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29 May 2015
When organisms grow up to reproductive maturity, they are shaped by the environment that surrounds them and the way they interact with it. Intrinsic effects shape this interaction, and are a product of an organisms’ phenotype. In early development, size is postulated...
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26 May 2015
The success of invasive plants is often attributed to the production of chemicals that are highly inhibitory against naïve neighbours at the introduced range (‘novel weapons hypothesis’). However, invasive populations could not only possess such novel weapons, but...
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22 May 2015
We know that the distributions of carnivore populations across the globe depend heavily upon where prey species are available. Prey availability depends not only on prey density but also on prey accessibility which is affected, in part, by the configuration of...
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22 May 2015
Seed dispersal is a critical process in the life history of flowering, often involving multiple steps both horizontally and vertically. For many plant species, seed burial i.e. vertical seed movement can have mighty consequences for seed fate, plant recruitment and...
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19 May 2015
Fear, the anticipation of a potentially imminent danger, is taking over most decisions in modern human societies, from neighborhood watch program to foreign policy decisions. However, fear is not limited to human species and is now believed to influence almost all...
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19 May 2015
Ecologists have long been interested in the prominent role that the sex ratio plays on population processes, including sexual selection, evolutionary trajectories, and population dynamics. As such, I (we) were interested in investing the determinants of sex ratio...
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18 May 2015
The prevalence of nestedness in ecological communities has been studied and debated for over twenty years. These studies have all dealt with the concept of compositional nestedness, i.e. the ordered composition of species assemblages. However, this traditional approach...
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18 May 2015
Central place foragers make consistent returns to a central place between foraging bouts, generally a den or a nest. Territorial animals often aggressively defend their territories and as such regularly monitor the boundaries of their home range. Home range development...
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8 May 2015
The importance of keystone predators in structuring biological communities and ecosystems has been one of the cornerstones of ecology. Surprisingly though, almost nothing is known about the effect of keystone predators in systems that are dominated by non-natives...
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8 May 2015
Oikos publishes novel work of great synthetic value on a wide range of organisms. For the May issue, two vertebrate papers were chosen as editor's choice. The work of Hance Ellington and Dennis Murray provides synthesis on the impact of hybridization on ecological...
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