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Welcome Elisa Thébault - New SE

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26 September 2025
We are happy to welcome Dr. Elise Thébault, from Paris, France, to the Oikos Editorial Board. To know more about her, read our interview below! Website : https://iees-paris.fr/annuaire/thebault-elisa/ What's your main research focus at the moment? My research mostly...

Cover September 2025

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12 September 2025
Levey et al. (2025) found in their recent research "Contrasting patterns of land use by resident and migratory bird assemblages in a tropical working landscape", in southestern Mexico, that while resident bird diversity declines with distance from protected forests and...

Cover August 2025

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12 September 2025
A long-term study of Japan’s Satoyama farmlands, conducted by Morelli et al. (2025) and titled "Avian diversity changes in traditional agricultural landscapes of Japan over ten years", shows that traditional agricultural landscapes can sustain rich bird diversity...

Welcome Zsófia Horváth - New SE

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26 August 2025
We are happy to welcome Dr. Zsófia Horváth, from Budapest, Hungary, to the Oikos Editorial Board. To know more about her, read our interview below! Website : https://metacomlab.com/ What's your main research focus at the moment? I am a community ecologist interested in...

Welcome Blanca Arroyo-Correa - New SE

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20 August 2025
We are happy to welcome Dr. Blanca Arroyo-Correa, from Seville, Spain, to the Oikos Editorial Board. To know more about her, read our interview below! Website : www.blancaarroyocorrea.com What's your main research focus at the moment? I am fascinated by the way...

Welcome Melánie Roy - New SE

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14 August 2025
We are happy to welcome Dr. Melánie Roy, from Toulouse, France, to the Oikos Editorial Board. To know more about her, read our interview below! Website : https://www.cima.fcen.uba.ar/~melanie.roy/cv_melanie.roy_english.pdf What's your main research focus at the moment...

Welcome Isabel Donoso - New SE

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7 August 2025
We are happy to welcome Dr. Isabel Donoso, from Basque Country, Spain, to the Oikos Editorial Board. To know more about her, read our interview below! Website : https://sites.google.com/view/isa-donoso/contact-cv?authuser=0 What's your main research focus at the moment...

Welcome Tina Heger - New SE

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28 July 2025
We are happy to welcome Dr. Tina Heger, from Munich, Germany, to the Oikos Editorial Board. To know more about her, read our interview below! Website : https://www.tinaheger.de/ What's your main research focus at the moment? My current research focus is on how we can...

Welcome Mariano Devoto - new SE

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14 July 2025
We are happy to welcome Dr. Mariano Devoto, from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to the Oikos Editorial Board. To know more about him, read our interview below! Website: https://www.agro.uba.ar/users/mdevoto/ What's your main research focus at the moment? I study ecological...

Welcome Robert Nasi - new SE

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14 July 2025
We are happy to welcome Dr. Robert Nasi, the Chief Operating Officer of CIFOR-ICRAF, based in Indonesia, to the Oikos Editorial Board. To know more about him, read our interview below! Website : https://www.cifor.org/research-staff/984/robert-nasi/ What’s your main...

Cover July 2025

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7 July 2025
Frugivory interactions—key to forest regeneration—are disrupted by logging and fires in the Amazon, Chesini et al. (2025) explains. Their paper, "Anthropogenic disturbances simplify frugivory interactions in Amazonia" evidences how recently and long-ago burned areas...

Cover June 2025

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7 July 2025
Early-blooming non-native dandelions can boost solitary bees' offspring numbers, but their poor nutritional quality may reduce larval survival. A new study titled "Fitness costs and benefits of a non-native floral resource for subalpine solitary bees" suggests these...

Cover May 2025

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7 July 2025
Fluctuating rainfall—not rising temperatures—has had the strongest impact on meerkats reproduction and survival, highlighting the critical role of water availability in shaping population dynamics under climate change. This is shown by Thorley et al.'s (2025) 25-year...

Cover April 2025

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2 July 2025
A new study on wild house mice reveals that traits like exploration and risk-taking don’t directly predict problem-solving success, but influence the likelihood of engaging with challenges—highlighting the gap between lab tests and real-world behaviour. This contrast...

Welcome Matthew Grainger - new SE

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13 June 2025
We are happy to welcome Dr. Matthew Grainger, from the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Trondheim, Norway, to the Oikos Editorial Board. To know more about him, read our interview below! Website: https://drmattg.github.io/Uncertain_Ecologist/ What’s your main...

Cover March 2025

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26 March 2025
A worker of Apis mellifera visits a flower in the coastal environment of the Gulf of Mexico, Mexico. This bee is a key species in the region's pollination network, highlighted in " Thermal tolerance and sociality explain the interactive role of bees in a pollination...

Cover January 2025

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26 March 2025
After spending many nights searching for the shiny eyes of beetles with headlamps, this ground beetle (family Carabidae ) was photographed by the team in northeastern Connecticut, US. Beetle plays a crucial role in altering nitrogen availability in forest soils, as...

Cover December 2024

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26 March 2025
The red-legged honeycreeper ( Cyanerpes cyaneus ), a vibrant frugivore of the Atlantic Forest, plays a key role in seed dispersal. This stunning species is featured in " Estimated missing interactions change the structure and alter species roles in one of the world's...

Cover November 2024

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26 March 2025
An AI-generated image of a reindeer, the focal species in the study " Reindeer grazing reduces climate-driven vegetation changes and shifts trophic interactions in the Fennoscandian tundra " by Ramirez et al. (2024). By browsing and grazing on tall vegetation, reindeer...

Cover October 2024

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26 March 2025
The lowland tapir ( Tapirus terrestris ), a megafaunal survivor and key seed disperser in the Neotropics, moves through the dense forests of Argentina’s Atlantic Forest in Iguazú National Park. This striking photograph by Mariano Ignacio Giombini captures one of the...

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