Individual personalities predict social behaviour in wild networks of great tits (Parus major).

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：: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：: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：: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：:Species extinctions are biased towards higher trophic levels, and primary extinctions are often followed by unexpected secondary extinctions. Currently, predictions on the vulnerability of ecological communities to extinction cascades are based on models that focus on bottom-up effects, which cannot capture the effect...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Sanders D,Sutter L,van Veen FJ

更新日期：2013-05-01 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：: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：:Co-evolving parasites may play a key role in host migration and population structure. Using co-evolving bacteria and viruses, we test general hypotheses as to how co-evolving parasites affect the success of passive host migration between habitats that can support different intensities of host-parasite interactions. Fi...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Zhang QG,Buckling A

更新日期：2016-12-01 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 two parameters of the Michaelis-Menten model, the maximum uptake rate and the half-saturation constant, are not stochastically independent, and the half-saturation constant is not a measure of nutrient affinity, as commonly assumed. Failure to realise their interdependence and mechanistic interpretation may lead t...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Kiørboe T,Andersen KH

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining statistical patterns irrespective of interacting agents (i.e. macroecology) is useful to explore the mechanisms driving population fluctuations and extinctions in natural food webs. Here, we tested four predictions of a neutral model on the distribution of community fluctuations (CF) and the distributions ...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Segura AM,Calliari D,Lan BL,Fort H,Widdicombe CE,Harmer R,Arim M

更新日期：2017-04-01 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：:The terminal allocation and senescence hypotheses make opposite predictions about how age-specific reproductive effort should vary during old age. There is empirical support for both hypotheses, although reports on senescence are more numerous. Individual heterogeneity and selective mortality, however, decrease our ab...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Martin JG,Festa-Bianchet M

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Underpinnings of the distribution of allopolyploid species (hybrids with duplicated genome) along spatial and ecological gradients are elusive. As allopolyploid speciation combines the range of genetic and ecological characteristics of divergent diploids, allopolyploids initially show their additivity and are predicte...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Huynh S,Broennimann O,Guisan A,Felber F,Parisod C

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate predictions of soil C feedbacks to climate change depend on an improved understanding of responses of soil C pools and C use by soil microbial groups. We assessed soil and microbial C in a 7-year manipulation of CO2 and warming in a semi-arid grassland. Continuous field isotopic labelling under elevated CO2 f...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Carrillo Y,Dijkstra F,LeCain D,Blumenthal D,Pendall E

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When functional traits are evolutionarily conserved, phylogenetic relatedness can serve as a proxy for ecological similarity to examine whether functional differences among species mediate community assembly. Using phylogenetic- and trait-based analyses, we demonstrate that sponge-dwelling shrimp (Synalpheus) assembla...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Hultgren KM,Duffy JE

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Latitudinal gradients in biotic interactions have been suggested as causes of global patterns of biodiversity and phenotypic variation. Plant biologists have long speculated that outcrossing mating systems are more common at low than high latitudes owing to a greater predictability of plant-pollinator interactions in ...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Moeller DA,Briscoe Runquist RD,Moe AM,Geber MA,Goodwillie C,Cheptou PO,Eckert CG,Elle E,Johnston MO,Kalisz S,Ree RH,Sargent RD,Vallejo-Marin M,Winn AA

更新日期：2017-03-01 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：:Metabolism fuels all of life's activities, from biochemical reactions to ecological interactions. According to two intensely debated theories, body size affects metabolism via geometrical influences on the transport of resources and wastes. However, these theories differ crucially in whether the size dependence of met...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Hirst AG,Glazier DS,Atkinson D

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the anthropogenic impact on ecosystems today is evident, it remains unclear if the detrimental effect of hominins on co-occurring biodiversity is a recent phenomenon or has also been the pattern for earlier hominin species. We test this using the East African carnivore fossil record. We analyse the diversity of ...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Faurby S,Silvestro D,Werdelin L,Antonelli A

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The top-down and indirect effects of insects on plant communities depend on patterns of host use, which are often poorly documented, particularly in species-rich tropical forests. At Barro Colorado Island, Panama, we compiled the first food web quantifying trophic interactions between the majority of co-occurring wood...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Gripenberg S,Basset Y,Lewis OT,Terry JCD,Wright SJ,Simón I,Fernández DC,Cedeño-Sanchez M,Rivera M,Barrios H,Brown JW,Calderón O,Cognato AI,Kim J,Miller SE,Morse GE,Pinzón-Navarro S,Quicke DLJ,Robbins RK,Salminen JP

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pollination is thought to be under positive density-dependence, destabilising plant coexistence by conferring fitness disadvantages to rare species. Such disadvantage is exacerbated by interspecific competition but can be mitigated by facilitation and intraspecific competition. However, pollinator scarcity should enha...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Bergamo PJ,Susin Streher N,Traveset A,Wolowski M,Sazima M

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial insurance hypothesis indicates that connectivity is an important attribute of natural ecosystems that sustains both biodiversity and ecosystem function. We tested the hypothesis by measuring the impact of manipulating connectivity in experimental metacommunties of a natural and diverse microecosystem. Isol...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Staddon P,Lindo Z,Crittenden PD,Gilbert F,Gonzalez A

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：: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：:Larger testes produce more sperm and therefore improve reproductive success in the face of sperm competition. Adaptation to social mating systems with relatively high and low sperm competition are therefore likely to have driven changes in relative testes size in opposing directions. Here, we combine the largest verte...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Baker J,Humphries S,Ferguson-Gow H,Meade A,Venditti C

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Across arthropod societies, sib-rearing (e.g. nursing or nest defence) may be provided by females, by males or by both sexes. According to Hamilton's 'haplodiploidy hypothesis', this diversity reflects the relatedness consequences of diploid vs. haplodiploid inheritance. However, an alternative 'preadaptation hypothes...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Davies NG,Ross L,Gardner A

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interacting changes in predator and prey diversity likely influence ecosystem properties but have rarely been experimentally tested. We manipulated the species richness of herbivores and predators in an experimental benthic marine community and measured their effects on predator, herbivore and primary producer perform...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Douglass JG,Duffy JE,Bruno JF

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specialised natural enemies maintain forest diversity by reducing tree survival in a density- or distance-dependent manner. Fungal pathogens, insects and mammals are the enemy types most commonly hypothesised to cause this phenomenon. Still, their relative importance remains largely unknown, as robust manipulative exp...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Fricke EC,Tewksbury JJ,Rogers HS

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the sensitivity of tundra vegetation to climate warming is critical to forecasting future biodiversity and vegetation feedbacks to climate. In situ warming experiments accelerate climate change on a small scale to forecast responses of local plant communities. Limitations of this approach include the app...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Elmendorf SC,Henry GH,Hollister RD,Björk RG,Bjorkman AD,Callaghan TV,Collier LS,Cooper EJ,Cornelissen JH,Day TA,Fosaa AM,Gould WA,Grétarsdóttir J,Harte J,Hermanutz L,Hik DS,Hofgaard A,Jarrad F,Jónsdóttir IS,Keuper F

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00