Age-independent and age-dependent decreases in reproduction of females.

abstract：:Mutualistic interactions involving pollination and ant-plant mutualistic networks typically feature tightly linked species grouped in modules. However, such modularity is infrequent in seed dispersal networks, presumably because research on those networks predominantly includes a single taxonomic animal group (e.g. bi...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Donatti CI,Guimarães PR,Galetti M,Pizo MA,Marquitti FM,Dirzo R

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tendency of trees to grow taller with increasing water availability is common knowledge. Yet a robust, universal relationship between the spatial distribution of water availability and forest canopy height (H) is lacking. Here, we created a global water availability map by calculating an annual budget as the diffe...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Klein T,Randin C,Körner C

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Co-flowering plant species commonly share flower visitors, and thus have the potential to influence each other's pollination. In this study we analysed 750 quantitative plant-pollinator networks from 28 studies representing diverse biomes worldwide. We show that the potential for one plant species to influence another...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Carvalheiro LG,Biesmeijer JC,Benadi G,Fründ J,Stang M,Bartomeus I,Kaiser-Bunbury CN,Baude M,Gomes SI,Merckx V,Baldock KC,Bennett AT,Boada R,Bommarco R,Cartar R,Chacoff N,Dänhardt J,Dicks LV,Dormann CF,Ekroos J,Hen

更新日期：2014-11-01 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：:Predators can affect herbivores both through direct consumption (density-mediated interactions) and by changing behavioural, physiological or morphological attributes of the prey (trait-mediated interactions). These effects on the herbivore can in turn affect the plant through density- and trait-mediated indirect inte...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Griffin CA,Thaler JS

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apex predators can limit the abundance and behaviour of mesopredators, thereby reducing predation on smaller species. We know less about whether native apex predators are effective in suppressing invasive mesopredators, a major global driver of vertebrate extinctions. We use the severe disease-induced decline of an ap...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Cunningham CX,Johnson CN,Jones ME

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degree to which rising atmospheric CO(2) will be offset by carbon (C) sequestration in forests depends in part on the capacity of trees and soil microbes to make physiological adjustments that can alleviate resource limitation. Here, we show for the first time that mature trees exposed to CO(2) enrichment increase...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Phillips RP,Finzi AC,Bernhardt ES

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Correlative species distribution models are based on the observed relationship between species' occurrence and macroclimate or other environmental variables. In climates predicted less favourable populations are expected to decline, and in favourable climates they are expected to persist. However, little comparative e...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Csergő AM,Salguero-Gómez R,Broennimann O,Coutts SR,Guisan A,Angert AL,Welk E,Stott I,Enquist BJ,McGill B,Svenning JC,Violle C,Buckley YM

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dispersal is a major factor regulating the number of coexisting species, but the relationship between species diversity and ecosystem processes has mainly been analysed for communities closed to dispersal. We experimentally investigated how initial local diversity and dispersal frequency affect local diversity and bio...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Matthiessen B,Hillebrand H

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the response of vascular plant species richness to long-term habitat loss and fragmentation of Estonian calcareous grasslands (alvars). The current number of habitat specialist species in 35 alvars was not explained by their current areas and connectivities but it was explained by their areas and connectiv...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Helm A,Hanski I,Pärtel M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite nearly 100 years of edge studies, there has been little effort to document how edge responses 'cascade' to impact multi-trophic food webs. We examined changes within two, four-tiered food webs located on opposite sides of a habitat edge. Based on a 'bottom-up' resource-based model, we predicted plant resources...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Wimp GM,Murphy SM,Lewis D,Ries L

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The canonical factors typically thought to determine herbivore community structure often explain only a small fraction of the variation in herbivore abundance and diversity. We tested how macronutrients and relatively understudied micronutrients interacted to influence the structure of insect herbivore (orthopteran) c...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Prather CM,Laws AN,Cuellar JF,Reihart RW,Gawkins KM,Pennings SC

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forest and savanna biomes dominate the tropics, yet factors controlling their distribution remain poorly understood. Climate is clearly important, but extensive savannas in some high rainfall areas suggest a decoupling of climate and vegetation. In some situations edaphic factors are important, with forest often assoc...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Murphy BP,Bowman DM

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although fitness is central to the evolutionary process, metrics vary by timescale. Different timescales may give rise to different estimates of selection, especially during demographic transitions caused by rapid environmental and socioeconomic change. In this study, we used a dataset of a human population in Finland...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Scranton K,Lummaa V,Stearns SC

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sperm are particularly prone to oxidative damage because they generate reactive oxygen species (ROS), have a high polyunsaturated fat content and a reduced capacity to repair DNA damage. The dietary compounds vitamin E and beta-carotene are argued to have antioxidant properties that help to counter the damaging effect...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Almbro M,Dowling DK,Simmons LW

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual heterogeneity in life history shapes eco-evolutionary processes, and unobserved heterogeneity can affect demographic outputs characterising life history and population dynamical properties. Demographic frameworks like matrix models or integral projection models represent powerful approaches to disentangle m...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Vindenes Y,Langangen Ø

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biodiversity in agricultural landscapes can be increased with conversion of some production lands into 'more-natural'- unmanaged or extensively managed - lands. However, it remains unknown to what extent biodiversity can be enhanced by altering landscape pattern without reducing agricultural production. We propose a f...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Fahrig L,Baudry J,Brotons L,Burel FG,Crist TO,Fuller RJ,Sirami C,Siriwardena GM,Martin JL

更新日期：2011-02-01 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：: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：:Habitat quality is typically inferred by assuming a direct relationship between consumer density and resource abundance, although it has been suggested that consumer fitness may be a more accurate measure of habitat quality. We examined density vs. fitness-based measures of habitat quality for lions in the Serengeti N...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Mosser A,Fryxell JM,Eberly L,Packer C

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pither & Aarssen (2005) propose a null model approach to assess the proportion of niche specialist taxa along ecological gradients. They apply this methodology to a large data set of lacustrine diatom assemblages and conclude that a majority of the taxa are generalists on a pH gradient. This conflicts with previous wo...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Telford RJ,Vandvik V,Birks HJ

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been considerable focus on the impacts of environmental change on ecosystem function arising from changes in species richness. However, environmental change may affect ecosystem function without affecting richness, most notably by affecting population densities and community composition. Using a theoretical ...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Spaak JW,Baert JM,Baird DJ,Eisenhauer N,Maltby L,Pomati F,Radchuk V,Rohr JR,Van den Brink PJ,De Laender F

更新日期：2017-10-01 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：:Understanding species coexistence has long been a major goal of ecology. Coexistence theory for two competing species posits that intraspecific density dependence should be stronger than interspecific density dependence. Great tits and blue tits are two bird species that compete for food resources and nesting cavities...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Gamelon M,Vriend SJG,Engen S,Adriaensen F,Dhondt AA,Evans SR,Matthysen E,Sheldon BC,Saether BE

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theory predicts that ecosystem engineers should have their most dramatic effects when they enable species, through habitat amelioration, to live in zones where physical and biological conditions would otherwise suppress or limit them. Mutualisms between mycorrhizal fungi and plants are key determinants of productivity...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Daleo P,Fanjul E,Mendez Casariego A,Silliman BR,Bertness MD,Iribarne O

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrosystems ecology is an effort to understand ecological processes and interactions at the broadest spatial scales and has potential to help solve globally important social and ecological challenges. It is important to understand the intellectual legacies underpinning macrosystems ecology: How the subdiscipline fits...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Rose KC,Graves RA,Hansen WD,Harvey BJ,Qiu J,Wood SA,Ziter C,Turner MG

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dispersal and the underlying movement behaviour are processes of pivotal importance for understanding and predicting metapopulation and metacommunity dynamics. Generally, dispersal decisions are condition-dependent and rely on information in the broad sense, like the presence of conspecifics. However, studies on metac...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Fronhofer EA,Klecka J,Melián CJ,Altermatt F

更新日期：2015-09-01 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：:Fine root decomposition constitutes a critical yet poorly understood flux of carbon and nutrients in terrestrial ecosystems. Here, we present the first large-scale synthesis of species trait effects on the early stages of fine root decomposition at both global and local scales. Based on decomposition rates for 279 pla...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： See CR,Luke McCormack M,Hobbie SE,Flores-Moreno H,Silver WL,Kennedy PG

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecosystems are differentially open to subsidies of energy, material and organisms. This fundamental ecosystem attribute has long been recognized but the influence of this property on community regulation has not been investigated. We propose that this environmental attribute may explain variation in the strength of tr...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Leroux SJ,Loreau M

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00