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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...

Cover April 2023

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19 April 2023
For APRIL's cover we have a photo from the site experiment in "Space resource utilization of dominant species integrates abundance- and functional-based processes for better predictions of plant diversity dynamics" by Zhang et al. (2023). One of the researchers is...

Cover March 2023

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13 April 2023
MARCH COVER! In this month's issue, Brusch et al. (2022) independently manipulated day and nighttime temperatures as well as water availability throughout pregnancy and quantified the effects on maternal traits and reproductive output. They used the viviparous form of...

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...

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