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11 March 2026
A study of Brazilian savannas by Manzan et al. (2025) shows that fuel traits—especially grass biomass—strongly shape fire behavior, with vegetation structure and environmental conditions influencing flammability and helping predict where fires are most likely to occur...

View from the editor's desk - Where is double-blind review headed in the age of preprints?

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6 February 2026
Pedro-Peres Neto, Concordia University, Canada Editor-in-Chief, Oikos The gist: Preprints are now widely shared, cited, and discussed before formal peer review, making full anonymity increasingly difficult to maintain. This does not make double-blind review obsolete,...

Cover February 2026

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3 February 2026
A 27-year, continent-wide study of fig wasps by Souza et al. (2025) shows that communities linked to Neotropical fig trees change dramatically across space, with high species turnover —highlighting how ecological and evolutionary forces shape biodiversity in tightly...

Cover January 2026

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20 January 2026
A new study conducted by Gamblin et al. (2025) highlights polar bears as key providers of food in the Arctic, showing that the carrion from their seal kills fuels a network of scavengers and transfers large amounts of energy across marine and terrestrial ecosystems...

Cover December 2025

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3 December 2025
A study of carnivores in California’s Sierra Nevada, by Martin et al. (2025), shows that species like bobcats, cougars, coyotes, gray foxes, and martens largely avoid each other in space but share surprisingly similar diets—revealing how landscape conditions shape...

Cover November 2025

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4 November 2025
A study of European beech forests, by Rodríguez-Uña et al. (2025) reveals that trees can maintain water uptake during drought by drawing from deeper soil layers, but dry conditions reduce the diversity of their root-associated fungi—threatening vital ecosystem...

Cover October 2025

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8 October 2025
A long-term study of mouse lemurs conducted by Vallejo-Vargas et al. (2025) in Madagascar shows that protected forests significantly boost survival compared to degraded habitats. Their paper, titled "Effects of management strategies on the survival probability of a...

Welcome Elisa Thébault - New SE

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26 September 2025
We are happy to welcome Dr. Elise Thébault, from Paris, France, to the Oikos Editorial Board. To know more about her, read our interview below! Website : https://iees-paris.fr/annuaire/thebault-elisa/ What's your main research focus at the moment? My research mostly...

Cover September 2025

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12 September 2025
Levey et al. (2025) found in their recent research "Contrasting patterns of land use by resident and migratory bird assemblages in a tropical working landscape", in southestern Mexico, that while resident bird diversity declines with distance from protected forests and...

Cover August 2025

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12 September 2025
A long-term study of Japan’s Satoyama farmlands, conducted by Morelli et al. (2025) and titled "Avian diversity changes in traditional agricultural landscapes of Japan over ten years", shows that traditional agricultural landscapes can sustain rich bird diversity...

Welcome Zsófia Horváth - New SE

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26 August 2025
We are happy to welcome Dr. Zsófia Horváth, from Budapest, Hungary, to the Oikos Editorial Board. To know more about her, read our interview below! Website : https://metacomlab.com/ What's your main research focus at the moment? I am a community ecologist interested in...

Welcome Blanca Arroyo-Correa - New SE

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20 August 2025
We are happy to welcome Dr. Blanca Arroyo-Correa, from Seville, Spain, to the Oikos Editorial Board. To know more about her, read our interview below! Website : www.blancaarroyocorrea.com What's your main research focus at the moment? I am fascinated by the way...

Welcome Melánie Roy - New SE

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14 August 2025
We are happy to welcome Dr. Melánie Roy, from Toulouse, France, to the Oikos Editorial Board. To know more about her, read our interview below! Website : https://www.cima.fcen.uba.ar/~melanie.roy/cv_melanie.roy_english.pdf What's your main research focus at the moment...

Welcome Isabel Donoso - New SE

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7 August 2025
We are happy to welcome Dr. Isabel Donoso, from Basque Country, Spain, to the Oikos Editorial Board. To know more about her, read our interview below! Website : https://sites.google.com/view/isa-donoso/contact-cv?authuser=0 What's your main research focus at the moment...

Welcome Tina Heger - New SE

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28 July 2025
We are happy to welcome Dr. Tina Heger, from Munich, Germany, to the Oikos Editorial Board. To know more about her, read our interview below! Website : https://www.tinaheger.de/ What's your main research focus at the moment? My current research focus is on how we can...

Welcome Mariano Devoto - new SE

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14 July 2025
We are happy to welcome Dr. Mariano Devoto, from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to the Oikos Editorial Board. To know more about him, read our interview below! Website: https://www.agro.uba.ar/users/mdevoto/ What's your main research focus at the moment? I study ecological...

Welcome Robert Nasi - new SE

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14 July 2025
We are happy to welcome Dr. Robert Nasi, the Chief Operating Officer of CIFOR-ICRAF, based in Indonesia, to the Oikos Editorial Board. To know more about him, read our interview below! Website : https://www.cifor.org/research-staff/984/robert-nasi/ What’s your main...

Cover July 2025

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7 July 2025
Frugivory interactions—key to forest regeneration—are disrupted by logging and fires in the Amazon, Chesini et al. (2025) explains. Their paper, "Anthropogenic disturbances simplify frugivory interactions in Amazonia" evidences how recently and long-ago burned areas...

Cover June 2025

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7 July 2025
Early-blooming non-native dandelions can boost solitary bees' offspring numbers, but their poor nutritional quality may reduce larval survival. A new study titled "Fitness costs and benefits of a non-native floral resource for subalpine solitary bees" suggests these...

Cover May 2025

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7 July 2025
Fluctuating rainfall—not rising temperatures—has had the strongest impact on meerkats reproduction and survival, highlighting the critical role of water availability in shaping population dynamics under climate change. This is shown by Thorley et al.'s (2025) 25-year...

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