🔍️ read the story behind Alex Maisey's paper, "foraging activity by an ecosystem engineer, the superb lyrebird, ‘farms’ its invertebrate prey", shortlisted for the 2025 Elton prize! 📝https://buff.ly/PG2ZhNF

Behind schedule with this but it was also very nice to see one of my PhD chapters officially come out in @animalecology.bsky.social last week! This one felt like a long road but came from a great collaboration and highlights the importance of long-term time series! 🧵below...

📖 New article! 🧬 Foraging offsets declining fitness: Evidence of behavioural compensation for reproductive senescence 🔎 Find out more:https://buff.ly/f5QHoNr

💦 read the story behind Jeremy Van Driessche's paper, "Water economics of African savanna herbivores: how much does plant moisture matter?", shortlisted for the 2025 Elton prize! 📝 buff.ly/ZXEQPaT

🚨 new blog post!... "when biological theory doesn't capture reality" 📝 read it here: buff.ly/U1GfURm

New article 🌍 📖 Eco-evolutionary dynamics of partially migratory metapopulations in spatially and seasonally varying environments 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/kxjz5Vm

🌿 read the story behind Elizabeth Postema's paper, "Eyespot peek-a-boo: Leaf rolls enhance the antipredator effect of insect eyespots", shortlisted for the 2025 Elton prize! 📝https://buff.ly/ChXK03l

🌊 read the story behind Dr Arostegui's paper, "cranial endothermy in mobulid rays: evolutionary and ecological implications of a thermogenic brain", shortlisted for the 2025 Elton prize! 📝 buff.ly/gIM2qpc

📖 Foraging offsets declining fitness: Evidence of behavioural compensation for reproductive senescence When facing their final opportunities to reproduce, animals may use behaviour to compensate for the declines associated with aging to improve their reproductive success🧬 🔎 buff.ly/eSdpMW4

Published 📖 Functional and phylogenetic clustering shape rodent co-occurrence via multi-scale mechanisms in a subtropical forest🌳 🐁 Find out more: buff.ly/zgE5d1U

New paper! Environmental drivers of metapopulation dynamics throughout the full annual cycle in a declining Arctic-nesting migratory herbivore 🐧 A framework for extending commonly used integrated population models to a metapopulation framework🖥️ 🔎 buff.ly/lLjI974

🚨 shortlisted candidates for the 2025 Elton prize have been announced! 📝 you can find the full list of papers here: buff.ly/gcWnKyt 🤍 congratulations to our shortlisted candidates, who were selected from over 450 candidates!

A blog by Arthemis Moraru, Stefano Anile, and Sébastien Devillard tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article, “Global determinants of home range sizes in Felids: evidence of human disturbance impact”, recently published in the journal. read it here: buff.ly/WmMdzdd

We have a growing collection of resources for women in ecology that support, celebrate and advocate for women's roles in research and practice.  Check our collection of resources here 👇 https://f.mtr.cool/gtwczvuefr

🚨 new research! 🪽 "environmentally induced stress affects fitness of bold and shy alike: A long-term study of personality and feather corticosterone in Arctic-breeding kittiwakes" 🔍️ read it here: buff.ly/Zj9b7z0

🕔️ 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 👇 buff.ly/itLWDWw

🤝 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: buff.ly/BiROrkV

🚨 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 🐧 buff.ly/NO5dogw @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: buff.ly/MzIXj6U

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 buff.ly/tfzVXhD

🔬 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" 📖 buff.ly/EoYHDG0

🐺 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 📖 buff.ly/5dVyY6X

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

Valuable camera-trap data can sit unanalysed for months—too slow for day-to-day management decisions 📸 Learn how researchers are tackling this issue by developing a deep-learning model in our latest blogpost! 👇 buff.ly/lfLamVC 🌍🧪

🚶‍♂️Faced with anthropogenic change, animals now encounter challenges different from their evolutionary past. To cope with such challenges, animals may use social information about others' affective states to guide their decisions. 📖 Read the paper ➡️ buff.ly/FHUobRk

🐧 Record phenological responses to climate change in three sympatric penguin species "We deployed 77 cameras across Antarctica and the Sub Antarctic islands to monitor three different species of penguins". @penguinacho 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/5myREFf

🚨 new podcast episode! 🐧 this episode explores the story behind the paper, "record phenological responses to climate change in three sympatric penguin species". 🎙️ listen to the episode in english here: buff.ly/oUyixWX 🎙️ Escucha el episodio en español aquí: buff.ly/Kfb2bkH

🪱 New Research - Preservation of stable isotope niche dynamics in squamate museum specimens 📖 Read the full paper here➡️ buff.ly/VOABAxw