Journal of Animal Ecology

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Animal Ecology is 7. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
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Maternal effect senescence and caloric restriction interact to affect fitness through changes in life history timing46
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ExMove: An open‐source toolkit for processing and exploring animal‐tracking data in R42
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Long‐term climate and hydrologic regimes shape stream invertebrate community responses to a hurricane disturbance37
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 ant36
Predicting primate–parasite associations using exponential random graph models36
Plant mycorrhizal associations mediate the zoogeochemical effects of calving subsidies by a forest ungulate34
Thermal plasticity and evolution shape predator–prey interactions differently in clear and turbid water bodies32
Environmental conditions and male quality traits simultaneously explain variation of multiple colour signals in male lizards31
Within‐host and external environments differentially shape β‐diversity across parasite life stages30
Can internal range structure predict range shifts?29
Genetic covariance in immune measures and pathogen resistance in decorated crickets is sex and pathogen specific28
The genetic basis and adult reproductive consequences of developmental thermal plasticity27
Dryland state transitions alter trophic interactions in a predator–prey system27
The role of environmental variation in mediating fitness trade‐offs for an amphibian polyphenism27
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 seal26
Animal tracing with sulfur isotopes: Spatial segregation and climate variability in Africa likely contribute to population trends of a migratory songbird26
Negative effects of forest gaps on dung removal in a full‐factorial experiment25
Asymmetrical predation intensity produces divergent antipredator behaviours in primary and secondary prey24
Sociality helps mitigate anthropogenic risks: Evidence from elk crossing a major highway24
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Predicting daily activity time through ecological niche modelling and microclimatic data23
Research Highlight: Social dispersal in giraffes23
An apex predator engineers wetland food‐web heterogeneity through nutrient enrichment and habitat modification23
Inferring riverscape dispersal processes from fish biodiversity patterns23
Anomalous latitudinal gradients in parasitoid wasp diversity—Hotspots in regions with larger temperature range22
Moving towards a comprehensive view of the spatial processes in seed dispersal networks: Embracing metacommunities22
Looking at the bid picture: A framework for identifying reverse auctions in ecological systems22
On the importance of accounting for alternative foraging tactics when assessing cognitive performance in wild animals22
Male rock hyraxes that maintain an isochronous song rhythm achieve higher reproductive success22
Reproductive skew, fighting costs and winner–loser effects in social dominance evolution22
An experimental test of the importance of isolated trees for frog diversity in tropical landscapes21
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Effects of competition and predation risk from a life history intraguild predator on individual specialisation21
Energy‐based step selection analysis: Modelling the energetic drivers of animal movement and habitat use21
Dynamic balancing of risks and rewards in a large herbivore: Further extending predator–prey concepts to road ecology21
Abundant top predators increase species interaction network complexity in northeastern Chinese forests21
Can behaviour and physiology mitigate effects of warming on ectotherms? A test in urban ants21
Crowding after sudden habitat loss affects demography and social structure in a bat population20
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Environmental effects on the genetic architecture of fitness components in a simultaneous hermaphrodite20
Spatiotemporal thermal variation drives diversity trends in experimental landscapes20
Correction to: High MHC diversity confers no advantage for phenotypic quality and reproductive performance in a wild bird20
Tadpole aggregations create biogeochemical hotspots in wetland ecosystems19
The importance of a holistic approach to the factors determining population abundances19
Arriving late and lean at a stopover site is selected against in a declining migratory bird population19
Coming of age in your local mating market: Just a numbers game?19
Poleward shifts and altered periodicity in boreal bird irruptions over six decades18
Environmental DNA metabarcoding reveals temporal dynamics but functional stability of arthropod communities in cattle dung18
The global impact of management on soil nematode abundances18
Three‐dimensional vegetation structure drives patterns of seed dispersal by African hornbills18
Partitioning variance in population growth for models with environmental and demographic stochasticity18
Host exposure to a common pollutant can influence diversity–disease relationships18
The observed pattern and hidden process of female reproductive trajectories across the life span in a non‐human primate18
Few studies of wild animal performance account for parasite infections: A systematic review17
Fresh perspectives on the River Continuum Concept require trophic ecology approaches focussed on food web structure and energy mobilisation routes17
Disgust in animals and the application of disease avoidance to wildlife management and conservation17
Reciprocated competition between two forest carnivores drives dietary specialization17
Tree dissimilarity determines multi‐dimensional beta‐diversity of herbivores and carnivores via bottom‐up effects17
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Aggregative responses of marine predators to a pulsed resource16
Underrepresentation of dietary‐specialist larval Lepidoptera in small forest fragments: Testing alternative mechanisms16
Boldness predicts plasticity in flight responses to winds16
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A specialist predator in a food web with cyclic alternative prey: The gyrfalcon‐ptarmigan case revisited16
Integrated community models: A framework combining multispecies data sources to estimate the status, trends and dynamics of biodiversity16
Species richness and evenness of European bird communities show differentiated responses to measures of productivity15
Fitness benefits of alternated chick provisioning in cooperatively breeding carrion crows15
How does climate change impact social bees and bee sociality?15
Fencing amplifies individual differences in movement with implications on survival for two migratory ungulates15
Ontogeny of migration destination, route and timing in a partially migratory bird15
Cranial endothermy in mobulid rays: Evolutionary and ecological implications of a thermogenic brain15
Plant metabolites modulate social networks and lifespan in a sawfly15
Networking nutrients: How nutrition determines the structure of ecological networks15
The role of diversity, body size and climate in dung removal: A correlative and experimental approach15
Male reproductive tactics in house mice: Consistent individual differences, intrinsic factors and density effects15
Evaluating the importance of individual heterogeneity in reproduction to Weddell seal population dynamics using integral projection models15
Arthropod food webs predicted from body size ratios are improved by incorporating prey defensive properties15
Effects of local density dependence and temperature on the spatial synchrony of marine fish populations14
A model‐based hypothesis framework to define and estimate the diel niche via the ‘Diel.Niche’ R package14
Revealing the extent of sea otter impacts on bivalve prey through multi‐trophic monitoring and mechanistic models14
Revisiting niche divergence hypothesis in sexually dimorphic birds: Is diet overlap correlated with sexual size dimorphism?14
Inbreeding accelerates reproductive senescence, but not survival senescence, in a precocial bird14
Maintenance of biodiversity in multitrophic metacommunities: Dispersal mode matters14
Resource availability alters breeding strategies in a small mammal community14
Symmetries and asymmetries in the topological roles of piscivorous fishes between occurrence networks and food webs14
Patrolling the border: Billfish exploit the hypoxic boundary created by the world's largest oxygen minimum zone14
Feather mites selectively feed on specific bacteria and fungi on feathers with potential benefits to hosts14
Host, environment, and anthropogenic factors drive landscape dynamics of an environmentally transmitted pathogen: Sarcoptic mange in the bare‐nosed wombat14
Do sexual differences in life strategies make male lizards more susceptible to parasite infection?14
Cold winters drive consistent and spatially synchronous 8‐year population cycles of cabbage stem flea beetle13
Personality expression is shaped by the early experienced social context in predatory mites13
Leaving by staying: Social dispersal in giraffes13
Interactions between fitness components across the life cycle constrain competitor coexistence13
The relative influence of history, climate, topography and vegetation structure on local animal richness varies among taxa and spatial grains13
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Early‐life variation in migration is subject to strong fluctuating survival selection in a partially migratory bird13
Maximum entropy models reveal spatial variation of metabolic scaling in stream fish communities13
Ongoing collapse of avifauna in temperate oceanic islands close to the mainland in the Anthropocene13
Woodpeckers and other excavators maintain the diversity of cavity‐nesting vertebrates13
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Standardised empirical dispersal kernels emphasise the pervasiveness of long‐distance dispersal in European birds13
Responses of the mesozooplankton community to marine heatwaves: Challenges and solutions based on a long‐term time series13
Support for the size‐mediated sensitivity hypothesis within a diverse carnivore community13
Spatial dynamics of pathogen transmission in communally roosting species: Impacts of changing habitats on bat‐virus dynamics12
Body size mediates trophic interaction strength of novel fish assemblages under climate change12
Plasticity in female timing may explain earlier breeding in a North American songbird12
Context‐dependent fitness costs of reproduction despite stable body mass costs in an Arctic herbivore12
Untangling the complex food webs of tropical rainforest streams12
Food web trophic control modulates tropical Atlantic reef ecosystems response to marine heat wave intensity and duration12
Habitat engineering by an apex predator generates spatial trophic dynamics across a temporal environmental stress gradient12
Population level consequences of facultatively cooperative behaviour in a stochastic environment12
Environmental drivers of global variation in home range size of terrestrial and marine mammals12
Global drivers of variation in cup nest size in passerine birds12
Morphological trait‐matching in plant–Hymenoptera and plant–Diptera mutualisms across an elevational gradient12
Experimental noise and light pollution alter prey detection in a nocturnal bird of prey12
Foraging networks and social tolerance in a cooperatively breeding primate (Callithrix jacchus)12
Redefining ‘state‐of‐the‐art’ for integrated population models with immigration11
Variation and correlation in the timing of breeding of North Atlantic seabirds across multiple scales11
Species‐specific seasonal variations in thermal performance curves shape the direct and transgenerational vulnerability to marine heatwaves11
Risk perception and tolerance shape variation in agricultural use for a transboundary elephant population11
Polyphenism predicts actuarial senescence and lifespan in tiger salamanders11
Idiosyncratic effects of coinfection on the association between systemic pathogens and the gut microbiota of a wild rodent, the bank vole Myodes glareolus11
Maximization of fitness by phenological and phenotypic plasticity in range expanding rabbitfishes (Siganidae)11
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Experimental evolution of dispersal: Unifying theory, experiments and natural systems11
Seasonal strategies differ between tropical and extratropical herbivores11
Modelling animal social networks: New solutions and future directions11
Experimental evaluation of how biological invasions and climate change interact to alter the vertical assembly of an amphibian community11
Large carnivores avoid humans while prioritizing prey acquisition in anthropogenic areas11
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Rapid evolution of consumptive and non‐consumptive predator effects on prey population densities, bioenergetics and stoichiometry11
Diurnal pastoralism does not reduce juvenile recruitment nor elevate allostatic load in spotted hyenas10
Do lifetime contest costs affect the evolution of assessment strategies? A meta‐analysis10
Energetic mismatch induced by warming decreases leaf litter decomposition by aquatic detritivores10
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Combining in vivo and in vitro approaches to better understand host‐pathogen nutritional interactions10
Identifying mechanisms underlying individual body size increases in a changing, highly seasonal environment: The growing trout of West brook10
When should bees be flower constant? An agent‐based model highlights the importance of social information and foraging conditions10
Population connectivity patterns of genetic diversity, immune responses and exposure to infectious pneumonia in a metapopulation of desert bighorn sheep10
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Human land‐uses homogenize stream assemblages and reduce animal biomass production10
Mechanisms that can cause population decline under heavily skewed male‐biased adult sex ratios10
Heat limits scale with metabolism in ectothermic animals10
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Bumble bee colony health and performance vary widely across the urban ecosystem10
Global warming affects foraging efficiency of fish by influencing mutual interference10
Arrival‐breeding interval is flexible in a songbird and is not constrained by migration carry‐over effects9
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On the use of antibiotics in plasticity research: Gastropod shells unveil a tale of caution9
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Timing and synchrony of migration in a freshwater fish: Consequences for survival9
Vegetation structure and climate shape mountain arthropod distributions across trophic levels9
Predation risk drives long‐term shifts in migratory behaviour and demography in a large herbivore population9
Isolating the role of the matrix at patch and landscape scales9
Path analysis reveals combined winter climate and pollution effects on the survival of a marine top predator9
Navigating new threats: Prey naïveté in native mammals9
Diel activity correlates with colour pattern morphology of heterobranch sea slugs9
Picky eaters: Selective microbial diet of avian ectosymbionts9
Capturing the dynamics of small populations: A retrospective assessment using long‐term data for an island reintroduction9
Personality, spatiotemporal ecological variation and resident/explorer movement syndromes in the sleepy lizard9
Implementing social network analysis to understand the socioecology of wildlife co‐occurrence and joint interactions with humans in anthropogenic environments9
Ecological patterns and processes in the vertical dimension of terrestrial ecosystems9
Complex community‐wide consequences of consumer sexual dimorphism9
Following the feeder: A global synthesis of disturbance‐based foraging associations of birds9
Resource manipulation reveals interactive phenotype‐dependent foraging in free‐ranging lizards9
Hurricanes affect diversification among individual life courses of a primate population9
Finding the adaptive needles in a population‐structured haystack: A case study in a New Zealand mollusc9
Early social isolation disrupts adult personality expression in group‐living mites9
Counter‐strategies to infanticide: The importance of cubs in determining lion habitat selection and social interactions9
Fish microplastic ingestion may induce tipping points of aquatic ecosystems9
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Network dynamics revealed from eDNA highlight seasonal variation in urban mammal communities8
Leveraging camera traps and artificial intelligence to explore thermoregulation behaviour8
It's a worm‐eat‐worm world: Consumption of parasite free‐living stages protects hosts and benefits predators8
Increase in heat tolerance following a period of heat stress in a naturally occurring insect species8
Foraging activity by an ecosystem engineer, the superb lyrebird, ‘farms’ its invertebrate prey8
Inhibitory control, exploration behaviour and manipulated ecological context are associated with foraging flexibility in the great tit8
Taylor's law on abundance unravels the role of traits and environmental conditions on population dynamics8
Pulse disturbances in age‐structured populations: Life history predicts initial impact and recovery time8
Out of shape: Ocean acidification simplifies coral reef architecture and reshuffles fish assemblages8
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The relative influence of cross‐seasonal and local weather effects on the breeding success of a migratory songbird8
Acoustic camouflage increases with body size and changes with bat echolocation frequency range in a community of nocturnally active Lepidoptera8
LiDAR reveals a preference for intermediate visibility by a forest‐dwelling ungulate species8
Niche dynamics along two centuries of multiple crayfish invasions8
Predicting organismal response to marine heatwaves using dynamic thermal tolerance landscape models8
Vegetation structure from LiDAR explains the local richness of birds across Denmark8
Severe fire regimes decrease resilience of ectothermic populations8
Multifaceted density dependence: Social structure and seasonality effects on Serengeti lion demography8
How to scale up from animal movement decisions to spatiotemporal patterns: An approach via step selection8
Shrinking body size under climate warming is not associated with selection for smaller individuals in a migratory bird8
Asian elephants are associated with a more robust mammalian community in tropical forests8
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Competition shapes individual foraging and survival in a desert rodent ensemble8
Resource partitioning among pelagic predators remains stable despite annual variability in diet composition8
An Integrated Traits Resilience Assessment of Mediterranean fisheries landings8
The community context of trophic cascades8
Species interactions in the Anthropocene8
Nocturnal but not diurnal threats shape stopover strategy in a migrating songbird8
Hybridisation primes population invasiveness under environmental change8
The transgenerational consequences of paternal social isolation and predation exposure in threespined sticklebacks7
High species turnover and unique plant–pollinator interactions make a hyperdiverse mountain7
Unravelling the complexities of biotic homogenization and heterogenization in the British avifauna7
It's time to go—Drivers and plasticity of migration phenology in a short‐distance migratory ungulate7
Food‐safety trade‐offs drive dynamic behavioural antipredator responses among snowshoe hares7
Life span, growth, senescence and island syndrome: Accounting for imperfect detection and continuous growth7
Stream hydrology and a pulse subsidy shape patterns of fish foraging7
Understanding and predicting animal movements and distributions in the Anthropocene7
Interpreting past trophic ecology of a threatened alpine parrot, keaNestor notabilis, from museum specimens7
Network topology and patch connectivity affect dynamics in experimental and model metapopulations7
Distinguishing within‐ from between‐individual effects: How to use the within‐individual centring method for quadratic patterns7
Individual quality overwrites carry‐over effects across the annual cycle of a long‐distance migrant7
Quantifying predator functional responses under field conditions reveals interactive effects of temperature and interference with sex and stage7
Correction to: Resource partitioning in a novel herbivore assemblage in South America7
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Raising offspring increases ageing: Differences in senescence among three populations of a long‐lived seabird, the Atlantic puffin7
The behavioural costs of overcrowding for gregarious cave‐dwelling bats7
Weapons or deterrents? Nudibranch molluscs use distinct ecological modes of chemical defence against predators7
The effects of warming on loggerhead turtle nesting counts7
Genomic reaction norms inform predictions of plastic and adaptive responses to climate change7
Recovery of reef shark populations invokes anti‐predator behaviours in mesopredatory reef fishes on a coral reef7
Harnessing the power of multi‐omics data for predicting climate change response7
Spatial scaling of gregarious host populations and nonlinearities in infectious disease transmission7
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Spatial prey availability and pulsed reproductive tactics: Encounter risk in a canid–ungulate system7
Direct and indirect effects of fire on parasites in an African savanna7
Temporal niche dynamics of spreading native invertebrates underlie doubling of richness in pristine temperate streams7
Selective disappearance based on navigational efficiency in a long‐lived seabird7
Variation in movement strategies: Capital versus income migration7
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