New manuscript out today in @ecol-evol.bsky.social, led by my grad student Anais. We collated data from thousands of recent animal pop-gen studies to test 3 simple hypotheses: does genomic (1) diversity decrease (yes), (2) differentiation increase (yes), both with increased IUCN-endangerment?

An Intergeneric Hybrid Between Historically Isolated Temperate and Tropical Jays Following Recent Range Expansion | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

Two new studies from our site show that 1. Plant diversity decreases the competitive superiority of non-native invaders (Roscher 2025) doi.org/10.3897/neob... 2. Traits of the leaf economics spectrum do not always relate to species biomass (Bachmann et al. 2025) doi.org/10.1002/ece3... 🌱🍃

1st recordings of vocal behavior in female Albert's lyrebird, from @drbackhouse.bsky.social @lyrebirdlab.bsky.social @westsyduhie.bsky.social 🐦 documents song from 2 females during nesting and nest construction 🐦 shows ♀️s produce mimicry, conspecific song & alarm calls #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics

☀️New Paper!☀️ In @ecol-evol.bsky.social Dwarf mongooses lose body mass in hot weather due to limited behavioural plasticity With top co-authors: @josharbon.bsky.social, Amy Morris-Drake, @juliekern.bsky.social, @andyradford.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71963 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social 🧵⬇️

doi.org/10.1002/ece3... With great pleasure, I announce that another chapter of my doctoral thesis has been published in @ecol-evol.bsky.social. In our study, we explored how bird diversity varies with altitude—taxonomically, functionally, and phylogenetically—on Mt. Cameroon

✨ New paper out in @ecol-evol.bsky.social! Sequel to Coralcraft, our 3D model annacresswell.bsky.social 🪸 We found there is no "one-size-fits-all" way to measure #habitatcomplexity on coral reefs. #Coral community composition and #morphology matter! 🐠 Full paper here: doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Our #OpenAccess paper showing no trends in photoperiod sensitivity in germination 🌱 & flowering time 🌸 across a range of predictors out now in @ecol-evol.bsky.social Led by brilliant Honours student Ashika and my first 'senior author' paper 😀 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Ever wondered what a jaguar’s love life looks like? Neither had we — until we captured the first-ever video of jaguar mating in the wild, featuring a rare black jaguar. 🐆😍🐈‍⬛ 🧪🌏🌐🍁. Check out the full video here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #Ecology #Conservation #Biodiversity #Wildlife

Gone With the Wind: Exploring a Vanished Rock Dove Hybrid Zone in the Sahara Desert: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #ornithology

From the forest floor to the canopy, bats keep rainforest vines genetically connected through pollination 🦇 Check out our new paper published in @ecol-evol.bsky.social. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @katrinheer.bsky.social

From Science to Sovereignty: Indigenizing Western Scientific Approaches for Culturally Appropriate Wildfire Recovery - Oeggerli - 2025 - Ecology and Evolution onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #IndigenousScience #EcoEvo

The BOU being so on it they beat me to posting about our own paper! Any folk interested in using bioacoustics to monitor petrels/ #seabirds do get in touch- we're continuing this work at @btoscotland.bsky.social and always keen for more collaborations in this emerging field

By far my favorite paper this year. A collaboration between Mapuche elders—including Machi Patricia—and ecologists, reflecting on building trust and shared understanding in the face of environmental crisis. 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧵

Very excited to announce my first paper! With @sjportugal.bsky.social, published in @ecol-evol.bsky.social 🧪🌍 We studied how flocks of homing pigeons change their flight in response to different ground cover, with some surprising results... doi.org/10.1002/ece3... #movementecology #ornithology

"Observation of a radio-telemetered female Burmese python that ingested an adult white-tailed deer, retained the deer within the digestive tract for 10 days, and then vomited the deer...The python survived the vomiting and was alive at the time of publication" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🚨 New paper led by @michakoehlerbotany.bsky.social in @ecol-evol.bsky.social‬ 🍃 We found that the communities of foliar endophytic fungi are driven by leaf traits and intraindividual trait variability 🧵 doi.org/10.1002/ece3... @treedi.bsky.social @geobotanymluhalle.bsky.social (1/7)

Faeces, Feathers and Flight: Understanding of Escape Behaviour in Incubating Eurasian Woodcocks (Scolopax rusticola) | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

Videos reveal behavior within a mountain lion nursery: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #MountainLion

Publication alert! ✨ Our recent paper in Ecology & Evolution addresses how to make conferences more inclusive. We collected observational and experimental data during Q&A sessions at the Behaviour 2023 congress hosted by Bielefeld University, and circulated a survey among conference attendees [1/4]

New PhD student paper! Social conformity in lateralisation in guppies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... by Iestyn L. Penry-Williams, with Culum Brown #openaccess at @ecol-evol.bsky.social

📣 New #genomics paper on the #microbiota dynamics across different tick species under contrasting spatial and environmental contexts, published in @ecol-evol.bsky.social by @britishecologicalsociety.org onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Our new OA paper with Juri Felix and @philstevenson.bsky.social is out in @ecol-evol.bsky.social! We explored the role of leaf traits in driving genotypic diversity-mediated associational effects in silver birch #TreeDivNet 🌳🍁🌍🧪https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.71768

Thrilled to say the first chapter of my PhD is out today in @ecol-evol.bsky.social! We used buccal swabbing & DNA metabarcoding to explore the diet of Fulmars & Manx shearwaters 🧬🐧 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

How do nocturnal animals like bats inhabiting northern latitudes adapt to reduced foraging times in summer due to short light nights? New paper from @marifjelldal.bsky.social @clarestawski.bsky.social et al: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Coastal Shorebirds Delay Maturity More Than Inland Ones: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #ornithology

The most commonly sighted shark species in Norfolk Marine Park use the region in different ways: doi.org/10.1002/ece3... New study led by Jordan Matley @parksaustralia.bsky.social @imos-aus.bsky.social

Proud to share our newest gecko paper published @ecol-evol.bsky.social! We raised geckos either with or without their parents and found some effects on the development of behaviour and cognition! Read the rest here: doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

🚨NEW🦈PAPER🚨 Excited to announce my first publication with @drcatmac.bsky.social on the ontogenetic and seasonal trophic ecology of great hammerheads around the Biscayne Bay nursery! Linked below onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

How do birds adapt to nesting on solar panels? In our new paper, we explored how American robins use photovoltaic (PV) arrays as habitat—and how they change their nesting strategy depending on the type of solar infrastructure. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Julie Fortin delivers on innovative use of repeat photography for tracking songbird diversity in a mountain landscape. Research done while a MSc student in the School of Environmental Studies @uvic.ca

Excited to share this ms in @ecol-evol.bsky.social looking at ringed seal populations using aerial surveys conducted from low-Arctic Hudson Bay (59N) to the Last Ice Area in the high-Arctic Lincoln Sea (83N) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Peering Into the Past Century of Mountain Diversity Change by Uniting Two Modes of Remote Sensing. New from @juliefortin.bsky.social, @random-blackbear.bsky.social & @ehiggs.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #ornithology

Out now at @ecol-evol.bsky.social, we review different approaches to model mark-recapture data in #Jags and #Nimble, discuss their pros and cons, and compare their speed. We hope it will be useful to researchers willing to learn about CMR and/or speed up their models! doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

A Boa constrictor mating aggregation of 5 males and 1 female provides evidence for polyandry: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #snakes #herpetology

Prevalence and Diversity of Haemosporidian–Associated Matryoshka RNA Viruses in a Natural Population of Wild Birds | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

Anthropogenic Nest Cavities Used by Snow Buntings in an Urban Arctic Landscape. New from @birdbiologist.bsky.social et al: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #ornithology

🐋 WHALE PAPER ALERT! 🐋 My 2nd #PhD Chapter is now out #OpenAccess in @ecol-evol.bsky.social where we built a 11,700 year-long ecological baseline of #bowhead whales in the #Arctic Thread 1/🐋

Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: Adjacent Honey Bee Colonies Locally Partition Their Foraging Across Landscapes: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #bees #honeybees

🚨We’re hiring a postdoc in Woodland Phenology & Climate Change at Uni Southern Denmark!🚨 Combines fieldwork (Sweden & Denmark), remote sensing (drone/camera) & genetics to study phenological response to climate. Link: fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com.mcas.ms/hcmUI/Candid... Pls share!

Juvenile #octopus use empty bivalve shells as shelter, adapting to sandy conditions: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Would you like to run a thematic session at the BES Annual Meeting 2025? Don't miss your chance—tomorrow is the final day to submit your proposal for organising and running a thematic session at this year's Annual Meeting. ⏰Deadline: 16 May at 17:00 (BST).

Check out our new paper in @ecol-evol.bsky.social about the curious interactions between ants & snails. Learn all about why ants carry snails to their nests. Research in collaboration with @jmvidalcordero.bsky.social @biojairo.bsky.social and Omar Sánchez. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS - SPECIAL ISSUE 📣 Avian senescence: patterns, mechanisms and new perspectives More info: vist.ly/3n45223 Guest editors: Julia Schroeder @jj255.bsky.social #RoxanaTorres, @brittheidinger.bsky.social @jaime-muriel.bsky.social @toblermichi.bsky.social Please repost 🙏

Can Wolf Predation Immediately Alter the Foraging Behavior of Beavers?: Video of a Wolf Killing a Foraging Beaver: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Opportunistic Tool Use by Two Unexpected Corvid Species: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ornithology

🚨Our new paper is out NOW in @ecol-evol.bsky.social 👀 Here we show that prior exposure to dynamic illumination can have a persisting effect on the visual perception of 🦀, reducing their ability to detect predators even after the dynamic illumination has ended. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Exploring Ant-Mollusk Interactions: Insights From Southern Spain. From @biojairo.bsky.social et al: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Novel Quantification of Eggshell Surfaces in Dromaius novaehollandiae With Implications for the Fossil Eggshells of Oviraptorosauria (Dinosauria) | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

Panter et al. A LEAP Forward in Wildlife Conservation: A Standardized Framework to Determine Mortality Causes in Large GPS-Tagged Birds onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ornithology