As announced in the August issue , Oikos is publishing meta-analyses at an increasing rate, and similar to the transformative capacity of the Forum section, a dedicated section associated with formalized, replicable systematic reviews and meta-analyses will also...
editor
4 June 2014
Papers published in Oikos should meet the principal criteria to generate synthesis in ecology. Synthesis can be created in different ways and definitively obtained when long-term data sets, novel analytical tools and good hypotheses are merged. The first editor’s...
Simulations allow us to explore what is often difficult or sometimes even intractable to test. I selected the paper 'Local interactions drive size dependent space competition between coral and crustose coralline algae' by Buenau et al. (doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010...
Right on time as always! Over the month of May, I read a digital stack of Oikos papers, but since they are all published already, I get to pick one that I like best here to promote it a bit. My favourite was 'Dioecy, hermaphrodites and pathogen load in plants' by...
Preamble Who has ever heard of the big bad moth? This paper is really novel and interesting on so many levels. At a basic level, there are some very nice elements developed this paper which make it a top paper. Of course it is no surprise that moths eat lichens, but I...
drupaladmin
1 February 2011
Hi there, I really enjoyed the paper 'How many flowering plants are pollinated by animals?' by Ollerton et al. Quick and clean - not dirty. Fun to read, really important to conservation biologists and pollination ecologists, and importantly, provides a really useful...
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