A process-based metacommunity framework linking local and regional scale community ecology.

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：:Carbon use efficiency (CUE) is a fundamental parameter for ecological models based on the physiology of microorganisms. CUE determines energy and material flows to higher trophic levels, conversion of plant-produced carbon into microbial products and rates of ecosystem carbon storage. Thermodynamic calculations suppor...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Sinsabaugh RL,Manzoni S,Moorhead DL,Richter A

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impacts of climate change on forest net biomass change are poorly understood but critical for predicting forest's contribution to the global carbon cycle. Recent studies show climate change-associated net biomass declines in mature forest plots. The representativeness of these plots for regional forests, however, ...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Chen HY,Luo Y,Reich PB,Searle EB,Biswas SR

更新日期：2016-09-01 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：:The tendency of trees to grow taller with increasing water availability is common knowledge. Yet a robust, universal relationship between the spatial distribution of water availability and forest canopy height (H) is lacking. Here, we created a global water availability map by calculating an annual budget as the diffe...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Klein T,Randin C,Körner C

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The longstanding biotic interactions hypothesis predicts that herbivore pressure declines with latitude, but the evidence is mixed. To address gaps in previous studies, we measured herbivory and defence in the same system, quantified defence with bioassays, and considered effects of leaf age. We quantified herbivory a...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Baskett CA,Schemske DW

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：: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：:Ectomycorrhizal (EcM)-mediated nitrogen (N) acquisition is one main strategy used by terrestrial plants to facilitate growth. Measurements of natural abundance nitrogen isotope ratios (denoted as δ(15)N relative to a standard) increasingly serve as integrative proxies for mycorrhiza-mediated N acquisition due to biolo...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Mayor J,Bahram M,Henkel T,Buegger F,Pritsch K,Tedersoo L

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:Dispersal is a major factor regulating the number of coexisting species, but the relationship between species diversity and ecosystem processes has mainly been analysed for communities closed to dispersal. We experimentally investigated how initial local diversity and dispersal frequency affect local diversity and bio...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Matthiessen B,Hillebrand H

更新日期：2006-06-01 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：:Plant biodiversity can enhance primary production in terrestrial ecosystems, but biodiversity effects are largely unstudied in the ocean. We conducted a series of field and mesocosm experiments to measure the relative effects of macroalgal identity and richness on primary productivity (net photosynthetic rate) and bio...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Bruno JF,Boyer KE,Duffy JE,Lee SC,Kertesz JS

更新日期：2005-11-01 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：:Herbivores forage in spatially complex habitats. Due to allometry and scale-dependent foraging, herbivores are hypothesized to perceive and respond to heterogeneity of resources at scales relative to their body sizes. This hypothesis has not been manipulatively tested for animals with only moderate differences in body...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Laca EA,Sokolow S,Galli JR,Cangiano CA

更新日期：2010-03-01 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

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：:Although fitness is central to the evolutionary process, metrics vary by timescale. Different timescales may give rise to different estimates of selection, especially during demographic transitions caused by rapid environmental and socioeconomic change. In this study, we used a dataset of a human population in Finland...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Scranton K,Lummaa V,Stearns SC

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:'Should I stay or should I go?' is a fundamental question facing any candidate for emigration, as emigrating without outside information has major costs. Most studies on this topic have concentrated on risk-reducing strategies (e.g. exploration) developed after leaving the natal habitat. The idea that information migh...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Cote J,Clobert J

更新日期：2007-05-01 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：:Seedling limitation could structure communities, but often is evaluated with sampling units that are orders of magnitude smaller than mature plants. We censused seedlings for 5.5 years in five 1 x 200-m transects in a wet Neotropical forest. For 106 common species (> or = 10 seedlings in a transect), we calculated pre...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Kobe RK,Vriesendorp CF

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：:Resource ratio theory predicts that two species may coexist in the presence of two limiting nutrients provided that each species is limited by the resource it is least able to deplete. We modify this classical competition model to allow interspecific cooperation through trading. We show that resource trade expands the...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： de Mazancourt C,Schwartz MW

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a changing environment multiple anthropogenic stressors can have novel and non-additive effects on interacting species. We investigated the interactive effects of fishing and harmful algal blooms on the predator-sea urchin-macroalgae trophic cascade. Fishing of urchin predators had indirect negative effects on macr...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Shears NT,Ross PM

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Green Wave Hypothesis posits that herbivore migration manifests in response to waves of spring green-up (i.e. green-wave surfing). Nonetheless, empirical support for the Green Wave Hypothesis is mixed, and a framework for understanding variation in surfing is lacking. In a population of migratory mule deer (Odocoi...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Aikens EO,Kauffman MJ,Merkle JA,Dwinnell SPH,Fralick GL,Monteith KL

更新日期：2017-06-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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