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Animal Ecology in Focus

Marco Fioratti Junod (he/him) provides the story behind his paper, “Herbivory mediates the response of below-ground food-webs to invasive grasses“, which was shortlisted for this year’s Elton Prize. We also hear a little about his journey into animal ecology. About the paper: What is your shortlisted paper about, and what are you seeking to answer with your research? The study deals with the comb…

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Animal Ecology in Focus

Ameli Kirse (she/her) provides the story behind her paper, “The clockwork of insect activity: advancing ecological understanding through automation“, which was shortlisted for this year’s Elton Prize. We also hear a little about her journey into animal ecology. About the paper: What is your shortlisted paper about, and what are you seeking to answer with your research? In this paper, we explore h…

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Animal Ecology in Focus

Alex Maisey (he/him) provides the story behind his paper, “Foraging activity by an ecosystem engineer, the superb lyrebird, ‘farms’ its invertebrate prey“, which was shortlisted for this year’s Elton Prize. We also hear a little about his journey into animal ecology. About the paper What is your shortlisted paper about, and what are you seeking to answer with your research? Our paper,“foraging ac…

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Methods Blog

Post provided by MATT MALISHEV (@DARWINANDDAVIS) Changes in temperature and available food determine where and when animals move, reproduce, and survive. Our understanding of how environmental change impacts biodiversity and species survival is well-established at the landscape, country and global scales. But, we know less about what could happen at finer space and time scales, such as within hab…

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