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22 February 2013
Thumb's out when the mite Spadiseius calyptrogynae needs to move to a new host plant. It can't get their on it's own, so it simply hitchhikes on bees, bats or beetles. Emanuel H. Fronhofer and co-workes have studied this in the new Early View paper " Picky hitch-hikers...
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20 February 2013
Here is an interesting essay about measuring top-down-bottom-up effects, written by Leonard Polishchuk. He is also the first author of the Early View paper "How to measure top–down vs bottom–up effects: a new population metric and its calibration on Daphnia ", on which...
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18 February 2013
In the new Early View paper "Non-trophic effects of litter reduce ant predation and determine caterpillar survival and distribution" , Richard Karban and co-workers have studied the importance of litter for caterpillars hiding from ants in a hetergenous landscape. Here...
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15 February 2013
How the anadromous fish alewife affect the whole food-web in it's ecosystem is studied by Jerome J. Weis and David M. Post in their new Early View paper "Intraspecific variation in a predator drives cascading variation in primary producer community composition" . Below...
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13 February 2013
A model to quantify species interactions is proposed in the new Early View paper "Costs, benefits, and loss of vertically transmitted symbionts affect host population dynamics" by Kelsey M. Yule, Tom E.X. Miller and Jennifer A. Rudgers. Below is Kelsey's background...
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12 February 2013
Did you believe that hermite crabs were always seeking lonelyness? Oh, now, partytime might attract the hermits as well! Read more in the new Early View paper "Eavesdropping foragers use level of collective commotion as public information to target high quality patches...
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7 February 2013
Pollution issues meet complex food-web modelling and theoretical ecology in the Early View paper "The more polluted the environment, the more important biodiversity is for food web stability", by Leslie Garay-Narvaez, Matias Arim, José D. Flores and Rodrigo Ramos-...
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1 February 2013
What makes invasive species invasive? Find some of the answers in Rafael Zennis and Martin Nunez paper "The elephant in the room: the role of failed invasions in understanding invasion biology" now on Early View. Here, Martin Nunez gives a short background: Invasive...
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30 January 2013
Editor in Chief Prof. Dries Bonte introduces the two Editor's choice papers in the February Issue: (Note that Editor's choice papers are Open Access) For the February issue of Oikos, we decided to highlight Sorte’s forum paper on the importance of flow direction and...
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29 January 2013
We have now come to the second Surf and turf paper in Oikos february issue. I let Deron Burkepile introduce you to his study "Comparing aquatic and terrestrial grazing ecosystems: is the grass really greener?" At a big ecology meeting, you can often tell what people...
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