🔟🐢A decade of tracking reveals strong nest site fidelity in four Galapagos giant tortoise species
📸 Carlos Espinosa
#Accelerometry #GalápagosTortoises #NestSiteFidelity #NestingPhenology #Reproduction #ReproductiveFrequency

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One of the leading peer-reviewed journals in ecology, owned by the @nordicoikos.bsky.social. Publishes research papers where different aspects of ecology are brought together.
🔟🐢A decade of tracking reveals strong nest site fidelity in four Galapagos giant tortoise species
📸 Carlos Espinosa
#Accelerometry #GalápagosTortoises #NestSiteFidelity #NestingPhenology #Reproduction #ReproductiveFrequency
New Paper Alert! 📢🧪
The remarkable population increase in Finnish white-tailed #eagles 🦅 was driven by high adult survival, although there are spatial differences. Interested to find out more? The paper is open access! shorturl.at/EEQE2 #raptor #conservation @oikosjournal.bsky.social @utu.fi
↗️🗺️Drivers of stability in plankton communities: dominance, asynchrony, and averaging effects across temporal, spatial and trophic scales
#Asynchrony #CompensatoryDynamics #DiversityStabilityRelationship #Plankton #Stability
🐝🧊Unshared on the top: strong segregation of pathogen communities between western honey bees and wild bees in a retreating glacier foreland
#DeformedWingVirus #GlacierRetreat #NosemaCeranae #NicheDifferentiation #PathogenTransmission #PlantBeeNetworks
🌊🔗Limited connectivity of zooplankton communities across the Labrador Front: role of physical oceanography, insights from individual motility
#LabradorSea #MarineConservationAreas #ReynoldNumber #ShelfBreakFront #ZooplanktonSwimming
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🦊🦆Experimental and field evidence indicate that islet-nesting tundra birds experience reduced nest predation and benefit indirectly from high snow goose densities
📷 Louis-Pierre Ouellet
I'm very proud of my next first-author publication, this time in @oikosjournal.bsky.social!
We analysed the breeding #niche of four #raptor species using a novel method for #NicheOverlap of multiple species & found possible factors promoting or hindering #coexistence: doi.org/10.1002/oik....
🔬🏚️Ranavirus risk depends on host community characteristics more than the presence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
#Chytridiomycosis #CoInfection #CommunityEcology #InfectiousDisease #InvasionBiology #Parasitology #Virology
📰Arantzazu López de Luzuriaga Gamboa, IICG researcher, is co-author of the new article "Common‐garden experimental evaluation of phylogenetic and functional diversity as drivers of plant performance", published in Oikos @oikosjournal.bsky.social.
👀Read it here👇
doi.org/10.1002/oik....
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🌳📉Beyond the forest canopy: contrasting strategies of frugivory and seed dispersal across tropical forest–savanna–grassland gradients
#DispersalSyndrome #DispersalVectors #FruitSize #FruitFrugivoreNetworks #Philomatry #SeedSize
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🐇🌅Home and away: allometry and climate drive morphology of European rabbits in their native and introduced range
📸 Michael S. Y. Lee
#Adaptation #InvasiveSpecies #MorphologicalChange #OryctolagusCuniculus
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