Declining home range area predicts reduced late-life survival in two wild ungulate populations.

abstract：:Correlative species distribution models are based on the observed relationship between species' occurrence and macroclimate or other environmental variables. In climates predicted less favourable populations are expected to decline, and in favourable climates they are expected to persist. However, little comparative e...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Csergő AM,Salguero-Gómez R,Broennimann O,Coutts SR,Guisan A,Angert AL,Welk E,Stott I,Enquist BJ,McGill B,Svenning JC,Violle C,Buckley YM

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nematomorph parasites manipulate crickets to enter streams where the parasites reproduce. These manipulated crickets become a substantial food subsidy for stream fishes. We used a field experiment to investigate how this subsidy affects the stream community and ecosystem function. When crickets were available, predato...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Sato T,Egusa T,Fukushima K,Oda T,Ohte N,Tokuchi N,Watanabe K,Kanaiwa M,Murakami I,Lafferty KD

更新日期：2012-08-01 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

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：: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：: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：:We developed an analytical method that quantifies the relative contributions of mortality and individual growth to ecosystem function and analysed the results from the first biodiversity experiment conducted in a tropical tree plantation. In Sardinilla, central Panama, over 5000 tree seedlings were planted in monocult...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Potvin C,Gotelli NJ

更新日期：2008-03-01 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：:Understanding species coexistence has long been a major goal of ecology. Coexistence theory for two competing species posits that intraspecific density dependence should be stronger than interspecific density dependence. Great tits and blue tits are two bird species that compete for food resources and nesting cavities...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Gamelon M,Vriend SJG,Engen S,Adriaensen F,Dhondt AA,Evans SR,Matthysen E,Sheldon BC,Saether BE

更新日期：2019-05-01 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：:Time series of abundances are critical for understanding how abiotic factors and species interactions affect population dynamics, but are rarely linked with experiments and also scarce for bee pollinators. This gap is important given concerns about declines in some bee species. I monitored honey bee (Apis mellifera) a...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Thomson DM

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the role of plant functional diversity for ecosystem-level carbon (C) fluxes. To fill this knowledge gap, we translocated monoliths hosting communities with four and 16 sown species from a long-term grassland biodiversity experiment ('The Jena Experiment') into a controlled environment facility f...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Milcu A,Roscher C,Gessler A,Bachmann D,Gockele A,Guderle M,Landais D,Piel C,Escape C,Devidal S,Ravel O,Buchmann N,Gleixner G,Hildebrandt A,Roy J

更新日期：2014-04-01 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 canonical factors typically thought to determine herbivore community structure often explain only a small fraction of the variation in herbivore abundance and diversity. We tested how macronutrients and relatively understudied micronutrients interacted to influence the structure of insect herbivore (orthopteran) c...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Prather CM,Laws AN,Cuellar JF,Reihart RW,Gawkins KM,Pennings SC

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colonisation is a fundamental ecological and evolutionary process that drives the distribution and abundance of organisms. The initial ability of colonists to establish is determined largely by the number of founders and their genetic background. We explore the importance of these demographic and genetic properties fo...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Szűcs M,Melbourne BA,Tuff T,Weiss-Lehman C,Hufbauer RA

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：: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 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：: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：:Ecological stoichiometry suggests that herbivore growth is limited by phosphorus when this element in the diet is < 8.6 μg P mg C-1 (C : P atomic ratio > 300). However, in nature, it is not necessarily related to the relative phosphorus content in diets. This may be the result of complex feeding and assimilation respo...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Urabe J,Shimizu Y,Yamaguchi T

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although dispersal distance plays a major role in determining whether organisms will reach new habitats, empirical data on the environmental factors that affect dispersal distance are lacking. Population density and kin competition are two factors theorised to increase dispersal distance. Using the two-spotted spider ...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Bitume EV,Bonte D,Ronce O,Bach F,Flaven E,Olivieri I,Nieberding CM

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tortuosity of the track taken by an animal searching for food profoundly affects search efficiency, which should be optimised to maximise net energy gain. Models examining this generally describe movement as a series of straight steps interspaced by turns, and implicitly assume no turn costs. We used both empirica...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Wilson RP,Griffiths IW,Legg PA,Friswell MI,Bidder OR,Halsey LG,Lambertucci SA,Shepard EL

更新日期：2013-09-01 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：: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：:Despite the importance of consumers in structuring communities, and the widespread assumption that consumption is strongest at low latitudes, empirical tests for global scale patterns in the magnitude of consumer impacts are limited. In marine systems, the long tradition of experimentally excluding herbivores in their...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Poore AG,Campbell AH,Coleman RA,Edgar GJ,Jormalainen V,Reynolds PL,Sotka EE,Stachowicz JJ,Taylor RB,Vanderklift MA,Duffy JE

更新日期：2012-08-01 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

abstract：:Contact networks are fundamental to the transmission of infection and host sex often affects the acquisition and progression of infection. However, the epidemiological impacts of sex-related variation in animal contact networks have rarely been investigated. We test the hypothesis that sex-biases in infection are rela...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Silk MJ,Weber NL,Steward LC,Hodgson DJ,Boots M,Croft DP,Delahay RJ,McDonald RA

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature and precipitation explain about half the variation in aboveground net primary production (ANPP) among tropical forest sites, but determinants of remaining variation are poorly understood. Here, we test the hypothesis that the amount of leaf area, and its vertical arrangement, predicts ANPP when other varia...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Cushman KC,Kellner JR

更新日期：2019-03-01 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 silver spoon effect in the context of habitat selection occurs when dispersers in good condition are more likely to settle in high-quality habitats than dispersers in poor condition. Positive relationships between disperser condition and the quality of post-dispersal habitats are predicted by at least two non-excl...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Stamps JA

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00