Competitive interactions modify the temperature dependence of damselfly growth rates.

abstract：:We used tree ring data (AD 1601-2007) to examine the occurrence of and climatic influences on spruce beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis) outbreaks in south-central and southwest Alaska and found evidence of regional-scale outbreaks dating from the mid-1700s, related to climate variability at multiple temporal scales. Ove...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Sherriff RL,Berg EE,Miller AE

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fundamental gaps remain in our knowledge of how positive species interactions, such as facilitation and mutualism, structure and maintain populations and communities. Foundation species create extensive biogenic habitats, but we know little of how their traits, such as density, age, and patch size, modify their abilit...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Irving AD,Bertness MD

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intensive land use activities, such as agriculture, are a leading cause of biodiversity loss and can have lasting impacts on ecological systems. Yet, few studies have investigated how land-use legacies impact phylogenetic diversity (the total amount of evolutionary history in a community) or how restoration activities...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Turley NE,Brudvig LA

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation in habitat quality and quantity drive selection on dispersal traits in heterogeneous environments, but the extent to which environmental conditions predict geographic variation in dispersal is rarely evaluated. We assessed dispersal trait variation across the range of Cakile edentula var. lacustris, an annua...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： LaRue EA,Holland JD,Emery NC

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal movements in heterogeneous environments play a crucial role in a variety of ecological processes. Although a hierarchical structure to the scale of movements has been observed in many animal species, few studies to date have revealed what causes such multi-spatial scale movements within the framework of optimal...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Amano T,Katayama N

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The field of movement ecology has rapidly grown during the last decade, with important advancements in tracking devices and analytical tools that have provided unprecedented insights into where, when, and why species move across a landscape. Although there has been an increasing emphasis on making animal movement data...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Morato RG,Thompson JJ,Paviolo A,de La Torre JA,Lima F,McBride RT Jr,Paula RC,Cullen L Jr,Silveira L,Kantek DLZ,Ramalho EE,Maranhão L,Haberfeld M,Sana DA,Medellin RA,Carrillo E,Montalvo V,Monroy-Vilchis O,Cruz P,Jaco

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Terrestrial ecosystems in the Northern Hemisphere are a globally important sink for anthropogenic CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere, slowing its accumulation as well as the pace of climate warming. With the use of a long-term field experiment (ca. 20 yr), we show that the expression of fungal class II peroxidase genes, wh...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Zak DR,Argiroff WA,Freedman ZB,Upchurch RA,Entwistle EM,Romanowicz KJ

更新日期：2019-10-01 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：: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：:Habitat fragmentation often arises from human-induced alterations to the matrix that reduce or eliminate dispersal between habitat patches. Elimination of dispersal increases local extinction and decreases recolonization. These phenomena were observed in the eastern collared lizard (Crotaphytus collaris collaris), whi...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Templeton AR,Brazeal H,Neuwald JL

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract. Immigration and local recruitment play a central role in determining the growth rate of breeding populations. Unraveling these processes in newly established pop- ulations is of great importance to increase our understanding of how species change their distributions in response to global change. We studied t...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Santoro S,Green AJ,Figuerola J

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 10-year experiment tested for variation in competition intensity over time in a natural grassland at the northern edge of the Great Plains. Growing-season precipitation varied fivefold during the study. All ecosystem-level variables varied significantly among years, and most covaried in expected ways. The covers of ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Wilson SD

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecological theory suggests that pathogens are capable of regulating or limiting host population dynamics, and this relationship has been empirically established in several settings. However, although studies of childhood diseases were integral to the development of disease ecology, few studies show population limitati...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Manlove K,Cassirer EF,Cross PC,Plowright RK,Hudson PJ

更新日期：2016-10-01 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：:Foundation species structure forest communities and ecosystems but are difficult to identify without long-term observations or experiments. We used statistical criteria--outliers from size-frequency distributions and scale-dependent negative effects on alpha diversity and positive effects on beta diversity--to identif...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Qiao X,Zhang J,Wang Z,Xu Y,Zhou T,Mi X,Cao M,Ye W,Jin G,Hao Z,Wang X,Wang X,Tian S,Li X,Xiang W,Liu Y,Shao Y,Xu K,Sang W,Zeng F,Ren H,Jiang M,Ellison AM

更新日期：2020-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Competition is predicted to affect the expression of inducible defenses, but because costs of behavioral and morphological antipredator defenses differ along resource gradients, its effects on defenses may depend on the traits considered. We tested the predictions from different defense models in tadpoles of the commo...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Teplitsky C,Laurila A

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：:Multiple factors complicate the analysis of animal telemetry location data. Recent advancements address issues such as temporal autocorrelation and telemetry measurement error, but additional challenges remain. Difficulties introduced by complicated error structures or barriers to animal movement can weaken inference....

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Brost BM,Hooten MB,Hanks EM,Small RJ

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex ratios are commonly skewed and variable in wild populations, but few studies track temporal trends in this demographic parameter. We examined variation in the operational sex ratio at two protected and declining breeding colonies of Magellanic Penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus) in Chubut, Argentina. Penguins from ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Gownaris NJ,García Borboroglu P,Boersma PD

更新日期：2020-03-01 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：:Studies of soil nitrogen (N) availability over stand development have almost exclusively focused on mineral N, yet we increasingly recognize that plants can take up organic N in the form of free amino acids at biologically important rates. We investigated amino-acid and mineral N availability along a 10-site chronoseq...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： LeDuc SD,Rothstein DE

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Empirical and theoretical investigations of monocarpy have usually addressed the question of minimum or threshold sizes for reproduction. However, the range of flowering sizes observed in many monocarpic species is extraordinarily large (well beyond what can be called a "threshold"), and the sizes of flowering and non...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Burd M,Read J,Sanson GD,Jaffré T

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population cycles in forest Lepidoptera often result from recurring density-dependent epizootics of entomopathogens. While these systems are typically dominated by a single pathogen species, insects are often infected by multiple pathogens, yet little is known how pathogens interact to affect host dynamics. The appare...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Liebhold AM,Plymale R,Elkinton JS,Hajek AE

更新日期：2013-06-01 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 adaptive nature of sociality has long been a central question in ecology and evolution. However, the relative importance of social behavior for fitness, compared to morphology and environment, remains largely unknown. We assessed the importance of sociality for fitness (lamb production and survival) in a populatio...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Vander Wal E,Festa-Bianchet M,Réale D,Coltman DW,Pelletier F

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymorphisms play critical roles in allowing organisms to adapt to novel environments while enabling ecological speciation under divergent selection. Ambystoma maculatum, the spotted salamander, exhibits a unique polymorphism in the structure and appearance of its egg masses with two common morphs, white and clear. A...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Pintar MR,Resetarits WJ Jr

更新日期：2017-05-01 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：: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：:Selection of prey that are small and in poor body condition is a widespread phenomenon in terrestrial predator-prey systems and may benefit prey populations by removing substandard individuals. Similar selection is widely assumed to operate in aquatic systems. Indeed, size-selective predation is a longstanding and cen...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Tucker S,Hipfner JM,Trudel M

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disease dynamics during pathogen invasion and establishment determine the impacts of disease on host populations and determine the mechanisms of host persistence. Temporal progression of prevalence and infection intensity illustrate whether tolerance, resistance, reduced transmission, or demographic compensation allow...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Frick WF,Cheng TL,Langwig KE,Hoyt JR,Janicki AF,Parise KL,Foster JT,Kilpatrick AM

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00