Journal of Animal Ecology

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Maternal effect senescence and caloric restriction interact to affect fitness through changes in life history timing	43
Dryland state transitions alter trophic interactions in a predator–prey system	43
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Sociality helps mitigate anthropogenic risks: Evidence from elk crossing a major highway	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	35
The role of environmental variation in mediating fitness trade‐offs for an amphibian polyphenism	34
Long‐term climate and hydrologic regimes shape stream invertebrate community responses to a hurricane disturbance	34
Predicting primate–parasite associations using exponential random graph models	32
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	32
Plant mycorrhizal associations mediate the zoogeochemical effects of calving subsidies by a forest ungulate	31
ExMove: An open‐source toolkit for processing and exploring animal‐tracking data in R	30
Environmental conditions and male quality traits simultaneously explain variation of multiple colour signals in male lizards	29
Negative effects of forest gaps on dung removal in a full‐factorial experiment	29
Can internal range structure predict range shifts?	29
Thermal plasticity and evolution shape predator–prey interactions differently in clear and turbid water bodies	29
Genetic covariance in immune measures and pathogen resistance in decorated crickets is sex and pathogen specific	27
Within‐host and external environments differentially shape β‐diversity across parasite life stages	26
Animal tracing with sulfur isotopes: Spatial segregation and climate variability in Africa likely contribute to population trends of a migratory songbird	26
Asymmetrical predation intensity produces divergent antipredator behaviours in primary and secondary prey	26
Inferring riverscape dispersal processes from fish biodiversity patterns	26
The genetic basis and adult reproductive consequences of developmental thermal plasticity	26
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Research Highlight: Social dispersal in giraffes	25
Abundant top predators increase species interaction network complexity in northeastern Chinese forests	25
Male rock hyraxes that maintain an isochronous song rhythm achieve higher reproductive success	24
Looking at the bid picture: A framework for identifying reverse auctions in ecological systems	24
On the importance of accounting for alternative foraging tactics when assessing cognitive performance in wild animals	23
Moving towards a comprehensive view of the spatial processes in seed dispersal networks: Embracing metacommunities	23
Anomalous latitudinal gradients in parasitoid wasp diversity—Hotspots in regions with larger temperature range	23
Predicting daily activity time through ecological niche modelling and microclimatic data	23
An apex predator engineers wetland food‐web heterogeneity through nutrient enrichment and habitat modification	22
Correction to: High MHC diversity confers no advantage for phenotypic quality and reproductive performance in a wild bird	22
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Reproductive skew, fighting costs and winner–loser effects in social dominance evolution	22
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The global impact of management on soil nematode abundances	21
Coming of age in your local mating market: Just a numbers game?	21
Spatiotemporal thermal variation drives diversity trends in experimental landscapes	21
Tadpole aggregations create biogeochemical hotspots in wetland ecosystems	21
Reciprocated competition between two forest carnivores drives dietary specialization	21
Environmental effects on the genetic architecture of fitness components in a simultaneous hermaphrodite	21
Arriving late and lean at a stopover site is selected against in a declining migratory bird population	21
The importance of a holistic approach to the factors determining population abundances	21
Partitioning variance in population growth for models with environmental and demographic stochasticity	20
The observed pattern and hidden process of female reproductive trajectories across the life span in a non‐human primate	20
Environmental DNA metabarcoding reveals temporal dynamics but functional stability of arthropod communities in cattle dung	20
Energy‐based step selection analysis: Modelling the energetic drivers of animal movement and habitat use	19
Few studies of wild animal performance account for parasite infections: A systematic review	19
Integrating genetics, physiology and morphology to study desert adaptation in a lizard species	19
Can behaviour and physiology mitigate effects of warming on ectotherms? A test in urban ants	19
Fresh perspectives on the River Continuum Concept require trophic ecology approaches focussed on food web structure and energy mobilisation routes	19
Tree dissimilarity determines multi‐dimensional beta‐diversity of herbivores and carnivores via bottom‐up effects	19
Crowding after sudden habitat loss affects demography and social structure in a bat population	19
Disgust in animals and the application of disease avoidance to wildlife management and conservation	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
Dynamic balancing of risks and rewards in a large herbivore: Further extending predator–prey concepts to road ecology	18
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Sharks surf the slope: Current updrafts reduce energy expenditure for aggregating marine predators	18
Poleward shifts and altered periodicity in boreal bird irruptions over six decades	18
Aggregative responses of marine predators to a pulsed resource	18
Plant metabolites modulate social networks and lifespan in a sawfly	17
Underrepresentation of dietary‐specialist larval Lepidoptera in small forest fragments: Testing alternative mechanisms	17
A specialist predator in a food web with cyclic alternative prey: The gyrfalcon‐ptarmigan case revisited	17
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The role of diversity, body size and climate in dung removal: A correlative and experimental approach	17
Male reproductive tactics in house mice: Consistent individual differences, intrinsic factors and density effects	17
Arthropod food webs predicted from body size ratios are improved by incorporating prey defensive properties	16
Evaluating the importance of individual heterogeneity in reproduction to Weddell seal population dynamics using integral projection models	16
Species richness and evenness of European bird communities show differentiated responses to measures of productivity	16
Ontogeny of migration destination, route and timing in a partially migratory bird	16
Symmetries and asymmetries in the topological roles of piscivorous fishes between occurrence networks and food webs	16

Cranial endothermy in mobulid rays: Evolutionary and ecological implications of a thermogenic brain	15
Roadkill islands: Carnivore extinction shifts seasonal use of roadside carrion by generalist avian scavenger	15
Maintenance of biodiversity in multitrophic metacommunities: Dispersal mode matters	15
Fitness benefits of alternated chick provisioning in cooperatively breeding carrion crows	15
How does climate change impact social bees and bee sociality?	15
Integrated community models: A framework combining multispecies data sources to estimate the status, trends and dynamics of biodiversity	15
Boldness predicts plasticity in flight responses to winds	15
Host, environment, and anthropogenic factors drive landscape dynamics of an environmentally transmitted pathogen: Sarcoptic mange in the bare‐nosed wombat	15
Revealing the extent of sea otter impacts on bivalve prey through multi‐trophic monitoring and mechanistic models	15
Networking nutrients: How nutrition determines the structure of ecological networks	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
Fencing amplifies individual differences in movement with implications on survival for two migratory ungulates	14
Patrolling the border: Billfish exploit the hypoxic boundary created by the world's largest oxygen minimum zone	14
Changes in foraging mode caused by a decline in prey size have major bioenergetic consequences for a small pelagic fish	14
Cold winters drive consistent and spatially synchronous 8‐year population cycles of cabbage stem flea beetle	14
Feather mites selectively feed on specific bacteria and fungi on feathers with potential benefits to hosts	14
A model‐based hypothesis framework to define and estimate the diel niche via the ‘Diel.Niche’ R package	14
Support for the size‐mediated sensitivity hypothesis within a diverse carnivore community	14
Leaving by staying: Social dispersal in giraffes	14
Responses of the mesozooplankton community to marine heatwaves: Challenges and solutions based on a long‐term time series	14
The relative influence of history, climate, topography and vegetation structure on local animal richness varies among taxa and spatial grains	14
Interactions between fitness components across the life cycle constrain competitor coexistence	14
Do sexual differences in life strategies make male lizards more susceptible to parasite infection?	14
Revisiting niche divergence hypothesis in sexually dimorphic birds: Is diet overlap correlated with sexual size dimorphism?	14
Woodpeckers and other excavators maintain the diversity of cavity‐nesting vertebrates	14
Maximum entropy models reveal spatial variation of metabolic scaling in stream fish communities	14
Resource availability alters breeding strategies in a small mammal community	14
Standardised empirical dispersal kernels emphasise the pervasiveness of long‐distance dispersal in European birds	13
Body size mediates trophic interaction strength of novel fish assemblages under climate change	13
Spatial dynamics of pathogen transmission in communally roosting species: Impacts of changing habitats on bat‐virus dynamics	13
Seasonal strategies differ between tropical and extratropical herbivores	13
Species‐specific seasonal variations in thermal performance curves shape the direct and transgenerational vulnerability to marine heatwaves	13
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Context‐dependent fitness costs of reproduction despite stable body mass costs in an Arctic herbivore	13
Morphological trait‐matching in plant–Hymenoptera and plant–Diptera mutualisms across an elevational gradient	13
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Personality expression is shaped by the early experienced social context in predatory mites	13
Population level consequences of facultatively cooperative behaviour in a stochastic environment	13
Experimental noise and light pollution alter prey detection in a nocturnal bird of prey	12
Global drivers of variation in cup nest size in passerine birds	12
Polyphenism predicts actuarial senescence and lifespan in tiger salamanders	12
Food web trophic control modulates tropical Atlantic reef ecosystems response to marine heat wave intensity and duration	12
Large carnivores avoid humans while prioritizing prey acquisition in anthropogenic areas	12
Plasticity in female timing may explain earlier breeding in a North American songbird	12
Experimental evolution of dispersal: Unifying theory, experiments and natural systems	12
Environmental drivers of global variation in home range size of terrestrial and marine mammals	12
Modelling animal social networks: New solutions and future directions	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
Early‐life variation in migration is subject to strong fluctuating survival selection in a partially migratory bird	12
Habitat engineering by an apex predator generates spatial trophic dynamics across a temporal environmental stress gradient	12
Experimental evaluation of how biological invasions and climate change interact to alter the vertical assembly of an amphibian community	12
Variation and correlation in the timing of breeding of North Atlantic seabirds across multiple scales	12
Rapid evolution of consumptive and non‐consumptive predator effects on prey population densities, bioenergetics and stoichiometry	12
Redefining ‘state‐of‐the‐art’ for integrated population models with immigration	12
Untangling the complex food webs of tropical rainforest streams	12
Foraging networks and social tolerance in a cooperatively breeding primate (Callithrix jacchus)	12
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Diurnal pastoralism does not reduce juvenile recruitment nor elevate allostatic load in spotted hyenas	11
Mechanisms that can cause population decline under heavily skewed male‐biased adult sex ratios	11
Human land‐uses homogenize stream assemblages and reduce animal biomass production	11
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Energetic mismatch induced by warming decreases leaf litter decomposition by aquatic detritivores	11
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Population connectivity patterns of genetic diversity, immune responses and exposure to infectious pneumonia in a metapopulation of desert bighorn sheep	11
Maximization of fitness by phenological and phenotypic plasticity in range expanding rabbitfishes (Siganidae)	11
Disturbance by invasive pathogenic fungus alters arthropod predator–prey food‐webs in ash plantations	11
Risk perception and tolerance shape variation in agricultural use for a transboundary elephant population	11
When should bees be flower constant? An agent‐based model highlights the importance of social information and foraging conditions	11
Vegetation structure and climate shape mountain arthropod distributions across trophic levels	10
Timing and synchrony of migration in a freshwater fish: Consequences for survival	10
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Heat limits scale with metabolism in ectothermic animals	10
Implementing social network analysis to understand the socioecology of wildlife co‐occurrence and joint interactions with humans in anthropogenic environments	10
Early social isolation disrupts adult personality expression in group‐living mites	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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Bumble bee colony health and performance vary widely across the urban ecosystem	10
Capturing the dynamics of small populations: A retrospective assessment using long‐term data for an island reintroduction	10

Do lifetime contest costs affect the evolution of assessment strategies? A meta‐analysis	10
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Path analysis reveals combined winter climate and pollution effects on the survival of a marine top predator	9
Hurricanes affect diversification among individual life courses of a primate population	9
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Out of shape: Ocean acidification simplifies coral reef architecture and reshuffles fish assemblages	9
Competition shapes individual foraging and survival in a desert rodent ensemble	9
Global warming affects foraging efficiency of fish by influencing mutual interference	9
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Diel activity correlates with colour pattern morphology of heterobranch sea slugs	9
On the use of antibiotics in plasticity research: Gastropod shells unveil a tale of caution	9
Finding the adaptive needles in a population‐structured haystack: A case study in a New Zealand mollusc	9
Ecological patterns and processes in the vertical dimension of terrestrial ecosystems	9
Resource manipulation reveals interactive phenotype‐dependent foraging in free‐ranging lizards	9
Personality, spatiotemporal ecological variation and resident/explorer movement syndromes in the sleepy lizard	9
Inhibitory control, exploration behaviour and manipulated ecological context are associated with foraging flexibility in the great tit	9
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Fish microplastic ingestion may induce tipping points of aquatic ecosystems	9
Following the feeder: A global synthesis of disturbance‐based foraging associations of birds	9
Picky eaters: Selective microbial diet of avian ectosymbionts	9
Counter‐strategies to infanticide: The importance of cubs in determining lion habitat selection and social interactions	9
Navigating new threats: Prey naïveté in native mammals	9
Predicting organismal response to marine heatwaves using dynamic thermal tolerance landscape models	9
An Integrated Traits Resilience Assessment of Mediterranean fisheries landings	9
Resource partitioning among pelagic predators remains stable despite annual variability in diet composition	9
Combining in vivo and in vitro approaches to better understand host‐pathogen nutritional interactions	9
Foraging activity by an ecosystem engineer, the superb lyrebird, ‘farms’ its invertebrate prey	9
Predation risk drives long‐term shifts in migratory behaviour and demography in a large herbivore population	9
Intra‐population variation in reproductive timing covaries with thermal plasticity of offspring performance in perch Percafluviatilis	8
Niche dynamics along two centuries of multiple crayfish invasions	8
Nocturnal but not diurnal threats shape stopover strategy in a migrating songbird	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
Stream hydrology and a pulse subsidy shape patterns of fish foraging	8
Taylor's law on abundance unravels the role of traits and environmental conditions on population dynamics	8
Increase in heat tolerance following a period of heat stress in a naturally occurring insect species	8
LiDAR reveals a preference for intermediate visibility by a forest‐dwelling ungulate species	8
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Species interactions in the Anthropocene	8
Complex community‐wide consequences of consumer sexual dimorphism	8
Pulse disturbances in age‐structured populations: Life history predicts initial impact and recovery time	8
The relative influence of cross‐seasonal and local weather effects on the breeding success of a migratory songbird	8
Weapons or deterrents? Nudibranch molluscs use distinct ecological modes of chemical defence against predators	8
The behavioural costs of overcrowding for gregarious cave‐dwelling bats	8
Multifaceted density dependence: Social structure and seasonality effects on Serengeti lion demography	8
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Widespread shifts in bird migration phenology are decoupled from parallel shifts in morphology	8
It's a worm‐eat‐worm world: Consumption of parasite free‐living stages protects hosts and benefits predators	8
Acoustic camouflage increases with body size and changes with bat echolocation frequency range in a community of nocturnally active Lepidoptera	8
Shrinking body size under climate warming is not associated with selection for smaller individuals in a migratory bird	8
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Raising offspring increases ageing: Differences in senescence among three populations of a long‐lived seabird, the Atlantic puffin	8
Severe fire regimes decrease resilience of ectothermic populations	8
Direct and indirect effects of fire on parasites in an African savanna	8
Spatial prey availability and pulsed reproductive tactics: Encounter risk in a canid–ungulate system	8
Arrival‐breeding interval is flexible in a songbird and is not constrained by migration carry‐over effects	8
Leveraging camera traps and artificial intelligence to explore thermoregulation behaviour	8
Vegetation structure from LiDAR explains the local richness of birds across Denmark	8