals chosen for settlement if an adult is present, could cascade to bad ends! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Led by @lisabe.bsky.social @lec-reefs.bsky.social @animalecology.bsky.social

🧠 Relative brain size explains migratory/resident tendency in birds: Partial altitudinal migration in Asian house martins ➡️ buff.ly/Jt1lY0d This first intraspecific test reveals the micro-evolutionary relationship between brain size and migration.

🌳Habitat and land-use intensity shape moth community structure across temperate forest and grassland ➡️ buff.ly/YRXzRmV This study reveals how land-use intensity, plant diversity, weather, and artificial light interact to shape moth diversity across forests and grasslands.

This #PeerReviewWeek we'd like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has reviewed for us over the last year 📖 we really appreciate the time and effort spent in helping us to publish quality research 🌟a full list of our reviewers can be found here: buff.ly/OPHAFz6

Did you know that all of our journals offer authors the chance to improve their manuscript's clarity for free? ✍️ This #PeerReviewWeek check out our post which explains why we made the decision to offer the Writefull service to all 👇 https://f.mtr.cool/rooofhshdm

This year's winners have been announced for our ECR Reviewer Prize! 🏆🌎🧪 This #PeerReviewWeek, we're highlighting the vital role that many #ECRs play in #PeerReview. Find out more below 👇 appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/09/16/w...

🚨 Social network dynamics under experimental manipulations of predation risk and food abundance in wild rock hyraxes ➡️ buff.ly/yjaJRvQ

A mini review/perspective (with Eugene) on Guilbault et al. 2025 in @animalecology.bsky.social - Quantifying drivers of biodiversity change through increasing data availability and improved analytical frameworks besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Spiders 🕷️ learn to trap glowing fireflies 🪲💡 then use them as bait to catch dinner 🍽️ www.earth.com/news/spiders... @earthdotcom.bsky.social @animalecology.bsky.social 🧪

🌊 Limited inbreeding avoidance at the gamete level despite inbreeding depression in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) ➡️ buff.ly/y7eUEYD

🕷️ Harnessing 50 years of tick population genetics: Choosing the right molecular tool for contemporary research ➡️ buff.ly/DXSn81Y #populationgenetics #tick

🐧Early-growth trajectories affect juvenile survival, age at first reproduction and lifetime fitness in a long-lived seabird, the little penguin ➡️ buff.ly/vfGiKL8

"Forests and grasslands often seem like distinct ecological worlds — but what happens where they meet? This question guided our investigation into how species interact at habitat edges..." Read the blog post in English here: buff.ly/AXqPMhz Leia o post do blog em Português aqui: buff.ly/dEtKTsk

🪿 Predator activity, proactive anti-predator strategies and nesting phenology produce a dynamic landscape of risk to tundra goose reproduction ➡️ buff.ly/SaMmMVY

🐸 New Research: Freeze-tolerant frogs accumulate cryoprotectants using photoperiod: A potential ecological trap ➡️ buff.ly/dd4SXDv

🦈 New Research - Enhanced thermoregulation abilities of shortfin mako sharks as the key adaptive significance of regional endothermy in fishes ➡️ buff.ly/Ye1rPDv

🦘 New Research: Herbivory mediates the response of below-ground food webs to invasive grasses ➡️ buff.ly/S62L7Bg

🕷️ New Research: Across the edge: Spatial segregation drives community structure in tri-trophic multilayer networks at a forest–grassland edge ➡️ buff.ly/htpvLJL

🚨New Research: Prey bioluminescence-mediated visual luring in a sit and wait predator ➡️ buff.ly/tavlOE8

🦠 New Research - The gut microbiome shapes latitudinal differences in host immunity and pathogen load in a damselfly ➡️ buff.ly/0f99mq4

🪲 New Research - Life history induces markedly divergent insect responses to habitat loss ➡️ buff.ly/azvvnCI

🐟 New Research - Loss of distinct functionality during fish community disassembly ➡️ buff.ly/P8HYlNT

🐁 New Research - Coupled effects of forest growth and climate change on small mammal abundance and body weight: Results of a 39-year field study ➡️ buff.ly/K1dRQck

🚨 New Research Highlight - Temporal niche partitioning: Mechanism of coexistence or competitive exclusion via priority effects? ➡️ buff.ly/pwUqbpn

🎙️ our latest podcast episode is live! 👨‍🔬 we spoke with our incredible Research Highlights Editor, Mariano Rodriguez-Cabal, about his research and his experience working as an editor on our journal. 🔉 listen in English here: buff.ly/9ZICMim 🔉 Escucha en español aquí: buff.ly/LX5Hw6k

Don’t forget the little guys: improving monitoring efforts for African small carnivores 🐾📸 New blog post out! 👇

Understanding #biodiversity patterns: Dive into the dual pressure that #climate and #habitat change have on Finnish moth communities in our recent blog post: animalecologyinfocus.com/2025/08/19/c... @emyguilbault.bsky.social‬ @rececochange.bsky.social 🦋🌍🧪

🪰 New Research - Transgenerational effects increase the vulnerability of a host–parasitoid system to rising temperatures ➡️ buff.ly/i03tc1Y

Check out the @animalecology.bsky.social Special Feature coinciding with the Symposium on the same theme: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/call-for...

In this SF, published across the @animalecology.bsky.social, @journalofecology.bsky.social y.social and @funecology.bsky.social we present a collection of 13 studies that address some of the most pressing knowledge gaps in MHW ecology. 🌊🔥👇 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Our work with @kokkonut.bsky.social on #temporal #niches and #coexistence in #Clunio (see tinyurl.com/bderptbr and tinyurl.com/28hxwree) has been featured in a Research Highlight @animalecology.bsky.social: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #ecology #evolution #chronobiology

🐟 New Blog Post - Tropical fishes can benefit more from novel than familiar species interactions at their cold-range edges ➡️ buff.ly/KNz0CrS Check out our #StoryBehindThePaper series for the full story behind the research ⭐

🪲New Blog Post - The Interaction of Bark Beetles, Deadwood and Woodpeckers Over Time➡️https://buff.ly/1ly0CFo Check out our #StoryBehindThePaper series for the full story behind the research ⭐

Don't forget to submit your proposal for our Sidnie Manton award!

🐦‍⬛ New Blog Post - Species co-occurrence in a ‘disturbed’ community of tropical understorey birds ➡️ buff.ly/ONc7Ard Check out our #StoryBehindThePaper series for the full story behind the research ⭐

🐟 New Blog Post - How do your relationships shape who you are as an individual? ➡️https://buff.ly/Ortutug Check out our #StoryBehindThePaper series on the Animal Ecology in Focus blog for the full story behind the research ⭐

🔎 We are looking for new associate editors to join our Biological Flora team! 🌱 Do you have expert, comparative knowledge of one or more aspects of diverse species of vascular plants? 📑 Can you provide detailed & authoritative reviews of submissions? 👉 More info: buff.ly/ulefHX6

🚨 our August issue is now live! buff.ly/HzYBKQL 🪸 it includes papers from our latest cross-journal Special Feature, "Marine Heatwaves". You can read the full list of papers in the feature, including papers from @funecology.bsky.social & @journalofecology.bsky.social, here: buff.ly/qXHEMjS

#EcoNet2025 Plenary speaker: Jane Memmott @bristoluni.bsky.social 'People & pollinators in a network context' Register now: www.ncl.ac.uk/nes/news/eve... 3-5 September 2025, Newcastle University

🌍 New Research: Strong context dependence in the relative importance of climate and habitat on nation-wide macro-moth community changes ➡️ buff.ly/B5z4GPe

🐝 Our latest Special Feature, "Network Ecology in the Anthropocene", is now accepting proposals. 📝 The Special Feature will be accepting submissions to all 7 of our British Ecological Society journals.

Go check out our latest podcast! 🎧 We chat to Dr. René Steinmann about his recently published article 'Decoding the footsteps of the African savanna: Classifying wildlife using seismic signals and machine learning' 👣 🦒 🌍 🧪

🚨 New Research: Guild diversity impacts demographic outcomes of novel species interactions following range shifts ➡️ buff.ly/lFcBKMB "This study applies the theory of biotic resistance, a common concept in invasion ecology, to the world of climate driven range shifts." 🌿

🐟 New Research - Tropical fishes can benefit more from novel than familiar species interactions at their cold-range edges "We reveal that shoaling with temperate fish enhances foraging efficiency in range-extending tropical fish species..." ➡️ buff.ly/4TCjsX3

🚨 New Research: Temporal niche differentiation often leads to priority effects rather than coexistence: lessons from a marine midge ➡️ buff.ly/eGnTzBt "This study shows that priority effects are a likely, but not self-evident, outcome in temporal niche differentiation." 🌊🪰

🚨 New Research: Host avoidance and resistance vary independently and are specific to parasite genotype ➡️ buff.ly/SdYvSsd "Hosts may defend themselves against parasites by avoiding contact or by mounting a resistance defense after contact. This study shows that..." 🦠

🚨 New Research: Defaunation erodes the diversity of rodent personality traits in fragmented forests ➡️ buff.ly/Rqgmgcn "Our study bridges the fields of animal personality research and defaunation driven by habitat fragmentation." 🐀