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Welcome Chelsea J. Little - new SE

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23 September 2024
We are happy to welcome Dr Chelsea J. Little, Associate Professor at the School of Environmental Science & Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada, to Oikos Editorial Board. To know more about her, read our interview below and...

Oikos is changing guards

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26 August 2024
Dear colleagues and friends, It is with a mix of excitement and nostalgia that we announce changes in our senior editorial team at Oikos. Our esteemed Captain and Editor-in-Chief for the past 12 years, Dries Bonte, will be embarking on new academic endeavors. We extend...

COVER MAY 2024 & Special Issue

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14 May 2024
SPECIAL ISSUE: The role of whole genome duplication in evolutionary ecology Polyploid organisms are common and can be found across the tree of life. A key question is to understand how and why these polyploid lineages become established and persist in populations,...

Welcome Stefan Geisen - NEW SE

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6 May 2024
Please join us in welcoming our newest soil ecologist Stefan Geisen to our editorial board! Take a look at their interview. Personal website: https://www.wur.nl/en/persons/stefan-geisen.htm Twitter: @stefan_geisen INTERVIEW QUESTIONS: 1. What's your main research focus...

Welcome Benoit Gauzens - NEW SE

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6 May 2024
Benoit Gauzens joins our editorial board! Take a look at their interview! Keywords: networks, food webs, population dynamics, global change, ecosystem functioning Affiliation: German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig,...

Cover April 2024

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19 April 2024
Greeting us all the way from Costa Rica, this magnificent hummingbird, adorned with its vibrant colors, graces the cover of April's issue! This beauty is one of the study species featured in "A phylogenetic perspective on ecological specialisation reveals hummingbird...

Welcome Elly Morriën - NEW SE

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7 March 2024
Please join us in welcoming Elly Morriën to our editorial board! Take a look at her interview and get to know our newest soil ecologist better! Keywords: soil ecology, soil food webs, biodiversity-ecosystem functioning, carbon sequestration, plant-microbe interactions...

Cover February 2024

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29 February 2024
February's cover brings us a field of white clovers aka a bit of hope for the spring to come for us in the Northern Hemisphere! From the study "Urban spatial heterogeneity shapes the evolution of an antiherbivore defense trait and its genes in white clove" by Ishiguro...

Cover January 2024

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30 January 2024
JANUARY'S cover portrays a tiny chipmunk! The study species for Allain et al. (2023) - "Age at first reproduction and senescence in a short-lived wild mammal" . ABSTRACT Senescence is the degradation of biological functions with increasing age. Its existence and...

NSO invites applications for Senior Editors for the journal Oikos

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30 November 2023
Nordic Society Oikos invites applications for Senior Editors for the journal Oikos. The Nordic Society Oikos is seeking two new Senior Editors to join the Editor-in-Chief team for Oikos. About OIKOS – ADVANCING ECOLOGY Founded in 1949, Oikos has long been a vital...

Cover November 2023

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10 November 2023
November 's cover shows one of the tundra landscapes where litter decomposition was studied in different microclimates in the study "Summer litter decomposition is moderated by scale-dependent microenvironmental variation in tundra ecosystems" by Gallois et al. (2023...

Cover October 2023

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10 November 2023
October 's cover is a beautiful drawing by Sara K. Glaser depicting the measurements taken in the snow pit parallel to the animal's direction of travel in the study "Defining the danger zone: critical snow properties for predator–prey interactions" by Sullender et al...

Flowers and Flights

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22 September 2023
Spatio-temporal variation in plant-pollinator interactions: a multilayer network approach LAY SUMMARY No single organism exists without interacting with other coexisting species, and to ensure the maintenance of such interactions, species may change their partners in...

Cover September 2023

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18 September 2023
September's cover depicts a group of ungulates visiting an anthropogenic mineral block on a game reserve in South Africa from the study "Allometry of sodium requirements and mineral lick use among herbivorous mammals" by Duvall et al. (2023). Abstract Sodium (Na) plays...

Cover August 2023

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21 August 2023
AUGUST's cover portrays two butterflies ( Troides aeacus kaguya ) mating. This image was sent in by the authors of FORUM paper: "Why sex matters in phenological research" Abstract Males and females often desynchronise their mating activity during the breeding season (...

Welcome Dylan J. Craven - NEW SE

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21 August 2023
Keywords: functional biogeography, diversity-stability, biodiversity - ecosystem function (BEF), secondary succession, functional ecology, macroecology Personal website: www.dylancraven.com 1. What's your main research focus at the moment? My current research is...

Welcome Léa Beaumelle - NEW SE

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21 August 2023
Welcome to Léa Beaumelle - our new subject editor! Keywords: soil biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, above-belowground interactions, global change biology, pollution, agroecology 1. What's your main research focus at the moment? My research aims to better understand...

Cover July 2023

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19 July 2023
JULY's cover features the diminutive Golden-crowned Spadebill ( Platyrinchus coronatus ), an understory songbird that was among 65 species examined by Rutt et al. (2023) in "Long-term capture data uncover shifts in the daily activity patterns of Amazonian birds" . By...

Cover June 2023

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3 July 2023
JUNE's cover has a beautiful pipevine swallowtail butterfly ( Battus philenor ) visiting flowers of Castilleja purpurea, purple paintbrush, at a study site in northern Texas, USA, from Wenzell et al. (2023): "Range-wide floral trait variation reflects shifts in...

Cover May 2023

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29 May 2023
MAY's cover greets us with the tail of a whale and how sometimes life is over-whale-ming ! Puns aside, this photo is of "Porcia" who goes on a fluking dive in the Bay of Fundy. She is a critically endangered North Atlantic right whale Eubalaena glacialis and the main...

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