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17 June 2014
How carbon moves from terrestrial food-webs to aquatic ones are studied in the new Early View paper "Boomerang ecosystem fluxes: organic carbon inputs from land to lakes are returned to terrestrial food webs via aquatic insects" by K. Scharnweber and co-workers. Below...
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13 June 2014
What is climate change doing to plant–pollinator interactions? In the last decade, ecologists have focused on the possibility that climate change will shift the seasonal timing (phenology) of plants relative to their pollinators, reducing temporal overlap between...
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10 June 2014
Many animals are breeding earlier and earlier in response to a gradually changing climate – but what happens when a species encounters a dramatically different climatic regime such as a complete reversal of the summer-winter rainfall pattern? In our article, “...
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4 June 2014
Papers published in Oikos should meet the principal criteria to generate synthesis in ecology. Synthesis can be created in different ways and definitively obtained when long-term data sets, novel analytical tools and good hypotheses are merged. The first editor’s...
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2 June 2014
The ants underfoot forage faster as the ground warms each day. Likewise, the fish in nearby streams and the worms and other organisms that parasitize these fish speed their activities as the water warms. Above the stream, dragonflies engage in more aerial battles each...
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23 May 2014
Vernal pool ecosystems emerge from winter and spring rains that fill shallow depressions in the earth, resulting in small patches of wetlands spread throughout the Central Valley of California, USA. These pools act as a crucial habitat for a diverse community of annual...
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23 May 2014
How do plants react to seasonal extremes? Find out more in the new Early View paper " Leaf and stem physiological responses to summer and winter extremes of woody species across temperate ecosystems " by Elena Granda and co-workers. Read Elena's summary of the study...
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20 May 2014
Bird pollination in Europe? Really? Well, find out in the Early View paper " Flower visitation by birds in Europe" by Luis P da Silva and co-workers. Below is Luis summary of the paper: Birds are among the most studied animal groups and are most likely the one that...
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9 May 2014
Different factors that effect predation in marine habitats are explored in the Early View paper "Differences in predator composition alter the direction of structure-mediated predation risk in macrophyte communities" by Simone Farina and co-worker's. Below is Simone's...
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9 May 2014
By comparing fish communities with bird communities Kirsten Nash an co-workers assess the appropriateness of different size distribution indices used in a variety of studies. The analyses resulted in the Oikos Early View paper “ Habitat structure and body size...
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