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16 March 2021

This month's cover is an image of pastoralist cattle foraging in the Tarangire-Manyara ecosystem of northern Tanzania from a study that highlights the human-livestock-wild interface - "Do pastoralist cattle fear African lions?" (Beck et al. 2020). It certainly seems...
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10 February 2021

February's cover shows us this majestic polar bear from the study by Penk et al. 2020 - "Mechanistic models can reveal infection pathways from prevalence data: the mysterious case of polar bears Ursus maritimus and Trichinella nativa " Take a look at the abstract:...
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10 February 2021

We are very excited to have Meike Wittmann join our team at Oikos as a Subject Editor. She is a Junior Professor at Bielefeld University in Germany and specializes in evolutionary and theoretical ecology. She has kindly told us a bit more about herself and her research...
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21 December 2020

Please join me in welcoming Lizzy Lowe as one of our new Subject Editors! She is a postdoc in the Behavioural Ecology Group at Macquarie University in Australia. Read through her interview and get to know her better! lizzylowe.net | @LizyLowe 1. What's your main...
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15 December 2020

The role of the nutritional quality of resources in ecosystem functioning. Special issue in Oikos: Call for paper ****Extended deadline for abstracts: 31 March**** Dear Colleagues, We cordially invite you to submit manuscripts to a special issue of Oikos on the role of...
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4 December 2020

December's cover portrays a jumping spider ( Marpissa muscosa ) from behavioural study "Individual differences in risk‐taking affect foraging across different landscapes of fear" by Steinhoff et al. (2020). Abstract One of the strongest determinants of behavioural...
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30 November 2020

Location: Wakehurst, UK Personal webpage , Google Scholar , ResearchGate Twitter: @SichongChen Keywords: macroecology, biogeography, plant ecology, seed ecology, species interaction 1. What's your main research focus at the moment? I work on the macroecological...
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2 November 2020

November's cover: Cogongrass ( Imperata cylindrica ) invading both pine dominated (open canopy) and oak dominated (denser canopy) habitats near Seabring, FL. This is the study site in "Clonal integration enhances performance of an invasive grass" by Estrada et al. (...
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1 October 2020

This month's cover portrays ten-day-old piping plover ( Charadrius melodus ) chicks on a sandbar in the Missouri River, USA. Read more in the study "Asymmetric benefits of a heterospecific breeding association vary with habitat, conspecific abundance and breeding stage...
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15 September 2020

A beautiful alpine sunset on September's cover, one of the study sites from the study "Decomposability of lichens and bryophytes from across an elevational gradient under standardized conditions" by van Zuijlen et al. (2020). What a peaceful view! Photo credit: Kristel...
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