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Call for Papers | Special Issue on biological invasions
Due by 13 JULY 2025: We invite you to contribute to a special issue of Oikos on “Biological invasions in the context of global environmental change.”
*New Editor | Jean-Philippe Gibert, subject editor for Oikos
We are happy to welcome Dr. Jean-Philippe Gibert from Duke University, NC, USA, to the Oikos Editorial Board.
*New Editor | Susan Whitehead, subject editor for Oikos
We are happy to welcome Dr. Susan Whitehead from Virginia Tech to the Oikos Editorial Board. To know more about her, read our interview.
*Forum | Patchy Indirect Effects of Predation
We know that predators influence many other species, directly and indirectly. But we tend to think about their effects in terms of one starting point.
*Forum | Why sex matters in phenological research
As climate change shifts the timing of the seasons, it messes with different organisms in different ways—which can disrupt the way they interact.
*Forum | Dead or alive: carbon as currency to integrate disease and ecosystem ecology theory
Disease and ecosystem ecology are treated as separate disciplines, but we know they're intertwined—so how can we study them together? Think in terms of carbon.
Forum | Insularity and early domestication
This Forum paper argues that the human-friendly qualities of our pets, livestock, and crops could have arisen without selective breeding or other human-centric mechanisms that are usually assumed. Instead, it explores an ecological mechanism: the island syndrome.
Forum | The humpty-dumpty effect and community restoration
Why is it so hard to fix broken ecosystems? This Forum paper seeks to improve our idea of the “humpty-dumpty effect” that is often invoked to explain restoration failure.