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25 October 2013
Plants that make active decisions? Read more in the Early View paper "Informed dispersal in plants: Heterosperma pinnatum (Asteraceae) adjusts its dispersal mode to escape from competition and water stress" by Carlos Martorell and Marcella Martinez-Lopez. Here's their...
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4 October 2013
What effect does the moon actually have on us? And on animal populations? Find out more in the new Early View paper "Linking ‘10-year’ herbivore cycles to the lunisolar oscillation: the cosmic ray hypothesis" by Vidar Selås. Below, is Vidar's summary of the study: The...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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