Volume 79, Issues 2, 3 and 4 Highlights

Articles highlighted by the Editors or readers of the journal
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Highly recommended Review paper:-
Maximal heat dissipation capacity and hyperthermia risk: neglected key factors in the ecology of endotherms
Authors; John R. Speakman and Elz.bieta Król
J Anim Ecol Vol 79 Iss 4 (pp 724-746) DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2010.01689.x

In their review Speakman and Krol suggest that capacity to dissipate heat is a major constraint on endotherm maximal metabolic rates and hence their ecology

An article highlighted in the F1000 top ten as recommended is:-
Experimental demonstration of population extinction due to a predator-driven Allee effect 
Authors; Andrew M. Kramer, John M. Drake
J Anim Ecol Vol 79 Issue 3 (pp 633-639) - DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2009.01657.x
The ubiquity of predator–prey interactions and saturating functional responses suggests predator-driven Allee effects are potentially important in determining extinction risk of a large number of species

Forum Article
Animal movement, search strategies and behavioural ecology: a cross-disciplinary way forward
Authors; Luca Giuggioli, Frederic Bartumeus
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2010.01682.x - J Anim Ecol Volume 79 Issue 4 (pp 906-909)
This Forum discusses how new technologies, tools and experimental approaches can help with understanding animal trajectories, search strategies and behavioural (foraging) ecology. We hope it will help foster greater collaboration between disciplines by clearly stating where we are and to highlight some of the avenues we could productively follow in the future.

Trematode infection causes malformations and population effects in a declining New Zealand fish
Authors; David W. Kelly, Harriet Thomas, David W. Thieltges, Robert Poulin, Daniel M. Tompkins -
J Anim Ecol Volume 79 Issue 2 (pp 445-452) - DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2009.01636.x

Freshwater ecosystems are increasingly threatened by pollution, water abstraction and disease, and these risks are often gauged by monitoring the health of animal populations. Our new research showed that parasitic worm infections were responsible for an extremely high proportion (over 60%) of spinal deformities in juvenile fish. This research linked infection-induced deformities and mortality to a dramatic crash in the fish population, but found that the main population impact was very early in the fish’s life (7-8 weeks of age), when individuals were highly susceptible.
This is the first study to show that parasite-induced deformities can have important impacts on threatened animal populations. Our work is important because parasite infection levels, and susceptibility to infection, are predicted to increase in tandem with other aquatic stressors.

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