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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...

Cover June 2024

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26 March 2025
From the forests of the Adirondacks, New York, this American marten ( Martes americana ) watches from above. Captured by Lawrence Master, this stunning image features one of the key species in " Intraguild interactions and abiotic conditions mediate occupancy of...

Call for papers - Biological Invasions in The Context of Global Environmental Change

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21 March 2025
Special issue in Oikos: Call for paper Deadline for abstracts: 31 July Dear Colleagues, We invite you to contribute to a special issue of Oikos on Biological invasions in the context of global environmental change. Biological invasion has transformed ecosystems around...

Welcome Jean-Philippe Gibert – New SE

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14 January 2025
We are happy to welcome Dr. Jean-Philippe Gibert from Duke University, NC, USA, to the Oikos Editorial Board. To know more about him, read our interview below! Website: https://jeanpgibert.weebly.com/ What's your main research focus at the moment? In the Gibert lab...

Welcome Susan Whitehead – New SE

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7 January 2025
We are happy to welcome Dr. Susan Whitehead from Virginia Tech to the Oikos Editorial Board. To know more about her, read our interview below! Website: www.speciesinteractions.com What's your main research focus at the moment? I mainly study the role of plant chemistry...

Welcome Kim McConkey – New SE

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4 December 2024
We are happy to welcome Dr. Kim McConkey from New Zealand, now working independently and based in India, to the Oikos Editorial Board. To know more about her, read our interview below! Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kim-Mcconkey What's your main research...

Welcome Lucas Medeiros – New SE

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2 December 2024
We are happy to welcome Dr. Lucas Medeiros from the Department of Biology of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA, USA, to the Oikos Editorial Board. To know more about him, read our interview below! Website: https://lucaspdmedeiros.com What's your main...

Welcome Jinsong Wang – New SE

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25 November 2024
We are happy to welcome Dr. Jinsong Wang from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, to the Oikos Editorial Board. To know more about him, read our interview below! Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jinsong-Wang-5 What's your main research focus at the...

Welcome Carolina Bello – New SE

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18 November 2024
We are happy to welcome Dr. Carolina Bello from ETH Zürich, Switzerland, to the Oikos Editorial Board. To know more about her, read our interview below! Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carolina-Bello What's your main research focus at the moment? My...

Welcome Julia Kemppinen – New SE

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18 November 2024
We are happy to welcome Dr. Julia Kemppinen from the University of Helsinki, to the Oikos Editorial Board. To know more about her, read our interview below! Website: helsinki.fi/biodiversity-change What's your main research focus at the moment? I enjoy working with...

Welcome Karen Abbott – New SE

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13 November 2024
We are happy to welcome Dr. Karen Abbott, Professor at the Department of Biology of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA, to the Oikos Editorial Board. To know more about her, read our interview below! Website: https://abbottlab480702554.wordpress.com...

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,...

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