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Cover February 2023

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28 February 2023
FEBRUARY's cover portrays great pond snails Lymnaea stagnalis ! This species is common in lakes and ponds, where they are hosts for multiple parasites making the snail immune function an important determinant of their evolutionary fitness. Read more about this study by...

Welcome Jakub Szymkowiak - NEW SE

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1 February 2023
The OIKOS Editorial board is happy to welcome Jakub Szymkowiak as a new subject editor! Keywords: behavioral ecology, bird ecology, ecology of information, forest ecology, habitat selection, mast seeding Personal website: https://jakubszymkowiak.wordpress.com/ Twitter...

Welcome Eliana Cazetta - NEW SE

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30 January 2023
We are thrilled to introduce Eliana Cazetta as a new subject editor at Oikos! Keywords: frugivory, landscape ecology, seed dispersal, plant-animal interactions, pollination Website: https://www.appliedecologylab.org/ Twitter: @ecazetta 1. What is your main research...

SPECIAL ISSUE & JANUARY COVER

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16 January 2023
Special issue: Root traits and functioning: from individual plants to ecosystems Table of Contents: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/16000706/2023/2023/1 Editorial: Click to read . Editors of the Special Issue: Monique Weemstra, Oscar J. Valverde-Barrantes, M. Luke...

New and nuanced perspectives to study phylogenetic and phenotypic patterns in plant communities

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30 December 2022
Spatial phylogenetic and phenotypic patterns reveal ontogenetic shifts in ecological processes of plant community assembly. New and nuanced perspectives to study phylogenetic and phenotypic patterns in plant communities. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.09260. Antonio J...

Cover December 2022

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21 December 2022
We at Oikos wish you HAPPY HOLIDAYS and are glad to share DECEMBER's cover showing a portrait of an adult griffon vulture in the Spanish Pre-Pyrenees. Passive rewilding after farmland abandonment affects the composition and functioning of scavenger assemblages in...

Cover November 2022

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21 December 2022
November's cover is of montane wildflowers in the Virginia Basin with a view of the Gothic Mountain, CO, USA -- the study site from study " Simultaneous niche expansion and contraction in plant–pollinator networks under drought " (Morozumi 2022). Abstract Global...

SPECIAL ISSUE & OCTOBER COVER

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6 October 2022
SPECIAL ISSUE: Ecology of Information enters the Anthropocene Table of Contents: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/16000706/2022/2022/10 Editorial: Ecology of Information enters the Anthropocene Editors of the Special Issue: Jakub Szymkowiak and Kenneth A. Schmidt In...

Welcome Pamela Graff - NEW SE

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4 October 2022
We are very happy to welcome Pamela to our editorial board! Check out her welcome interview below: Keywords: plant facilitation, plant competition, plant-animal interactions, grassland ecosystems, drylands Personal website: https://www.ifeva.edu.ar/sections/Handler.php...

Welcome Magdalena Lenda - NEW SE

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4 October 2022
Keywords: birds, landscape ecology, spatial statistics, behavioural ecology, invasive species Website: https://wilsonconservationecology.com/our-people/labmembers/magdalena-le... Twitter: @LendaMag Magdalena (Magda) Lenda is associate professor at the Institute of...

Call for papers - The role of plant facilitation in mediating climate change impact on biodiversity

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29 September 2022
The role of plant facilitation in mediating climate change impact on biodiversity Editors: Sonia Kéfi, L Cavieres, and CJ Lortie Global change is a multifaceted, unprecedented crisis hitting the life support system of our planet. Among global changes, climate change is...

WELCOME KAROLINE CERON - NEW SE

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19 September 2022
We have a new subject editor! Welcome Karoline Ceron! Keywords: trophic ecology, ecological networks, natural history Website: https://karolceron.github.io/trophicecology Twitter: https://twitter.com/ceronkarol 1. What's your main research focus at the moment? My...

Cover September 2022

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13 September 2022
September's cover depicts a granivorous bird (Eurasian teal Anas crecca ) ingesting plant seeds to subsequently disperse. Read more about the seed dispersal effectiveness (SDE) framework in this FORUM PAPER: A seed dispersal effectiveness framework across the mutualism...

Cover August 2022

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24 August 2022
This month's cover shows us a pack of wolves caught by a camera trap for the study - "Predator control alters wolf interactions with prey and competitor species over the diel cycle" by Frey et al. 2022. ABSTRACT Predator control remains one of the most common...

Welcome Isabel C Barrio - NEW SE

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5 August 2022
We are very happy to welcome Isabel C. Barrio (Professor, Agricultural University of Iceland) to our editorial board! Website: https://tundraecology.hi.is/isabel-barrio/ KEYWORDS: tundra, herbivory, alpine, grazing, invertebrate herbivory, biotic interactions 1. What's...

Welcome Sandra Hamel - NEW SE

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1 August 2022
Sandra Hamel has joined our Editorial Board at OIKOS! Take a glance at her welcome interview below! Website: https://sites.google.com/site/sandrahamel18/home Keywords: life histories, population dynamics, behavioural ecology, statistical ecology, wildlife management...

SPECIAL ISSUE & JULY COVER

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7 July 2022
SPECIAL ISSUE: The role of the nutritional quality of resources in ecosystem functioning Table of Contents: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/16000706/2022/2022/7 Editorial: https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.09503 Editors of the Special Issue: Michael Danger, Alexandre Bec...

Fruit bat-people interactions: benefits, costs, or risks?

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20 April 2022
Photo 1: Day roost of The Indian Flying Fox Forbidden fruits? Ecosystem services from seed dispersal by fruit bats in the context of latent zoonotic risk https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.08359 Bats can be effective seed dispersers of many forest trees and fruit crops, in...

Cover April 2022

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11 April 2022
As spring is arriving in the Northern Hemisphere we greet you with April's cover! The photo illustrates a couple of findings from the study " Simple attributes predict the value of plants as hosts to fungal and arthropod communities " (Bruun et al., 2022), i.e. that...

Welcome Emanuel Fronhofer - New SE

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4 April 2022
We are very happy to have Emanuel Fronhofer join our Editorial Board at OIKOS! His lab is based at the Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution (ISEM) of the CNRS and the University of Montpellier, France, where they aim to understand the evolution of life-history...

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