Journal of Animal Ecology

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Variation in local population size predicts social network structure in wild songbirds	53
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Pregnancy reduces concurrent pup care behaviour in meerkats, generating differences between dominant and subordinate females	45
Evolution of ontogenetic niches promotes species coexistence in a surprising way	41
Reproductive senescence and mating tactic interact and conflict to drive reproductive success in a passerine	40
Diurnal pastoralism does not reduce juvenile recruitment nor elevate allostatic load in spotted hyenas	39
Global patterns in bumble bee pollen collection show phylogenetic conservation of diet	37
The genetic basis and adult reproductive consequences of developmental thermal plasticity	34
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Variation in diversity–function relationships can be explained by species interactions	29
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Variation in body size drives spatial and temporal variation in lobster–urchin interaction strength	29
Male song stability shows cross‐year repeatability but does not affect reproductive success in a wild passerine bird	27
Behavioural adjustments in the social associations of a precocial shorebird mediate the costs and benefits of grouping decisions	26
Why are ‘suboptimal’ temperatures preferred in a tropical intertidal ectotherm?	25
Age‐dependent timing and routes demonstrate developmental plasticity in a long‐distance migratory bird	24
Expanding network ecology in freshwater ecosystems	24
Predicting primate–parasite associations using exponential random graph models	24
Population connectivity patterns of genetic diversity, immune responses and exposure to infectious pneumonia in a metapopulation of desert bighorn sheep	24
Within‐host and external environments differentially shape β‐diversity across parasite life stages	24
Thermoregulatory costs of the innate immune response are modulated by winter food availability in a small passerine	23
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A novel trophic cascade between cougars and feral donkeys shapes desert wetlands	23
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Negative effects of forest gaps on dung removal in a full‐factorial experiment	23
Mammalian herbivore movement into drought refugia has cascading effects on savanna insect communities	22
Can niche plasticity mediate species persistence under ocean acidification?	22
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Regime shifts in a shallow lake over 12 years: Consequences for taxonomic and functional diversities, and ecosystem multifunctionality	22
Migration tactics and connectivity of a Nearctic–Neotropical migratory shorebird	21
Community science reveals links between migration arrival timing advance, migration distance and wing shape	21
Lab cognition going wild: Implementing a new portable touchscreen system in vervet monkeys	21
A hierarchical model for jointly assessing ecological and anthropogenic impacts on animal demography	21
Plant–hummingbird pollination networks exhibit limited rewiring after experimental removal of a locally abundant plant species	20
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	20
Signatures of increasing environmental stress in bumblebee wings over the past century: Insights from museum specimens	20
Movement diversity and partial sympatry of coastal and Northeast Arctic cod ecotypes at high latitudes	19
Does the evolution of ontogenetic niche shifts favour species coexistence? An empirical test in Trinidadian streams	19
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Climate‐associated variation in the drivers of benthic macroinvertebrate species–area relationships across shallow freshwater lakes	19
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Disentangling direct and indirect effects of extreme events on coastal wetland communities	19
The role of environmental variation in mediating fitness trade‐offs for an amphibian polyphenism	19
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Linking physiology and climate to infer species distributions in Australian skinks	18
Widespread amphibian Perkinsea infections associated with Ranidae hosts, cooler months and Ranavirus co‐infection	18
Mechanisms that can cause population decline under heavily skewed male‐biased adult sex ratios	18
Spatial structure and dispersal dynamics in a house sparrow metapopulation	17
A test of the loose‐equilibrium concept with long‐lived organisms: Evaluating temporal change in freshwater mussel assemblages	17
Ecological sexual dimorphism is modulated by the spatial scale of intersexual resource competition	17
Disturbance by invasive pathogenic fungus alters arthropod predator–prey food‐webs in ash plantations	17
Understanding the connectivity of ecosystems in the Anthropocene	17
Synzootics	17
Immunosenescence in the wild? A longitudinal study in a long‐lived seabird	17
Interactive effects of wildfires, season and predator activity shape mule deer movements	17
Maternal effect senescence and caloric restriction interact to affect fitness through changes in life history timing	16
Erosion of behavioural plasticity and pace‐of‐life shifts under multigenerational pharmaceutical pollution	16
Dynamic fine‐tuning of anti‐predator behaviour in snowshoe hares illustrates the context dependence of risk effects	16
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The expensive son hypothesis	16
Winter survival of a small predator is determined by the amount of food in hoards	15
Molecular mechanisms of self‐regulation in multiannual rodent populations: Experimental test of an updated hypothesis	15
Long‐term climate and hydrologic regimes shape stream invertebrate community responses to a hurricane disturbance	15
Forest disturbance increases functional diversity but decreases phylogenetic diversity of an arboreal tropical ant community	15
MacaqueNet: Advancing comparative behavioural research through large‐scale collaboration	15
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	15
ExMove: An open‐source toolkit for processing and exploring animal‐tracking data in R	15
Predicting missing links in global host–parasite networks	15
Risk perception and tolerance shape variation in agricultural use for a transboundary elephant population	15
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Ecology explains anhydrobiotic performance across tardigrades, but the shared evolutionary history matters more	15
Natural enemies have inconsistent impacts on the coexistence of competing species	14
Sex‐specific variation in thermal sensitivity has multiple negative effects on reproductive trait performance	14
Eyespot peek‐a‐boo: Leaf rolls enhance the antipredator effect of insect eyespots	14
Cognition and covariance in the producer–scrounger game	14
Genetic covariance in immune measures and pathogen resistance in decorated crickets is sex and pathogen specific	14
Intraspecific variation in group structure arises due to environmentally‐mediated directional dispersal in a cooperative breeder	14
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Geographic variations in eco‐evolutionary factors governing urban birds: The case of university campuses in China	14
Management effects on soil nematode abundance differ among functional groups and land‐use types at a global scale	14
Sociality helps mitigate anthropogenic risks: Evidence from elk crossing a major highway	14
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Host space, not energy or symbiont size, constrains feather mite abundance across passerine bird species	14
Genomic signatures of thermal adaptation are associated with clinal shifts of life history in a broadly distributed frog	13
Thermal plasticity and evolution shape predator–prey interactions differently in clear and turbid water bodies	13
Additive partitioning of multispecies distributional aggregation of local assemblages	13
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The evolution of carotenoid‐based plumage colours in passerine birds	13
Optimal stopover model: A state‐dependent habitat selection model for staging passerines	13
No evidence that seasonal changes in large‐scale environmental conditions drive migration in seabirds	13
Interaction fidelity is less common than expected in plant–pollinator communities	13
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Can internal range structure predict range shifts?	13
Declines in freshwater mussel density, size and productivity in the River Thames over the past half century	13
Approaches and methods to study wildlife cancer	13
Atlantic cod individual spatial behaviour and stable isotope associations in a no‐take marine reserve	13
Land‐use change in the past 40 years explains shifts in arthropod community traits	13
Energetic mismatch induced by warming decreases leaf litter decomposition by aquatic detritivores	13
Identifying mechanisms underlying individual body size increases in a changing, highly seasonal environment: The growing trout of West brook	13
Habitat detection, habitat choice copying or mating benefits: What drives conspecific attraction in a nomadic songbird?	13
Simple metrics to characterize inter‐individual and temporal variation in habitat selection behaviour	13
When should bees be flower constant? An agent‐based model highlights the importance of social information and foraging conditions	12
Facilitation strength across environmental and beneficiary trait gradients in stream communities	12
Dryland state transitions alter trophic interactions in a predator–prey system	12
Manipulating actions: A selective two‐option device for cognitive experiments in wild animals	12
Anchoring grassland sustainability with a nature‐based small burrowing mammal control strategy	12
Threading the needle: How humans influence predator–prey spatiotemporal interactions in a multiple‐predator system	12
Conceptualising ecology to support more theory‐driven research	12
Plant mycorrhizal associations mediate the zoogeochemical effects of calving subsidies by a forest ungulate	12
Human land‐uses homogenize stream assemblages and reduce animal biomass production	12
Prey responses to direct and indirect predation risk cues reveal the importance of multiple information sources	12
No evidence of early life resource pulse effects on age‐specific variation in survival, reproduction and body mass of female Siberian flying squirrels	11
Seasonally variable thermal performance curves prevent adverse effects of heatwaves	11
Six decades of North American bird banding records reveal plasticity in migration phenology	11
Environmental conditions and male quality traits simultaneously explain variation of multiple colour signals in male lizards	11
Cumulative and interannual effects of reproduction in eastern grey kangaroos	11
Investigating the role of non‐helpers in group living thrips	11
Eiders, nutrients and eagles: Bottom‐up and top‐down population dynamics in a marine bird	11
A meta‐analysis reveals that dragonflies and damselflies can provide effective biological control of mosquitoes	11
Intraguild processes drive space‐use patterns in a large‐bodied marine predator community	11
Individual repeatability of avian migration phenology: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	11
Temporal variability in host availability alters the outcome of competition between two parasitoid species	11
30 years of terrestrial insect richness patterns across elevation: What have we learned? A global meta‐analysis	11
Do human infrastructures shape nest distribution in the landscape depending on individual personality in a farmland bird of prey?	11
A keystone mutualism promotes resistance to invasion	11
Resource competition drives an invasion‐replacement event among shrew species on an island	11
The elephant in the family: Costs and benefits of elder siblings on younger offspring life‐history trajectory in a matrilineal mammal	11
Male rock hyraxes that maintain an isochronous song rhythm achieve higher reproductive success	10
Experimental manipulation of food availability and macroparasite prevalence reveal differential effects on space use in wild rodents	10
It's a hard knock life for some: Heterogeneity in infection life history of salmonids influences parasite disease outcomes	10
The impact of the COVID‐19 lockdowns on wildlife–vehicle collisions in the UK	10
Resource partitioning in a novel herbivore assemblage in South America	10
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Correction to Virus isolation data improve host predictions for New World rodent orthohantaviruses	10
Multidimensional trophic niche revealed by complementary approaches: Gut content, digestive enzymes, fatty acids and stable isotopes in Collembola	10
Animal tracing with sulfur isotopes: Spatial segregation and climate variability in Africa likely contribute to population trends of a migratory songbird	10
Unravelling arthropod movement in natural landscapes: Small‐scale effects of body size and weather conditions	10
Positive abundance–elevational range size relationship weakened from temperate to subtropical ecosystems	10
Seaweeds influence oyster microbiota and disease susceptibility	10
Sea temperature effects on depth use and habitat selection in a marine fish community	10
Ecological specialization and reproductive isolation among closely related sympatric ant‐eating spiders	10
Age truncation due to disease shrinks metapopulation viability for amphibians	9
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Ecological network assembly: How the regional metaweb influences local food webs	9
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Evolutionary divergence of developmental plasticity and learning of mating tactics in Trinidadian guppies	9
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Non‐senescent species are not immortal: Stress and decline in two planaria species	9
Interaction between warming and landscape foraging resource availability on solitary bee reproduction	9

Adult body mass is heritable, positively genetically correlated and under selection of differing shapes between the sexes in a bird with little apparent sexual dimorphism	9
Research Highlight: Social dispersal in giraffes	9
Anomalous latitudinal gradients in parasitoid wasp diversity—Hotspots in regions with larger temperature range	9
Special Feature: Intraspecific variation in ecology & evolution	9
Climate mediates the trade‐offs associated with phenotypic plasticity in an amphibian polyphenism	9
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Stability, resilience and eco‐evolutionary feedbacks of mutualistic networks to rising temperature	9
Informed breeding dispersal following stochastic changes to patch quality in a pond‐breeding amphibian	9
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Frankenstein matrices: Among‐population life history variation affects the reliability and predictions of demographic models	9
Hurricanes affect diversification among individual life courses of a primate population	8
Estimating migration timing and abundance in partial migratory systems by integrating continuous antenna detections with physical captures	8
Preen gland microbiota of songbirds differ across populations but not sexes	8
Four key challenges in the open‐data revolution	8
Population dynamics of a communally rearing mammal is driven by population‐level but not group‐level Allee effects	8
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On the use of antibiotics in plasticity research: Gastropod shells unveil a tale of caution	8
Path analysis reveals combined winter climate and pollution effects on the survival of a marine top predator	8
A taste of space: Remote animal observations and discrete‐choice models provide new insights into foraging and density dynamics for a large subarctic herbivore	8
Springing forward: Migrating songbirds catch up with the start of spring in North America	8
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Decoupling pioneering traits from latitudinal patterns in a north American bird experiencing a southward range shift	8
Latitudinal variations in incubation behaviour among uniparental incubating birds	8
Detecting context dependence in the expression of life history trade‐offs	8
An intuitive approach for measuring the resilience of biological communities to environmental change	8
Population asynchrony within and between trophic levels have contrasting effects on consumer community stability in a subtropical lake	8
Exploring the impact of temporal resolution on detecting shifts in the invasive species niche: Insights from Lessepsian fishes	8
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Habitat area and edges affect the length of trophic chains in a fragmented forest	8
On the importance of accounting for alternative foraging tactics when assessing cognitive performance in wild animals	8
Picky eaters: Selective microbial diet of avian ectosymbionts	8
An apex predator engineers wetland food‐web heterogeneity through nutrient enrichment and habitat modification	8
Evolution of the ecological niche behind the largest disjunct freshwater fish distribution in the world	8
Moving towards a comprehensive view of the spatial processes in seed dispersal networks: Embracing metacommunities	8
Predation risk drives long‐term shifts in migratory behaviour and demography in a large herbivore population	8
Looking at the bid picture: A framework for identifying reverse auctions in ecological systems	8
Strong above‐ground impacts of a non‐native ungulate do not cascade to impact below‐ground functioning in a boreal ecosystem	7
A theory for context‐dependent effects of mammalian trampling on ecosystem nitrogen cycling	7
Abiotic variables drive different aspects of fish community trait variation and species richness across the continental United States	7
Beyond the kill: The allometry of predation behaviours among large carnivores	7
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Functional genomics of abiotic environmental adaptation in lacertid lizards and other vertebrates	7
Vegetation structure and climate shape mountain arthropod distributions across trophic levels	7
Heat it up to slow it down: Individual energetics reveal how warming reduces stream decomposition	7
Capturing the dynamics of small populations: A retrospective assessment using long‐term data for an island reintroduction	7
Timing and synchrony of migration in a freshwater fish: Consequences for survival	7
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Predicting daily activity time through ecological niche modelling and microclimatic data	7
Co‐infections mask pathogen‐specific associations with the gut microbiota in wild voles	7
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Social network analysis reveals context‐dependent kin relationships in wild sulphur‐crested cockatoos Cacatua galerita	7
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Effects of season length and uniparental care efficacy on the evolution of parental care	7
The sources of sex differences in aging in annual fishes	7
Robustly estimating the demographic contribution of immigration: Simulation, sensitivity analysis and seals	7
Finding the adaptive needles in a population‐structured haystack: A case study in a New Zealand mollusc	7
Beyond simple habituation: Anthropogenic habitats influence the escape behaviour of spur‐winged lapwings in response to both human and non‐human threats	7
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Community form, function and phylogenetic diversity respond differently across microhabitat and recovery gradients	7
Polymorphism at the nestling stage and host‐specific mimicry in an Australasian cuckoo‐host arms race	7
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Relating wing morphology and immune function to patterns of partial and differential bat migration using stable isotopes	7
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