Consumer resource matching in urbanizing landscapes: are synanthropic species over-matching?

abstract：:Predictive classifications of life histories are essential for evolutionary ecology. While attempts to apply a single approach to all organisms may be overambitious, recent advances suggest that more narrow ordination schemes can be useful. However, these schemes mostly lack easily observable proxies of the position o...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Davis RB,Javoiš J,Kaasik A,Õunap E,Tammaru T

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract. Immigration and local recruitment play a central role in determining the growth rate of breeding populations. Unraveling these processes in newly established pop- ulations is of great importance to increase our understanding of how species change their distributions in response to global change. We studied t...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Santoro S,Green AJ,Figuerola J

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human-mediated increases in nutrient availability alter patterns of primary production, impact species diversity, and threaten ecosystem function. Nutrients can also alter community structure by disrupting the relationships between nutrient-sharing mutualists that form the foundation of communities. Given their oligot...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Shantz AA,Burkepile DE

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the factors that affect the performance of plants in their natural environment, it is essential to study interactions with other neighboring plants, as well as with above- and belowground higher trophic organisms. We used a long-term field experiment to study how local plant community diversity influenced...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Bezemer TM,Harvey JA,Kowalchuk GA,Korpershoek H,van der Putten WH

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predicting the dynamics of ecosystems requires an understanding of how trophic interactions respond to environmental change. In Antarctic marine ecosystems, food web dynamics are inextricably linked to sea ice conditions that affect the nature and magnitude of primary food sources available to higher trophic levels. R...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Norkko A,Thrush SF,Cummings VJ,Gibbs MM,Andrew NL,Norkko J,Schwarz AM

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth of soil microorganisms is often described as carbon limited, and adding labile carbon to soil often results in a transient and large increase in respiration. In contrast, soil microbial biomass changes little, suggesting that growth and respiration are decoupled in response to a carbon pulse. Alternatively, mea...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Papp K,Hungate BA,Schwartz E

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite important advances in the ecology of river food webs, the strength and nature of the connection between the meio- and macrofaunal components of the web are still debated. Some unresolved issues are the effects of the inclusion of meiofaunal links and their temporal variations on the overall river food web prop...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Schmid-Araya JM,Schmid PE,Tod SP,Esteban GF

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropical forests include a diversity of habitats, which has led to specialization in plants. Near Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, nutrient-rich clay forests surround nutrient-poor white-sand forests, each harboring a unique composition of habitat specialist trees. We tested the hypothesis that the combination of impo...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Fine PV,Miller ZJ,Mesones I,Irazuzta S,Appel HM,Stevens MH,Sääksjärvi I,Schultz JC,Coley PD

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Grazing, fire, and climate shape mesic grassland communities. With global change altering all three factors, understanding how grasslands respond to changes in these combined drivers may aid in projecting future changes in grassland ecosystems. We manipulated rainfall and simulated grazing (clipping) in two long-term ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Koerner SE,Collins SL

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal diseases threaten natural and man-made ecosystems. Chytridiomycota (chytrids) infect a wide host range, including phytoplankton species that form the basis of aquatic food webs and produce roughly half of Earth's oxygen. However, blooms of large or toxic phytoplankton form trophic bottlenecks, as they are inedi...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Frenken T,Miki T,Kagami M,Van de Waal DB,Van Donk E,Rohrlack T,Gsell AS

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments in temperate grasslands have shown that productivity positively correlates with plant species richness. Resource partitioning (in particular, nitrogen [N] partitioning) has been proposed as one possible mechanism to explain this pattern. There is evidence for inter...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Von Felten S,Niklaus PA,Scherer-Lorenzen M,Hector A,Buchmann N

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding of how plant communities are organized and will respond to global changes requires an understanding of how plant species respond to multiple environmental gradients. We examined the mechanisms mediating the distribution patterns of tidal marsh plants along an estuarine gradient in Georgia (USA) using a c...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Guo H,Pennings SC

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the drivers and consequences of disease epidemics is an important frontier in ecology. However, long-term data on hosts, their parasites, and the corresponding environmental conditions necessary to explore these interactions are often unavailable. We examined the dynamics of Daphnia pulicaria, a keystone...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Johnson PT,Ives AR,Lathrop RC,Carpenter SR

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nonnative annual grass Bromus tectorum has successfully replaced native vegetation in many arid and semiarid ecosystems. Initial introductions accompanied grazing and agriculture, making it difficult to separate the effects of invasion from physical disturbance. This study examined N dynamics in two recently invad...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Sperry LJ,Belnap J,Evans RD

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of community assembly processes currently involves (a) longstanding questions about the relative importance of environmental filtering vs. niche partitioning in a wide range of ecosystems, and (b) more recent questions about methodology. The rapidly growing field of community phylogenetics has generated deba...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Best RJ,Stachowicz JJ

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the theoretical bases for the dynamics of spatially subsidized communities emerge, ecologists question whether spatially subsidized communities exhibit similar structure or dynamics to communities that receive strongly pulsed resources. In both cases, communities may be structured by responses to resources that are...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Anderson WB,Wait DA,Stapp P

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two contrasting approaches to the analysis of population dynamics are currently popular: demographic approaches where the associations between demographic rates and statistics summarizing the population dynamics are identified; and time series approaches where the associations between population dynamics, population d...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Coulson T,Ezard TH,Pelletier F,Tavecchia G,Stenseth NC,Childs DZ,Pilkington JG,Pemberton JM,Kruuk LE,Clutton-Brock TH,Crawley MJ

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lightning fire is the dominant natural disturbance of the western mixedwood boreal forest of North America. We quantified the independent effects of weather and forest composition on lightning fire initiation (a detected and recorded fire start) patterns in Alberta, Canada, to demonstrate how these biotic and abiotic ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Krawchuk MA,Cumming SG,Flannigan MD,Wein RW

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Body size and temperature are fundamental drivers of ecological processes because they determine metabolic rates at the individual level. Whether these drivers act independently on individual-level metabolic rates remains uncertain. Most studies of intraspecific scaling of unitary organisms must rely on preexisting di...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Barneche DR,White CR,Marshall DJ

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

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：:In almost every ecosystem, ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) are the dominant terrestrial invertebrate group. Their functional value was highlighted by Wilson (1987) who famously declared that invertebrates are the "little things that run the world." However, while it is generally accepted that ants fulfil important func...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Parr CL,Eggleton P,Davies AB,Evans TA,Holdsworth S

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although soil microbial communities are known to play crucial roles in the cycling of nutrients in forest ecosystems and can vary by plant species, how microorganisms respond to the subtle gradients of plant genetic variation is just beginning to be appreciated. Using a model Populus system in a common garden with rep...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Schweitzer JA,Bailey JK,Fischer DG,LeRoy CJ,Lonsdorf EV,Whitham TG,Hart SC

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Farmland is a major land cover type in Europe and Africa and provides habitat for numerous species. The severe decline in farmland biodiversity of the last decades has been attributed to changes in farming practices, and organic and low-input farming are assumed to mitigate detrimental effects of agricultural intensif...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Lüscher G,Ammari Y,Andriets A,Angelova S,Arndorfer M,Bailey D,Balázs K,Bogers M,Bunce RG,Choisis JP,Dennis P,Díaz M,Dyman T,Eiter S,Fjellstad W,Fraser M,Friedel JK,Garchi S,Geijzendorffer IR,Gomiero T,González-Bor

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We considered Cushing's match/mismatch theory in a heterotrophic environment and hypothesized that settlement and recruitment success in blue mussel are higher when the food supply is rich in polyunsaturated and essential fatty acids (PUFA/EFA). To test this hypothesis, we monitored larval development as well as fatty...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Toupoint N,Gilmore-Solomon L,Bourque F,Myrand B,Pernet F,Olivier F,Tremblay R

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：:Greater resource use by diverse communities might result from species occupying complementary niches. Demonstrating niche complementarity among species is challenging, however, due to the difficulty in relating differences between species in particular traits to their use of complementary resources. Here, we overcame ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Gable JT,Crowder DW,Northfield TD,Steffan SA,Snyder WE

更新日期：2012-09-01 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：:Understanding and accurately modeling species distributions lies at the heart of many problems in ecology, evolution, and conservation. Multiple sources of data are increasingly available for modeling species distributions, such as data from citizen science programs, atlases, museums, and planned surveys. Yet reliably...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Fletcher RJ Jr,Hefley TJ,Robertson EP,Zuckerberg B,McCleery RA,Dorazio RM

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many young birds on the Arctic tundra are confronted by a challenging task: they must molt their feathers and accumulate fat stores for the autumn migration before climatic conditions deteriorate. Our understanding of the costs and constraints associated with these stages is extremely limited. We investigated post-juv...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Bonier F,Martin PR,Jensen JP,Butler LK,Ramenofsky M,Wingfield JC

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The demography of vertebrate populations is governed in part by processes operating at large spatial scales that have synchronizing effects on demographic parameters over large geographic areas, and in part, by local processes that generate fluctuations that are independent across populations. We describe a statistica...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Grosbois V,Harris MP,Anker-Nilssen T,McCleery RH,Shaw DN,Morgan BJ,Gimenez O

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00