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Temperature variability and population dynamics

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1 October 2013
A new theoretical model to better study of the role temperature variability plays on individual performance and population dynamics, is presented in the new Early View paper "The role of temperature variability on insect performance and population dynamics in a warming...

Ecological periodic tables

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24 September 2013
Can ecological patterns be organized in a "Periodic table"? Find out in the Early View paper "Ecological periodic tables: in principle and practice" by Steven P. Ferraro. Watch Steven's talk about it here: http://my.brainshark.com/Periodic-Tables-PeerOvation-486260509...

Mind your "girth"!

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20 September 2013
What body condition index is best? Studied for mice in the new Early View paper by Marta K Labocha and co-workers. Below is a summary by Marta: In humans, BMI (or the body mass index) is a widely used indicator of a person’s body fat. In animals other than humans, body...

Dispersal at the heart of our thinking

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13 September 2013
Read Justin Travis' and co-workers' Forum paper "Dispersal and species’ responses to climate change" in Oikos Early View. Below is Justin's background story to the paper: Over the last decade or so there have been a series of meetings and workshops involving...

The higher up, the smaller the seeds

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10 September 2013
How the mass of plant seeds change with altitude is studied in the new Oikos Early View paper "Disentangling ecological, allometric and evolutionary determinants of the relationship between seed mass and elevation: insights from multiple analyses of 1355 angiosperm...

Editor's choice September

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6 September 2013
For the September issues, we chose the forum paper of Caplat et al. as editor’s choice. The paper arose from a special symposium at the 2011 ESA meeting in Austin, and synthesizes how insights from invasion ecology can help us understanding species responses to climate...

Seasonal variation in parasite infection in field and in the lab

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3 September 2013
In this video, Stuart Auld tells you about his and his colleagues' study on parasite's seasonal variations, now published Early View in Oikos http://youtu.be/NugHfU8Z_NU and here's the paper: Rapid change in parasite infection traits over the course of an epidemic in a...

Editor's Choice August

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29 August 2013
Look up for the must-reads on the global biogeography of autotroph chemistry (Borer and colleagues ) and l itter decomposability of temperate rainforest trees (Jackson and colleagues) . These are two different synthetizing contributions by reviewing the current state...

Parasite changes during an epidemic

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20 August 2013
In the Early View paper "Rapid change in parasite infection traits over the course of an epidemic in a wild host–parasite population" , Stuart Auld and colleagues examines how parasite traits vary during an epidemic. In this film, Stuart tells you more about the study...

Intecol 2013 presentations

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15 August 2013
Intecol meeting almost upon us! Remember, the Nordic Society is doing what I hope will be a very exciting session on biodiversity . This was a joint effort by Ecography & Oikos. I just completed preparing my talk. Here it is as a little teaser! I may also do a...

Lessons from Late Jurassic

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14 August 2013
What can we learn from the Jurassic when it comes to modern Climate changes? read more in the Early View paper in Oikos Learning from the past: functional ecology of marine benthos during 8 million years of aperiodic hypoxia, lessons from the Late Jurassic by Bryony...

Meet our EiC in London next week!

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13 August 2013

Moving plants and invasions

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2 August 2013
Climate change and plant movements and invasions was discussed during the ESA-meeting 2011. The result - a Forum paper is now published online in Oikos: "Movement, impacts and management of plant distributions in response to climate change: insights from invasions" by...

Swans go with the flow

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29 July 2013
Many animal species show seasonal switches in their habitat use. For example, animals may move between aquatic and terrestrial habitats, flowing and still waters, coastal areas and open seas, or forest floors and canopies. How do animals decide which habitat to use?...

Personality and metabolic rate

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26 July 2013
Do bold individuals have higher metabolic rates? Find out in the new Early View paper "Personality and basal metabolic rate in a wild bird population" by Sandra Bouwhuis and co-workers. Here's Sandra's short summary of the study: Like humans, individuals of many...

Mom knows best – maternal care in perennial plants

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22 July 2013
How can we provide the best circumstances for our kids? The new Oikos Early View paper "Adaptive transgenerational plasticity in the perennial Plantago lanceolata" , by Vit Latzel and co-workers, deals with this issue - in plants. Read Vit's story here: Imagine that...

Scared of darkness?

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19 July 2013
Are you scared of the dark? Predators can change the species present in a community by consuming particular individuals removing them from the ecosystem. However, a new paper published Early View in Oikos "Fear in the dark? Community-level effects of non-lethal...

Welcome Isabel Smallegange - new SE

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16 July 2013
Welcome to the Oikos Editorial Board, Dr. Isabel Smallegange, University of Oxford, UK. Isabel's research focuses on unravelling the mechanisms that maintain male polymorphisms, and on understanding and predicting the eco-evolutionary consequences of (human induced)...

Who eats who? Predicting herbivores on non-native plants.

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11 July 2013
The introduction of non-native plants usually invokes a wave of pessimism among biologists. Some of these introduced plants can invade natural ecosystems where they can cause tremendous problems. And to make matters worse, it is very difficult to predict much about the...

Editor's Choice July

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9 July 2013
The Editor's choice papers in the July issue of Oikos are "A critical analysis of the ubiquity of linear local–regional richness relationships" by Goncalves-Souza et al . and "Bottom–up and top–down forces structuring consumer communities in an experimental grassland"...

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