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Hiding in the litter from the beasty ants

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18 February 2013
In the new Early View paper "Non-trophic effects of litter reduce ant predation and determine caterpillar survival and distribution" , Richard Karban and co-workers have studied the importance of litter for caterpillars hiding from ants in a hetergenous landscape. Here...

Cascading effects of fish migration

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15 February 2013
How the anadromous fish alewife affect the whole food-web in it's ecosystem is studied by Jerome J. Weis and David M. Post in their new Early View paper "Intraspecific variation in a predator drives cascading variation in primary producer community composition" . Below...

Modelling species interactions

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13 February 2013
A model to quantify species interactions is proposed in the new Early View paper "Costs, benefits, and loss of vertically transmitted symbionts affect host population dynamics" by Kelsey M. Yule, Tom E.X. Miller and Jennifer A. Rudgers. Below is Kelsey's background...

To join the party or not...?

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12 February 2013
Did you believe that hermite crabs were always seeking lonelyness? Oh, now, partytime might attract the hermits as well! Read more in the new Early View paper "Eavesdropping foragers use level of collective commotion as public information to target high quality patches...

Environmental pollution goes theoretical ecology

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7 February 2013
Pollution issues meet complex food-web modelling and theoretical ecology in the Early View paper "The more polluted the environment, the more important biodiversity is for food web stability", by Leslie Garay-Narvaez, Matias Arim, José D. Flores and Rodrigo Ramos-...

Pasture – red kangaroo – dingo interactions

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4 February 2013
Read David Choquenot's and David M. Forsyth's new Early View paper "Exploitation ecosystems and trophic cascades in non-equilibrium systems: pasture – red kangaroo – dingo interactions in arid Australia" to learn more! Here's Dave's background story to the study: This...

The elephant in the room

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1 February 2013
What makes invasive species invasive? Find some of the answers in Rafael Zennis and Martin Nunez paper "The elephant in the room: the role of failed invasions in understanding invasion biology" now on Early View. Here, Martin Nunez gives a short background: Invasive...

Waste to hurry

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31 January 2013
Do animals spend too much energy on just being? Read Bas Kooijman's new Early View paper "Waste to hurry: dynamic energy budgets explain the need of wasting to fully exploit blooming resources" to find out! Here, Bas gives you the background to the study: Many years...

Editor's choice Febuary

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30 January 2013
Editor in Chief Prof. Dries Bonte introduces the two Editor's choice papers in the February Issue: (Note that Editor's choice papers are Open Access) For the February issue of Oikos, we decided to highlight Sorte’s forum paper on the importance of flow direction and...

Surf and Turf 2: Snorkeling with wildebeest

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29 January 2013
We have now come to the second Surf and turf paper in Oikos february issue. I let Deron Burkepile introduce you to his study "Comparing aquatic and terrestrial grazing ecosystems: is the grass really greener?" At a big ecology meeting, you can often tell what people...

The future of publishing for ecology & evolutionary biology

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25 January 2013
An NCEAS working group examining the future of publishing in ecology and evolutionary biology ( http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/projects/12651 ) would like to solicit your input. Our goal is to establish a baseline of your opinions on the current state of scholarly...

Surf and Turf 1

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25 January 2013
Yesterday, Randi Rotjan and Josh Idjadi introduced us to the Surf and Turf concept. Today, Howard V. Cornell gives a short background to his and Susan P. Harrison's Surf and Turf paper "Regional effects as important determinants of local diversity in both marine and...

Surf and Turf in Oikos Feb 2013

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24 January 2013
Check out the Surf & Turf papers in the February Issue! For an introduction to the concept, I leave the word to our Surf and Turf editors Josh Idjadi and Randi Rotjan. Their introductory paper in the February Issue is found here. Presentations of the actual papers...

Is competition less common i harsh environments?

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23 January 2013
What do animals actually do in poor environments? Compete more or facilitate for each other? Isabel Barrio and her co-workers studied this in herbivores in the harsh alpine tundra, resulting in teh new Early View paper: Extending the stress-gradient hypothesis – is...

Editor's choice January

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21 January 2013
From January 2013 our Editor's in Chief select two papers in each issue as Editor's Choice. Those papers are Open Access, and the complete January Issue is OA! Here, Dries Bonte explains why they chose the following for the January issue. Read more here about News in...

Friday!

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18 January 2013
It's always fun to read all submitted manuscripts. Especially when explanations are like this: I'm very happy that it doesn't happen too often! This one was actually copied from #overlyhonestmethods Have a great weekend everyone!

Understanding wood decomposition

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17 January 2013
How do wood decomposition relate to other traits in the tree? Answered by Benjamin G. Jackson and co-workers in the Early View paper "Are functional traits and litter decomposability coordinated across leaves, twigs, and wood? A test using temperate rainforest tree...

Oikos in 2013: advancing synthesis in Ecology

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15 January 2013
Oikos' Editor in Chief, Prof. Dries Bonte, presents some interesting news and wishes you all a wonderful 2013: A survey among readers revealed that Oikos is considered as a solid, high quality journal publishing broad ecological topics, often controversial papers and...

Wasps learn to smell - and discriminate between - eaten or non eaten roots

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21 December 2012
Isn't it just amazing how well adapted the tiny parasitic wasps are? Parasitoids want to lay their eggs in good, yummy caterpillars. Yummy caterpillars are those feeding on high quality plants. Quality of plants is partly determined by if their roots have been eaten by...

What happens with coral reefs after anthropogenic disturbances?

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20 December 2012
What are the chances that the reefs recover? And how likely is it that they just turn into seeweed-dominated ecosystems instead? Important issues that Peter Mumby and his colleagues have studied and modelled in the new Early View paper "Evidence for and against the...

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