From above to below: how large herbivores affect forest soils

Letícia Gonçalves Ribeiro, PhD student at São Paulo State University tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Belowground effects of ground-dwelling large herbivores in forest ecosystems“ recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology

#Ecosky #Ecology

➡️ https://ow.ly/y0eY50YwZKU

A blog by Arthemis Moraru, Stefano Anile, and Sébastien Devillard tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article, “Global determinants of home range sizes in Felids: evidence of human disturbance impact”, recently published in the journal.
read it here: buff.ly/WmMdzdd

A blog by Aliénor Stahl, Marc Pépino, Andrea Bertolo and Pierre Magnan tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “behavioural tactics across thermal gradients align with partial morphological divergence in brook charr".
Read it in French: buff.ly/UXoyRwz
Read it in English: buff.ly/IZ9Iajp

Our latest blog post tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article, “demographic mechanisms of snowshoe hare population cycles in Yukon, Canada”, authored by Charles Krebs, Stan Boutin and Rudy Boonstra.
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🐟 New Blog Post - Tropical fishes can benefit more from novel than familiar species interactions at their cold-range edges ➡️ buff.ly/KNz0CrS

Check out our #StoryBehindThePaper series for the full story behind the research ⭐

🪲New Blog Post - The Interaction of Bark Beetles, Deadwood and Woodpeckers Over Time➡️https://buff.ly/1ly0CFo

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🐦‍⬛ New Blog Post - Species co-occurrence in a ‘disturbed’ community of tropical understorey birds ➡️ buff.ly/ONc7Ard

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🐟 New Blog Post - How do your relationships shape who you are as an individual? ➡️https://buff.ly/Ortutug

Check out our #StoryBehindThePaper series on the Animal Ecology in Focus blog for the full story behind the research ⭐

Andrew Cronin tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “urban developmental environments alter tadpole phenotypes depending on origin”, in our recent blog post:
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Check out this @animalecology.bsky.social blogpost written by @macaelaskelton.bsky.social telling the #StoryBehindThePaper for our paper introducing MacaqueNet! Macaela was - and continues to be - a crucial part of the MacaqueNet behind the scenes 🐒🔧

MacaqueNet: Advancing comparative behavioural research through large‐scale collaboration We present MacaqueNet, a global community of macaque researchers who developed the first publicly searchable, standardised database on affiliative and agonistic behaviour. This cross-species database...

To celebrate our new #MacaqueNet paper, I wrote a blog for @animalecology.bsky.social. This #StoryBehindThePaper shares how we came together to build the first standardised macaque social behaviour database!

animalecologyinfocus.com/2025/04/10/m...

#Macaques #BigTeamScience #ComparativeResearch

Carlos Martínez-Núñez – Our 2024 Elton Prize Shortlisted Candidate’s #StoryBehindThePaper Carlos Martínez-Núñez (he/him) provides the story behind her paper, “Land-use change in the past 40 years explains shifts in arthropod community traits“, which was shortlisted for this year’s Elton…

Carlos Martínez-Núñez, one of our shortlisted candidates for the 2024 Elton Prize, has written his #storybehindthepaper on our blog. Read it here 🕷️
@cmarnu.bsky.social

Garrett Hopper – Our 2024 Elton Prize Shortlisted Candidate’s #StoryBehindThePaper Garrett Hopper provides the story behind his paper, “A test of the loose-equilibrium concept with long-lived organisms: evaluating temporal change in freshwater mussel communities“, which was short…

Garrett Hopper, one of our shortlisted candidates for the 2024 Elton Prize, has written his #storybehindthepaper on our blog. Read it here:

We've also written a blog post #STORYBEHINDTHEPAPER, a brief synthesis of the paper 🪶

This blog post tells the #storybehindthepaper and shows how vegetation structure influences hornbill movement decisions and resulting patterns of seed dispersal. 🌱
https://buff.ly/3C4dSFf 🌏 🧪
@nicholasjrusso.bsky.social

Catching the parasite: three-spined sticklebacks eat trem... This blog post is provided by Ana Born-Torrijos and Miros...

Check out @BornTorrijos #StoryBehindThePaper exploring how three-spined stickleback consume parasites as prey! @AnimalEcology @NINAnature animalecologyinfocus.com/2021/03/05/catching-the-...