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:
May2013 (Issue 82:3)
In Focus: Inadvertent consequences of fishing: the case of the sex-changing shrimp (pages 495–497)
Isabelle Côté
Maladaptive sex ratio adjustment by a sex-changing shrimp in selective-fishing environments (pages 632–641)
Susumu Chiba et al.
March 2013 (Issue 82:2)
In Focus: Who's hot and who's not: ocean warming alters species dominance through competitive displacement (pages 287–289)
Ivan Nagelkerken & Stephen Simpson
Climate change exacerbates interspecific interactions in sympatric coastal fishes (pages 468–477)
Marco Milazzo et al.
January 2013 (Issue 82:1)
In Focus: Predicting responses to climate change requires all life-history stages (pages 3–5)
Sara Zeigler
Each life stage matters: the importance of assessing response to climate change over the complete life cycle in butterflies (pages 275–285)
Viktoriia Radchuk et al.
November 2012 (Issue 81:6)
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In Focus: Stress as a modifier of biodiversity effects on ecosystem processes? (pages 1143–1145)
Mark Gessner & Jes Hines
Testing the stress-gradient hypothesis with aquatic detritivorous invertebrates: insights for biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research (pages 1259–1267)
Vincent Fugère et al.
September 2012 (Issue 81:5)
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In Focus: Unpacking the impoverished nature of secondary forests (pages 937–939)
Catherine Parr
Why are there more arboreal ant species in primary than in secondary tropical forests? (pages 1103–1112)
Petr Klimes et al.
July 2012 (Issue 81:4)
In Focus: The lengths birds will go to avoid incest (pages 735–737)
Robert Heinsohn
Inbreeding avoidance mechanisms: dispersal dynamics in cooperatively breeding southern pied babblers (pages 876–833)
Martha Nelson-Flower et al.
May 2012 (Issue 81:3)
In Focus: Unravelling stability-complexity relationships (pages 513–515)
Alan Hastings
Bottom-up effects of species diversity on the functioning and stability of food webs (pages 701–713)
Anita Narwani & Asit Mazumder
March 2012 (Issue 81:2)
In Focus: The role of phylogeny in desert rodent community assembly (pages 307–309)
James H. Brown
Phylogenetic structure illuminates the mechanistic role of environmental heterogeneity in community organization (pages 455–462)
Richard D. Stevens et al.
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 & 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 & 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
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Relative fitness of alternative male reproductive tactics in a mammal varies between years (pages 908–917)
Carsten Schradin & Anna K. Lindholm
July 2011 (Issue 80:4)
In Focus: Landscape nutrition: seeing the forest instead of the trees (pages 707–709)
John Pastor
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Soil nutrient status determines how elephant utilize trees and shape environments (pages 875–883)
Yolanda Pretorius et al
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 et al
Ice-cover effects on competitive interactions between two fish species (pages 539-547)
Ingeborg P. Helland et al
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 et al
January 2011 (Issue 80:1)
In Focus: Breathing some air into the single-species vacuum: multi-species responses to environmental change (pages 1–3)
Michael A. McCarthy
A multispecies perspective on ecological impacts of climatic forcing (pages 101–107)
Crispin M. Mutshinda et al
November 2010 (Issue 79:6)
In Focus: A large trophic quilt (pages 1143–1145)
Thomas M. Lewinsohn
Guild-specific patterns of species richness and host specialization in plant–herbivore food webs from a tropical forest (pages 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. Jahn et al
July 2010 (Issue 79:4)
In Focus: Red in tooth and claw: how top predators shape terrestrial ecosystems
(pages 723-725) Christopher N. Johnson
Top predators, mesopredators and their prey: interference ecosystems along bioclimatic productivity gradients (p 785-794)
Elmhagen et al
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 and 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 et al
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 et al
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
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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
