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4 February 2015
This is our first collaboration study between a population geneticist, Hideki Innan, and a field-based tropical ecologist, me, Yayoi Takeuchi. I have been long wondering why Hubbell’s neutral model fitted so well to tropical forest communities because my impression of...
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3 February 2015
The introduction of a new species to an ecological community can initiate a chain of events that results in a significant change to the community’s composition. For instance, the introduction of a pollinator species can facilitate the colonization of new plants that...
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30 January 2015
Despite the increasing use of Species Distribution Models (SDM) for predicting current or future animal distribution, only a few studies have linked the gradient of habitat suitability to demographic parameters. Species Distribution Models are a niche modelling...
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30 January 2015
Everyone who likes to spend some time in nature, or who has trees at home, knows that several animals love to feed on fruits. Figs, tomatoes, peppers, guavas, mangos, bananas, and many other delicacies are harvested by frugivores that range from tiny bats to huge...
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27 January 2015
Experimental warming is an effective approach to determine the effect of increasing temperature on ecological processes, with few confounding factors (e.g., other variables that covary spatially and temporally with temperature). Therefore, a number of field experiments...
Biotic interactions play a central role in determining species distribution and abundance. Indeed, some organisms can have particularly strong effects on the distribution of other species because they act as keystone species or ecosystem engineers whose effects cascade...
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20 January 2015
I hope you haven't missed that Oikos from 2015 changes cover each month! Each month a photo from one of the papers in the issue will be featured on the cover. The January cover photo was taken by David W. Inouye. The paper in questions is "Phenological shifts and the...
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14 January 2015
Invasive species have negative economic and environmental consequences worldwide and, in our changing world, it has become increasingly important to understand their impacts. However, when assessing the impacts of invasive species, scientists often compare un-invaded...
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14 January 2015
Do migratory birds catch more parasites? This is explored in the Oikos Early View paper "Flying with diverse passengers: greater richness of parasitic nematodes in migratory birds" by Janet Koprivnikar and tommy L.F. Leung. Below is their short summary of the study:...
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14 January 2015
Moving to a new site for next brood? Good or bad? And why? These questions are answered in the Early View paper “Mechanisms and reproductive consequences of breeding dispersal in a specialist predator under temporally varying food conditions” by Julien Terraube and co-...
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