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Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social · 5d

🌿🦋 Interested in how #land-use intensity shapes #moth communities? Check out this BE-paper in @animalecology.bsky.social
🌳 #Forests host higher abundance & diversity than grasslands. 🌡️Temperature is a key factor. It's all a complex interplay of habitat , LUI and weather.
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Habitat and land‐use intensity shape moth community structure across temperate forest and grassland

This study reveals how land-use intensity, plant diversity, weather and artificial light interact to shape moth diversity across forests and grasslands. Using 300 plots across Germany, we highlight h...

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Oliver Poole @ollypoole.bsky.social · 2d

Hoverflies on oil rigs… read this blog I wrote on our most recent lab paper exploring this phenomenon.

Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 5d

"This study utilises samples from an oil rig operator to determine migratory movements of #hoverflies and the pollen they transport across the North Sea and discuss long-distance #pollination."🛢️
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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 21h

🐸Poison frog chemical defences are influenced by environmental availability and dietary selectivity for ants ➡️ buff.ly/NyBIPVP

Rodriguez et al., link spatial variation in leaf litter ant communities to frog chemical defences.

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Ecol. Solutions & Evidence | Applied Ecol. Resources @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social · 22h

Our latest podcast series 'Included in Nature with Clare Rishbeth' explores the barriers to nature inclusion for various communities and the ways in which we can overcome them 🌱

This discussion is based on four reports deposited in Applied Ecology Resources 📚

Listen here 👇
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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 1d

🐝Complex effects of climatic variation on bumblebee queen fitness ➡️ buff.ly/072FsSd

Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 4d

🪸Habitat loss triggers a social chain reaction: adult reef fish crowd onto remaining coral, then spill over onto dead coral - and juveniles follow. This study reveals a novel, socially driven “bandwagon effect” that may lead to ecological traps. ➡️ buff.ly/MnxFMFK

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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 5d

"This study utilises samples from an oil rig operator to determine migratory movements of #hoverflies and the pollen they transport across the North Sea and discuss long-distance #pollination."🛢️
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@ejigu.bsky.social

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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 5d

We're thrilled to announce our first-ever webinar!

@hollietree.bsky.social & @pettorelli.bsky.social will be joining us to discuss how Integrated Nature-Climate Action can strengthen policy responses to biodiversity loss & climate change 🌍🧪

Learn more & register for free here 👇
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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 5d

🛢️Long-range pollen transport across the North Sea: Insights from migratory hoverflies landing on a remote oil rig ➡️ buff.ly/C6Jp8UK

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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 Research Highlight: Plasticity in a key life-history trait contributes to population cycles in an insect herbivore ➡️ buff.ly/55qz8HA

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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 6d

"Long-term research reveals new insights about the interplay between life-history trade-offs and environmental variation, and how they shape the reproductive demography of climate-sensitive mountain wildlife." 🌨️
Read the full blog here: buff.ly/ynIsT8Z

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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 7d

Beavers boost bats: Through habitat complexity and prey availability, beavers foster bat richness, activity, and feeding activity. 🦫
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Image by @vmoser.bsky.social

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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 8d

🦎 Maternal glucocorticoids have persistent effects on offspring social phenotype irrespective of opportunity for social buffering ➡️ buff.ly/i2B2Fkw

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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 11d

🪽 Long-distance dispersal is asymmetrical with respect to age, sex and breeding latitude in a long-lived monogamous bird ➡️ buff.ly/MtWyMv6

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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 12d

📊🚨New Research Highlight - Quantifying drivers of biodiversity change through increasing data availability and improved analytical frameworks ➡️ buff.ly/IVfoQkh

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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 13d

🔬 🚨 New Research Highlight - Targeted ‘infectiosome’ for disease ecology: A new tool to answer old questions ➡️ buff.ly/5F2i8We

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CRAI Biblioteca de Biologia @craiubbiologia.bsky.social · Sep 5

🕷️"Les aranyes de tela de llençol (Psechrus clavis) capturen les cuques de llum i durant una hora -quan encara emeten llum- fan que s’apropin altres potencials preses", via @monplaneta.bsky.social

📃Art. Ref. (@animalecology.bsky.social 27 August 2025): tinyurl.com/49js3re4 (🔒Subscrit)

Les aranyes tenen un curiós, i macabre, mecanisme per atrapar les seves preses

Aquest mecanisme augmenta l'efectivitat fins a 10 vegades més

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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 16d

PAPER hints at ecological traps for damselfish settlement - dead corals chosen for settlement if an adult is present, could cascade to bad ends! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Led by @lisabe.bsky.social @lec-reefs.bsky.social @animalecology.bsky.social

Density dependent habitat selection in response to habitat loss in a coral reef fish

Habitat loss triggers a social chain reaction: adult reef fish crowd onto remaining coral, then spill over onto dead coral—and juveniles follow. This study reveals a novel, socially driven ‘bandwagon...

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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 14d

🧠 Relative brain size explains migratory/resident tendency in birds: Partial altitudinal migration in Asian house martins ➡️ buff.ly/Jt1lY0d

This first intraspecific test reveals the micro-evolutionary relationship between brain size and migration.

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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 15d

🌳Habitat and land-use intensity shape moth community structure across temperate forest and grassland ➡️ buff.ly/YRXzRmV

This study reveals how land-use intensity, plant diversity, weather, and artificial light interact to shape moth diversity across forests and grasslands.

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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 20d

This #PeerReviewWeek we'd like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has reviewed for us over the last year
📖 we really appreciate the time and effort spent in helping us to publish quality research
🌟a full list of our reviewers can be found here: buff.ly/OPHAFz6

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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 20d

Did you know that all of our journals offer authors the chance to improve their manuscript's clarity for free? ✍️

This #PeerReviewWeek check out our post which explains why we made the decision to offer the Writefull service to all 👇

https://f.mtr.cool/rooofhshdm

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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 21d

This year's winners have been announced for our ECR Reviewer Prize! 🏆🌎🧪

This #PeerReviewWeek, we're highlighting the vital role that many #ECRs play in #PeerReview. Find out more below 👇

appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/09/16/w...

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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 22d

🚨 Social network dynamics under experimental manipulations of predation risk and food abundance in wild rock hyraxes ➡️ buff.ly/yjaJRvQ

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Tim Bonebrake @bonebraking.bsky.social · 26d

A mini review/perspective (with Eugene) on Guilbault et al. 2025 in @animalecology.bsky.social - Quantifying drivers of biodiversity change through increasing data availability and improved analytical frameworks besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Quantifying drivers of biodiversity change through increasing data availability and improved analytical frameworks

This research highlight introduces the analytical framework developed by Guilbault et al. (2025). Their framework employs a joint species distribution model to project species' distributions, followe...

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