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The elephant in the room

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1 February 2013
What makes invasive species invasive? Find some of the answers in Rafael Zennis and Martin Nunez paper "The elephant in the room: the role of failed invasions in understanding invasion biology" now on Early View. Here, Martin Nunez gives a short background: Invasive...

Waste to hurry

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31 January 2013
Do animals spend too much energy on just being? Read Bas Kooijman's new Early View paper "Waste to hurry: dynamic energy budgets explain the need of wasting to fully exploit blooming resources" to find out! Here, Bas gives you the background to the study: Many years...

Editor's choice Febuary

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30 January 2013
Editor in Chief Prof. Dries Bonte introduces the two Editor's choice papers in the February Issue: (Note that Editor's choice papers are Open Access) For the February issue of Oikos, we decided to highlight Sorte’s forum paper on the importance of flow direction and...

Surf and Turf 2: Snorkeling with wildebeest

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29 January 2013
We have now come to the second Surf and turf paper in Oikos february issue. I let Deron Burkepile introduce you to his study "Comparing aquatic and terrestrial grazing ecosystems: is the grass really greener?" At a big ecology meeting, you can often tell what people...

The future of publishing for ecology & evolutionary biology

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25 January 2013
An NCEAS working group examining the future of publishing in ecology and evolutionary biology ( http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/projects/12651 ) would like to solicit your input. Our goal is to establish a baseline of your opinions on the current state of scholarly...

Surf and Turf 1

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25 January 2013
Yesterday, Randi Rotjan and Josh Idjadi introduced us to the Surf and Turf concept. Today, Howard V. Cornell gives a short background to his and Susan P. Harrison's Surf and Turf paper "Regional effects as important determinants of local diversity in both marine and...

Surf and Turf in Oikos Feb 2013

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24 January 2013
Check out the Surf & Turf papers in the February Issue! For an introduction to the concept, I leave the word to our Surf and Turf editors Josh Idjadi and Randi Rotjan. Their introductory paper in the February Issue is found here. Presentations of the actual papers...

Is competition less common i harsh environments?

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23 January 2013
What do animals actually do in poor environments? Compete more or facilitate for each other? Isabel Barrio and her co-workers studied this in herbivores in the harsh alpine tundra, resulting in teh new Early View paper: Extending the stress-gradient hypothesis – is...

Editor's choice January

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21 January 2013
From January 2013 our Editor's in Chief select two papers in each issue as Editor's Choice. Those papers are Open Access, and the complete January Issue is OA! Here, Dries Bonte explains why they chose the following for the January issue. Read more here about News in...

Friday!

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18 January 2013
It's always fun to read all submitted manuscripts. Especially when explanations are like this: I'm very happy that it doesn't happen too often! This one was actually copied from #overlyhonestmethods Have a great weekend everyone!

Understanding wood decomposition

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17 January 2013
How do wood decomposition relate to other traits in the tree? Answered by Benjamin G. Jackson and co-workers in the Early View paper "Are functional traits and litter decomposability coordinated across leaves, twigs, and wood? A test using temperate rainforest tree...

Oikos in 2013: advancing synthesis in Ecology

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15 January 2013
Oikos' Editor in Chief, Prof. Dries Bonte, presents some interesting news and wishes you all a wonderful 2013: A survey among readers revealed that Oikos is considered as a solid, high quality journal publishing broad ecological topics, often controversial papers and...

Wasps learn to smell - and discriminate between - eaten or non eaten roots

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21 December 2012
Isn't it just amazing how well adapted the tiny parasitic wasps are? Parasitoids want to lay their eggs in good, yummy caterpillars. Yummy caterpillars are those feeding on high quality plants. Quality of plants is partly determined by if their roots have been eaten by...

What happens with coral reefs after anthropogenic disturbances?

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20 December 2012
What are the chances that the reefs recover? And how likely is it that they just turn into seeweed-dominated ecosystems instead? Important issues that Peter Mumby and his colleagues have studied and modelled in the new Early View paper "Evidence for and against the...

Playing dead - when not needed to

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18 December 2012
The Ecology of Playing Dead - when not needed to...something that Xinqiang Xi, John N. Griffin and Shucun Sun have diged deeper into in their new Early View paper "Grasshoppers amensalistically suppress caterpillar performance and enhance plant biomass in an alpine...

The Arctic tundra as a natural laboratory

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14 December 2012
In the new Early View paper "Predator-mediated interactions between preferred, alternative and incidental prey in the arctic tundra", Laura McKinnon and her colleagues used the Arctic Tundra in Canada as a natural laboratory to study predator-prey interactions. Here is...

Opossums' seed dispersing job

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13 December 2012
Seed diseprsal by animals is an important ecological service. How selective or general the animals are in their choice of fruits to eat might have a huge effect on dispersal of the plants. Read more in the new Early View paper "Individual variation in resource use by...

Will your photo be on Oikos cover 2013?

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12 December 2012
Oikos is changing it's cover style in 2013. Replacing the quote, there will now be a photo. We therefore, as an annual competition, call for photos illustrating the Oikos’ goal of Synthesising Ecology. We seek a photo also demonstrating ecology in action (e.g...

Winners in a changing world

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10 December 2012
Invasive species may actually increase resistance to climate changes. Celia Olabarria and co-workers studies this interaction in marine macroalgal assemblages. Now on early View: Response of macroalgal assemblages from rockpools to climate change: effects of persistent...

High-fat food makes females unattractive

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7 December 2012
Protein or fat in food - which is best? Well, if you're a female preying mantid, you should definitely go for the high-protein diet! Females on high-lipid diet attract much fewer males than females on high-protein diet. These results are presented in the new Early View...

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