We combined two major theories in ecology to investigate whether warming may have general effects on competition for shared resources. We found that species' niche and fitness differences both decrea...

Habitat complexity (HC) in part determines the diversity, stability, and behavior of food webs and can influence predation according to a wide variety of functional relationships. Many aquatic specie....

Sweeping new investigations probe the replication, robustness and reproducibility of results across the behavioural and social sciences.

Research in Thousand Islands National Park sheds light on the forces that guide animals in a changing environment

Growth trends are producing a "strain on scientific publishing." The rates of scientific output have risen from just under 4 million publications in 2000 to over 10 million in 2024 and the total size ...

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Are reindeer and caribou really that different? And what challenges are these deer-like animals facing across the Arctic?

Abstract. The metabolic theory of ecology links the effects of temperature on metabolic rates at the cellular scale to larger-scale ecological processes, p

Part of a research team measuring the health of a woodland caribou herd on Fogo Island in Newfoundland, the University of Guelph PhD student…

Amphibians are among the most threatened groups of vertebrates worldwide and spend a significant part of their lifecycle in freshwater ecosystems. As for many freshwater organisms, monitoring thei...

A weird thing happened in scientific publishing during COVID. And it hasn’t gone away. Publications went up 30-50%. And responses to requests to review went down 30-50%. I know the actual statistic…

Bird beaks are highly adaptable, with the potential to undergo rapid morphological shifts in response to environmental change such as climatic variation or food availability. Anna's Hummingbirds (Cal...

This study presents estimates of the global expenditure on article processing charges (APCs) paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023. APCs are fees charged for publishing in some ...

Risk could vary temporally with predator activity levels or as animals age. While risk could vary spatially as a function of habitat complexity, where open habitats are risky because prey are more vis...

Doug Ford is using tariffs to create a false choice. Does Ontario really want to join Russia and China, who also have rules-free special economic zones?

Proposed Bill 5 threatens Ontario wildlife and ecosystems.

Factors that affect dispersal can have important eco-evolutionary implications. Here, we show that an inflammation and tissue repair response—peritoneal fibrosis—does not influence threespine stickle...

DNA methylation (DNAm) is a well-studied epigenetic mechanism implicated in environmentally induced phenotypes and phenotypic plasticity. However, few studies investigate the timescale of DNAm shifts...

Quebec Superior Court judge also invalidated, effective immediately, the French proficiency rules that the CAQ government had imposed.

The second edition of The Scientist’s Guide to Writing isn’t quite three years old, but I’ve been talking with the publisher about a third edition. And I want your help with it. I have to admit tha…

Baleen whales migrate from high latitude feeding grounds to subtropical reproductive winter grounds, translocating limiting nutrients across ecosystems. This study estimates the latitudinal movement o...

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Behavioural avoidance of parasites in the environment generates what is known as the ‘landscape of disgust’ (analogous to the predator-induced ‘landscape of fear’). Despite the potential for improving...

Disparities continue to pose major challenges in various aspects of science. One such aspect is editorial board composition, which has been shown t...

Habitat degradation can increase zoonotic disease risks by altering infection dynamics in wildlife and increasing wildlife–human interactions. Bats are an important taxonomic group to consider these...

Here I argue that we do not discuss experimental design, often until it is too late. This editorial seeks to begin a conversation about how and where to replicate appropriately.