Journal of Animal Ecology

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Maternal effect senescence and caloric restriction interact to affect fitness through changes in life history timing	54
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ExMove: An open‐source toolkit for processing and exploring animal‐tracking data in R	40
Sociality helps mitigate anthropogenic risks: Evidence from elk crossing a major highway	40
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	40
Animal tracing with sulfur isotopes: Spatial segregation and climate variability in Africa likely contribute to population trends of a migratory songbird	39
Predicting primate–parasite associations using exponential random graph models	36
Environmental conditions and male quality traits simultaneously explain variation of multiple colour signals in male lizards	33
Thermal plasticity and evolution shape predator–prey interactions differently in clear and turbid water bodies	33
Plant mycorrhizal associations mediate the zoogeochemical effects of calving subsidies by a forest ungulate	32
Negative effects of forest gaps on dung removal in a full‐factorial experiment	30
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	29
The genetic basis and adult reproductive consequences of developmental thermal plasticity	28
Can internal range structure predict range shifts?	28
Long‐term climate and hydrologic regimes shape stream invertebrate community responses to a hurricane disturbance	27
The role of environmental variation in mediating fitness trade‐offs for an amphibian polyphenism	27
Dryland state transitions alter trophic interactions in a predator–prey system	27
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	27
Temporal niche partitioning: Mechanism of coexistence or competitive exclusion via priority effects?	26
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Inferring riverscape dispersal processes from fish biodiversity patterns	25

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Asymmetrical predation intensity produces divergent antipredator behaviours in primary and secondary prey	25
Predicting daily activity time through ecological niche modelling and microclimatic data	25
Moving towards a comprehensive view of the spatial processes in seed dispersal networks: Embracing metacommunities	24
Reproductive skew, fighting costs and winner–loser effects in social dominance evolution	24
Effects of competition and predation risk from a life history intraguild predator on individual specialisation	24
Looking at the bid picture: A framework for identifying reverse auctions in ecological systems	23
Across the edge: Spatial segregation drives community structure in tri‐trophic multilayer networks at a forest–grassland edge	23
An apex predator engineers wetland food‐web heterogeneity through nutrient enrichment and habitat modification	23
Research Highlight: Social dispersal in giraffes	23
Anomalous latitudinal gradients in parasitoid wasp diversity—Hotspots in regions with larger temperature range	23
On the importance of accounting for alternative foraging tactics when assessing cognitive performance in wild animals	23
Predator activity, proactive anti‐predator strategies and nesting phenology produce a dynamic landscape of risk to tundra goose reproduction	23
Partitioning variance in population growth for models with environmental and demographic stochasticity	22
Poleward shifts and altered periodicity in boreal bird irruptions over six decades	22
An experimental test of the importance of isolated trees for frog diversity in tropical landscapes	22
Male rock hyraxes that maintain an isochronous song rhythm achieve higher reproductive success	22
Reciprocated competition between two forest carnivores drives dietary specialization	22
Abundant top predators increase species interaction network complexity in northeastern Chinese forests	22
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Crowding after sudden habitat loss affects demography and social structure in a bat population	21
Fresh perspectives on the River Continuum Concept require trophic ecology approaches focussed on food web structure and energy mobilisation routes	20
Environmental effects on the genetic architecture of fitness components in a simultaneous hermaphrodite	20
Correction to: High MHC diversity confers no advantage for phenotypic quality and reproductive performance in a wild bird	20
Coming of age in your local mating market: Just a numbers game?	20
Spatiotemporal thermal variation drives diversity trends in experimental landscapes	20
The importance of a holistic approach to the factors determining population abundances	20
Can behaviour and physiology mitigate effects of warming on ectotherms? A test in urban ants	19
The global impact of management on soil nematode abundances	19
Energy‐based step selection analysis: Modelling the energetic drivers of animal movement and habitat use	19
Tadpole aggregations create biogeochemical hotspots in wetland ecosystems	19
Environmental DNA metabarcoding reveals temporal dynamics but functional stability of arthropod communities in cattle dung	19
Arriving late and lean at a stopover site is selected against in a declining migratory bird population	19
Tree dissimilarity determines multi‐dimensional beta‐diversity of herbivores and carnivores via bottom‐up effects	18
Revealing species responses to environmental change through long‐term data and mechanistic frameworks	17
Few studies of wild animal performance account for parasite infections: A systematic review	17
Three‐dimensional vegetation structure drives patterns of seed dispersal by African hornbills	17
Dynamic balancing of risks and rewards in a large herbivore: Further extending predator–prey concepts to road ecology	17
The observed pattern and hidden process of female reproductive trajectories across the life span in a non‐human primate	17
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Long‐term population dynamics of western tent caterpillars: History, trends and causes of cycles	16
Integrated community models: A framework combining multispecies data sources to estimate the status, trends and dynamics of biodiversity	16
Boldness predicts plasticity in flight responses to winds	16
Host exposure to a common pollutant can influence diversity–disease relationships	16
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Ontogeny of migration destination, route and timing in a partially migratory bird	16
Male reproductive tactics in house mice: Consistent individual differences, intrinsic factors and density effects	16
Disgust in animals and the application of disease avoidance to wildlife management and conservation	16
Social network dynamics under experimental manipulations of predation risk and food abundance in wild rock hyraxes	16

The role of diversity, body size and climate in dung removal: A correlative and experimental approach	16
Aggregative responses of marine predators to a pulsed resource	15
A specialist predator in a food web with cyclic alternative prey: The gyrfalcon‐ptarmigan case revisited	15
Cranial endothermy in mobulid rays: Evolutionary and ecological implications of a thermogenic brain	15
Networking nutrients: How nutrition determines the structure of ecological networks	15
Evaluating the importance of individual heterogeneity in reproduction to Weddell seal population dynamics using integral projection models	15
How does climate change impact social bees and bee sociality?	15
Underrepresentation of dietary‐specialist larval Lepidoptera in small forest fragments: Testing alternative mechanisms	15
Inbreeding accelerates reproductive senescence, but not survival senescence, in a precocial bird	14
Resource availability alters breeding strategies in a small mammal community	14
Arthropod food webs predicted from body size ratios are improved by incorporating prey defensive properties	14
Fitness benefits of alternated chick provisioning in cooperatively breeding carrion crows	14
Species richness and evenness of European bird communities show differentiated responses to measures of productivity	14
Woodpeckers and other excavators maintain the diversity of cavity‐nesting vertebrates	14
Fencing amplifies individual differences in movement with implications on survival for two migratory ungulates	14
Symmetries and asymmetries in the topological roles of piscivorous fishes between occurrence networks and food webs	14
Plant metabolites modulate social networks and lifespan in a sawfly	14
Host, environment, and anthropogenic factors drive landscape dynamics of an environmentally transmitted pathogen: Sarcoptic mange in the bare‐nosed wombat	14
The relative influence of history, climate, topography and vegetation structure on local animal richness varies among taxa and spatial grains	14
Effects of local density dependence and temperature on the spatial synchrony of marine fish populations	14
Revealing the extent of sea otter impacts on bivalve prey through multi‐trophic monitoring and mechanistic models	14
Maintenance of biodiversity in multitrophic metacommunities: Dispersal mode matters	14
Ongoing collapse of avifauna in temperate oceanic islands close to the mainland in the Anthropocene	13
Patrolling the border: Billfish exploit the hypoxic boundary created by the world's largest oxygen minimum zone	13
Plasticity in a key life‐history trait contributes to population cycles in an insect herbivore	13
Feather mites selectively feed on specific bacteria and fungi on feathers with potential benefits to hosts	13
Maximum entropy models reveal spatial variation of metabolic scaling in stream fish communities	13
Do sexual differences in life strategies make male lizards more susceptible to parasite infection?	13
Revisiting niche divergence hypothesis in sexually dimorphic birds: Is diet overlap correlated with sexual size dimorphism?	13
Cold winters drive consistent and spatially synchronous 8‐year population cycles of cabbage stem flea beetle	12
The gut microbiome shapes latitudinal differences in host immunity and pathogen load in a damselfly	12
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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
Responses of the mesozooplankton community to marine heatwaves: Challenges and solutions based on a long‐term time series	12
A model‐based hypothesis framework to define and estimate the diel niche via the ‘Diel.Niche’ R package	12
Interactions between fitness components across the life cycle constrain competitor coexistence	12
Experimental evolution of dispersal: Unifying theory, experiments and natural systems	12
Variation and correlation in the timing of breeding of North Atlantic seabirds across multiple scales	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
Support for the size‐mediated sensitivity hypothesis within a diverse carnivore community	12
Standardised empirical dispersal kernels emphasise the pervasiveness of long‐distance dispersal in European birds	12
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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
Personality expression is shaped by the early experienced social context in predatory mites	12
Early‐life variation in migration is subject to strong fluctuating survival selection in a partially migratory bird	11
Morphological trait‐matching in plant–Hymenoptera and plant–Diptera mutualisms across an elevational gradient	11
Global drivers of variation in cup nest size in passerine birds	11
Enhanced thermoregulation abilities of shortfin mako sharks as the key adaptive significance of regional endothermy in fishes	11
Body size mediates trophic interaction strength of novel fish assemblages under climate change	11
Experimental evaluation of how biological invasions and climate change interact to alter the vertical assembly of an amphibian community	11
Species‐specific seasonal variations in thermal performance curves shape the direct and transgenerational vulnerability to marine heatwaves	11
Plasticity in female timing may explain earlier breeding in a North American songbird	11
Polyphenism predicts actuarial senescence and lifespan in tiger salamanders	11
Untangling the complex food webs of tropical rainforest streams	11
Redefining ‘state‐of‐the‐art’ for integrated population models with immigration	11
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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
Context‐dependent fitness costs of reproduction despite stable body mass costs in an Arctic herbivore	11
Foraging networks and social tolerance in a cooperatively breeding primate (Callithrix jacchus)	11
Identifying mechanisms underlying individual body size increases in a changing, highly seasonal environment: The growing trout of West brook	10
Risk perception and tolerance shape variation in agricultural use for a transboundary elephant population	10
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When should bees be flower constant? An agent‐based model highlights the importance of social information and foraging conditions	10
Diurnal pastoralism does not reduce juvenile recruitment nor elevate allostatic load in spotted hyenas	10
Food web trophic control modulates tropical Atlantic reef ecosystems response to marine heat wave intensity and duration	10
Modelling animal social networks: New solutions and future directions	10
Environmental drivers of global variation in home range size of terrestrial and marine mammals	10
Seed predation by rodents suppresses recruitment of a bird‐dispersed tree at its upper range limit	10
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Mechanisms that can cause population decline under heavily skewed male‐biased adult sex ratios	10
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Heat limits scale with metabolism in ectothermic animals	10
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Large carnivores avoid humans while prioritizing prey acquisition in anthropogenic areas	10
Fluctuating salinity during development impacts fish life histories	10
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Human land‐uses homogenize stream assemblages and reduce animal biomass production	10
Energetic mismatch induced by warming decreases leaf litter decomposition by aquatic detritivores	10

Poison frog chemical defences are influenced by environmental availability and dietary selectivity for ants	10
Population connectivity patterns of genetic diversity, immune responses and exposure to infectious pneumonia in a metapopulation of desert bighorn sheep	10
Do lifetime contest costs affect the evolution of assessment strategies? A meta‐analysis	10
Seasonal strategies differ between tropical and extratropical herbivores	10
Experimental noise and light pollution alter prey detection in a nocturnal bird of prey	10
Bumble bee colony health and performance vary widely across the urban ecosystem	9
Fish microplastic ingestion may induce tipping points of aquatic ecosystems	9
Combining in vivo and in vitro approaches to better understand host‐pathogen nutritional interactions	9
Diel activity correlates with colour pattern morphology of heterobranch sea slugs	9
Niche dynamics along two centuries of multiple crayfish invasions	9
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Predation risk drives long‐term shifts in migratory behaviour and demography in a large herbivore population	9
Picky eaters: Selective microbial diet of avian ectosymbionts	9
Following the feeder: A global synthesis of disturbance‐based foraging associations of birds	9
Counter‐strategies to infanticide: The importance of cubs in determining lion habitat selection and social interactions	9
Limited inbreeding avoidance at the gamete level despite inbreeding depression in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)	9
Movement phases make a difference in habitat selection: Iberian lynx diversity of responses to human‐modified landscapes	9
Hurricanes affect diversification among individual life courses of a primate population	9
Increase in heat tolerance following a period of heat stress in a naturally occurring insect species	9
Navigating new threats: Prey naïveté in native mammals	9
Complex community‐wide consequences of consumer sexual dimorphism	9
Ecological patterns and processes in the vertical dimension of terrestrial ecosystems	9
Personality, spatiotemporal ecological variation and resident/explorer movement syndromes in the sleepy lizard	9
Global warming affects foraging efficiency of fish by influencing mutual interference	9
Timing and synchrony of migration in a freshwater fish: Consequences for survival	9
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Early social isolation disrupts adult personality expression in group‐living mites	9
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Isolating the role of the matrix at patch and landscape scales	9
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Finding the adaptive needles in a population‐structured haystack: A case study in a New Zealand mollusc	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
On the use of antibiotics in plasticity research: Gastropod shells unveil a tale of caution	9
The community context of trophic cascades	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
Predicting organismal response to marine heatwaves using dynamic thermal tolerance landscape models	8
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Spatial prey availability and pulsed reproductive tactics: Encounter risk in a canid–ungulate system	8
Hybridisation primes population invasiveness under environmental change	8
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Quantifying drivers of biodiversity change through increasing data availability and improved analytical frameworks	8
Cyclic functional connectivity of Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) populations across North American boreal landscapes	8
Network dynamics revealed from eDNA highlight seasonal variation in urban mammal communities	8
Foraging activity by an ecosystem engineer, the superb lyrebird, ‘farms’ its invertebrate prey	8
Species interactions in the Anthropocene	8
Inhibitory control, exploration behaviour and manipulated ecological context are associated with foraging flexibility in the great tit	8
Vegetation structure from LiDAR explains the local richness of birds across Denmark	8
Multifaceted density dependence: Social structure and seasonality effects on Serengeti lion demography	8
Severe fire regimes decrease resilience of ectothermic populations	8
Out of shape: Ocean acidification simplifies coral reef architecture and reshuffles fish assemblages	8
Acoustic camouflage increases with body size and changes with bat echolocation frequency range in a community of nocturnally active Lepidoptera	8
Resource manipulation reveals interactive phenotype‐dependent foraging in free‐ranging lizards	8
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Resource partitioning among pelagic predators remains stable despite annual variability in diet composition	8
LiDAR reveals a preference for intermediate visibility by a forest‐dwelling ungulate species	8
Asian elephants are associated with a more robust mammalian community in tropical forests	8
Taylor's law on abundance unravels the role of traits and environmental conditions on population dynamics	8
Shrinking body size under climate warming is not associated with selection for smaller individuals in a migratory bird	8
Subtle stressors—Strong responses. Consistent negative effects of avian blood parasites on phenotypic and demographic traits across songbirds	8