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24 November 2015

We're very happy and proud to welcome Dr Silke Langenheder, Uppsala University to our editorial board. Get to know Silke in the interview below. What's your main research focus at the moment? I am a microbial community ecologist and the overall aim with my research is...
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10 November 2015

We're very happy to welcome Dr Yngvild Vindenes, Oslo, Norway, to our Editorial Board. Get to know her in the mini-interview below! And visit her webpage here . What's you main research focus at the moment? I use demographic approaches (such as matrix models and...
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2 November 2015

The cover on the November Issue is an illustration made by K. Curtis-Hill, asociated with the paper "Recognizing cross-ecosystem responses to changing temperatures: soil warming impacts pelagic food webs" by Samuel B. Fey et al. "Lakes respond to direct and cross-...
WELCOME TO THE 1st PER BRINK SYMPOSIUM On Feb 1st, Oikos , together with Nordic Society Oikos and Wiley arrange the Per Brink symposium: (Re)appreciating the role of life history in Eco-evolutionary dynamics? Any environmental change shifts an individual’s optimal life...
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13 October 2015

Fleshy fruits function primarily to attract mutualistic animal seed dispersers, yet they are much more than packages of nutritional rewards. Fruits contain a rich array of secondary metabolites that give them their incredible diversity in flavors, odors, and colors...
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13 October 2015

We are very happy to welcome a new Subject Editor to our board - Dr Marjo Saastamoinen, University of Helsinki, Finland. Get to know her in th inteview below and visit her webpage: http://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/msaastam/ What's you main research focus at the moment?...
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2 October 2015

We're so happy to having recruited several new, great editors to Oikos lately. One of them is Elizabeth Borer, University of Minnesota, St Paul. Get to know her in the interview below and visit her website here : What's you main research focus at the moment? I'm an...
Altmetrics measures how many times a paper has been linked to by various websites and social media sites. Here's the top 10 list over Oikos papers' Altmetrics scores. If you click on the title, you get to the paper and can see their score. Click on the Altmetrics...
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15 September 2015

We have a new deputy Editor in Chief at Oikos! Very welcome to the board, Dr. Gerlinde De Deyne! Learn more about her here: What's you main research focus at the moment? I focus on plant-soil interactions in relation to the coupling between biodiversity, ecosystem...
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11 September 2015

The cover photo on the October issue shows a mallard duck in flight taken at Burnaby Lake, Burnaby, BC, Canada. The photo illustates movement behaviour of mallard ducks (Anas platyrhynchos) in relation to the spread of avian influenza viruses. Read more in the paper "...
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