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SPECIAL ISSUE & OCTOBER COVER

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6 October 2022
SPECIAL ISSUE: Ecology of Information enters the Anthropocene Table of Contents: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/16000706/2022/2022/10 Editorial: Ecology of Information enters the Anthropocene Editors of the Special Issue: Jakub Szymkowiak and Kenneth A. Schmidt In...

Welcome Pamela Graff - NEW SE

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4 October 2022
We are very happy to welcome Pamela to our editorial board! Check out her welcome interview below: Keywords: plant facilitation, plant competition, plant-animal interactions, grassland ecosystems, drylands Personal website: https://www.ifeva.edu.ar/sections/Handler.php...

Welcome Magdalena Lenda - NEW SE

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4 October 2022
Keywords: birds, landscape ecology, spatial statistics, behavioural ecology, invasive species Website: https://wilsonconservationecology.com/our-people/labmembers/magdalena-le... Twitter: @LendaMag Magdalena (Magda) Lenda is associate professor at the Institute of...

Call for papers - The role of plant facilitation in mediating climate change impact on biodiversity

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29 September 2022
The role of plant facilitation in mediating climate change impact on biodiversity Editors: Sonia Kéfi, L Cavieres, and CJ Lortie Global change is a multifaceted, unprecedented crisis hitting the life support system of our planet. Among global changes, climate change is...

WELCOME KAROLINE CERON - NEW SE

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19 September 2022
We have a new subject editor! Welcome Karoline Ceron! Keywords: trophic ecology, ecological networks, natural history Website: https://karolceron.github.io/trophicecology Twitter: https://twitter.com/ceronkarol 1. What's your main research focus at the moment? My...

Cover September 2022

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13 September 2022
September's cover depicts a granivorous bird (Eurasian teal Anas crecca ) ingesting plant seeds to subsequently disperse. Read more about the seed dispersal effectiveness (SDE) framework in this FORUM PAPER: A seed dispersal effectiveness framework across the mutualism...

Cover August 2022

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24 August 2022
This month's cover shows us a pack of wolves caught by a camera trap for the study - "Predator control alters wolf interactions with prey and competitor species over the diel cycle" by Frey et al. 2022. ABSTRACT Predator control remains one of the most common...

Welcome Isabel C Barrio - NEW SE

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5 August 2022
We are very happy to welcome Isabel C. Barrio (Professor, Agricultural University of Iceland) to our editorial board! Website: https://tundraecology.hi.is/isabel-barrio/ KEYWORDS: tundra, herbivory, alpine, grazing, invertebrate herbivory, biotic interactions 1. What's...

Welcome Sandra Hamel - NEW SE

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1 August 2022
Sandra Hamel has joined our Editorial Board at OIKOS! Take a glance at her welcome interview below! Website: https://sites.google.com/site/sandrahamel18/home Keywords: life histories, population dynamics, behavioural ecology, statistical ecology, wildlife management...

SPECIAL ISSUE & JULY COVER

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7 July 2022
SPECIAL ISSUE: The role of the nutritional quality of resources in ecosystem functioning Table of Contents: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/16000706/2022/2022/7 Editorial: https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.09503 Editors of the Special Issue: Michael Danger, Alexandre Bec...

Fruit bat-people interactions: benefits, costs, or risks?

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20 April 2022
Photo 1: Day roost of The Indian Flying Fox Forbidden fruits? Ecosystem services from seed dispersal by fruit bats in the context of latent zoonotic risk https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.08359 Bats can be effective seed dispersers of many forest trees and fruit crops, in...

Cover April 2022

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11 April 2022
As spring is arriving in the Northern Hemisphere we greet you with April's cover! The photo illustrates a couple of findings from the study " Simple attributes predict the value of plants as hosts to fungal and arthropod communities " (Bruun et al., 2022), i.e. that...

Welcome Emanuel Fronhofer - New SE

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4 April 2022
We are very happy to have Emanuel Fronhofer join our Editorial Board at OIKOS! His lab is based at the Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution (ISEM) of the CNRS and the University of Montpellier, France, where they aim to understand the evolution of life-history...

Cover March 2022

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1 April 2022
The cover image for the MARCH issue shows us a Catalonian midwife toad ( Alytes almogavarii ) from the study " Physiology and acclimation potential are tuned with phenology in larvae of a prolonged breeder amphibian " by Enriquez-Urzelai et al. 2021. Abstract Due to...

Call for papers - The role of whole genome duplication in evolutionary ecology

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18 March 2022
Special Issue: The role of whole genome duplication in evolutionary ecology Editors: Kari A. Segraves and Thomas J. Anneberg When an entire genome doubles or triples, and a polyploid organism emerges, what happens next? Whole genome duplication is a pervasive...

Welcome Marcos Fernández Martínez - New SE

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3 February 2022
Marcos Fernández Martínez joins oikos' editorial board as a SUBJECT EDITOR! Welcome! Dr. Marcos Fernández-Martínez is a postdoctoral researcher at the Ecological and Forestry Applications Research Centre (CREAF) and collaborator of the Global Ecology Unit and the...

Special Issue: Frugivory & Seed Dispersal

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2 February 2022
A cock-of the rock ( Rupicola rupicola ), a specialized frugivore, feeding on palm fruits. Photo credit: João Paulo Krajewski. Take a Look at this Special Issue: Frugivory & Seed Dispersal #OIKOS_FSD Table of Contents: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/16000706/...

Welcome Hideyuki Doi - New SE

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28 January 2022
JOIN US AT OIKOS IN WELCOMING HIDEYUKI DOI TO OUR EDITORIAL BOARD! He joins us from the University of Hyogo, Japan. Keywords: community ecology, food web, aquatic ecology, biodiversity, climate change, environmental DNA Take a look at his introductory interview below!...

A novel form of physiologically based plant facilitation results in stable coexistence between two competitive shrubs

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19 January 2022
Facilitation at early growth stages results in spatial associations and stable coexistence in late growth stages of two long-lived, dominant shrubs Instead of competitively excluding each other in their resource-limited habitat, we observed two dominant, highly...

Cover January 2022

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19 January 2022
HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM OIKOS! For JANUARY's cover we are greeted by a bull moose about to take a bite of a deciduous shrub in Isle Royale National Park, USA. The image is from a study "The nutritional condition of moose co-varies with climate, but not with density,...

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