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20 August 2013
In the Early View paper "Rapid change in parasite infection traits over the course of an epidemic in a wild host–parasite population" , Stuart Auld and colleagues examines how parasite traits vary during an epidemic. In this film, Stuart tells you more about the study...
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15 August 2013
Intecol meeting almost upon us! Remember, the Nordic Society is doing what I hope will be a very exciting session on biodiversity . This was a joint effort by Ecography & Oikos. I just completed preparing my talk. Here it is as a little teaser! I may also do a...
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14 August 2013
What can we learn from the Jurassic when it comes to modern Climate changes? read more in the Early View paper in Oikos Learning from the past: functional ecology of marine benthos during 8 million years of aperiodic hypoxia, lessons from the Late Jurassic by Bryony...
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13 August 2013
Many animal species show seasonal switches in their habitat use. For example, animals may move between aquatic and terrestrial habitats, flowing and still waters, coastal areas and open seas, or forest floors and canopies. How do animals decide which habitat to use?...
Are you scared of the dark? Predators can change the species present in a community by consuming particular individuals removing them from the ecosystem. However, a new paper published Early View in Oikos "Fear in the dark? Community-level effects of non-lethal...
Welcome to the Oikos Editorial Board, Dr. Isabel Smallegange, University of Oxford, UK. Isabel's research focuses on unravelling the mechanisms that maintain male polymorphisms, and on understanding and predicting the eco-evolutionary consequences of (human induced)...
The Editor's choice papers in the July issue of Oikos are "A critical analysis of the ubiquity of linear local–regional richness relationships" by Goncalves-Souza et al . and "Bottom–up and top–down forces structuring consumer communities in an experimental grassland"...
The Nordic Society has put together a special symposium for the upcoming Intecol meeting. We hope to see you all there and that you will find it an interesting set of talks. It is a double session on Tuesday August 20 th in the morning. The full programme details will...
In my recent explorations into synthesis and the role of Oikos and other major drivers of this movement, here are some facts from Web of Knowledge and online search tools. (1) Close to 20,000 primary research publications discuss/report effect size estimates in ecology...
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