Journal of Animal Ecology

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Maternal effect senescence and caloric restriction interact to affect fitness through changes in life history timing	53
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Predicting primate–parasite associations using exponential random graph models	39
Long‐term climate and hydrologic regimes shape stream invertebrate community responses to a hurricane disturbance	39
Thermal plasticity and evolution shape predator–prey interactions differently in clear and turbid water bodies	39
Environmental conditions and male quality traits simultaneously explain variation of multiple colour signals in male lizards	37
Sociality helps mitigate anthropogenic risks: Evidence from elk crossing a major highway	36
Animal tracing with sulfur isotopes: Spatial segregation and climate variability in Africa likely contribute to population trends of a migratory songbird	32
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	32
Can internal range structure predict range shifts?	29
Within‐host and external environments differentially shape β‐diversity across parasite life stages	28
Genetic covariance in immune measures and pathogen resistance in decorated crickets is sex and pathogen specific	28
Dryland state transitions alter trophic interactions in a predator–prey system	28
Plant mycorrhizal associations mediate the zoogeochemical effects of calving subsidies by a forest ungulate	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
The role of environmental variation in mediating fitness trade‐offs for an amphibian polyphenism	27
Temporal niche partitioning: Mechanism of coexistence or competitive exclusion via priority effects?	26
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Negative effects of forest gaps on dung removal in a full‐factorial experiment	25
ExMove: An open‐source toolkit for processing and exploring animal‐tracking data in R	25
The genetic basis and adult reproductive consequences of developmental thermal plasticity	25
Asymmetrical predation intensity produces divergent antipredator behaviours in primary and secondary prey	24

Inferring riverscape dispersal processes from fish biodiversity patterns	24
Moving towards a comprehensive view of the spatial processes in seed dispersal networks: Embracing metacommunities	24
Predicting daily activity time through ecological niche modelling and microclimatic data	24
Reproductive skew, fighting costs and winner–loser effects in social dominance evolution	24
Research Highlight: Social dispersal in giraffes	23
Across the edge: Spatial segregation drives community structure in tri‐trophic multilayer networks at a forest–grassland edge	23
Looking at the bid picture: A framework for identifying reverse auctions in ecological systems	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
An apex predator engineers wetland food‐web heterogeneity through nutrient enrichment and habitat modification	23
Predator activity, proactive anti‐predator strategies and nesting phenology produce a dynamic landscape of risk to tundra goose reproduction	22
The observed pattern and hidden process of female reproductive trajectories across the life span in a non‐human primate	22
On the importance of accounting for alternative foraging tactics when assessing cognitive performance in wild animals	22
Effects of competition and predation risk from a life history intraguild predator on individual specialisation	22
Abundant top predators increase species interaction network complexity in northeastern Chinese forests	22
Partitioning variance in population growth for models with environmental and demographic stochasticity	22
Correction to: High MHC diversity confers no advantage for phenotypic quality and reproductive performance in a wild bird	21
Crowding after sudden habitat loss affects demography and social structure in a bat population	21
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Environmental effects on the genetic architecture of fitness components in a simultaneous hermaphrodite	21
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Coming of age in your local mating market: Just a numbers game?	20
Environmental DNA metabarcoding reveals temporal dynamics but functional stability of arthropod communities in cattle dung	20
The importance of a holistic approach to the factors determining population abundances	20
Arriving late and lean at a stopover site is selected against in a declining migratory bird population	20
Tadpole aggregations create biogeochemical hotspots in wetland ecosystems	20
Spatiotemporal thermal variation drives diversity trends in experimental landscapes	20
The global impact of management on soil nematode abundances	20
Reciprocated competition between two forest carnivores drives dietary specialization	19
Poleward shifts and altered periodicity in boreal bird irruptions over six decades	19
An experimental test of the importance of isolated trees for frog diversity in tropical landscapes	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	18
Three‐dimensional vegetation structure drives patterns of seed dispersal by African hornbills	18
Can behaviour and physiology mitigate effects of warming on ectotherms? A test in urban ants	18
Long‐term population dynamics of western tent caterpillars: History, trends and causes of cycles	18
Energy‐based step selection analysis: Modelling the energetic drivers of animal movement and habitat use	18
Few studies of wild animal performance account for parasite infections: A systematic review	17
Disgust in animals and the application of disease avoidance to wildlife management and conservation	17
Dynamic balancing of risks and rewards in a large herbivore: Further extending predator–prey concepts to road ecology	17
Host exposure to a common pollutant can influence diversity–disease relationships	16
Evaluating the importance of individual heterogeneity in reproduction to Weddell seal population dynamics using integral projection models	16
A specialist predator in a food web with cyclic alternative prey: The gyrfalcon‐ptarmigan case revisited	16
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Aggregative responses of marine predators to a pulsed resource	16
Male reproductive tactics in house mice: Consistent individual differences, intrinsic factors and density effects	16
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Underrepresentation of dietary‐specialist larval Lepidoptera in small forest fragments: Testing alternative mechanisms	16
Fencing amplifies individual differences in movement with implications on survival for two migratory ungulates	16
Revealing the extent of sea otter impacts on bivalve prey through multi‐trophic monitoring and mechanistic models	15

Arthropod food webs predicted from body size ratios are improved by incorporating prey defensive properties	15
Host, environment, and anthropogenic factors drive landscape dynamics of an environmentally transmitted pathogen: Sarcoptic mange in the bare‐nosed wombat	15
How does climate change impact social bees and bee sociality?	15
Fitness benefits of alternated chick provisioning in cooperatively breeding carrion crows	15
Integrated community models: A framework combining multispecies data sources to estimate the status, trends and dynamics of biodiversity	15
Effects of local density dependence and temperature on the spatial synchrony of marine fish populations	15
Species richness and evenness of European bird communities show differentiated responses to measures of productivity	15
Plant metabolites modulate social networks and lifespan in a sawfly	15
Networking nutrients: How nutrition determines the structure of ecological networks	15
Ontogeny of migration destination, route and timing in a partially migratory bird	15
Cranial endothermy in mobulid rays: Evolutionary and ecological implications of a thermogenic brain	15
Boldness predicts plasticity in flight responses to winds	15
Symmetries and asymmetries in the topological roles of piscivorous fishes between occurrence networks and food webs	14
Ongoing collapse of avifauna in temperate oceanic islands close to the mainland in the Anthropocene	14
Cold winters drive consistent and spatially synchronous 8‐year population cycles of cabbage stem flea beetle	14
The relative influence of history, climate, topography and vegetation structure on local animal richness varies among taxa and spatial grains	14
Maintenance of biodiversity in multitrophic metacommunities: Dispersal mode matters	14
Woodpeckers and other excavators maintain the diversity of cavity‐nesting vertebrates	14
The gut microbiome shapes latitudinal differences in host immunity and pathogen load in a damselfly	14
The role of diversity, body size and climate in dung removal: A correlative and experimental approach	14
Inbreeding accelerates reproductive senescence, but not survival senescence, in a precocial bird	14
Support for the size‐mediated sensitivity hypothesis within a diverse carnivore community	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
Maximum entropy models reveal spatial variation of metabolic scaling in stream fish communities	13
Patrolling the border: Billfish exploit the hypoxic boundary created by the world's largest oxygen minimum zone	13
Do sexual differences in life strategies make male lizards more susceptible to parasite infection?	13
Interactions between fitness components across the life cycle constrain competitor coexistence	13
Standardised empirical dispersal kernels emphasise the pervasiveness of long‐distance dispersal in European birds	13
Feather mites selectively feed on specific bacteria and fungi on feathers with potential benefits to hosts	13
Revisiting niche divergence hypothesis in sexually dimorphic birds: Is diet overlap correlated with sexual size dimorphism?	13
Leaving by staying: Social dispersal in giraffes	13
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Variation and correlation in the timing of breeding of North Atlantic seabirds across multiple scales	12
Seed predation by rodents suppresses recruitment of a bird‐dispersed tree at its upper range limit	12
Modelling animal social networks: New solutions and future directions	12
Resource availability alters breeding strategies in a small mammal community	12
Personality expression is shaped by the early experienced social context in predatory mites	12
Population level consequences of facultatively cooperative behaviour in a stochastic environment	12
Maximization of fitness by phenological and phenotypic plasticity in range expanding rabbitfishes (Siganidae)	12
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Experimental evolution of dispersal: Unifying theory, experiments and natural systems	12
Habitat engineering by an apex predator generates spatial trophic dynamics across a temporal environmental stress gradient	12
Rapid evolution of consumptive and non‐consumptive predator effects on prey population densities, bioenergetics and stoichiometry	12
Context‐dependent fitness costs of reproduction despite stable body mass costs in an Arctic herbivore	11
Polyphenism predicts actuarial senescence and lifespan in tiger salamanders	11
Body size mediates trophic interaction strength of novel fish assemblages under climate change	11
Food web trophic control modulates tropical Atlantic reef ecosystems response to marine heat wave intensity and duration	11
Fluctuating salinity during development impacts fish life histories	11
Experimental evaluation of how biological invasions and climate change interact to alter the vertical assembly of an amphibian community	11
Plasticity in female timing may explain earlier breeding in a North American songbird	11
Morphological trait‐matching in plant–Hymenoptera and plant–Diptera mutualisms across an elevational gradient	11
Foraging networks and social tolerance in a cooperatively breeding primate (Callithrix jacchus)	11
Species‐specific seasonal variations in thermal performance curves shape the direct and transgenerational vulnerability to marine heatwaves	11
Early‐life variation in migration is subject to strong fluctuating survival selection in a partially migratory bird	11
Redefining ‘state‐of‐the‐art’ for integrated population models with immigration	11
Experimental noise and light pollution alter prey detection in a nocturnal bird of prey	11
Seasonal strategies differ between tropical and extratropical herbivores	11
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Global drivers of variation in cup nest size in passerine birds	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
Large carnivores avoid humans while prioritizing prey acquisition in anthropogenic areas	11
Untangling the complex food webs of tropical rainforest streams	11
Human land‐uses homogenize stream assemblages and reduce animal biomass production	10
Do lifetime contest costs affect the evolution of assessment strategies? A meta‐analysis	10
Enhanced thermoregulation abilities of shortfin mako sharks as the key adaptive significance of regional endothermy in fishes	10
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Risk perception and tolerance shape variation in agricultural use for a transboundary elephant population	10
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Environmental drivers of global variation in home range size of terrestrial and marine mammals	10
Heat limits scale with metabolism in ectothermic animals	10
Capturing the dynamics of small populations: A retrospective assessment using long‐term data for an island reintroduction	10
Diurnal pastoralism does not reduce juvenile recruitment nor elevate allostatic load in spotted hyenas	10
Mechanisms that can cause population decline under heavily skewed male‐biased adult sex ratios	10
When should bees be flower constant? An agent‐based model highlights the importance of social information and foraging conditions	10
Identifying mechanisms underlying individual body size increases in a changing, highly seasonal environment: The growing trout of West brook	10
Early‐growth trajectories affect juvenile survival, age at first reproduction and lifetime fitness in a long‐lived seabird, the little penguin	10

Population connectivity patterns of genetic diversity, immune responses and exposure to infectious pneumonia in a metapopulation of desert bighorn sheep	10
Energetic mismatch induced by warming decreases leaf litter decomposition by aquatic detritivores	10
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Combining in vivo and in vitro approaches to better understand host‐pathogen nutritional interactions	9
Bumble bee colony health and performance vary widely across the urban ecosystem	9
Hurricanes affect diversification among individual life courses of a primate population	9
On the use of antibiotics in plasticity research: Gastropod shells unveil a tale of caution	9
Movement phases make a difference in habitat selection: Iberian lynx diversity of responses to human‐modified landscapes	9
Resource manipulation reveals interactive phenotype‐dependent foraging in free‐ranging lizards	9
Implementing social network analysis to understand the socioecology of wildlife co‐occurrence and joint interactions with humans in anthropogenic environments	9
It's a worm‐eat‐worm world: Consumption of parasite free‐living stages protects hosts and benefits predators	9
Global warming affects foraging efficiency of fish by influencing mutual interference	9
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
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Finding the adaptive needles in a population‐structured haystack: A case study in a New Zealand mollusc	9
Early social isolation disrupts adult personality expression in group‐living mites	9
Increase in heat tolerance following a period of heat stress in a naturally occurring insect species	9
Vegetation structure and climate shape mountain arthropod distributions across trophic levels	9
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Path analysis reveals combined winter climate and pollution effects on the survival of a marine top predator	9
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Timing and synchrony of migration in a freshwater fish: Consequences for survival	9
Picky eaters: Selective microbial diet of avian ectosymbionts	9
Isolating the role of the matrix at patch and landscape scales	9
Ecological patterns and processes in the vertical dimension of terrestrial ecosystems	9
Counter‐strategies to infanticide: The importance of cubs in determining lion habitat selection and social interactions	9
Complex community‐wide consequences of consumer sexual dimorphism	9
Personality, spatiotemporal ecological variation and resident/explorer movement syndromes in the sleepy lizard	9
Navigating new threats: Prey naïveté in native mammals	9
Predation risk drives long‐term shifts in migratory behaviour and demography in a large herbivore population	9
Diel activity correlates with colour pattern morphology of heterobranch sea slugs	9
Predicting organismal response to marine heatwaves using dynamic thermal tolerance landscape models	8
Species interactions in the Anthropocene	8
Acoustic camouflage increases with body size and changes with bat echolocation frequency range in a community of nocturnally active Lepidoptera	8
Spatial prey availability and pulsed reproductive tactics: Encounter risk in a canid–ungulate system	8
Multifaceted density dependence: Social structure and seasonality effects on Serengeti lion demography	8
Niche dynamics along two centuries of multiple crayfish invasions	8
Hybridisation primes population invasiveness under environmental change	8
Weapons or deterrents? Nudibranch molluscs use distinct ecological modes of chemical defence against predators	8
Subtle stressors—Strong responses. Consistent negative effects of avian blood parasites on phenotypic and demographic traits across songbirds	8
Resource partitioning among pelagic predators remains stable despite annual variability in diet composition	8
The community context of trophic cascades	8
Network dynamics revealed from eDNA highlight seasonal variation in urban mammal communities	8
Vegetation structure from LiDAR explains the local richness of birds across Denmark	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
How to scale up from animal movement decisions to spatiotemporal patterns: An approach via step selection	8
Stream hydrology and a pulse subsidy shape patterns of fish foraging	8
Shrinking body size under climate warming is not associated with selection for smaller individuals in a migratory bird	8
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Leveraging camera traps and artificial intelligence to explore thermoregulation behaviour	8
Competition shapes individual foraging and survival in a desert rodent ensemble	8
Cyclic functional connectivity of Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) populations across North American boreal landscapes	8
Out of shape: Ocean acidification simplifies coral reef architecture and reshuffles fish assemblages	8
LiDAR reveals a preference for intermediate visibility by a forest‐dwelling ungulate species	8
Life span, growth, senescence and island syndrome: Accounting for imperfect detection and continuous growth	8
Taylor's law on abundance unravels the role of traits and environmental conditions on population dynamics	8
Severe fire regimes decrease resilience of ectothermic populations	8
Nocturnal but not diurnal threats shape stopover strategy in a migrating songbird	8
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Foraging activity by an ecosystem engineer, the superb lyrebird, ‘farms’ its invertebrate prey	8
Asian elephants are associated with a more robust mammalian community in tropical forests	8
Inhibitory control, exploration behaviour and manipulated ecological context are associated with foraging flexibility in the great tit	8