Prediction of forest aboveground net primary production from high-resolution vertical leaf-area profiles.

abstract：:Natural ecosystems are shaped along two fundamental axes, space and time, but how biodiversity is partitioned along both axes is not well understood. Here, we show that the relationship between temporal and spatial biodiversity patterns can vary predictably according to habitat characteristics. By quantifying seasonal...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Van Allen BG,Rasmussen NL,Dibble CJ,Clay PA,Rudolf VHW

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intra- and interspecific plant-plant interactions are fundamental to patterns of community assembly and to the mixture effects observed in biodiversity studies. Although much research has been conducted at the species level, very little is understood about how genetic variation within and among interacting species may...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Genung MA,Bailey JK,Schweitzer JA

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:The terminal allocation and senescence hypotheses make opposite predictions about how age-specific reproductive effort should vary during old age. There is empirical support for both hypotheses, although reports on senescence are more numerous. Individual heterogeneity and selective mortality, however, decrease our ab...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Martin JG,Festa-Bianchet M

更新日期：2011-06-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Intrinsic processes are assumed to underlie life history expression and trade-offs, but extrinsic inputs are theorised to shift trait expression and mask trade-offs within species. Here, we explore application of this theory across species. We do this based on parentally induced embryo temperature as an extrinsic inpu...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Martin TE,Ton R,Niklison A

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms underpinning forest biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships remain unresolved. Yet, in heterogeneous forests, ecosystem function of different strata could be associated with traits or evolutionary relationships differently. Here, we integrate phylogenies and traits to evaluate the effects of eleva...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Luo YH,Cadotte MW,Burgess KS,Liu J,Tan SL,Zou JY,Xu K,Li DZ,Gao LM

更新日期：2019-09-01 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：:Classifying the biological traits of organisms can test conceptual frameworks of life-history strategies and allow for predictions of how different species may respond to environmental disturbances. We apply a trait-based classification approach to a complex and threatened group of species, scleractinian corals. Using...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Darling ES,Alvarez-Filip L,Oliver TA,McClanahan TR,Côté IM,Bellwood D

更新日期：2012-12-01 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：: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：:Habitat quality is typically inferred by assuming a direct relationship between consumer density and resource abundance, although it has been suggested that consumer fitness may be a more accurate measure of habitat quality. We examined density vs. fitness-based measures of habitat quality for lions in the Serengeti N...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Mosser A,Fryxell JM,Eberly L,Packer C

更新日期：2009-10-01 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 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：: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：: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：: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：:Species coexistence in diverse communities likely results from multiple interacting factors. Mechanisms such as conspecific negative density dependence (CNDD) and varying life-history strategies related to resource partitioning are known to influence plant fitness, and thereby community composition and diversity. Howe...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Zhu Y,Queenborough SA,Condit R,Hubbell SP,Ma KP,Comita LS

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：:Both plant diversity and vertebrate herbivores can impact plant fitness and ecosystem functioning, however their interactions have not been explicitly tested. We manipulated plant genotypic diversity of the native plant Oenothera biennis and monitored its survivorship and lifetime fitness with and without one of its m...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Parker JD,Salminen JP,Agrawal AA

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Niche construction can generate ecological and evolutionary feedbacks that have been underinvestigated so far. We present an eco-evolutionary model that incorporates the process of niche construction to reveal its effects on the ecology and evolution of the niche-constructing agent. We consider a simple plant-soil nut...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Kylafis G,Loreau M

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth rate hypothesis posits that the rate of protein synthesis is constrained by phosphorus (P) supply. P scarcity invokes differential expression of genes involved in processing of most if not all elements encompassing an individual (the ionome). Whether such ionome-wide adjustments to P supply impact growth an...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Jeyasingh PD,Goos JM,Lind PR,Roy Chowdhury P,Sherman RE

更新日期：2020-07-01 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