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The diversity and phylogenetic community structure of ants along a Costa Rican elevational gradient

M. Alex Smith (salex [at] uoguelph [dot] ca; and on Twitter: @Alex_Smith_Ants)

 

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An island on a former island on a former island: a biogeographer’s paradise

Blog post by Robert P. Anderson, Robert A. Boria, and Eliécer E. Gutiérrez

 

A fascinating system

A tiny...

Integrating phylogenetic community structure with species distribution models

Blog post by Oluwatobi A.  Oke, Stephen B.  Heard and Jeremy T. Lundholm

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Richness – heterogeneity relationships: positive, unimodal, both, or neither?

A Black-throated Green Warbler, one of the bird species found in the study area.

 

Avi Bar-Massada and Eric M. Wood

One of the most common notions in ecology is that species richness has a positive relationship with habitat...

Seasonal cycles of diversity and similarity in a Central American rainforest butterfly community

V. Grøtan, R. Lande, I. A. Chacon and P. J. DeVries

Lowland tropical rainforests harbor the greatest insect diversity on earth, and ecologists have repeatedly shown that wet and dry seasons are correlated with insect abundances. Despite its importance for understanding...

Koalas need to balance their requirements for food and shade

You would think that once a koala found a good tree for feeding, they would stay put. This is not the case according to...

A serious miscalculation on Ecuadorean swamps

Nigel Pitman

Collecting plant specimens in a swamp of Yasuní National Park with a Huaorani friend, 1998. Photo by Tomás Delinks.

 

The...

Blog by March cover author Williams and Stuart-Smith

Making good conservation decisions with limited data: improvements to simple range maps for biodiversity conservation planning

Rob Williams, University of St...

Energetic costs as potential drivers of cetacean habitats in the southwest Indian Ocean

Cetaceans are large vertebrates which occupy the highest trophic levels of pelagic food webs. At the individual scale, it has been shown that cetaceans select their food on the basis of their energetic costs. Cetaceans with the highest energetic costs select the highest...

New Editor-in-Chief

The Nordic Society Oikos has elected Professor Miguel Araújo as the new Editor-in-Chief of Ecography, after nearly ten years of leadership by Professor...

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