Monotonicity-constrained species distribution models.

abstract：:Theory predicts that reproduction will change as individuals near the end of their lives by either increasing reproductive allocation (terminal allocation hypothesis) or decreasing allocation (senescence hypothesis) toward the end of life. Although senescence has received more support, few studies examine how both age...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Tarwater CE,Arcese P

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community ecology has long focused on energy and nutrients as currencies of species interactions. Evidence from physiological ecology and recent studies suggest that in terrestrial systems, water may influence animal behavior and global patterns of species richness. Despite these observations, water has received littl...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： McCluney KE,Sabo JL

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The size of the regional species pool may influence local patterns of diversity. However, it is unclear whether certain spatial scales are less sensitive to regional influences than others. Additive partitioning was used to separate coral-dwelling fish diversity to its alpha and beta components, at multiple scales, in...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Belmaker J,Ziv Y,Shashar N,Connolly SR

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We chose the interaction between the Mediterranean dwarf palm (Chamaerops humilis) and its major seed disperser, the Eurasian badger (Meles meles), to evaluate the hypothesis that endozoochory is characterized by a mixture of conflicting and overlapping interests, with the capacity of being positive or negative for pl...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Fedriani JM,Delibes M

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urbanization has profound influences on ecological communities, but our understanding of causal mechanisms is limited by a lack of attention to its component stressors. Published research suggests that at landscape scales, habitat loss and fragmentation are the major drivers of community change, whereas at local scale...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Schlesinger MD,Manley PN,Holyoak M

更新日期：2008-08-01 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：:Ants are a widespread group of ecologically important insects. Therefore, ants that are important predators of other ants are likely to play key roles by changing the abundance and impacts of their prey. Familiar arthropod predators, like army ants, are known for their overwhelming raids on invertebrate prey but are l...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Ohyama L,King JR,Jenkins DG

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insect mutualisms can have disproportionately large impacts on local arthropod and plant communities and their responses to climatic change. The objective of this study was to determine if the presence of insect mutualisms affects host plant and herbivore responses to warming. Using open-top warming chambers at Harvar...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Marquis M,Del Toro I,Pelini SL

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of tree diversity in restored forests and its impact on key ecological processes like growth and resistance to herbivory has become increasingly important. We analyzed height growth and white-tailed deer Odocoileus virginianus browsing damage to saplings of 16 broadleaved tree species in a large-scale (13 ha)...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Devaney JL,Pullen J,Cook-Patton SC,Burghardt KT,Parker JD

更新日期：2020-08-01 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：:In detritus-based ecosystems, autochthonous primary production contributes very little to the detritus pool. Yet primary producers may still influence the functioning of these ecosystems through complex interactions with decomposers and detritivores. Recent studies have suggested that, in aquatic systems, small amount...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Danger M,Cornut J,Chauvet E,Chavez P,Elger A,Lecerf A

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The theory of evolution via natural selection predicts that the genetic composition of wild populations changes over time in response to the environment. Different genotypes should exhibit different demographic patterns, but genetic variation in demography is often impossible to separate from environmental variation. ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Shefferson RP,Roach DA

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The limits on annual seed production have long been characterized as restriction by either pollination success or resource provision to seed development. This expected dichotomy between pollen and resource limitation is based on the assumption that reproductive resources are fixed, which is reasonable for semelparous ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Ida TY,Harder LD,Kudo G

更新日期：2013-01-01 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

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：:Foraging theory posits that isolation from refuge habitat within a landscape increases perceived predation risk and, thus, suppresses the foraging behavior of prey species. However, these effects may depend fundamentally on resource availability, which could affect prey boldness and can change considerably through bot...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Gil MA,Zill J,Ponciano JM

更新日期：2017-02-01 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：:The predator satiation hypothesis posits that masting helps plants escape seed predation through starvation of predators in lean years, followed by satiation of predators in mast years. Importantly, successful satiation requires sufficiently delayed bottom-up effects of seed availability on seed consumers. However, so...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Bogdziewicz M,Marino S,Bonal R,Zwolak R,Steele MA

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodium (Na) has a unique role in food webs as a nutrient primarily limiting for plant consumers, but not other trophic levels. Environmental Na levels vary with proximity to coasts, local geomorphology, climate, and with anthropogenic inputs (e.g., road salt). We tested two key predictions across 54 grasslands in Nort...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Welti EAR,Sanders NJ,de Beurs KM,Kaspari M

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Density dependence could maintain diversity in forests, but studies continue to disagree on its role. Part of the disagreement results from the fact that different studies have evaluated different responses (survival, recruitment, or growth) of different stages (seeds, seedlings, or adults) to different inputs (densit...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Zhu K,Woodall CW,Monteiro JV,Clark JS

更新日期：2015-09-01 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：:In fewer than two decades after invading the Americas, the European fly Drosophila subobscura evolved latitudinal clines in several traits. Moreover, its chromosomal inversion frequencies at given localities have shifted with climate warming. Temperature may have driven the evolution of both geographic clines and with...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Huey RB,Pascual M

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyze an age-, size- and sex-structured model to investigate how the interplay between individual-level energy budget dynamics and the feedback of population grazing on resources shapes the individual life history and the dynamics of ungulate populations, living in a predator-free, seasonal resource environment. ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： De Roos AM,Galic N,Heesterbeek H

更新日期：2009-04-01 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：:Floodplains are among the world's most threatened ecosystems due to the pervasiveness of dams, levee systems, and other modifications to rivers. Few unaltered floodplains remain where we may examine their dynamics over decadal time scales. Our study provides a detailed examination of landscape change over a 60-year pe...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Whited DC,Lorang MS,Harner MJ,Hauer FR,Kimball JS,Stanford JA

更新日期：2007-04-01 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：:Removal of predators can have strong indirect effects on primary producers through trophic cascades. Crustose coralline algae (CCA) are major primary producers worldwide that may be influenced by predator removal through changes in grazer composition and biomass. CCA have been most widely studied in Caribbean and temp...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： O'Leary JK,McClanahan TR

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species richness has been shown to increase biomass production of plant communities. Such overyielding occurs when a community performs better than its component monocultures due to the complementarity or dominance effect and is mostly detected in substrate-bound plant communities (terrestrial plants or submerged macr...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Schmidtke A,Gaedke U,Weithoff G

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sea turtle nesting presents a potential pathway to subsidize nutrient-poor dune ecosystems, which provide the nesting habitat for sea turtles. To assess whether this positive feedback between dune plants and turtle nests exists, we measured N concentration and delta15N values in dune soils, leaves from a common dune p...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Hannan LB,Roth JD,Ehrhart LM,Weishampel JF

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The temporal stability of aggregate community and ecosystem properties is influenced by the variability of component populations, the interactions among populations, and the influence of environmental fluctuations on populations. Environmental fluctuations that enhance population variability are generally expected to ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Downing AL,Brown BL,Perrin EM,Keitt TH,Leibold MA

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00