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7 July 2025
Early body condition and winter climate, not parasites, are key to survival, a long-term study of common buzzards shows. Ottensman et al.'s (2025) article "Surviving in a changing world: weather and juvenile condition matter for a long-lived avian predator, but blood...
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7 July 2025
Early-blooming non-native dandelions can boost solitary bees' offspring numbers, but their poor nutritional quality may reduce larval survival. A new study titled "Fitness costs and benefits of a non-native floral resource for subalpine solitary bees" suggests these...
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7 July 2025
Fluctuating rainfall—not rising temperatures—has had the strongest impact on meerkats reproduction and survival, highlighting the critical role of water availability in shaping population dynamics under climate change. This is shown by Thorley et al.'s (2025) 25-year...
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2 July 2025
A new study on wild house mice reveals that traits like exploration and risk-taking don’t directly predict problem-solving success, but influence the likelihood of engaging with challenges—highlighting the gap between lab tests and real-world behaviour. This contrast...
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13 June 2025
We are happy to welcome Dr. Matthew Grainger, from the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Trondheim, Norway, to the Oikos Editorial Board. To know more about him, read our interview below! Website: https://drmattg.github.io/Uncertain_Ecologist/ What’s your main...
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26 March 2025
A worker of Apis mellifera visits a flower in the coastal environment of the Gulf of Mexico, Mexico. This bee is a key species in the region's pollination network, highlighted in " Thermal tolerance and sociality explain the interactive role of bees in a pollination...
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26 March 2025
After spending many nights searching for the shiny eyes of beetles with headlamps, this ground beetle (family Carabidae ) was photographed by the team in northeastern Connecticut, US. Beetle plays a crucial role in altering nitrogen availability in forest soils, as...
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26 March 2025
The red-legged honeycreeper ( Cyanerpes cyaneus ), a vibrant frugivore of the Atlantic Forest, plays a key role in seed dispersal. This stunning species is featured in " Estimated missing interactions change the structure and alter species roles in one of the world's...
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26 March 2025
An AI-generated image of a reindeer, the focal species in the study " Reindeer grazing reduces climate-driven vegetation changes and shifts trophic interactions in the Fennoscandian tundra " by Ramirez et al. (2024). By browsing and grazing on tall vegetation, reindeer...
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26 March 2025
The lowland tapir ( Tapirus terrestris ), a megafaunal survivor and key seed disperser in the Neotropics, moves through the dense forests of Argentina’s Atlantic Forest in Iguazú National Park. This striking photograph by Mariano Ignacio Giombini captures one of the...
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