🦇 "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

NEW EDITORIAL! 💡 Using data to construct tripartite networks & models 📊, we found that editorial diversification helps make peer review more inclusive & better aligned with the global distribution of ecological research 🌐 Find out more 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

🚨 new podcast episode! 🦫 this episode explores the story behind the paper, "habitat heterogeneity and food availability in beaver-engineered streams foster bat richness, activity and feeding". 🎙️ listen to the full episode here: buff.ly/AbdBmjW

🌳🐝 New research highlight - From trees to bees: Linking forest composition with pollinator diversity for monitoring upscaling 📖 Read the research highlight here ➡️ buff.ly/nsfIxfI 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/YZ8ihnt

A blog by Aliénor Stahl, Marc Pépino, Andrea Bertolo and Pierre Magnan tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “behavioural tactics across thermal gradients align with partial morphological divergence in brook charr". Read it in French: buff.ly/UXoyRwz Read it in English: buff.ly/IZ9Iajp

Our latest blog post tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article, “demographic mechanisms of snowshoe hare population cycles in Yukon, Canada”, authored by Charles Krebs, Stan Boutin and Rudy Boonstra. buff.ly/wMtD5JT

🐝 New research finds the mechanism by which tree species richness influences bee diversity—taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional—through alterations in the microenvironmental conditions in the understory. 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/cHvVYER

🏝️ New Research Highlight - The acoustic niche hypothesis meets habitat fragmentation and isolation 📖 Read the research highlight ➡️ buff.ly/wveg7u6 📖 Read the full paper - buff.ly/sPiEZJG

Fabulous @anticac.bsky.social wrote a beautiful highlight on our first #Co-BreeD dataset. She was also worried about how often Co-BreeD would be updated. Well, time will tell, but meanwhile, the second dataset about #allonursing (& update) is already under review ;)

🚨 Research Highlight | New tools—Surprising findings: A new study shows human impacts cause relatively little changes in energy flow on coral reefs 📖 Read the research highlight ➡️ buff.ly/J52H2WN 📖 Read the full paper ➡️ buff.ly/W98t51d

🐇 New Research - Rabbits buffer dung beetle declines following the abandonment of traditional agropastoral practices in a semi-arid Iberian region 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/lvtNi7T

New blog post: buff.ly/puohc9J 📝 Learn more about a recently published paper on "Belowground effects of ground-dwelling large herbivores in forest ecosystem"!

🌟 New research highlight for a paper that introduces a Cooperative-Breeding Database (Co-BreeD), which is an open, peer-reviewed resource that collects data on cooperative breeding across birds and mammals, including humans. 📖 Read the full paper ➡️ buff.ly/DAE9htT

🪸 Using DNA analyses of gut contents, this study shows that two coral reef fish species can adjust their diet when coral reefs decline. 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/kGkEDpw

🦅 New Research - Habitat imprinting in breeding territory selection of a long-lived bird of prey. "It gives us better understanding of the role of early experience in selection of breeding sites in long-lived species with high breeding site fidelity" 📖 buff.ly/z8j4gn0

🚨 Using data from hundreds of wild pregnant meerkats, Thorley et al. show that gestational growth varies widely, is shaped by nutrition but not social conditions, and improves pup survival without shortening telomeres. 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/2k2dKwt

🌊 New Research - Half a century of echinoid population decline in the northern Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/4YDyU0P

🚨Trade-offs across life history stages and social association types shape winter communal roosting in a long-lived raptor "Our study demonstrates how life-history trade-offs and pair bonds influence winter roosting in red kites" 📖Read the full paper ➡️ buff.ly/0JazKaB

Winter means.. communal roosts! 🦅🐦🦜 But why do birds form such roosts? In red kites, young single males are the most frequent visitors. Once paired, birds roost more solitarily, often together as a pair. 📢 Now online: tinyurl.tools/98e9279e @animalecology.bsky.social @vogelwarte.bsky.social

🧬 New Research - "Two functional phenotypes in Atlantic salmon, early-life exploration and age-at-maturity, are correlated at an adaptive genomic hotspot, but through distinct genetic markers (SNPs), ruling out causality" 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/43920pW

🪰Fitness consequences of parasitism in a changing world: A case study with bird blow flies and sagebrush songbirds. The authors provide an empirical example of how parasitism can combine with extrinsic stressors to affect host fitness 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/PWTfZLJ

🪹 In new research, Vatka et al. investigated how changing food abundance affects evolutionary potential of offsprings’ body size traits in two woodland passerines. 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/bXGpbPC

📚 our latest Special Feature, "Using Movement Ecology to Connect Individuals, Communities, and Ecosystems", is open to proposals! ⏲️ deadline: 15 February 2026 📝 read more and submit your proposal here: buff.ly/5PCHtCS @allegralove.bsky.social

🌟 New Research - "Our study reveals that brook charr adopt distinct “warm” and “cool” behavioural tactics to balance foraging and thermal stress in stratified lakes" 📖 Read the full paper here➡️ buff.ly/I9VeUeP

Learn more about the need for effective management of native and non-native deer species in Scotland in our latest blogpost 🦌🌲

🐗 Belowground effects of ground-dwelling large herbivores in forest ecosystems. "This study reviews how ground-dwelling large herbivores affect forest soil and litter globally" 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/Sxq8XrB

🚨 New Research Highlight - The pace of life along the river continuum: Hierarchical variation in salmonid life-history diversity. Read the full highlight here ➡️ buff.ly/pxPKJaz Read (Shida and Sato 2025) here ➡️ buff.ly/WC119Di

🚨we're looking for new Associate Editors to join our editorial board! ⏲️deadline for submissions: 23 February 2026, 23:59 GMT (UTC+0) 📎read more and apply at the link below: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...

🌦️ "Seasonal differences and weak migratory connectivity near the Gulf suggest adaptive responses to weather, with future climate trends potentially reducing crossing favourability for migratory birds" 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/NCRr5Hj

🐆 New Research explores niche partitioning among neotropical felids "This multi-dimensional perspective reshapes carnivore coexistence theory in structurally complex tropical forests" 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/UMA7cyw

Did you know that you may be able to publish your paper in our open access journals at no cost? At the BES, we believe cost should not be a barrier to publishing. We have outlined how you can use resources that cover the fees for processing and publishing your research. buff.ly/irQPJaP

🕷️ Evaluation of BugBox, a software platform for AI-assisted bioinventories of arthropods 📖 Read the full paper here➡️ buff.ly/3GMV0Is

🚨Research Highlight: "Let’s solve the enigma of population cycles! Oli and colleagues provide a detailed mechanistic understanding of the demographic drivers causing cycles in population abundance of the snowshoe hare in Yukon, for more than 40 years" 📖 Read here ➡️ buff.ly/u8Y9P39

🐇 "Despite century-long research, demographic mechanisms underlying snowshoe hare population cycles have remained elusive" New Research: Demographic mechanisms of snowshoe hare population cycles in Yukon, Canada ➡️ buff.ly/Qt1Xiuv

🐁 Land use gradients drive spatial variation in Lassa fever host communities in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone "Considering these species interactions is critical for accurately predicting future zoonotic disease patterns" 📖 Read the paper here➡️ buff.ly/K0yEvVV

🦪 New Research: "For a Florida estuary, we blended data and mathematical models to show that future salinity variability could harm oysters, but that effect is balanced out by low salinities inhibiting oyster predators" 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/qBFYrAx

🐦Community composition coupled with habitat fragmentation drives acoustic divergence in bird assemblages "We demonstrate how birds adjust their sound frequencies via acoustic niche partitioning driven by both community composition and habitat fragmentation" 📖 Read the full paper ➡️ buff.ly/B75UgYW