Journal of Animal Ecology

Article	Citations
A ‘How to’ guide for interpreting parameters in habitat‐selection analyses	160
Drivers of site fidelity in ungulates	52
A guide to pre‐processing high‐throughput animal tracking data	48
Biologging reveals individual variation in behavioural predictability in the wild	40
Differential survival throughout the full annual cycle of a migratory bird presents a life‐history trade‐off	39
Local prey shortages drive foraging costs and breeding success in a declining seabird, the Atlantic puffin	39
Sea temperature effects on depth use and habitat selection in a marine fish community	37
Effects of climate‐change‐driven gradual and acute temperature changes on shark and ray species	35
Animal tracking moves community ecology: Opportunities and challenges	33
Quantifying the movement, behaviour and environmental context of group‐living animals using drones and computer vision	33
Multidimensional trophic niche revealed by complementary approaches: Gut content, digestive enzymes, fatty acids and stable isotopes in Collembola	33
Invertebrate functional traits and terrestrial nutrient cycling: Insights from a global meta‐analysis	32
Sex‐specific plasticity across generations I: Maternal and paternal effects on sons and daughters	32
Effects of social structure and management on risk of disease establishment in wild pigs	31
Multiple stressors interact to impair the performance of bumblebee Bombus terrestris colonies	30
Strong survival selection on seasonal migration versus residence induced by extreme climatic events	29
A methodological roadmap to quantify animal‐vectored spatial ecosystem subsidies	29
The myriad of complex demographic responses of terrestrial mammals to climate change and gaps of knowledge: A global analysis	29
Review and synthesis of the global literature on domestic cat impacts on wildlife	28
Disentangling temporal food web dynamics facilitates understanding of ecosystem functioning	28
What does a threatened saproxylic beetle look like? Modelling extinction risk using a new morphological trait database	27
Sex‐specific plasticity across generations II: Grandpaternal effects are lineage specific and sex specific	27
Individual repeatability of avian migration phenology: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	27
Long‐distance migrants vary migratory behaviour as much as short‐distance migrants: An individual‐level comparison from a seabird species with diverse migration strategies	26
Global patterns in bumble bee pollen collection show phylogenetic conservation of diet	25

Collision between biological process and statistical analysis revealed by mean centring	25
Connecting the data landscape of long‐term ecological studies: The SPI‐Birds data hub	25
Sharks surf the slope: Current updrafts reduce energy expenditure for aggregating marine predators	24
Environmental heterogeneity promotes individual specialisation in habitat selection in a widely distributed seabird	24
A trait‐based framework for dung beetle functional ecology	23
The influence of seabirds on their breeding, roosting and nesting grounds: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	23
Artificial selection in human‐wildlife feeding interactions	23
Meerkat helpers buffer the detrimental effects of adverse environmental conditions on fecundity, growth and survival	23
Temperature reduces fish dispersal as larvae grow faster to their settlement size	23
Adaptation to vector‐based transmission in a honeybee virus	23
Age‐dependent timing and routes demonstrate developmental plasticity in a long‐distance migratory bird	23
Changes in foraging mode caused by a decline in prey size have major bioenergetic consequences for a small pelagic fish	22
Wintering bird communities are tracking climate change faster than breeding communities	22
Validating eDNA measurements of the richness and abundance of anurans at a large scale	22
A time‐lagged association between the gut microbiome, nestling weight and nestling survival in wild great tits	22
Increased acclimation ability accompanies a thermal niche shift of a recent invasion	21
Trematode parasites exceed aquatic insect biomass in Oregon stream food webs	21
Predicting the competitive interactions and trophic niche consequences of a globally invasive fish with threatened native species	21
Longer days enable higher diurnal activity for migratory birds	21
Preparatory immunity: Seasonality of mucosal skin defences and Batrachochytrium infections in Southern leopard frogs	21
Global drivers of variation in cup nest size in passerine birds	20
Juvenile survival of a burned forest specialist in response to variation in fire characteristics	20
Variation in movement strategies: Capital versus income migration	20
Contrasting patterns of risk from human and non‐human predators shape temporal activity of prey	20
Loss of predation risk from apex predators can exacerbate marine tropicalization caused by extreme climatic events	19
Genetic and plastic rewiring of food webs under climate change	19
A practical guide for generating unsupervised, spectrogram‐based latent space representations of animal vocalizations	19
Natural enemies have inconsistent impacts on the coexistence of competing species	19
Longitudinal variation in the nutritional quality of basal food sources and its effect on invertebrates and fish in subalpine rivers	19
Threading the needle: How humans influence predator–prey spatiotemporal interactions in a multiple‐predator system	19
Fitness consequences of longer breeding seasons of a migratory passerine under changing climatic conditions	18
Sexual dimorphism driven by intersexual resource competition: Why is it rare, and where to look for it?	18
The influence of human activity on predator–prey spatiotemporal overlap	18
Harnessing the power of multi‐omics data for predicting climate change response	18
Competition shapes individual foraging and survival in a desert rodent ensemble	18
Predators like it hot: Thermal mismatch in a predator–prey system across an elevational tropical gradient	17
Evolution of cold tolerance and thermal plasticity in life history, behaviour and physiology during a poleward range expansion	17
Genomic signatures of thermal adaptation are associated with clinal shifts of life history in a broadly distributed frog	17
Reproductive senescence in a short‐lived fish	17
How to scale up from animal movement decisions to spatiotemporal patterns: An approach via step selection	17
Management effects on soil nematode abundance differ among functional groups and land‐use types at a global scale	17
Abundance data applied to a novel model invertebrate host shed new light on parasite community assembly in nature	17
Temporal scale of habitat selection for large carnivores: Balancing energetics, risk and finding prey	17
A novel trophic cascade between cougars and feral donkeys shapes desert wetlands	17
Foraging networks and social tolerance in a cooperatively breeding primate (Callithrix jacchus)	16
Migration strategy as an indicator of resilience to change in two shorebird species with contrasting population trajectories	16
Functional and phylogenetic responses of motile cryptofauna to habitat degradation	16
Parasite dynamics in North American monarchs predicted by host density and seasonal migratory culling	16
Challenges and opportunities for using natural history collections to estimate insect population trends	16
Sexual selection and personality: Individual and group‐level effects on mating behaviour in red junglefowl	16

Stochastic processes and ecological connectivity drive stream invertebrate community responses to short‐term drought	16
A mechanism for population self‐regulation: Social density suppresses GnRH expression and reduces reproductivity in voles	15
Resilience dynamics and productivity‐driven shifts in the marine communities of the Western Mediterranean Sea	15
Ecological network assembly: How the regional metaweb influences local food webs	15
Common palm civets Paradoxurus hermaphroditus are positively associated with humans and forest degradation with implications for seed dispersal and zoonotic diseases	15
Widespread shifts in bird migration phenology are decoupled from parallel shifts in morphology	15
Interactive effects of wildfires, season and predator activity shape mule deer movements	15
Genomic reaction norms inform predictions of plastic and adaptive responses to climate change	15
Cercarial behaviour alters the consumer functional response of three‐spined sticklebacks	15
Grow fast but don't die young: Maternal effects mediate life‐history trade‐offs of lizards under climate warming	14
DeepWild: Application of the pose estimation tool DeepLabCut for behaviour tracking in wild chimpanzees and bonobos	14
Intense nocturnal warming alters growth strategies, colouration and parasite load in a diurnal lizard	14
The evolution of size‐dependent competitive interactions promotes species coexistence	14
Leaving by staying: Social dispersal in giraffes	14
Collapse and rescue of evolutionary food webs under global warming	14
Latitudinal variation in long‐term stability of North American rocky intertidal communities	14
Ecological engineering across a spatial gradient: Sociable weaver colonies facilitate animal associations with increasing environmental harshness	14
Drivers of community assembly change during succession in wood‐decomposing beetle communities	14
Is the world wormier than it used to be? We'll never know without natural history collections	14
Impacts of radiation exposure on the bacterial and fungal microbiome of small mammals in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone	14
Community‐wide consequences of nonconsumptive predator effects on a foundation species	14
Inhibitory control, exploration behaviour and manipulated ecological context are associated with foraging flexibility in the great tit	14
Detrimental impacts of climate change may be exacerbated by density‐dependent population regulation in blue mussels	14
Divergence inHeliconiusflight behaviour is associated with local adaptation to different forest structures	14
Natural and anthropogenic sources of habitat variation influence exploration behaviour, stress response, and brain morphology in a coastal fish	13
Conceptualizing and quantifying body condition using structural equation modelling: A user guide	13
Accounting for sources of uncertainty when forecasting population responses to climate change	13
Evidence of exploitative competition between honey bees and native bees in two California landscapes	13
Maternal allocation in relation to weather, predation and social factors in a colonial cooperative bird	13
Freshening increases the susceptibility to heat stress in intertidal mussels (Mytilus edulis) from the Arctic	13
Declines in freshwater mussel density, size and productivity in the River Thames over the past half century	13
Spatial structure and dispersal dynamics in a house sparrow metapopulation	13
Temporal analysis of GBIF data reveals the restructuring of communities following climate change	13
Effects of temperature on mating behaviour and mating success: A meta‐analysis	13
Quantifying capital versus income breeding: New promise with stable isotope measurements of individual amino acids	13
Does trait‐based joint species distribution modelling reveal the signature of competition in stream macroinvertebrate communities?	13
Early‐life adversity predicts performance and fitness in a wild social carnivore	13
Phenotypic plasticity is not a cline: Thermal physiology of an intertidal barnacle over 20° of latitude	13
Merging dynamical and structural indicators to measure resilience in multispecies systems	13
Spatiotemporal interactions of a novel mesocarnivore community in an urban environment before and during SARS‐CoV‐2 lockdown	13
Weapons or deterrents? Nudibranch molluscs use distinct ecological modes of chemical defence against predators	13
Climate change affects bird nesting phenology: Comparing contemporary field and historical museum nesting records	13
Exploration speed in captivity predicts foraging tactics and diet in free‐living red knots	13
Why are biodiversity—ecosystem functioning relationships so elusive? Trophic interactions may amplify ecosystem function variability	13
Relating wing morphology and immune function to patterns of partial and differential bat migration using stable isotopes	13
Disturbance by invasive pathogenic fungus alters arthropod predator–prey food‐webs in ash plantations	13
Reproductive skew, fighting costs and winner–loser effects in social dominance evolution	12
Age‐related reproductive performance of the Adélie penguin, a long‐lived seabird exhibiting similar outcomes regardless of individual life‐history strategy	12
Experimental evolution of dispersal: Unifying theory, experiments and natural systems	12
Spatial patterns and ecological drivers of soil nematode β‐diversity in natural grasslands vary among vegetation types and trophic position	12
Woodpeckers and other excavators maintain the diversity of cavity‐nesting vertebrates	12
The influence of species life history and distribution characteristics on species responses to habitat fragmentation in an urban landscape	12
Field evidence for colour mimicry overshadowing morphological mimicry	12
Personality, spatiotemporal ecological variation and resident/explorer movement syndromes in the sleepy lizard	12
Regime shifts in a shallow lake over 12 years: Consequences for taxonomic and functional diversities, and ecosystem multifunctionality	12
Temperature, emergence phenology and consumption drive seasonal shifts in fish growth and production across riverscapes	12
Different population trajectories of two reef‐building corals with similar life‐history traits	12
The relative influence of cross‐seasonal and local weather effects on the breeding success of a migratory songbird	12
Songbird parents coordinate offspring provisioning at fine spatio‐temporal scales	12
Energy pathways modulate the resilience of stream invertebrate communities to drought	12
Four key challenges in the open‐data revolution	12
Six decades of North American bird banding records reveal plasticity in migration phenology	12
Impacts of predator‐induced behavioural plasticity on the temperature dependence of predator–prey activity and population dynamics	12
Disentangling the nonlinear effects of habitat complexity on functional responses	12
Latitudinal clines in sexual selection, sexual size dimorphism and sex‐specific genetic dispersal during a poleward range expansion	12
The observed pattern and hidden process of female reproductive trajectories across the life span in a non‐human primate	12
Understanding climate change response in the age of genomics	11
Energy‐mediated responses to changing prey size and distribution in marine top predator movements and population dynamics	11
Elevation is a stronger predictor of morphological trait divergence than competition in a radiation of tropical lizards	11
An Integrated Traits Resilience Assessment of Mediterranean fisheries landings	11
The demographic contributions of connectivity versus local dynamics to population growth of an endangered bird	11
The geometry of resource constraint: An empirical study of the golden snub‐nosed monkey	11
Warming of aquatic ecosystems disrupts aquatic–terrestrial linkages in the tropics	11
Morphological trait‐matching in plant–Hymenoptera and plant–Diptera mutualisms across an elevational gradient	11
Are behaviour and stress‐related phenotypes in urban birds adaptive?	11
Interspecific social dominance networks reveal mechanisms promoting coexistence in sympatric charr in Hokkaido, Japan	11
Cryptic eco‐evolutionary feedback in the city: Urban evolution of prey dampens the effect of urban evolution of the predator	11
Fluctuating heat stress during development exposes reproductive costs and putative benefits	11
Interaction between warming and landscape foraging resource availability on solitary bee reproduction	11
Natural toxic impact and thyroid signalling interplay orchestrates riverine adaptive divergence of salmonid fish	11

Seasonal strategies differ between tropical and extratropical herbivores	11
Ecological engineering across a temporal gradient: Sociable weaver colonies create year‐round animal biodiversity hotspots	11
Multi‐camera field monitoring reveals costs of learning for parasitoid foraging behaviour	11
Energy‐based step selection analysis: Modelling the energetic drivers of animal movement and habitat use	11
Preen gland microbiota of songbirds differ across populations but not sexes	11
Sexual segregation in the foraging behaviour of a slightly dimorphic seabird: Influence of the environment and fishery activity	11
Spatial dynamics of pathogen transmission in communally roosting species: Impacts of changing habitats on bat‐virus dynamics	11
Life span, growth, senescence and island syndrome: Accounting for imperfect detection and continuous growth	10
State dependence explains individual variation in nest defence behaviour in a long‐lived bird	10
Hierarchical compound topology uncovers complex structure of species interaction networks	10
Interrelated impacts of climate and land‐use change on a widespread waterbird	10
Migration tactics and connectivity of a Nearctic–Neotropical migratory shorebird	10
The genetic basis and adult reproductive consequences of developmental thermal plasticity	10
Male size and reproductive performance in three species of livebearing fishes (Gambusia spp.): A systematic review and meta‐analysis	10
Functional response traits and altered ecological niches drive the disassembly of cloud forest bird communities in tropical montane countrysides	10
Few studies of wild animal performance account for parasite infections: A systematic review	10
Grasshopper species' seasonal timing underlies shifts in phenological overlap in response to climate gradients, variability and change	10
Risk perception and tolerance shape variation in agricultural use for a transboundary elephant population	10
A hierarchical model for jointly assessing ecological and anthropogenic impacts on animal demography	10
Host–microbial systems as glass cannons: Explaining microbiome stability in corals exposed to extrinsic perturbations	10
Virus isolation data improve host predictions for New World rodent orthohantaviruses	10
Interpopulation differences in male reproductive effort drive the population dynamics of a host exposed to an emerging fungal pathogen	10
The multiple meanings of omnivory influence empirical, modular theory and whole food web stability relationships	10
Mobility and infectiousness in the spatial spread of an emerging fungal pathogen	10
Cognition and covariance in the producer–scrounger game	9
Standardised empirical dispersal kernels emphasise the pervasiveness of long‐distance dispersal in European birds	9
Interaction generalisation and demographic feedbacks drive the resilience of plant–insect networks to extinctions	9
Age‐specific fecundity under pathogenic threat in an insect: Terminal investment versus reproductive restraint	9
Climate differently influences the genomic patterns of two sympatric marine fish species	9
Maternal effects and fitness consequences of individual variation in bottlenose dolphins' ecological niche	9
Bumble bee colony health and performance vary widely across the urban ecosystem	9
When should bees be flower constant? An agent‐based model highlights the importance of social information and foraging conditions	9
Spatial consistency in drivers of population dynamics of a declining migratory bird	9
Predation risk can modify the foraging behaviour of frugivorous carnivores: Implications of rewilding apex predators for plant–animal mutualisms	9
A multi‐state occupancy model to non‐invasively monitor visible signs of wildlife health with camera traps that accounts for image quality	9
Interacting elevational and latitudinal gradients determine bat diversity and distribution across the Neotropics	9
Habitat restoration in spatially explicit metacommunity models	9
Implementing social network analysis to understand the socioecology of wildlife co‐occurrence and joint interactions with humans in anthropogenic environments	9
Behavioural generalism could facilitate coexistence of tropical and temperate fishes under climate change	9
Fast recovery of soil macrofauna in regenerating forests of the Amazon	9
Experimental field evidence shows milkweed contaminated with a common neonicotinoid decreases larval survival of monarch butterflies	9
Assessing the equilibrium between assemblage composition and climate: A directional distance‐decay approach	9
Cooperative feeding in common dolphins as suggested by ontogenetic patterns in δ15N bulk and amino acids	9
Fresh perspectives on the River Continuum Concept require trophic ecology approaches focussed on food web structure and energy mobilisation routes	9
Predation and parasitism as determinants of animal personalities	9
Thermal tolerance in Drosophila: Repercussions for distribution, community coexistence and responses to climate change	8
Extending the gleaner–opportunist trade‐off	8
Intra‐population variation in reproductive timing covaries with thermal plasticity of offspring performance in perch Percafluviatilis	8
The evolution of carotenoid‐based plumage colours in passerine birds	8
Simple metrics to characterize inter‐individual and temporal variation in habitat selection behaviour	8
Hopping on: Conspecific traveller density within a vehicle regulates parasitic hitchhiking between ephemeral microcosms	8
Shark tooth collagen stable isotopes (δ15N and δ13C) as ecological proxies	8
Integrated community models: A framework combining multispecies data sources to estimate the status, trends and dynamics of biodiversity	8
It's a worm‐eat‐worm world: Consumption of parasite free‐living stages protects hosts and benefits predators	8
Differential effects of nematode infection on pollinating and non‐pollinating fig wasps: Can shared antagonism provide net benefits to a mutualism?	8
Fitness and fur colouration: Testing the camouflage and thermoregulation hypotheses in an Arctic mammal	8
The small‐bat‐in‐summer paradigm: Energetics and adaptive behavioural routines of bats investigated through a stochastic dynamic model	8
Behavioural responses of a large, heat‐sensitive mammal to climatic variation at multiple spatial scales	8
The role of thermal tolerance in determining elevational distributions of four arthropod taxa in mountain ranges of southern Asia	8
Disgust in animals and the application of disease avoidance to wildlife management and conservation	8
Host population dynamics in the face of an evolving pathogen	8
Environmental conditions and male quality traits simultaneously explain variation of multiple colour signals in male lizards	8
Land‐use change erodes trophic redundancy in tropical forest streams: Evidence from amino acid stable isotope analysis	8
Quantitative fatty acid signature analysis reveals a high level of dietary specialization in killer whales across the North Atlantic	8
Scaling effects of temperature on parasitism from individuals to populations	7
Initial abundance and stochasticity influence competitive outcome in communities	7
Lifetime movement history is associated with variable growth of a potamodromous freshwater fish	7
Predator co‐occurrence in alpine and Arctic tundra in relation to fluctuating prey	7
Decoupling pioneering traits from latitudinal patterns in a north American bird experiencing a southward range shift	7
Stable landings mask irreversible community reorganizations in an overexploited Mediterranean ecosystem	7
Male rock hyraxes that maintain an isochronous song rhythm achieve higher reproductive success	7
Multisensory modalities increase working memory for mating signals in a treefrog	7
Negative effects of forest gaps on dung removal in a full‐factorial experiment	7
Network topology and patch connectivity affect dynamics in experimental and model metapopulations	7
Patrolling the border: Billfish exploit the hypoxic boundary created by the world's largest oxygen minimum zone	7
Host, environment, and anthropogenic factors drive landscape dynamics of an environmentally transmitted pathogen: Sarcoptic mange in the bare‐nosed wombat	7
The non‐random assembly of network motifs in plant–pollinator networks	7
pamlr: A toolbox for analysing animal behaviour using pressure, acceleration, temperature, magnetic or light data in R	7
Experimental evidence that effects of megaherbivores on mesoherbivore space use are influenced by species' traits	7
Ecological patterns and processes in the vertical dimension of terrestrial ecosystems	7
Behavioural and morphological traits influence sex‐specific floral resource use by hummingbirds	7
Diurnal pastoralism does not reduce juvenile recruitment nor elevate allostatic load in spotted hyenas	7
No evidence for fitness signatures consistent with increasing trophic mismatch over 30 years in a population of European shag Phalacrocorax aristotelis	7
Human land‐uses homogenize stream assemblages and reduce animal biomass production	7
Tropical forest dung beetle–mammal dung interaction networks remain similar across an environmental disturbance gradient	7
Behavioural change during dispersal and its relationship to survival and reproduction in a cooperative breeder	7
How fitness consequences of early‐life conditions vary with age in a long‐lived seabird: A Bayesian multivariate analysis of age‐specific reproductive values	7
Spatiotemporal niche‐based mechanisms support a stable coexistence of ants and spiders in an extrafloral nectary‐bearing plant community	7
Bioenergy landscapes drive trophic shifts in generalist ants	7
Disentangling direct from indirect effects of habitat disturbance on multiple components of biodiversity	7
Larger males facilitate population expansion in Ophraella communa	7
Synchrony erodes spatial portfolios of an anadromous fish and alters availability for resource users	7
Anchoring grassland sustainability with a nature‐based small burrowing mammal control strategy	7
Eiders, nutrients and eagles: Bottom‐up and top‐down population dynamics in a marine bird	7
On this side of the fence: Functional responses to linear landscape features shape the home range of large herbivores	7