Rodrigo Ramírez-Álvarez, Townsend A. Peterson, Sergio Contreras, Konrad Górski
{"title":"Effects of biotic interactions on ecological niche dynamics: Low niche equivalence among amphidromous fish life-history strategies","authors":"Rodrigo Ramírez-Álvarez, Townsend A. Peterson, Sergio Contreras, Konrad Górski","doi":"10.1111/1365-2656.70079","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1365-2656.70079","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":14934,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Animal Ecology","volume":"94 9","pages":"1739-1756"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144325818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"For sea slugs, bright colours may warn off predators—but only in the daytime","authors":"Hannah I. Weller, Alison R. Davis Rabosky","doi":"10.1111/1365-2656.70075","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1365-2656.70075","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Research Highlight:</b> van den Berg, C. P., Hassler, G., Blomberg, S., Wilson, N., Suchard, M., & Cheney, K. (2025). Diel activity correlates with colour pattern morphology of heterobranch sea slugs. <i>Journal of Animal Ecology</i>, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.70036. The ecological drivers of colour evolution in marine systems provide an important comparison to studies in terrestrial species that traditionally receive more research attention. However, many studies have historically been limited by lack of (1) standardised colour pattern data across well-resolved phylogenies and (2) methodological approaches that objectively assess colouration as a highly multidimensional trait. In a recent study, van den Berg et al. (2025) combined a novel phylogenetic tree with Quantitative Colour Pattern Analysis (QCPA) to test hypotheses about ecological correlates of colouration in highly charismatic Australian sea slugs. The authors found that diurnal activity was tightly correlated with bold patterning and high contrast of colour, luminance and overall pattern elements, and that a reliable set of 55 colour traits could accurately predict diel activity in nearly 90% of species. These results provide an exciting case study for future analyses of multidimensional colour patterns and advance our understanding of how ecological interactions can shape colour phenotypes that span highly variable signalling environments, especially in marine organisms so profoundly understudied relative to terrestrial taxa.</p>","PeriodicalId":14934,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Animal Ecology","volume":"94 9","pages":"1606-1609"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1365-2656.70075","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144316990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi-dimensional tolerance to low temperature for high-latitude invasion success by the rapidly expanding golden mussel","authors":"Miaolian Zhang, Shiguo Li, Fuwen Wang, Jialan Zhu, Ying Zhang, Aibin Zhan","doi":"10.1111/1365-2656.70078","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1365-2656.70078","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":14934,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Animal Ecology","volume":"94 9","pages":"1720-1738"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144274919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Enrico Pirotta, Leslie New, Alejandro Fernandez Ajó, K. C. Bierlich, Clara N. Bird, C. Loren Buck, Lisa Hildebrand, Kathleen E. Hunt, John Calambokidis, Leigh G. Torres
{"title":"Body size, nutritional state and endocrine state are associated with calving probability in a long-lived marine species","authors":"Enrico Pirotta, Leslie New, Alejandro Fernandez Ajó, K. C. Bierlich, Clara N. Bird, C. Loren Buck, Lisa Hildebrand, Kathleen E. Hunt, John Calambokidis, Leigh G. Torres","doi":"10.1111/1365-2656.70068","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1365-2656.70068","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":14934,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Animal Ecology","volume":"94 7","pages":"1422-1434"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1365-2656.70068","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144274885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mauricio Almeida-Gomes, Andreza Soares de Siqueira, Vitor Nelson Teixeira Borges-Júnior, Maria Anita Tozzi, Rodrigo da Fonseca da Silva, Marcus Vinícius Vieira, Jayme Augusto Prevedello
{"title":"An experimental test of the importance of isolated trees for frog diversity in tropical landscapes","authors":"Mauricio Almeida-Gomes, Andreza Soares de Siqueira, Vitor Nelson Teixeira Borges-Júnior, Maria Anita Tozzi, Rodrigo da Fonseca da Silva, Marcus Vinícius Vieira, Jayme Augusto Prevedello","doi":"10.1111/1365-2656.70081","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1365-2656.70081","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":14934,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Animal Ecology","volume":"94 7","pages":"1449-1460"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1365-2656.70081","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144284433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David López-Idiáquez, Claire Doutrelant, Peter B. Pearman
{"title":"Global patterns of colouration complexity in the Paridae: Effects of climate and species characteristics across body regions","authors":"David López-Idiáquez, Claire Doutrelant, Peter B. Pearman","doi":"10.1111/1365-2656.70077","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1365-2656.70077","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":14934,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Animal Ecology","volume":"94 7","pages":"1461-1473"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1365-2656.70077","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144274918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sex-specific plasticity in Alpine ibex migration timing","authors":"Franziska Hacker, Matthias-Claudio Loretto","doi":"10.1111/1365-2656.70073","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1365-2656.70073","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Research Highlight:</b> Chauveau, V., Garel, M., Toïgo, C., Anderwald, P., Apollonio, M., Bassano, B., Beurier, M., Bouche, M., Brambilla, A., Brivio, F., Bunz, Y., Cagnacci, F., Canut, M., Cavailhes, J., Champly, I., Filli, F., Frey-Roos, A., Gressmann, G., Grignolio, S., Herfindal, I., Jurgeit, F., Martinelli, L., Maurino, L., Papet, R., Petit, E., Ramanzin, M., Semenzato, P., Vannard, E., Coulon, A., Loison, A. and Marchand, P. (2025). It's time to go—Drivers and plasticity of migration phenology in a short-distance migratory ungulate. <i>Journal of Animal Ecology</i>. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.70031. Timing strongly influences the benefits animals derive from migration, particularly in herbivores that track vegetation phenology. Yet, despite increasing environmental variability under climate change, little research has focused on the plasticity of individuals' migration decisions and the population-level consequences of such adaptations. Chauveau et al. (2025) investigate the environmental drivers and sex-specific plasticity of migration timing in Alpine ibex (<i>Capra ibex</i>) by integrating long-term movement data from 17 populations, with a particular focus on individual variation. They find that males exhibit greater behavioural plasticity than females, especially in springs with unusually early or late peaks in vegetation green-up. The reduced plasticity in females' spring migration departure is suggested to arise from trade-offs between access to forage and predation avoidance. Interestingly, this difference disappeared when analysis was restricted to repeat migrants, with both sexes performing similarly well, challenging assumptions about fixed reproductive constraints on migratory plasticity. Instead, the patterns reported by Chauveau et al. (2025) seem to point towards a more complex combination of factors underlying migratory plasticity, including reproductive status, experience, social environment and susceptibility to heat stress. These results underscore the importance of long-term, individual-level monitoring to assess migratory patterns and plasticity. Chauveau and colleagues' work lays the foundation for a more nuanced understanding of migration, highlighting how individual traits and behavioural plasticity shape adaptive responses to shifting environmental conditions. Understanding individual behavioural variation may be key to assessing population resilience in the face of rapidly changing environmental conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":14934,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Animal Ecology","volume":"94 9","pages":"1614-1617"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1365-2656.70073","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144274920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Łukasz Jermacz, Krzysztof Podwysocki, Andrea Desiderato, Karolina Bącela-Spychalska, Tomasz Rewicz, Eliza Szczerkowska-Majchrzak, Mateusz Augustyniak, Vojsava Gjoni, Jarosław Kobak
{"title":"The same species, not the same invader: Metabolic responses of genetically distinct invasive populations of Dikerogammarus villosus and their intraspecific hybrid to environmental stresses","authors":"Łukasz Jermacz, Krzysztof Podwysocki, Andrea Desiderato, Karolina Bącela-Spychalska, Tomasz Rewicz, Eliza Szczerkowska-Majchrzak, Mateusz Augustyniak, Vojsava Gjoni, Jarosław Kobak","doi":"10.1111/1365-2656.70072","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1365-2656.70072","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":14934,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Animal Ecology","volume":"94 9","pages":"1665-1679"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1365-2656.70072","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144258099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Keller Kopf, Luke McPhan, Paul J. McInerney, Brenton Zampatti, Jason Thiem, Wayne Koster, Gavin L. Butler, Nick Bond, Ross M. Thompson
{"title":"Intraspecific body size determines isotopic trophic structure of a large river fish community","authors":"R. Keller Kopf, Luke McPhan, Paul J. McInerney, Brenton Zampatti, Jason Thiem, Wayne Koster, Gavin L. Butler, Nick Bond, Ross M. Thompson","doi":"10.1111/1365-2656.70069","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1365-2656.70069","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":14934,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Animal Ecology","volume":"94 7","pages":"1435-1448"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1365-2656.70069","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144247991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}