Distinguishing stressors acting on land bird communities in an urbanizing environment.

abstract：:Nutritional imbalances are of great interest in the ecological stoichiometry literature, in which researchers have focused almost exclusively on cases where nutrients are available in low amounts relative to energy (carbon), and animal growth is impaired due to insufficient nutrient intake. Little attention has been g...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Boersma M,Elser JJ

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predation risk can strongly influence community dynamics through its effects on prey foraging decisions that often involve habitat shifts (i.e., from risky to refuge habitats). Although the within-generation effects of risk on prey are well appreciated, the effects of parental experience with risk on offspring decisio...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Donelan SC,Trussell GC

更新日期：2015-08-01 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：:Early environmental conditions can influence the pattern of growth and development. While poor conditions generally cause slower growth, normal adult size can still be reached if growth accelerates or is prolonged once conditions improve, but such catch-up growth may have deleterious effects later in life. Here we inv...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Lee WS,Monaghan P,Metcalfe NB

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecological communities are dynamic entities subjected to extinction/colonization events. Because species are connected through complex interaction networks, the arrival of a new species is likely to affect various species across the community, as observed in plant biological invasions. However, plant invasions usually...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Hernández-Castellano C,Rodrigo A,Gómez JM,Stefanescu C,Calleja JA,Reverté S,Bosch J

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The arcsine square root transformation has long been standard procedure when analyzing proportional data in ecology, with applications in data sets containing binomial and non-binomial response variables. Here, we argue that the arcsine transform should not be used in either circumstance. For binomial data, logistic r...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Warton DI,Hui FK

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:The structure of Caribbean coral reef communities has been altered by numerous anthropogenic and natural stressors. Demographic studies of key functional groups have furthered efforts to describe and understand these changes. Little is known, however, about the demographics of sponges on coral reefs, despite their abu...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： McMurray SE,Henkel TP,Pawlik JR

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple description of temporal dynamics of ecological communities may help us understand how community assembly proceeds, predict ecological responses to environmental disturbances, and improve the performance of biological conservation actions. Although community changes take place at multiple temporal scales, the ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Ontiveros VJ,Capitán JA,Casamayor EO,Alonso D

更新日期：2020-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the recent advances in seed science research, information on seed dormancy and germination traits is still missing for many lineages of the seed plants. We translated and digitized a huge data set on seed dormancy and germination from the Reference Book On Dormant Seed Germination by M. Nikolaeva, M. Razumova,...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Rosbakh S,Baskin CC,Baskin JM

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Latitudinal patterns of nonnative species richness suggest fewer successful invasions in the tropics, relative to temperate regions. One main hypothesis for this pattern is that biotic resistance to invasion is stronger in the tropics than at higher latitudes. Biotic resistance can limit the distribution and abundance...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Freestone AL,Rutz GM,Torchin ME

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonrandom seed release is an important determinant of how far seeds disperse, but the mechanisms that promote wind-related seed release under varying atmospheric conditions are poorly understood. We explored the use of particle image velocimetry (PIV) to gain a better mechanistic understanding of seed release by visua...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Marchetto KM,Williams MB,Jongejans E,Auhl R,Shea K

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although canopy height has long been a focus of interest in ecology, it has remained difficult to study at large spatial scales. Recently, satellite-borne LiDAR equipment produced the first systematic high resolution maps of vegetation height worldwide. Here we show that this new resource reveals three marked modes in...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Xu C,Hantson S,Holmgren M,van Nes EH,Staal A,Scheffer M

更新日期：2016-09-01 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：:The introduction of chronic, infectious diseases by colonizing populations (invasive or reintroduced) is a serious hazard in conservation biology, threatening the original host and other spillover species. Most research on spatial invasion of diseases has pertained to established host populations, either at steady sta...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Bar-David S,Lloyd-Smith JO,Getz WM

更新日期：2006-05-01 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：:Identifying the factors that destabilize communities is critical for predicting and mitigating the ecological impacts of environmental change. Although theory has shown that local ecosystem size and regional dispersal can determine biodiversity, less is known about the direct and indirect effects of these factors on c...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Yeager ME,Gouhier TC,Hughes AR

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coupled trophic-engineer interactions are potentially important for maintaining habitat function and ecosystem services. As ephemeral submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV), Ruppia maritima has a short well-defined growth-senescence cycle and should benefit from any ecological interaction that enhances its physical condit...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： McCall DD,Rakocinski CF

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recording and monitoring wildlife is crucial for the conservation of wild species and the protection of their environment. The most common type of information reported from a monitoring scheme is a time series of population abundance estimates, but the potential of such data for analyzing population dynamics is limite...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Knape J,Besbeas P,de Valpine P

更新日期：2013-09-01 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：:A principal impact of invasive species is that they reduce local species richness. However, it is unknown whether the magnitude of the richness decrease has been consistent over the past two decades of published research. We used cumulative meta-analysis to synthesize evidence from 240 articles evaluating whether this...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Crystal-Ornelas R,Lockwood JL

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between grazers and autotrophs are complex, including both top-down consumptive and bottom-up facilitative effects of grazers. Thus, in addition to consuming autotrophs, herbivores can also enhance autotroph biomass by recycling limiting nutrients, thereby increasing nutrient availability. Here, we evalua...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Bracken ME,Dolecal RE,Long JD

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abundance and population density are fundamental pieces of information for population ecology and species conservation, but they are difficult to estimate for rare and elusive species. Mark--resight models are popular for estimating population abundance because they are less invasive and expensive than traditional mar...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Sollmann R,Gardner B,Parsons AW,Stocking JJ,McClintock BT,Simons TR,Pollock KH,O'Connell AF

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil microbial communities have the metabolic and genetic capability to adapt to changing environmental conditions on very short time scales. In this paper we combine biogeochemical and molecular approaches to reveal this potential, showing that microbial biomass can turn over on time scales of days to months in soil,...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Schmidt SK,Costello EK,Nemergut DR,Cleveland CC,Reed SC,Weintraub MN,Meyer AF,Martin AM

更新日期：2007-06-01 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：:Measures of body condition, immune function, and hematological health are widely used in ecological studies of vertebrate populations, predicated on the assumption that these traits are linked to fitness. However, compelling evidence that these traits actually predict long-term survival and reproductive success among ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Bowers EK,Hodges CJ,Forsman AM,Vogel LA,Masters BS,Johnson BG,Johnson LS,Thompson CF,Sakaluk SK

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After much debate, there is an emerging consensus that the composition of many ecological communities is determined both by species traits, as proposed by niche theory, as well as by chance events. A critical question for ecology is, therefore, which attributes of species predict the dominance of deterministic or stoc...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Farjalla VF,Srivastava DS,Marino NA,Azevedo FD,Dib V,Lopes PM,Rosado AS,Bozelli RL,Esteves FA

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual growth rates and survival are major determinants of individual fitness, population size structure, and community dynamics. The relationships between growth rate, survival, and temperature may thus be important for predicting biological responses to climate change. Although it is well known that growth rates...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Nilsson-Ortman V,Stoks R,Johansson F

更新日期：2014-05-01 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：:Seed dispersal fundamentally influences plant population and community dynamics but is difficult to quantify directly. Consequently, models are frequently used to describe the seed shadow (the seed deposition pattern of a plant population). For vertebrate-dispersed plants, animal behavior is known to influence seed sh...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Russo SE,Portnoy S,Augspurger CK

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00