Pattern without bias: local-regional richness relationship revisited.

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：: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

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：: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：:Although the oceans cover 70% of the Earth's surface and the open ocean is by far the largest ecosystem on the planet, our knowledge regarding diversity patterns of pelagic fauna is very scarce. Here, we examine large-scale latitudinal and depth-related patterns of pelagic cephalopod richness in the Atlantic Ocean in ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Rosa R,Dierssen HM,Gonzalez L,Seibel BA

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite important advances in the ecology of river food webs, the strength and nature of the connection between the meio- and macrofaunal components of the web are still debated. Some unresolved issues are the effects of the inclusion of meiofaunal links and their temporal variations on the overall river food web prop...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Schmid-Araya JM,Schmid PE,Tod SP,Esteban GF

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation in invasion success may result from the divergent evolutionary histories of introduced species compared to those of native taxa. The vulnerability of native biotas to ecological disruption may be especially great on oceanic islands invaded by continental species with unique ecological traits. In part because...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Wilson EE,Holway DA

更新日期：2010-11-01 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：:Increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations generally alter element stoichiometry in plants. However, a comprehensive evaluation of the elevated CO2 impact on plant nitrogen: phosphorus (N:P) ratios and the underlying mechanism has not been conducted. We synthesized the results from 112 previously published studies usin...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Deng Q,Hui D,Luo Y,Elser J,Wang YP,Loladze I,Zhang Q,Dennis S

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic plasticity can be a passive response to fluctuating environmental conditions or an active and presumably adaptive (evolved) response selected for in different environments. Here we ask if the larval decision to enter diapause when reared on a host plant associated with a colder habitat is an active or a pas...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Friberg M,Wiklund C

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimal defense theories suggest that a trade-off between defense costs and benefits maintains genetic variation within plant populations. This study assessed the independent and interactive effects of genetic- and environment-based variation in aspen leaf chemistry on insect performance, preference, and defoliation. ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Donaldson JR,Lindroth RL

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals of large or dark-colored ectothermic species often have a higher reproduction and activity than small or light-colored ones. However, investments into body size or darker colors should negatively affect the fitness of individuals as they increase their growth and maintenance costs. Thus, it is unlikely tha...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Pinkert S,Friess N,Zeuss D,Gossner MM,Brandl R,Brunzel S

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：:Theory has recognized a combination of niche and neutral processes each contributing, with varying importance, to species coexistence. However, long-term persistence of rare species has been difficult to produce in trait-based models of coexistence that incorporate stochastic dynamics, raising questions about how rare...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Yenni G,Adler PB,Ernest SK

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although water availability is primarily seen as a factor affecting food availability (a bottom-up process), we examined its effect on predator-prey interactions through an influence on prey behavior (a top-down process). We documented a link between water availability, predation risk, and reproductive success in a go...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Lecomte N,Gauthier G,Giroux JF

更新日期：2009-02-01 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：:The study of community assembly processes currently involves (a) longstanding questions about the relative importance of environmental filtering vs. niche partitioning in a wide range of ecosystems, and (b) more recent questions about methodology. The rapidly growing field of community phylogenetics has generated deba...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Best RJ,Stachowicz JJ

更新日期：2014-03-01 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：: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：:The ecological drivers of soil biodiversity in the Southern Hemisphere remain underexplored. Here, in a continental survey comprising 647 sites, across 58 degrees of latitude between tropical Australia and Antarctica, we evaluated the major ecological patterns in soil biodiversity and relative abundance of ecological ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Delgado-Baquerizo M,Reith F,Dennis PG,Hamonts K,Powell JR,Young A,Singh BK,Bissett A

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coastal wetlands significantly contribute to global carbon storage potential. Sea-level rise and other climate-change-induced disturbances threaten coastal wetland sustainability and carbon storage capacity. It is critical that we understand the mechanisms controlling wetland carbon loss so that we can predict and man...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Stagg CL,Schoolmaster DR,Krauss KW,Cormier N,Conner WH

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the theoretical bases for the dynamics of spatially subsidized communities emerge, ecologists question whether spatially subsidized communities exhibit similar structure or dynamics to communities that receive strongly pulsed resources. In both cases, communities may be structured by responses to resources that are...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Anderson WB,Wait DA,Stapp P

更新日期：2008-03-01 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：:The evolutionary pressures that drive long larval planktonic durations in some coastal marine organisms, while allowing direct development in others, have been vigorously debated. We introduce into the argument the asymmetric dispersal of larvae by coastal currents and find that the strength of the currents helps dete...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Pringle JM,Byers JE,Pappalardo P,Wares JP,Marshall D

更新日期：2014-04-01 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：:Many tropical forests are characterized by large losses of plant-available forms of nitrogen (N), indicating that they are N rich, and by an abundance of plants capable of symbiotic N fixation. These N-fixing plants can fix enough N to drive N richness. However, biological N fixation (BNF) is more expensive than using...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Menge DN,Levin SA

更新日期：2017-04-01 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：:Nitrogen and phosphorus frequently limit terrestrial plant production, but have a mixed record in regulating the abundance of terrestrial invertebrates. We contrasted four ways that Na could interact with an NP fertilizer to shape the plants and invertebrates of an inland prairie. We applied NP and Na to m2 plots in a...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Kaspari M,Roeder KA,Benson B,Weiser MD,Sanders NJ

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2014, a DNA-based phylogenetic study confirming the paraphyly of the grass subtribe Sporobolinae proposed the creation of a large monophyletic genus Sporobolus, including (among others) species previously included in the genera Spartina, Calamovilfa, and Sporobolus. Spartina species have contributed substantially (...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Bortolus A,Adam P,Adams JB,Ainouche ML,Ayres D,Bertness MD,Bouma TJ,Bruno JF,Caçador I,Carlton JT,Castillo JM,Costa CSB,Davy AJ,Deegan L,Duarte B,Figueroa E,Gerwein J,Gray AJ,Grosholz ED,Hacker SD,Hughes AR,Mate

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Competitive outcomes among plants can vary in different abiotic and biotic conditions. Here we tested the effects of two phylotypes of Alternaria endophytes on the growth, competitive effects, and competitive responses of the exotic invasive forb Centaurea stoebe. Centaurea stoebe was a better competitor against North...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Aschehoug ET,Metlen KL,Callaway RM,Newcombe G

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00