Complex multitrophic species interactions and fitness costs: Intricate consequences of jasmonate and salicylate induced plant defences🌱 🌍 🔎 Read more:

📖 New paper📖 Season and human footprint weaken the negative effect of temperature on the intraspecific metabolic scaling exponent of wild brown trout populations🐠 🌍 👇️ buff.ly/DM7mK75

🚨 new blog out - "a tale of two forests" 🌲 read it here: buff.ly/ceVhaku

If you missed our latest paper in @animalecology.bsky.social, we just published a blog post in @birdlifemarine.bsky.social to summarize its main findings! 🐧

Check out this research article📖 Drivers of age at first reproduction in the wandering albatross🌊 🕊️ 🔎 buff.ly/3Bjk8qm

New review and meta-analysis of animal impacts on ecosystem function🖥️ 🌳 🌍 👇️ buff.ly/RTz1S0m

🚨 just a reminder that the proposal deadline for our cross-journal Special Feature, 'Mountain Biodiversity in the Anthropocene', with @jappliedecology.bsky.social, @journalofecology.bsky.social and @funecology.bsky.social, closes to submissions on 17 May🗻 Submit your proposal here: buff.ly/iNVgR40

My first PhD chapter is out! 🐒🌳 Challenging the idea that howler monkeys are resilient to change, we show that disturbance 🐄🚜 limits their movement via thermal constraints, reduced travel efficiency, and spatial saturation, further increasing their vulnerability ⚠️🚨

📖 New research Consumption competition by a parasitoid wasp opens a window of survival under intraguild predation 🐝 🌺 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/iR3kaQg

📖 Published Yellow fever virus outbreak caused declines in survival and modified dispersal of wild golden lion tamarins🙉 🌳 🌍 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/Id0b7Sd

This study provides mechanistic insight into how parasites alter community structure under natural conditions, via their direct and indirect impacts on host demographic rates 🐠 🌍 👇️ buff.ly/7Ttgjut

📖 New paper These findings highlight that measuring several stability dimensions provides a better understanding of the links between local land use and community temporal dynamics 🌍 🌱 🔎 buff.ly/q1pDIQt

Call for proposals to organise a workshop and thematic session at the BES2026 Annual Meeting closes soon! If you have an exciting and timely topic, submit a proposal and help shape the agenda of Europe's largest ecological conference. ⏰Deadline: 15 May Submit today 👇

📖 New paper How habitat disturbance influences the movement drivers of an arboreal primate🌳 🐵 🔎 Read more: buff.ly/EDTNrEg

New podcast!🎧️ Francis Mullan and Clint Penick discuss their recently published paper, "nesting biology shapes climate vulnerability of social bees", as well as their own experiences as animal ecologists and the future of their research field. podcast here: buff.ly/Jk3ZyvB paper here: buff.ly/4FjX66g

Check out this paper comparing long term studies on climate, acorns and rodents🌍 🐀 👇️ buff.ly/HS6cKm0

new #storybehindthepaper for a recently published paper, "season and human footprint weaken the negative effect of temperature on the intraspecific metabolic scaling exponent of wild brown trout populations". Read the blog here: buff.ly/m7WHPd9

🚨 New podcast episode out now! Tune in to hear Dr. Jessica van der Wal speak about how human communication used to cooperate with honeyguides varies regionally, much like human language does.. 🔊Listen on Soundcloud ➡️ buff.ly/ZiyHl1p 🔊Listen on Spotify ➡️ buff.ly/fNUdYkf

Cool paper in @animalecology.bsky.social from last year. Quote: "Our findings suggest that naïveté may contribute to the vulnerability of some species to invasive predators even in large continental systems." #invasivespecies besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

🚨Sign up for our next MEE live! 💡Richard Shefferson will be joining us in the free online webinar to go through ADAPT3- adaptive dynamics and community projection in the R programming language. 🔎Find out more and register here 👉️ buff.ly/c3p6K1e 🧪🌍️

So grateful that our work on the effect of pharmaceutical pollution in fish @animalecology.bsky.social is among top 10 most-cited papers published in 2024. A huge thanks to co-1st author @gio-polverino.bsky.social & all collaborators @bbmwong.bsky.social @monashbiol.bsky.social @ceb-uwa.bsky.social

📖 Yellow fever outbreak temporarily changes dispersal patterns in an endangered primate These results indicate a spatial rearrangement of individuals during the outbreak potentially due to non-random mortality leading to changes in social group structure🐵 🧪 🦠 🔎 buff.ly/ioA0767

Quantifying and modelling zoogeochemical effects in freshwater ecosystems will allow ecologists and managers to make informed decisions that balance biodiversity conservation with healthy ecosystem function 🌍 🌱 📖 Read more: buff.ly/BXQqKQo

We are excited to announce that the winner of the 2025 Elton prize is Jeremy Van Driessche!⭐ Read more about Jeremy's research here: buff.ly/OsIGttm Read all the papers shortlisted for the prize here: buff.ly/WoQhKRb

📖 Published! Consumption competition by a parasitoid wasp opens a window of survival under intraguild predation 🌍 🐝 🔎 Find out more:

📰Ignasi Arranz, IICG researcher, is co-author of the new article "Season and human footprint weaken the negative effect of temperature on the intraspecific metabolic scaling exponent of wild brown trout populations", published in @animalecology.bsky.social. 👀Read it here👇 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

New research using spatially-nested hierarchical species distribution models to estimate current and future distributions of a cryptic species at a regional scale🌍 🐸 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/E3tsUzA

Spider mite genotypes with higher growth rate suffer more from competition but exert stronger reproductive interference 🕷️ 🧬 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/oFr3cVk

Watch the recording of our latest MEE live! 📺️ In this webinar, Dr. Ludmilla Figueiredo and Dr. Viktoriia Radchuk introduced the R package estar. Keep an eye out for our next MEE live! 🌟

Development time and host-parasitoid stability: An experimental test Age structure and development time are critical determinants of host-parasitoid population dynamics🪱 🌍 🔎 Read more: buff.ly/RqSL3u3

Torpor-assisted migration: Regular use of shallow torpor reduces rest-phase energy expenditure for songbirds during migration🐦‍⬛ 🎶 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/ARrm6Ia

🪽read the story behind Maria del Mar Labrador's paper, “Host space, not energy or symbiont size, constrains feather mite abundance across passerine bird species“, shortlisted for the 2025 Elton prize! 📝https://buff.ly/D26AGc8

🚨 read the story behind Lucas Invernizzi's paper, “the expensive son hypothesis“, shortlisted for the 2025 Elton prize! 📝https://buff.ly/PfRUYt2

🗻 we're accepting proposals for a new Special Feature, "Mountain Biodiversity in the Anthropocene", which will also be included in @funecology.bsky.social and @journalofecology.bsky.social 📩 submit your proposal before 17 May here: buff.ly/vBbRmgH

We're accepting proposals for our Special Feature! We invite scientists and practitioners to share experiences from management projects that didn't go to plan, but still provided important insights into how best to manage ecosystems and species🌱 ⏰Submit by 30th April More here👇 buff.ly/EXXBFsJ

We're looking for proposals for our recent special feature! 🌍 🧪 Contributions will explore empirical evidence, methodological challenges, and statistical frameworks for detecting and interpreting rate variation over time 🕰️ ⏰️1st May deadline! Find out more and submit here 👉 buff.ly/cVDgT51

Effects of temperature and browning on the functional response of a freshwater top predator🐟️ This study explores for the first time how temperature and browning affect the functional response of a freshwater piscivore, the northern pike 👇️ buff.ly/MI0vHcm

🪸 read the story behind Angus Mitchell's paper, “tropical fishes can benefit more from novel than familiar species interactions at their cold-range edges“, shortlisted for the 2025 Elton prize! 📝https://buff.ly/nkxIOK9

🪲 read the story behind Ameli Kirse's paper, “the clockwork of insect activity: advancing ecological understanding through automation“, shortlisted for the 2025 Elton prize! 📝https://buff.ly/1lEGCTL

New research in Journal of Animal Ecology👇️ On traits matching and the modular organization of food web and occurrence networks 🖥️ 🌍 🐟️ 🔎 Find out more buff.ly/Thl933a

☀️ read the story behind Marco Fioratti's paper, “herbivory mediates the response of below-ground food-webs to invasive grasses“, shortlisted for the 2025 Elton prize! 📝https://buff.ly/UdYdHO0

📖 Tracing the Battle: The role of mucus trails in information warfare between predator snail and prey limpet These results suggest a potential strategy whereby predators exploit prey mucus trails for localization🐌 🐚 🔎Read more:https://buff.ly/Sqg52f9

📖 Predation on sea turtles at sea: A multi-source synthesis and research perspectives This study synthesizes multiple, rarely integrated data sources—including unpublished data—to examine global patterns of sea turtle predation at sea🐢 🌊 🔎 buff.ly/eY6TYSQ

🔍️ 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