Ecological selection of siderophore-producing microbial taxa in response to heavy metal contamination.

abstract：:Loss and fragmentation of natural habitats can lead to alterations of plant-animal interactions and ecosystems functioning. Insect herbivory, an important antagonistic interaction is expected to be influenced by habitat fragmentation through direct negative effects on herbivore community richness and indirect positive...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Rossetti MR,Tscharntke T,Aguilar R,Batáry P

更新日期：2017-02-01 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：: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：:The Amazon rain forest sustains the world's highest tree diversity, but it remains unclear why some clades of trees are hyperdiverse, whereas others are not. Using dated phylogenies, estimates of current species richness and trait and demographic data from a large network of forest plots, we show that fast demographic...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Baker TR,Pennington RT,Magallon S,Gloor E,Laurance WF,Alexiades M,Alvarez E,Araujo A,Arets EJ,Aymard G,de Oliveira AA,Amaral I,Arroyo L,Bonal D,Brienen RJ,Chave J,Dexter KG,Di Fiore A,Eler E,Feldpausch TR,Ferreira

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Partial migration, whereby only a fraction of the population migrates, is thought to be the most common type of migration in the animal kingdom, and can have important ecological and evolutionary consequences. Despite this, the factors that influence which individuals migrate and which remain resident are poorly under...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Chapman BB,Hulthén K,Blomqvist DR,Hansson LA,Nilsson JÅ,Brodersen J,Anders Nilsson P,Skov C,Brönmark C

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shifts in the phenologies of coexistence species are altering the temporal structure of natural communities worldwide. However, predicting how these changes affect the structure and long-term dynamics of natural communities is challenging because phenology and coexistence theory have largely proceeded independently. H...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Rudolf VHW

更新日期：2019-08-01 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：: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：:Gerbilline rodents such as Allenby's gerbils (Gerbillus andersoni allenbyi), when parasitized by fleas such as Synosternus cleopatrae pyramidis, devote long hours of grooming to remove the ectoparasites. Yet no detrimental energetic or immunological effects of the ectoparasites have been found in adult Allenby's gerbi...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Raveh A,Kotler BP,Abramsky Z,Krasnov BR

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：: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：:Parasites with low host specificity (e.g. infecting a large diversity of host species) are of special interest in disease ecology, as they are likely more capable of circumventing ecological or evolutionary barriers to infect new hosts than are specialist parasites. Yet for many parasites, host specificity is not fixe...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Fecchio A,Wells K,Bell JA,Tkach VV,Lutz HL,Weckstein JD,Clegg SM,Clark NJ

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progressive habitat transformation causes global changes in landscape biodiversity patterns, but can be hard to quantify. Rarefaction/extrapolation approaches can quantify within-habitat biodiversity, but may not be useful for cases in which one habitat type is progressively transformed into another habitat type. To q...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Chao A,Colwell RK,Gotelli NJ,Thorn S

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Worldwide, human appropriation of ecosystems is disrupting plant-pollinator communities and pollination function through habitat conversion and landscape homogenisation. Conversion to agriculture is destroying and degrading semi-natural ecosystems while conventional land-use intensification (e.g. industrial management...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Kovács-Hostyánszki A,Espíndola A,Vanbergen AJ,Settele J,Kremen C,Dicks LV

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dispersal is a key parameter of adaptation, invasion and persistence. Yet standard population genetics inference methods hardly distinguish it from drift and many species cannot be studied by direct mark-recapture methods. Here, we introduce a method using rates of change in cline shapes for neutral markers to estimat...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Rieux A,Lenormand T,Carlier J,de Lapeyre de Bellaire L,Ravigné V

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measures of trophic position (TP) are critical for understanding food web interactions and human-mediated ecosystem disturbance. Nitrogen stable isotopes (δ(15) N) provide a powerful tool to estimate TP but are limited by a pragmatic assumption that isotope discrimination is constant (change in δ(15) N between predato...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Hussey NE,Macneil MA,McMeans BC,Olin JA,Dudley SF,Cliff G,Wintner SP,Fennessy ST,Fisk AT

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding and predicting range expansion are key objectives in many basic and applied contexts. Among dioecious organisms, there is strong evidence for sex differences in dispersal, which could alter the sex ratio at the expansion's leading edge. However, demographic stochasticity could also affect leading-edge se...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Miller TE,Inouye BD

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Correlations between traits may constrain ecological and evolutionary responses to multispecies interactions. Many plants produce defensive compounds in nectar and leaves that could influence interactions with pollinators and herbivores, but the relationship between nectar and leaf defences is entirely unexplored. Cor...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Adler LS,Wink M,Distl M,Lentz AJ

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Co-flowering plant species commonly share flower visitors, and thus have the potential to influence each other's pollination. In this study we analysed 750 quantitative plant-pollinator networks from 28 studies representing diverse biomes worldwide. We show that the potential for one plant species to influence another...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Carvalheiro LG,Biesmeijer JC,Benadi G,Fründ J,Stang M,Bartomeus I,Kaiser-Bunbury CN,Baude M,Gomes SI,Merckx V,Baldock KC,Bennett AT,Boada R,Bommarco R,Cartar R,Chacoff N,Dänhardt J,Dicks LV,Dormann CF,Ekroos J,Hen

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite nearly 100 years of edge studies, there has been little effort to document how edge responses 'cascade' to impact multi-trophic food webs. We examined changes within two, four-tiered food webs located on opposite sides of a habitat edge. Based on a 'bottom-up' resource-based model, we predicted plant resources...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Wimp GM,Murphy SM,Lewis D,Ries L

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rising sea temperatures cause mass coral bleaching and threaten reefs worldwide. We show how maps of variations in thermal stress can be used to help manage reefs for climate change. We map proxies of chronic and acute thermal stress and develop evidence-based hypotheses for the future response of corals to each stres...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Mumby PJ,Elliott IA,Eakin CM,Skirving W,Paris CB,Edwards HJ,Enríquez S,Iglesias-Prieto R,Cherubin LM,Stevens JR

更新日期：2011-02-01 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：: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：:Activity budgets influence the expression of life history traits as well as population dynamics. For ectotherms, a major constraint on activity is environmental temperature. Nonetheless, we currently lack a comprehensive conceptual framework for understanding thermal constraints on activity, which hinders our ability ...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Gunderson AR,Leal M

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria typically rely on secreted metabolites, potentially shareable at the community level, to scavenge resources from the environment. The evolution of diffusible, shareable metabolites is, however, difficult to explain because molecules can get lost, or be exploited by cheating mutants. A key question is whether ...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Kümmerli R,Schiessl KT,Waldvogel T,McNeill K,Ackermann M

更新日期：2014-12-01 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：:Individual species are distributed inhomogeneously over space and time, yet, within large communities of species, aggregated patterns of biodiversity seem to display nearly universal behaviour. Neutral models assume that an individual's demographic prospects are independent of its species identity. They have successfu...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： O'Dwyer JP,Chisholm R

更新日期：2014-08-01 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：:Body-size reduction is a ubiquitous response to global warming alongside changes in species phenology and distributions. However, ecological consequences of temperature-size (TS) responses for community persistence under environmental change remain largely unexplored. Here, we investigated the interactive effects of w...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Sentis A,Binzer A,Boukal DS

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00