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Oikos
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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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🍐🦊Frugivory-mediated trophic cascades: how apex predators can shape the recruitment of a fleshy-fruited tree

📷 © Tamara Burgos

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#Defaunation #Mesopredators #MultiTrophicInteractions #PostDispersalSeedPredation #PredationRisk #SeedDispersalEffectiveness

November 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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🌺🥤Trait matching affects the probability of nectar robbing in plant–pollinator networks

📷 © Stéphane Aubert

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#Hummingbird #NectarRobbing #Pollination #TraitMatching

November 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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🌤️🌱The effect of light availability and spatio-temporal heterogeneity on the soil seed bank diversity in temperate forests

📷 © Dafni Laura Thanopoulos
🎨 © Barbara Meyers

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November 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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💥🥚Ignite: Oviposited eggs are sensitive to experimental heatwaves

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#Beetles #Ecology #Heatwaves #Reproduction

November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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🕷️🌸Floral morphological characteristics preferences facilitate mating and predation in flower-visiting spiders

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#CrabSpiders #FlowerVisitingBehaviour #Flowers #Preference #Predation #Mate

November 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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🐝🌺Dynamic pollinator networks maintain pollination efficiency during mast flowering in an insect-pollinated tree

📷 © Magdalena Żywiec

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#Bumblebee #MastSeeding #PollinationEfficiency #PollinatorNetworks #ReproductiveEfficiency #Sorbusaucuparia

November 20, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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👩‍🌾🐰Agroecosystem quality as an essential driver of European hare Lepus europaeus population density in contrasting farmlands

📷 © Jan Cukor

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#AgeStructure #AgriculturalIntensification #FarmlandSpecialists #HabitatHeterogeneity #Landscape Homogenization

November 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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👀Is an ecosystem perspective sufficient to understand meta-ecosystem processes? A critical reflection

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#AquaticTerrestrialCoupling #MetaEcosystem #NetworkTheory #RiparianEcosystem

November 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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🐆📷African large carnivores in space and time: insights from camera-traps on the fine-scale spatio-temporal dynamics of lions, spotted hyaenas and leopards

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November 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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🐘🌳 Elephants disperse seeds that drive forest diversity & carbon storage—but effects vary across sites. Context matters for linking wildlife recovery to climate & biodiversity goals

📷 © Liam Jasperse-Sjolander

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November 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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🐦🌊When species are lost but functions persist: a trait-based perspective on Wadden Sea bird diversity dynamics

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#BiodiversityLags #ColonisationExtinctionImbalance #DiffusionMaps #ExtinctionDebt #LongtermMonitoring #WaddenSea

November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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🪤Trap-dependence in capture–recapture studies: empirical evidence in vertebrates and biological meaning

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#CaptureMarkRecapture #GoodnessOfFitTest #IndividualHeterogeneity #IndividualMonitoring #InterIndividualDifferences #Resighting #UnequalCatchability

November 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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🏝️🧫Seed survival in tropical pioneer trees is unrelated to conspecific distance but linked to fungal infection

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November 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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🦎🧪Non-adaptive processes explain chemical signal divergence in island lizards

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#Diet #IslandBiology #LacertidLizards #NonAdaptiveEvolution #Pheromones #SexualSelection

November 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Our cover for November! 🧫

Rodríguez-Uña et al. (2025) reveal that trees can maintain water uptake during drought by drawing from deeper soil layers, but dry conditions reduce the diversity of their root-associated fungi—threatening vital ecosystem processes.

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November 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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🌺💢Friends or foes? Polyploidy and competition in a grassland geophyte

📷 © Damian Vaz de Sousa

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#Competition #Geophyte #Polyploidy #Sympatry

November 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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🦅🌱Secondary seed dispersal by migrant harriers in India

📷 © Sankar Subramanian

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#Diploendozoochory #Grasslands #OpenNaturalEcosystems #Raptor

October 31, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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🕷️🪨Predator density outweighs experimental warming effects on short-term carbon and nitrogen loss from arctic shrub litter

📷 © Amanda Koltz

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#ClimateChange #Decomposition #NutrientCycling #ShrubExpansion #TrophicCascade #WolfSpiders

October 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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🦔📉Habitat and predator heterogeneity influence density of a declining mammal

📷 © 1 Emily Clark 2 Hongli Yu

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#ErinaceusEuropaeus #LandscapesOfFear #MelesMeles #PopulationEcology #SpatialCaptureRecapture #SpatiotemporalCovariateHeterogeneity

October 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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🐺🦌Recruitment probability in a large carnivore: the role of biological and human-related factors in early-life

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#CanisLupus #JuvenileStage #LifeHistoryTraits #NatalTerritory #Reproduction

October 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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🔄Metacommunity connectance and emergent patterns drive diversity via spatial eco-evolutionary feedback

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#EcoEvolutionaryFeedback #FunctionalDiversity #HabitatChange #Metacommunity #NetworkSize #Connectance #SelfOrganisedPatternFormation

October 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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🐼🦠Roles of soil microbes in shaping the nutrient accumulation of dietary bamboo of giant pandas

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#SoilMicrobes #BambooShootGrowth #KeyFoodResources #PlantSoilInteractions #PlantHerbivoreInteractions #GiantPandas

October 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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🐜❌Effects of environmental and individual variation on time patterns of extinction in small experimental populations

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Decliningpopulations #Collembola #ExtinctionVortex #FolsomiaCandida, #LongTransients, #EnvironmentalEffects #SmallPopulationParadigm

October 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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🐟🥶Winter wipeout? Post-disturbance recovery of brown trout indicates strong population resilience to harsh winter conditions

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#Demography #DensityDependent #Migratory #PopulationDynamics #Recolonization #Salmonid

October 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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🪰🌺Fly pollinator foraging in boreal forests is shaped by climate, forest structure and flower resources

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#CanopyOpenness #ClimateChange #ClimaticRefugia #ConvolutionalNeuralNetwork #DeepLearning #Diptera #ForestComposition #PollinatorConservation #YOLOv5

October 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM