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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The role of environmental variation in mediating fitness trade‐offs for an amphibian polyphenism	42
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Temporal niche partitioning: Mechanism of coexistence or competitive exclusion via priority effects?	38
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	37
Plant mycorrhizal associations mediate the zoogeochemical effects of calving subsidies by a forest ungulate	34
Long‐term climate and hydrologic regimes shape stream invertebrate community responses to a hurricane disturbance	33
Within‐host and external environments differentially shape β‐diversity across parasite life stages	33
Sociality helps mitigate anthropogenic risks: Evidence from elk crossing a major highway	33
Dryland state transitions alter trophic interactions in a predator–prey system	33
Foraging offsets declining fitness: Evidence of behavioural compensation for reproductive senescence	33
Environmental conditions and male quality traits simultaneously explain variation of multiple colour signals in male lizards	32
Plasticity in parental care: Interspecific competitor cues shape biparental cooperation in a burying beetle	31
Predicting primate–parasite associations using exponential random graph models	31
Negative effects of forest gaps on dung removal in a full‐factorial experiment	31
Estimating epidemiological parameters of highly pathogenic avian influenza in common terns using exact Bayesian inference	31
ExMove : An open‐source toolkit for processing and exploring animal‐tracking data in R	30
Can internal range structure predict range shifts?	29
Season and human footprint weaken the negative effect of temperature on the intraspecific metabolic scaling exponent of wild brown trout populations	29
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	28
Animal tracing with sulfur isotopes: Spatial segregation and climate variability in Africa likely contribute to population trends of a migratory songbird	28

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Looking at the bid picture: A framework for identifying reverse auctions in ecological systems	27
Effects of competition and predation risk from a life history intraguild predator on individual specialisation	27
An apex predator engineers wetland food‐web heterogeneity through nutrient enrichment and habitat modification	26
Moving towards a comprehensive view of the spatial processes in seed dispersal networks: Embracing metacommunities	26
Behavioural tactics across thermal gradients align with partial morphological divergence in brook charr	26
Changing food availability and its effect on the heritability of offspring size in woodland passerine birds	26
Male rock hyraxes that maintain an isochronous song rhythm achieve higher reproductive success	25
Across the edge: Spatial segregation drives community structure in tri‐trophic multilayer networks at a forest–grassland edge	25
Predator activity, proactive anti‐predator strategies and nesting phenology produce a dynamic landscape of risk to tundra goose reproduction	24
Predicting daily activity time through ecological niche modelling and microclimatic data	24
Inferring riverscape dispersal processes from fish biodiversity patterns	24
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	22
Drought and growing season phenology over 35 years modulates species interactions among domestic and wild herbivores	22
Anomalous latitudinal gradients in parasitoid wasp diversity—Hotspots in regions with larger temperature range	21
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Poleward shifts and altered periodicity in boreal bird irruptions over six decades	20
Few studies of wild animal performance account for parasite infections: A systematic review	20
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Biogeographic shifts in reef fish size structure along the Southeastern Pacific occur independently of sea surface temperature and chlorophyll‐ a	20
Environmental DNA metabarcoding reveals temporal dynamics but functional stability of arthropod communities in cattle dung	19
Reciprocated competition between two forest carnivores drives dietary specialization	19
Tadpole aggregations create biogeochemical hotspots in wetland ecosystems	19
Spatiotemporal thermal variation drives diversity trends in experimental landscapes	19
Arriving late and lean at a stopover site is selected against in a declining migratory bird population	19
Partitioning variance in population growth for models with environmental and demographic stochasticity	18
Coming of age in your local mating market: Just a numbers game?	18
Disentangling the influence of density dependence, size dependence and environmental effects on fish population dynamics	18
Long‐term population dynamics of western tent caterpillars: History, trends and causes of cycles	18
The importance of a holistic approach to the factors determining population abundances	18
Host exposure to a common pollutant can influence diversity–disease relationships	18
Three‐dimensional vegetation structure drives patterns of seed dispersal by African hornbills	18
Disgust in animals and the application of disease avoidance to wildlife management and conservation	18
Long‐term trends of epibionts reflect Mediterranean striped dolphin abundance shifts caused by morbillivirus epidemics	18
Dynamic balancing of risks and rewards in a large herbivore: Further extending predator–prey concepts to road ecology	18
Correction to: High MHC diversity confers no advantage for phenotypic quality and reproductive performance in a wild bird	17
Fresh perspectives on the River Continuum Concept require trophic ecology approaches focussed on food web structure and energy mobilisation routes	17
Global meta‐analysis reveals urban‐associated behavioural differences among wild populations	17
An experimental test of the importance of isolated trees for frog diversity in tropical landscapes	17
The global impact of management on soil nematode abundances	17
Tree dissimilarity determines multi‐dimensional beta‐diversity of herbivores and carnivores via bottom‐up effects	17
Can behaviour and physiology mitigate effects of warming on ectotherms? A test in urban ants	17
Species loss alters the mesoscale structure of mutualistic networks	17
Revealing species responses to environmental change through long‐term data and mechanistic frameworks	17
Underrepresentation of dietary‐specialist larval Lepidoptera in small forest fragments: Testing alternative mechanisms	16
Boldness predicts plasticity in flight responses to winds	16
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Aggregative responses of marine predators to a pulsed resource	16
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Revealing the extent of sea otter impacts on bivalve prey through multi‐trophic monitoring and mechanistic models	16
Male reproductive tactics in house mice: Consistent individual differences, intrinsic factors and density effects	16
The role of diversity, body size and climate in dung removal: A correlative and experimental approach	15
Fitness consequences of parasitism in a changing world: A case study with bird blow flies and sagebrush songbirds	15
Host, environment, and anthropogenic factors drive landscape dynamics of an environmentally transmitted pathogen: Sarcoptic mange in the bare‐nosed wombat	15
Arthropod food webs predicted from body size ratios are improved by incorporating prey defensive properties	15
Effects of local density dependence and temperature on the spatial synchrony of marine fish populations	15
Mobile consumers influence the shoreward edge of intertidal seagrass ecosystems	15
Species richness and evenness of European bird communities show differentiated responses to measures of productivity	15
Maintenance of biodiversity in multitrophic metacommunities: Dispersal mode matters	15
Social immunity in a supercolonial invasive ant: Nest structure confers immune function	15
Plant metabolites modulate social networks and lifespan in a sawfly	15
Fencing amplifies individual differences in movement with implications on survival for two migratory ungulates	14
Integrated community models: A framework combining multispecies data sources to estimate the status, trends and dynamics of biodiversity	14
Development time and host‐parasitoid stability: An experimental test	14
Social network dynamics under experimental manipulations of predation risk and food abundance in wild rock hyraxes	14
Fitness benefits of alternated chick provisioning in cooperatively breeding carrion crows	14
Symmetries and asymmetries in the topological roles of piscivorous fishes between occurrence networks and food webs	14
Herbivore and mesocarnivore carcasses trigger divergent short‐term changes in soil properties	14
Evaluating the importance of individual heterogeneity in reproduction to Weddell seal population dynamics using integral projection models	14
Cranial endothermy in mobulid rays: Evolutionary and ecological implications of a thermogenic brain	14
malddaba: An open‐access database of age‐specific mammalian demography for comparative analyses in evolutionary biology and demography	14
Networking nutrients: How nutrition determines the structure of ecological networks	14
Ontogeny of migration destination, route and timing in a partially migratory bird	14
Tracing the Battle: Role of mucus trails in information warfare between predator snail and prey limpet	14
How does climate change impact social bees and bee sociality?	13
The gut microbiome shapes latitudinal differences in host immunity and pathogen load in a damselfly	13
Maximum entropy models reveal spatial variation of metabolic scaling in stream fish communities	13
Plasticity in a key life‐history trait contributes to population cycles in an insect herbivore	13
Seasonal timing determines how warming affects mast‐driven food webs	13
A specialist predator in a food web with cyclic alternative prey: The gyrfalcon‐ptarmigan case revisited	13
Patrolling the border: Billfish exploit the hypoxic boundary created by the world's largest oxygen minimum zone	13
Inbreeding accelerates reproductive senescence, but not survival senescence, in a precocial bird	13
Tree species richness drives multiple facets of bee diversity via understorey microenvironment	13
Cold winters drive consistent and spatially synchronous 8‐year population cycles of cabbage stem flea beetle	13
Carbon pathways and trophic attributes are conserved in carnivorous reef fishes across a major human disturbance gradient	13
Interactions between fitness components across the life cycle constrain competitor coexistence	12
The relative influence of history, climate, topography and vegetation structure on local animal richness varies among taxa and spatial grains	12
A model‐based hypothesis framework to define and estimate the diel niche via the ‘Diel.Niche’ R package	12
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Feather mites selectively feed on specific bacteria and fungi on feathers with potential benefits to hosts	12
Standardised empirical dispersal kernels emphasise the pervasiveness of long‐distance dispersal in European birds	12
Intraspecific variation in prey quality affects the consumption rates of top predators	12
Demographic mechanisms of snowshoe hare population cycles in Yukon, Canada	12
Responses of the mesozooplankton community to marine heatwaves: Challenges and solutions based on a long‐term time series	12
Support for the size‐mediated sensitivity hypothesis within a diverse carnivore community	12
Fat chance for a skinny squirrel: Survival consequences of pre‐hibernation fattening provide a model to understand foraging decisions and life‐history strategies	12
Developmental plasticity of butterflies: A meta‐analysis of temperature effects	12
Do sexual differences in life strategies make male lizards more susceptible to parasite infection?	12
Estimating species occupancy across multiple sampling seasons with autologistic occupancy models via the autoOcc R package	12
Effects of temperature and browning on the functional response of a freshwater top predator	12
Resource availability alters breeding strategies in a small mammal community	12
Revisiting niche divergence hypothesis in sexually dimorphic birds: Is diet overlap correlated with sexual size dimorphism?	12
Torpor‐assisted migration: Regular use of shallow torpor reduces rest‐phase energy expenditure for songbirds during migration	12
Ongoing collapse of avifauna in temperate oceanic islands close to the mainland in the Anthropocene	12
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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
Body size mediates trophic interaction strength of novel fish assemblages under climate change	11
Idiosyncratic effects of coinfection on the association between systemic pathogens and the gut microbiota of a wild rodent, the bank vole Myodes glareolus	11
Food web trophic control modulates tropical Atlantic reef ecosystems response to marine heat wave intensity and duration	11
Habitat engineering by an apex predator generates spatial trophic dynamics across a temporal environmental stress gradient	11
Plasticity in female timing may explain earlier breeding in a North American songbird	11
Global drivers of variation in cup nest size in passerine birds	11
Modelling animal social networks: New solutions and future directions	11
Untangling the complex food webs of tropical rainforest streams	11
Enhanced thermoregulation abilities of shortfin mako sharks as the key adaptive significance of regional endothermy in fishes	11
Fluctuating salinity during development impacts fish life histories	11
Host‐associated beneficial gut microbiota boosts induced immunity and limits immune deployment costs in bumblebees	11
Hormonal plasticity to food restriction is heritable in the house sparrow, Passer domesticus	11
Personality expression is shaped by the early experienced social context in predatory mites	11
When temperature calls the shots: Pollinators' floral choices in a warming world	11
Experimental evolution of dispersal: Unifying theory, experiments and natural systems	11
Early‐life variation in migration is subject to strong fluctuating survival selection in a partially migratory bird	11
Seed predation by rodents suppresses recruitment of a bird‐dispersed tree at its upper range limit	11
Large carnivores avoid humans while prioritizing prey acquisition in anthropogenic areas	11
The ecology of gestational growth in a wild cooperative mammal	11
When should bees be flower constant? An agent‐based model highlights the importance of social information and foraging conditions	10

Experimental noise and light pollution alter prey detection in a nocturnal bird of prey	10
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Redefining ‘state‐of‐the‐art’ for integrated population models with immigration	10
Environmental drivers of global variation in home range size of terrestrial and marine mammals	10
Human land‐uses homogenize stream assemblages and reduce animal biomass production	10
Heat limits scale with metabolism in ectothermic animals	10
Mechanisms that can cause population decline under heavily skewed male‐biased adult sex ratios	10
Experimental evaluation of how biological invasions and climate change interact to alter the vertical assembly of an amphibian community	10
Polyphenism predicts actuarial senescence and lifespan in tiger salamanders	10
Rapid evolution of consumptive and non‐consumptive predator effects on prey population densities, bioenergetics and stoichiometry	10
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Do lifetime contest costs affect the evolution of assessment strategies? A meta‐analysis	10
Poison frog chemical defences are influenced by environmental availability and dietary selectivity for ants	10
Predation on sea turtles at sea: A multi‐source synthesis and research perspectives	10
Variation and correlation in the timing of breeding of North Atlantic seabirds across multiple scales	10
Species‐specific seasonal variations in thermal performance curves shape the direct and transgenerational vulnerability to marine heatwaves	10
Eco‐evolutionary dynamics of partially migratory metapopulations in spatially and seasonally varying environments	10
Identifying mechanisms underlying individual body size increases in a changing, highly seasonal environment: The growing trout of West brook	10
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Seasonal body mass dynamics mediate life‐history trade‐offs in a hibernating mammal	10
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Population connectivity patterns of genetic diversity, immune responses and exposure to infectious pneumonia in a metapopulation of desert bighorn sheep	9
Isolating the role of the matrix at patch and landscape scales	9
On the use of antibiotics in plasticity research: Gastropod shells unveil a tale of caution	9
Following the feeder: A global synthesis of disturbance‐based foraging associations of birds	9
Vegetation structure and climate shape mountain arthropod distributions across trophic levels	9
Combining in vivo and in vitro approaches to better understand host‐pathogen nutritional interactions	9
Early social isolation disrupts adult personality expression in group‐living mites	9
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Limited inbreeding avoidance at the gamete level despite inbreeding depression in Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar )	9
Timing and synchrony of migration in a freshwater fish: Consequences for survival	9
Movement phases make a difference in habitat selection: Iberian lynx diversity of responses to human‐modified landscapes	9
Fish microplastic ingestion may induce tipping points of aquatic ecosystems	9
Path analysis reveals combined winter climate and pollution effects on the survival of a marine top predator	9
Rising temperature non‐additively alters how different dimensions of biodiversity affect ecosystem‐scale processes	9
Picky eaters: Selective microbial diet of avian ectosymbionts	9
Diurnal pastoralism does not reduce juvenile recruitment nor elevate allostatic load in spotted hyenas	9
Hurricanes affect diversification among individual life courses of a primate population	9
Spatial overlap and temporal synchrony between guilds of insect hosts and parasitoids	9
Global warming affects foraging efficiency of fish by influencing mutual interference	9
Predation risk drives long‐term shifts in migratory behaviour and demography in a large herbivore population	9
Invasive goldfish trigger a regime shift in experimental lake ecosystems of varying trophic state	9
Increase in heat tolerance following a period of heat stress in a naturally occurring insect species	8
The community context of trophic cascades	8
Navigating new threats: Prey naïveté in native mammals	8
Bumble bee colony health and performance vary widely across the urban ecosystem	8
Large herbivores are linked to higher herbaceous plant diversity and functional redundancy across spatial scales	8
Out of shape: Ocean acidification simplifies coral reef architecture and reshuffles fish assemblages	8
Cyclic functional connectivity of Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) populations across North American boreal landscapes	8
Predicting organismal response to marine heatwaves using dynamic thermal tolerance landscape models	8
Leveraging camera traps and artificial intelligence to explore thermoregulation behaviour	8
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Network dynamics revealed from eDNA highlight seasonal variation in urban mammal communities	8
Ecological patterns and processes in the vertical dimension of terrestrial ecosystems	8
Counter‐strategies to infanticide: The importance of cubs in determining lion habitat selection and social interactions	8
Acoustic camouflage increases with body size and changes with bat echolocation frequency range in a community of nocturnally active Lepidoptera	8
Niche dynamics along two centuries of multiple crayfish invasions	8
Mechanisms of freshwater zoogeochemistry: A review and meta‐analysis of animal impacts on ecosystem function	8
Species interactions in the Anthropocene	8
Asian elephants are associated with a more robust mammalian community in tropical forests	8
Arrival‐breeding interval is flexible in a songbird and is not constrained by migration carry‐over effects	8
Resource manipulation reveals interactive phenotype‐dependent foraging in free‐ranging lizards	8
Increases in salinity variability harm both oysters and their predators, offsetting predicted effects on population dynamics	8
Diel activity correlates with colour pattern morphology of heterobranch sea slugs	8
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Co‐ BreeD : A milestone resource for studies on cooperative breeding	8
Resource partitioning among pelagic predators remains stable despite annual variability in diet composition	8
Subtle stressors—Strong responses. Consistent negative effects of avian blood parasites on phenotypic and demographic traits across songbirds	8
Foraging activity by an ecosystem engineer, the superb lyrebird, ‘farms’ its invertebrate prey	8
LiDAR reveals a preference for intermediate visibility by a forest‐dwelling ungulate species	8