Nordic Society Oikos invites applications for Senior Editors for the journal Oikos. We will start reviewing applications on 17 January 2024 The Nordic Society Oikos is seeking two new Senior Editors to join the Editor-in-Chief team for Oikos. About OIKOS – ADVANCING...
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10 November 2023

November 's cover shows one of the tundra landscapes where litter decomposition was studied in different microclimates in the study "Summer litter decomposition is moderated by scale-dependent microenvironmental variation in tundra ecosystems" by Gallois et al. (2023...
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10 November 2023

October 's cover is a beautiful drawing by Sara K. Glaser depicting the measurements taken in the snow pit parallel to the animal's direction of travel in the study "Defining the danger zone: critical snow properties for predator–prey interactions" by Sullender et al...
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18 September 2023

September's cover depicts a group of ungulates visiting an anthropogenic mineral block on a game reserve in South Africa from the study "Allometry of sodium requirements and mineral lick use among herbivorous mammals" by Duvall et al. (2023). Abstract Sodium (Na) plays...
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21 August 2023

AUGUST's cover portrays two butterflies ( Troides aeacus kaguya ) mating. This image was sent in by the authors of FORUM paper: "Why sex matters in phenological research" Abstract Males and females often desynchronise their mating activity during the breeding season (...
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21 August 2023

Keywords: functional biogeography, diversity-stability, biodiversity - ecosystem function (BEF), secondary succession, functional ecology, macroecology Personal website: www.dylancraven.com 1. What's your main research focus at the moment? My current research is...
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21 August 2023

Welcome to Léa Beaumelle - our new subject editor! Keywords: soil biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, above-belowground interactions, global change biology, pollution, agroecology 1. What's your main research focus at the moment? My research aims to better understand...
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19 July 2023

JULY's cover features the diminutive Golden-crowned Spadebill ( Platyrinchus coronatus ), an understory songbird that was among 65 species examined by Rutt et al. (2023) in "Long-term capture data uncover shifts in the daily activity patterns of Amazonian birds" . By...
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3 July 2023

JUNE's cover has a beautiful pipevine swallowtail butterfly ( Battus philenor ) visiting flowers of Castilleja purpurea, purple paintbrush, at a study site in northern Texas, USA, from Wenzell et al. (2023): "Range-wide floral trait variation reflects shifts in...
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29 May 2023

MAY's cover greets us with the tail of a whale and how sometimes life is over-whale-ming ! Puns aside, this photo is of "Porcia" who goes on a fluking dive in the Bay of Fundy. She is a critically endangered North Atlantic right whale Eubalaena glacialis and the main...
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