Phylogeny and provenance affect plant-soil feedbacks in invaded California grasslands.

abstract：:Prolonged droughts exacerbated by climate change have been widely documented to interact with consumers to decimate vegetation in many ecosystems. Although climate change is increasing within-year variation in precipitation and temperature, how weather fluctuations affect the impact of consumers on vegetation processe...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： He Q,Silliman BR,van de Koppel J,Cui B

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex ratios are commonly skewed and variable in wild populations, but few studies track temporal trends in this demographic parameter. We examined variation in the operational sex ratio at two protected and declining breeding colonies of Magellanic Penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus) in Chubut, Argentina. Penguins from ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Gownaris NJ,García Borboroglu P,Boersma PD

更新日期：2020-03-01 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：:Abstract. Physical attributes of rivers control the quantity and quality of energy sources available to consumers, but it remains untested whether geomorphic conditions of whole watersheds affect the assimilation of different resources by stream organisms. We compared the fatty acid (FA) compositions of two invertebra...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Smits AP,Schindler DE,Brett MT

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ecological impact of rapid environmental change will depend on the resistance of key ecosystems processes, which may be promoted by species that exert strong control over local environmental conditions. Recent theoretical work suggests that macrodetritivores increase the resistance of African savanna ecosystems to...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Veldhuis MP,Laso FJ,Olff H,Berg MP

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Does climate determine species' ranges? Rapid rates of anthropogenic warming make this classic ecological question especially relevant. We ask whether climate controls range limits by quantifying relationships between climatic variables (precipitation, temperature) and tree growth across the altitudinal ranges of six ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Ettinger AK,Ford KR,HilleRisLambers J

更新日期：2011-06-01 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：:Dispersal evolves as an adaptive mechanism to optimize individual fitness across the landscape. Specifically, dispersal represents a mechanism to escape fitness costs resulting from changes in environmental conditions. Decades of empirical work suggest that individuals use local habitat cues to make movement decisions...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Addis BR,Lowe WH

更新日期：2020-04-01 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：:The interplay between local and large spatial scale processes in open systems is often dependent upon ecological context and species specific factors such as longevity, dispersal capability, or vulnerability to predation. When disturbance clears patches in open systems, the successful reestablishment of adult colonize...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Methratta ET,Petraitis PS

更新日期：2008-11-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Indirect biotic interactions play a crucial role in structuring ecological communities, but many of these interactions have not been explored. Algal competition and corallivory are two major stressors contributing to the decline of coral reefs. Here, we provide the first evidence of algal-induced corallivory and syner...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Wolf AT,Nugues MM

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased incorporation of terrestrial organic matter (t-OM) into consumer biomass (allochthony) is believed to reduce growth capacity. In this study, we examined the relationship between crustacean zooplankton allochthony and production in a boreal lake that displays strong seasonal variability in t-OM inputs. Contra...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Grosbois G,Vachon D,Del Giorgio PA,Rautio M

更新日期：2020-06-01 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：:The problem of scale dependency is widespread in investigations of ecological communities. Null model investigations of community assembly exemplify the challenges involved because they typically include subjectively defined "regional species pools." The burgeoning field of community phylogenetics appears poised to fa...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Swenson NG,Enquist BJ,Pither J,Thompson J,Zimmerman JK

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herbivory and dispersal play roles in the coexistence of primary producers with shared resource limitation by imposing trade-offs either through apparent competition or dispersal limitation. These mechanisms of coexistence can further interact with meta-ecosystem effects, which results in spatial heterogeneity through...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Marleau JN,Guichard F

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple direct correlation analysis of individual counts between different populations often fails to characterize the true nature of population interactions; however, the most common data type available for population studies is count data, and one of the most important objectives in population and community ecology...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Fujiwara M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small streams account for the majority of channel length in river basins worldwide and are the primary conveyors of terrestrial nutrients to rivers and ultimately the oceans. The controls of stream nutrient fluxes, however, are debated. Classical models emphasize that nutrient transport in streams integrates nutrient ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Brookshire EN,Valett HM,Gerber S

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nestedness and modularity have been recurrently observed in species interaction networks. Some studies argue that those topologies result from selection against unstable networks, and others propose that they likely emerge from processes driving the interactions between pairs of species. Here we present a model that s...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Pinheiro RBP,Felix GMF,Dormann CF,Mello MAR

更新日期：2019-09-01 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

abstract：:Temporal fluctuations in plant species coexistence are key to understanding ecosystem state transitions and long-term maintenance of species diversity. Although plant microbiomes can alter plant competition in short-term experiments, their relevance to natural temporal patterns in plant communities is unresolved. In a...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Chung YA,Collins SL,Rudgers JA

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microorganisms drive biogeochemical processes, but linking these processes to real changes in microbial communities under field conditions is not trivial. Here, we present a model-based approach to estimate independent contributions of microbial community shifts to ecosystem properties. The approach was tested empiric...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Powell JR,Welsh A,Hallin S

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species intolerant of changing climate might avoid extinction within refugia buffered from extreme conditions. Refugia have been observed in the fossil record but are not well documented or understood on ecological time scales. Using a 37-year record from the eastern Pacific across the two most severe El Niño events o...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Smith TB,Glynn PW,Maté JL,Toth LT,Gyory J

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in metabolic scaling theory have highlighted the importance of exchange surfaces and vascular network geometry in understanding the integration and scaling of whole-plant form and function. Additional work on leaf form and function has also highlighted general scaling relationships for many leaf traits...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Price CA,Enquist BJ

更新日期：2007-05-01 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：:Epidemiological models concerned with the control of malaria using interventions such as bed nets and vaccines increasingly incorporate realistic aspects of malaria biology. The increasing complexity of these models limits their ability to abstract ecological processes and to address questions on the regulation of pop...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Chaves LF,Kaneko A,Pascual M

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over recent years there has been an accumulation of evidence from a variety of experimental, theoretical, and field studies that many organisms use a movement strategy approximated by Lévy flights when they are searching for resources. Lévy flights are random movements that can maximize the efficiency of resource sear...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Reynolds AM,Rhodes CJ

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00