Oikos
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.
- 🦋🌴Butterfly and moth habitat specialisation changes along an elevational gradient of tropical forests on Mount Cameroon 📷 Jan Mertens (CC BY 4.0) vist.ly/4qcau #Afrotropics #ElevationalGradient #ForestStructure #Habitat #Insects #Lepidoptera #NicheBreadth
- 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. vist.ly/4q7w9
- 💥Ignite: Caloric restriction-mediated reproductive lifespan extension across multiple strains of the clonal aquatic plant Lemna turionifera 📷 © Robert A. Laird vist.ly/4q3f9 #Aging #CaloricRestriction #IntraSpecificVariation #Lemnacea #Lemnoideae #Longevity
- 🔄Marine trophic architecture and hidden ecological connections in the Strait of Magellan: keystone species and ecosystem resilience 🖌️Claudia D. Andrade 📷 © Cristóbal Rivera vist.ly/4pski #Biodiversity #FoodWeb #PelagicAndBenthicCommunities #SpeciesRole #SubAntarctic
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- 🧂💧Effects of salinization on tropical freshwater wetland primary producers and aquatic invertebrates vist.ly/4ph4b #AquaticInvertebrates #PrimaryProducers #Salinity #SeaLevelRise #TropicalFreshwaterWetland
- 💧🦠Hosts, pathogens and hot ponds: thermal mean and variability contribute to spatial patterns of chytrid infection vist.ly/4nxaz #Amphibian #BatrachochytriumDendrobatidis #DiseaseEcology #EasternNewts #HostParasiteInteractions #NotophthalmusViridescens
- 🦎🐸Drivers of species richness in Amazonian amphibians and reptiles: testing diversity hypotheses across taxonomic groups © Jhon Jairo López-Rojas vist.ly/4nsz5 #AmazonBasin #Amphibians #DistributionPatterns #DiversityHypotheses #Ectotherms #Reptiles #SpeciesRichness
- 🐛🦋Larval development and diapause induction under climate change: an experimental test with the wall brown butterfly 📷 © Aurélien Kaiser vist.ly/4nnnj #Butterfly #ClimateChange #DiapauseInduction #LasiommataMegera #Overwintering
- 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. doi.org/10.1002/oik....
- 🌺🦋Structural stability of plant–pollinator interactions despite seasonal abundance of long-tongued hawkmoths 📷 © Luis Miguel Primo vist.ly/4ndrn #Drought #Modularity #Pollination #SeasonallyDryForests #Specialization #Sphingidae #Sphingophily
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- The effects of seasonality and parasitism on diet and habitat selection in the common periwinkle 📷 © 2 Friederike Gronwald vist.ly/4n4a9 #BalticSea #LittorinaLittorea #Parasitism #Seasonality #StableIsotopeAnalysis
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- 🐻⏲️Bioclimatic, demographic and anthropogenic correlates of grizzly bear activity patterns in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem vist.ly/4msgv #AccelerometerData #BayesianStatistics #DielActivityRhythms #GreaterYellowstoneEcosystem #Ursusarctos
- ⚫🌲Dark diversity in temperate forests of northeastern China: drivers and implications vist.ly/4mmrt #AnthropogenicDisturbance #BiodiversityConservation #ClimateChange #DarkDiversity #ForestEcosystems #ForestManagement
- 🐍❔To be (cryptic) or not to be? Variation in detectability by prey explains the diet of an ambush predator 📷 © Xavier Glaudas vist.ly/4mh8q #AnimalBehaviour #Bothrops #Camouflage #CommunityEcology #Detection #PredatorPreyInteractions
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- 🪓🐹Forbs in Viking lands: the effect of disturbing dominant graminoids on recruitment in tundra grasslands vist.ly/4m7n7 #ArcticGrasslands #ForbSeedlings #Graminoids #RodentDisturbance
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- 💥🌸Ignite: Are early blooming plant species more phenologically responsive? vist.ly/4k2v6 #ClimateChange #Flowering #Phenology #SpringEphemeralSpecies
- 🍂⏩The overall decomposition of the spring-lodged litter is faster than the autumn-lodged litter in a steppe ecosystem vist.ly/4i22g #LigninConcentration #LitterQuality #NutrientRelease #Photodegradation #StandingLitter
- 🦠🪨Cyanobacterial colonization on epilithic mosses in degraded karst ecosystem: the role of moss traits and environmental factors vist.ly/4iwd4 #Cyanobacteria #CyanobacteriaColonization #DegradedKarstEcosystems #Moss #Species #Symbioses
- Reposted by OikosWe are ready for you in the exhibitor’s hall at the #BES2025! Publishing chat, Christmas spirit, free swag and friendly faces await you! @avianbiology.bsky.social @nordicjbotany.bsky.social @wildlifebiology.bsky.social @oikosjournal.bsky.social @ecography.bsky.social
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- 💥Ignite: Too big to miss: body size biases in tetrapod species descriptions and their implications for conservation vist.ly/4im5v #Amphibians #Bias #Birds #Conservation #Mammals #Reptiles #Taxonomy
- Reposted by OikosGet the most out of your conference visit! Meet us at the #BES2025 to: - Ask about publishing - Ask which of our journals fits your manuscript - Find out the benefits of becoming an NSO member - Join our workshop How to get published - Just chat with us and get to know us! - Pick up some free swag
- 🛰️🌿Reconsidering climatic predictors for high-resolution niche models of alpine plants vist.ly/4i6ic #Alpine #Elevation #Microclimate #SpeciesDistributionModel #TemperatureLogger #Temperature
- Reposted by OikosAttending the #BES2025 annual meeting in Edinburgh next week? Come join our workshop on "How to get published", together with the @britishecologicalsociety.org and the @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social . Or why not stop by our exhibitor's table for a chat and some free swag?
- 📜🦌Forum: Not just ‘super-predators': human behaviour shapes wildlife behavioural responses across avoidance, tolerance and attraction vist.ly/4hzpj
- ↕️🌳Bottom–up and top–down drivers influence urbanization effects on insect herbivory in oaks vist.ly/4huhf #Herbivory #MultiTrophicInteractions #Oak #PlantHerbivoreInteractions #PlantTraits #Temperature #Urbanization #VertebrateAndInvertebratePredation
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- 🪳💧Nutritional effects on the expression of cryptic pigmentation in freshwater isopods vist.ly/4hpfm #AminoAcids #DietaryResources #EcologicalStoichiometry #PhenotypicVariation #Pigmentation #Plasticity #Protein #Tryptophan
- 🧩🔀Comparing the power of phylogenetic, trait and network structure information to predict plant–frugivore interactions vist.ly/4hdp7 #Frugivory #LinkPrediction #Mutualism #MutualisticNetwork #SeedDispersal
- 🔥🌿Time to burn: landscape drivers of fuel trait variability and fire regime in savanna ecosystems vist.ly/4h8je 📷 © Vinícius de Lima Dantas #Cerrado #Grassland #Flammability #FireFrequency #FuelTraits #Savanna
- Our cover for December! 🦊 Martin et al.(2025) show that species like bobcats, cougars, coyotes, gray foxes, and martens largely avoid each other in space but share surprisingly similar diets—revealing how landscape conditions shape coexistence but also their delicate balance. vist.ly/4h3ks
- ⛰️🌡️Recurrent drought amplifies drought impacts and increases seasonal synchrony in mountain grassland communities vist.ly/4gwfz #Asynchrony #Drought #DroughtRecurrence #Grassland #RecurrentDrought #SeasonalSynchrony #SpeciesRichness #Synchrony
- 🍐🦊Frugivory-mediated trophic cascades: how apex predators can shape the recruitment of a fleshy-fruited tree 📷 © Tamara Burgos vist.ly/4ge6u #Defaunation #Mesopredators #MultiTrophicInteractions #PostDispersalSeedPredation #PredationRisk #SeedDispersalEffectiveness
- 🌺🥤Trait matching affects the probability of nectar robbing in plant–pollinator networks 📷 © Stéphane Aubert vist.ly/4g9h5 #Hummingbird #NectarRobbing #Pollination #TraitMatching
- 🌤️🌱The effect of light availability and spatio-temporal heterogeneity on the soil seed bank diversity in temperate forests 📷 © Dafni Laura Thanopoulos 🎨 © Barbara Meyers vist.ly/4g4wd
- 💥🥚Ignite: Oviposited eggs are sensitive to experimental heatwaves vist.ly/4fxph #Beetles #Ecology #Heatwaves #Reproduction
- Reposted by OikosJoin us at the Nordic OIKOS–GfÖ Conference 2026! 📅 14–17 Sept 2026 | 📍 Odense, Denmark Open call for workshops & thematic sessions! Deadlines: Thematic sessions: 16 Jan 2026 Workshops: 17 Apr 2026 👉 Details & submission: vist.ly/4fvnx #Ecology #NSO202 #gfoe2026 #Science @gfoesoc.bsky.social
- 🕷️🌸Floral morphological characteristics preferences facilitate mating and predation in flower-visiting spiders vist.ly/4fhjx #CrabSpiders #FlowerVisitingBehaviour #Flowers #Preference #Predation #Mate
- 🐝🌺Dynamic pollinator networks maintain pollination efficiency during mast flowering in an insect-pollinated tree 📷 © Magdalena Żywiec vist.ly/4fckh #Bumblebee #MastSeeding #PollinationEfficiency #PollinatorNetworks #ReproductiveEfficiency #Sorbusaucuparia
- 👩🌾🐰Agroecosystem quality as an essential driver of European hare Lepus europaeus population density in contrasting farmlands 📷 © Jan Cukor vist.ly/4f7j9 #AgeStructure #AgriculturalIntensification #FarmlandSpecialists #HabitatHeterogeneity #Landscape Homogenization
- 👀Is an ecosystem perspective sufficient to understand meta-ecosystem processes? A critical reflection vist.ly/4ezxx #AquaticTerrestrialCoupling #MetaEcosystem #NetworkTheory #RiparianEcosystem
- 🐆📷African large carnivores in space and time: insights from camera-traps on the fine-scale spatio-temporal dynamics of lions, spotted hyaenas and leopards vist.ly/4egy8
- 🐘🌳 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 vist.ly/4e9hh
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- 🐦🌊When species are lost but functions persist: a trait-based perspective on Wadden Sea bird diversity dynamics vist.ly/4d2fu #BiodiversityLags #ColonisationExtinctionImbalance #DiffusionMaps #ExtinctionDebt #LongtermMonitoring #WaddenSea
- 🪤Trap-dependence in capture–recapture studies: empirical evidence in vertebrates and biological meaning vist.ly/4dund #CaptureMarkRecapture #GoodnessOfFitTest #IndividualHeterogeneity #IndividualMonitoring #InterIndividualDifferences #Resighting #UnequalCatchability
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- 🏝️🧫Seed survival in tropical pioneer trees is unrelated to conspecific distance but linked to fungal infection vist.ly/4dcb6
- 🦎🧪Non-adaptive processes explain chemical signal divergence in island lizards vist.ly/4d76n #Diet #IslandBiology #LacertidLizards #NonAdaptiveEvolution #Pheromones #SexualSelection
- 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. vist.ly/4czxz
- 🌺💢Friends or foes? Polyploidy and competition in a grassland geophyte 📷 © Damian Vaz de Sousa vist.ly/4cugz #Competition #Geophyte #Polyploidy #Sympatry
- 🦅🌱Secondary seed dispersal by migrant harriers in India 📷 © Sankar Subramanian vist.ly/4cfkr #Diploendozoochory #Grasslands #OpenNaturalEcosystems #Raptor
- 🕷️🪨Predator density outweighs experimental warming effects on short-term carbon and nitrogen loss from arctic shrub litter 📷 © Amanda Koltz vist.ly/4cb82 #ClimateChange #Decomposition #NutrientCycling #ShrubExpansion #TrophicCascade #WolfSpiders
- 🦔📉Habitat and predator heterogeneity influence density of a declining mammal 📷 © 1 Emily Clark 2 Hongli Yu vist.ly/4c62s #ErinaceusEuropaeus #LandscapesOfFear #MelesMeles #PopulationEcology #SpatialCaptureRecapture #SpatiotemporalCovariateHeterogeneity
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- 🐺🦌Recruitment probability in a large carnivore: the role of biological and human-related factors in early-life vist.ly/4b2uj #CanisLupus #JuvenileStage #LifeHistoryTraits #NatalTerritory #Reproduction
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- 🔄Metacommunity connectance and emergent patterns drive diversity via spatial eco-evolutionary feedback vist.ly/4bnfb #EcoEvolutionaryFeedback #FunctionalDiversity #HabitatChange #Metacommunity #NetworkSize #Connectance #SelfOrganisedPatternFormation
