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Bigger fishes are more predictable

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14 March 2014
How accurate are different forecast models for predicting population dynamics? That, and how predictable various animals actually are, was tested in the study "Complexity is costly: a meta-analysis of parametric and non-parametric methods for short-term population...

Top-preadtor effects on variable environments

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14 March 2014
Thanks to giant water bugs’ ferocious feeding habits and their extreme natural environment, authors Kate S. Boersma and colleagues, now have a greater understanding of how biological communities may respond to predator extinctions under increasing global environmental...

Which fruit should I eat?

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11 March 2014
Which fruit should I eat? - A decision both migratory and resident birds have to make over and over each autumn. This decision - and the consequences of it is studied in the Early View paper " Consistency and reciprocity of indirect interactions between tree species...

Ecosystem engineering in food-webs

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11 March 2014
Ecosystem engineering, the physical modification of the environment by organisms, may well be the most common kind of non-trophic interaction - nearly as ubiquitous as eating and being eaten, and often as influential. Because species are affected by the physical...

Modelling of human-driven changes in meta-communities

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7 March 2014
What will happen at the meta-community level with all exposure to human activities in various ecosystems? To answer this, Anne Teyssèdre and Alexandre Robert have simulated alternatives, presented in the Early View study " Contrasting effects of habitat reduction,...

Factors affecting carbon cycling in Sphagnum

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4 March 2014
Now on Early View: A study about functional traits in Sphagnum and how it affects carbon cycling. “Tradeoffs and scaling of functional traits in Sphagnum as drivers of carbon cycling in peatlands” by C.G. Laing and co-workers. Below is the author’s own summary of the...

Ecological networks and inference

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4 March 2014
If many mouths eat a lot of a not so preferable foot item - i.e. large numbers of city rats happen to live underground where they only have access to garbage-like food items - this does not tell us that another foot item not accessible to the crowd is genuinely much...

Welcome Martijn Bezemer, new SE

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28 February 2014
We're very happy to welcome Dr Martijn Bezemer, NIOO-KNAW, the Netherlands to our editorial board. Martijn, what's your main research focus at the moment? My main research focus is on aboveground-belowground interactions. I study how (i) soil biota (ii) manipulations...

Editor's Choice Feb-March 2014

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28 February 2014
For the February and March issue we have selected three articles as Editor’s choices that are currently open access. We selected papers that are at the heart of our publication mission, so papers that aim at providing synthesis in ecology. The work by Sergio Estay and...

Invasive flowers, pollinators and native flowers

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25 February 2014
How different kinds of ecological aspects affect the future of invasive plants is studied in the Early View paper: “Neighborhood-contingent indirect interactions between native and exotic plants: multiple shared pollinators mediate reproductive success during invasions...

Cows and rabbits change plant growth via the soil

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25 February 2014
How does grazing affect the soil? Find out in the Early View paper "Grazing-induced changes in plant–soil feedback alter plant biomass allocation" by Ciska van Veen and co-workers. Cows and rabbits, feed on plants. With that they change plant growth directly, for...

Top downloaded 2013 papers

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25 February 2014
Recently, Wiley released the list over most downloaded Oikos papers during 2013. Many of the papers are familiar titles, that were published a few years ago. However, two of the papers published during 2013 actually managed to climb the ladder and take place among the...

Bottom-up effects of hybridization

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21 February 2014
A hybridization event at the bottom of the food chain may affect organisms several steps up the chain. Read more in the early View paper: "Bottom–up regulates top–down: the effects of hybridization of grass endophytes on an aphid herbivore and its generalist predator"...

HoH HoH HoH: Santa Claus has brought a new tool for ecological synthesis

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18 February 2014
Ecological synthesis is tricky. One of its many challenges is that empirical data rarely paint a clear picture either supporting or refuting a given hypothesis. More typically, empirical studies have diverging results. But even for hypotheses where refuting evidence is...

Bob Holt - prize winner 2014

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14 February 2014
Last week, the annual Oikos meeting was held in Stockholm. This year as a Nordic event, with speakers from both Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland. The big happening was of course, that Prof. Bob Holt was awarded the Per Brink award. Bob gave a fantastic talk...

Salmon response to climate variation

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31 January 2014
Why might you find scientists out on a pitch black night on a remote Alaskan lake driving two 18’ boats with a net towed in between? Fun, tradition, data collection? Well, all of the above, assuming the weather is nice. In our article, “ Climate variation is filtered...

To live in a multi-predtory landscape of fear

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27 January 2014
Having one predator chasing you is scary enough, but what about having two? Hunting in different habitats? Lucky me not being roe-deer! Read more in the Oikos Early View paper “Living and dying in a multi-predator landscape of fear: roe deer are squeezed...

Editor's Choice January 2014

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24 January 2014
The first editor’schoice for 2014 is the work of Alexander Kubisch and colleagues . This invited contribution synthesizes how feedbacks between ecological and evolutionary on dispersal shape species ranges and range dynamics. The manuscript is a systematic review on...

Vectors’ role in pathogen dynamics

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22 January 2014
If a vector prefers uninfected hosts or infected hosts – how does that affect the pathogen’s spread? Find out in the Early View paper “Vector preference and host defense against infection interact to determine disease dynamics” by Adam R. Zeilinger and Matthew P...

Yiihaa! Oikos new webpage open!

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20 January 2014
It’s here! Our new webpage is ready and open for everyone to visit! Apart from journal information, aims and scopes of Oikos and author guidelines for manuscript submissions, you also find, twitter- and facebook flows, abstracts to newly accepted papers as well as...

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