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Welcome Si-Chong Chen - New SE

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30 November 2020
Location: Wakehurst, UK Personal webpage , Google Scholar , ResearchGate Twitter: @SichongChen Keywords: macroecology, biogeography, plant ecology, seed ecology, species interaction 1. What's your main research focus at the moment? I work on the macroecological...

Tracking dispersal across a patchy landscape

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2 November 2020
Image 1: The common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster (Photo credit: Ken Jones) Tracking dispersal across a patchy landscape reveals a dynamic interaction between genotype and habitat structure Historically, as well as contemporary, dispersal remains one of the most...

A horizon scan of ecology teaching

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2 November 2020
Teaching and learning in ecology: a horizon scan of emerging challenges and solutions In May 2019 a group of 30 UK academics gathered at The Open University to conduct a horizon scan of ecology teaching. We met to consider the outcomes of a two-step survey identifying...

Cover November

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2 November 2020
November's cover: Cogongrass ( Imperata cylindrica ) invading both pine dominated (open canopy) and oak dominated (denser canopy) habitats near Seabring, FL. This is the study site in "Clonal integration enhances performance of an invasive grass" by Estrada et al. (...

Ant foraging strategies vary along a natural resource gradient

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6 October 2020
Ant foraging strategies vary along a natural resource gradient - Segev et al. (2020) Food selectivity by foragers has been shown to be affected by its availability in a patch. However, such food availability and its selection by foragers could also vary along...

COVER OCTOBER

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1 October 2020
This month's cover portrays ten-day-old piping plover ( Charadrius melodus ) chicks on a sandbar in the Missouri River, USA. Read more in the study "Asymmetric benefits of a heterospecific breeding association vary with habitat, conspecific abundance and breeding stage...

COVER SEPTEMBER

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15 September 2020
A beautiful alpine sunset on September's cover, one of the study sites from the study "Decomposability of lichens and bryophytes from across an elevational gradient under standardized conditions" by van Zuijlen et al. (2020). What a peaceful view! Photo credit: Kristel...

COVER AUGUST

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15 September 2020
August's cover depicts a wolverine from the study - "Move to nocturnality not a universal trend in carnivore species on disturbed landscapes" by Frey et al. (2020). Read Damien Power's story behind the photo! "Here is my account of another encounter while I was doing a...

Dimorphism and life history differentiation in sepsid flies

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19 August 2020
"Sexual size dimorphism is associated with reproductive life history trait differentiation in coexisting sepsid flies" (Blankenhorn et al. 2020) The study of ecological diversity requires investigation of numerous groups of organisms to reveal the various alternative...

Cover July

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24 July 2020
July's cover portrays a male puffer adder ( Bitis arietans ) that has located a female (on the right) and is courting her in the Dinokeng Game Reserve, South Africa. Read the full paper by Glaudas et al. (2020) - "The intensity of sexual selection, body size and...

Dialogues & Ignite: Oikos two new paper sections

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2 July 2020
We are excited to announce that Oikos is broadening its diversity of types of papers to extend our mission of synthesizing ecology. In a nutshell: Dialogues are intended to promote ecological synthesis via critical thinking and the expression of contrasting viewpoints...

Insectivorous bats in anthropogenic landscapes

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25 May 2020
Landscape structure influences the use of social information in an insectivorous bat Roeleke M, Blohm T, Hoffmeister U, Marggraf L, Schlägel UE, Teige T, Voigt CC Lay summary The common noctule bat hunts for insect swarms in the open air space across all kinds of...

Cover May

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8 May 2020
May's cover! Take a look at those eyes! Is this the face of "I am not sure what I should do next now that mommy is gone"? Read the paper on recently‐weaned grey seal ( Halichoerus grypus ) pups by Carter et al. (2019) - " From pup to predator: generalized hidden Markov...

Loyal evolutionary partners, or just acquaintances from the same neighborhood?

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29 April 2020
Fig. 1. Female Drosophila melanogaster sitting on one of its preferred fruit, a banana. " Variable dependency on associated yeast communities influences host range in Drosophila species " (Koerte et al. 2020) In the study “Variable dependency on associated yeast...

Is bigger better?

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22 April 2020
POPULAR SUMMARY: "The intensity of sexual selection, body size and reproductive success in a mating system with male–male combat: is bigger better?" (Glaudas et al. 2020) We used radio-telemetry and DNA paternity analyses in a free-ranging population of South African...

Publishing about resilience requires – resiliencing!

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13 April 2020
NEW FORUM PAPER: "Resilience trinity: safeguarding ecosystem functioning and services across three different time horizons and decision contexts" (Weise et al. 2020) Resilience, broadly defined as the ability to cope with stress and keep functioning, is a popular...

Do branch and root of trees grow in harmony or independently?

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30 March 2020
Beautiful autumn forest in northern Japan with a variety of tree species. Study: "Synchronous and asynchronous root and shoot phenology in temperate woody seedlings" by Makoto et al. (2020) Bud burst, leafing, flowering, autumn coloring…. it is interesting to enjoy the...

Cover April

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30 March 2020
April's cover displays female caribou from the Rivière-aux-Feuilles herd during the fall migration, from a study by Le Corre et al. (2019) - "Where to spend the winter? The role of intraspecific competition and climate in determining the selection of wintering areas by...

NSO journals in Covid-19 times

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26 March 2020
Dear authors, readers and reviewers, As the world grapples with COVID-19 we write, above all, to wish you and those close to you continued good health. These are uneasy times and we wanted to let you know that the editorial office of the Nordic Society Oikos (NSO) is...

MATCHING HABITAT CHOICE IS NOT COMMON, OR IS IT?

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21 March 2020
Written by: Carlos Camacho "Matching habitat choice: it's not for everyone" by Camacho & Hendry (2020) No one gets to decide where they are born, but if one is lucky, they can choose where to settle. Matching habitat choice offers individuals a means to escape...

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