🐺 Advantageous snow conditions – in terms of snow depth and density – are among the most important features of the winter landscape for two apex predators, regardless of hunting strategy. Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/pXSMNRK

New research shows meerkat social group membership strongly shapes gut microbiomes and beneficial bacterial co-occurrence, beyond individual health or environmental exposure. ⬇️ buff.ly/neW6LHH @krishsubramaniam.bsky.social

Time to rethink nature conservation? Ecologists call for an ecosystem approach to halt UK wildlife decline and protect the vital services nature provides us in our new report with @nationaltrust.org.uk  @pettorelli.bsky.social

We are looking for contributors to our series on the Methods Blog, exploring the experiences of ecologists conducting research in remote field stations during the holiday season 🎄 See previous blogs here 👉 buff.ly/MnMcRqG (1/2)

Climate Change Special Interest Group is launching a series of online sessions, Coffee Morning for Early Career Researchers. A monthly session to connect with peers, spark new ideas, and explore critical climate-related topics together.  🗓️First session - 7 November 10:00 (GMT)

"Co-BreeD is the first updatable and open-source database dedicated to cooperative breeding. It enables continuous, non-binary measurement of cooperative breeding, transforming how we study breeding systems across taxa..." Read the full paper here: buff.ly/pIjeNRR @co-breed.bsky.social

Our newest Special Feature, "Implications of Changing Snowscapes for Animal Ecology", is now accepting proposals. It aims to highlight the importance of changing snow conditions in animal ecology. 🌨️ Read more and submit your proposal here:

A new Research Highlight, "computer vision uncovers trait-based insect responses to habitat loss", has now been published to compliment a recently published paper, "life history induces markedly divergent insect responses to habitat loss" Find them below: buff.ly/99JdsqF buff.ly/Rd3TAzB

"Seascape heterogeneity and predictability drive movement strategy selection in estuarine predators" Read the full paper here:

Register for our next MEE live! Join the authors of ‘DNA Divers: Volunteer-based eDNA capture for local and global marine biodiversity monitoring’ for this free online webinar! 🧬 ⭐ ⏰ 27 November 2025, 16:30-17:30pm (GMT) Find out more and register 👇 buff.ly/wNIpIWm

New research on "estimating the ecological drivers of insect abundance when detection is imperfect" 🐝 🪰

🌼🌡️ 🐝 Thermal conditions can directly reshape species interaction networks under climate change. ⬇️ In this invited short piece, I discuss how temperature-driven shifts in pollinators’ foraging choices, revealed by a new study, can cascade through entire plant–pollinator networks.

🎃 How are you celebrating spooky season? Help usher in Halloween with this blog post of some of our spookiest publications this year... If you dare! 👻🧪 🏰 Read the blog here: appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/10/30/2...

During the course of Black History Month, we have been collating a resource page of blogs, networks, literature and more, with the aim of consistently supporting and elevating Black ecologists.

🚨 Did you miss yesterday's webinar on 'Understanding the policy context of Integrated Nature-Climate Action'? 🚨 Don't fret! 🌎🧪 You can watch the full presentations and discussion over on our YouTube: youtu.be/KuytewU1-Vs?...

New research: "Hierarchical organization of life-history variation in a salmonid fish across riverscape: relevance of seasonal growth opportunity and maturation decision-window" 🐟 Read it here: buff.ly/RWXKvbN

🐟 Hierarchical organization of life-history variation in a salmonid fish across riverscape: Relevance of seasonal growth opportunity and maturation decision window. This study is relevant for understanding life-history responses to climate change. ➡️ buff.ly/n6SEOb5

🌷New Research highlight showcases Arrowsmith et al. (2025), which shows that temperature alone can shift pollinators’ floral choices in diverse plant–pollinator communities. Such thermally-driven species interaction rewiring may have important consequences. ➡️ buff.ly/i5QrFjd @blancaac.bsky.social

🐝Just like us, bees eat different things at different temperatures (who wants soup in the summer?). Bombus bifarius likes to visit a cinquefoil (Potentilla pulcherrima) when it’s cooler, but prefers aspen fleabane (Erigeron speciosus) when it’s warm. ➡️ buff.ly/bm2LaNR

Congratulations to our valued Executive Editor, @natejsanders.bsky.social, on becoming a BES fellow!

🐿️New research tests a suite of hypotheses to explain variation in seasonal body mass dynamics of a fat-storing mammalian hibernator. They show that pre-hibernation mass gain mediates an annual allocation trade-off between current and future reproduction ➡️ buff.ly/gLLXnXL

🦘 New Research Highlight - A field test demonstrates that herbivores mitigate some negative effects of African lovegrass invasion on soil biodiversity in Australia. ➡️ buff.ly/N8KLVb9

🦌 Deer migration, deer density, tick distribution and incidence of a tick-borne zoonosis ➡️ buff.ly/4wXYf5c

Congratulations @sheldonbirds.bsky.social!

🐝This research unravels how environmental conditions influence sex determination and resource allocation in a haplodiploid bee species. Using high-resolution field data, they highlight the complexity of maternal decision-making in solitary bees ➡️ buff.ly/8qDsqVi

Our latest podcast episode, hosted by @edieabrahams.bsky.social, explores the story behind the paper, "Prey bioluminescence-mediated visual luring in a sit and wait predator". 🕷️ 🎙️ listen to the full episode here: buff.ly/HDHpvhZ

🐦This study highlights the evolutionary fingerprint on the structure of plant-bird mutualistic networks, revealing varying phylogenetic effects across different interaction groups and network types within a subtropical evergreen broadleaf forest ➡️ buff.ly/ViiIkbs

🐠This study leverages a natural, ecosystem-scale experiment and molecular isotope approaches to reveal that coral reef food web structure and energy flow can remain consistent across a gradient of human disturbance➡️https://buff.ly/CAtw5oU

New from CWRU alumn Troy Neptune, with Diana Koester (CLE Metroparks Zoo) in @animalecology.bsky.social. Gray treefrogs use daylength as a seasonal cue to prepare for winter. Autumn daylength triggers frogs to accumulate 14-fold more liver glycogen than summer photoperiod. doi.org/10.1111/1365...

🦭This study highlights the utility of integrating disparate datasets to address conservation challenges and highlights how intraguild predation can hold sympatric species in a predator-pit and in small populations may contribute to declines➡️https://buff.ly/nvpXves

🐇 This study presents a methodological framework using camera trap and scat data to assess how components of prey availability influence prey selection. This is done in a way that can be applied across a variety of mammal species and ecological contexts➡️ buff.ly/7iWNO4X

🪶 New Research - Estimating epidemiological parameters of highly pathogenic avian influenza in common terns using exact Bayesian inference ➡️ buff.ly/dYGDjhN

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

📣Join our free online workshop! We go behind-the-scenes with project managers from the Buffelsdraai Reforestation Project in South Africa, who share their experience with large-scale tree planting, invasive species control, fire management and biodiversity monitoring🌿 Sign-up here👇 buff.ly/5UdUSaM

Out @animalecology.bsky.social today - a paper with David Ewing in which we explore the #HPAI outbreak in the terns. We find bird-to-bird transmission to be the main driver of infection and estimate the probability of mortality to drop from 0.26 to 0.14 from 2022 to 2023: doi.org/10.1111/1365...

🦫 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

🪵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➡️ buff.ly/xR9c5qc

🚨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. ➡️ buff.ly/ad1mAqf

🪽 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. ➡️ buff.ly/B6By2tN

🌿🦋 Interested in how #land-use intensity shapes #moth communities? Check out this BE-paper in @animalecology.bsky.social 🌳 #Forests host higher abundance & diversity than grasslands. 🌡️Temperature is a key factor. It's all a complex interplay of habitat , LUI and weather. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365... 🌐

Hoverflies on oil rigs… read this blog I wrote on our most recent lab paper exploring this phenomenon.

🐸Poison frog chemical defences are influenced by environmental availability and dietary selectivity for ants ➡️ buff.ly/NyBIPVP Rodriguez et al., link spatial variation in leaf litter ant communities to frog chemical defences.

Our latest podcast series 'Included in Nature with Clare Rishbeth' explores the barriers to nature inclusion for various communities and the ways in which we can overcome them 🌱 This discussion is based on four reports deposited in Applied Ecology Resources 📚 Listen here 👇 buff.ly/7BpYW1c

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

🪸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. ➡️ buff.ly/MnxFMFK

"This study utilises samples from an oil rig operator to determine migratory movements of #hoverflies and the pollen they transport across the North Sea and discuss long-distance #pollination."🛢️ buff.ly/Fqef8XY @ollypoole.bsky.social @koralwotton.bsky.social @ejigu.bsky.social

We're thrilled to announce our first-ever webinar! @hollietree.bsky.social & @pettorelli.bsky.social will be joining us to discuss how Integrated Nature-Climate Action can strengthen policy responses to biodiversity loss & climate change 🌍🧪 Learn more & register for free here 👇 bit.ly/4mJGwx2

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

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

"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." 🌨️ Read the full blog here: buff.ly/ynIsT8Z