Intrinsic vs. extrinsic influences on life history expression: metabolism and parentally induced temperature influences on embryo development rate.

abstract：:Microbial communities drive soil ecosystem function but are also susceptible to environmental disturbances. We investigated whether exposure to manure sourced from cattle either administered or not administered antibiotics affected microbially mediated terrestrial ecosystem function. We quantified changes in microbial...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Wepking C,Badgley B,Barrett JE,Knowlton KF,Lucas JM,Minick KJ,Ray PP,Shawver SE,Strickland MS

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tortuosity of the track taken by an animal searching for food profoundly affects search efficiency, which should be optimised to maximise net energy gain. Models examining this generally describe movement as a series of straight steps interspaced by turns, and implicitly assume no turn costs. We used both empirica...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Wilson RP,Griffiths IW,Legg PA,Friswell MI,Bidder OR,Halsey LG,Lambertucci SA,Shepard EL

更新日期：2013-09-01 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：:Dispersal is a key ecological process that is strongly influenced by both phenotype and environment. Here, we show that juvenile environment influences dispersal not only by shaping individual phenotypes, but also by changing the phenotypes of neighbouring conspecifics, which influence how individuals disperse. We use...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Endriss SB,Vahsen ML,Bitume EV,Grey Monroe J,Turner KG,Norton AP,Hufbauer RA

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed an analytical method that quantifies the relative contributions of mortality and individual growth to ecosystem function and analysed the results from the first biodiversity experiment conducted in a tropical tree plantation. In Sardinilla, central Panama, over 5000 tree seedlings were planted in monocult...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Potvin C,Gotelli NJ

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With rapidly increasing rates of contemporary extinction, predicting extinction vulnerability and identifying how multiple stressors drive non-random species loss have become key challenges in ecology. These assessments are crucial for avoiding the loss of key functional groups that sustain ecosystem processes and ser...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Graham NA,Chabanet P,Evans RD,Jennings S,Letourneur Y,Aaron Macneil M,McClanahan TR,Ohman MC,Polunin NV,Wilson SK

更新日期：2011-04-01 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：:Both plant diversity and vertebrate herbivores can impact plant fitness and ecosystem functioning, however their interactions have not been explicitly tested. We manipulated plant genotypic diversity of the native plant Oenothera biennis and monitored its survivorship and lifetime fitness with and without one of its m...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Parker JD,Salminen JP,Agrawal AA

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Competing theoretical models make different predictions on which life history strategies facilitate growth of small populations. While 'fast' strategies allow for rapid increase in population size and limit vulnerability to stochastic events, 'slow' strategies and bet-hedging may reduce variance in vital rates in resp...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Allen WL,Street SE,Capellini I

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shifts in species' phenology in response to climate change have wide-ranging consequences for ecological systems. However, significant variability in species' responses, together with limited data, frustrates efforts to forecast the consequences of ongoing phenological changes. Herein, we use a case study of three Nor...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Diez JM,Ibáñez I,Miller-Rushing AJ,Mazer SJ,Crimmins TM,Crimmins MA,Bertelsen CD,Inouye DW

更新日期：2012-06-01 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：:Individual foraging specialisation has important ecological implications, but its causes in group-living species are unclear. One of the major consequences of group living is increased intragroup competition for resources. Foraging theory predicts that with increased competition, individuals should add new prey items ...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Sheppard CE,Inger R,McDonald RA,Barker S,Jackson AL,Thompson FJ,Vitikainen EIK,Cant MA,Marshall HH

更新日期：2018-05-01 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：:Of the 25 elements required to build most organisms, sodium has a unique set of characteristics that ramify through terrestrial ecology. In plants, sodium is found in low concentrations and has little metabolic function; in plant consumers, particularly animals, sodium is essential to running costly Na-K ATPases. Here...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Kaspari M

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-trait eco-evolutionary models of arms races between consumers and their resource species often show inhibition rather than promotion of community diversification. In contrast, modelling arms races involving multiple traits, we found that arms races can promote diversification when trade-off costs among traits m...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Northfield TD,Ripa J,Nell LA,Ives AR

更新日期：2021-02-01 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：:While collective decision-making is recognised as a significant contributor to fitness in social species, the opposite outcome is also logically possible. We show that collective movement decisions guided by individual bison sharing faulty information about habitat quality promoted the use of ecological traps. The fre...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Sigaud M,Merkle JA,Cherry SG,Fryxell JM,Berdahl A,Fortin D

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stability in ecosystem function is an important but poorly understood phenomenon. Anthropogenic perturbations alter communities, but how they change stability and the strength of stabilizing mechanisms is not clear. We examined temporal stability (invariability) in aboveground productivity in replicated 18-year time s...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Grman E,Lau JA,Schoolmaster DR Jr,Gross KL

更新日期：2010-11-01 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：: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：: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：:Why some organisms become invasive when introduced into novel regions while others fail to even establish is a fundamental question in ecology. Barriers to success are expected to filter species at each stage along the invasion pathway. No study to date, however, has investigated how species traits associate with succ...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Capellini I,Baker J,Allen WL,Street SE,Venditti C

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：:The study of positive species interactions is a rapidly evolving field in ecology. Despite decades of research, controversy has emerged as to whether positive and negative interactions predictably shift with increasing environmental stress as hypothesised by the stress-gradient hypothesis (SGH). Here, we provide a syn...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： He Q,Bertness MD,Altieri AH

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dams are recognised to impact aquatic biodiversity, but the effects and conclusions diverge across studies and locations. By using a meta-analytical approach, we quantified the effects of impoundment on fish communities distributed across three large biomes. The impacts of dams on richness and diversity differed acros...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Turgeon K,Turpin C,Gregory-Eaves I

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some birds undergo seasonal colour change by moulting twice each year, typically alternating between a cryptic, non-breeding plumage and a conspicuous, breeding plumage ('seasonal plumage colours'). We test for potential drivers of the evolution of seasonal plumage colours in all passerines (N = 5901 species, c. 60% o...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： McQueen A,Kempenaers B,Dale J,Valcu M,Emery ZT,Dey CJ,Peters A,Delhey K

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate change and variation in atmospheric ozone are influencing the intensity of ultraviolet radiation (UVR) reaching ecosystems. Changing UVR regimes, in turn, may alter epidemics of infectious disease. This possibility hinges on the sensitivity of epidemiologically relevant traits of host and parasite to UVR. We a...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Overholt EP,Hall SR,Williamson CE,Meikle CK,Duffy MA,Cáceres CE

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of plants has yielded a wealth of adaptations for the acquisition of key mineral nutrients. These include the structure, physiology and positioning of root systems. We report the discovery of specialized snow roots as a plant strategy to cope with the very short season for nutrient uptake and growth in a...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Onipchenko VG,Makarov MI,van Logtestijn RS,Ivanov VB,Akhmetzhanova AA,Tekeev DK,Ermak AA,Salpagarova FS,Kozhevnikova AD,Cornelissen JH

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reconcile the findings of Holmes et al. (Ecology Letters, 10, 2007, 1182) that 95% confidence intervals for quasi-extinction risk were narrow for many vertebrates of conservation concern, with previous theory predicting wide confidence intervals. We extend previous theory, concerning the precision of quasi-extincti...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Ellner SP,Holmes EE

更新日期：2008-08-01 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