Unexpected redwood mortality from synergies between wildfire and an emerging infectious disease.

abstract：:For decades, ecologists have been testing for species saturation by using regression analysis to determine the relationship between local and regional species richness. The cumulative result of scores of studies and meta-analyses has led to a general consensus that evidence of species saturation is relatively uncommon...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Szava-Kovats RC,Ronk A,Pärtel M

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature imposes a constraint on the rates and outcomes of ecological processes that determine community- and ecosystem-level patterns. The application of metabolic scaling theory has advanced our understanding of the influence of temperature on pattern and process in marine communities. Metabolic scaling theory us...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Bruno JF,Carr LA,O'Connor MI

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimating the species, phylogenetic, and functional diversity of a community is challenging because rare species are often undetected, even with intensive sampling. The Good-Turing frequency formula, originally developed for cryptography, estimates in an ecological context the true frequencies of rare species in a si...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Chao A,Chiu CH,Colwell RK,Magnago LFS,Chazdon RL,Gotelli NJ

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals can be important in modulating ecosystem-level nutrient cycling, although their importance varies greatly among species and ecosystems. Nutrient cycling rates of individual animals represent valuable data for testing the predictions of important frameworks such as the Metabolic Theory of Ecology (MTE) and ecol...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Vanni MJ,McIntyre PB,Allen D,Arnott DL,Benstead JP,Berg DJ,Brabrand Å,Brosse S,Bukaveckas PA,Caliman A,Capps KA,Carneiro LS,Chadwick NE,Christian AD,Clarke A,Conroy JD,Cross WF,Culver DA,Dalton CM,Devine JA,Domine

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of food web studies are based on connectivity, top-down impacts, bottom-up flows, or trophic position (TP), and ecologists have argued for decades which is best. Rarely have any two been considered simultaneously. The present study uses a procedure that integrates the last three approaches based on taxon-...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Benke AC

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite their potential to provide mechanistic explanations of rates of seed dispersal and seed fate, the functional and numerical responses of seed predators have never been explicitly examined within this context. Therefore, we investigated the numerical response of a small-mammal seed predator, Heteromys desmaresti...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Klinger R,Rejmánek M

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals can be important in nutrient cycling in particular ecosystems, but few studies have examined how this importance varies along environmental gradients. In this study we quantified the nutrient cycling role of an abundant detritivorous fish species, the gizzard shad (Dorosoma cepedianum), in reservoir ecosystems...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Vanni MJ,Bowling AM,Dickman EM,Hale RS,Higgins KA,Horgan MJ,Knoll LB,Renwick WH,Stein RA

更新日期：2006-07-01 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：:Most richness estimators currently in use are derived from models that consider sampling with replacement or from the assumption of infinite populations. Neither of the assumptions is suitable for sampling sessile organisms such as plants where quadrats are often sampled without replacement and the area of study is al...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Shen TJ,He F

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolism shapes the ecosystem role of organisms by dictating their energy demand and nutrient recycling potential. Metabolic theory (MTE) predicts consumer metabolic and recycling rates will rise with warming, especially if body size declines, but it ignores potential for adaptation. We measured metabolic and nutrie...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Moffett ER,Fryxell DC,Palkovacs EP,Kinnison MT,Simon KS

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community and biogeographic surveys often conclude that plant-pollinator interactions are highly generalized. Thus, a central implication of the pollination syndrome concept, that floral trait evolution occurs primarily via specialized interactions of plants with their pollinators, has been questioned. However, broad ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Reynolds RJ,Westbrook MJ,Rohde AS,Cridland JM,Fenster CB,Dudash MR

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduced species are frequently implicated in declines of native species. In many cases, however, evidence linking introduced species to native declines is weak. Failure to make strong inferences regarding the role of introduced species can hamper attempts to predict population viability and delay effective manageme...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Yackulic CB,Korman J,Yard MD,Dzul M

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of the relative strength of evolution and the environment on a phenotype is required to predict species responses to environmental change and decide where to source plant material for ecological restoration. This information is critically needed for dominant species that largely determine the productivity of...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Mendola ML,Baer SG,Johnson LC,Maricle BR

更新日期：2015-09-01 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：:The linear regression model, with its numerous extensions including multivariate ordination, is fundamental to quantitative research in many disciplines. However, spatial or temporal structure in the data may invalidate the regression assumption of independent residuals. Spatial structure at any spatial scale can be m...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Wagner HH

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding and accurately modeling species distributions lies at the heart of many problems in ecology, evolution, and conservation. Multiple sources of data are increasingly available for modeling species distributions, such as data from citizen science programs, atlases, museums, and planned surveys. Yet reliably...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Fletcher RJ Jr,Hefley TJ,Robertson EP,Zuckerberg B,McCleery RA,Dorazio RM

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the study of resource subsidies has emerged as a key topic in both ecosystem and food web ecology, the dialogue over their role has been limited by separate approaches that emphasize either subsidy quantity or quality. Considering quantity and quality together may provide a simple, but previously unexplored, ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Marcarelli AM,Baxter CV,Mineau MM,Hall RO Jr

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent theory predicts that stochastic dilution effects may result in species-rich communities with statistically independent species spatial distributions, even if the underlying ecological processes structuring the community are driven by deterministic niche differences. Stochastic dilution is a consequence of the s...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Wang X,Wiegand T,Kraft NJ,Swenson NG,Davies SJ,Hao Z,Howe R,Lin Y,Ma K,Mi X,Su SH,Sun IF,Wolf A

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasites are ubiquitous in natural systems and ecosystem-level effects should be proportional to the amount of biomass or energy flow altered by the parasites. Here we quantified the extent to which a manipulative parasite altered the flow of energy through a forest-stream ecosystem. In a Japanese headwater stream, c...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Sato T,Watanabe K,Kanaiwa M,Niizuma Y,Harada Y,Lafferty KD

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our ability to predict how temperature modifies phenology at the community scale is limited by our lack of understanding of responses by functional groups of flowering plants. These responses differ among species with different life histories. We performed a reciprocal transplant experiment along four elevation gradie...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Meng FD,Jiang LL,Zhang ZH,Cui SJ,Duan JC,Wang SP,Luo CY,Wang Q,Zhou Y,Li XE,Zhang LR,Li BW,Dorji T,Li YN,Du MY

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a strategic cost-saving alternative to constitutive resistance, induction of resistance against herbivores in plants can be especially beneficial when enemies are scarce or variable in abundance. Although probably describing the two ends of a continuum, constitutive and induced resistance strategies have long been ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Kalske A,Kessler A

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population responses of synanthropic species to urbanization may be explained by the resource-matching rule, which postulates that individuals should distribute themselves according to resource availability. According to the resource-matching rule, urban habitats will contain greater densities if they provide better r...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Rodewald AD,Shustack DP

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seed predation is an important biotic filter that can influence abundance and spatial distributions of native species through differential effects on recruitment. This filter may also influence the relative abundance of nonnative plants within habitats and the communities' susceptibility to invasion via differences in...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Connolly BM,Pearson DE,Mack RN

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predation pressure can alter the morphology, physiology, life history, and behavior of prey; each of these in turn can change how surviving prey interact with parasites. These trait-mediated indirect effects may change in direction or intensity during growth or, in sexually dimorphic species, between the sexes. The Tr...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Stephenson JF,van Oosterhout C,Mohammed RS,Cable J

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial habitat heterogeneity hypothesis posits that habitat complexity increases the abundance and diversity of species. In tropical forests, lianas add substantial habitat heterogeneity and complexity throughout the vertical forest profile, which may maintain animal abundance and diversity. The effects of lianas...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Schnitzer SA,Michel NL,Powers JS,Robinson WD

更新日期：2020-12-01 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：:Many pest species exhibit huge fluctuations in population abundance. Understanding their large-scale and long-term dynamics is necessary to develop effective control and management strategies. Occupancy models represent a promising approach to unravel interactions between environmental factors and spatiotemporal dynam...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Veran S,Simpson SJ,Sword GA,Deveson E,Piry S,Hines JE,Berthier K

更新日期：2015-03-01 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：:Nitrogen (N) deposition in heavily polluted southern Californian shrublands is estimated to be 20-45 kg N x ha(-1) x yr(-1), but more exposed locales can receive as much as 145 kg N x ha(-1) x yr(-1). This large anthropogenic N input has the capacity to alter the composition of plant communities. We conducted N-fertil...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Vourlitis GL,Pasquini SC

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In view of growing interest in understanding how biodiversity affects ecosystem functioning, we investigated effects of riparian plant diversity on litter decomposition in forest streams. Leaf litter from 10 deciduous tree species was collected during natural leaf fall at two locations (Massif Central in France and Ca...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Lecerf A,Risnoveanu G,Popescu C,Gessner MO,Chauvet E

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00