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25 January 2013
Yesterday, Randi Rotjan and Josh Idjadi introduced us to the Surf and Turf concept. Today, Howard V. Cornell gives a short background to his and Susan P. Harrison's Surf and Turf paper "Regional effects as important determinants of local diversity in both marine and...
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24 January 2013
Check out the Surf & Turf papers in the February Issue! For an introduction to the concept, I leave the word to our Surf and Turf editors Josh Idjadi and Randi Rotjan. Their introductory paper in the February Issue is found here. Presentations of the actual papers...
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23 January 2013
What do animals actually do in poor environments? Compete more or facilitate for each other? Isabel Barrio and her co-workers studied this in herbivores in the harsh alpine tundra, resulting in teh new Early View paper: Extending the stress-gradient hypothesis – is...
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21 January 2013
From January 2013 our Editor's in Chief select two papers in each issue as Editor's Choice. Those papers are Open Access, and the complete January Issue is OA! Here, Dries Bonte explains why they chose the following for the January issue. Read more here about News in...
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18 January 2013
It's always fun to read all submitted manuscripts. Especially when explanations are like this: I'm very happy that it doesn't happen too often! This one was actually copied from #overlyhonestmethods Have a great weekend everyone!
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17 January 2013
How do wood decomposition relate to other traits in the tree? Answered by Benjamin G. Jackson and co-workers in the Early View paper "Are functional traits and litter decomposability coordinated across leaves, twigs, and wood? A test using temperate rainforest tree...
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15 January 2013
Oikos' Editor in Chief, Prof. Dries Bonte, presents some interesting news and wishes you all a wonderful 2013: A survey among readers revealed that Oikos is considered as a solid, high quality journal publishing broad ecological topics, often controversial papers and...
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18 December 2012
The Ecology of Playing Dead - when not needed to...something that Xinqiang Xi, John N. Griffin and Shucun Sun have diged deeper into in their new Early View paper "Grasshoppers amensalistically suppress caterpillar performance and enhance plant biomass in an alpine...
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12 December 2012
Oikos is changing it's cover style in 2013. Replacing the quote, there will now be a photo. We therefore, as an annual competition, call for photos illustrating the Oikos’ goal of Synthesising Ecology. We seek a photo also demonstrating ecology in action (e.g...
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6 December 2012
Do you have any “helper” around you? Maybe are you one yourself? “Helpers” are those researchers who regularly provide valuable feedback to their colleagues’ manuscripts and to scientific discussions. Who regard this feedback as part of the research, and a part of...
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