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Fish eye view of forest canopies

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18 June 2013
“ In discussing the peculiar type of refraction which occurs when light from the sky enters the surface of still water, it seems of interest to ascertain how the external world appears to the fish .” With these words renowned physicist R.W. Wood, Professor of...

Editor's Choice June

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14 June 2013
Oikos' Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dries Bonte, explains his choice of EC-papers for the June issue: Editor’s choice papers from the June issue create synthesis on invasions. Zenni & Nuñez focus in a forum paper "The elephant in the room: the role of failed invasions in...

Welcome Anna-Liisa Laine - new SE

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12 June 2013
We're very happy to welcome Anna-Liisa Laine, University of Helsinki, Finland, to our Editorial Board! Read more about her below and visit her website http://www.helsinki.fi/~allaine/ What's you main research focus at the moment? Much of my research is focused on...

How ants and plants interact over space in the Amazon?

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4 June 2013
I protect you and you feed me, says the ant to the plant...read more about ecological networks in the new Early View paper "Spatial structure of ant–plant mutualistic networks" by Wesley Dattilo and coworkers. In tropical environments, ant diversity is extremely high,...

Welcome Sa Xiao, new Oikos Editor!

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31 May 2013
We also welcome Dr. Sa Xiao, Associate Professor at School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University China. Learn more about him below and on his website What's you main research focus at the moment? My research interests mainly focus on the theoretical ecology and plant...

Welcome Mei Sun, new Oikos Editor!

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28 May 2013
We're very happy to welcome Dr. Mei Sun, School of Biological Sciences, University of Hongkong to our editorial team! Get to know Mei Sun here: What is your research interest? My main research focus at the moment is on plant speciation mechanisms and biological or...

Can native species be invasive?

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24 May 2013
What should be included in the term "Invasive species"? In the new Early View Forum paper "Another call for the end of invasion biology", Loic Valery discusses the issue. Here is a short summary of the paper: The bulk of the literature devoted to biological invasions...

Even the small ones are important!

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21 May 2013
Size is not all! Even small herbivores have effect on plant community, as shown in Salvador Rebollo and co-workers new Early View paper shows: "Disproportionate effects of non-colonial small herbivores on structure and diversity of grassland dominated by large...

Habitat complexity, preys and predators

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17 May 2013
In the new Early View paper "Trait-mediated indirect interactions in a marine intertidal system as quantified by functional responses" , Mhairi E. Alexander and co-workers, have studied how factors as habitat compelxity affect predators and how the predators effect...

Editor's choice May

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14 May 2013
Oikos will publish synthetic meta-analyses open access and with high priority, and has assigned Christopher Lortie as deputee editor responsible for handling and inviting such contributions. Jodi Price and Meelis Partel used meta-analyses to examine experimental...

Top of the pops

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7 May 2013
One of the most cited papers in Oikos, during 2011 (published 2009 and 2010) is "Life history tradeoffs influence mortality associated with the amphibian pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis" Trenton W.J. Garner and co-workers. Here, Trent gives a short summary...

Oikos at INTECOL

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6 May 2013
INTECOL 2013, takes place in London August 18-23, see http://www.intecol2013.org/ We'll be there! Will you? More info on Oikos symposium and other activities will come soon! The 11th INTECOL Congress, Ecology: Into the next 100 years will be held in London as part of...

How to find a mate? The virtues of imperfectness in a complex world

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26 April 2013
Read about butterflies finding romance in the mountains in the new Early View paper "Simple rules for complex landscapes: the case of hilltopping movements and topography" by Guy Peer and colleagues. here's Guy's summary of the paper: Mating on a hilltop You are lost...

The zombie killing spree continues

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23 April 2013
Look up, zombies are all around us nowadays! Even within science! In the Early View paper " A critical analysis of the ubiquity of linear local–regional richness relationships ", Thiago Goncales-Souza and colleagues goes on a zombie-killing adventure. Here is there...

Welcome Susan Harrison - new SE

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18 April 2013
We are very happy to welcome Prof. Susan Harrison from UC Davies, USA, to our editorial board. My research seeks to understand the processes that shape and maintain plant species diversity at the landscape scale, where small-scale forces such as competition and...

Same, same but oh so different.

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16 April 2013
They look the same, but perform so differently. And act differently against each other. Cryptic amphipods are dealt with in the Early View paper " Phenotypically similar but ecologically distinct: differences in competitive ability and predation risk among amphipods "...

Taking metacommunity models to the empirical world

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11 April 2013
Will the use of "real" connectivity between communities improve metacommunity models? Read more in C.Moritz and colleague's Early View paper: "Disentangling the role of connectivity, environmental filtering, and spatial structure on metacommunity dynamics" . Here's...

When plants help other plants...

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9 April 2013
Nice to see that nature provides other kinds of interactions than nasty predation, competetion and parasitism! Christian Schöb and coworkers have studied the importance of "nursing" plants - plants that fascilitate for other plants - in community ecology. Read their...

Birthday checks, hungry bears, and subsidy dynamics in the Everglades

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4 April 2013
Hello everyone, my name is Ross Boucek and I am PhD student at Florida International University. Oikos has asked me to write about our Early View paper "No free lunch: displaced marsh consumers regulate a prey subsidy to an estuarine consumer" where we investigate the...

Large-scale testing of Bergman's rule

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2 April 2013
The colder, the bigger, suggested Bergman in 1848. In 2013 we publish a paper testing Bergman's rule on a large data set. Showing...well find out in "Bergmann′s rule in mammals: a cross-species interspecific pattern" by Marcus Clauss and his co-workers. Below is their...

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