We are very excited to have Meike Wittmann join our team at Oikos as a Subject Editor. She is a Junior Professor at Bielefeld University in Germany and specializes in evolutionary and theoretical ecology. She has kindly told us a bit more about herself and her research...
Please join me in welcoming Lizzy Lowe as one of our new Subject Editors! She is a postdoc in the Behavioural Ecology Group at Macquarie University in Australia. Read through her interview and get to know her better! lizzylowe.net | @LizyLowe 1. What's your main...
The role of the nutritional quality of resources in ecosystem functioning. Special issue in Oikos: Call for paper Dear Colleagues, We cordially invite you to submit manuscripts to a special issue of Oikos on the role of the nutritional quality of resources in ecosystem...
December's cover portrays a jumping spider ( Marpissa muscosa ) from behavioural study "Individual differences in risk‐taking affect foraging across different landscapes of fear" by Steinhoff et al. (2020). Abstract One of the strongest determinants of behavioural...
Urbanization drives an early spring for plants but not for pollinators The sharp increase of urban areas and the associated human population in the last century has put growing pressure on native animal and plant species, as they are threatened by habitat destruction...