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One of the leading peer-reviewed journals in ecology, owned by the @nordicoikos.bsky.social. Publishes research papers where different aspects of ecology are brought together.
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🌷🪺Aromatic plants, nest bacterial diversity, and nestling condition in Corsican blue tits

📷🖌️ Hélène Dion-Phénix

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#AromaticPlant #BacterialCommunity #BlueTit #CyanistesCaeruleus #NestMaterial #NestProtectionHypothesis #SelfMedication #PotpourriHypothesis

February 6, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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💧🦠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

February 5, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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🦋🌴Butterfly and moth habitat specialisation changes along an elevational gradient of tropical forests on Mount Cameroon

📷 Jan Mertens (CC BY 4.0)

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#Afrotropics #ElevationalGradient #ForestStructure #Habitat #Insects #Lepidoptera #NicheBreadth

February 4, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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Our cover for February! 🐝

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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February 3, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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💥Ignite: Caloric restriction-mediated reproductive lifespan extension across multiple strains of the clonal aquatic plant Lemna turionifera

📷 © Robert A. Laird

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#Aging #CaloricRestriction #IntraSpecificVariation #Lemnacea #Lemnoideae #Longevity

February 2, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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🔄Marine trophic architecture and hidden ecological connections in the Strait of Magellan: keystone species and ecosystem resilience

🖌️Claudia D. Andrade 📷 © Cristóbal Rivera

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#Biodiversity #FoodWeb #PelagicAndBenthicCommunities #SpeciesRole #SubAntarctic

January 30, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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Fire buffers drought impacts on reproduction in a resprouting shrub
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Under drought, burned plants had ⬆️prob. of flowering, produced +flowers, set +seeds & heavier seeds, than unburned
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🧪🌍🔥🌿🪴🌾🌱 Anthyllis
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).
January 28, 2026 at 9:39 PM
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🧂💧Effects of salinization on tropical freshwater wetland primary producers and aquatic invertebrates

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#AquaticInvertebrates #PrimaryProducers #Salinity #SeaLevelRise #TropicalFreshwaterWetland

January 28, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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💧🦠Hosts, pathogens and hot ponds: thermal mean and variability contribute to spatial patterns of chytrid infection

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#Amphibian #BatrachochytriumDendrobatidis #DiseaseEcology #EasternNewts #HostParasiteInteractions #NotophthalmusViridescens

January 23, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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🦎🐸Drivers of species richness in Amazonian amphibians and reptiles: testing diversity hypotheses across taxonomic groups

© Jhon Jairo López-Rojas

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#AmazonBasin #Amphibians #DistributionPatterns #DiversityHypotheses #Ectotherms #Reptiles #SpeciesRichness

January 22, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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🐛🦋Larval development and diapause induction under climate change: an experimental test with the wall brown butterfly

📷 © Aurélien Kaiser

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#Butterfly #ClimateChange #DiapauseInduction #LasiommataMegera #Overwintering

January 21, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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Our cover for January 2026! 🐻‍❄️

Gamblin et al. (2025) highlight polar bears as key providers of food in the Arctic, showing that the carrion from their seal kills fuels a network of scavengers and transfers large amounts of energy across marine and terrestrial ecosystems.

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January 20, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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🌺🦋Structural stability of plant–pollinator interactions despite seasonal abundance of long-tongued hawkmoths

📷 © Luis Miguel Primo

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#Drought #Modularity #Pollination #SeasonallyDryForests #Specialization #Sphingidae #Sphingophily

January 19, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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Deadline extended! 🎉
You now have until 31 Jan to submit a Thematic Session proposal for NSO-GfÖ 2026 (14–17 Sept, Odense).
Got an ecological topic you think deserves the spotlight? We want to hear it. 💡🌿
Guidelines: vist.ly/4nbus
Submit: vist.ly/4nbuv
January 19, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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Last chance to submit thematic session proposals is today!

@nordicjbotany.bsky.social @ecography.bsky.social @oikosjournal.bsky.social @wildlifebiology.bsky.social @avianbiology.bsky.social @basicapplecol.bsky.social

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January 16, 2026 at 9:22 AM
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The effects of seasonality and parasitism on diet and habitat selection in the common periwinkle

📷 © 2 Friederike Gronwald

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#BalticSea #LittorinaLittorea #Parasitism #Seasonality #StableIsotopeAnalysis

January 16, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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Submit your thematic session proposal by Friday, 16 January!
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January 13, 2026 at 9:53 AM
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🐻⏲️Bioclimatic, demographic and anthropogenic correlates of grizzly bear activity patterns in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

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#AccelerometerData #BayesianStatistics #DielActivityRhythms #GreaterYellowstoneEcosystem #Ursusarctos

January 14, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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⚫🌲Dark diversity in temperate forests of northeastern China: drivers and implications

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#AnthropogenicDisturbance #BiodiversityConservation #ClimateChange #DarkDiversity #ForestEcosystems #ForestManagement

January 13, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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🐍❔To be (cryptic) or not to be? Variation in detectability by prey explains the diet of an ambush predator

📷 © Xavier Glaudas

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#AnimalBehaviour #Bothrops #Camouflage #CommunityEcology #Detection #PredatorPreyInteractions

January 12, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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First EcoDiv Lab paper of 2026, and first PhD paper by Estela Folch Chaos! 🎉 Contrasting effects of temperature across trophic levels in geothermally warmed soil food webs - @oikosjournal.bsky.social nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Contrasting effects of temperature across trophic levels in geothermally warmed soil food webs
Global warming is altering the structure and dynamics of ecological communities, with significant consequences for soil food webs. Rising temperatures are expected to accelerate metabolic rates in or...
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January 9, 2026 at 10:48 PM
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🪓🐹Forbs in Viking lands: the effect of disturbing dominant graminoids on recruitment in tundra grasslands

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#ArcticGrasslands #ForbSeedlings #Graminoids #RodentDisturbance

January 9, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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📢 New paper out in @oikosjournal.bsky.social !
We investigated how climate🌡️, forest structure🌲🌳 and flower resources🌼🌷 shape fly pollinator foraging in boreal forest understories 🪰🪰🪰
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January 7, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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Our new paper is out in @oikosjournal.bsky.social w/ @juliakoricheva.bsky.social & Juri Felix. Species identity & spatial scale drive context‑dependent tree diversity effects in a Finnish forest experiment. @rbgkew.bsky.social @rhulbiology.bsky.social

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Species identity and spatial scale drive context‑dependent tree diversity effects in a Finnish forest experiment
Tree species diversity is known to affect tree growth and leaf traits, which in turn can influence various ecosystem processes. However, the reported direction of these tree diversity effects is inco...
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January 6, 2026 at 1:34 PM
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juliakoricheva.bsky.social
The last chapter from PhD thesis by Juri Felix (co-supervised with @philstevenson.bsky.social) is now out in @oikosjournal.bsky.social! The study explores the effects of tree species identity and spatial scale on tree diversity effects #TreeDivNet nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
January 6, 2026 at 11:31 AM