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1 September 2015
Self-assembly has always fascinated people. Ecologists were particularly interested in the emergence of ecological systems during primary succession. However, respective opportunities to trace initial community assembly are scarce and mainly restricted to faraway...
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31 August 2015
In our study system (a salt marsh on a back-barrier island in the Wadden Sea) it is very obvious: some plants are highly preferred by herbivores and are being grazed down to the ground, whereas others are not being grazed at all. One of the main herbivores during early...
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25 August 2015
Traditionally, the role of species interactions in community assembly is inferred from patterns of taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity. Furthermore, assembly theory employs a competition-based framework that does not include trophic interactions or the...
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19 August 2015
Background: Rapid Evolution Stoichiometry Group Woodstoich 2014 Carrying on the far-out tradition established by Woodstoich I, which was held in Norway during summer, 2004 and continued by Woodstoich II held in Japan during the summer of 2009, five groups of early...
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31 July 2015
Old data + new techniques = new answers to old questions: On the usefulness of boring presentations Most biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments focus at one trophic level and use randomly assembled communities. However, in natural systems communities are rarely...
Two research papers were chosen as EC for July. The two papers have in common that they generate synthesis in community ecology by collecting large datasets to test predictions on network structure and functional organisation. Staab et al. tested the hypothesis that...
We selected for the August issue two rather atypical contributions as editor’s choice. We see Oikos as a journal at the interface of ecology and evolution and decided to highlight a forum and research paper that are focusing on the genetic component of population...
editor
16 June 2015
The photo on the August cover shows a polar bear that has just caught a bearded seal. The phot was taken by Wayne Lynch. The paper about the polar bears is "Multi-temporal factors influence predation for polar bears in a changing climate" by Nick Pilfold and coworkers.
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16 June 2015
The photo on the cover on the July-issue shows various protists and relates to the paper "Dendritic network structure and dispersal affect temporal dynamics of diversity and species persistence" by Mathew Seymore et al. "Different species commonly used in protist...
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5 June 2015
The first paper by Christoph Mensen and colleagues “ Stressor-induced biodiversity gradients: revisiting biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships”, uses biodiversity gradients to test to which degree a realistic loss of species due anthropogenic stressors...
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