Understanding how species competing for similar resources coexist and influence each other has been, and still is, one of the big questions of community ecology. This question has often been tackled ...

This blog post is provided by Nicolas Bekka and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Paler within the city: carotenoid-based colouration covaries negatively with the proportion of imperv…

Abstract. Although strong evidence links social connectedness to improved fitness, there is pronounced among-individual variation in social behaviour. This

Using more than 90,000 body mass measures of adult and nestling great tits Parus major, we show that the 1 SD decline in adult mass between 1978 and 2024 is a consequence of changes in the environmen....

A collaborative project with wildlife rescue centres across Europe to understand how heatwaves and extreme weather affect swift nestlings and fledglings, using large-scale rescue and admission data.

AbstractHuman-induced rapid environmental change is intensifying globally. Urbanization, a major form of human-induced rapid environmental change, alters ecosystems and exposes wildlife to environment...

Information on large gull colour ringing projects undertaken in North-west England

Reflections from our Executive Editor, Dr Nate Sanders Image of Charles Elton. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Nearly 100 years ago, a 27-year-old Charles Elton published Animal Ecology, a foundational b…

Despite technological advances in both tracking and sequencing technologies, finding the genetic mechanisms behind migratory traits remains a challenge. Recent studies have shown that migratory direc...

Mosquito microbiota influences mosquito physiology and pathogen development, finally affecting their vectorial capacity. Identifying the factors that affect the composition of mosquito microbial commu...

We investigated what factor contributes to a cline of a chromosomal inversion of the Eurasian blackcap, which differs from typical inversion clines maintained by divergent selection. Using a simulati...