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7 May 2014
Bimodality – the characteristic of a continuous variable having two distinct modes – is of widespread interest in data analysis. This is because, in some cases, we can use the presence or absence of bimodality to infer something about the underlying processes...
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6 May 2014
"Nature is much more complicated" than predicted in theoretical models. In the Early View Paper "Matrix models for quantifying competitive intransitivity from species abundance data" , Werner Ulrich and colleagues try to fill a gap between models and mother nature when...
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29 April 2014
Talk about choosing between pest and cholera! A bird on migration, has a tough job, and with a virus infection in the body, the job is even worse! In the early View paper “A tradeoff between perceived predation risk and energy conservation revealed by an immune...
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29 April 2014
Natal dispersal is a complex process but what could be the role of endo-intestinal parasites in dispersal propensity, distance and date of departure? In our article “Parasite abundance contributes to condition-dependent dispersal in a wild population of large herbivore...
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22 April 2014
How life-history traits vary across longitude is studied in birds in the Amazonas in the Early View article “Variation in tropical bird survival across longitudes and guilds: a case study of the Amazone” by Jared D Wolfe and co-workers. Below is Jared’s summary of the...
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22 April 2014
How altered temperature might affect competition and herbivory in plant communities is studied in the early View paper " Concurrent biotic interactions influence plant performance at their altitudinal distribution margins " by Elina Kaarlejärvi and Johan Olsson. below...
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15 April 2014
Lots of traits are climate dependent! In the Early View paper in Oikos "Genetically based latitudinal variation in Artemisia californica secondary chemistry" by Jessica Pratt and co-workers, terpenes are studied under different climatic situations. Below is a summary...
The majority of pollination studies are performed in five countries, non of which in Africa. How does this bias affect application of the research in various geographic regions? Find out in the Forum paper in the April Issue of Oikos " Economic and ecological...
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14 February 2014
Last week, the annual Oikos meeting was held in Stockholm. This year as a Nordic event, with speakers from both Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland. The big happening was of course, that Prof. Bob Holt was awarded the Per Brink award. Bob gave a fantastic talk...
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2 January 2014
A sheep increasing 4 times in size, starting to eat competing rabbits! Wow, that would be something! And it's almost true, at least in the ciliate world! Find out more in the new Early View paper "Trait-mediated apparent competition in an intraguild predator–prey...
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