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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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...

Cover March 2022

The cover image for the MARCH issue shows us a Catalonian midwife toad ( Alytes almogavarii ) from the study " Physiology and acclimation potential are tuned with phenology in larvae of a prolonged breeder amphibian " by Enriquez-Urzelai et al. 2021. Abstract Due to...

Call for papers - The role of whole genome duplication in evolutionary ecology

Special Issue: The role of whole genome duplication in evolutionary ecology Editors: Kari A. Segraves and Thomas J. Anneberg When an entire genome doubles or triples, and a polyploid organism emerges, what happens next? Whole genome duplication is a pervasive...

Welcome Marcos Fernández Martínez - New SE

Marcos Fernández Martínez joins oikos' editorial board as a SUBJECT EDITOR! Welcome! Dr. Marcos Fernández-Martínez is a postdoctoral researcher at the Ecological and Forestry Applications Research Centre (CREAF) and collaborator of the Global Ecology Unit and the...

Special Issue: Frugivory & Seed Dispersal

A cock-of the rock ( Rupicola rupicola ), a specialized frugivore, feeding on palm fruits. Photo credit: João Paulo Krajewski. Take a Look at this Special Issue: Frugivory & Seed Dispersal #OIKOS_FSD Table of Contents: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/16000706/...

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