Oikos publishes original and innovative research on all aspects of ecology, defined as organism-environment interactions at various spatiotemporal scales, so including macroecology and evolutionary ecology. Emphasis is on theoretical and empirical work aimed at generalization and synthesis across taxa, systems and ecological disciplines. Papers can contribute to new developments in ecology by reporting novel theory or critical empirical results, and "synthesis" can include developing new theory, tests of general hypotheses, or bringing together established or emerging areas of ecology. Confirming or extending the established literature, by for example showing results that are novel for a new taxon, or purely applied research, is given low priority.

Oikos發(fā)表關(guān)于生態(tài)學(xué)所有方面的原創(chuàng)和創(chuàng)新研究，定義為不同時(shí)空尺度上的有機(jī)體-環(huán)境相互作用，包括宏觀生態(tài)學(xué)和進(jìn)化生態(tài)學(xué)。重點(diǎn)是理論和實(shí)證工作，旨在推廣和綜合跨類群，系統(tǒng)和生態(tài)學(xué)科。論文可以通過報(bào)道新的理論或關(guān)鍵的實(shí)證結(jié)果來促進(jìn)生態(tài)學(xué)的新發(fā)展，而“綜合”可以包括發(fā)展新理論、檢驗(yàn)一般假設(shè)，或?qū)⑸鷳B(tài)學(xué)的現(xiàn)有或新興領(lǐng)域結(jié)合起來。確認(rèn)或擴(kuò)展已建立的文獻(xiàn)，例如顯示一個(gè)新的分類單元的新結(jié)果，或純粹的應(yīng)用研究，被給予較低的優(yōu)先級(jí)。