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27 March 2015
We are very happy to welcome Florian Altermatt, University of Zurich, to the Oikos Editorial Board. Below, he introduces himself: 1. What's you main research focus at the moment? My main interests at the moment are to understand how spatial network configuration shapes...
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24 March 2015
Ecologists have repeatedly reported that lower latitudes are associated with increases in herbivore abundance and damage. However, recent studies have confirmed that this pattern is not as common as previously thought. In our paper, " Latitudinal variation in herbivory...
New model predicts how long-lived species experience changes in the environment. Presented in the Oikos Early View paper " An integrated population model for a long-lived ungulate: more efficient data use with Bayesian methods" by Aline M. Lee and coworkers. Watch...
Not a choice many of us would care to face. But this is an essential risk management decision made by the snail Littorina littorea based on the micro-positioning it chooses within the intertidal zone on rocky coastlines of the North Atlantic. If a snail chooses to live...
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6 March 2015
Whether ecological communities can exhibit historical contingency is an important question in community ecology. Ample theoretical and empirical evidence has shown that difference in assembly history can lead to alternative community states that differ in species...
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6 March 2015
Humans cull large carnivore populations in areas around the world to reduce predation on wild and domestic ungulates. However, medium-sized ungulates such as sheep and deer are often preyed upon by smaller predators such as coyotes and lynx as well. Suppression of...
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27 February 2015
There may be no more prevalent icon of climate change in the Arctic than the polar bear. The story is simple: a warming climate is causing reductions in the volume, extent and seasonal duration of Arctic sea ice. Polar bears use the sea ice surface for hunting seals,...
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27 February 2015
Invasive populations within the invaded range are often regarded as a homogeneous group in the studies of invasive plants. However, since invasive plants can evolve very rapidly and there may be lots of differences between old and young invasive populations, the...
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13 February 2015
Ecosystem-shaping interactions between consumers and plants are notoriously variable. Indeed, even within a single system (and a single pair of interacting species) enormous variability can be seen -- the same consumer might increase plant biomass at one place and time...
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13 February 2015
Understanding the distribution of species over space and time is an important aspect of ecological research and has great value for wildlife and land management. How animals choose foraging sites is typically influenced by a variety of environmental conditions...
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