Hi everybody My name is Åsa Langefors, I’m the new Managing Editor at Oikos. After the two initial months at the office, I have now started to learn the routines and to get aquainted with editors, authors and reviewers. i.e. with Oikos. And just as things started to...
The editorial describing and announcing future endeavors is now open access. Whew. We intend to offer all future editorials similarly. Thanks for your patience.
Here's a rare problem, but one that raises some interesting issues: What's the appropriate way to deal with a crackpot at a scientific meeting? Specifically, a crackpot presenter? Over at Doing Good Science , Janet Stemwedel raises this question in the context of a...
We want to welcome authors, referees, and the board to the manuscript central platform used by many journals. It is our hope that this will increase speed, efficiency, and communication for the journal. I will miss the old system in some respects, but please do not...
Oikos has a new EiC, Dries Bonte. In an editorial , this and other major developments are described including some of the new philosophy and current goals for Oikos. Dries in action... likely calling authors to tell them the good news. Here is a brief summary of the...
A new guest post by Ayco Tack and colleagues , discussing the background and implications of their interesting new Oikos paper , is now up. But due to a quirk in the way WordPress schedules posts, the post appears further down the page, inserted between two older posts...
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17 February 2012
Friend of Oikos Blog Chris Klausmeier ("lowendtheory") writes with details of a series of one-week summer courses on Enhancing Linkages between Mathematics and Ecology (ELME), to be offered at Kellogg Biological Station (MI, USA). I know all the instructors, they're...
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17 February 2012
Amy Hurford, an ecology graduate student working a recent ecology PhD who worked with the brilliant Troy Day and Peter Taylor at Queen's University, has a new blog called Just Simple Enough: The Art of Mathematical Modelling . It's great stuff, you totally need to...
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16 February 2012
My northern neighbor Mark Lewis , Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Biology, will be offering a course on "Models in ecology" for advanced undergrads and grad students at Bamfield Marine Station . Marty Krkosek is the co-instructor. The course runs Apr. 30-May 18,...
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16 February 2012
The International Network of Next-Generation Ecologists is surveying ecologists about their knowledge of mathematics and their views on how to incorporate mathematics into the training of ecologists. It's a short survey (it took me less than a minute), go take it here .
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