Announcements and events

Welcome Gerlinde De Deyn - new Deputy EiC

We have a new deputy Editor in Chief at Oikos! Very welcome to the board, Dr. Gerlinde De Deyne! Learn more about her here: What's you main research focus at the moment? I focus on plant-soil interactions in relation to the coupling between biodiversity, ecosystem...

Cover October

The cover photo on the October issue shows a mallard duck in flight taken at Burnaby Lake, Burnaby, BC, Canada. The photo illustates movement behaviour of mallard ducks (Anas platyrhynchos) in relation to the spread of avian influenza viruses. Read more in the paper "...

Welcome Florian Altermatt - new SE

We are very happy to welcome Florian Altermatt, University of Zurich, to the Oikos Editorial Board. Below, he introduces himself: 1. What's you main research focus at the moment? My main interests at the moment are to understand how spatial network configuration shapes...

January Cover

I hope you haven't missed that Oikos from 2015 changes cover each month! Each month a photo from one of the papers in the issue will be featured on the cover. The January cover photo was taken by David W. Inouye. The paper in questions is "Phenological shifts and the...

New Editor: Andrew MacDougall

Welcome to Oikos’ Editorial Board, Dr Andrew MacDougall, University of Guelph. Visit his webpage here. And read more about him below: 1. What’s you main research focus at the moment? How the co-varying influences of global environmental change transform fundamental...

Editor's choice November

As announced in the August issue , Oikos is publishing meta-analyses at an increasing rate, and similar to the transformative capacity of the Forum section, a dedicated section associated with formalized, replicable systematic reviews and meta-analyses will also...

Yiihaa! Oikos new webpage open!

It’s here! Our new webpage is ready and open for everyone to visit! Apart from journal information, aims and scopes of Oikos and author guidelines for manuscript submissions, you also find, twitter- and facebook flows, abstracts to newly accepted papers as well as...

Per Brink Award 2014

We are very happy to announce that "The Per Brinck Oikos Award 2014" has been awarded to Professor Robert D. Holt, University of Florida, Gainsville, Florida, USA. Here is Bob's presentation of himself and his research: " What makes the study of life such an endlessly...

May complexity and stability in ecological communities be reconciled?

In a seminal contribution published in 1972 ( Nature , 238; 413-414), Sir Robert May showed that from a mathematical point of view the more complex an ecological community is (in terms of the number of species and interactions in the system), the less stable it is...

Top-cited Oikospaper

Congratulations, Jeff Ollerton, Rachael Winfree and Sam Tarrant for passing 100 citations for their paper "How many flowering plants are pollinated by animals?" , published in Oikos in March 2011. But Jeff, how did you come up with the idea for the paper? The idea for...

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