Will the use of "real" connectivity between communities improve metacommunity models? Read more in C.Moritz and colleague's Early View paper: "Disentangling the role of connectivity, environmental filtering, and spatial structure on metacommunity dynamics" . Here's...
Hello everyone, my name is Ross Boucek and I am PhD student at Florida International University. Oikos has asked me to write about our Early View paper "No free lunch: displaced marsh consumers regulate a prey subsidy to an estuarine consumer" where we investigate the...
For the April issue, we chose the following two papers as editor’s choice according to our motto of synthesizing ecology. Mumby et al. (2013) discuss various articles that either support or reject the hypothesis that coral reefs might be able to exist under certain...
From the April issue 2013 onwards, Oikos will have a photo illustrating ecology in action on it's cover. To find the right photo for this year's cover, we had a photo competition during winter. The happy winner of the competetion is Sascha Rösner, Marburg, Deutschland...
I would so much like to see someone using Hari Sridhar, Ferenc Jordán and Kartik Shankers paper "Species importance in a heterospecific foraging association network" as a basis for a study of humans on cocktail parties. Which small groups may be the core of highly...
Do you like trying new food items? I do. And many herbivore insects seem to do so as well. Invading alien species, yummy yummy! How these interactions affect the ecology of the invaders is studied by Matthew L. Forrister and Joseph S. Wilson in " The population ecology...
How consistent are field-guides and atlases? Enough to be used as sources in ecological research studies? Jay Fitzsimmons has checked and has the answer! Find out in his new Early View paper "How consistent are trait data between sources? A quantitative assessment" ...
How do animals decide how to forage? In the new Early View paper "How a simple adaptive foraging strategy can lead to emergent home ranges and increased food intake" Jacob Nabe-Nielsen and colleagues demonstrate that it only requires a few simple behavioural rules to...
We now check all submitted manuscripts for possible plagiarism using iThenticate .This means that all manuscripts are compared to more than 32 billion webpages, more than 34 million scholarly content items and more than 91 million news pages, books and magazines (and...
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One of the most cited papers in Oikos, during 2011 (published 2009 and 2010) is " New perspectives for estimating body condition from mass/length data: the scaled mass index as an alternative method ", by J Peig and AJ Green. Here, Jordi Peig gives a short summary of...
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