Journal of Animal Ecology

Article	Citations
Applying the core microbiome to understand host–microbe systems	191
A ‘How to’ guide for interpreting parameters in habitat‐selection analyses	120
Non‐consumptive predator effects on prey population size: A dearth of evidence	85
Food availability limits avian reproduction in the city: An experimental study on great tits Parus major	72
The importance of individual‐to‐society feedbacks in animal ecology and evolution	67
Unifying spatial and social network analysis in disease ecology	64
Observing the unwatchable: Integrating automated sensing, naturalistic observations and animal social network analysis in the age of big data	62
The potential role of the gut microbiota in shaping host energetics and metabolic rate	52
Drivers of site fidelity in ungulates	42
Habitat selection patterns are density dependent under the ideal free distribution	39
A guide to pre‐processing high‐throughput animal tracking data	39
Multiple dimensions of dietary diversity in large mammalian herbivores	38
Negative effect of turbidity on prey capture for both visual and non‐visual aquatic predators	38
Intra‐ and interspecific variation in the responses of insect phenology to climate	36
Sex‐specific effects of wind on the flight decisions of a sexually dimorphic soaring bird	36
Urbanization can increase the invasive potential of alien species	36
Zooming in on mechanistic predator–prey ecology: Integrating camera traps with experimental methods to reveal the drivers of ecological interactions	36
Biologging reveals individual variation in behavioural predictability in the wild	35
Core–periphery dynamics in a plant–pollinator network	35
Stay home, stay safe—Site familiarity reduces predation risk in a large herbivore in two contrasting study sites	34
How butterflies keep their cool: Physical and ecological traits influence thermoregulatory ability and population trends	33
Differential survival throughout the full annual cycle of a migratory bird presents a life‐history trade‐off	33
Sea temperature effects on depth use and habitat selection in a marine fish community	32
How do insects choose flowers? A review of multi‐attribute flower choice and decoy effects in flower‐visiting insects	31
The gateway to Africa: What determines sea crossing performance of a migratory soaring bird at the Strait of Gibraltar?	31

Proximity to humans affects local social structure in a giraffe metapopulation	31
Local prey shortages drive foraging costs and breeding success in a declining seabird, the Atlantic puffin	30
Sex‐specific plasticity across generations I: Maternal and paternal effects on sons and daughters	29
Detecting and quantifying social transmission using network‐based diffusion analysis	29
The roles of acclimation and behaviour in buffering climate change impacts along elevational gradients	28
Early‐life relationships matter: Social position during early life predicts fitness among female spotted hyenas	28
The myriad of complex demographic responses of terrestrial mammals to climate change and gaps of knowledge: A global analysis	28
Decoupling the effects of food and density on life‐history plasticity of wild animals using field experiments: Insights from the steward who sits in the shadow of its tail, the North American red squi	27
Strong survival selection on seasonal migration versus residence induced by extreme climatic events	27
A citizen science approach reveals long‐term social network structure in an urban parrot, Cacatua galerita	26
Multidimensional trophic niche revealed by complementary approaches: Gut content, digestive enzymes, fatty acids and stable isotopes in Collembola	26
Collision between biological process and statistical analysis revealed by mean centring	25
Effects of climate‐change‐driven gradual and acute temperature changes on shark and ray species	25
Life‐history genomic regions explain differences in Atlantic salmon marine diet specialization	25
Pre‐ to post‐fledging carryover effects and the adaptive significance of variation in wing development for juvenile songbirds	25
Phenological synchronization of seasonal bird migration with vegetation greenness across dietary guilds	25
Animal tracking moves community ecology: Opportunities and challenges	24
Thermal tolerance and the importance of microhabitats for Andean frogs in the context of land use and climate change	24
Trait‐based food web model reveals the underlying mechanisms of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships	24
Invertebrate functional traits and terrestrial nutrient cycling: Insights from a global meta‐analysis	24
Multiple stressors interact to impair the performance of bumblebee Bombus terrestris colonies	23
A methodological roadmap to quantify animal‐vectored spatial ecosystem subsidies	23
Personality‐driven life history trade‐offs differ in two subpopulations of free‐ranging predators	23
Sex‐specific plasticity across generations II: Grandpaternal effects are lineage specific and sex specific	23
Seasonal survival and reversible state effects in a long‐distance migratory shorebird	23
Disentangling temporal food web dynamics facilitates understanding of ecosystem functioning	23
Review and synthesis of the global literature on domestic cat impacts on wildlife	23
Meerkat helpers buffer the detrimental effects of adverse environmental conditions on fecundity, growth and survival	23
Applying the Anna Karenina principle for wild animal gut microbiota: Temporal stability of the bank vole gut microbiota in a disturbed environment	23
Earlier and slower or later and faster: Spring migration pace linked to departure time in a Neotropical migrant songbird	22
What does a threatened saproxylic beetle look like? Modelling extinction risk using a new morphological trait database	22
Global patterns in bumble bee pollen collection show phylogenetic conservation of diet	22
The geographic mosaic in parallel: Matching patterns of newt tetrodotoxin levels and snake resistance in multiple predator–prey pairs	22
Long‐distance migrants vary migratory behaviour as much as short‐distance migrants: An individual‐level comparison from a seabird species with diverse migration strategies	22
Temperature reduces fish dispersal as larvae grow faster to their settlement size	21
Individual repeatability of avian migration phenology: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	21
Connecting the data landscape of long‐term ecological studies: The SPI‐Birds data hub	21
The projected degradation of subtropical coral assemblages by recurrent thermal stress	21
Drivers of amphibian population dynamics and asynchrony at local and regional scales	20
Mechanistic home range analysis reveals drivers of space use patterns for a non‐territorial passerine	20
Survival varies seasonally in a migratory bird: Linkages between breeding and non‐breeding periods	20
Species‐level drivers of mammalian ectoparasite faunas	20
Longer photoperiods through range shifts and artificial light lead to a destabilizing increase in host–parasitoid interaction strength	20
Effects of social structure and management on risk of disease establishment in wild pigs	20
Adaptation to vector‐based transmission in a honeybee virus	20
Wintering bird communities are tracking climate change faster than breeding communities	20
How biological invasions affect animal behaviour: A global, cross‐taxonomic analysis	19
Validating eDNA measurements of the richness and abundance of anurans at a large scale	19
Changes in foraging mode caused by a decline in prey size have major bioenergetic consequences for a small pelagic fish	19
Prey availability and ambient temperature influence carrion persistence in the boreal forest	19

Warmer nights offer no respite for a defensive mutualism	19
Strength of niche processes for species interactions is lower for generalists and exotic species	19
Increased acclimation ability accompanies a thermal niche shift of a recent invasion	18
Quantifying the movement, behaviour and environmental context of group‐living animals using drones and computer vision	18
Wildfire reveals transient changes to individual traits and population responses of a native bumble bee Bombus vosnesenskii	18
Spatial variation in diet–microbe associations across populations of a generalist North American carnivore	18
When to stay and when to leave? Proximate causes of dispersal in an endangered social carnivore	18
Termite males enhance mating encounters by changing speed according to density	18
Trematode parasites exceed aquatic insect biomass in Oregon stream food webs	18
Impacts of female body size on cannibalism and juvenile abundance in a dominant arctic spider	18
Habitat loss and thermal tolerances influence the sensitivity of resident bird populations to winter weather at regional scales	18
Preparatory immunity: Seasonality of mucosal skin defences and Batrachochytrium infections in Southern leopard frogs	18
Global drivers of variation in cup nest size in passerine birds	17
From structure to function in mutualistic interaction networks: Topologically important frugivores have greater potential as seed dispersers	17
Spillover of an alien parasite reduces expression of costly behaviour in native host species	17
Sharks surf the slope: Current updrafts reduce energy expenditure for aggregating marine predators	17
Camouflage accuracy in Sahara–Sahel desert rodents	17
Individual specialization in the use of space by frugivorous bats	17
Reproductive senescence in a short‐lived fish	16
Nitrogen fertilizer decreases survival and reproduction of female locusts by increasing plant protein to carbohydrate ratio	16
Does social thermal regulation constrain individual thermal tolerance in an ant species?	16
Territory acquisition mediates the influence of predators and climate on juvenile red squirrel survival	16
Age‐dependent timing and routes demonstrate developmental plasticity in a long‐distance migratory bird	16
Predators like it hot: Thermal mismatch in a predator–prey system across an elevational tropical gradient	16
Artificial selection in human‐wildlife feeding interactions	16
Juvenile survival of a burned forest specialist in response to variation in fire characteristics	16
Species coexist more easily if reinforcement is based on habitat preferences than on species recognition	16
A test of the Niche Variation Hypothesis in a ruminant herbivore	16
Realised rather than fundamental thermal niches predict site occupancy: Implications for climate change forecasting	16
Evidence for seasonal cycles in deep‐sea fish abundances: A great migration in the deep SE Atlantic?	16
Genetic and plastic rewiring of food webs under climate change	16
Evolution of cold tolerance and thermal plasticity in life history, behaviour and physiology during a poleward range expansion	16
Sexual selection and personality: Individual and group‐level effects on mating behaviour in red junglefowl	15
Longitudinal variation in the nutritional quality of basal food sources and its effect on invertebrates and fish in subalpine rivers	15
Habitat features and performance interact to determine the outcomes of terrestrial predator–prey pursuits	15
Cercarial behaviour alters the consumer functional response of three‐spined sticklebacks	15
Variation in movement strategies: Capital versus income migration	15
Abundance data applied to a novel model invertebrate host shed new light on parasite community assembly in nature	15
A time‐lagged association between the gut microbiome, nestling weight and nestling survival in wild great tits	15
Behavioural responses to warming differentially impact survival in introduced and native dung beetles	14
Migration strategy as an indicator of resilience to change in two shorebird species with contrasting population trajectories	14
The influence of seabirds on their breeding, roosting and nesting grounds: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	14
Natural enemies have inconsistent impacts on the coexistence of competing species	14
Mate fidelity improves survival and breeding propensity of a long‐lived bird	14
Grow fast but don't die young: Maternal effects mediate life‐history trade‐offs of lizards under climate warming	14
A trait‐based framework for dung beetle functional ecology	14
Fitness consequences of longer breeding seasons of a migratory passerine under changing climatic conditions	14
Predicting the competitive interactions and trophic niche consequences of a globally invasive fish with threatened native species	14
Stochastic processes and ecological connectivity drive stream invertebrate community responses to short‐term drought	14
Predation and parasitism on herbivorous insects change in opposite directions in a latitudinal gradient crossing a boreal forest zone	14
Longer days enable higher diurnal activity for migratory birds	14
Social network position experiences more variable selection than weaponry in wild subpopulations of forked fungus beetles	14
Harnessing the power of multi‐omics data for predicting climate change response	14
Common palm civets Paradoxurus hermaphroditus are positively associated with humans and forest degradation with implications for seed dispersal and zoonotic diseases	14
Sexual dimorphism driven by intersexual resource competition: Why is it rare, and where to look for it?	14
Ecological engineering across a spatial gradient: Sociable weaver colonies facilitate animal associations with increasing environmental harshness	14
Threading the needle: How humans influence predator–prey spatiotemporal interactions in a multiple‐predator system	14
Loss of predation risk from apex predators can exacerbate marine tropicalization caused by extreme climatic events	14
Urbanization and plant invasion alter the structure of litter microarthropod communities	14
Behavioural and fitness effects of translocation to a novel environment: Whole‐lake experiments in two aquatic top predators	14
Why we should care about movements: Using spatially explicit integrated population models to assess habitat source–sink dynamics	13
Contrasting patterns of risk from human and non‐human predators shape temporal activity of prey	13
Community‐wide consequences of nonconsumptive predator effects on a foundation species	13
Competition shapes individual foraging and survival in a desert rodent ensemble	13
Ecological network assembly: How the regional metaweb influences local food webs	13
Age‐dependent phenological plasticity in a wild bird	13
Detrimental impacts of climate change may be exacerbated by density‐dependent population regulation in blue mussels	13
Stopover refuelling, movement and departure decisions in the white‐throated sparrow: The influence of intrinsic and extrinsic factors during spring migration	13
Collapse and rescue of evolutionary food webs under global warming	13
Climate change affects bird nesting phenology: Comparing contemporary field and historical museum nesting records	13
Changes in climate and land use interact to create an ecological trap in a migratory species	13
Environmental heterogeneity promotes individual specialisation in habitat selection in a widely distributed seabird	13
Genomic signatures of thermal adaptation are associated with clinal shifts of life history in a broadly distributed frog	13
A practical guide for generating unsupervised, spectrogram‐based latent space representations of animal vocalizations	13
Long‐distance natal dispersal is relatively frequent and correlated with environmental factors in a widespread raptor	13
Causes and consequences of an unusually male‐biased adult sex ratio in an unmanaged feral horse population	13
Parasite dynamics in North American monarchs predicted by host density and seasonal migratory culling	13
Partial or complete? The evolution of post‐juvenile moult strategies in passerine birds	13
Large‐scale variation in birth timing and synchrony of a large herbivore along the latitudinal and altitudinal gradients	13
Disturbance by invasive pathogenic fungus alters arthropod predator–prey food‐webs in ash plantations	12

Conceptualizing and quantifying body condition using structural equation modelling: A user guide	12
Landscape does matter: Disentangling founder effects from natural and human‐aided post‐introduction dispersal during an ongoing biological invasion	12
Quantifying capital versus income breeding: New promise with stable isotope measurements of individual amino acids	12
The evolution of size‐dependent competitive interactions promotes species coexistence	12
Temporal scale of habitat selection for large carnivores: Balancing energetics, risk and finding prey	12
Freshening increases the susceptibility to heat stress in intertidal mussels (Mytilus edulis) from the Arctic	12
Merging dynamical and structural indicators to measure resilience in multispecies systems	12
Foraging networks and social tolerance in a cooperatively breeding primate (Callithrix jacchus)	12
How to scale up from animal movement decisions to spatiotemporal patterns: An approach via step selection	12
Maternal allocation in relation to weather, predation and social factors in a colonial cooperative bird	12
The observed pattern and hidden process of female reproductive trajectories across the life span in a non‐human primate	12
Frugivore species maintain their structural role in the trophic and spatial networks of seed dispersal interactions	12
Age‐related reproductive performance of the Adélie penguin, a long‐lived seabird exhibiting similar outcomes regardless of individual life‐history strategy	12
More than meets the eye: Predator‐induced pupil size plasticity in a teleost fish	12
Divergence inHeliconiusflight behaviour is associated with local adaptation to different forest structures	12
Challenges and opportunities for using natural history collections to estimate insect population trends	12
Accounting for sources of uncertainty when forecasting population responses to climate change	12
Intense nocturnal warming alters growth strategies, colouration and parasite load in a diurnal lizard	12
Functional traits explain trophic allometries of cephalopods	12
Mate‐finding dispersal reduces local mate limitation and sex bias in dispersal	12
Impacts of predator‐induced behavioural plasticity on the temperature dependence of predator–prey activity and population dynamics	11
Network‐level consequences of outgroup threats in banded mongooses: Grooming and aggression between the sexes	11
Rapid and repeated divergence of animal chemical signals in an island introduction experiment	11
Reproductive skew, fighting costs and winner–loser effects in social dominance evolution	11
Late‐life reproduction in an insect: Terminal investment, reproductive restraint or senescence	11
Management effects on soil nematode abundance differ among functional groups and land‐use types at a global scale	11
Spatial structure and dispersal dynamics in a house sparrow metapopulation	11
A mechanism for population self‐regulation: Social density suppresses GnRH expression and reduces reproductivity in voles	11
Parasitism in ecosystem engineer species: A key factor controlling marine ecosystem functioning	11
Widespread shifts in bird migration phenology are decoupled from parallel shifts in morphology	11
Why are biodiversity—ecosystem functioning relationships so elusive? Trophic interactions may amplify ecosystem function variability	11
Sea crossing as a major determinant for the evolution of migratory strategies in soaring birds	11
Ecological engineering across a temporal gradient: Sociable weaver colonies create year‐round animal biodiversity hotspots	11
The demographic contributions of connectivity versus local dynamics to population growth of an endangered bird	11
Inhibitory control, exploration behaviour and manipulated ecological context are associated with foraging flexibility in the great tit	11
Relating wing morphology and immune function to patterns of partial and differential bat migration using stable isotopes	11
Sexual segregation in the foraging behaviour of a slightly dimorphic seabird: Influence of the environment and fishery activity	11
Latitudinal variation in long‐term stability of North American rocky intertidal communities	10
Novel step selection analyses on energy landscapes reveal how linear features alter migrations of soaring birds	10
Field evidence for colour mimicry overshadowing morphological mimicry	10
Testosterone‐mediated behaviour shapes the emergent properties of social networks	10
Addressing trait selection patterns in temporary ponds in response to wildfire disturbance and seasonal succession	10
Genomic reaction norms inform predictions of plastic and adaptive responses to climate change	10
Energy‐mediated responses to changing prey size and distribution in marine top predator movements and population dynamics	10
The influence of species life history and distribution characteristics on species responses to habitat fragmentation in an urban landscape	10
Interspecific social dominance networks reveal mechanisms promoting coexistence in sympatric charr in Hokkaido, Japan	10
The relative influence of cross‐seasonal and local weather effects on the breeding success of a migratory songbird	10
Interpopulation differences in male reproductive effort drive the population dynamics of a host exposed to an emerging fungal pathogen	10
Personality, spatiotemporal ecological variation and resident/explorer movement syndromes in the sleepy lizard	10
The genetic basis and adult reproductive consequences of developmental thermal plasticity	10
Interactive effects of wildfires, season and predator activity shape mule deer movements	10
Spatiotemporal interactions of a novel mesocarnivore community in an urban environment before and during SARS‐CoV‐2 lockdown	10
Leaving by staying: Social dispersal in giraffes	10
Impacts of radiation exposure on the bacterial and fungal microbiome of small mammals in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone	10
Does trait‐based joint species distribution modelling reveal the signature of competition in stream macroinvertebrate communities?	10
Weapons or deterrents? Nudibranch molluscs use distinct ecological modes of chemical defence against predators	10
Exploration speed in captivity predicts foraging tactics and diet in free‐living red knots	10
Sequential co‐infections drive parasite competition and the outcome of infection	10
Consistent metacommunity structure despite inconsistent drivers of assembly at the continental scale	10
Declines in freshwater mussel density, size and productivity in the River Thames over the past half century	10
A novel trophic cascade between cougars and feral donkeys shapes desert wetlands	10
Temperature, emergence phenology and consumption drive seasonal shifts in fish growth and production across riverscapes	10
Genetic background and thermal environment differentially influence the ontogeny of immune components during early life in an ectothermic vertebrate	10
Resilience dynamics and productivity‐driven shifts in the marine communities of the Western Mediterranean Sea	10
Non‐consumptive effects between predators depend on the foraging mode of intraguild prey	10
Cooperative feeding in common dolphins as suggested by ontogenetic patterns in δ15N bulk and amino acids	9
Energy‐based step selection analysis: Modelling the energetic drivers of animal movement and habitat use	9
Resource partitioning among avian predators of the Arctic tundra	9
Adaptive differentiation of growth, energetics and behaviour between piscivore and insectivore juvenile rainbow trout along the Pace‐of‐Life continuum	9
Interaction between warming and landscape foraging resource availability on solitary bee reproduction	9
Group density, disease, and season shape territory size and overlap of social carnivores	9
Cognition and covariance in the producer–scrounger game	9
Functional and phylogenetic responses of motile cryptofauna to habitat degradation	9
Age‐dependent plasticity in reproductive investment, regeneration capacity and survival in a partially clonal animal (Hydra oligactis)	9
Disease's hidden death toll: Using parasite aggregation patterns to quantify landscape‐level host mortality in a wildlife system	9
Disentangling the nonlinear effects of habitat complexity on functional responses	9
Elevation is a stronger predictor of morphological trait divergence than competition in a radiation of tropical lizards	9
Cryptic eco‐evolutionary feedback in the city: Urban evolution of prey dampens the effect of urban evolution of the predator	9
Measuring ontogenetic shifts in central‐place foragers: A case study with honeybees	9
Early‐life adversity predicts performance and fitness in a wild social carnivore	9
Artificial night light helps account for observer bias in citizen science monitoring of an expanding large mammal population	9
Regime shifts in a shallow lake over 12 years: Consequences for taxonomic and functional diversities, and ecosystem multifunctionality	9
Spatial patterns and ecological drivers of soil nematode β‐diversity in natural grasslands vary among vegetation types and trophic position	9
Is the world wormier than it used to be? We'll never know without natural history collections	9
Effect of ecological factors on fine‐scale patterns of social structure in African lions	9
Latitudinal clines in sexual selection, sexual size dimorphism and sex‐specific genetic dispersal during a poleward range expansion	9
Fluctuating heat stress during development exposes reproductive costs and putative benefits	9
Opposing fitness consequences of habitat use in a harvested moose population	9
Phenotypic plasticity is not a cline: Thermal physiology of an intertidal barnacle over 20° of latitude	9
The geometry of resource constraint: An empirical study of the golden snub‐nosed monkey	9
Mobility and infectiousness in the spatial spread of an emerging fungal pathogen	9
Increased allocation to reproduction reduces future competitive ability in a burying beetle	9
Size‐selective mortality induces evolutionary changes in group risk‐taking behaviour and the circadian system in a fish	9
Woodpeckers and other excavators maintain the diversity of cavity‐nesting vertebrates	9
An escape theory model for directionally moving prey and an experimental test in juvenile Chinook salmon	9