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2 November 2012
Alien, invasive species are an increasing threat to biodiversity. In their paper "Competitive outcomes between two exotic invaders are modified by direct and indirect effects of a native conifer", Kerry Metlen and co-workers has studied what two invasive species - a...
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30 October 2012
That predator-prey interactions can be temperature-dependent is something that Angela Laws and Anthony Joern shows in the new Early View paper in Oikos "Predator–prey interactions in a grassland food chain vary with temperature and food quality" Read their background...
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29 October 2012
Is there really a connection between biodiversity and conservation and Internet? Oh, yes, read Michal Zmihorski and his colleagues new Early View paper in Oikos, " Ecological correlates of the popularity of birds and butterflies in Internet information resources"...
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26 October 2012
How close to a relative should one settle? David Aguirre et al have shown that relatedness has an effect on colonization and settlement in some species, at least. Here's David's summary of the paper that is now on Early View in Oikos: "In organisms with sessile adults...
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25 October 2012
In the new Oikos paper (now on Early View), "Simulated responses of moose populations to browsing-induced changes in plant architecture and forage production", John Pastor and Nathan R. de Jager present a model examining how tree crown architecture affects moose...
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19 October 2012
Oh, yes, fish have personalities as well! Matthew Edenbrow and his colleague has digged deeper into this to unravel the basis behind it. Now on early View: "Environmental and genetic effects shape the development of personality traits in the mangrove killifish...
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17 October 2012
Now online: Perea et al. " Context-dependent fruit-frugivore interactions: partner identities and spatio-temporal variations" Here Ramon Perea summarizes the study: Plants are able to use animals as vectors for the dispersal of their seeds. Many fleshy fruits...
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16 October 2012
First author Cene Fiser gives a short version of their paper " Coevolution of life history traits and morphology in female subterranean amphipods ". Fine-tuning evolution often requires compromises. Maximizing female’s fitness by optimization egg number and egg size to...
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15 October 2012
In the study "Density- and trait-mediated top–down effects modify bottom–up control of a highly endemic tropical aquatic food web" Christopher Dalton and co-workers have looked at bottom-up and top-down effects in anchialine ponds on Hawaii. Here's Chrsitopher's own...
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11 October 2012
One of the new papers online in Oikos is about the importance of full understanding of demography of wild populations for management programs. One of the authors, Eleanor Devenish-Nelson gives us here the background to the study " Demography of a carnivore, the red fox...
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