Enhanced root exudation induces microbial feedbacks to N cycling in a pine forest under long-term CO2 fumigation.

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：:Understanding and predicting range expansion are key objectives in many basic and applied contexts. Among dioecious organisms, there is strong evidence for sex differences in dispersal, which could alter the sex ratio at the expansion's leading edge. However, demographic stochasticity could also affect leading-edge se...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Miller TE,Inouye BD

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：:Acquisition and allocation of resources are central to life-history theory. However, empirical work typically focuses only on allocation despite the fact that relationships between fitness components may be governed by differences in the ability of individuals to acquire resources across environments. Here, we outline...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Robinson MR,Beckerman AP

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：:Although interspecific competition has long been recognised as a major driver of trait divergence and adaptive evolution, relatively little effort has focused on how it influences the evolution of intraspecific cooperation. Here we identify the mechanism by which the perceived pressure of interspecific competition inf...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Chen BF,Liu M,Rubenstein DR,Sun SJ,Liu JN,Lin YH,Shen SF

更新日期：2020-03-01 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：:The impact of species loss from competitive communities partly depends on how populations of the surviving species respond. Predicting the response should be straightforward using models that describe population growth as a function of competitor densities; but these models require accurate estimates of interaction st...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Tuck SL,Porter J,Rees M,Turnbull LA

更新日期：2018-12-01 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：:Though many processes are involved in determining which species coexist and assemble into communities, competition is among the best studied. One hypothesis about competition's contribution to community assembly is that more closely related species are less likely to coexist. Though empirical evidence for this hypothe...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Mayfield MM,Levine JM

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:'C4 photosynthesis' refers to a suite of traits that increase photosynthesis in high light and high temperature environments. Most C4 plants are grasses, which dominate tropical and subtropical grasslands and savannas but are conspicuously absent from cold growing season climates. Physiological attributes of C4 photos...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Edwards EJ,Still CJ

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alien plant species are known to have a wide range of impacts on recipient communities, from resident species' exclusions to coexistence with resident species. It remains unclear; however, if this variety of impacts is due to different invader strategies, features of recipient communities or both. To test this, we exa...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Lai HR,Mayfield MM,Gay-des-Combes JM,Spiegelberger T,Dwyer JM

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of anthropogenic activity on ecosystems has highlighted the need to move beyond the biogeographical delineation of species richness patterns to understanding the vulnerability of species assemblages, including the functional components that are linked to the processes they support. We developed a decision t...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Parravicini V,Villéger S,McClanahan TR,Arias-González JE,Bellwood DR,Belmaker J,Chabanet P,Floeter SR,Friedlander AM,Guilhaumon F,Vigliola L,Kulbicki M,Mouillot D

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ecological and evolutionary consequences of extreme events are poorly understood. Here, we tested predictions about species persistence and population genomic change in aquatic insects in 14 Colorado mountain streams across a hydrological disturbance gradient caused by a one in 500-year rainfall event. Taxa persis...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Poff NL,Larson EI,Salerno PE,Morton SG,Kondratieff BC,Flecker AS,Zamudio KR,Funk WC

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species extinctions from local communities negatively affect ecosystem functioning. Ecological mechanisms underlying these impacts are well studied, but the role of evolutionary processes is rarely assessed. Using a long-term field experiment, we tested whether natural selection in plant communities increased biodiver...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： van Moorsel SJ,Hahl T,Wagg C,De Deyn GB,Flynn DFB,Zuppinger-Dingley D,Schmid B

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human domination of the biosphere has greatly altered ecosystems, often overwhelming their capacity to provide ecosystem services critical to our survival. Yet ecological understanding of ecosystem services is quite limited. Previous work maps the supply and demand for services, assesses threats to them, and estimates...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Kremen C

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Game et al. (2009) explored using rapid rotational fishing for increasing herbivore biomass. Their results depend crucially on the assumption that fishing effort that was in closures disappears, rather than shifting elsewhere. If effort shifts, rapid rotation has no effects, but previous age-structured analyses show b...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Kaplan DM,Hart DR,Botsford LW

更新日期：2010-07-01 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：:Murtaugh (2009) recently illustrated that all subsets variable selection is very similar to stepwise regression. This, however, does not necessarily mean both methods are useful. On the contrary, the same problems with overfitting should apply. Ecologists should, if model building is indeed necessary, consider more re...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Dahlgren JP

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：:With ongoing global change, life is continuously forced to move to novel areas, which leads to dynamically changing species ranges. As dispersal is central to range dynamics, factors promoting fast and distant dispersal are key to understanding and predicting species ranges. During range expansions, genetic variation ...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Van Petegem K,Moerman F,Dahirel M,Fronhofer EA,Vandegehuchte ML,Van Leeuwen T,Wybouw N,Stoks R,Bonte D

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The silver spoon effect in the context of habitat selection occurs when dispersers in good condition are more likely to settle in high-quality habitats than dispersers in poor condition. Positive relationships between disperser condition and the quality of post-dispersal habitats are predicted by at least two non-excl...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Stamps JA

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing interest in the complexity, variation and drivers of movement-related behaviours promise new insight into fundamental components of ecology. Resolving the multidimensionality of spatially explicit behaviour remains a challenge for investigating tactics and their relation to niche construction, but high-reso...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Bastille-Rousseau G,Wittemyer G

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Habitat selection, including oviposition site choice, is an important driver of community assembly in freshwater systems. Factors determining patch quality are assessed by many colonising organisms and affect colonisation rates, spatial distribution and community structure. For many species, the presence/absence of pr...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Resetarits WJ Jr,Silberbush A

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progressive habitat transformation causes global changes in landscape biodiversity patterns, but can be hard to quantify. Rarefaction/extrapolation approaches can quantify within-habitat biodiversity, but may not be useful for cases in which one habitat type is progressively transformed into another habitat type. To q...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Chao A,Colwell RK,Gotelli NJ,Thorn S

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resource-consumer interactions are considered a major driving force of population and community dynamics. However, species also interact in many non-trophic and indirect ways and it is currently not known to what extent the dynamic coupling of species corresponds to the distribution of trophic links. Here, using a 10-...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Kawatsu K,Ushio M,van Veen FJF,Kondoh M

更新日期：2021-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of host plant α- and β-diversity often confound studies of herbivore β-diversity, hindering our ability to predict the full impact of non-native plants on herbivores. Here, while controlling host plant diversity, we examined variation in herbivore communities between native and non-native plants, focusing on h...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Burghardt KT,Tallamy DW

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intra- and interspecific plant-plant interactions are fundamental to patterns of community assembly and to the mixture effects observed in biodiversity studies. Although much research has been conducted at the species level, very little is understood about how genetic variation within and among interacting species may...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Genung MA,Bailey JK,Schweitzer JA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Limited dispersal is commonly used to explain differences in diversification rates. An obvious but unexplored factor affecting dispersal is the mode of locomotion used by animals. Whether individuals walk, swim or fly can dictate the type and severity of geographical barriers to dispersal, and determine the general ra...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Medina I,Cooke GM,Ord TJ

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternally transmitted endosymbionts are widespread among insects, but how they are maintained within host populations is largely unknown. Recent discoveries show that some endosymbionts protect their hosts from pathogens or parasites. Spiroplasma, an endosymbiont of Drosophila neotestacea, protects female hosts from ...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Jaenike J,Brekke TD

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00