''Oikos'' is a monthly peer-reviewed

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covering research in the field of

ecology Ecology () is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere level. Ecology overlaps wi ...

. It is published by

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on behalf of the Nordic Foundation Oikos. Since 2011, the

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has been Dries Bonte of

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History

The journal was established in 1949 as ''Oikos: Acta Oecologica Scandinavica'', together with the Nordic Foundation Oikos, to provide a vehicle for publishing in the growing field of

. The journal content would have no preference with regard to taxonomic group. In the 1970s the scope was narrowed to studies with relevance to the progress of theory in ecology. From 1949 to 1977, the journal appeared in one volume of three issues per year. From 1977 to 1987, two volumes per year were produced, and three volumes from 1987. In addition, from 1949–1975, a number of supplements were published at irregular intervals. Since 2007, the ''Oikos'' subject editors make nominations for the annual Per Brinck Oikos Award given to a world-leading

ecologist Ecology () is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere level. Ecology overlaps wi ...

. * 2008 - Hal Caswell * 2009 - John Norton Thompson *2010 - Hanna Kokko *2011 - Michel Loreu *2012 - Tim Coulson *2013 - Sharon Strauss *2014 - Robert D. Holt

Editors-in-chief

The following persons have been editors-in-chief: * 2011–present Dries Bonte,

* 2010–2011

Tim Benton Tim Benton (born 21 June 1945, Rome) is Professor Emeritus in the History of Art at the Open University in the UK as well as a writer and broadcaster. He has also taught at Columbia University, Williams College, and École Polytechnique Fédéra ...

Leeds Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by populati ...

* 2004–2010

Per Lundberg Per is a Latin preposition which means "through" or "for each", as in per capita. Per or PER may also refer to: Places * IOC country code for Peru * Pér, a village in Hungary * Chapman code for Perthshire, historic county in Scotland Mat ...

, Lund * 1989–2004

Nils Malmer Per Nils Johan Alfred Malmer (May 25, 1928 in Växjö – April 17, 2018) was a Swedish plant ecologist. Malmer graduated (1957) and took his PhD (1962) in plant ecology (''Studies on mire vegetation in the archaean area of southwestern Götaland ...

, Lund * 1965–1989

Per Brinck Per Simon Valdemar Brinck (4 September 1919 – 6 October 2013) was a Swedish zoologist. Brinck began his career as a veterinarian, but wrote a thesis on '' Plecoptera'' and later became a worldwide authority on ''Gyrinidae''. He travelled extens ...

, Lund * 1949–1965

Christian Overgaard Nielsen Christian Overgaard Nielsen (January 16, 1918 – January 26, 1999) was a Danish zoologist and ecologist. Biography Overgaard Nielsen was born at Snejbjerg in Herning, Denmark. He earned his Masters of Science degree in Anatomy during 1943. ...

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External links

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