The potential for indirect effects between co-flowering plants via shared pollinators depends on resource abundance, accessibility and relatedness.

abstract：:Body condition metrics are widely used to infer animal health and to assess costs of parasite infection. Since parasites harm their hosts, ecologists might expect negative relationships between infection and condition in wildlife, but this assumption is challenged by studies showing positive or null condition-infectio...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Sánchez CA,Becker DJ,Teitelbaum CS,Barriga P,Brown LM,Majewska AA,Hall RJ,Altizer S

更新日期：2018-12-01 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：:We used the largest DNA-based phylogeny of flowering plants to date to evaluate the importance of energy vs. past climate change in predicting global patterns in diversification. Relative diversification rates increased towards the equator, suggesting that differences in per-lineage net diversification may be an impor...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Jansson R,Davies TJ

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of functional diversity (FD) has gained increasing importance due to its generality and utility in ecology. In particular, patterns in the spatial distribution and temporal change of FD are being used to predict locations and functional groups that are immediately vulnerable to global changes. A major imp...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Kim SW,Blomberg SP,Pandolfi JM

更新日期：2018-08-01 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：: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：:There is increasing pressure from policymakers for ecologists to generate more detailed 'attribution' analyses aimed at quantitatively estimating relative contributions of different driving forces, including anthropogenic climate change (ACC), to observed biological changes. Here, we argue that this approach is not pr...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Parmesan C,Burrows MT,Duarte CM,Poloczanska ES,Richardson AJ,Schoeman DS,Singer MC

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How does life history affects the short-term elasticities of population growth rate? We decompose short-term elasticity as a sum of (i) the effect of the perturbation in rates on the unperturbed population structure and (ii) the effect of the original vital rates on the difference in structure between the original and...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Haridas CV,Tuljapurkar S

更新日期：2007-12-01 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：: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：:Nutrient availability and herbivory control the biomass of primary producer communities to varying degrees across ecosystems. Ecological theory, individual experiments in many different systems, and system-specific quantitative reviews have suggested that (i) bottom-up control is pervasive but top-down control is more...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Gruner DS,Smith JE,Seabloom EW,Sandin SA,Ngai JT,Hillebrand H,Harpole WS,Elser JJ,Cleland EE,Bracken ME,Borer ET,Bolker BM

更新日期：2008-07-01 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：: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：:Hette-Tronquart (2019, Ecol. Lett.) raises three concerns about our interpretation of stable isotope data in Sheppard et al. (2018, Ecol. Lett., 21, 665). We feel that these concerns are based on comparisons that are unreasonable or ignore the ecological context from which the data were collected. Stable isotope ratio...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Marshall HH,Inger R,Jackson AL,McDonald RA,Thompson FJ,Cant MA

更新日期：2019-11-01 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

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：:Given the potential for rapid and microgeographical adaptation, ecologists increasingly are exploring evolutionary explanations for community patterns. Biotic selection can generate local adaptations that alter species interactions. Although some gene flow might be necessary to fuel local adaptation, higher gene flow ...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Urban MC

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impacts of climate change on forest net biomass change are poorly understood but critical for predicting forest's contribution to the global carbon cycle. Recent studies show climate change-associated net biomass declines in mature forest plots. The representativeness of these plots for regional forests, however, ...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Chen HY,Luo Y,Reich PB,Searle EB,Biswas SR

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent observation of a power-law relationship, S proportional A(z), between number of taxa, S, and area, A, for microbial eukaryotes and bacteria suggests that this is one of the few generic relationships in ecology, applicable to plants, animals and microbes. However, the rate of increase in the number of specie...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Woodcock S,Curtis TP,Head IM,Lunn M,Sloan WT

更新日期：2006-07-01 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：:Most studies of plant-animal mutualistic networks have come from a temporally static perspective. This approach has revealed general patterns in network structure, but limits our ability to understand the ecological and evolutionary processes that shape these networks and to predict the consequences of natural and hum...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： CaraDonna PJ,Burkle LA,Schwarz B,Resasco J,Knight TM,Benadi G,Blüthgen N,Dormann CF,Fang Q,Fründ J,Gauzens B,Kaiser-Bunbury CN,Winfree R,Vázquez DP

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a scaled version of the Rosenzweig-MacArthur model using both Type I and Type II functional responses that incorporates the size dependence of interaction rates. Our aim is to link the energetic needs of organisms with the dynamics of interacting populations, for which survival is a result of a game-theoret...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Weitz JS,Levin SA

更新日期：2006-05-01 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：:The importance of invertebrate herbivores in regulating plant communities remains unclear, due to the absence of long-term exclusion experiments. An experiment in an English grassland involving long-term exclusions of insect and mollusc herbivores, along with rabbit fencing, showed strong, but opposing, effects of the...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Allan E,Crawley MJ

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understory fires represent an accelerating threat to Amazonian tropical forests and can, during drought, affect larger areas than deforestation itself. These fires kill trees at rates varying from < 10 to c. 90% depending on fire intensity, forest disturbance history and tree functional traits. Here, we examine variat...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Staver AC,Brando PM,Barlow J,Morton DC,Paine CET,Malhi Y,Araujo Murakami A,Del Aguila Pasquel J

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Refuge-mediated apparent competition was recently suggested as a mechanism that enables plant invasions. The refuge characteristics of introduced plants are predicted to enhance impacts of generalist herbivores on native competitors and thereby result in an increased abundance of the invader. However, this prediction ...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Enge S,Nylund GM,Pavia H

更新日期：2013-04-01 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：:There have been numerous investigations of parasite local adaptation, a phenomenon important from the perspectives of both basic and applied evolutionary ecology. Recent work has demonstrated that temperature has striking effects on parasite performance by mediating trade-offs in parasite life history and through geno...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Laine AL

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local adaptation, adaptive population divergence and speciation are often expected to result from populations evolving in response to spatial variation in selection. Yet, we lack a comprehensive understanding of the major features that characterise the spatial patterns of selection, namely the extent of variation amon...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Siepielski AM,Gotanda KM,Morrissey MB,Diamond SE,DiBattista JD,Carlson SM

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant growth can be limited by resource acquisition and defence against consumers, leading to contrasting trade-off possibilities. The competition-defence hypothesis posits a trade-off between competitive ability and defence against enemies (e.g. herbivores and pathogens). The growth-defence hypothesis suggests that s...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Lind EM,Borer E,Seabloom E,Adler P,Bakker JD,Blumenthal DM,Crawley M,Davies K,Firn J,Gruner DS,Harpole WS,Hautier Y,Hillebrand H,Knops J,Melbourne B,Mortensen B,Risch AC,Schuetz M,Stevens C,Wragg PD

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00