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9 January 2015
Timing is everything. For an interaction to take place, organisms not only have to be at the same place, they need to be there at the same time. The timing of flowering has likely been an important trait ever since the first flowers appeared on Earth ~200 million years...
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19 December 2014
We are very happy to welcome Dr. Francois Massol to Oikos Editorial Board. Get to know him here: What’s your main research focus at the moment? These days, I try and focus my efforts on the evolution of dispersal and the evolutionary ecology of interaction networks...
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17 December 2014
The complicated predator-prey interactions are one of the most fascinating fields in ecology. They have been studied for decades, and the more we learn, the more surprising and unpredicted stories that we find. For me, finding that small rodents (lemmings) in the high...
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16 December 2014
Who will eat me and how fast will I be out-competed? Questions about the future for eucalyptus seedlings in a kangaroo world. Read more in Early View paper “Associational refuge in practice: can existing vegetation facilitate woodland restoration?” by Rebecca S. Stutz...
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15 December 2014
How species may cope with global warming is studied in the Early View paper “Geographic mosaics of phenology, host preference, adult size and microhabitat choice predict butterfly resilience to climate warming” by Nichole L. Bennett and coworkers. Below is their...
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11 December 2014
Welcome to Oikos’ Editorial Board, Dr Andrew MacDougall, University of Guelph. Visit his webpage here. And read more about him below: 1. What’s you main research focus at the moment? How the co-varying influences of global environmental change transform fundamental...
The last issue from 2014 is online. We selected the meta-analysis by Kulmatisk et al on the impact of soil foodwebs on plant growth and the forum on the relative importance of neutral stochasticity in community ecology b y Vellend et al. as editor’s choice. These two...
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5 December 2014
Very welcome, Dr Sara Magalhaes, to the Oikos Editorial Board! Get to know Sara by visiting her webpage and read the mini-interview here: 1. What’s you main research focus at the moment? I work mainly with spider mites, which are herbivorous haplodiploid tiny spider-...
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2 December 2014
Human activities drastically reduce biodiversity at various taxonomic levels. While much of the current effort in research and biological conservation focuses on species diversity, the importance of intraspecific genetic diversity is sometimes overlooked. At the same...
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1 December 2014
Decades of ecological research have focused on interactions between herbivores and the chemical defenses of plants. However, far less is known about how effective physical defenses (spines, thorns, etc.) are against mammalian herbivores. It has been argued that co-...
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