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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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11 September 2015
The photo on the Septmber cover shows a couple of stallions that leisurely find water in the mid-west side of Sable Island. However, although for some horses water isn't always so accessible to find here. Read more in the paper "Density-dependent, central-place...
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10 September 2015
We are very happy to welcome Silke Bauer, Swiss Ornithological Institute, Sempach, to our Editorial Board. get to know her in the interview below and read more at her webpage: http://www.vogelwarte.ch/de/vogelwarte/ueber-uns/team/mitarbeitende/silke-bauer.html 1. What'...
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1 September 2015
Self-assembly has always fascinated people. Ecologists were particularly interested in the emergence of ecological systems during primary succession. However, respective opportunities to trace initial community assembly are scarce and mainly restricted to faraway...
editor
18 August 2015
What would happen if a plant could produce billions of seeds capable of arriving, germinating and growing anywhere? Such plant would coat the face of the Earth, displacing every other plant species on the planet. From the assumptions of natural selection, we would even...
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16 June 2015
The photo on the August cover shows a polar bear that has just caught a bearded seal. The phot was taken by Wayne Lynch. The paper about the polar bears is "Multi-temporal factors influence predation for polar bears in a changing climate" by Nick Pilfold and coworkers.
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16 June 2015
The photo on the cover on the July-issue shows various protists and relates to the paper "Dendritic network structure and dispersal affect temporal dynamics of diversity and species persistence" by Mathew Seymore et al. "Different species commonly used in protist...
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