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10 October 2012
In the new Early View paper " The influence of abundance on detectability" McCarthy and co-workers explore the relationship between actually being detected and being there. Here is Michael McCarthy's own story on the study, the paper and the results: How hard do we...
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28 September 2012
Nothing can spoil a vacation as efficiently as a rainfall. And nothing affects a farmer's mood as rain- it's presence or it's abscence. Too much or too litte. Always an issue worth of debating. In one of the latest Early View papers in Oikos, "Seasonal, not annual...
Some forthcoming (in press) Oikos papers that caught my eye. Lots of good stuff in the pipeline!* Nadeem and Lele introduce a new maximum likelihood-based method of population viability analysis (PVA) and test it on song sparrow time series data. The new method, called...
Context My colleagues and I worked on the top 1% of ecologists project for a long time. There was significant discussion of both the interpretation itself and the implications. We also discussed conducting a social survey of the NSERC Discovery Grant holders similar to...
My fellow Oikos editor and blogger Chris Lortie has a strong interest in scientific publication practices (see, e.g., here ). His latest effort, now in press at Oikos, examines patterns of funding and impact among the ecological 1%: the most-cited 1% of ecologists over...
Some forthcoming Oikos papers that caught my eye: Tuomisto (in press) is a "consumer's guide" to evenness indices, showing how they are mathematically related to one another, and to partitionings of diversity into alpha and beta components. The take home message is the...
I'm currently writing a big grant application on stochastic population dynamics. So now seems a good time to point readers towards this old post of mine, which explains how that was the subject of my very first publication, although I didn't realize it at the time.
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2 February 2012
Lots of interesting papers coming out in Oikos in the next little while. I wanted to highlight a few that particularly caught my eye. In the most recent (Feb. 2012) issue: Barto & Rillig on dissemination biases in ecology. This is a really important study. Barto...
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6 October 2011
The editor's choice posts are Chris Lortie's domain, but he's very busy right now and so I thought I'd fill the gap by briefly highlighting a few recent and forthcoming Oikos papers that caught my eye. The current issue of Oikos has lots of intriguing-looking stuff. In...
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3 September 2011
Over at Distributed Ecology , Ted Hart has a nice discussion of Lima & Berryman's recent Oikos article on positive and negative feedbacks in human population dynamics. The authors argue that the complexities of human behavior and societies create novel sources of...
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