Feedbacks between bivalve density, flow, and suspended sediment concentration on patch stable states.

abstract：:Population context should influence pollination success and selection on floral display in animal-pollinated plants because attraction of pollinators depends not only on the characteristics of individual plants, but also on the attractiveness of co-occurring conspecifics. The insect-pollinated herb Primula farinosa is...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Toräng P,Ehrlén J,Agren J

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant reproductive phenology-the timing of reproduction-is shifting rapidly with global climate change. Many studies focus on flowering responses to climate, but few investigate how postflowering processes, such as how quickly plants develop from flowering to seed dispersal, respond to environmental factors. We examin...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Sethi ML,Theobald EJ,Breckheimer I,Hille Ris Lambers J

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amount of fresh carbon input into soil is experiencing substantial changes under global change. It is unclear what will be the consequences of such input changes on native soil carbon decomposition across ecosystems. By synthesizing data from 143 experimental comparisons, we show that, on average, fresh carbon inp...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Luo Z,Wang E,Smith C

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Joint species distribution modeling has enabled researchers to move from species-level to community-level analyses, leading to statistically more efficient and ecologically more informative use of data. Here, we propose joint species movement modeling (JSMM) as an analogous approach that enables inferring both species...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Ovaskainen O,Ramos DL,Slade EM,Merckx T,Tikhonov G,Pennanen J,Pizo MA,Ribeiro MC,Morales JM

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:What determines the seasonal and interannual variation of growth rates in trees in a tropical forest? We explore this question with a novel four-year high-temporal-resolution data set of carbon allocation from two forest plots in the Bolivian Amazon. The forests show strong seasonal variation in tree wood growth rates...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Doughty CE,Malhi Y,Araujo-Murakami A,Metcalfe DB,Silva-Espejo JE,Arroyo L,Heredia JP,Pardo-Toledo E,Mendizabal LM,Rojas-Landivar VD,Vega-Martinez M,Flores-Valencia M,Sibler-Rivero R,Moreno-Vare L,Viscarra LJ,Chuviru-Castro

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predicting the effects of the loss of individual species on diversity represents one of the primary challenges facing community ecology. One pathway by which organisms of one species affect the distribution of species is ecosystem engineering. Changes in the dynamics of ecosystem engineers that lead to changes in the ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Wright JP

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversity and composition of local communities depends strongly on the pool of species that have been able to colonize that community from elsewhere. Typically this is thought to depend on a larger regional species pool that is subject to local environmental constraints that act as "filters." Often, however, colon...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Cuellar-Gempeler C,Leibold MA

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutualisms are well known to influence individual fitness and the population dynamics of partner species, but little is known about whether they influence species distributions and the location of geographic range limits. Here, we examine the contribution of plant-pollinator interactions to the geographic range limit ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Moeller DA,Geber MA,Eckhart VM,Tiffin P

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occurrence patterns of many sessile species in dynamic landscapes are not in equilibrium due to their slow rates of metapopulation colonization and extinction. Colonization-extinction data enable the estimation of colonization rates for such species, but collecting the necessary data may require long waiting times bet...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Fabritius H,Singer A,Pennanen J,Snäll T

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative importance of bottom-up or top-down forces has been mainly studied for herbivores but rarely for pollinators. Habitat fragmentation might change driving forces of population dynamics by reducing the area of resource-providing habitats, disrupting habitat connectivity, and affecting natural enemies more th...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Steffan-Dewenter I,Schiele S

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence from woodrat middens and tree rings at Dutch John Mountain (DJM) in northeastern Utah reveal spatiotemporal patterns of pinyon pine (Pinus edulis Engelm.) colonization and expansion in the past millennium. The DJM population, a northern outpost of pinyon, was established by long-distance dispersal (approximat...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Gray ST,Betancourt JL,Jackson ST,Eddy RG

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intensive land use activities, such as agriculture, are a leading cause of biodiversity loss and can have lasting impacts on ecological systems. Yet, few studies have investigated how land-use legacies impact phylogenetic diversity (the total amount of evolutionary history in a community) or how restoration activities...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Turley NE,Brudvig LA

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All communities vary through time. This variability originates from both intrinsic and extrinsic sources. Intrinsic sources are due to actions of organisms in a community, i.e., population dynamics and species interactions, while extrinsic variability is variability created by elements of habitat or environmental chan...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Brown BL,Lawson RL

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many insect herbivores build shelters on plants, which are then colonized by other arthropod species. To understand the impacts of such ecosystem engineering on associated species, the contributions of ecosystem engineer and host-plant identities must be understood. We investigated these contingencies at the patch sca...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Wang HG,Marquis RJ,Baer CS

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species richness has been shown to increase biomass production of plant communities. Such overyielding occurs when a community performs better than its component monocultures due to the complementarity or dominance effect and is mostly detected in substrate-bound plant communities (terrestrial plants or submerged macr...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Schmidtke A,Gaedke U,Weithoff G

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the oceans cover 70% of the Earth's surface and the open ocean is by far the largest ecosystem on the planet, our knowledge regarding diversity patterns of pelagic fauna is very scarce. Here, we examine large-scale latitudinal and depth-related patterns of pelagic cephalopod richness in the Atlantic Ocean in ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Rosa R,Dierssen HM,Gonzalez L,Seibel BA

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between predator and prey, or parasitoid and host, are shaped by trait- and density-mediated processes involving other community members. Parasitoids that lay their eggs in herbivorous insects locate their hosts through infochemicals such as herbivore-induced plant volatiles (HIPVs) and host-produced kair...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： De Rijk M,Yang D,Engel B,Dicke M,Poelman EH

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Global environmental change (GEC) is affecting species interactions and causing a rapid decline in biodiversity. In this study, I present a new Ecosystem Disruption Index to quantify the impacts of simulated nitrogen (N) deposition (0, 10, 20, and 50 kg N·ha-1 ·yr-1  + 6-7 kg N·ha-1 ·yr-1 background) on abiotic and bi...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Ochoa-Hueso R

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragmentation of landscapes is a pervasive source of environmental change. Although understanding the effects of fragmentation has occupied ecologists for decades, there remain important gaps in our understanding of the way that fragmentation influences mobile organisms. In particular, there is little tested theory ex...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Blackburn HB,Hobbs NT,Detling JK

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nature of nutrient limitation in large areas of temperate forest may be changing due to human activities. As N availability in these forests increases, other nutrients could increasingly constrain productivity and other ecosystem processes. To determine the nature of nutrient limitation (N, P, and Ca) in forest so...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Gress SE,Nichols TD,Northcraft CC,Peterjohn WT

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work suggests that animal water balance can influence trophic interactions, with predators increasing their consumption of water-laden prey to meet water demands. But it is unclear how the need for water interacts with the need for energy to drive trophic interactions under shifting conditions. Using manipula...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Leinbach IL,McCluney KE,Sabo JL

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contemporary animal-plant interactions such as herbivory are widely understood to be shaped by evolutionary history. Yet questions remain about the role of plant phylogenetic diversity in generating and maintaining herbivore diversity, and whether evolutionary relatedness of producers might predict the composition of ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Lind EM,Vincent JB,Weiblen GD,Cavender-Bares J,Borer ET

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern coexistence theory holds that stabilizing mechanisms, whereby species limit the growth of conspecifics more than that of other species, are necessary for species to coexist. Here, we used experimental and observational approaches to assess stabilizing forces in eight locally co-occurring, annual legume species ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Siefert A,Friesen M,Zillig KW,Aguilar J,Strauss SY

更新日期：2021-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Litter burning and biological decomposition are oxidative processes co-occurring in many terrestrial ecosystems, producing organic matter with different chemical properties and differently affecting plant growth and soil microbial activity. We tested the chemical convergence hypothesis, i.e., materials with different ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Bonanomi G,Incerti G,Abd El-Gawad AM,Cesarano G,Sarker TC,Saulino L,Lanzotti V,Saracino A,Rego FC,Mazzoleni S

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The high herbivore diversity in savanna systems has been attributed to the inherent spatial and temporal heterogeneity related to the quantity and quality of food resources. Allometric scaling predicts that smaller-bodied grazers rely on higher quality forage than larger-bodied grazers. We replicated burns at varying ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Sensenig RL,Demment MW,Laca EA

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduced species are frequently implicated in declines of native species. In many cases, however, evidence linking introduced species to native declines is weak. Failure to make strong inferences regarding the role of introduced species can hamper attempts to predict population viability and delay effective manageme...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Yackulic CB,Korman J,Yard MD,Dzul M

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to temporal changes in the quality and availability of food resources, consumers should adjust their foraging behavior in a manner that maximizes energy and nutrient intake and, when resources are limiting, minimizes dietary overlap with other consumers. Floodplains of the Amazon and its lowland tributarie...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Correa SB,Winemiller KO

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphological traits provide the interface between species and their environment. For example, body size affects the fitness of individuals in various ways. Yet especially for ectotherms, the applicability of general rules of interspecific clines of body size and even more so of other morphological traits is still und...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Tiede Y,Hemp C,Schmidt A,Nauss T,Farwig N,Brandl R

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecological structures and processes occur at specific spatiotemporal scales, and interactions that occur across multiple scales mediate scale-specific (e.g., individual, community, local, or regional) responses to disturbance. Despite the importance of scale, explicitly incorporating a multi-scale perspective into res...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Nash KL,Allen CR,Angeler DG,Barichievy C,Eason T,Garmestani AS,Graham NA,Granholm D,Knutson M,Nelson RJ,Nyström M,Stow CA,Sundstrom SM

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nutrient loss from ecosystems is among the top environmental threats to ecosystems worldwide, leading to reduced plant productivity in nutrient-poor ecosystems and eutrophication of surface water near nutrient-rich ecosystems. Hence, it is of pivotal importance to understand which factors influence nutrient loss. Here...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： van der Heijden MG

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00