Oikos

Distributed on behalf of Nordic Society OIKOS

Edited by:
Tim Benton

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 33/124 Ecology
Impact Factor: 2.97

Oikos is a journal issued by the Nordic Ecological Society and is one of the leading peer-reviewed journals in ecology.

Oikos publishes original and innovative research on all aspects of ecology. Emphasis is on theoretical and empirical work aimed at generalization and synthesis across taxa, systems and ecological disciplines. Papers should be well founded in ecological theory and contribute to new developments in ecology by reporting novel theory or critical experimental results. Confirming or extending the established literature is given less priority. Synthesis of new and emerging fields in ecology and beyond is encouraged. Papers of review character should should strive for conceptual unification and being a point of departure for future work rather that restrospective summaries of established fields or topics.

Papers in Brevia, Horizons and Forum sections are given high priority in the publication process.

Oikos is available in HTML or PDF format for subscribers online.For volumes that pre-date 2000 please visit JSTOR

TopNews and Announcements

Congratulations to Prof. Hanna Kokko - the 2010 Per Brinck Oikos Award Winner
The Per Brinck Oikos Award is an annual prize which recognises and commemorates outstanding contributions to the science of ecology. The award scheme, now in its second year, is named after the Swedish zooecologist Per Brinck, who was a long standing editor-in-chief of Oikos (1965-1989). The awardee is nominated by the Editorial Board and Subject Editors of Oikos, and is presented with €1500 and an invitation to give the annual Per Brinck Lecture. Congratulations once again to Prof. Hanna Kokko.

Click here to read the full press release.

Articles Published Online Ahead of Print
Articles which have been fully copy-edited and peer-reviewed are published online through our EarlyView feature before the print edition of this journal is published. To view the abstracts of the latest EarlyView articles please click here.

Free Online Access in the Developing World
Free online access to this journal is available within institutions in the developing world through the AGORA Initiative with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the OARE Initiative (Online Access to Research in the Environment) with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).

TopHighlights

Free Content
The following articles demonstrate some of the topics published in the journal over the last few years. Click on any title to view the paper free of charge.

Getting to the hart of the matter: did antlers truly cause the extinction of the Irish elk?
Cedric O'Driscoll Worman and Tristan Kimbrell

The origins of uncooperative rhizobia
Joel L. Sachs, Ellen L. Simms

Let the concept of trait be functional!
Cyrille Violle, Marie-Laure Navas, Denis Vile, Elena Kazakou, Claire Fortunel, Irène Hummel, Eric Garnier

Neutral theory in macroecology and population genetics
Stephen P. Hubbell

Do males matter? The role of males in population dynamics
Daniel J. Rankin, Hanna Kokko

Dendrograms and measuring functional diversity
Owen L. Petchey, Kevin J. Gaston

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