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Spatial effects in mycorrhizal communities

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2 November 2015
The symbiosis between plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) is a crucial interaction that mediates nutrient cycling in terrestrial ecosystems. It is hypothesized that this symbiosis was essential for the evolutionary radiation of terrestrial plants...

Digging into the data – what can we learn from decades of monitoring?

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30 October 2015
Our recent article in Oikos seeks to understand biological interactions and long-term trends in northern Baltic Sea phytoplankton communities. At the heart of this article, however, is long-term monitoring data collected by Stockholm University as part of the Swedish...

Timing is crucial for consequences of migratory connectivity

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30 October 2015
Migratory animals typically visit several places throughout their journeys. It is widely acknowledged that ‘migratory connectivity’ - the geographic linking of individuals and populations between one life cycle stage and another - has consequences for migrant fitness...

Meta communities in dynamic systems

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16 October 2015
Biological communities are shaped by both local biotic interactions and abiotic environmental conditions (environmental filtering) and regional processes, such as the movement of organisms from one site to another (dispersal). Following this, how sets of local...

WELCOME TO THE 1st PER BRINK SYMPOSIUM

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13 October 2015
WELCOME TO THE 1st PER BRINK SYMPOSIUM On Feb 1st, Oikos , together with Nordic Society Oikos and Wiley arrange the Per Brink symposium: (Re)appreciating the role of life history in Eco-evolutionary dynamics? Any environmental change shifts an individual’s optimal life...

Do bats know what's in the fruits?

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13 October 2015
Fleshy fruits function primarily to attract mutualistic animal seed dispersers, yet they are much more than packages of nutritional rewards. Fruits contain a rich array of secondary metabolites that give them their incredible diversity in flavors, odors, and colors...

On predation in the Bromeliad ecosystems

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13 October 2015
Tank bromeliads are a family of Neotropical plants, with tightly overlapping leaves that are capable of accumulating rain water and detritus. These plants host a very diverse aquatic community in which the larval stage of several species of mosquitoes, non-biting...

Welcome Marjo Saastamoinen- new SE

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13 October 2015
We are very happy to welcome a new Subject Editor to our board - Dr Marjo Saastamoinen, University of Helsinki, Finland. Get to know her in th inteview below and visit her webpage: http://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/msaastam/ What's you main research focus at the moment?...

Philosophy behind “Colony size and foraging range in seabirds”

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13 October 2015
Basic questions in animal collective behaviour are still unanswered. Bird coloniality is a good example: Why do many bird species breed in colonies? Why is colony size so variable within and between species? Why is breeding in colonies often synchronised? Historically...

El Nino and density-dependent mortality in saplings

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13 October 2015
Density-dependent mortality (DDM) has been identified as one of the processes allowing coexistence of hundreds of species in tropical forests. At the early stages of tree development, mortality occurs mainly within dense clumps of conspecific individuals as a...

Welcome Elizabeth Borer as new SE

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2 October 2015
We're so happy to having recruited several new, great editors to Oikos lately. One of them is Elizabeth Borer, University of Minnesota, St Paul. Get to know her in the interview below and visit her website here : What's you main research focus at the moment? I'm an...

Energy flow between stream and forest

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2 October 2015
Cross-system subsidies, or transfers of energy and nutrients from one ecosystem to another, have been studied extensively in many different types of environments. In particular, a great deal of research demonstrates that subsidies between streams and surrounding...

Editor's Choice October

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2 October 2015
Our October issue is out! Editor’s choices are two remarkable papers focusing on species interactions. The forum paper of Oriol-Cotterill and colleagues focuses on landscapes of fear from the perspective of terrestrial carnivores, downgraded to penultimate predators by...

How does energy travel in foodwebs?

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29 September 2015
Food webs represent the general framework of ecological communities. Our study unfold the structural complexity of weighted food webs, where energy flows are quantified, highlighting the topologies that are mainly responsible for distributing the energy flow to the...

WILL TECHNOLOGY TRAMPLE PEER REVIEW?

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29 September 2015
We have too much to read, reviewers do not review enough manuscripts, there are too many journals, and good journals do not publish enough papers. The need of technology hand in hand with pressure to publish and increase in demographics in academia (e.g., ease of...

Diverse effects of mast seeding on animal populations

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29 September 2015
Mast seeding is an astonishing phenomenon. Trees produce tons of seeds, all at once, and then take a couple of years off, with little or not seeds produced. This burst of seeds creates a resouce pulse that propagates through ecosystems. The best-known effects of...

Most talked about Oikos papers - on the web

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23 September 2015
Altmetrics measures how many times a paper has been linked to by various websites and social media sites. Here's the top 10 list over Oikos papers' Altmetrics scores. If you click on the title, you get to the paper and can see their score. Click on the Altmetrics...

Welcome Gerlinde De Deyn - new Deputy EiC

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15 September 2015
We have a new deputy Editor in Chief at Oikos! Very welcome to the board, Dr. Gerlinde De Deyne! Learn more about her here: What's you main research focus at the moment? I focus on plant-soil interactions in relation to the coupling between biodiversity, ecosystem...

Do plants communicate with different dialects?

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15 September 2015
Animals are widely recognized to communicate with other members of their species: signalling danger, marking territory, and finding food. Recent work has recognized that a broad range of organisms – including plants – also send, receive, and respond to a rich suite of...

Stoichiometrically imbalanced diets

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15 September 2015
Leaf-consuming detritivores feed and grow on some of the poorest quality resources available in nature: dead organic matter of mostly terrestrial origin that has a high proportion of carbon (C) relative to other essential elements such as nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P...

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