Contact networks structured by sex underpin sex-specific epidemiology of infection.

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：: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：:The impact of species loss from competitive communities partly depends on how populations of the surviving species respond. Predicting the response should be straightforward using models that describe population growth as a function of competitor densities; but these models require accurate estimates of interaction st...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Tuck SL,Porter J,Rees M,Turnbull LA

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A latitudinal gradient in biodiversity has existed since before the time of the dinosaurs, yet how and why this gradient arose remains unresolved. Here we review two major hypotheses for the origin of the latitudinal diversity gradient. The time and area hypothesis holds that tropical climates are older and historical...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Mittelbach GG,Schemske DW,Cornell HV,Allen AP,Brown JM,Bush MB,Harrison SP,Hurlbert AH,Knowlton N,Lessios HA,McCain CM,McCune AR,McDade LA,McPeek MA,Near TJ,Price TD,Ricklefs RE,Roy K,Sax DF,Schluter D,Sobel JM,

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant diversity experiments generally find that increased diversity causes increased productivity; however, primary productivity is typically measured in the presence of a diverse food web, including pathogens, mutualists and herbivores. If food web impacts on productivity vary with plant diversity, as predicted by bo...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Seabloom EW,Kinkel L,Borer ET,Hautier Y,Montgomery RA,Tilman D

更新日期：2017-04-01 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：:The impact of anthropogenic activity on ecosystems has highlighted the need to move beyond the biogeographical delineation of species richness patterns to understanding the vulnerability of species assemblages, including the functional components that are linked to the processes they support. We developed a decision t...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Parravicini V,Villéger S,McClanahan TR,Arias-González JE,Bellwood DR,Belmaker J,Chabanet P,Floeter SR,Friedlander AM,Guilhaumon F,Vigliola L,Kulbicki M,Mouillot D

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:Biodiversity studies are sensitive to well-recognised temporal and spatial scale dependencies. Cross-study syntheses may inflate these influences by collating studies that vary widely in the numbers and sizes of sampling plots. Here we evaluate sources of inaccuracy and imprecision in study-level and cross-study estim...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Spake R,Mori AS,Beckmann M,Martin PA,Christie AP,Duguid MC,Doncaster CP

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen (N) deposition is impacting the services that ecosystems provide to humanity. However, the mechanisms determining impacts on the N cycle are not fully understood. To explore the mechanistic underpinnings of N impacts on N cycle processes, we reviewed and synthesised recent progress in ecosystem N research thr...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Niu S,Classen AT,Dukes JS,Kardol P,Liu L,Luo Y,Rustad L,Sun J,Tang J,Templer PH,Thomas RQ,Tian D,Vicca S,Wang YP,Xia J,Zaehle S

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biogeochemical and stoichiometric signature of vegetation fire may influence post-fire ecosystem characteristics and the evolution of plant 'fire traits'. Phosphorus (P), a potentially limiting nutrient in many fire-prone environments, might be particularly important in this context; however, the effects of fire o...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Butler OM,Elser JJ,Lewis T,Mackey B,Chen C

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Global spread of non-native species profoundly changed the world biodiversity patterns, but how it translates into functional changes remains unanswered at the world scale. We here show that while in two centuries the number of fish species per river increased on average by 15% in 1569 basins worldwide, the diversity ...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Toussaint A,Charpin N,Beauchard O,Grenouillet G,Oberdorff T,Tedesco PA,Brosse S,Villéger S

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predicting long-term trends in forest growth requires accurate characterisation of how the relationship between forest productivity and climatic stress varies across climatic regimes. Using a network of over two million tree-ring observations spanning North America and a space-for-time substitution methodology, we for...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Charney ND,Babst F,Poulter B,Record S,Trouet VM,Frank D,Enquist BJ,Evans ME

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecosystems are often exposed to mixtures of chemical contaminants, but the scientific community lacks a theoretical framework to predict the effects of mixtures on biodiversity and ecosystem properties. We conducted a freshwater mesocosm experiment to examine the effects of pairwise agrochemical mixtures [fertiliser, ...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Halstead NT,McMahon TA,Johnson SA,Raffel TR,Romansic JM,Crumrine PW,Rohr JR

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing temperatures associated with climate change are predicted to cause reductions in body size, a key determinant of animal physiology and ecology. Using a four-decade specimen series of 70 716 individuals of 52 North American migratory bird species, we demonstrate that increasing annual summer temperature over...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Weeks BC,Willard DE,Zimova M,Ellis AA,Witynski ML,Hennen M,Winger BM

更新日期：2020-02-01 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：:Whether climate change will turn cold biomes from large long-term carbon sinks into sources is hotly debated because of the great potential for ecosystem-mediated feedbacks to global climate. Critical are the direction, magnitude and generality of climate responses of plant litter decomposition. Here, we present the f...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Cornelissen JH,van Bodegom PM,Aerts R,Callaghan TV,van Logtestijn RS,Alatalo J,Chapin FS,Gerdol R,Gudmundsson J,Gwynn-Jones D,Hartley AE,Hik DS,Hofgaard A,Jónsdóttir IS,Karlsson S,Klein JA,Laundre J,Magnusson B,Michel

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：:Biodiversity-ecosystem functioning (BEF) theory has largely focused on species richness, although studies have demonstrated that evenness may have stronger effects. While theory and numerous small-scale studies support positive BEF relationships, regional studies have documented negative effects of evenness on ecosyst...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Filstrup CT,King KBS,McCullough IM

更新日期：2019-12-01 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 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：: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：:Changes in host diversity and community structure have been linked to disease, but the mechanisms underlying such relationships and their applicability to non-vector-borne disease systems remain conjectural. Here we experimentally investigated how changes in host community structure affected the transmission and patho...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Johnson PT,Hartson RB,Larson DJ,Sutherland DR

更新日期：2008-10-01 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：:Analyses of temporal patterns of diversity across a wide range of taxa have found that more diverse communities often show smaller compositional changes over time. This generality indicates that high diversity is associated with greater temporal stability in species composition. We examined patterns of diversity and c...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Shurin JB,Arnott SE,Hillebrand H,Longmuir A,Pinel-Alloul B,Winder M,Yan ND

更新日期：2007-02-01 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：: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：: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：: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