Journal of Animal Ecology

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ExMove: An open‐source toolkit for processing and exploring animal‐tracking data in R	67
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	56
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Genetic covariance in immune measures and pathogen resistance in decorated crickets is sex and pathogen specific	43
Within‐host and external environments differentially shape β‐diversity across parasite life stages	42
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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	37
The genetic basis and adult reproductive consequences of developmental thermal plasticity	36
The role of environmental variation in mediating fitness trade‐offs for an amphibian polyphenism	35
Dryland state transitions alter trophic interactions in a predator–prey system	34
Maternal effect senescence and caloric restriction interact to affect fitness through changes in life history timing	32
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Predicting primate–parasite associations using exponential random graph models	30
Thermal plasticity and evolution shape predator–prey interactions differently in clear and turbid water bodies	30
Long‐term climate and hydrologic regimes shape stream invertebrate community responses to a hurricane disturbance	29
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Sociality helps mitigate anthropogenic risks: Evidence from elk crossing a major highway	28
Animal tracing with sulfur isotopes: Spatial segregation and climate variability in Africa likely contribute to population trends of a migratory songbird	27
Negative effects of forest gaps on dung removal in a full‐factorial experiment	26
Plant mycorrhizal associations mediate the zoogeochemical effects of calving subsidies by a forest ungulate	26
Can internal range structure predict range shifts?	26
Moving towards a comprehensive view of the spatial processes in seed dispersal networks: Embracing metacommunities	26
Environmental conditions and male quality traits simultaneously explain variation of multiple colour signals in male lizards	26
Research Highlight: Social dispersal in giraffes	25
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On the importance of accounting for alternative foraging tactics when assessing cognitive performance in wild animals	25
Inferring riverscape dispersal processes from fish biodiversity patterns	25
Predicting daily activity time through ecological niche modelling and microclimatic data	24
Looking at the bid picture: A framework for identifying reverse auctions in ecological systems	23
Adaptation to vector‐based transmission in a honeybee virus	23
Male rock hyraxes that maintain an isochronous song rhythm achieve higher reproductive success	23
Anomalous latitudinal gradients in parasitoid wasp diversity—Hotspots in regions with larger temperature range	23
Asymmetrical predation intensity produces divergent antipredator behaviours in primary and secondary prey	23
Abundant top predators increase species interaction network complexity in northeastern Chinese forests	22
Reproductive skew, fighting costs and winner–loser effects in social dominance evolution	22
An apex predator engineers wetland food‐web heterogeneity through nutrient enrichment and habitat modification	21
Environmental effects on the genetic architecture of fitness components in a simultaneous hermaphrodite	21
The importance of a holistic approach to the factors determining population abundances	21
Tadpole aggregations create biogeochemical hotspots in wetland ecosystems	20
The global impact of management on soil nematode abundances	20
Energy‐based step selection analysis: Modelling the energetic drivers of animal movement and habitat use	20
Sharks surf the slope: Current updrafts reduce energy expenditure for aggregating marine predators	20
Spatiotemporal thermal variation drives diversity trends in experimental landscapes	20
The observed pattern and hidden process of female reproductive trajectories across the life span in a non‐human primate	20
Maternal effects and fitness consequences of individual variation in bottlenose dolphins' ecological niche	20
Poleward shifts and altered periodicity in boreal bird irruptions over six decades	20
Three‐dimensional vegetation structure drives patterns of seed dispersal by African hornbills	19
Fresh perspectives on the River Continuum Concept require trophic ecology approaches focussed on food web structure and energy mobilisation routes	19
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Dynamic balancing of risks and rewards in a large herbivore: Further extending predator–prey concepts to road ecology	19
Coming of age in your local mating market: Just a numbers game?	19
Reciprocated competition between two forest carnivores drives dietary specialization	19
Few studies of wild animal performance account for parasite infections: A systematic review	19
Disgust in animals and the application of disease avoidance to wildlife management and conservation	19
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Environmental DNA metabarcoding reveals temporal dynamics but functional stability of arthropod communities in cattle dung	18
Crowding after sudden habitat loss affects demography and social structure in a bat population	18
Partitioning variance in population growth for models with environmental and demographic stochasticity	18
Can behaviour and physiology mitigate effects of warming on ectotherms? A test in urban ants	18
Correction to: High MHC diversity confers no advantage for phenotypic quality and reproductive performance in a wild bird	18
Tree dissimilarity determines multi‐dimensional beta‐diversity of herbivores and carnivores via bottom‐up effects	18
Arriving late and lean at a stopover site is selected against in a declining migratory bird population	18
Fitness benefits of alternated chick provisioning in cooperatively breeding carrion crows	17
Boldness predicts plasticity in flight responses to winds	17
Arthropod food webs predicted from body size ratios are improved by incorporating prey defensive properties	17
Integrating genetics, physiology and morphology to study desert adaptation in a lizard species	17
Evaluating the importance of individual heterogeneity in reproduction to Weddell seal population dynamics using integral projection models	17
Symmetries and asymmetries in the topological roles of piscivorous fishes between occurrence networks and food webs	17
Host exposure to a common pollutant can influence diversity–disease relationships	17
The role of diversity, body size and climate in dung removal: A correlative and experimental approach	17
Revealing the extent of sea otter impacts on bivalve prey through multi‐trophic monitoring and mechanistic models	17
How does climate change impact social bees and bee sociality?	16
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Plant metabolites modulate social networks and lifespan in a sawfly	16

Aggregative responses of marine predators to a pulsed resource	16
Underrepresentation of dietary‐specialist larval Lepidoptera in small forest fragments: Testing alternative mechanisms	15
Integrated community models: A framework combining multispecies data sources to estimate the status, trends and dynamics of biodiversity	15
Host, environment, and anthropogenic factors drive landscape dynamics of an environmentally transmitted pathogen: Sarcoptic mange in the bare‐nosed wombat	15
Roadkill islands: Carnivore extinction shifts seasonal use of roadside carrion by generalist avian scavenger	15
Networking nutrients: How nutrition determines the structure of ecological networks	15
Maintenance of biodiversity in multitrophic metacommunities: Dispersal mode matters	15
Species richness and evenness of European bird communities show differentiated responses to measures of productivity	15
Fencing amplifies individual differences in movement with implications on survival for two migratory ungulates	15
Ontogeny of migration destination, route and timing in a partially migratory bird	15
Male reproductive tactics in house mice: Consistent individual differences, intrinsic factors and density effects	15
Cranial endothermy in mobulid rays: Evolutionary and ecological implications of a thermogenic brain	15
Effects of local density dependence and temperature on the spatial synchrony of marine fish populations	15
Inbreeding accelerates reproductive senescence, but not survival senescence, in a precocial bird	14
Leaving by staying: Social dispersal in giraffes	14
Maximum entropy models reveal spatial variation of metabolic scaling in stream fish communities	14
Do sexual differences in life strategies make male lizards more susceptible to parasite infection?	14
Support for the size‐mediated sensitivity hypothesis within a diverse carnivore community	14
Standardised empirical dispersal kernels emphasise the pervasiveness of long‐distance dispersal in European birds	14
Resource availability alters breeding strategies in a small mammal community	14
Patrolling the border: Billfish exploit the hypoxic boundary created by the world's largest oxygen minimum zone	14
The relative influence of history, climate, topography and vegetation structure on local animal richness varies among taxa and spatial grains	14
Revisiting niche divergence hypothesis in sexually dimorphic birds: Is diet overlap correlated with sexual size dimorphism?	14
Responses of the mesozooplankton community to marine heatwaves: Challenges and solutions based on a long‐term time series	14
A model‐based hypothesis framework to define and estimate the diel niche via the ‘Diel.Niche’ R package	13
Interactions between fitness components across the life cycle constrain competitor coexistence	13
Experimental evolution of dispersal: Unifying theory, experiments and natural systems	13
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Rapid evolution of consumptive and non‐consumptive predator effects on prey population densities, bioenergetics and stoichiometry	13
Woodpeckers and other excavators maintain the diversity of cavity‐nesting vertebrates	13
Feather mites selectively feed on specific bacteria and fungi on feathers with potential benefits to hosts	13
Modelling animal social networks: New solutions and future directions	13
Polyphenism predicts actuarial senescence and lifespan in tiger salamanders	13
Species‐specific seasonal variations in thermal performance curves shape the direct and transgenerational vulnerability to marine heatwaves	13
Changes in foraging mode caused by a decline in prey size have major bioenergetic consequences for a small pelagic fish	13
Cold winters drive consistent and spatially synchronous 8‐year population cycles of cabbage stem flea beetle	13
Early‐life variation in migration is subject to strong fluctuating survival selection in a partially migratory bird	13
Body size mediates trophic interaction strength of novel fish assemblages under climate change	13
Personality expression is shaped by the early experienced social context in predatory mites	12
Context‐dependent fitness costs of reproduction despite stable body mass costs in an Arctic herbivore	12
Habitat engineering by an apex predator generates spatial trophic dynamics across a temporal environmental stress gradient	12
Foraging networks and social tolerance in a cooperatively breeding primate (Callithrix jacchus)	12
Redefining ‘state‐of‐the‐art’ for integrated population models with immigration	12
Food web trophic control modulates tropical Atlantic reef ecosystems response to marine heat wave intensity and duration	12
Seasonal strategies differ between tropical and extratropical herbivores	12
Environmental drivers of global variation in home range size of terrestrial and marine mammals	12
Global drivers of variation in cup nest size in passerine birds	12
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
Variation and correlation in the timing of breeding of North Atlantic seabirds across multiple scales	12
Plasticity in female timing may explain earlier breeding in a North American songbird	12
Experimental evaluation of how biological invasions and climate change interact to alter the vertical assembly of an amphibian community	12
Large carnivores avoid humans while prioritizing prey acquisition in anthropogenic areas	12
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Spatial dynamics of pathogen transmission in communally roosting species: Impacts of changing habitats on bat‐virus dynamics	11
Mammalian herbivore movement into drought refugia has cascading effects on savanna insect communities	11
Population connectivity patterns of genetic diversity, immune responses and exposure to infectious pneumonia in a metapopulation of desert bighorn sheep	11
Risk perception and tolerance shape variation in agricultural use for a transboundary elephant population	11
Disturbance by invasive pathogenic fungus alters arthropod predator–prey food‐webs in ash plantations	11
Identifying mechanisms underlying individual body size increases in a changing, highly seasonal environment: The growing trout of West brook	11
Untangling the complex food webs of tropical rainforest streams	11
Mechanisms that can cause population decline under heavily skewed male‐biased adult sex ratios	11
Energetic mismatch induced by warming decreases leaf litter decomposition by aquatic detritivores	11
Diurnal pastoralism does not reduce juvenile recruitment nor elevate allostatic load in spotted hyenas	11
When should bees be flower constant? An agent‐based model highlights the importance of social information and foraging conditions	11
Morphological trait‐matching in plant–Hymenoptera and plant–Diptera mutualisms across an elevational gradient	11
Maximization of fitness by phenological and phenotypic plasticity in range expanding rabbitfishes (Siganidae)	11
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Human land‐uses homogenize stream assemblages and reduce animal biomass production	11
Timing and synchrony of migration in a freshwater fish: Consequences for survival	11
Hurricanes affect diversification among individual life courses of a primate population	10
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Following the feeder: A global synthesis of disturbance‐based foraging associations of birds	10
Finding the adaptive needles in a population‐structured haystack: A case study in a New Zealand mollusc	10
On the use of antibiotics in plasticity research: Gastropod shells unveil a tale of caution	10
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Global warming affects foraging efficiency of fish by influencing mutual interference	10

Predation risk drives long‐term shifts in migratory behaviour and demography in a large herbivore population	10
Capturing the dynamics of small populations: A retrospective assessment using long‐term data for an island reintroduction	10
Early social isolation disrupts adult personality expression in group‐living mites	9
Diel activity correlates with colour pattern morphology of heterobranch sea slugs	9
Personality, spatiotemporal ecological variation and resident/explorer movement syndromes in the sleepy lizard	9
Fish microplastic ingestion may induce tipping points of aquatic ecosystems	9
Acoustic camouflage increases with body size and changes with bat echolocation frequency range in a community of nocturnally active Lepidoptera	9
An Integrated Traits Resilience Assessment of Mediterranean fisheries landings	9
Complex community‐wide consequences of consumer sexual dimorphism	9
Vegetation structure and climate shape mountain arthropod distributions across trophic levels	9
Path analysis reveals combined winter climate and pollution effects on the survival of a marine top predator	9
Combining in vivo and in vitro approaches to better understand host‐pathogen nutritional interactions	9
Ecological patterns and processes in the vertical dimension of terrestrial ecosystems	9
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Navigating new threats: Prey naïveté in native mammals	9
Counter‐strategies to infanticide: The importance of cubs in determining lion habitat selection and social interactions	9
Implementing social network analysis to understand the socioecology of wildlife co‐occurrence and joint interactions with humans in anthropogenic environments	9
Picky eaters: Selective microbial diet of avian ectosymbionts	9
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Bumble bee colony health and performance vary widely across the urban ecosystem	9
Increase in heat tolerance following a period of heat stress in a naturally occurring insect species	9
Leveraging camera traps and artificial intelligence to explore thermoregulation behaviour	9
Foraging activity by an ecosystem engineer, the superb lyrebird, ‘farms’ its invertebrate prey	9
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Resource partitioning among pelagic predators remains stable despite annual variability in diet composition	8
Competition shapes individual foraging and survival in a desert rodent ensemble	8
It's a worm‐eat‐worm world: Consumption of parasite free‐living stages protects hosts and benefits predators	8
Species interactions in the Anthropocene	8
Arrival‐breeding interval is flexible in a songbird and is not constrained by migration carry‐over effects	8
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The behavioural costs of overcrowding for gregarious cave‐dwelling bats	8
Shrinking body size under climate warming is not associated with selection for smaller individuals in a migratory bird	8
The relative influence of cross‐seasonal and local weather effects on the breeding success of a migratory songbird	8
Direct and indirect effects of fire on parasites in an African savanna	8
Predicting organismal response to marine heatwaves using dynamic thermal tolerance landscape models	8
Widespread shifts in bird migration phenology are decoupled from parallel shifts in morphology	8
Niche dynamics along two centuries of multiple crayfish invasions	8
Vegetation structure from LiDAR explains the local richness of birds across Denmark	8
LiDAR reveals a preference for intermediate visibility by a forest‐dwelling ungulate species	8
Raising offspring increases ageing: Differences in senescence among three populations of a long‐lived seabird, the Atlantic puffin	8
How to scale up from animal movement decisions to spatiotemporal patterns: An approach via step selection	8
Life span, growth, senescence and island syndrome: Accounting for imperfect detection and continuous growth	8
Spatial prey availability and pulsed reproductive tactics: Encounter risk in a canid–ungulate system	8
Intra‐population variation in reproductive timing covaries with thermal plasticity of offspring performance in perch Percafluviatilis	8
Inhibitory control, exploration behaviour and manipulated ecological context are associated with foraging flexibility in the great tit	8
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Resource manipulation reveals interactive phenotype‐dependent foraging in free‐ranging lizards	8
Out of shape: Ocean acidification simplifies coral reef architecture and reshuffles fish assemblages	8
Severe fire regimes decrease resilience of ectothermic populations	8
Pulse disturbances in age‐structured populations: Life history predicts initial impact and recovery time	8
Weapons or deterrents? Nudibranch molluscs use distinct ecological modes of chemical defence against predators	8
Recovery of reef shark populations invokes anti‐predator behaviours in mesopredatory reef fishes on a coral reef	7
Quantifying predator functional responses under field conditions reveals interactive effects of temperature and interference with sex and stage	7
It's time to go—Drivers and plasticity of migration phenology in a short‐distance migratory ungulate	7
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Spatial scaling of gregarious host populations and nonlinearities in infectious disease transmission	7
Migration and tolerance shape host behaviour and response to parasite infection	7
Unravelling the complexities of biotic homogenization and heterogenization in the British avifauna	7
Selective disappearance based on navigational efficiency in a long‐lived seabird	7
The effects of warming on loggerhead turtle nesting counts	7
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Interpreting past trophic ecology of a threatened alpine parrot, keaNestor notabilis, from museum specimens	7
Multifaceted density dependence: Social structure and seasonality effects on Serengeti lion demography	7
Individual quality overwrites carry‐over effects across the annual cycle of a long‐distance migrant	7
Stream hydrology and a pulse subsidy shape patterns of fish foraging	7
High species turnover and unique plant–pollinator interactions make a hyperdiverse mountain	7
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Temporal niche dynamics of spreading native invertebrates underlie doubling of richness in pristine temperate streams	7
Genomic reaction norms inform predictions of plastic and adaptive responses to climate change	7
Predators like it hot: Thermal mismatch in a predator–prey system across an elevational tropical gradient	7
Harnessing the power of multi‐omics data for predicting climate change response	7
Food‐safety trade‐offs drive dynamic behavioural antipredator responses among snowshoe hares	7
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Taylor's law on abundance unravels the role of traits and environmental conditions on population dynamics	7
Correction to: Resource partitioning in a novel herbivore assemblage in South America	7
Understanding and predicting animal movements and distributions in the Anthropocene	7