Journal of Animal Ecology

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Maternal effect senescence and caloric restriction interact to affect fitness through changes in life history timing	46
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ExMove: An open‐source toolkit for processing and exploring animal‐tracking data in R	42
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Long‐term climate and hydrologic regimes shape stream invertebrate community responses to a hurricane disturbance	37
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	36
Predicting primate–parasite associations using exponential random graph models	36
Plant mycorrhizal associations mediate the zoogeochemical effects of calving subsidies by a forest ungulate	34
Thermal plasticity and evolution shape predator–prey interactions differently in clear and turbid water bodies	32
Environmental conditions and male quality traits simultaneously explain variation of multiple colour signals in male lizards	31
Within‐host and external environments differentially shape β‐diversity across parasite life stages	30
Can internal range structure predict range shifts?	29
Genetic covariance in immune measures and pathogen resistance in decorated crickets is sex and pathogen specific	28
The genetic basis and adult reproductive consequences of developmental thermal plasticity	27
Dryland state transitions alter trophic interactions in a predator–prey system	27
The role of environmental variation in mediating fitness trade‐offs for an amphibian polyphenism	27
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	26
Animal tracing with sulfur isotopes: Spatial segregation and climate variability in Africa likely contribute to population trends of a migratory songbird	26
Negative effects of forest gaps on dung removal in a full‐factorial experiment	25
Asymmetrical predation intensity produces divergent antipredator behaviours in primary and secondary prey	24
Sociality helps mitigate anthropogenic risks: Evidence from elk crossing a major highway	24
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Predicting daily activity time through ecological niche modelling and microclimatic data	23

Research Highlight: Social dispersal in giraffes	23
An apex predator engineers wetland food‐web heterogeneity through nutrient enrichment and habitat modification	23
Inferring riverscape dispersal processes from fish biodiversity patterns	23
Anomalous latitudinal gradients in parasitoid wasp diversity—Hotspots in regions with larger temperature range	22
Moving towards a comprehensive view of the spatial processes in seed dispersal networks: Embracing metacommunities	22
Looking at the bid picture: A framework for identifying reverse auctions in ecological systems	22
On the importance of accounting for alternative foraging tactics when assessing cognitive performance in wild animals	22
Male rock hyraxes that maintain an isochronous song rhythm achieve higher reproductive success	22
Reproductive skew, fighting costs and winner–loser effects in social dominance evolution	22
An experimental test of the importance of isolated trees for frog diversity in tropical landscapes	21
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Effects of competition and predation risk from a life history intraguild predator on individual specialisation	21
Energy‐based step selection analysis: Modelling the energetic drivers of animal movement and habitat use	21
Dynamic balancing of risks and rewards in a large herbivore: Further extending predator–prey concepts to road ecology	21
Abundant top predators increase species interaction network complexity in northeastern Chinese forests	21
Can behaviour and physiology mitigate effects of warming on ectotherms? A test in urban ants	21
Crowding after sudden habitat loss affects demography and social structure in a bat population	20
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Environmental effects on the genetic architecture of fitness components in a simultaneous hermaphrodite	20
Spatiotemporal thermal variation drives diversity trends in experimental landscapes	20
Correction to: High MHC diversity confers no advantage for phenotypic quality and reproductive performance in a wild bird	20
Tadpole aggregations create biogeochemical hotspots in wetland ecosystems	19
The importance of a holistic approach to the factors determining population abundances	19
Arriving late and lean at a stopover site is selected against in a declining migratory bird population	19
Coming of age in your local mating market: Just a numbers game?	19
Poleward shifts and altered periodicity in boreal bird irruptions over six decades	18
Environmental DNA metabarcoding reveals temporal dynamics but functional stability of arthropod communities in cattle dung	18
The global impact of management on soil nematode abundances	18
Three‐dimensional vegetation structure drives patterns of seed dispersal by African hornbills	18
Partitioning variance in population growth for models with environmental and demographic stochasticity	18
Host exposure to a common pollutant can influence diversity–disease relationships	18
The observed pattern and hidden process of female reproductive trajectories across the life span in a non‐human primate	18
Few studies of wild animal performance account for parasite infections: A systematic review	17
Fresh perspectives on the River Continuum Concept require trophic ecology approaches focussed on food web structure and energy mobilisation routes	17
Disgust in animals and the application of disease avoidance to wildlife management and conservation	17
Reciprocated competition between two forest carnivores drives dietary specialization	17
Tree dissimilarity determines multi‐dimensional beta‐diversity of herbivores and carnivores via bottom‐up effects	17
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Aggregative responses of marine predators to a pulsed resource	16
Underrepresentation of dietary‐specialist larval Lepidoptera in small forest fragments: Testing alternative mechanisms	16
Boldness predicts plasticity in flight responses to winds	16
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A specialist predator in a food web with cyclic alternative prey: The gyrfalcon‐ptarmigan case revisited	16
Integrated community models: A framework combining multispecies data sources to estimate the status, trends and dynamics of biodiversity	16
Species richness and evenness of European bird communities show differentiated responses to measures of productivity	15
Fitness benefits of alternated chick provisioning in cooperatively breeding carrion crows	15
How does climate change impact social bees and bee sociality?	15
Fencing amplifies individual differences in movement with implications on survival for two migratory ungulates	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

Plant metabolites modulate social networks and lifespan in a sawfly	15
Networking nutrients: How nutrition determines the structure of ecological networks	15
The role of diversity, body size and climate in dung removal: A correlative and experimental approach	15
Male reproductive tactics in house mice: Consistent individual differences, intrinsic factors and density effects	15
Evaluating the importance of individual heterogeneity in reproduction to Weddell seal population dynamics using integral projection models	15
Arthropod food webs predicted from body size ratios are improved by incorporating prey defensive properties	15
Effects of local density dependence and temperature on the spatial synchrony of marine fish populations	14
A model‐based hypothesis framework to define and estimate the diel niche via the ‘Diel.Niche’ R package	14
Revealing the extent of sea otter impacts on bivalve prey through multi‐trophic monitoring and mechanistic models	14
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 bird	14
Maintenance of biodiversity in multitrophic metacommunities: Dispersal mode matters	14
Resource availability alters breeding strategies in a small mammal community	14
Symmetries and asymmetries in the topological roles of piscivorous fishes between occurrence networks and food webs	14
Patrolling the border: Billfish exploit the hypoxic boundary created by the world's largest oxygen minimum zone	14
Feather mites selectively feed on specific bacteria and fungi on feathers with potential benefits to hosts	14
Host, environment, and anthropogenic factors drive landscape dynamics of an environmentally transmitted pathogen: Sarcoptic mange in the bare‐nosed wombat	14
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 beetle	13
Personality expression is shaped by the early experienced social context in predatory mites	13
Leaving by staying: Social dispersal in giraffes	13
Interactions between fitness components across the life cycle constrain competitor coexistence	13
The relative influence of history, climate, topography and vegetation structure on local animal richness varies among taxa and spatial grains	13
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Early‐life variation in migration is subject to strong fluctuating survival selection in a partially migratory bird	13
Maximum entropy models reveal spatial variation of metabolic scaling in stream fish communities	13
Ongoing collapse of avifauna in temperate oceanic islands close to the mainland in the Anthropocene	13
Woodpeckers and other excavators maintain the diversity of cavity‐nesting vertebrates	13
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Standardised empirical dispersal kernels emphasise the pervasiveness of long‐distance dispersal in European birds	13
Responses of the mesozooplankton community to marine heatwaves: Challenges and solutions based on a long‐term time series	13
Support for the size‐mediated sensitivity hypothesis within a diverse carnivore community	13
Spatial dynamics of pathogen transmission in communally roosting species: Impacts of changing habitats on bat‐virus dynamics	12
Body size mediates trophic interaction strength of novel fish assemblages under climate change	12
Plasticity in female timing may explain earlier breeding in a North American songbird	12
Context‐dependent fitness costs of reproduction despite stable body mass costs in an Arctic herbivore	12
Untangling the complex food webs of tropical rainforest streams	12
Food web trophic control modulates tropical Atlantic reef ecosystems response to marine heat wave intensity and duration	12
Habitat engineering by an apex predator generates spatial trophic dynamics across a temporal environmental stress gradient	12
Population level consequences of facultatively cooperative behaviour in a stochastic environment	12
Environmental drivers of global variation in home range size of terrestrial and marine mammals	12
Global drivers of variation in cup nest size in passerine birds	12
Morphological trait‐matching in plant–Hymenoptera and plant–Diptera mutualisms across an elevational gradient	12
Experimental noise and light pollution alter prey detection in a nocturnal bird of prey	12
Foraging networks and social tolerance in a cooperatively breeding primate (Callithrix jacchus)	12
Redefining ‘state‐of‐the‐art’ for integrated population models with immigration	11
Variation and correlation in the timing of breeding of North Atlantic seabirds across multiple scales	11
Species‐specific seasonal variations in thermal performance curves shape the direct and transgenerational vulnerability to marine heatwaves	11
Risk perception and tolerance shape variation in agricultural use for a transboundary elephant population	11
Polyphenism predicts actuarial senescence and lifespan in tiger salamanders	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
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 systems	11
Seasonal strategies differ between tropical and extratropical herbivores	11
Modelling animal social networks: New solutions and future directions	11
Experimental evaluation of how biological invasions and climate change interact to alter the vertical assembly of an amphibian community	11
Large carnivores avoid humans while prioritizing prey acquisition in anthropogenic areas	11
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Rapid evolution of consumptive and non‐consumptive predator effects on prey population densities, bioenergetics and stoichiometry	11
Diurnal pastoralism does not reduce juvenile recruitment nor elevate allostatic load in spotted hyenas	10
Do lifetime contest costs affect the evolution of assessment strategies? A meta‐analysis	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	10
Identifying mechanisms underlying individual body size increases in a changing, highly seasonal environment: The growing trout of West brook	10
When should bees be flower constant? An agent‐based model highlights the importance of social information and foraging conditions	10
Population connectivity patterns of genetic diversity, immune responses and exposure to infectious pneumonia in a metapopulation of desert bighorn sheep	10
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Human land‐uses homogenize stream assemblages and reduce animal biomass production	10
Mechanisms that can cause population decline under heavily skewed male‐biased adult sex ratios	10
Heat limits scale with metabolism in ectothermic animals	10
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Bumble bee colony health and performance vary widely across the urban ecosystem	10
Global warming affects foraging efficiency of fish by influencing mutual interference	10
Arrival‐breeding interval is flexible in a songbird and is not constrained by migration carry‐over effects	9
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On the use of antibiotics in plasticity research: Gastropod shells unveil a tale of caution	9
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Timing and synchrony of migration in a freshwater fish: Consequences for survival	9
Vegetation structure and climate shape mountain arthropod distributions across trophic levels	9
Predation risk drives long‐term shifts in migratory behaviour and demography in a large herbivore population	9
Isolating the role of the matrix at patch and landscape scales	9
Path analysis reveals combined winter climate and pollution effects on the survival of a marine top predator	9
Navigating new threats: Prey naïveté in native mammals	9
Diel activity correlates with colour pattern morphology of heterobranch sea slugs	9
Picky eaters: Selective microbial diet of avian ectosymbionts	9
Capturing the dynamics of small populations: A retrospective assessment using long‐term data for an island reintroduction	9
Personality, spatiotemporal ecological variation and resident/explorer movement syndromes in the sleepy lizard	9
Implementing social network analysis to understand the socioecology of wildlife co‐occurrence and joint interactions with humans in anthropogenic environments	9
Ecological patterns and processes in the vertical dimension of terrestrial ecosystems	9
Complex community‐wide consequences of consumer sexual dimorphism	9
Following the feeder: A global synthesis of disturbance‐based foraging associations of birds	9
Resource manipulation reveals interactive phenotype‐dependent foraging in free‐ranging lizards	9
Hurricanes affect diversification among individual life courses of a primate population	9
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
Counter‐strategies to infanticide: The importance of cubs in determining lion habitat selection and social interactions	9
Fish microplastic ingestion may induce tipping points of aquatic ecosystems	9
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Network dynamics revealed from eDNA highlight seasonal variation in urban mammal communities	8
Leveraging camera traps and artificial intelligence to explore thermoregulation behaviour	8
It's a worm‐eat‐worm world: Consumption of parasite free‐living stages protects hosts and benefits predators	8
Increase in heat tolerance following a period of heat stress in a naturally occurring insect species	8
Foraging activity by an ecosystem engineer, the superb lyrebird, ‘farms’ its invertebrate prey	8
Inhibitory control, exploration behaviour and manipulated ecological context are associated with foraging flexibility in the great tit	8
Taylor's law on abundance unravels the role of traits and environmental conditions on population dynamics	8
Pulse disturbances in age‐structured populations: Life history predicts initial impact and recovery time	8
Out of shape: Ocean acidification simplifies coral reef architecture and reshuffles fish assemblages	8
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The relative influence of cross‐seasonal and local weather effects on the breeding success of a migratory songbird	8
Acoustic camouflage increases with body size and changes with bat echolocation frequency range in a community of nocturnally active Lepidoptera	8
LiDAR reveals a preference for intermediate visibility by a forest‐dwelling ungulate species	8
Niche dynamics along two centuries of multiple crayfish invasions	8
Predicting organismal response to marine heatwaves using dynamic thermal tolerance landscape models	8
Vegetation structure from LiDAR explains the local richness of birds across Denmark	8
Severe fire regimes decrease resilience of ectothermic populations	8
Multifaceted density dependence: Social structure and seasonality effects on Serengeti lion demography	8
How to scale up from animal movement decisions to spatiotemporal patterns: An approach via step selection	8
Shrinking body size under climate warming is not associated with selection for smaller individuals in a migratory bird	8
Asian elephants are associated with a more robust mammalian community in tropical forests	8
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Competition shapes individual foraging and survival in a desert rodent ensemble	8
Resource partitioning among pelagic predators remains stable despite annual variability in diet composition	8
An Integrated Traits Resilience Assessment of Mediterranean fisheries landings	8
The community context of trophic cascades	8
Species interactions in the Anthropocene	8
Nocturnal but not diurnal threats shape stopover strategy in a migrating songbird	8
Hybridisation primes population invasiveness under environmental change	8
The transgenerational consequences of paternal social isolation and predation exposure in threespined sticklebacks	7
High species turnover and unique plant–pollinator interactions make a hyperdiverse mountain	7
Unravelling the complexities of biotic homogenization and heterogenization in the British avifauna	7
It's time to go—Drivers and plasticity of migration phenology in a short‐distance migratory ungulate	7
Food‐safety trade‐offs drive dynamic behavioural antipredator responses among snowshoe hares	7
Life span, growth, senescence and island syndrome: Accounting for imperfect detection and continuous growth	7
Stream hydrology and a pulse subsidy shape patterns of fish foraging	7
Understanding and predicting animal movements and distributions in the Anthropocene	7
Interpreting past trophic ecology of a threatened alpine parrot, keaNestor notabilis, from museum specimens	7
Network topology and patch connectivity affect dynamics in experimental and model metapopulations	7
Distinguishing within‐ from between‐individual effects: How to use the within‐individual centring method for quadratic patterns	7
Individual quality overwrites carry‐over effects across the annual cycle of a long‐distance migrant	7
Quantifying predator functional responses under field conditions reveals interactive effects of temperature and interference with sex and stage	7
Correction to: Resource partitioning in a novel herbivore assemblage in South America	7
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Raising offspring increases ageing: Differences in senescence among three populations of a long‐lived seabird, the Atlantic puffin	7
The behavioural costs of overcrowding for gregarious cave‐dwelling bats	7
Weapons or deterrents? Nudibranch molluscs use distinct ecological modes of chemical defence against predators	7
The effects of warming on loggerhead turtle nesting counts	7
Genomic reaction norms inform predictions of plastic and adaptive responses to climate change	7
Recovery of reef shark populations invokes anti‐predator behaviours in mesopredatory reef fishes on a coral reef	7
Harnessing the power of multi‐omics data for predicting climate change response	7
Spatial scaling of gregarious host populations and nonlinearities in infectious disease transmission	7
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Spatial prey availability and pulsed reproductive tactics: Encounter risk in a canid–ungulate system	7
Direct and indirect effects of fire on parasites in an African savanna	7
Temporal niche dynamics of spreading native invertebrates underlie doubling of richness in pristine temperate streams	7
Selective disappearance based on navigational efficiency in a long‐lived seabird	7
Variation in movement strategies: Capital versus income migration	7