Timing and propagule size of invasion determine its success by a time-varying threshold of demographic regime shift.

abstract：:Sensitivity and elasticity analysis of population projection matrices (PPMs) are established tools in the analysis of structured populations, allowing comparison of the contributions made by different demographic rates to population growth. In some commonly used structures of PPM, however, there are mathematically ine...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Carslake D,Townley S,Hodgson DJ

更新日期：2009-11-01 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：:Evolutionary theory suggests that divergent natural selection in heterogeneous environments can result in locally adapted plant genotypes. To understand local adaptation it is important to study the ecological factors responsible for divergent selection. At a continental scale, variation in climate can be important wh...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Macel M,Lawson CS,Mortimer SR,Smilauerova M,Bischoff A,Crémieux L,Dolezal J,Edwards AR,Lanta V,Bezemer TM,Van der Putten WH,Igual JM,Rodriguez-Barrueco C,Müller-Schärer H,Steinger T

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In conservation and evolutionary ecology, quantifying and accounting for individual heterogeneity in vital rates of open populations is of particular interest. Individual random effects have been used in capture-recapture models, adopting a Bayesian framework with Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) to carry out estimatio...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Gimenez O,Choquet R

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Empirical tests of the resource dispersion hypothesis (RDH), a theory to explain group living based on resource heterogeneity, have been complicated by the fact that resource patch dispersion and richness have proved difficult to define and measure in natural systems. Here, we studied the ecology of African lions Pant...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Valeix M,Loveridge AJ,MacDonald DW

更新日期：2012-11-01 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：: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：:Kelp forests are known as key habitats for species diversity and macroalgal productivity; however, we know little about how these biogenic habitats interact with seawater chemistry and phototroph productivity in the water column. We examined kelp forest functions at three locales along the Olympic Peninsula of Washing...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Pfister CA,Altabet MA,Weigel BL

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although soil microbial communities are known to play crucial roles in the cycling of nutrients in forest ecosystems and can vary by plant species, how microorganisms respond to the subtle gradients of plant genetic variation is just beginning to be appreciated. Using a model Populus system in a common garden with rep...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Schweitzer JA,Bailey JK,Fischer DG,LeRoy CJ,Lonsdorf EV,Whitham TG,Hart SC

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：:Studies of the distribution of elusive forest wildlife have suffered from the confounding of true presence with the uncertainty of detection. Occupancy modeling, which incorporates probabilities of species detection conditional on presence, is an emerging approach for reducing observation bias. However, the current li...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Chelgren ND,Adams MJ,Bailey LL,Bury RB

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prey are often difficult to locate visually, which may help them avoid predators. However, an animal's appearance might also evolve in response to the abiotic environment. Here, we investigate the processes that determine the appearance of silk webbing built by New Zealand's largest endemic moth Aenetus virescens (Lep...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Yule K,Burns K

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The high herbivore diversity in savanna systems has been attributed to the inherent spatial and temporal heterogeneity related to the quantity and quality of food resources. Allometric scaling predicts that smaller-bodied grazers rely on higher quality forage than larger-bodied grazers. We replicated burns at varying ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Sensenig RL,Demment MW,Laca EA

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant-root-associated microbes influence plant phenotype and tolerance to environmental stress, and thus have been hypothesized to play a role in plant local adaptation. Here, we test this hypothesis with factorial experiments addressing the role of microbes in local adaptation of Hypericum perforatum (St. John's wort...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Petipas RH,Wruck AC,Geber MA

更新日期：2020-08-01 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：: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：:Parasites are integral members of natural communities, but large-scale determinants of their abundance and diversity, including the importance of biotic and abiotic factors, both natural and anthropogenic, are often not well understood. Here, we examine which factors best predict larval trematode communities in the mu...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Altman I,Byers JE

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crop rotation schemes are believed to work by preventing specialist soil-borne pests from depressing the future yields of similar crops. In ecology, such negative plant-soil feedbacks may be viewed as a type of Janzen-Connell effect, which promotes species coexistence and diversity by preventing the same species from ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Petermann JS,Fergus AJ,Turnbull LA,Schmid B

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecological communities are dynamic entities subjected to extinction/colonization events. Because species are connected through complex interaction networks, the arrival of a new species is likely to affect various species across the community, as observed in plant biological invasions. However, plant invasions usually...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Hernández-Castellano C,Rodrigo A,Gómez JM,Stefanescu C,Calleja JA,Reverté S,Bosch J

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elucidating how organismal survival depends on the environment is a core component of ecological and evolutionary research. To reconcile high-frequency covariates with lower-frequency demographic censuses, many statistical tools involve aggregating environmental conditions over long periods, potentially obscuring the ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Tomasek BJ,Burghardt LT,Shriver RK

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern coexistence theory holds that stabilizing mechanisms, whereby species limit the growth of conspecifics more than that of other species, are necessary for species to coexist. Here, we used experimental and observational approaches to assess stabilizing forces in eight locally co-occurring, annual legume species ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Siefert A,Friesen M,Zillig KW,Aguilar J,Strauss SY

更新日期：2021-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Avian dispersal of seeds of the wild olive tree (Olea europaea var. sylvestris) was studied in Mediterranean shrubland, southern Spain. Fourteen species of small frugivorous birds in the genera Sylvia, Turdus, Sturnus, and Erithacus accounted for 97.4% of the fruits consumed by birds. The significance of each bird spe...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Jordano P

更新日期：1987-12-01 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：:Farmland is a major land cover type in Europe and Africa and provides habitat for numerous species. The severe decline in farmland biodiversity of the last decades has been attributed to changes in farming practices, and organic and low-input farming are assumed to mitigate detrimental effects of agricultural intensif...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Lüscher G,Ammari Y,Andriets A,Angelova S,Arndorfer M,Bailey D,Balázs K,Bogers M,Bunce RG,Choisis JP,Dennis P,Díaz M,Dyman T,Eiter S,Fjellstad W,Fraser M,Friedel JK,Garchi S,Geijzendorffer IR,Gomiero T,González-Bor

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The limits on annual seed production have long been characterized as restriction by either pollination success or resource provision to seed development. This expected dichotomy between pollen and resource limitation is based on the assumption that reproductive resources are fixed, which is reasonable for semelparous ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Ida TY,Harder LD,Kudo G

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Does climate determine species' ranges? Rapid rates of anthropogenic warming make this classic ecological question especially relevant. We ask whether climate controls range limits by quantifying relationships between climatic variables (precipitation, temperature) and tree growth across the altitudinal ranges of six ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Ettinger AK,Ford KR,HilleRisLambers J

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between predator and prey, or parasitoid and host, are shaped by trait- and density-mediated processes involving other community members. Parasitoids that lay their eggs in herbivorous insects locate their hosts through infochemicals such as herbivore-induced plant volatiles (HIPVs) and host-produced kair...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： De Rijk M,Yang D,Engel B,Dicke M,Poelman EH

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased incorporation of terrestrial organic matter (t-OM) into consumer biomass (allochthony) is believed to reduce growth capacity. In this study, we examined the relationship between crustacean zooplankton allochthony and production in a boreal lake that displays strong seasonal variability in t-OM inputs. Contra...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Grosbois G,Vachon D,Del Giorgio PA,Rautio M

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nutrient loss from ecosystems is among the top environmental threats to ecosystems worldwide, leading to reduced plant productivity in nutrient-poor ecosystems and eutrophication of surface water near nutrient-rich ecosystems. Hence, it is of pivotal importance to understand which factors influence nutrient loss. Here...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： van der Heijden MG

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00