๐ฅโ๏ธOverexploitation can counteract top-down control and the paradox of enrichment in simple food chains
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#BottomUpControl #Enrichment #Overexploitation #PlantHerbivoreInteractions #Stability #TopDownControl
๐๐ผShifts in phenology influence synchrony of flowering plants and their pollinators along an elevation gradient
๐ท Mikko Tiusanen
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#PlantPollinatorInteractions #FloweringPhenology #PhenologyShift #NicheOverlap #ElevationGradient
Forum ๐: Rethinking community-weighted means: why geometric averages matter
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#CommunityWeightedMean #GeometricMean #LogNormalDistribution #PlantFunctionalTraits #TraitBasedEcology #TraitEnvironmentRelationship
The next round of NSO Grants is now open! Apply by 29th April for the Networking and Education or the Early-Career Researcher Grant. Check out full application guidelines here: vist.ly/4tpjk
and become a member before applying: vist.ly/4tpjh
๐งฌ๐งซCross-feeding constrains the evolution of antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli
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#AdaptiveCapacity #AntibioticTolerance #AuxotrophicBacteria #BacteriaInteraction #CrossFeeding
Society publishers are learned societies publishing research for their scholarly communities. At the NSO, publishing is mission-driven: we reinvest in our members, support their research through our journals and uphold research integrity. ๐ฟ๐ฌ #SocietyPublishing #OpenScience
๐ชฒ๐ฟEpichloรซ endophytes impair performance and preference of Rhopalosiphum padi by disrupting aphid feeding behaviour in tall fescue
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#AphidFeeding #Endophyte #EPGTechnique #InsectBehaviour #Symbiosis
๐ ๐ชธHabitat characteristics and priority effects shape fish and invertebrate assemblages inhabiting the coral Pocillopora grandis in Hawaiสปi
๐ท Erik G. Brush
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#CommunityEcology #PriorityEffects #Hawaiสปi #HabitatEffects #CoralReefs
โฌโป๏ธโฝEcosystem size reverses the effect of the spatial coupling between autotrophic and heterotrophic ecosystems
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#AllochthonousInput #Disturbance #Landscape #Scaling #SpeciesAreaRelationship #Subsidies
๐ชช๐Species identity and spatial scale drive contextโdependent tree diversity effects in a Finnish forest experiment
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#DBH #NeedleTraits #NorwaySpruce #ScotsPine #SpeciesDiversity #TreeDivNet
๐ณใฐ๏ธAnisotropic community turn-over at habitat edges informs on assembly drivers: simulation and empirical test on soil macrofauna
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#Biodiversity #CommunityAssembly #HeterogeneousLandscape #MassiveDNABarcoding #Metacommunity #SoilMacrofauna
๐ฐ๏ธ๐ฟTime tells: plasticity and developmental asynchrony underlie trait variation in a dune-building grass
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#BiogeomorphicFeedbacks #CalamagrostisArenaria #EnvironmentalGradients #PlantLifeCycle #VegetatedCoastalSystems
๐ฟ๐๏ธDisentangling the relative roles of biased colonization and in situ evolution in driving the island syndrome in Coprosma (Rubiaceae)
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#AncestralReconstruction #CorrelatedEvolution #IslandBiogeography #IslandSyndrome #PlantEvolution #StructureEquationModelling
๐๐บ๏ธOn the use of neighboring habitats as predictors of species distributions
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#Animals #EcologicalNicheModelling #FocalPredictor #MultiScaleProcess #Plants #SpatialScale
Our Virtual Issue compiling the Editor's Choices of 2025 has been published!
Editor's choices are papers that engage ecologists across general ecology while advancing understanding of ecological mechanisms, processes, and patterns โ precisely Oikos goals.
Find it here: vist.ly/4r2kq
๐๏ธ๐จMultiple scales of fear: foraging behaviour of white-naped jays in semiarid landscapes
๐ท Carolina Beiriz
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#AntipredatorBehaviour #CyanocoraxCyanoopogon #GivingUpDensity #PredationRisk #Vigilance
Iโm launching a blog series for @oikosjournal.bsky.social , โView from the Editorโs Deskโ - the first post is now live.
These pieces reflect my personal perspectives on different aspects of the publication system and not official journal policy.
www.oikosjournal.org/blog/view-ed...
๐๐ฆFruit use and fruit processing by euphonias, specialized avian frugivores
๐ท Mathias Pires
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#DigestiveMorphology #Frugivory #FruitTraits #FruitChemistry #Neotropical #Passerines
๐บ๏ธ๐ฆOn the spatial clustering of behavioural phenotypes: matching movement tactics with landscape structure in a large herbivore
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#Boldness #Habitat #LandscapeComposition #LandscapeHeterogeneity #MovementSyndrome #PersonalityEnvironmentAssociation
โ๏ธ๐บ๏ธMeteorological versus spatial drivers of the spatial synchrony of forest insect pest outbreaks in North America
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#BarkBeetle #defoliation #MoranEffect #Outbreak #PopulationDynamics #SpatialSynchrony #TreeMortality
A blue tit nestling is held between a thumb and fingers during fieldwork. The chickโs fluffy grey head and yellow breast are visible, with a soft-focus outdoor background.
Our paper is Editor's Choice for the February Issue of @oikosjournal.bsky.social ๐ฃ๐ค๐ฅ๐
Using 10 years of data on great & blue tits, we show paler yellow plumage might be linked to urban-specific selection patterns.
OA: doi.org/10.1002/oik....
Data & code & supp. : doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
๐๏ธโ๐จ๏ธ๐ผCitizen science in pollinator monitoring: current approaches, challenges and recommendations
๐๏ธ Monal Peroth ๐ท Nithin Divakar
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#CitizenScience #CommunityContribution #NeglectedPollinators #PolicyDevelopment #PollinatorMonitoring #VolunteerRetention
๐ท๐ชบAromatic plants, nest bacterial diversity, and nestling condition in Corsican blue tits
๐ท๐๏ธ Hรฉlรจne Dion-Phรฉnix
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#AromaticPlant #BacterialCommunity #BlueTit #CyanistesCaeruleus #NestMaterial #NestProtectionHypothesis #SelfMedication #PotpourriHypothesis
๐ง๐ฆ Multifaceted biodiversity changes of lake microeukaryote communities in response to nutrient enrichment and climate change
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#ClimateChange #Eutrophication #Microeukaryote #Resilience #Resistance #SedimentaryDNA
๐ฆ๐ดButterfly and moth habitat specialisation changes along an elevational gradient of tropical forests on Mount Cameroon
๐ท Jan Mertens (CC BY 4.0)
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#Afrotropics #ElevationalGradient #ForestStructure #Habitat #Insects #Lepidoptera #NicheBreadth
Our cover for February! ๐
A 27-year, continent-wide study of fig wasps by Souza et al. (2025) shows that communities linked to Neotropical fig trees change dramatically across space, with high species turnover driven by host specialization, competition, and local adaptation.
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๐ฅIgnite: Caloric restriction-mediated reproductive lifespan extension across multiple strains of the clonal aquatic plant Lemna turionifera
๐ท ยฉ Robert A. Laird
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#Aging #CaloricRestriction #IntraSpecificVariation #Lemnacea #Lemnoideae #Longevity
๐Marine trophic architecture and hidden ecological connections in the Strait of Magellan: keystone species and ecosystem resilience
๐๏ธClaudia D. Andrade ๐ท ยฉ Cristรณbal Rivera
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#Biodiversity #FoodWeb #PelagicAndBenthicCommunities #SpeciesRole #SubAntarctic
One of the graphics of the paper on Anthyllis cytisoides resprouiting after drought, showing model predictions and observations of the data analysed in 2022 and 2023; fire occurred in 2021. For flowering and fruiting, the negative effects of drought are stronger on unburned plants (A and C). Burned plants produced nearly four times more flowers than unburned plants (B), and had a higher seed set and heavier seeds than unburned plants in both years (D and E).
Fire buffers drought impacts on reproduction in a resprouting shrub
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Under drought, burned plants had โฌ๏ธprob. of flowering, produced +flowers, set +seeds & heavier seeds, than unburned
Saiz-Blanco et al @oikosjournal.bsky.social
๐งช๐๐ฅ๐ฟ๐ชด๐พ๐ฑ Anthyllis
๐ง๐งEffects of salinization on tropical freshwater wetland primary producers and aquatic invertebrates
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#AquaticInvertebrates #PrimaryProducers #Salinity #SeaLevelRise #TropicalFreshwaterWetland
