Dispersal frequency affects local biomass production by controlling local diversity.

abstract：:Some microbial public goods can provide both individual and community-wide benefits, and are open to exploitation by non-producing species. One such example is the production of metal-detoxifying siderophores. Here, we investigate whether conflicting selection pressures on siderophore production by heavy metals - a de...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Hesse E,O'Brien S,Tromas N,Bayer F,Luján AM,van Veen EM,Hodgson DJ,Buckling A

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asexual taxa often have larger ranges than their sexual progenitors, particularly in areas affected by Pleistocene glaciations. The reasons given for this 'geographical parthenogenesis' are contentious, with expansion of the ecological niche or colonisation advantages of uniparental reproduction assumed most important...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Kirchheimer B,Wessely J,Gattringer A,Hülber K,Moser D,Schinkel CCF,Appelhans M,Klatt S,Caccianiga M,Dellinger A,Guisan A,Kuttner M,Lenoir J,Maiorano L,Nieto-Lugilde D,Plutzar C,Svenning JC,Willner W,Hörandl E,Dullin

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen (N) deposition is impacting the services that ecosystems provide to humanity. However, the mechanisms determining impacts on the N cycle are not fully understood. To explore the mechanistic underpinnings of N impacts on N cycle processes, we reviewed and synthesised recent progress in ecosystem N research thr...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Niu S,Classen AT,Dukes JS,Kardol P,Liu L,Luo Y,Rustad L,Sun J,Tang J,Templer PH,Thomas RQ,Tian D,Vicca S,Wang YP,Xia J,Zaehle S

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legumes capable of fixing atmospheric N2 are abundant and diverse in many tropical forests, but the factors determining ecological patterns in fixation are unresolved. A long-standing idea is that fixation depends on soil nutrients (N, P or Mo), but recent evidence shows that fixation may also differ among N2-fixing s...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Wurzburger N,Hedin LO

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colonisation is a fundamental ecological and evolutionary process that drives the distribution and abundance of organisms. The initial ability of colonists to establish is determined largely by the number of founders and their genetic background. We explore the importance of these demographic and genetic properties fo...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Szűcs M,Melbourne BA,Tuff T,Weiss-Lehman C,Hufbauer RA

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:'Should I stay or should I go?' is a fundamental question facing any candidate for emigration, as emigrating without outside information has major costs. Most studies on this topic have concentrated on risk-reducing strategies (e.g. exploration) developed after leaving the natal habitat. The idea that information migh...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Cote J,Clobert J

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the importance of divergent selection to the speed of evolution, it remains poorly understood if divergent selection is more prevalent in the tropics (where species richness is highest), or at high latitudes (where paleoclimate change has been most intense). We tested whether the rate of climatic-niche evoluti...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Lawson AM,Weir JT

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasites with low host specificity (e.g. infecting a large diversity of host species) are of special interest in disease ecology, as they are likely more capable of circumventing ecological or evolutionary barriers to infect new hosts than are specialist parasites. Yet for many parasites, host specificity is not fixe...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Fecchio A,Wells K,Bell JA,Tkach VV,Lutz HL,Weckstein JD,Clegg SM,Clark NJ

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mosquito-borne diseases cause a major burden of disease worldwide. The vital rates of these ectothermic vectors and parasites respond strongly and nonlinearly to temperature and therefore to climate change. Here, we review how trait-based approaches can synthesise and mechanistically predict the temperature dependence...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Mordecai EA,Caldwell JM,Grossman MK,Lippi CA,Johnson LR,Neira M,Rohr JR,Ryan SJ,Savage V,Shocket MS,Sippy R,Stewart Ibarra AM,Thomas MB,Villena O

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecological constraints on independent breeding are recognised as major drivers of cooperative breeding across diverse lineages. How the prevalence and degree of cooperative breeding relates to ecological variation remains unresolved. Using a large data set of cooperative nesting in Polistes wasps we demonstrate that d...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Sheehan MJ,Botero CA,Hendry TA,Sedio BE,Jandt JM,Weiner S,Toth AL,Tibbetts EA

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although some organisms have moved to higher elevations and latitudes in response to recent climate change, there is little consensus regarding the capacity of different species to track rapid climate change via range shifts. Understanding species' abilities to shift ranges has important implications for assessing ext...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Angert AL,Crozier LG,Rissler LJ,Gilman SE,Tewksbury JJ,Chunco AJ

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food-web complexity often hinders disentangling functionally relevant aspects of food-web structure and its relationships to biodiversity. Here, we present a theoretical framework to evaluate food-web complexity in terms of biodiversity. Food network unfolding is a theoretical method to transform a complex food web in...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Kato Y,Kondoh M,Ishikawa NF,Togashi H,Kohmatsu Y,Yoshimura M,Yoshimizu C,Haraguchi TF,Osada Y,Ohte N,Tokuchi N,Okuda N,Miki T,Tayasu I

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing pressure from policymakers for ecologists to generate more detailed 'attribution' analyses aimed at quantitatively estimating relative contributions of different driving forces, including anthropogenic climate change (ACC), to observed biological changes. Here, we argue that this approach is not pr...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Parmesan C,Burrows MT,Duarte CM,Poloczanska ES,Richardson AJ,Schoeman DS,Singer MC

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most studies of plant-animal mutualistic networks have come from a temporally static perspective. This approach has revealed general patterns in network structure, but limits our ability to understand the ecological and evolutionary processes that shape these networks and to predict the consequences of natural and hum...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： CaraDonna PJ,Burkle LA,Schwarz B,Resasco J,Knight TM,Benadi G,Blüthgen N,Dormann CF,Fang Q,Fründ J,Gauzens B,Kaiser-Bunbury CN,Winfree R,Vázquez DP

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ectomycorrhizal (EcM)-mediated nitrogen (N) acquisition is one main strategy used by terrestrial plants to facilitate growth. Measurements of natural abundance nitrogen isotope ratios (denoted as δ(15)N relative to a standard) increasingly serve as integrative proxies for mycorrhiza-mediated N acquisition due to biolo...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Mayor J,Bahram M,Henkel T,Buegger F,Pritsch K,Tedersoo L

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of consumer-resource interactions suggest that individual diet specialisation is empirically widespread and theoretically important to the organisation and dynamics of populations and communities. We used weighted networks to analyze the resource use by sea otters, testing three alternative models for how indi...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Tim Tinker M,Guimarães PR Jr,Novak M,Marquitti FM,Bodkin JL,Staedler M,Bentall G,Estes JA

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are a variety of proposed evolutionary and ecological explanations for why some species have more extensive geographical ranges than others. One of the most common explanations is variation in species' dispersal ability. However, the purported relationship between dispersal distance and range size has been subje...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Lester SE,Ruttenberg BI,Gaines SD,Kinlan BP

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dispersal is a key parameter of adaptation, invasion and persistence. Yet standard population genetics inference methods hardly distinguish it from drift and many species cannot be studied by direct mark-recapture methods. Here, we introduce a method using rates of change in cline shapes for neutral markers to estimat...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Rieux A,Lenormand T,Carlier J,de Lapeyre de Bellaire L,Ravigné V

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gerbilline rodents such as Allenby's gerbils (Gerbillus andersoni allenbyi), when parasitized by fleas such as Synosternus cleopatrae pyramidis, devote long hours of grooming to remove the ectoparasites. Yet no detrimental energetic or immunological effects of the ectoparasites have been found in adult Allenby's gerbi...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Raveh A,Kotler BP,Abramsky Z,Krasnov BR

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most species are exposed to significant environmental gradients across their ranges, but vital rates (survival, growth, reproduction and recruitment) need not respond in the same direction to those gradients. Opposing vital rate trends across environments, a phenomenon that has been loosely called 'demographic compens...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Villellas J,Doak DF,García MB,Morris WF

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because biodiversity is multidimensional and scale-dependent, it is challenging to estimate its change. However, it is unclear (1) how much scale-dependence matters for empirical studies, and (2) if it does matter, how exactly we should quantify biodiversity change. To address the first question, we analysed studies w...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Chase JM,McGill BJ,McGlinn DJ,May F,Blowes SA,Xiao X,Knight TM,Purschke O,Gotelli NJ

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food chain theory is one of the cornerstones of ecology, providing many of its basic predictions, such as biomass pyramids, trophic cascades and predator-prey oscillations. Yet, ninety years into this theory, the conditions under which these patterns may occur and persist in nature remain subject to debate. Rather tha...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Barbier M,Loreau M

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There have been numerous investigations of parasite local adaptation, a phenomenon important from the perspectives of both basic and applied evolutionary ecology. Recent work has demonstrated that temperature has striking effects on parasite performance by mediating trade-offs in parasite life history and through geno...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Laine AL

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although fungal communities are known to vary along latitudinal gradients, mechanisms underlying this pattern are not well-understood. We used high-throughput sequencing to examine the large-scale distributions of soil fungi and their relation to evolutionary history. We tested the Tropical Conservatism Hypothesis, wh...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Treseder KK,Maltz MR,Hawkins BA,Fierer N,Stajich JE,McGuire KL

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropical soils contain huge carbon stocks, which climate warming is projected to reduce by stimulating organic matter decomposition, creating a positive feedback that will promote further warming. Models predict that the loss of carbon from warming soils will be mediated by microbial physiology, but no empirical data ...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Nottingham AT,Whitaker J,Ostle NJ,Bardgett RD,McNamara NP,Fierer N,Salinas N,Ccahuana AJQ,Turner BL,Meir P

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species diversity has two components - number of species and spatial turnover in species composition (beta-diversity). Using a field experiment focusing on a system of Mediterranean grasslands, we show that interspecific competition may influence the two components in the same direction or in opposite directions, depe...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Segre H,Ron R,De Malach N,Henkin Z,Mandel M,Kadmon R

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Females of many species obtain benefits by mating polyandrously, and often prefer novel males over previous mates. However, how do females recognise previous mates, particularly in the face of cognitive constraints? Female crickets appear to have evolved a simple but effective solution: females imbue males with their ...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Weddle CB,Steiger S,Hamaker CG,Ower GD,Mitchell C,Sakaluk SK,Hunt J

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soaring birds migrate in massive numbers worldwide. These migrations are complex and dynamic phenomena, strongly influenced by meteorological conditions that produce thermal and orographic uplift as the birds traverse the landscape. Herein we report on how methods were developed to estimate the strength of thermal and...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Bohrer G,Brandes D,Mandel JT,Bildstein KL,Miller TA,Lanzone M,Katzner T,Maisonneuve C,Tremblay JA

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nematomorph parasites manipulate crickets to enter streams where the parasites reproduce. These manipulated crickets become a substantial food subsidy for stream fishes. We used a field experiment to investigate how this subsidy affects the stream community and ecosystem function. When crickets were available, predato...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Sato T,Egusa T,Fukushima K,Oda T,Ohte N,Tokuchi N,Watanabe K,Kanaiwa M,Murakami I,Lafferty KD

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal hormones are important mediators of prenatal maternal effects. Although many experimental studies have demonstrated their potency in shaping offspring phenotypes, we know remarkably little about their adaptive value. Using long-term data on a wild collared flycatcher (Ficedula albicollis) population, we show ...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Tschirren B,Postma E,Gustafsson L,Groothuis TG,Doligez B

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00