http://www.journalofanimalecology.org current issue RSS Feed http://www.journalofanimalecology.org/details/journalArticle/741559/Red_in_tooth_and_claw_how_top_predators_shape_terrestrial_ecosystems_.html Elmhagen, B., Ludwig, G., Rushton, S.P., Helle, P. & Linden, H. (2010) Top predators, mesopredators and their prey: interference ecosystems along bioclimatic productivity gradients. Journal of Animal Ecology79, 785–794. Top predators are increasingly recognized as important regulators of ecosystem structure. Elmhagen et al. in this issue show how a... 2010-06-07T00:00:00Z http://www.journalofanimalecology.org/details/journalArticle/590379/Safety_in_numbers_extinction_arising_from_predatordriven_Allee_effects_.html A.M. Kramer & J.M. Drake (2010) Experimental demonstration of population extinction due to a predator‐driven Allee effect. Journal of Animal Ecology, 79, 633–639. Experimental evidence of extinction via an Allee effect (AE) is a priority as more species become threatened by human activity. Kramer & Drake (2010) begin the International Year of... 2010-03-22T00:00:00Z http://www.journalofanimalecology.org/details/journalArticle/558687/Transgenerational_immune_priming_as_cryptic_parental_care_.html O. Roth, G. Joop, H. Eggert, J. Hilbert, J. Daniel, P. Schmid‐Hempel & J. Kurtz (2009) Paternally derived immune priming for offspring in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum. Journal of Animal Ecology, 79, 403–413. Eggs are relatively large and can provide offspring with resources that improve their survival. While such maternal effects are... 2010-02-05T00:00:00Z http://www.journalofanimalecology.org/details/journalArticle/493287/Environmental_variance_population_growth_and_evolution_.html N. Jonzén, T. Pople, K. Knape & M. Skjöld (2009) Stochastic demography and population dynamics in the red kangaroo (Macropus rufus). Journal of Animal Ecology, 79, 109–116. Environmental fluctuations on time scales of one to tens of generations are increasingly recognized as important determinants of population dynamics and microevolution. Jonzén... 2009-12-11T00:00:00Z http://www.journalofanimalecology.org/details/journalArticle/399289/The_physiology_of_predator_stress_in_freeranging_prey_.html M.J. Sheriff, C.J. Krebs & R. Boonstra (2009) The sensitive hare: sublethal effects of predator stress on reproduction in snowshoe hares. Journal of Animal Ecology, 78, 1249–1258. Ecologists have only begun to understand the physiological mechanisms underlying individual‐ and population‐level responses of prey‐ to predator‐related stress. Sheriff,... 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z http://www.journalofanimalecology.org/details/journalArticle/288217/Six_degrees_of_Apodemus_separation_.html S.E. Perkins, F. Cagnacci, A. Stradiotto, D. Arnoldi & P.J. Hudson (2009) A comparison of social networks derived from ecological data: implications for inferring infectious disease dynamics. Journal of Animal Ecology, 78, 1015–1022. Social network analysis has been widely used to help understand the transmission of human diseases. Its application to wildlife ... 2009-07-29T00:00:00Z http://www.journalofanimalecology.org/details/journalArticle/235211/Disentangling_multiple_predator_effects_in_biodiversity_and_ecosystem_functionin.html 2009-06-04T00:00:00Z http://www.journalofanimalecology.org/details/journalArticle/178291/Infectious_food_webs_.html 2009-03-31T00:00:00Z http://www.journalofanimalecology.org/details/journalArticle/166443/Lifetime_reproductive_success_in_relation_to_morphology_in_the_house_sparrow_Pas.html Summary 1In this study we relate variation in lifetime reproductive success (LRS) of male and female house sparrows Passer domesticus to morphological characteristics. 2Our analyses demonstrated no sex‐specific difference in the distribution of LRS. The variance in LRS was influenced mainly by variation in individual annual reproductive success, and to a lesser extent by variation in individual ... 2004-06-16T00:00:00Z http://www.journalofanimalecology.org/details/journalArticle/166465/Predatorprey_body_size_interaction_strength_and_the_stability_of_a_real_food_web.html Summary 1We examined the empirical relationship between predator–prey body size ratio and interaction strength in the Ythan Estuary food web. 2We have refined a previously published version of the food web and explored how size‐based predatory effects might affect food web dynamics. To do so, we used four predatory species Crangon crangon (Linnaeus), Carcinus maenas (Linnaeus),... 2004-04-16T00:00:00Z http://www.journalofanimalecology.org/details/journalArticle/166487/Demography_of_fluctuating_populations_temporal_and_phaserelated_changes_in_vital.html Summary 1Small mammal population fluctuations, cyclic or not, have been an ecological puzzle and a source of heated debate among ecologists. Identifying the demographic parameters that covary closely with density changes can help elucidate the underlying causes of population fluctuations, but few studies have reported rigorous estimates of these parameters. 2We applied... 2004-03-01T00:00:00Z http://www.journalofanimalecology.org/details/journalArticle/166505/Host_reproduction_and_a_sexually_transmitted_disease_causes_and_consequences_of_.html Summary 1We know that sexually transmitted parasites and pathogens have extremely deleterious effects in human and domesticated animal populations, but know little of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in natural populations. 2One previously reported natural system is the sexually transmitted mite, Coccipolipus hippodamiae, on the eastern European coccinellid, Adalia bipunctata. Our aims were to... 2004-01-06T00:00:00Z http://www.journalofanimalecology.org/details/journalArticle/166524/On_the_relation_between_temporal_variability_and_persistence_time_in_animal_popu.html Summary 1The relationship between temporal variability, spectral redness and population persistence for a large number of long‐term time series was investigated. Although both intuition and theory suggest that more variability in population abundance would mean greater probability of extinction, previous empirical support for this view has not been conclusive. Possible reasons are the shortage of... 2003-11-10T00:00:00Z http://www.journalofanimalecology.org/details/journalArticle/166544/Parks_Tribolium_competition_experiments_a_nonequilibrium_species_coexistence_hyp.html Summary 1In this journal 35 years ago, P. H. Leslie, T. Park and D. B. Mertz reported competitive exclusion data for two Tribolium species. It is less well‐known that they also reported ‘difficult to interpret’ coexistence data. We suggest that the species exclusion and the species coexistence are consequences of a stable coexistence two‐cycle in the presence of two stable competitive exclusion equilibria. ... 2003-08-15T00:00:00Z http://www.journalofanimalecology.org/details/journalArticle/166564/Behavioural_responses_to_habitat_patch_boundaries_restrict_dispersal_and_generat.html Summary 1We studied the consequences of behaviour at habitat patch boundaries on dispersal for the bog fritillary butterfly Proclossiana eunomia Esper in two networks of habitat differing in fragmentation and matrix quality. We tested for differences in responses to patch boundaries according to the fragmentation level of the network by analysing movement paths of adult butterflies. 2Butterflies... 2003-07-03T00:00:00Z