The 26th Oikos meeting in Lund
February 4-6 2008

The Department of Ecology at Lund University will be hosting the 26th annual Oikos meeting February 4-6, 2008. This will be an excellent opportunity for ecologists in Sweden to present their research in an informal and friendly atmosphere. Also, you will get to know other ecologists in your field.

Plenary speakers:

• The Per Brinck Oikos Award: Hal Caswell, Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, USA Title: Individual stochasticity in demography: new indices, new analyses.

• Bengt-Olle Bengtsson COB, Lund, Sweden Title: The evolution of asexuality.

• Rick Relyea, University of Pittsburgh, USA Title: Taking a community-level approach to ecotoxicology: Insights from aquatic systems

• Jordi Bascompte Coto Donana Research Station, Spain Title: Mutualistic Networks: the Architecture of Biodiversity.

• Owen Petchey Univetsity of Sheffield, UK. Title: Food webs: just a load of behavioural ecology

• Loeske Kruuk, University of Edinburgh, UK. Title: From the cradle to the grave: life history evolution in wild animal populations.