Journal of Animal Ecology

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Maternal effect senescence and caloric restriction interact to affect fitness through changes in life history timing	58
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Genetic covariance in immune measures and pathogen resistance in decorated crickets is sex and pathogen specific	41
Temporal niche partitioning: Mechanism of coexistence or competitive exclusion via priority effects?	41
ExMove: An open‐source toolkit for processing and exploring animal‐tracking data in R	40
Negative effects of forest gaps on dung removal in a full‐factorial experiment	37
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	34
Animal tracing with sulfur isotopes: Spatial segregation and climate variability in Africa likely contribute to population trends of a migratory songbird	33
The genetic basis and adult reproductive consequences of developmental thermal plasticity	32
The role of environmental variation in mediating fitness trade‐offs for an amphibian polyphenism	31
Plant mycorrhizal associations mediate the zoogeochemical effects of calving subsidies by a forest ungulate	31
Can internal range structure predict range shifts?	29
Within‐host and external environments differentially shape β‐diversity across parasite life stages	28
Thermal plasticity and evolution shape predator–prey interactions differently in clear and turbid water bodies	28
Estimating epidemiological parameters of highly pathogenic avian influenza in common terns using exact Bayesian inference	27
Predicting primate–parasite associations using exponential random graph models	27
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	27
Environmental conditions and male quality traits simultaneously explain variation of multiple colour signals in male lizards	26
Sociality helps mitigate anthropogenic risks: Evidence from elk crossing a major highway	26
Long‐term climate and hydrologic regimes shape stream invertebrate community responses to a hurricane disturbance	25
Inferring riverscape dispersal processes from fish biodiversity patterns	25

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On the importance of accounting for alternative foraging tactics when assessing cognitive performance in wild animals	25
Effects of competition and predation risk from a life history intraguild predator on individual specialisation	25
Research Highlight: Social dispersal in giraffes	25
Looking at the bid picture: A framework for identifying reverse auctions in ecological systems	25
Dryland state transitions alter trophic interactions in a predator–prey system	25
Asymmetrical predation intensity produces divergent antipredator behaviours in primary and secondary prey	23
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Abundant top predators increase species interaction network complexity in northeastern Chinese forests	23
Anomalous latitudinal gradients in parasitoid wasp diversity—Hotspots in regions with larger temperature range	23
Male rock hyraxes that maintain an isochronous song rhythm achieve higher reproductive success	23
Across the edge: Spatial segregation drives community structure in tri‐trophic multilayer networks at a forest–grassland edge	23
Predator activity, proactive anti‐predator strategies and nesting phenology produce a dynamic landscape of risk to tundra goose reproduction	23
Predicting daily activity time through ecological niche modelling and microclimatic data	22
An experimental test of the importance of isolated trees for frog diversity in tropical landscapes	22
Moving towards a comprehensive view of the spatial processes in seed dispersal networks: Embracing metacommunities	22
An apex predator engineers wetland food‐web heterogeneity through nutrient enrichment and habitat modification	22
Reproductive skew, fighting costs and winner–loser effects in social dominance evolution	22
Poleward shifts and altered periodicity in boreal bird irruptions over six decades	21
Correction to: High MHC diversity confers no advantage for phenotypic quality and reproductive performance in a wild bird	21
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Energy‐based step selection analysis: Modelling the energetic drivers of animal movement and habitat use	21
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Can behaviour and physiology mitigate effects of warming on ectotherms? A test in urban ants	20
Revealing species responses to environmental change through long‐term data and mechanistic frameworks	20
The global impact of management on soil nematode abundances	20
Arriving late and lean at a stopover site is selected against in a declining migratory bird population	19
Host exposure to a common pollutant can influence diversity–disease relationships	19
Partitioning variance in population growth for models with environmental and demographic stochasticity	19
Three‐dimensional vegetation structure drives patterns of seed dispersal by African hornbills	19
Long‐term population dynamics of western tent caterpillars: History, trends and causes of cycles	19
Spatiotemporal thermal variation drives diversity trends in experimental landscapes	18
Coming of age in your local mating market: Just a numbers game?	18
Environmental DNA metabarcoding reveals temporal dynamics but functional stability of arthropod communities in cattle dung	18
The importance of a holistic approach to the factors determining population abundances	18
Tadpole aggregations create biogeochemical hotspots in wetland ecosystems	18
Disgust in animals and the application of disease avoidance to wildlife management and conservation	18
Dynamic balancing of risks and rewards in a large herbivore: Further extending predator–prey concepts to road ecology	17
Crowding after sudden habitat loss affects demography and social structure in a bat population	17
Reciprocated competition between two forest carnivores drives dietary specialization	17
Tree dissimilarity determines multi‐dimensional beta‐diversity of herbivores and carnivores via bottom‐up effects	17
Fresh perspectives on the River Continuum Concept require trophic ecology approaches focussed on food web structure and energy mobilisation routes	17
A specialist predator in a food web with cyclic alternative prey: The gyrfalcon‐ptarmigan case revisited	16
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Evaluating the importance of individual heterogeneity in reproduction to Weddell seal population dynamics using integral projection models	16
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Fitness benefits of alternated chick provisioning in cooperatively breeding carrion crows	16
Aggregative responses of marine predators to a pulsed resource	16
Few studies of wild animal performance account for parasite infections: A systematic review	16
Arthropod food webs predicted from body size ratios are improved by incorporating prey defensive properties	15

Maintenance of biodiversity in multitrophic metacommunities: Dispersal mode matters	15
Underrepresentation of dietary‐specialist larval Lepidoptera in small forest fragments: Testing alternative mechanisms	15
Plant metabolites modulate social networks and lifespan in a sawfly	15
Networking nutrients: How nutrition determines the structure of ecological networks	15
Revealing the extent of sea otter impacts on bivalve prey through multi‐trophic monitoring and mechanistic models	15
Male reproductive tactics in house mice: Consistent individual differences, intrinsic factors and density effects	15
Effects of local density dependence and temperature on the spatial synchrony of marine fish populations	14
Host, environment, and anthropogenic factors drive landscape dynamics of an environmentally transmitted pathogen: Sarcoptic mange in the bare‐nosed wombat	14
Integrated community models: A framework combining multispecies data sources to estimate the status, trends and dynamics of biodiversity	14
The role of diversity, body size and climate in dung removal: A correlative and experimental approach	14
Social immunity in a supercolonial invasive ant: Nest structure confers immune function	14
Interactions between fitness components across the life cycle constrain competitor coexistence	14
Ontogeny of migration destination, route and timing in a partially migratory bird	14
Boldness predicts plasticity in flight responses to winds	14
Fencing amplifies individual differences in movement with implications on survival for two migratory ungulates	14
Cranial endothermy in mobulid rays: Evolutionary and ecological implications of a thermogenic brain	14
Inbreeding accelerates reproductive senescence, but not survival senescence, in a precocial bird	14
Symmetries and asymmetries in the topological roles of piscivorous fishes between occurrence networks and food webs	14
Species richness and evenness of European bird communities show differentiated responses to measures of productivity	14
How does climate change impact social bees and bee sociality?	14
Social network dynamics under experimental manipulations of predation risk and food abundance in wild rock hyraxes	14
The gut microbiome shapes latitudinal differences in host immunity and pathogen load in a damselfly	14
Plasticity in a key life‐history trait contributes to population cycles in an insect herbivore	13
Intraspecific variation in prey quality affects the consumption rates of top predators	13
Revisiting niche divergence hypothesis in sexually dimorphic birds: Is diet overlap correlated with sexual size dimorphism?	13
Woodpeckers and other excavators maintain the diversity of cavity‐nesting vertebrates	13
Ongoing collapse of avifauna in temperate oceanic islands close to the mainland in the Anthropocene	13
Patrolling the border: Billfish exploit the hypoxic boundary created by the world's largest oxygen minimum zone	13
Maximum entropy models reveal spatial variation of metabolic scaling in stream fish communities	13
Support for the size‐mediated sensitivity hypothesis within a diverse carnivore community	13
A model‐based hypothesis framework to define and estimate the diel niche via the ‘Diel.Niche’ R package	12
Do sexual differences in life strategies make male lizards more susceptible to parasite infection?	12
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Cold winters drive consistent and spatially synchronous 8‐year population cycles of cabbage stem flea beetle	12
Early‐life variation in migration is subject to strong fluctuating survival selection in a partially migratory bird	12
Personality expression is shaped by the early experienced social context in predatory mites	12
Species‐specific seasonal variations in thermal performance curves shape the direct and transgenerational vulnerability to marine heatwaves	12
Experimental evolution of dispersal: Unifying theory, experiments and natural systems	12
Carbon pathways and trophic attributes are conserved in carnivorous reef fishes across a major human disturbance gradient	12
Resource availability alters breeding strategies in a small mammal community	12
Feather mites selectively feed on specific bacteria and fungi on feathers with potential benefits to hosts	12
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Population level consequences of facultatively cooperative behaviour in a stochastic environment	12
Idiosyncratic effects of coinfection on the association between systemic pathogens and the gut microbiota of a wild rodent, the bank vole Myodes glareolus	12
Experimental evaluation of how biological invasions and climate change interact to alter the vertical assembly of an amphibian community	12
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Responses of the mesozooplankton community to marine heatwaves: Challenges and solutions based on a long‐term time series	12
Standardised empirical dispersal kernels emphasise the pervasiveness of long‐distance dispersal in European birds	12
The relative influence of history, climate, topography and vegetation structure on local animal richness varies among taxa and spatial grains	12
Rapid evolution of consumptive and non‐consumptive predator effects on prey population densities, bioenergetics and stoichiometry	12
Variation and correlation in the timing of breeding of North Atlantic seabirds across multiple scales	12
Fluctuating salinity during development impacts fish life histories	12
Redefining ‘state‐of‐the‐art’ for integrated population models with immigration	12
Enhanced thermoregulation abilities of shortfin mako sharks as the key adaptive significance of regional endothermy in fishes	11
Experimental noise and light pollution alter prey detection in a nocturnal bird of prey	11
Food web trophic control modulates tropical Atlantic reef ecosystems response to marine heat wave intensity and duration	11
Body size mediates trophic interaction strength of novel fish assemblages under climate change	11
Environmental drivers of global variation in home range size of terrestrial and marine mammals	11
Large carnivores avoid humans while prioritizing prey acquisition in anthropogenic areas	11
Modelling animal social networks: New solutions and future directions	11
Polyphenism predicts actuarial senescence and lifespan in tiger salamanders	11
When temperature calls the shots: Pollinators' floral choices in a warming world	11
Plasticity in female timing may explain earlier breeding in a North American songbird	11
Seed predation by rodents suppresses recruitment of a bird‐dispersed tree at its upper range limit	11
Global drivers of variation in cup nest size in passerine birds	11
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Early‐growth trajectories affect juvenile survival, age at first reproduction and lifetime fitness in a long‐lived seabird, the little penguin	11
Seasonal strategies differ between tropical and extratropical herbivores	11
Habitat engineering by an apex predator generates spatial trophic dynamics across a temporal environmental stress gradient	11
Untangling the complex food webs of tropical rainforest streams	11
Maximization of fitness by phenological and phenotypic plasticity in range expanding rabbitfishes (Siganidae)	11
Do lifetime contest costs affect the evolution of assessment strategies? A meta‐analysis	11
Identifying mechanisms underlying individual body size increases in a changing, highly seasonal environment: The growing trout of West brook	10
Poison frog chemical defences are influenced by environmental availability and dietary selectivity for ants	10
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Mechanisms that can cause population decline under heavily skewed male‐biased adult sex ratios	10
Heat limits scale with metabolism in ectothermic animals	10
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Human land‐uses homogenize stream assemblages and reduce animal biomass production	10

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Fish microplastic ingestion may induce tipping points of aquatic ecosystems	10
Energetic mismatch induced by warming decreases leaf litter decomposition by aquatic detritivores	10
Diurnal pastoralism does not reduce juvenile recruitment nor elevate allostatic load in spotted hyenas	10
Population connectivity patterns of genetic diversity, immune responses and exposure to infectious pneumonia in a metapopulation of desert bighorn sheep	10
Risk perception and tolerance shape variation in agricultural use for a transboundary elephant population	10
Seasonal body mass dynamics mediate life‐history trade‐offs in a hibernating mammal	10
Early social isolation disrupts adult personality expression in group‐living mites	10
When should bees be flower constant? An agent‐based model highlights the importance of social information and foraging conditions	10
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Movement phases make a difference in habitat selection: Iberian lynx diversity of responses to human‐modified landscapes	9
Hurricanes affect diversification among individual life courses of a primate population	9
Bumble bee colony health and performance vary widely across the urban ecosystem	9
Timing and synchrony of migration in a freshwater fish: Consequences for survival	9
Picky eaters: Selective microbial diet of avian ectosymbionts	9
Navigating new threats: Prey naïveté in native mammals	9
Combining in vivo and in vitro approaches to better understand host‐pathogen nutritional interactions	9
Vegetation structure and climate shape mountain arthropod distributions across trophic levels	9
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Diel activity correlates with colour pattern morphology of heterobranch sea slugs	9
Global warming affects foraging efficiency of fish by influencing mutual interference	9
Personality, spatiotemporal ecological variation and resident/explorer movement syndromes in the sleepy lizard	9
Following the feeder: A global synthesis of disturbance‐based foraging associations of birds	9
On the use of antibiotics in plasticity research: Gastropod shells unveil a tale of caution	9
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Isolating the role of the matrix at patch and landscape scales	9
Finding the adaptive needles in a population‐structured haystack: A case study in a New Zealand mollusc	9
Predation risk drives long‐term shifts in migratory behaviour and demography in a large herbivore population	9
Counter‐strategies to infanticide: The importance of cubs in determining lion habitat selection and social interactions	9
Ecological patterns and processes in the vertical dimension of terrestrial ecosystems	9
Path analysis reveals combined winter climate and pollution effects on the survival of a marine top predator	9
Limited inbreeding avoidance at the gamete level despite inbreeding depression in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)	9
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Predicting organismal response to marine heatwaves using dynamic thermal tolerance landscape models	8
Subtle stressors—Strong responses. Consistent negative effects of avian blood parasites on phenotypic and demographic traits across songbirds	8
Resource manipulation reveals interactive phenotype‐dependent foraging in free‐ranging lizards	8
Multifaceted density dependence: Social structure and seasonality effects on Serengeti lion demography	8
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Asian elephants are associated with a more robust mammalian community in tropical forests	8
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The community context of trophic cascades	8
Increase in heat tolerance following a period of heat stress in a naturally occurring insect species	8
Foraging activity by an ecosystem engineer, the superb lyrebird, ‘farms’ its invertebrate prey	8
Network dynamics revealed from eDNA highlight seasonal variation in urban mammal communities	8
Arrival‐breeding interval is flexible in a songbird and is not constrained by migration carry‐over effects	8
Out of shape: Ocean acidification simplifies coral reef architecture and reshuffles fish assemblages	8
Severe fire regimes decrease resilience of ectothermic populations	8
Complex community‐wide consequences of consumer sexual dimorphism	8
Niche dynamics along two centuries of multiple crayfish invasions	8
Resource partitioning among pelagic predators remains stable despite annual variability in diet composition	8
Leveraging camera traps and artificial intelligence to explore thermoregulation behaviour	8
Cyclic functional connectivity of Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) populations across North American boreal landscapes	8
Species interactions in the Anthropocene	8
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Taylor's law on abundance unravels the role of traits and environmental conditions on population dynamics	8
Hybridisation primes population invasiveness under environmental change	8
LiDAR reveals a preference for intermediate visibility by a forest‐dwelling ungulate species	8
Acoustic camouflage increases with body size and changes with bat echolocation frequency range in a community of nocturnally active Lepidoptera	8
Vegetation structure from LiDAR explains the local richness of birds across Denmark	8
The relative influence of cross‐seasonal and local weather effects on the breeding success of a migratory songbird	7
A field test of whether herbivores mitigate the effects of plant invasions on soil biodiversity	7
Pulse disturbances in age‐structured populations: Life history predicts initial impact and recovery time	7
Shrinking body size under climate warming is not associated with selection for smaller individuals in a migratory bird	7
Life span, growth, senescence and island syndrome: Accounting for imperfect detection and continuous growth	7
Nocturnal but not diurnal threats shape stopover strategy in a migrating songbird	7
Correction to: Resource partitioning in a novel herbivore assemblage in South America	7
Individual quality overwrites carry‐over effects across the annual cycle of a long‐distance migrant	7
Spatial scaling of gregarious host populations and nonlinearities in infectious disease transmission	7
How to scale up from animal movement decisions to spatiotemporal patterns: An approach via step selection	7
The behavioural costs of overcrowding for gregarious cave‐dwelling bats	7
Raising offspring increases ageing: Differences in senescence among three populations of a long‐lived seabird, the Atlantic puffin	7
Weapons or deterrents? Nudibranch molluscs use distinct ecological modes of chemical defence against predators	7
Harnessing the power of multi‐omics data for predicting climate change response	7
Interpreting past trophic ecology of a threatened alpine parrot, keaNestor notabilis, from museum specimens	7
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Recovery of reef shark populations invokes anti‐predator behaviours in mesopredatory reef fishes on a coral reef	7
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Prey selection of a widespread carnivore relative to predator–prey co‐occurrence in space and time	7
Spatial prey availability and pulsed reproductive tactics: Encounter risk in a canid–ungulate system	7
Quantifying drivers of biodiversity change through increasing data availability and improved analytical frameworks	7
Herbivory mediates the response of below‐ground food webs to invasive grasses	7
Stream hydrology and a pulse subsidy shape patterns of fish foraging	7
Direct and indirect effects of fire on parasites in an African savanna	7
Predation risk can modify the foraging behaviour of frugivorous carnivores: Implications of rewilding apex predators for plant–animal mutualisms	7
Food‐safety trade‐offs drive dynamic behavioural antipredator responses among snowshoe hares	7
Quantifying predator functional responses under field conditions reveals interactive effects of temperature and interference with sex and stage	7
The effects of warming on loggerhead turtle nesting counts	7