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4 February 2013
Read David Choquenot's and David M. Forsyth's new Early View paper "Exploitation ecosystems and trophic cascades in non-equilibrium systems: pasture – red kangaroo – dingo interactions in arid Australia" to learn more! Here's Dave's background story to the study: This...
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31 January 2013
Do animals spend too much energy on just being? Read Bas Kooijman's new Early View paper "Waste to hurry: dynamic energy budgets explain the need of wasting to fully exploit blooming resources" to find out! Here, Bas gives you the background to the study: Many years...
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30 January 2013
Editor in Chief Prof. Dries Bonte introduces the two Editor's choice papers in the February Issue: (Note that Editor's choice papers are Open Access) For the February issue of Oikos, we decided to highlight Sorte’s forum paper on the importance of flow direction and...
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29 January 2013
We have now come to the second Surf and turf paper in Oikos february issue. I let Deron Burkepile introduce you to his study "Comparing aquatic and terrestrial grazing ecosystems: is the grass really greener?" At a big ecology meeting, you can often tell what people...
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24 January 2013
Check out the Surf & Turf papers in the February Issue! For an introduction to the concept, I leave the word to our Surf and Turf editors Josh Idjadi and Randi Rotjan. Their introductory paper in the February Issue is found here. Presentations of the actual papers...
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21 January 2013
From January 2013 our Editor's in Chief select two papers in each issue as Editor's Choice. Those papers are Open Access, and the complete January Issue is OA! Here, Dries Bonte explains why they chose the following for the January issue. Read more here about News in...
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21 December 2012
Isn't it just amazing how well adapted the tiny parasitic wasps are? Parasitoids want to lay their eggs in good, yummy caterpillars. Yummy caterpillars are those feeding on high quality plants. Quality of plants is partly determined by if their roots have been eaten by...
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20 December 2012
What are the chances that the reefs recover? And how likely is it that they just turn into seeweed-dominated ecosystems instead? Important issues that Peter Mumby and his colleagues have studied and modelled in the new Early View paper "Evidence for and against the...
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14 December 2012
In the new Early View paper "Predator-mediated interactions between preferred, alternative and incidental prey in the arctic tundra", Laura McKinnon and her colleagues used the Arctic Tundra in Canada as a natural laboratory to study predator-prey interactions. Here is...
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13 December 2012
Seed diseprsal by animals is an important ecological service. How selective or general the animals are in their choice of fruits to eat might have a huge effect on dispersal of the plants. Read more in the new Early View paper "Individual variation in resource use by...
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