Seeing through the static: the temporal dimension of plant-animal mutualistic interactions.

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：: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：:The recent observation of a power-law relationship, S proportional A(z), between number of taxa, S, and area, A, for microbial eukaryotes and bacteria suggests that this is one of the few generic relationships in ecology, applicable to plants, animals and microbes. However, the rate of increase in the number of specie...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Woodcock S,Curtis TP,Head IM,Lunn M,Sloan WT

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specialised natural enemies maintain forest diversity by reducing tree survival in a density- or distance-dependent manner. Fungal pathogens, insects and mammals are the enemy types most commonly hypothesised to cause this phenomenon. Still, their relative importance remains largely unknown, as robust manipulative exp...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Fricke EC,Tewksbury JJ,Rogers HS

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measures of trophic position (TP) are critical for understanding food web interactions and human-mediated ecosystem disturbance. Nitrogen stable isotopes (δ(15) N) provide a powerful tool to estimate TP but are limited by a pragmatic assumption that isotope discrimination is constant (change in δ(15) N between predato...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Hussey NE,Macneil MA,McMeans BC,Olin JA,Dudley SF,Cliff G,Wintner SP,Fennessy ST,Fisk AT

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research on the ecological and evolutionary roles of phytochemicals has recently progressed from studying single compounds to examining chemical diversity itself. A key conceptual advance enabling this progression is the use of species diversity metrics for quantifying phytochemical diversity. In this perspective, we ...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Wetzel WC,Whitehead SR

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：: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：:The top-down and indirect effects of insects on plant communities depend on patterns of host use, which are often poorly documented, particularly in species-rich tropical forests. At Barro Colorado Island, Panama, we compiled the first food web quantifying trophic interactions between the majority of co-occurring wood...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Gripenberg S,Basset Y,Lewis OT,Terry JCD,Wright SJ,Simón I,Fernández DC,Cedeño-Sanchez M,Rivera M,Barrios H,Brown JW,Calderón O,Cognato AI,Kim J,Miller SE,Morse GE,Pinzón-Navarro S,Quicke DLJ,Robbins RK,Salminen JP

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in phenotypic variability in natural populations have received little attention in comparison with changes in mean trait values. This is unfortunate because trait diversity may influence adaptive evolutionary change and population stability. We combine two unique data sets to illuminate complex trait changes i...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Olsen EM,Carlson SM,Gjøsaeter J,Stenseth NC

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant growth can be limited by resource acquisition and defence against consumers, leading to contrasting trade-off possibilities. The competition-defence hypothesis posits a trade-off between competitive ability and defence against enemies (e.g. herbivores and pathogens). The growth-defence hypothesis suggests that s...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Lind EM,Borer E,Seabloom E,Adler P,Bakker JD,Blumenthal DM,Crawley M,Davies K,Firn J,Gruner DS,Harpole WS,Hautier Y,Hillebrand H,Knops J,Melbourne B,Mortensen B,Risch AC,Schuetz M,Stevens C,Wragg PD

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：: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：: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：:Activity budgets influence the expression of life history traits as well as population dynamics. For ectotherms, a major constraint on activity is environmental temperature. Nonetheless, we currently lack a comprehensive conceptual framework for understanding thermal constraints on activity, which hinders our ability ...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Gunderson AR,Leal M

更新日期：2016-02-01 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

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：: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：: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：:The Metabolic Theory of Ecology predicts that the slope of the rate-temperature relationship, E, remains consistent across traits and organisms, acting as a major determinant of large-scale ecological patterns. Although E has recently been shown to vary systematically, we have a poor understanding of its ecological si...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Nilsson-Örtman V,Stoks R,De Block M,Johansson H,Johansson F

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For decades, ecologists have hypothesised that exposure to plant secondary compounds (PSCs) modifies herbivore-associated microbial community composition. This notion has not been critically evaluated in wild mammalian herbivores on evolutionary timescales. We investigated responses of the microbial communities of two...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Kohl KD,Dearing MD

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Why some organisms become invasive when introduced into novel regions while others fail to even establish is a fundamental question in ecology. Barriers to success are expected to filter species at each stage along the invasion pathway. No study to date, however, has investigated how species traits associate with succ...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Capellini I,Baker J,Allen WL,Street SE,Venditti C

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecol. Lett. 22, 2019, 1483 demonstrated, for the first time, a rapid response of a plant to the airborne sounds of pollinators. Pyke et al. argue that this response is unlikely to be adaptive. Here we clarify some misunderstandings, and demonstrate the potential adaptive value using theoretical modelling and field obs...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Goldshtein A,Veits M,Khait I,Saban K,Sapir Y,Yovel Y,Hadany L

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patterns of local adaptation are expected to emerge when selection is spatially heterogeneous and sufficiently strong relative to the action of other evolutionary forces. The observation of local adaptation thus provides important insight into evolutionary processes and the adaptive divergence of populations. The dete...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Blanquart F,Kaltz O,Nuismer SL,Gandon S

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Latitudinal gradients in biotic interactions have been suggested as causes of global patterns of biodiversity and phenotypic variation. Plant biologists have long speculated that outcrossing mating systems are more common at low than high latitudes owing to a greater predictability of plant-pollinator interactions in ...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Moeller DA,Briscoe Runquist RD,Moe AM,Geber MA,Goodwillie C,Cheptou PO,Eckert CG,Elle E,Johnston MO,Kalisz S,Ree RH,Sargent RD,Vallejo-Marin M,Winn AA

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental studies assessing climatic effects on ecological communities have typically applied static warming treatments. Although these studies have been informative, they have usually failed to incorporate either current or predicted future, patterns of variability. Future climates are likely to include extreme ev...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Thompson RM,Beardall J,Beringer J,Grace M,Sardina P

更新日期：2013-06-01 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：:Females of many species obtain benefits by mating polyandrously, and often prefer novel males over previous mates. However, how do females recognise previous mates, particularly in the face of cognitive constraints? Female crickets appear to have evolved a simple but effective solution: females imbue males with their ...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Weddle CB,Steiger S,Hamaker CG,Ower GD,Mitchell C,Sakaluk SK,Hunt J

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To estimate species loss from habitat destruction, ecologists typically use species-area relationships, but this approach neglects the spatial pattern of habitat fragmentation. Here, we provide new, easily applied, analytical methods that place upper and lower bounds on immediate species loss at any spatial scale and ...

journal_title：Ecology letters

authors： Chisholm RA,Lim F,Yeoh YS,Seah WW,Condit R,Rosindell J

更新日期：2018-06-01 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