One of the most cited papers in Oikos, during 2011 (published 2009 and 2010) is "Life history tradeoffs influence mortality associated with the amphibian pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis" Trenton W.J. Garner and co-workers. Here, Trent gives a short summary...
Read about butterflies finding romance in the mountains in the new Early View paper "Simple rules for complex landscapes: the case of hilltopping movements and topography" by Guy Peer and colleagues. here's Guy's summary of the paper: Mating on a hilltop You are lost...
Look up, zombies are all around us nowadays! Even within science! In the Early View paper " A critical analysis of the ubiquity of linear local–regional richness relationships ", Thiago Goncales-Souza and colleagues goes on a zombie-killing adventure. Here is there...
They look the same, but perform so differently. And act differently against each other. Cryptic amphipods are dealt with in the Early View paper " Phenotypically similar but ecologically distinct: differences in competitive ability and predation risk among amphipods "...
Nice to see that nature provides other kinds of interactions than nasty predation, competetion and parasitism! Christian Schöb and coworkers have studied the importance of "nursing" plants - plants that fascilitate for other plants - in community ecology. Read their...
The colder, the bigger, suggested Bergman in 1848. In 2013 we publish a paper testing Bergman's rule on a large data set. Showing...well find out in "Bergmann′s rule in mammals: a cross-species interspecific pattern" by Marcus Clauss and his co-workers. Below is their...
It has been debated for a while...are males really necessary? Find out how fish of the genus Chrosomus solve the small problems associated with asexual reproduction, in the Early View paper " Diets of sexual and sperm-dependent asexual dace ( Chrosomus spp.): relevance...
Ever thought about why an orange is orange while an apple is green? And a blueberry blue and blackberry black, while a raspberry is red? Well, one explanation - seasonality - is studied in the new Early View Paper "Fruit color and contrast in seasonal habitats – a case...
To consider at your Friday dinner tonight: Sex-biased diets affect the ecology of other species in the surroundings. Read more in the new early View paper "Antelope mating strategies facilitate invasion of grasslands by a woody weed" by Shivani Jadeja and colleagues...
Taylor´s power law and bird populations are studied with in the new Early View paper "Interspecific differences in stochastic population dynamics explains variation in Taylor's temporal power law", by Marit Linnerud and her coworkers. Here's Marit's summary of the...
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