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:

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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