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12 June 2015
The photo at Oikos' June cover is taken by Bram Vanschoenwinkel, one of the authors to the paper "Hydrological stability drives both local and regional diversity patterns in rock pool metacommunities" in the same issue. Here he describes the photo and the study: The...
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18 May 2015
Long-term studies, either survey or experiments, have been identified as crucial tool of ecology since decades. However, and in particular in the case of experimental manipulations, they remain rarely reported in the literature and because their time scale is not...
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18 May 2015
The prevalence of nestedness in ecological communities has been studied and debated for over twenty years. These studies have all dealt with the concept of compositional nestedness, i.e. the ordered composition of species assemblages. However, this traditional approach...
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8 May 2015
The cover of Oikos' May Issue shows a "male Soay sheep in his full glory" and is taken by Tim Coulson. Together with Emily G. Simmonds, Tim has written one of the Editor's Choice papers in the May Issue " Analysis of phenotypic change in relation to climatic drivers in...
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8 April 2015
The photo on the April cover was taken by Michael Singer, one of the authors to the paper: "The struggle for safety: effectiveness of caterpillar defenses against bird predation" by Lichter-Marck et al. "The photo was taken in the field. I came across the caterpillar...
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7 April 2015
Plant diversity, typically measured as the number of plant species at a local site, plays a primary role in regulating and maintaining many ecosystem processes such as decomposition rates, plant growth, and resistance against disturbance. In addition, plant diversity...
March was a hectic project month in Belgium, with a series of important deadlines. A shame that I did not provide blog notes for our editor’s choices for March - they are great. Timothee Poisot and colleagues published a forum paper on the context-dependency of species...
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31 March 2015
Avian influenza viruses may be spread by wild birds, and waterfowl in particular. In order to model the dispersal of these viruses, it is important to assess the effects of infection on the birds’ behaviour. We compared the local and regional movements of mallard ducks...
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27 March 2015
We are very happy to welcome Florian Altermatt, University of Zurich, to the Oikos Editorial Board. Below, he introduces himself: 1. What's you main research focus at the moment? My main interests at the moment are to understand how spatial network configuration shapes...
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24 March 2015
Ecologists have repeatedly reported that lower latitudes are associated with increases in herbivore abundance and damage. However, recent studies have confirmed that this pattern is not as common as previously thought. In our paper, " Latitudinal variation in herbivory...
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