Apparent competition with an exotic plant reduces native plant establishment.

abstract：:Coral reefs are highly complex ecological systems, where multiple processes interact across scales in space and time to create assemblages of exceptionally high biodiversity. Despite the increasing frequency of hierarchically structured sampling programs used in coral-reef science, little progress has been made in qua...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： MacNeil MA,Graham NA,Polunin NV,Kulbicki M,Galzin R,Harmelin-Vivien M,Rushton SP

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Character displacement may facilitate species coexistence through niche partitioning. However, the degree to which character displacement influences broader patterns of community assembly is unclear. Here, we capitalize on a natural experiment of community assembly on the oceanic island of Bermuda. Over the past centu...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Stroud JT,Giery ST,Outerbridge M,Feeley KJ

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study quantified new biomass production of algae and bacteria in both benthic and pelagic habitats of clear-water lakes to contrast how carbon from the atmosphere and terrestrial sources regulates whole-lake metabolism. We studied four small unproductive lakes in subarctic northern Sweden during one summer season...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Ask J,Karlsson J,Persson L,Ask P,Byström P,Jansson M

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is commonly assumed that microbial communities are structured by "bottom-up" ecological forces, although few experimental manipulations have rigorously tested the mechanisms by which resources structure soil communities. We investigated how plant substrate availability might structure fungal communities and belowgr...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Cline LC,Hobbie SE,Madritch MD,Buyarski CR,Tilman D,Cavender-Bares JM

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An understanding of the demographic processes contributing to invasions would improve our mechanistic understanding of the invasion process and improve the efficiency of prevention and control efforts. However, field comparisons of the demography of invasive and noninvasive species have not previously been conducted. ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Burns JH,Pardini EA,Schutzenhofer MR,Chung YA,Seidler KJ,Knight TM

更新日期：2013-05-01 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：:We addressed the potential for climate change to facilitate invasions and precipitate shifts in community composition by testing effects of ocean warming on species in a marine fouling community in Bodega Harbor, Bodega Bay, California, USA. First, we determined that introduced species tolerated significantly higher t...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Sorte CJ,Williams SL,Zerebecki RA

更新日期：2010-08-01 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：:Animals can be important in nutrient cycling in particular ecosystems, but few studies have examined how this importance varies along environmental gradients. In this study we quantified the nutrient cycling role of an abundant detritivorous fish species, the gizzard shad (Dorosoma cepedianum), in reservoir ecosystems...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Vanni MJ,Bowling AM,Dickman EM,Hale RS,Higgins KA,Horgan MJ,Knoll LB,Renwick WH,Stein RA

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple factors complicate the analysis of animal telemetry location data. Recent advancements address issues such as temporal autocorrelation and telemetry measurement error, but additional challenges remain. Difficulties introduced by complicated error structures or barriers to animal movement can weaken inference....

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Brost BM,Hooten MB,Hanks EM,Small RJ

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recurrent, low-severity fire in ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa)/interior Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca) forests is thought to have directly influenced nitrogen (N) cycling and availability. However, no studies to date have investigated the influence of natural fire intervals on soil processes in undi...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： DeLuca TH,Sala A

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The field of movement ecology has rapidly grown during the last decade, with important advancements in tracking devices and analytical tools that have provided unprecedented insights into where, when, and why species move across a landscape. Although there has been an increasing emphasis on making animal movement data...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Morato RG,Thompson JJ,Paviolo A,de La Torre JA,Lima F,McBride RT Jr,Paula RC,Cullen L Jr,Silveira L,Kantek DLZ,Ramalho EE,Maranhão L,Haberfeld M,Sana DA,Medellin RA,Carrillo E,Montalvo V,Monroy-Vilchis O,Cruz P,Jaco

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant-soil feedbacks can affect plant community dynamics by influencing processes of coexistence or invasion, or by maintaining alternate stable states. Darwin's naturalization hypothesis suggests that phylogenetic relatedness should be a critical factor governing such feedbacks in invaded communities but is rarely co...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Brandt AJ,Seabloom EW,Hosseini PR

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The greater abundance of some exotic plants in their nonnative ranges might be explained in part by biogeographic differences in the strength of competition, but these competitive effects have not been experimentally examined in the field. We compared the effects of neighbors on the growth and reproduction of spotted ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Callaway RM,Waller LP,Diaconu A,Pal R,Collins AR,Mueller-Schaerer H,Maron JL

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate variability, which is expected to increase in the future, can promote coexistence through a mechanism called the storage effect. Currently, we have little understanding of how the importance of the storage effect varies among ecosystems. We tested for the three conditions of the storage effect in a sagebrush s...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Adler PB,HilleRisLambers J,Levine JM

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that genetically based traits of plants can structure associated arthropod and microbial communities, but whether the effects are consistent and repeatable across years is unknown. If communities are both heritable (i.e., related individuals tend to support similar communities) and repeatable...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Keith AR,Bailey JK,Whitham TG

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The color of many lakes and seas is changing, which is likely to affect the species composition of freshwater and marine phytoplankton communities. For example, cyanobacteria with phycobilisomes as light-harvesting antennae can effectively utilize green or orange-red light. However, recent studies show that they use b...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Luimstra VM,Verspagen JMH,Xu T,Schuurmans JM,Huisman J

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Responses to proximate cues that directly affect fitness or cues directly released by selective agents are well-documented forms of phenotypic plasticity. For example, to reduce predation risk, prey change phenotype in response to light level (e.g., moon phase) when light affects predation risk from visual predators, ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Miehls AL,McAdam AG,Bourdeau PE,Peacor SD

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kelp forests are known as key habitats for species diversity and macroalgal productivity; however, we know little about how these biogenic habitats interact with seawater chemistry and phototroph productivity in the water column. We examined kelp forest functions at three locales along the Olympic Peninsula of Washing...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Pfister CA,Altabet MA,Weigel BL

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Consumers can alter decomposition rates through both feces and selective feeding in many ecosystems, but these combined effects have seldom been examined in tropical ecosystems. Members of the detrital food web (litter-feeders or microbivores) should presumably have greater effects on decomposition than herbivores, me...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Prather CM,Belovsky GE,Cantrell SA,González G

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elucidating how organismal survival depends on the environment is a core component of ecological and evolutionary research. To reconcile high-frequency covariates with lower-frequency demographic censuses, many statistical tools involve aggregating environmental conditions over long periods, potentially obscuring the ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Tomasek BJ,Burghardt LT,Shriver RK

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inherently multidimensional nature of the niche has not yet been integrated into the investigation of individual niche specialization within populations. We propose a framework for modeling the between- and within-individual components of the population niche as a set of variance-covariance matrices, which can be ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Ingram T,Costa-Pereira R,Araújo MS

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Random walks are used to model movement in a wide variety of contexts: from the movement of cells undergoing chemotaxis to the migration of animals. In a two-dimensional biased random walk, the diffusion about the mean drift position is entirely dependent on the moments of the angular distribution used to determine th...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Codling EA,Bearon RN,Thorn GJ

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Global species extinction rates are orders of magnitude above the background rate documented in the fossil record. However, recent data syntheses have found mixed evidence for patterns of net species loss at local spatial scales. For example, two recent data meta-analyses have found that species richness is decreasing...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Gonzalez A,Cardinale BJ,Allington GR,Byrnes J,Arthur Endsley K,Brown DG,Hooper DU,Isbell F,O'Connor MI,Loreau M

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although negative relationships between diversity (frequently measured as species richness) and invasibility at neighborhood or community scales have often been reported, realistic natural diversity gradients have rarely been studied at this scale. We recreated a naturally occurring gradient in species richness to tes...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Alofs KM,Fowler NL

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tolerance of foliar damage is widely recognized as an effective defense against herbivores and pathogens. However, tolerance of the impacts of antagonists on pollination success is less well understood. Here, we extend the framework of tolerance to foliar damage to understand how plants mitigate the pollination and fi...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Irwin RE,Galen C,Rabenold JJ,Kaczorowski R,McCutcheon ML

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased drought intensity and frequency due to climate change may reduce the abundance and activity of nitrogen (N2 )-fixing plants, which supply new N to terrestrial ecosystems. As a result, drought may indirectly reduce ecosystem productivity through its effect on the N cycle. Here, we manipulated growing season n...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Minucci JM,Miniat CF,Wurzburger N

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrapopulation variation in habitat use is commonly seen among mobile animals, yet the mechanisms maintaining it have rarely been researched among untrackable species. To investigate how alternative life histories are maintained in a population of the loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta), cumulative reproductive o...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Hatase H,Omuta K,Tsukamoto K

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：:The effects of resource stoichiometry and growth rate on the elemental composition of biomass have been examined in a wide variety of organisms, but the interaction among these effects is often overlooked. To determine how growth rate and resource imbalance affect bacterial carbon (C): nitrogen (N): phosphorus (P) sto...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Godwin CM,Whitaker EA,Cotner JB

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00