Carbon dioxide supersaturation promotes primary production in lakes.

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：:Time series of abundances are critical for understanding how abiotic factors and species interactions affect population dynamics, but are rarely linked with experiments and also scarce for bee pollinators. This gap is important given concerns about declines in some bee species. I monitored honey bee (Apis mellifera) a...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Thomson DM

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental studies assessing climatic effects on ecological communities have typically applied static warming treatments. Although these studies have been informative, they have usually failed to incorporate either current or predicted future, patterns of variability. Future climates are likely to include extreme ev...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Thompson RM,Beardall J,Beringer J,Grace M,Sardina P

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrinsic processes are assumed to underlie life history expression and trade-offs, but extrinsic inputs are theorised to shift trait expression and mask trade-offs within species. Here, we explore application of this theory across species. We do this based on parentally induced embryo temperature as an extrinsic inpu...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Martin TE,Ton R,Niklison A

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Worldwide decomposition rates depend both on climate and the legacy of plant functional traits as litter quality. To quantify the degree to which functional differentiation among species affects their litter decomposition rates, we brought together leaf trait and litter mass loss data for 818 species from 66 decomposi...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Cornwell WK,Cornelissen JH,Amatangelo K,Dorrepaal E,Eviner VT,Godoy O,Hobbie SE,Hoorens B,Kurokawa H,Pérez-Harguindeguy N,Quested HM,Santiago LS,Wardle DA,Wright IJ,Aerts R,Allison SD,van Bodegom P,Brovkin V,Chatain A

更新日期：2008-10-01 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：: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：:Intraspecific variation is at the core of evolutionary theory, and yet, from an ecological perspective, we have few robust expectations for how this variation should affect the dynamics of large communities. Here, by adapting an approach from evolutionary game theory, we show that the incorporation of phenotypic varia...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Maynard DS,Serván CA,Capitán JA,Allesina S

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While biological invasions have the potential for large negative impacts on local communities and ecological interactions, increasing evidence suggests that species once considered major problems can decline over time. Declines often appear driven by natural enemies, diseases or evolutionary adaptations that selective...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Blossey B,Nuzzo V,Dávalos A,Mayer M,Dunbar R,Landis DA,Evans JA,Minter B

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Metabolic Theory of Ecology predicts that the slope of the rate-temperature relationship, E, remains consistent across traits and organisms, acting as a major determinant of large-scale ecological patterns. Although E has recently been shown to vary systematically, we have a poor understanding of its ecological si...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Nilsson-Örtman V,Stoks R,De Block M,Johansson H,Johansson F

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The future of tropical forest biodiversity depends more than ever on the effective management of human-modified landscapes, presenting a daunting challenge to conservation practitioners and land use managers. We provide a critical synthesis of the scientific insights that guide our understanding of patterns and proces...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Gardner TA,Barlow J,Chazdon R,Ewers RM,Harvey CA,Peres CA,Sodhi NS

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although studies on biodiversity and ecosystem function are often framed within the context of anthropogenic change, a central question that remains is how important are direct vs. indirect (via changes in biodiversity) effects of anthropogenic stressors on ecosystem functions in multitrophic-level communities. Here, ...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： McMahon TA,Halstead NT,Johnson S,Raffel TR,Romansic JM,Crumrine PW,Rohr JR

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classifying the biological traits of organisms can test conceptual frameworks of life-history strategies and allow for predictions of how different species may respond to environmental disturbances. We apply a trait-based classification approach to a complex and threatened group of species, scleractinian corals. Using...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Darling ES,Alvarez-Filip L,Oliver TA,McClanahan TR,Côté IM,Bellwood D

更新日期：2012-12-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:The role of trophic specialisation in taxonomic diversification remains unclear. Plant specialists diversify faster than omnivores and animalivores, but at shorter macroevolutionary scales this pattern sometimes reverses. Here, we estimate the effect of diet diversification on speciation rates in noctilionoid bats, co...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Rojas D,Ramos Pereira MJ,Fonseca C,Dávalos LM

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms underpinning forest biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships remain unresolved. Yet, in heterogeneous forests, ecosystem function of different strata could be associated with traits or evolutionary relationships differently. Here, we integrate phylogenies and traits to evaluate the effects of eleva...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Luo YH,Cadotte MW,Burgess KS,Liu J,Tan SL,Zou JY,Xu K,Li DZ,Gao LM

更新日期：2019-09-01 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：:Numerous bamboo species collectively flower and seed at dramatically extended, regular intervals - some as long as 120 years. These collective seed releases, termed 'masts', are thought to be a strategy to overwhelm seed predators or to maximise pollination rates. But why are the intervals so long, and how did they ev...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Veller C,Nowak MA,Davis CC

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how water and solutes enter and propagate through freshwater landscapes in the Anthropocene is critical to protecting and restoring aquatic ecosystems and ensuring human water security. However, high hydrochemical variability in headwater streams, where most carbon and nutrients enter river networks, has...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Abbott BW,Gruau G,Zarnetske JP,Moatar F,Barbe L,Thomas Z,Fovet O,Kolbe T,Gu S,Pierson-Wickmann AC,Davy P,Pinay G

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecological stoichiometry suggests that herbivore growth is limited by phosphorus when this element in the diet is < 8.6 μg P mg C-1 (C : P atomic ratio > 300). However, in nature, it is not necessarily related to the relative phosphorus content in diets. This may be the result of complex feeding and assimilation respo...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Urabe J,Shimizu Y,Yamaguchi T

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in host diversity and community structure have been linked to disease, but the mechanisms underlying such relationships and their applicability to non-vector-borne disease systems remain conjectural. Here we experimentally investigated how changes in host community structure affected the transmission and patho...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Johnson PT,Hartson RB,Larson DJ,Sutherland DR

更新日期：2008-10-01 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：: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：: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：:Conflict and competition lie at the heart of the theories of both ecology and sociobiology. Despite this, the interaction between societal conflicts on one hand and ecological competition on the other remains poorly understood. Here, we investigate this interaction in two ecologically similar sympatric termite species...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Korb J,Foster KR

更新日期：2010-06-01 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：:The metacommunity concept has the potential to integrate local and regional dynamics within a general community ecology framework. To this end, the concept must move beyond the discrete archetypes that have largely defined it (e.g. neutral vs. species sorting) and better incorporate local scale species interactions an...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Thompson PL,Guzman LM,De Meester L,Horváth Z,Ptacnik R,Vanschoenwinkel B,Viana DS,Chase JM

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00