Biodiversity and species identity shape the antifungal activity of bacterial communities.

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：:Predictive classifications of life histories are essential for evolutionary ecology. While attempts to apply a single approach to all organisms may be overambitious, recent advances suggest that more narrow ordination schemes can be useful. However, these schemes mostly lack easily observable proxies of the position o...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Davis RB,Javoiš J,Kaasik A,Õunap E,Tammaru T

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The consequences of declining biodiversity remain controversial, in part because many studies focus on a single metric of ecosystem functioning and fail to consider diversity's integrated effects on multiple ecosystem functions. We used tide pool microcosms as a model system to show that different conclusions about th...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Bracken ME,Stachowicz JJ

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the relationship between the isolation of experimental aquatic mesocosms and the abundance of an aquatic insect colonist, Notonecta irrorata, over two years. We used a curve-fitting approach to assess whether linear or quadratic models better describe the relationship between isolation and abundance. For t...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： McCauley SJ,Davis CJ,Nystrom J,Werner EE

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropical forests include a diversity of habitats, which has led to specialization in plants. Near Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, nutrient-rich clay forests surround nutrient-poor white-sand forests, each harboring a unique composition of habitat specialist trees. We tested the hypothesis that the combination of impo...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Fine PV,Miller ZJ,Mesones I,Irazuzta S,Appel HM,Stevens MH,Sääksjärvi I,Schultz JC,Coley PD

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nearly universal positive relationship between the distribution and abundance of species has been explained by several hypotheses but hitherto no consensus has been reached. Here, we used monitoring data of 105 phytophagous true bug species (Heteroptera) from 150 grassland sites over six years to test how (1) rang...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Friess N,Gossner MM,Weisser WW,Brandl R,Brändle M

更新日期：2017-10-01 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：:Biomass production efficiency (BPE), the ratio of biomass production to photosynthesis, varies greatly among ecosystems and typically increases with increasing nutrient availability. Reduced carbon partitioning to mycorrhizal fungi (i.e., per unit photosynthesis) is the hypothesized underlying mechanism, as mycorrhiza...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Verlinden MS,Ven A,Verbruggen E,Janssens IA,Wallander H,Vicca S

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neutral theory of biodiversity has been criticized for its neglect of species differences. Yet it is much less heeded that S. P. Hubbell's definition of neutrality allows species to differ in their birth and death rates as long as they have an equal per capita fitness. Using the lottery model of competition we fin...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Lin K,Zhang DY,He F

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:Loss of functional connectivity following habitat loss and fragmentation could drive species declines. A comprehensive understanding of fragmentation effects on functional connectivity of an ecological assemblage requires investigation of multiple species with different mobilities, at different spatial scales, for eac...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Amos N,Harrisson KA,Radford JQ,White M,Newell G,Mac Nally R,Sunnucks P,Pavlova A

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between grazers and autotrophs are complex, including both top-down consumptive and bottom-up facilitative effects of grazers. Thus, in addition to consuming autotrophs, herbivores can also enhance autotroph biomass by recycling limiting nutrients, thereby increasing nutrient availability. Here, we evalua...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Bracken ME,Dolecal RE,Long JD

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of ecological differences among coexisting microparasites has been largely neglected, but it addresses important and unusual issues because there is no clear distinction in such cases between conventional (resource) and apparent competition. Here patterns in the population dynamics are examined for four spec...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Telfer S,Clough HE,Birtles LR,Bennett M,Carslake D,Helyar S,Begon M

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：:Bigeye tuna are known for remarkable daytime vertical migrations between deep water, where food is abundant but the water is cold, and the surface, where water is warm but food is relatively scarce. Here we investigate if these dive patterns can be explained by dynamic optimal foraging theory, where the tuna maximizes...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Thygesen UH,Sommer L,Evans K,Patterson TA

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Added Na was used to determine whether litter decomposition and associated fungal biomass and termites are limited by Na availability in a lowland tropical rainforest at Yasuni, Ecuador. This is a partial test of the "sodium ecosystem respiration" (SER) hypothesis that posits Na is critical for consumers but not plant...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Kaspari M,Clay NA,Donoso DA,Yanoviak SP

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contemporary animal-plant interactions such as herbivory are widely understood to be shaped by evolutionary history. Yet questions remain about the role of plant phylogenetic diversity in generating and maintaining herbivore diversity, and whether evolutionary relatedness of producers might predict the composition of ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Lind EM,Vincent JB,Weiblen GD,Cavender-Bares J,Borer ET

更新日期：2015-04-01 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：:Predators play a key role in shaping natural ecosystems, and understanding the factors that influence a predator's kill rate is central to predicting predator-prey dynamics. While prey density has a well-established effect on predation, it is increasingly apparent that predator density also can critically influence pr...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Hossie TJ,Murray DL

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal foraging has been characterized as an attempt to maximize the intake of carbon and nitrogen at appropriate ratios. Plant species in over 90 families produce carbohydrate-rich extrafloral nectar (EFN), a resource attractive to ants and other omnivorous insects. This attraction can benefit the plant if those arth...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Ness JH,Morris WF,Bronstein JL

更新日期：2009-10-01 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：:An under-examined component of global change is the alteration of disturbance regimes due to warming climates, continued species invasions, and accelerated land-use change. These drivers of global change are themselves novel ecosystem disturbances that may interact with historically occurring disturbances in complex w...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Metz MR,Varner JM,Frangioso KM,Meentemeyer RK,Rizzo DM

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing evidence for the influence of plant intraspecific variation on associated multi-trophic communities, but the traits driving such effects are largely unknown. We conducted a field experiment with selected genetic lines of the dioecious shrub Baceharis salicifolia to investigate the effects of plant gro...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Abdala-Roberts L,Pratt JD,Pratt R,Schreck TK,Hanna V,Mooney KA

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecological structures and processes occur at specific spatiotemporal scales, and interactions that occur across multiple scales mediate scale-specific (e.g., individual, community, local, or regional) responses to disturbance. Despite the importance of scale, explicitly incorporating a multi-scale perspective into res...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Nash KL,Allen CR,Angeler DG,Barichievy C,Eason T,Garmestani AS,Graham NA,Granholm D,Knutson M,Nelson RJ,Nyström M,Stow CA,Sundstrom SM

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:Growth of soil microorganisms is often described as carbon limited, and adding labile carbon to soil often results in a transient and large increase in respiration. In contrast, soil microbial biomass changes little, suggesting that growth and respiration are decoupled in response to a carbon pulse. Alternatively, mea...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Papp K,Hungate BA,Schwartz E

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because sea otters (Enhydra lutris) exert a wide array of direct and indirect effects on coastal marine ecosystems throughout their geographic range, we investigated the potential influence of sea otters on the ecology of Bald Eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, USA. We studied the diets...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Anthony RG,Estes JA,Ricca MA,Miles AK,Forsman ED

更新日期：2008-10-01 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：:Global environmental change (GEC) is affecting species interactions and causing a rapid decline in biodiversity. In this study, I present a new Ecosystem Disruption Index to quantify the impacts of simulated nitrogen (N) deposition (0, 10, 20, and 50 kg N·ha-1 ·yr-1  + 6-7 kg N·ha-1 ·yr-1 background) on abiotic and bi...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Ochoa-Hueso R

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00