Ecology Podcast

In this episode we talk to Matia Muller about his recently published paper 'Assessment of large-scale spatial variation in age-specific survival and age at first breeding in a long-lived species', which was published in Journal of Animal Eology.

We discuss the main findings of the paper, the importance of the results, and life as an ecologist.

Read the full paper here: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2656.70291?campaign=wolearlyview

For today's episode, Ivy is joined by Martyna Syposz, author of "Snowmelt predicts earlier breeding across the latitudinal range of an Arctic nesting seabird, the Little Auk (Alle alle)". We discussed the story behind the paper and her experience as an ecologist.

Read the full paper here: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2656.70287
Read Martyna's blog post here: https://animalecologyinfocus.com/2026/06/19/arm-deep-in-arctic-rocks-what-a-changing-arctic-means-for-little-auks/

For today's episode, Anna is joined by Mariana Hernandez-Montilla and Katie Devenish, authors of a recently published paper in People and Nature, "Forwarding forest restoration: Seven key socio-ecological issues for advancing forest restoration in a world in flux".

Katie and Mariana discuss their route into ecology, the reasons for their research, their findings, and how their discoveries can support and inform the research area moving forward.

Read their full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70254

For this episode, Edie Abrahams (Associate Blog Editor, Animal Ecology in Focus) spoke with William Hintz about his recently published paper, "invasive goldfish trigger a regime shift in experimental lake ecosystems of varying trophic state", published in the Journal of Animal Ecology.

You can read the full paper here: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2656.70259

In this podcast episode, we talk to Jenna Klein, an early career researcher who won the Robert May Prize with Methods in Ecology and Evolution for her paper focusing on the use of drones in ecology, especially in monitoring.