🏝️🧫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

Predators and scavengers: Polar bears as marine carrion providers - @oikosjournal.bsky.social nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🐺🦌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

[1/5] Elephants shape forests by moving seeds, and carbon, across landscapes. 🌳🐘 But how consistent are their impacts across sites? 📸 : Liam Jasperse-Sjolander

🔄Metacommunity connectance and emergent patterns drive diversity via spatial eco-evolutionary feedback vist.ly/4bnfb #EcoEvolutionaryFeedback #FunctionalDiversity #HabitatChange #Metacommunity #NetworkSize #Connectance #SelfOrganisedPatternFormation

If you are an ecologist working with Generalized Distance Sampling models, give this a check. We assess the sample size needed for reliable performance, and give advice to optimize monitoring designs. @oikosjournal.bsky.social A fantastic work led by Julia, 1st author: doi.org/10.1002/oik....

🐼🦠Roles of soil microbes in shaping the nutrient accumulation of dietary bamboo of giant pandas vist.ly/4bhs8 #SoilMicrobes #BambooShootGrowth #KeyFoodResources #PlantSoilInteractions #PlantHerbivoreInteractions #GiantPandas

🐜❌Effects of environmental and individual variation on time patterns of extinction in small experimental populations vist.ly/4bdf5 Decliningpopulations #Collembola #ExtinctionVortex #FolsomiaCandida, #LongTransients, #EnvironmentalEffects #SmallPopulationParadigm

🐟🥶Winter wipeout? Post-disturbance recovery of brown trout indicates strong population resilience to harsh winter conditions vist.ly/4b8rm #Demography #DensityDependent #Migratory #PopulationDynamics #Recolonization #Salmonid

We studied lizards from 12 Croatian islands and found substantial variation in their chemical signal profiles. Ecological factors didn’t explain it. Instead, divergence was best explained by non-adaptive processes 🦎🏝️ @oikosjournal.bsky.social nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🪰🌺Fly pollinator foraging in boreal forests is shaped by climate, forest structure and flower resources vist.ly/4ap62 #CanopyOpenness #ClimateChange #ClimaticRefugia #ConvolutionalNeuralNetwork #DeepLearning #Diptera #ForestComposition #PollinatorConservation #YOLOv5

new pub out — Yosemite is a perfect (and picturesque) place to show how heterogeneity can shape species distributions and foraging patterns. Grateful to Yosemite NP, Levi & Sacks labs & @roguedogs.bsky.social for their collaboration 💗

🐝🌳High β-diversity in fig wasp communities driven by species turnover in widely distributed Neotropical fig trees vist.ly/4aivv

🦎💧A giant's appetite: how body size drives the diet and trophic position of the Japanese giant salamander vist.ly/4aepu #AndriasJaponicus #ApexPredator #Gigantism #OntogeneticDietaryShifts #StableIsotopeAnalysis #TrophicPosition

‼️New article in @oikosjournal.bsky.social led by our post-doc Arne Devriese used metabarcoding to identify🌼🦋 plant pollinator interactions in fragmented dune slacks along the Belgian coast, and uncovered that pollinators commonly interact with resources in the surrounding landscape. 👉 doi.org/p89v

Our cover for October! 👀 Vallejo-Vargas et al. (2025) show that protected forests significantly boost survival of mouse lemurs compared to degraded habitats. This contrasts with this with translocated individuals, whom fare much worse—underscoring the value of protected areas. vist.ly/49zrk

🏔️Glaciers are retreating fast. But what happens to the tiny food webs in the ponds they leave behind? This Greenlandic fieldwork (avoiding polar bear encounters!) sheds light 📷 © 1,2 Mariana Meerhoff 3 Thomas A. Davidson vist.ly/49v2i

🪲📈Increases in interspecific but mixed trends in intraspecific body sizes in German stream macroinvertebrates across two decades vist.ly/49rg6 #Freshwater #River #GlobalChange #Insect #Temperature #Trait

🐢🌿Seasonality and morphological variation shape intraspecific seed dispersal networks in gopher tortoises 📷 © Adrian Figueroa @adrianecology.bsky.social vist.ly/49ksy #GopherTortoise #IndividualVariation #NetworkEcology #Seasonality #SeedDispersal

🐆🗺️Variability in the movement and foraging behaviour of female Eurasian lynx during the denning season across Europe 📷 © Lan Hočevar, vist.ly/493k5 #EurasianLynx #Carnivore #Europe #Feeding #GPSTracking #Lynx #MaternalBehaviour #Reproduction #SpatialEcology

🏔️Arctic-breeding black-legged kittiwakes show individual variation in foraging responses to glacial conditions without consequences for reproductive output 📷 © Delphin Ruche vist.ly/48wsh

From traits to flames: leaf traits, plant strategies, and plant flammability across a moisture gradient in a frequently burned subtropical landscape @owenschmowen.bsky.social et al. @oikosjournal.bsky.social nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

✔️🔀Optimal foraging can drive emergent initiator-follower dynamics in social groups 📷 © 1,2 Damien Farine 3 James Klarevas-Irby vist.ly/48rvz #CollectiveBehaviour #CollectiveDecisionMaking #GroupLiving #Leadership #MarginalValueTheorem #SocialBehaviour

📜Forum: A trait-based framework for adaptive phenotypic plasticity under global change vist.ly/48kss #BehavioralPlasticity #ClimateChange #ExtremeEvents #GeneByEnvironmentInteractions #IntraspecificVariation #MorphologicalPlasticity #PhysiologicalPlasticity #Stochasticity #Variability

🥳 Meet Dr. Elise Thábault, our new subject editor from from Paris, France Read her interview here: vist.ly/43hhw

Oh hello 👋☺️

🍃🌲Relaxation of the leaf economics spectrum within and across quaking aspen Populus tremuloides genotypes 📷 © 1,2 Jolanta Rieksta 3 Benjamin Wong Blonder vist.ly/4868b

🌄🥩Landscape heterogeneity shapes the spatial and diet partitioning of a montane carnivore guild 📷 © Jennifer Hart vist.ly/47zke #Competition #DetectionDogTeam #HierarchicalModeling #HighThroughputSequencing #IntegratedOccupancyModel #NichePartitioning #NonInvasiveSampling

Lower competition in grasslands and higher facilitation in forests as potential drivers of the higher species richness of calcareous than siliceous communities vist.ly/47uwg

Our cover for September! 🦅 Levey et al. (2025) found, in southeastern Mexico, that while resident bird diversity declines with distance from protected forests and vegetation loss, migratory birds thrive in secondary forests and pastures. vist.ly/46vhw

Our previous cover for August! Morelli et al. (2025) show that traditional agricultural landscapes can sustain rich bird diversity. Nonetheless, shifts in land use strongly influence community composition and may drive biotic homogenization over time. vist.ly/46kzt

🫧🌱Intraspecific trait variability is a key feature underlying the association between community-weighted mean and abiotic gradients vist.ly/46gsv #AquaticPlantEcology #Biodiversity #Exposure #IntraSpecificTraitVariation #LifeHistoryTraits #Salinity

🤝Coadaptation shapes ecological interactions in mixotroph-resource systems vist.ly/46cfq #BiomassTraitFeedback #Coevolution #CompetitionPredation #ConsumerResourceCycles #EcoEvolutionaryDynamics #Mixotrophy #TradeoffsTraitAdaptation

🔥Ignite - Warming threatens aquatic–terrestrial linkages: evidence from tropical geothermal streams vist.ly/467kq #BayesianMixingModels #EffectsOfWarming #FluxAcrossEcosystems #FoodWebStructure #IsotopicAnalyses #TropicalRiparianForest #WaterLandInterfaces

🐃🌿Functional trait space expansion explains productivity gains under moderate grazing 📷 © Bai Yue vist.ly/4636p #AlpineMeadow #FunctionalTrait #GrasslandProductivity #IntraspecificTraitVariation #LeafTrait #TibetanPlateau

How do two closely related albatross species, Phoebetria fusca & P. palpebrata, respond to a changing world? We investigate their demographic responses to global change – check it out! 📷 © @cschatz.bsky.social‬ vist.ly/45nc4 #Seabirds #ClimateChange

🪴💯Community diversity shapes persisting soil legacy effects of individual plant species on subsequent plant performance vist.ly/45hsj #DilutionEffect #DiversityProductivityRelationship #PlantSoilFeedback #PlantSoilInteractions

🦋☀️Vertical and temporal niche partitioning in Amazonian butterflies: implications for the evolution of thermal tolerance 🎨 © Céline Louis-Clyiss vist.ly/45dnq #Butterfly #Community #EvolutionaryEcology #TemporalNiche #ThermalResistance #VerticalStratification

Meet us in room 1.003 at #gfoe2025 to talk about publishing, our journals or the joint #NSO2026 meeting with @gfoesoc.bsky.social! @nordicjbotany.bsky.social @wildlifebiology.bsky.social @oikosjournal.bsky.social @avianbiology.bsky.social @ecography.bsky.social

🐝🌼Positive indirect effects outweigh negative direct effects of ungulate grazers on population growth of a grassland herb 📷 © Jon Ågren vist.ly/44w83 #Grassland #Grazing #PopulationDynamics #PopulationGrowthRate #PrimulaFarinosa #UngulateGrazers

🥳 Meet Dr. Zsófia Horváth @zsofiahorvath.bsky.social , our new subject editor from Budapest, Hungary Get to know her and her research by reading her interview here: vist.ly/44s89

🍄💧Ectomycorrhizal fungi and root water uptake respond independently to water availability 📷 © 1-2 David Moreno-Mateos 3 Javier Porras-Gómez vist.ly/44mvw #CommunityComposition #Drought #FagusSylvatica #Root #WaterIsotopes

💭🐒Effects of management strategies on the survival probability of a small remnant population of mouse lemurs 📷 © Jacques S. Rakotondranary vist.ly/44hte #CaptureMarkRecapture #LongTermMonitoring #Madagascar #MitigationTranslocations #MouseLemurs #ProtectedArea #SurvivalProbability

📜Forum: Male mate-choice copying: a neglected aspect of sexual selection vist.ly/44hfq #Imitation #Mating #SexRoleReversal #SexualSelectio #SpermCompetition #Tradeoffs