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10 December 2012
Invasive species may actually increase resistance to climate changes. Celia Olabarria and co-workers studies this interaction in marine macroalgal assemblages. Now on early View: Response of macroalgal assemblages from rockpools to climate change: effects of persistent...
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7 December 2012
Protein or fat in food - which is best? Well, if you're a female preying mantid, you should definitely go for the high-protein diet! Females on high-lipid diet attract much fewer males than females on high-protein diet. These results are presented in the new Early View...
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4 December 2012
You can now find a list of the most cited Oikos papers 2011, that were published in 2009 and 2010, on our webpage. On top of the list, is "A consumer's guide to nestedness analysis" by Werner Ulrich, Mário Almeida-Neto and Nicholas J. Gotelli. Here is a short...
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27 November 2012
So those small small seeds produced by plants have actually big effects on plant demography. Read more in the Early View paper "Non-native conditions favor non-native populations of invasive plant: demographic consequences of seed size variation?" by José L. Hierro et...
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23 November 2012
When I did an undergraduate project at Silwood Park, my supervisor, Hefin Jones used to say that ecological research is about 10 % inspiration and 90% transpiration. And this is exactly what Winfried Voigt report about in his story about his and his colleagues Early...
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22 November 2012
Sometimes it's worth bringing good old science back into the light. Hideyuki Doi and Terutaka Mori were inspired by two papers from 1932 and 1953 about species abundance distirbution and brought them into modern days' science. Read the paper "The discovery of species–...
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21 November 2012
Root competition appears to effect sex allocation in plants. Åsa Lankinen and her colleagues have studied this in the Early View paper "Allocation to pollen competitive ability versus seed production in Viola tricolor as an effect of plant size, soil nutrients and...
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16 November 2012
In the new early view paper "Do physical plant litter traits explain non-additivity in litter mixtures? A test of the improved microenvironmental conditions theory", Marika Makkonen and co-workers, present a new theory on decomposition rates. Here's their own summary...
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13 November 2012
At least here in southern Sweden, the autumn colours have been fantastic this year! As an evolutionary ecologist one starts wonder: why does trees differ in level of coloration? Is it only a benefit to the tree? Or are there costs associated with it as well? And why...
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7 November 2012
In the new paper "Adaptive foraging allows the maintenance of biodiversity of pollination networks" Fernanda S. Valdovinos and her colleagues present a new population-dynamics model for plant-pollinator interactions: Here's Fernanda's summary of the model: One of the...
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