In Focus

In Focus articles are short pieces in each issue of Journal of Animal Ecology that draw attention to papers of high-interest published in the same issue these are free to read online. The In Focus articles act as mini-reviews that expand the context of the paper they are featuring (the latest paper is always free to read online). Read the latest In Focus articles and the papers they highlight below:

January 2012 (Issue 81:1)

In Focus: Transient host–parasitoid dynamics illuminate the practice of biological pest control (pages 1–3)
Nicholas J. Mills

The role of transient dynamics in biological pest control: insights from a host–parasitoid community (pages 47–57)
David Kidd and Priyanga Amarasekare

November 2011 (Issue 80:6)

In Focus: The predictive science of community ecology (pages 1111–1114)
Mark Emmerson

Convergence of trophic interaction strengths in grassland food webs through metabolic scaling of herbivore biomass (pages 1330–1336)
Oswald J. Schmitz and Jessica R. Price

September 2011 (Issue 80:5)

In Focus: Differences in relative fitness among alternative mating tactics might be more apparent than real (pages 905-907)
Steven M Shuster

Relative fitness of alternative male reproductive tactics in a mammal varies between years (pages 908-917)
Carsten Schradin and Anna K. Lindholm

July 2011 (Issue 80:4)

In Focus: Landscape nutrition: seeing the forest instead of the trees (pages 707-709)
John Pastor

Soil nutrient status determines how elephant utilize trees and shape environments (pages 875-883)
Yolanda Pretorius, Fred W. de Boer, Cornelis van der Waal, Henjo J. de Knegt, Rina C. Grant, Nicky M. Knox, Edward M. Kohi, Emmanuel Mwakiwa, Bruce R. Page, Mike J. S. Peel, Andrew K. Skidmore, Rob Slotow, Sipke E. van Wieren, Herbert H. T. Prins

May 2011 (Issue 80:3)

In Focus: Heating up relations between cold fish: competition modifies responses to climate change (pages 505-507)
Mark C. Urban, Robert D. Holt, Sarah E. Gilman and Joshua Tewksbury

Ice-cover effects on competitive interactions between two fish species (pages 539-547). Ingeborg P. Helland, Anders G. Finstad, Torbjørn Forseth, Trygve Hesthagen, Ola Ugedal

March 2011 (Issue 80:2)

In Focus: Response of ecosystems to realistic extinction sequences (pages 307–309)
Bo Ebenman

The Serengeti food web: empirical quantification and analysis of topological changes under increasing human impact (pages 484–494)
Sara N. de Visser, Bernd P. Freymann, Han Olff

January 2011 (Issue 80:1)

In Focus: Breathing some air into the single-species vacuum: multi-species responses to environmental change (p1-3)
Michael A. McCarthy

A multispecies perspective on ecological impacts of climatic forcing (p 101-107)
Crispin M. Mutshinda, Robert B. O’Hara, Ian P. Woiwod

November 2010 (Issue 79:6)

In Focus: A large trophic quilt (p1143-1145)
Thomas M. Lewinsohn

Guild-specific patterns of species richness and host specialization in plant–herbivore food webs from a tropical forest (p 1193–1203)
Vojtech Novotny et al.

September 2010 (Issue 79:5)

In Focus: Partial migration in tropical birds: the frontier of movement ecology (p 933-936)
Cagan H. Sekercioglu

Determinants of partial bird migration in the Amazon Basin (p 983-982)
Alex E. Jahn1,Douglas J. Levey, Jeffrey A. Hostetler, Ana María Mamani

July 2010 (Issue 79:4)

In Focus: Red in tooth and claw: how top predators shape terrestrial ecosystems (p 723-725)
Christopher N. Johnson

Top predators, mesopredators and their prey: interference ecosystems along bioclimatic productivity gradients (p 785-794)
B. Elmhagen, G. Ludwig, S. P. Rushton, P. Helle, H. Lindén

May 2010 (Issue 79:3)

In Focus: Safety in numbers: extinction arising from predator-driven Allee effects
Stephen D. Gregory and Franck Courchamp

Experimental demonstration of population extinction due to a predator-driven Allee effect
Andrew M. Kramer, John M. Drake

March 2010 (Issue 79:2)

In Focus:Transgenerational immune priming as cryptic parental care
Jukka Jokela

Paternally derived immune priming for offspring in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum
Olivia Roth, Gerrit Joop, Hendrik Eggert, Jonas Hilbert, Jens Daniel, Paul Schmid-Hempel, Joachim Kurtz

January 2010 (Issue 79:1)

In Focus: Environmental Variance, Population Growth and Evolution
Shripad Tuljapurkar

Stochastic demography and population dynamics in the red kangaroo Macropus rufus
Niclas Jonzén, Tony Pople, Jonas Knape, Martin Sköld

November 2009 (Issue 78:6)

In Focus: The physiology of predator stress in free-ranging prey
Evan L Preisser

The sensitive hare: sublethal effects of predator stress on reproduction in snowshoe hares
Michael J. Sheriff, Charles J. Krebs, Rudy Boonstra

September 2009 (Issue 78:5)

In Focus: Six degrees of Apodemus separation
Hamish McCallum

Comparison of social networks derived from ecological data: implications for inferring infectious disease dynamics
Sarah E. Perkins, Francesca Cagnacci, Anna Stradiotto, Daniele Arnoldi, Peter J. Hudson

July 2009 (Issue 78:4)

In Focus: Disentangling multiple predator effects in biodiversity and ecosystem functioning research
Shawn J Leroux and Michel Loreau

Predator richness has no effect in a diverse marine food web
Mary I. O'Connor and John F. Bruno

May 2009 (Issue 78:3)

In Focus: Infectious food webs
Andrew P. Beckerman and Owen L. Petchey

Food web topology and parasites in the pelagic zone of a subarctic lake
Per-Arne Amundsen et al.

March 2009 (Issue 78:2)

In Focus: High and low, fast or slow: the complementary contributions of altitude and latitude to understand life-history variation
B. Irene Tieleman

Breeding in high-elevation habitat results in shift to slower life-history strategy within a single species
H Bears et al.

January 2009 (Issue 78:1)

In Focus: Global warming tugs at trophic interactions
Barry W. Brook

Climate change and unequal phenological changes across four trophic levels: constraints or adaptations?
Christiaan Both et al.

November 2008 (Issue 77:6)

In Focus: Cross-disciplinary demands of multihost pathogens
Daniel T Haydon

Dynamics of a multihost pathogen in a carnivore community
M.E Craft et al.

September 2008 (Issue 77:5)

In Focus: To breathe or not to breathe: optimal strategies for finding prey in a dark, three-dimensional environment
Mark Hindell

Cheetahs of the deep sea: deep foraging sprints in short-finned pilot whales off Tenerife (Canary Islands)
Natacha Aguilar Soto et al.

July 2008 (Issue 77:4)

In Focus: On being the right size: food-limited feedback on optimal body size
Anthony R.E Sinclair

Feedback effects of chronic browsing on life-history traits of a large herbivore
M. Anouk Simard et al.

May 2008 (Issue 77:3)

In Focus: How helpers help: disentangling ecological confounds from the benefits of cooperative breeding
Jonathan Wright and Andrew F Russell

Can we measure the benefits of help in cooperatively breeding birds: the case of superb fairy-wrens Malurus cyaneus?
Andrew Cockburn et al.

March 2008 (Issue 77:2)

In Focus: Parasites as weapons of mouse destruction
Richard S Ostfeld

The interaction of parasites and resources cause crashes in a wild mouse population
Amy B Pedersen and Timothy J Greives

January 2008 (Issue 77:1)

In Focus: Having your water and drinking it too: resource limitation modifies density regulation
Corey J.A Bradshaw

Resource variability, aggregation and direct density dependence in an open context: the local regulation of an African elephant population
Simon Chamaillé-Jammes et al.

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