Distance-dependent effect of the nearest neighbor: spatiotemporal patterns in brown bear reproduction.

abstract：:Crop rotation schemes are believed to work by preventing specialist soil-borne pests from depressing the future yields of similar crops. In ecology, such negative plant-soil feedbacks may be viewed as a type of Janzen-Connell effect, which promotes species coexistence and diversity by preventing the same species from ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Petermann JS,Fergus AJ,Turnbull LA,Schmid B

更新日期：2008-09-01 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：: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：:Fungal endophytes are found in asymptomatic photosynthetic tissues of all major lineages of land plants. The ubiquity of these cryptic symbionts is clear, but the scale of their diversity, host range, and geographic distributions are unknown. To explore the putative hyperdiversity of tropical leaf endophytes, we compa...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Arnold AE,Lutzoni F

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological theory suggests that pathogens will not cause host extinctions because agents of disease should fade out when the host population is driven below a threshold density. Nevertheless, infectious diseases have threatened species with extinction on local scales by maintaining high incidence and the ability ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Ben-Horin T,Lenihan HS,Lafferty KD

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The consequences of declining biodiversity remain controversial, in part because many studies focus on a single metric of ecosystem functioning and fail to consider diversity's integrated effects on multiple ecosystem functions. We used tide pool microcosms as a model system to show that different conclusions about th...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Bracken ME,Stachowicz JJ

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied a guild of desert winter annual plants that differ in long-term variation in per capita reproductive success (lb, the product of per capita survival from germination to reproduction, l, times per capita reproduction of survivors, b) to relate individual function to population and community dynamics. We hypo...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Huxman TE,Barron-Gafford G,Gerst KL,Angert AL,Tyler AP,Venable DL

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The forage maturation hypothesis (FMH) states that herbivores should follow the onset of growth in spring to obtain access to forage of higher quality and quantity, the so-called "green wave surfing." Several studies have found correlative evidence in support of this by associating animal movement with plant phenology...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Rivrud IM,Heurich M,Krupczynski P,Müller J,Mysterud A

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although many studies have investigated plant growth in the context of episodic herbivory and pressed resource availability, relatively few have examined how plant growth is affected by pulsed resources and chronic herbivory. Periodical cicada (Magicicada spp.) adults represent a pulsed detrital subsidy that fertilize...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Yang LH,Karban R

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Feeding fronts are a striking pattern of spatial distribution observed in both marine and terrestrial ecological systems. These fronts not only determine the abundance and distribution of prey populations, but on a broader scale they may also affect the structure and dynamics of entire communities. Several mechanisms ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Lauzon-Guay JS,Scheibling RE,Barbeau MA

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactive effects of consumers and nutrients on terrestrial plant communities, and the role of plant functional traits in mediating these responses, are poorly known. We carried out a six-year full-factorial field experiment using mammalian herbivore exclusion and fertilization in two habitat types (fertile and ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Eskelinen A,Harrison S,Tuomi M

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Caspian Sea hosts unique native and endemic faunas. However, it is also a source and sink of invasive alien species (IAS), with some listed among the worst 100 invasive species by the IUCN. A common approach to study biodiversity and biogeographic patterns or to predict the invasive potential of species is the app...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Lattuada M,Wilke T,Raes N

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation in habitat quality and quantity drive selection on dispersal traits in heterogeneous environments, but the extent to which environmental conditions predict geographic variation in dispersal is rarely evaluated. We assessed dispersal trait variation across the range of Cakile edentula var. lacustris, an annua...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： LaRue EA,Holland JD,Emery NC

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent to which populations in nature are regulated by density-dependent processes is unresolved. While experiments increasingly find evidence of strong density dependence, unmanipulated population time series yield much more ambiguous evidence of regulation, especially when accounting for effects of observation e...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Thibaut LM,Connolly SR

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decades of ecological study have demonstrated the importance of top-down and bottom-up controls on food webs, yet few studies within this context have quantified the magnitude of energy and material fluxes at the whole-ecosystem scale. We examined top-down and bottom-up effects on food web fluxes using a field experim...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Collins SM,Thomas SA,Heatherly T 2nd,MacNeill KL,Leduc AO,López-Sepulcre A,Lamphere BA,El-Sabaawi RW,Reznick DN,Pringle CM,Flecker AS

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although invasive species can have substantial impacts on animal communities, cases of invasive species facilitating native species by removing their predators have rarely been demonstrated across vertebrate trophic linkages. The predictable spread of the invasive cane toad (Rhinella marina), however, offered a unique...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Doody JS,Soanes R,Castellano CM,Rhind D,Green B,McHenry CR,Clulow S

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disease dynamics during pathogen invasion and establishment determine the impacts of disease on host populations and determine the mechanisms of host persistence. Temporal progression of prevalence and infection intensity illustrate whether tolerance, resistance, reduced transmission, or demographic compensation allow...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Frick WF,Cheng TL,Langwig KE,Hoyt JR,Janicki AF,Parise KL,Foster JT,Kilpatrick AM

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mires (bogs and fens) are nutrient-limited peatland ecosystems, the vegetation of which is especially sensitive to nitrogen deposition and climate change. The role of mires in the global carbon cycle, and the delivery of different ecosystem services can be considerably altered by changes in the vegetation, which has a...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Hedwall PO,Brunet J,Rydin H

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predators play a key role in shaping natural ecosystems, and understanding the factors that influence a predator's kill rate is central to predicting predator-prey dynamics. While prey density has a well-established effect on predation, it is increasingly apparent that predator density also can critically influence pr...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Hossie TJ,Murray DL

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population cycles in forest Lepidoptera often result from recurring density-dependent epizootics of entomopathogens. While these systems are typically dominated by a single pathogen species, insects are often infected by multiple pathogens, yet little is known how pathogens interact to affect host dynamics. The appare...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Liebhold AM,Plymale R,Elkinton JS,Hajek AE

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants commonly employ indirect resistance to reduce herbivory by provisioning predatory arthropod populations with additional resources. Numerous predatory arthropods consume pollen that is entrapped on dense, wooly trichomes of plants. Over two seasons, we supplemented pollen on the wooly leaves of turkey mullein, C...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Van Wyk JI,Krimmel BA,Crova L,Pearse IS

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ongoing statistical sophistication allows a shift from describing species' spatial distributions toward statistically disentangling the possible roles of environmental variables in shaping species distributions. Based on a landscape-scale benthic survey in the Dutch Wadden Sea, we show the merits of spatially explicit...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Kraan C,Aarts G,Van der Meer J,Piersma T

更新日期：2010-06-01 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：:Statistical thinking in wildlife biology and ecology has been profoundly influenced by the introduction of AIC (Akaike's information criterion) as a tool for model selection and as a basis for model averaging. In this paper, we advocate the Bayesian paradigm as a broader framework for multimodel inference, one in whic...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Link WA,Barker RJ

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mechanistic understanding of the carbon (C) cycle-climate change feedback is essential for projecting future states of climate and ecosystems. Here we report a novel field mechanism and evidence supporting the hypothesis that nocturnal warming in a temperate steppe ecosystem in northern China can result in a minor C...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Wan S,Xia J,Liu W,Niu S

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population growth and decline are particularly sensitive to changes in three key life-history parameters: annual productivity, juvenile survival, and adult survival. However, for many species these parameters remain unknown. For example, although grassland songbirds are imperiled throughout North America, for this gui...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Perlut NG,Strong AM,Donovan TM,Buckley NJ

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of functional connectivity following habitat loss and fragmentation could drive species declines. A comprehensive understanding of fragmentation effects on functional connectivity of an ecological assemblage requires investigation of multiple species with different mobilities, at different spatial scales, for eac...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Amos N,Harrisson KA,Radford JQ,White M,Newell G,Mac Nally R,Sunnucks P,Pavlova A

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans are implicated as a major driver of species extinctions from the Late Pleistocene to the present. However, our predictive understanding of human-caused extinction remains poor due to the restricted temporal and spatial scales at which this process is typically assessed, and the risks of bias due to "extinction ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Crees JJ,Turvey ST,Freeman R,Carbone C

更新日期：2019-09-01 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：:Most taxa show consistent individual differences in behavior, a phenomenon often referred to as animal "personalities." While the links between individual personality and fitness have received considerable attention, little information is available on how animal personality impacts higher-order ecological processes, s...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Royauté R,Pruitt JN

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00