The sexual neighborhood through time: competition and facilitation for pollination in Lobelia cardinalis.

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：:Growth and nutrient uptake of red oak seedlings were studied under conditions simulating a forest understory. The tallest seedlings grew in 30% of full light; seedlings in full light had the greatest dry weight accumulation. Seedlings in full light had an average height of 9.7 inches, and those at 30% and 10% light av...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Phares RE

更新日期：1971-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Overexploitation of predators has been linked to the collapse of a growing number of shallow-water marine ecosystems. However, salt-marsh ecosystems are often viewed and managed as systems controlled by physical processes, despite recent evidence for herbivore-driven die-off of marsh vegetation. Here we use field obse...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Altieri AH,Bertness MD,Coverdale TC,Herrmann NC,Angelini C

更新日期：2012-06-01 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：:Understanding river food webs requires distinguishing energy derived from primary production in the river itself (autochthonous) from that produced externally (allochthonous), yet there are no universally applicable and reliable techniques for doing so. We compared the natural abundance stable isotope ratios of hydrog...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Doucett RR,Marks JC,Blinn DW,Caron M,Hungate BA

更新日期：2007-06-01 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：:The scaling of metabolic rates to body size is widely considered to be of great biological and ecological importance, and much attention has been devoted to determining its theoretical and empirical value. Most debate centers on whether the underlying power law describing metabolic rates is 2/3 (as predicted by scalin...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Capellini I,Venditti C,Barton RA

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite decades of interest, few studies have provided evidence supporting theoretical expectations for coupled relationships between aboveground and belowground diversity and ecosystem functioning in non-manipulated natural ecosystems. We characterized plant species richness and density, soil bacterial, fungal and eu...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Porazinska DL,Farrer EC,Spasojevic MJ,Bueno de Mesquita CP,Sartwell SA,Smith JG,White CT,King AJ,Suding KN,Schmidt SK

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The "landscape of fear" model, recently advanced in research on the non-lethal effects of carnivores on ungulates, predicts that prey will exhibit detectable antipredator behavior not only during risky times (i.e., predators in close proximity) but also in risky places (i.e., habitat where predators kill prey or tend ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Moll RJ,Killion AK,Montgomery RA,Tambling CJ,Hayward MW

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Savannas are characterized by a competitive tension between grasses and trees, and theoretical models illustrate how this competitive tension is influenced by resource availability, competition for these resources, and disturbances. How this universe of theoretical possibilities translates into the real world is, howe...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Higgins SI,Scheiter S,Sankaran M

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is notoriously difficult to study population interactions among highly mobile animals that cannot be meaningfully confined to experimental plots of limited size. For example, migratory water birds are believed to suffer from competition with resident fish populations for shared food resources. While observational e...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Haas K,Köhler U,Diehl S,Köhler P,Dietrich S,Holler S,Jaensch A,Niedermaier M,Vilsmeier J

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lichens are reputedly slow growing and become unhealthy or die in response to supplements of the usual limiting resources, such as water and nitrogen. We found, however, that the tripartite cyanobacterial lichen Lobaria pulmonaria doubled in annual biomass growth after a single 20-minute immersion in a phosphorus solu...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： McCune B,Caldwell BA

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pervasive impact of invasive species has motivated considerable research to understand how characteristics of invaded communities, such as native species diversity, affect the establishment of invasive species. Efforts to identify general mechanisms that limit invasion success, however, have been frustrated by dis...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Altieri AH,van Wesenbeeck BK,Bertness MD,Silliman BR

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In almost every ecosystem, ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) are the dominant terrestrial invertebrate group. Their functional value was highlighted by Wilson (1987) who famously declared that invertebrates are the "little things that run the world." However, while it is generally accepted that ants fulfil important func...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Parr CL,Eggleton P,Davies AB,Evans TA,Holdsworth S

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant tolerance of herbivory, i.e., the ability to recover after damage, is an important component of how plants cope with herbivores. Tolerance has long been hypothesized to be constrained evolutionarily by plant resistance to herbivores, traits that allow plants to cope with stressful growing conditions, and traits ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Pearse IS,Aguilar J,Schroder J,Strauss SY

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research examining the relationship between community diversity and invasions by nonnative species has raised new questions about the theory and management of biological invasions. Ecological theory predicts, and small-scale experiments confirm, lower levels of nonnative species invasion into species-rich compared to ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Belote RT,Jones RH,Hood SM,Wender BW

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:Ecological research is increasingly concentrated at particular locations or sites. This trend reflects a variety of advantages of intensive, site-based research, but also raises important questions about the nature of such spatially delimited research: how well does site based research represent broader areas, and doe...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Fahey TJ,Templer PH,Anderson BT,Battles JJ,Campbell JL,Driscoll CT,Fusco AR,Green MB,Kassam KA,Rodenhouse NL,Rustad L,Schaberg PG,Vadeboncoeur MA

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many insect herbivores build shelters on plants, which are then colonized by other arthropod species. To understand the impacts of such ecosystem engineering on associated species, the contributions of ecosystem engineer and host-plant identities must be understood. We investigated these contingencies at the patch sca...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Wang HG,Marquis RJ,Baer CS

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coupled trophic-engineer interactions are potentially important for maintaining habitat function and ecosystem services. As ephemeral submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV), Ruppia maritima has a short well-defined growth-senescence cycle and should benefit from any ecological interaction that enhances its physical condit...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： McCall DD,Rakocinski CF

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An understanding of the demographic processes contributing to invasions would improve our mechanistic understanding of the invasion process and improve the efficiency of prevention and control efforts. However, field comparisons of the demography of invasive and noninvasive species have not previously been conducted. ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Burns JH,Pardini EA,Schutzenhofer MR,Chung YA,Seidler KJ,Knight TM

更新日期：2013-05-01 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：: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：:The nonnative annual grass Bromus tectorum has successfully replaced native vegetation in many arid and semiarid ecosystems. Initial introductions accompanied grazing and agriculture, making it difficult to separate the effects of invasion from physical disturbance. This study examined N dynamics in two recently invad...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Sperry LJ,Belnap J,Evans RD

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatially synchronous population dynamics are important to ecosystem functioning and have several potential causes. By looking at synchrony in plant productivity over 18 years across two elevations in three types of coastal marsh habitat dominated by different clonal plant species in Georgia, USA, we were able to expl...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Liu W,Pennings SC

更新日期：2020-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the interplay between environmental factors contributing to treeline formation and how these factors influence different life stages remains a major research challenge. We used an afforestation experiment including 92 000 trees to investigate the spatial and temporal dynamics of tree mortality and growth...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Barbeito I,Dawes MA,Rixen C,Senn J,Bebi P

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theories of plant allometry provide a general description of allometric scaling that is supposedly applicable across a wide array of environmental conditions. Scaling theories, however, ignore disturbances such as herbivory in their derivation. Here we examine the influence of herbivores on the scaling of height and d...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Moncrieff GR,Chamaillé-Jammes S,Higgins SI,O'Hara RB,Bond WJ

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the major mechanisms of plant diversification has been the evolution of polyploid populations that differ from their diploid progenitors in morphology, physiology, and environmental tolerances. Recent studies have indicated that polyploidy may also have major effects on ecological interactions with herbivores a...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Thompson JN,Merg KF

更新日期：2008-08-01 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：: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