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View from the editor's desk: From code to credit
Citing software packages is essential, but treating them as the origin rather than the implementation of ideas risks obscuring the intellectual history of methods. Read more from Oikos Editor-in-Chief Pedro Peres-Neto.
New Editor | Mark Hughes, coordinating editor for taxonomy and systematics
Mark Hughes is joining NJB as Coordinating Editor for taxonomy & systematics. He is also a specialist on Begonia spp.
Study | Balancing moult, migration, and breeding in a long-lived partial migrant raptor
Balancing moult, migration, and breeding is not simply a matter of distance travelled. It is the outcome of a complex energetic compromise shaped by climate, life stage, and reproductive demands.
Call for Papers | Special issue on grouse ecology
Wildlife Biology Journal invites papers for a special issue for the Grouse Symposium in Hamar, Norway (31 Aug– 4 Sep 2026). You do not have to participate in the symposium to be able to submit a paper.
Cover | Phylogenetic evidence for Jatropha benghalensis
Phylogenetic analysis reclassifies a geophytic Jatropha species as J. benghalensis, clarifying its distinction from closely related taxa.
Cover | EcoCleanR: enhancing biogeographic data quality
This month’s cover illustration by Priyanka Soni features the EcoCleanR workflow, showing transformation of raw biodiversity data into refined geographic and environmental representations of species distributions.
Cover | From flames to patterns: What fuels the fire in savannas
A study of Brazilian savannas shows that fuel traits—especially grass biomass—strongly shape fire behavior. Photo by Vinicius de Lima Dantas.
Cover | How complex are parrot duets? Evidence for large repertoires and syntactic structure in a wild species
Our latest cover depicts a yellow-naped amazon, photographed by JD Gilardi, World Parrot Trust.
View from the editor's desk: Where is double-blind review headed in the age of preprints?
Double-blind review may no longer be a shield, but it can still be a compass, according to Oikos Editor-in-Chief Pedro Peres-Neto.
New Editor | Arnost Sizling, subject editor for Ecography
Arnost Sizling is a macroecologist who explores the drivers of species spatial patterns, with interests including how biodiversity patterns shift across the Holocene and along continental-scale gradients.
Cover | Taxonomic investigation of Abrothallus
Phylogenetic analyses reveal new Abrothallus species specialized on Ramalina lichens, highlighting hidden diversity and host specificity.
Cover | First robust population assessment of snow leopards in Pakistan
This month’s cover photo by Muhammad Osama depicts Lovely, an orphan snow leopard cub rescued in 2013, who thrives under rehabilitation in Naltar Valley of northern Pakistan.
Cover | What Drives Diversity in Fig Wasp Communities
A study of fig wasps by shows that communities linked to Neotropical fig trees change dramatically across space, with high species turnover. Photo by Jean-Yves Rasplus.
New Editor | Jamie Kass, editor for Software Notes
Jamie Kass runs the Macroecology Lab at Tohoku University in Japan, investigating how biodiversity—from plankton to insects to vertebrates—is distributed across space and time.
New Editor | Dan Liang, subject editor for Ecography
Animal ecologist and conservation scientist Dan Liang studies diversity patterns in rapidly changing ecosystems, often involving long-distance migrants crossing national boundaries and elevational migrations in mountains.
Study | The small hosting the small in Antarctica
In the tiny ice-free areas of Antarctica, carpets of mosses, lichens, and algae form miniature forests. These patches host Antarctica’s terrestrial animals: billions of mites and springtails.
New Editor | Babak Naimi, editor for Software Notes
We welcome Babak Naimi, a senior researcher at Utrecht University who focuses on understanding biodiversity change in response to ongoing global change and anthropogenic activities.
New Editor | Tyler Hallman, subject editor for Ecography
We welcome wildlife ecologist and conservation biologist Tyler Hallman, whose recent work includes exploring the wellbeing benefits that humans derive from avian soundscapes.
Editor’s Choice | Environmental predictability and mule deer movement
The editor’s choice for our January/February issue is the article by Stranden et al. (2025): “Differential effects of environmental predictability on ungulate movement behavior in disparate ecosystems.”
New Editor | Marco Túlio Pacheco Coelho, subject editor for Ecography
We welcome Marco Túlio Pacheco Coelho, whose research asks how broad patterns of biodiversity emerge across space, time, and different parts of the tree of life.