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29 September 2015
Mast seeding is an astonishing phenomenon. Trees produce tons of seeds, all at once, and then take a couple of years off, with little or not seeds produced. This burst of seeds creates a resouce pulse that propagates through ecosystems. The best-known effects of...
Altmetrics measures how many times a paper has been linked to by various websites and social media sites. Here's the top 10 list over Oikos papers' Altmetrics scores. If you click on the title, you get to the paper and can see their score. Click on the Altmetrics...
Animals are widely recognized to communicate with other members of their species: signalling danger, marking territory, and finding food. Recent work has recognized that a broad range of organisms – including plants – also send, receive, and respond to a rich suite of...
Leaf-consuming detritivores feed and grow on some of the poorest quality resources available in nature: dead organic matter of mostly terrestrial origin that has a high proportion of carbon (C) relative to other essential elements such as nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P...
editor
8 September 2015
Frugivores and fleshy-fruited plants can interact with a mutual benefit: animals obtain nutrients from fruits and plants disperse their seeds to variable distances through bird faeces. It has been largely assumed that only a few of the many species interacting are the...
editor
8 September 2015
Mutualism is a form of species interactions in which each species gains benefits from each other. An obligate mutualist is a species whose survival and/or reproduction requires the benefits from its partners, and a facultative mutualist does not necessarily require the...
editor
4 September 2015
Using a microcosm experiment with natural phytoplankton assemblages we tested the combined effect of dispersal and disturbance on assemblage composition and productivity. The experimental set-up was designed to simulate conditions typical of natural coastal systems,...
editor
4 September 2015
This paper tests whether a statistical measure of community structure can actually differentiate between neutral and niche assembly processes. More broadly, we were interested in the connection between the ecological processes that determine community structure and...
editor
4 September 2015
The main message of our study is related to the importance of diversified frugivorous bird assemblages driving diversified and complementary ecological services in the tropical forests. Studying three plant species and their fruit dispersers in a complex landscape we...
We selected two meta-analysis papers as editor’s choice for the September issue. The meta-analysis authored by Albert and colleagues aimed to study to which degree ungulates act as an environmental filter for the dispersal of seeds. By relating patterns in dispersal to...
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