Journal of Animal Ecology

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Variation in local population size predicts social network structure in wild songbirds	56
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Pregnancy reduces concurrent pup care behaviour in meerkats, generating differences between dominant and subordinate females	39
Evolution of ontogenetic niches promotes species coexistence in a surprising way	39
Winter survival of a small predator is determined by the amount of food in hoards	37
Reproductive senescence and mating tactic interact and conflict to drive reproductive success in a passerine	37
Resource competition drives an invasion‐replacement event among shrew species on an island	37
Mobility and infectiousness in the spatial spread of an emerging fungal pathogen	36
Diurnal pastoralism does not reduce juvenile recruitment nor elevate allostatic load in spotted hyenas	33
Animal tracing with sulfur isotopes: Spatial segregation and climate variability in Africa likely contribute to population trends of a migratory songbird	33
Sexual segregation in the foraging behaviour of a slightly dimorphic seabird: Influence of the environment and fishery activity	29
Global patterns in bumble bee pollen collection show phylogenetic conservation of diet	29
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Variation in diversity–function relationships can be explained by species interactions	28
Early warning indicators of population collapse in a seasonal environment	28
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Personality and pace‐of‐life: Ecological lessons learnt from free‐ranging lemon sharks	25
Male song stability shows cross‐year repeatability but does not affect reproductive success in a wild passerine bird	24
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Why are ‘suboptimal’ temperatures preferred in a tropical intertidal ectotherm?	23
Do human infrastructures shape nest distribution in the landscape depending on individual personality in a farmland bird of prey?	23
The impact of the COVID‐19 lockdowns on wildlife–vehicle collisions in the UK	23
Linking morbillivirus exposure to individual habitat use of common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) between geographically different sites	23

Population connectivity patterns of genetic diversity, immune responses and exposure to infectious pneumonia in a metapopulation of desert bighorn sheep	23
Behavioural adjustments in the social associations of a precocial shorebird mediate the costs and benefits of grouping decisions	23
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A keystone mutualism promotes resistance to invasion	22
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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
Thermoregulatory costs of the innate immune response are modulated by winter food availability in a small passerine	22
Within‐host and external environments differentially shape β‐diversity across parasite life stages	22
Expanding network ecology in freshwater ecosystems	22
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Lab cognition going wild: Implementing a new portable touchscreen system in vervet monkeys	20
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Migration tactics and connectivity of a Nearctic–Neotropical migratory shorebird	20
Mammalian herbivore movement into drought refugia has cascading effects on savanna insect communities	20
Community science reveals links between migration arrival timing advance, migration distance and wing shape	19
The role of environmental variation in mediating fitness trade‐offs for an amphibian polyphenism	19
Signatures of increasing environmental stress in bumblebee wings over the past century: Insights from museum specimens	19
Plant–hummingbird pollination networks exhibit limited rewiring after experimental removal of a locally abundant plant species	19
A hierarchical model for jointly assessing ecological and anthropogenic impacts on animal demography	19
Does the evolution of ontogenetic niche shifts favour species coexistence? An empirical test in Trinidadian streams	19
Disentangling direct and indirect effects of extreme events on coastal wetland communities	18
The elephant in the family: Costs and benefits of elder siblings on younger offspring life‐history trajectory in a matrilineal mammal	18
Movement diversity and partial sympatry of coastal and Northeast Arctic cod ecotypes at high latitudes	18
Climate‐associated variation in the drivers of benthic macroinvertebrate species–area relationships across shallow freshwater lakes	18
Widespread amphibian Perkinsea infections associated with Ranidae hosts, cooler months and Ranavirus co‐infection	17
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Linking physiology and climate to infer species distributions in Australian skinks	17
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It's a hard knock life for some: Heterogeneity in infection life history of salmonids influences parasite disease outcomes	16
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Spatial structure and dispersal dynamics in a house sparrow metapopulation	16
Mechanisms that can cause population decline under heavily skewed male‐biased adult sex ratios	16
Land cover, individual’s age and spatial sorting shape landscape resistance in the invasive frog Xenopus laevis	16
Regime shifts in a shallow lake over 12 years: Consequences for taxonomic and functional diversities, and ecosystem multifunctionality	15
Negative effects of forest gaps on dung removal in a full‐factorial experiment	15
Understanding the connectivity of ecosystems in the Anthropocene	15
Ecological sexual dimorphism is modulated by the spatial scale of intersexual resource competition	15
Merging dynamical and structural indicators to measure resilience in multispecies systems	15
Disturbance by invasive pathogenic fungus alters arthropod predator–prey food‐webs in ash plantations	15
Immunosenescence in the wild? A longitudinal study in a long‐lived seabird	15
Optimal stopover model: A state‐dependent habitat selection model for staging passerines	15
The genetic basis and adult reproductive consequences of developmental thermal plasticity	15
Geographic variations in eco‐evolutionary factors governing urban birds: The case of university campuses in China	15
Long‐term climate and hydrologic regimes shape stream invertebrate community responses to a hurricane disturbance	14
Ecology explains anhydrobiotic performance across tardigrades, but the shared evolutionary history matters more	14
Multisensory modalities increase working memory for mating signals in a treefrog	14
Predicting missing links in global host–parasite networks	14

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Genetic covariance in immune measures and pathogen resistance in decorated crickets is sex and pathogen specific	14
120‐years of ecological monitoring data shows that the risk of overhunting is increased by environmental degradation for an isolated marine mammal population: The Baltic grey seal	14
Risk perception and tolerance shape variation in agricultural use for a transboundary elephant population	14
Forest disturbance increases functional diversity but decreases phylogenetic diversity of an arboreal tropical ant community	14
ExMove: An open‐source toolkit for processing and exploring animal‐tracking data in R	14
Fitness and fur colouration: Testing the camouflage and thermoregulation hypotheses in an Arctic mammal	14
You are what your host eats: The trophic structure and food chain length of a symbiont community are coupled with the plastic diet of the host ant	14
Molecular mechanisms of self‐regulation in multiannual rodent populations: Experimental test of an updated hypothesis	14
Natural enemies have inconsistent impacts on the coexistence of competing species	13
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Host space, not energy or symbiont size, constrains feather mite abundance across passerine bird species	13
No evidence that seasonal changes in large‐scale environmental conditions drive migration in seabirds	13
Intraspecific variation in group structure arises due to environmentally‐mediated directional dispersal in a cooperative breeder	13
Energetic mismatch induced by warming decreases leaf litter decomposition by aquatic detritivores	13
Land‐use change in the past 40 years explains shifts in arthropod community traits	13
Interaction fidelity is less common than expected in plant–pollinator communities	13
Multidimensional trophic niche revealed by complementary approaches: Gut content, digestive enzymes, fatty acids and stable isotopes in Collembola	13
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Thermal plasticity and evolution shape predator–prey interactions differently in clear and turbid water bodies	13
Ecological specialization and reproductive isolation among closely related sympatric ant‐eating spiders	13
Six decades of North American bird banding records reveal plasticity in migration phenology	13
Predicting primate–parasite associations using exponential random graph models	13
Age‐dependent timing and routes demonstrate developmental plasticity in a long‐distance migratory bird	13
Management effects on soil nematode abundance differ among functional groups and land‐use types at a global scale	13
Cognition and covariance in the producer–scrounger game	13
Eyespot peek‐a‐boo: Leaf rolls enhance the antipredator effect of insect eyespots	13
Genomic signatures of thermal adaptation are associated with clinal shifts of life history in a broadly distributed frog	13
Wintering bird communities are tracking climate change faster than breeding communities	13
Variation in body size drives spatial and temporal variation in lobster–urchin interaction strength	13
When should bees be flower constant? An agent‐based model highlights the importance of social information and foraging conditions	13
Age‐related reproductive performance of the Adélie penguin, a long‐lived seabird exhibiting similar outcomes regardless of individual life‐history strategy	13
Atlantic cod individual spatial behaviour and stable isotope associations in a no‐take marine reserve	12
Sea temperature effects on depth use and habitat selection in a marine fish community	12
Declines in freshwater mussel density, size and productivity in the River Thames over the past half century	12
Can internal range structure predict range shifts?	12
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Identifying mechanisms underlying individual body size increases in a changing, highly seasonal environment: The growing trout of West brook	12
Simple metrics to characterize inter‐individual and temporal variation in habitat selection behaviour	12
A meta‐analysis reveals that dragonflies and damselflies can provide effective biological control of mosquitoes	12
Additive partitioning of multispecies distributional aggregation of local assemblages	12
Unravelling arthropod movement in natural landscapes: Small‐scale effects of body size and weather conditions	12
Habitat detection, habitat choice copying or mating benefits: What drives conspecific attraction in a nomadic songbird?	12
A novel trophic cascade between cougars and feral donkeys shapes desert wetlands	12
The evolution of carotenoid‐based plumage colours in passerine birds	12
Can niche plasticity mediate species persistence under ocean acidification?	12
Approaches and methods to study wildlife cancer	12
Interactive effects of wildfires, season and predator activity shape mule deer movements	11
Ontogenetic diversity buffers communities against consequences of species loss	11
A test of the loose‐equilibrium concept with long‐lived organisms: Evaluating temporal change in freshwater mussel assemblages	11
Seaweeds influence oyster microbiota and disease susceptibility	11
Environmental conditions and male quality traits simultaneously explain variation of multiple colour signals in male lizards	11
Conceptualising ecology to support more theory‐driven research	11
Plant mycorrhizal associations mediate the zoogeochemical effects of calving subsidies by a forest ungulate	11
Intraguild processes drive space‐use patterns in a large‐bodied marine predator community	11
Synzootics	11
Anchoring grassland sustainability with a nature‐based small burrowing mammal control strategy	11
Manipulating actions: A selective two‐option device for cognitive experiments in wild animals	11
Erosion of behavioural plasticity and pace‐of‐life shifts under multigenerational pharmaceutical pollution	11
Individual repeatability of avian migration phenology: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	11
Facilitation strength across environmental and beneficiary trait gradients in stream communities	11
Differential survival throughout the full annual cycle of a migratory bird presents a life‐history trade‐off	11
Threading the needle: How humans influence predator–prey spatiotemporal interactions in a multiple‐predator system	11
Dryland state transitions alter trophic interactions in a predator–prey system	11
Human land‐uses homogenize stream assemblages and reduce animal biomass production	11
Adult body mass is heritable, positively genetically correlated and under selection of differing shapes between the sexes in a bird with little apparent sexual dimorphism	10
Male rock hyraxes that maintain an isochronous song rhythm achieve higher reproductive success	10
Temporal variability in host availability alters the outcome of competition between two parasitoid species	10
30 years of terrestrial insect richness patterns across elevation: What have we learned? A global meta‐analysis	10
The expensive son hypothesis	10
Interaction between warming and landscape foraging resource availability on solitary bee reproduction	10
Unravelling the processes between phenotypic plasticity and population dynamics in migratory birds	10
Finding the adaptive needles in a population‐structured haystack: A case study in a New Zealand mollusc	10
Prey responses to direct and indirect predation risk cues reveal the importance of multiple information sources	10
No evidence of early life resource pulse effects on age‐specific variation in survival, reproduction and body mass of female Siberian flying squirrels	10
Resource partitioning in a novel herbivore assemblage in South America	10
Eiders, nutrients and eagles: Bottom‐up and top‐down population dynamics in a marine bird	10
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Dynamic fine‐tuning of anti‐predator behaviour in snowshoe hares illustrates the context dependence of risk effects	10

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Cumulative and interannual effects of reproduction in eastern grey kangaroos	10
Investigating the role of non‐helpers in group living thrips	10
Seasonally variable thermal performance curves prevent adverse effects of heatwaves	10
Maternal effect senescence and caloric restriction interact to affect fitness through changes in life history timing	10
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Ecological network assembly: How the regional metaweb influences local food webs	9
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Anomalous latitudinal gradients in parasitoid wasp diversity—Hotspots in regions with larger temperature range	9
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Picky eaters: Selective microbial diet of avian ectosymbionts	9
Disentangling temporal food web dynamics facilitates understanding of ecosystem functioning	9
Female reproduction and viral infection in a long‐lived mammal	9
Stability, resilience and eco‐evolutionary feedbacks of mutualistic networks to rising temperature	9
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Research Highlight: Social dispersal in giraffes	9
Preen gland microbiota of songbirds differ across populations but not sexes	9
Four key challenges in the open‐data revolution	9
Evolution of cold tolerance and thermal plasticity in life history, behaviour and physiology during a poleward range expansion	9
Informed breeding dispersal following stochastic changes to patch quality in a pond‐breeding amphibian	9
An apex predator engineers wetland food‐web heterogeneity through nutrient enrichment and habitat modification	9
On the importance of accounting for alternative foraging tactics when assessing cognitive performance in wild animals	9
Decoupling pioneering traits from latitudinal patterns in a north American bird experiencing a southward range shift	9
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Plasticity and repeatability in spring migration and parturition dates with implications for annual reproductive success	9
Moving towards a comprehensive view of the spatial processes in seed dispersal networks: Embracing metacommunities	8
An intuitive approach for measuring the resilience of biological communities to environmental change	8
Evolution of the ecological niche behind the largest disjunct freshwater fish distribution in the world	8
A taste of space: Remote animal observations and discrete‐choice models provide new insights into foraging and density dynamics for a large subarctic herbivore	8
Habitat area and edges affect the length of trophic chains in a fragmented forest	8
Maximum likelihood outperforms binning methods for detecting differences in abundance size spectra across environmental gradients	8
Community form, function and phylogenetic diversity respond differently across microhabitat and recovery gradients	8
On the use of antibiotics in plasticity research: Gastropod shells unveil a tale of caution	8
A sampling, exposure and receptor framework for identifying factors that modulate behavioural responses to disturbance in cetaceans	8
Estimating migration timing and abundance in partial migratory systems by integrating continuous antenna detections with physical captures	8
Relating wing morphology and immune function to patterns of partial and differential bat migration using stable isotopes	8
Springing forward: Migrating songbirds catch up with the start of spring in North America	8
Co‐infections mask pathogen‐specific associations with the gut microbiota in wild voles	8
Looking at the bid picture: A framework for identifying reverse auctions in ecological systems	8
Hurricanes affect diversification among individual life courses of a primate population	8
Predation risk drives long‐term shifts in migratory behaviour and demography in a large herbivore population	8
Anthropogenic nest material use in a global sample of birds	8
Evolutionary divergence of developmental plasticity and learning of mating tactics in Trinidadian guppies	8
Functional genomics of abiotic environmental adaptation in lacertid lizards and other vertebrates	8
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Beyond the kill: The allometry of predation behaviours among large carnivores	7
Fish microplastic ingestion may induce tipping points of aquatic ecosystems	7
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A theory for context‐dependent effects of mammalian trampling on ecosystem nitrogen cycling	7
Non‐genetic phenotypic variability affects populations and communities in protist microcosms	7
Species‐level drivers of avian centrality within seed‐dispersal networks across different levels of organisation	7
An integrated population model reveals source‐sink dynamics for competitively subordinate African wild dogs linked to anthropogenic prey depletion	7
Environmental heterogeneity promotes individual specialisation in habitat selection in a widely distributed seabird	7
Capturing the dynamics of small populations: A retrospective assessment using long‐term data for an island reintroduction	7
Frankenstein matrices: Among‐population life history variation affects the reliability and predictions of demographic models	7
Predicting daily activity time through ecological niche modelling and microclimatic data	7
Ecological patterns and processes in the vertical dimension of terrestrial ecosystems	7
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Strong above‐ground impacts of a non‐native ungulate do not cascade to impact below‐ground functioning in a boreal ecosystem	7
Synchrony erodes spatial portfolios of an anadromous fish and alters availability for resource users	7
Empirically tuned theory reveals why symbiont abundance ‘mite’ vary across hosts	7
Long‐term multi‐species demographic studies reveal divergent negative impacts of winter storms on seabird survival	7
Effects of season length and uniparental care efficacy on the evolution of parental care	7
Beyond simple habituation: Anthropogenic habitats influence the escape behaviour of spur‐winged lapwings in response to both human and non‐human threats	7
Response trait diversity and species asynchrony underlie the diversity–stability relationship in Romanian bird communities	7
Personality, spatiotemporal ecological variation and resident/explorer movement syndromes in the sleepy lizard	7
Heat it up to slow it down: Individual energetics reveal how warming reduces stream decomposition	7
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Robustly estimating the demographic contribution of immigration: Simulation, sensitivity analysis and seals	7
Timing and synchrony of migration in a freshwater fish: Consequences for survival	7
Counter‐strategies to infanticide: The importance of cubs in determining lion habitat selection and social interactions	7
Behavioural generalism could facilitate coexistence of tropical and temperate fishes under climate change	7
Early social isolation disrupts adult personality expression in group‐living mites	7
The sources of sex differences in aging in annual fishes	7