Ecology and Conservation: Recent submissions
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Social learning preserves both useful and useless theories by canalizing learners’ exploration
(The Royal Society, 29 January 2025)In many domains, learning from others is crucial for leveraging cumulative cultural knowledge, which encapsulates the efforts of successive generations of innovators. However, anecdotal and experimental evidence suggests ... -
Gene Flow Disruption and Population Declines in a Soil Arthropod in Fragmented Habitats
(Wiley, 2025)Intensification of land use over past millennia has magnified loss and fragmentation of natural habitats. This causes reductions in population sizes and restricts gene flow, processes that amplify genetic drift with pro-found ... -
The perceptual effects of signal components: black sword margins are crucial for signal size discrimination in green swordtails Xiphophorus hellerii
(The Royal Society, 29 January 2025)The signals that mediate mate choice can be complex, comprising multiple components, and understanding how complex signals evolve under sexual selection has been the focus of much study. However, open questions still remain ... -
Advancing marine ecological research: novel frameworks and methods for elasmobranch behavioural research in coastal and open-ocean systems
(University of Exeter Centre for Ecology and Conservation, 16 December 2024)With marked declines in populations globally, understanding the spatial ecology of elasmobranchs is critical for effective conservation and management. Terrestrial and aerial behavioural ecology has developed approaches ... -
Distinctive and highly variable bird migration system revealed in Eastern Australia
(Cell Press, 22 October 2024)Our understanding of bird migration is heavily biased toward long-distance movements in the Northern Hemisphere,1,2,3 with only fragmented knowledge from the Southern Hemisphere.4,5 In Australia, while some species ...