Embracing scale-dependence to achieve a deeper understanding of biodiversity and its change across communities.

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：:Understanding the factors that determine rates of range expansion is not only crucial for developing risk assessment schemes and management strategies for invasive species, but also provides important insight into the ability of species to disperse in response to climate change. However, there is little knowledge on w...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Liu X,Li X,Liu Z,Tingley R,Kraus F,Guo Z,Li Y

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When functional traits are evolutionarily conserved, phylogenetic relatedness can serve as a proxy for ecological similarity to examine whether functional differences among species mediate community assembly. Using phylogenetic- and trait-based analyses, we demonstrate that sponge-dwelling shrimp (Synalpheus) assembla...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Hultgren KM,Duffy JE

更新日期：2012-07-01 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：: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：:Stability in ecosystem function is an important but poorly understood phenomenon. Anthropogenic perturbations alter communities, but how they change stability and the strength of stabilizing mechanisms is not clear. We examined temporal stability (invariability) in aboveground productivity in replicated 18-year time s...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Grman E,Lau JA,Schoolmaster DR Jr,Gross KL

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resource-consumer interactions are considered a major driving force of population and community dynamics. However, species also interact in many non-trophic and indirect ways and it is currently not known to what extent the dynamic coupling of species corresponds to the distribution of trophic links. Here, using a 10-...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Kawatsu K,Ushio M,van Veen FJF,Kondoh M

更新日期：2021-01-13 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：:Males and females frequently have different fitness optima for shared traits, and as a result, genotypes that are high fitness as males are low fitness as females, and vice versa. When this occurs, biasing of offspring sex-ratio to reduce the production of the lower-fitness sex would be advantageous, so that for examp...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Katsuki M,Harano T,Miyatake T,Okada K,Hosken DJ

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community assembly history is increasingly recognized as a fundamental determinant of community structure. However, little is known as to how assembly history may affect ecosystem functioning via its effect on community structure. Using wood-decaying fungi as a model system, we provide experimental evidence that large...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Fukami T,Dickie IA,Paula Wilkie J,Paulus BC,Park D,Roberts A,Buchanan PK,Allen RB

更新日期：2010-06-01 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：: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：:Social environments have an important effect on a range of ecological processes, and form a crucial component of selection. However, little is known of the link between personality, social behaviour and population structure. We combine a well-understood personality trait with large-scale social networks in wild songbi...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Aplin LM,Farine DR,Morand-Ferron J,Cole EF,Cockburn A,Sheldon BC

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：:Long-standing theory predicts herbivores and predators should drive selection for increased plant defences, such as the specific production of volatile organic compounds for attracting predators near the site of damage. Along elevation gradients, a general pattern is that herbivores and predators are abundant at low e...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Kergunteuil A,Röder G,Rasmann S

更新日期：2019-02-01 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：:Co-evolving parasites may play a key role in host migration and population structure. Using co-evolving bacteria and viruses, we test general hypotheses as to how co-evolving parasites affect the success of passive host migration between habitats that can support different intensities of host-parasite interactions. Fi...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Zhang QG,Buckling A

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shifts in species' phenology in response to climate change have wide-ranging consequences for ecological systems. However, significant variability in species' responses, together with limited data, frustrates efforts to forecast the consequences of ongoing phenological changes. Herein, we use a case study of three Nor...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Diez JM,Ibáñez I,Miller-Rushing AJ,Mazer SJ,Crimmins TM,Crimmins MA,Bertelsen CD,Inouye DW

更新日期：2012-06-01 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：:Predators can affect herbivores both through direct consumption (density-mediated interactions) and by changing behavioural, physiological or morphological attributes of the prey (trait-mediated interactions). These effects on the herbivore can in turn affect the plant through density- and trait-mediated indirect inte...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Griffin CA,Thaler JS

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are a variety of proposed evolutionary and ecological explanations for why some species have more extensive geographical ranges than others. One of the most common explanations is variation in species' dispersal ability. However, the purported relationship between dispersal distance and range size has been subje...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Lester SE,Ruttenberg BI,Gaines SD,Kinlan BP

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthropogenic degradation of the world's ecosystems is leading to a widespread and accelerating loss of biodiversity. However, not all species respond equally to existing threats, raising the question: what makes a species more vulnerable to extinction? We propose that higher intraspecific variability may reduce the r...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： González-Suárez M,Revilla E

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial communities drive soil ecosystem function but are also susceptible to environmental disturbances. We investigated whether exposure to manure sourced from cattle either administered or not administered antibiotics affected microbially mediated terrestrial ecosystem function. We quantified changes in microbial...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Wepking C,Badgley B,Barrett JE,Knowlton KF,Lucas JM,Minick KJ,Ray PP,Shawver SE,Strickland MS

更新日期：2019-12-01 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：:The coupling of ecology and evolution during range expansions enables mutations to establish at expanding range margins and reach high frequencies. This phenomenon, called allele surfing, is thought to have caused revolutions in the gene pool of many species, most evidently in microbial communities. It has remained un...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Gralka M,Stiewe F,Farrell F,Möbius W,Waclaw B,Hallatschek O

更新日期：2016-08-01 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：: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：: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：:Food-web complexity often hinders disentangling functionally relevant aspects of food-web structure and its relationships to biodiversity. Here, we present a theoretical framework to evaluate food-web complexity in terms of biodiversity. Food network unfolding is a theoretical method to transform a complex food web in...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Kato Y,Kondoh M,Ishikawa NF,Togashi H,Kohmatsu Y,Yoshimura M,Yoshimizu C,Haraguchi TF,Osada Y,Ohte N,Tokuchi N,Okuda N,Miki T,Tayasu I

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although fungal communities are known to vary along latitudinal gradients, mechanisms underlying this pattern are not well-understood. We used high-throughput sequencing to examine the large-scale distributions of soil fungi and their relation to evolutionary history. We tested the Tropical Conservatism Hypothesis, wh...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Treseder KK,Maltz MR,Hawkins BA,Fierer N,Stajich JE,McGuire KL

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00