Ecological intensification to mitigate impacts of conventional intensive land use on pollinators and pollination.

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：:The ability of natural selection to drive local adaptation has been appreciated ever since Darwin. Whether human impacts can impede the adaptive process has received less attention. We tested this hypothesis by quantifying natural selection and harvest selection acting on a freshwater fish (pike) over four decades. Ac...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Carlson SM,Edeline E,Asbjørn Vøllestad L,Haugen TO,Winfield IJ,Fletcher JM,Ben James J,Stenseth NC

更新日期：2007-06-01 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：:To estimate species loss from habitat destruction, ecologists typically use species-area relationships, but this approach neglects the spatial pattern of habitat fragmentation. Here, we provide new, easily applied, analytical methods that place upper and lower bounds on immediate species loss at any spatial scale and ...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Chisholm RA,Lim F,Yeoh YS,Seah WW,Condit R,Rosindell J

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Demographic senescence is increasingly recognised as an important force shaping the dynamics of wild vertebrate populations. However, our understanding of the processes that underpin these declines in survival and fertility in old age remains limited. Evidence for age-related changes in foraging behaviour and habitat ...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Froy H,Börger L,Regan CE,Morris A,Morris S,Pilkington JG,Crawley MJ,Clutton-Brock TH,Pemberton JM,Nussey DH

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many animals acquiring limited reproductive opportunities involves competition for resources, mates and opposite-sex gametes. There is ambiguity in which competitive steps are included in measures of sexual selection: individuals who fail to obtain resources necessary for reproduction are often excluded. We illustr...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Klug H,Lindström K,Kokko H

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How strongly natural populations are regulated has a long history of debate in ecology. Here, we discuss concepts of population regulation appropriate for stochastic population dynamics. We then analyse two large collections of data sets with autoregressive-moving average (ARMA) models, using model selection technique...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Ziebarth NL,Abbott KC,Ives AR

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding life history and demographic variation among species within communities is a central ecological goal. Mortality schedules are especially important in ecosystems where disturbance plays a major role in structuring communities, such as coral reefs. Here, we test whether a trait-based, mechanistic model of ...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Madin JS,Baird AH,Dornelas M,Connolly SR

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How abiotic and biotic factors constrain distribution limits at the harsh and benign edges of species ranges is hotly debated, partly because macroecological experiments testing the proximate causes of distribution limits are scarce. It has long been recognized - at least since Darwin's On the Origin of Species - that...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Chan SF,Shih WK,Chang AY,Shen SF,Chen IC

更新日期：2019-10-01 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：: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

abstract：:Do invasive plant species have greater phenotypic plasticity than non-invasive species? And, if so, how does this affect their fitness relative to native, non-invasive species? What role might this play in plant invasions? To answer these long-standing questions, we conducted a meta-analysis using data from 75 invasiv...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Davidson AM,Jennions M,Nicotra AB

更新日期：2011-04-01 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：: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：: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：:Climatic conditions vary in spatial frequency globally. Spatially rare climatic conditions provide fewer suitable environments than common ones and should impose constraints on the types of species present locally and regionally. We used data on 467 North American angiosperms to test the effects of the spatial frequen...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Fournier B,Vázquez-Rivera H,Clappe S,Donelle L,Braga PHP,Peres-Neto PR

更新日期：2020-02-01 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：:Plant biodiversity can enhance primary production in terrestrial ecosystems, but biodiversity effects are largely unstudied in the ocean. We conducted a series of field and mesocosm experiments to measure the relative effects of macroalgal identity and richness on primary productivity (net photosynthetic rate) and bio...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Bruno JF,Boyer KE,Duffy JE,Lee SC,Kertesz JS

更新日期：2005-11-01 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：:Asexual taxa often have larger ranges than their sexual progenitors, particularly in areas affected by Pleistocene glaciations. The reasons given for this 'geographical parthenogenesis' are contentious, with expansion of the ecological niche or colonisation advantages of uniparental reproduction assumed most important...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Kirchheimer B,Wessely J,Gattringer A,Hülber K,Moser D,Schinkel CCF,Appelhans M,Klatt S,Caccianiga M,Dellinger A,Guisan A,Kuttner M,Lenoir J,Maiorano L,Nieto-Lugilde D,Plutzar C,Svenning JC,Willner W,Hörandl E,Dullin

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Globalisation persistently fuels the establishment of non-native species outside their natural ranges. While alien plants have been intensively studied, little is known about alien flower visitors, and especially, how they integrate into natural communities. Here, we focus on mutualistic networks from five Galápagos i...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Trøjelsgaard K,Heleno R,Traveset A

更新日期：2019-08-01 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：:Temporal patterns of flower opening and closure within a day are known as Linné's floral clock. Time of flower closure has been explained mainly by light in the traditional botanical literature. We show with a set of experiments that Asteraceae flower heads can close within three hours after pollination, whereas un-po...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Fründ J,Dormann CF,Tscharntke T

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The time-area-productivity hypothesis is a proposed explanation for global biodiversity gradients. It predicts that a bioregion's modern diversity is the product of its area and productivity, integrated over evolutionary time. I performed the first experimental test of the time-area-productivity hypothesis using a mod...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Armitage DW

更新日期：2015-11-01 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：: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：:'Should I stay or should I go?' is a fundamental question facing any candidate for emigration, as emigrating without outside information has major costs. Most studies on this topic have concentrated on risk-reducing strategies (e.g. exploration) developed after leaving the natal habitat. The idea that information migh...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Cote J,Clobert J

更新日期：2007-05-01 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：:Correlative analyses predict that anthropogenic climate warming will cause widespread extinction but the nature and generality of the underlying mechanisms is unclear. Warming-induced activity restriction has been proposed as a general explanatory mechanism for recent population extinctions in lizards, and has been us...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： R Kearney M

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We test for two critical phenomena in Amazonian ecosystems: self-organized criticality (SOC) and critical transitions. SOC is often presented in the complex systems literature as a general explanation for scale invariance in nature. In particular, this mechanism is claimed to underlie the macroscopic structure and dyn...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Pueyo S,de Alencastro Graça PM,Barbosa RI,Cots R,Cardona E,Fearnside PM

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00