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2 July 2025
A new study on wild house mice reveals that traits like exploration and risk-taking don’t directly predict problem-solving success, but influence the likelihood of engaging with challenges—highlighting the gap between lab tests and real-world behaviour. This contrast...
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13 June 2025
We are happy to welcome Dr. Matthew Grainger, from the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Trondheim, Norway, to the Oikos Editorial Board. To know more about him, read our interview below! Website: https://drmattg.github.io/Uncertain_Ecologist/ What’s your main...
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26 March 2025
A worker of Apis mellifera visits a flower in the coastal environment of the Gulf of Mexico, Mexico. This bee is a key species in the region's pollination network, highlighted in " Thermal tolerance and sociality explain the interactive role of bees in a pollination...
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26 March 2025
After spending many nights searching for the shiny eyes of beetles with headlamps, this ground beetle (family Carabidae ) was photographed by the team in northeastern Connecticut, US. Beetle plays a crucial role in altering nitrogen availability in forest soils, as...
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26 March 2025
The red-legged honeycreeper ( Cyanerpes cyaneus ), a vibrant frugivore of the Atlantic Forest, plays a key role in seed dispersal. This stunning species is featured in " Estimated missing interactions change the structure and alter species roles in one of the world's...
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26 March 2025
An AI-generated image of a reindeer, the focal species in the study " Reindeer grazing reduces climate-driven vegetation changes and shifts trophic interactions in the Fennoscandian tundra " by Ramirez et al. (2024). By browsing and grazing on tall vegetation, reindeer...
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26 March 2025
The lowland tapir ( Tapirus terrestris ), a megafaunal survivor and key seed disperser in the Neotropics, moves through the dense forests of Argentina’s Atlantic Forest in Iguazú National Park. This striking photograph by Mariano Ignacio Giombini captures one of the...
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26 March 2025
From the forests of the Adirondacks, New York, this American marten ( Martes americana ) watches from above. Captured by Lawrence Master, this stunning image features one of the key species in " Intraguild interactions and abiotic conditions mediate occupancy of...
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21 March 2025
Special issue in Oikos: Call for paper Deadline for abstracts: 31 July Dear Colleagues, We invite you to contribute to a special issue of Oikos on Biological invasions in the context of global environmental change. Biological invasion has transformed ecosystems around...
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23 September 2024
We are happy to welcome Dr Chelsea J. Little, Associate Professor at the School of Environmental Science & Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada, to Oikos Editorial Board. To know more about her, read our interview below and...
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