The role of toxic nectar secondary compounds in driving differential bumble bee preferences for milkweed flowers.

abstract：:The duration and amount of water captured on leaves and its functional significance is highly varied. Leaf surface wettability influences water absorption, gas exchange, pathogen infection, nutrient leaching, contamination by pollutants, self-cleaning properties and in freezing environments the probability of extrinsi...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Aryal B,Neuner G

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent investigations into the nutrient cycling of coastal ecosystems have suggested that migratory or anadromous fish could be important vectors of marine nutrients. Anadromous fish have assimilated marine nutrients that would contribute to the nutrient budgets of freshwater systems by excretion, gamete release, or t...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： MacAvoy SE,Macko SA,McIninch SP,Garman GC

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kelrick et al. (1986) argued that seed preferences of desert granivores are strongly influenced by soluble carbohydrate contents of native seed species. They assumed that bitterbrush (Purshia tridentata) seeds are eaten in their entirety by rodents, but in fact these granivores eat only embryos of bitterbrush seeds. E...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Jenkins SH

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the effects of intraspecific variation in leaf nitrogen and water content on the growth, consumption, conversion efficiency and nitrogen use of Colias butterfly larvae. Pest and non-pest Colias philodice eriphyle larvae and Colias eurytheme larvae were fed field-collected alfalfa (Medicago sativa) ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Tabashnik BE

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies with Nasutitermes and Rhynchotermes (Isoptera, Nasutitermitinae) in a Costa Rican rainforest suggest that nitrogen fixation by gut symbionts may play a significant role in termite nutrition. Leaf-litter feeders ingest more and fix less nitrogen than do wood-litter feeders; both species feed preferentially on N...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Prestwich GD,Bentley BL,Carpenter EJ

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing concern about loss of biodiversity and its effects on ecosystem functioning has triggered a series of manipulative experiments worldwide, which have demonstrated a general trend for ecosystem functioning to increase with diversity. General mechanisms proposed to explain diversity effects include complementa...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Tobner CM,Paquette A,Reich PB,Gravel D,Messier C

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prescribed burning is a major control over element cycles in Tallgrass prairie (Eastern Kansas, USA). In this paper we report potential effects of fire on nonsymbiotic nitrogen fixation. Fire resulted in additions of available P in ash, which may stimulate nitrogen fixation by terrestrial cyanobacteria. Cyanobacterial...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Eisele KA,Schimel DS,Kapustka LA,Parton WJ

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term fertilization of acidic tussock tundra has led to changes in plant species composition, increases in aboveground production and biomass and substantial losses of soil organic carbon (SOC). Root litter is an important input to SOC pools, although little is known about fine root demography in tussock tundra. I...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Sullivan PF,Sommerkorn M,Rueth HM,Nadelhoffer KJ,Shaver GR,Welker JM

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CO2 assimilation in relation to light intensity and the relationship between leaf nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations and CO2 assimilation in 14 species of ecologically important Zimbabwean trees were examined. Eight of the species are members of the Fabaceae (Leguminosae). In the majority of Zimbabwean climax wood...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Tuohy JM,Prior JA,Stewart GR

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On a shallow sand flat at Princess Royal Harbour near Albany, Western Australia, the brown macrophyte Hormosira banksii attaches to shells of infaunal bivalves. Hormosira occupies shells of Katelysia rhytiphora in preference to K. scalarina. We proposed and tested four hypotheses to explain this host occupation patter...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Black R,Peterson CH

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how habitat selection changes with population density is a key concept in population regulation, community composition and managing impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services. At low density, it is expected that individuals select habitats in terms of their preference, but as population density incre...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Pérez-Barbería FJ,Hooper RJ,Gordon IJ

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leaf turnover and aboveground productivity in relation to nutrient availability were studied in the evergreen shrubs Erica tetralix and Calluna vulgaris. In monospecific stands of these species four levels of nutrient (NPK) availability were created during three growing seasons. Percentage survival and life expectancy...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Aerts R

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The decomposition (meaning disappearance) of different leaf types and artificial leaves made from cellulose hydrate foil was studied in three forests - an alluvial forest (Ulmetum), a beech forest on limestone soil (Melico-Fagetum), and a spruce forest in soil overlying limestone bedrock.Fine, medium, and coarse mesh ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Herlitzius H

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Geographic patterns of intraspecific variations in traits related to photosynthesis and biomass were examined in two separate common garden experiments using seed collected from 26 Sitka alder (Alnus sinuata Rydb.) and 18 paper birch (Betula papyrifera Marsh.) populations from climatically diverse locations in British...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Benowicz A,Guy RD,El-Kassaby YA

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rarity of long-range seed dispersal (telechory) and commonness of antitelechory in desert plants are examined in light of contemporary mathematical theories of the evolution of dispersal and germination behaviors. Analysis of dispersal 3-habitat relationships in the flora of Israel supports the general trend towar...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Fllner S,Shmida A

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationships between prey utilization and jaw biomechanics were explored in two Caribbean populations (La Parguera and Mona Island) of four trigger-fishes. The volumetric contribution of major prey types and six biomechanical features of the jaws that characterize biting strength were contrasted between populatio...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Turingan RG,Wainwright PC,Hensley DA

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coryphantha vivipara (Nutt.) Britton & Rose var. deserti (Engelm.) W.T. Marshall (Cactaceae) survived snow and tissue temperatures of-12°C in southern Nevada. However, the freezing point depression of the cell sap was only about 0.9°C. When the nocturnal air temperature in the laboratory was reduced from 10°C to-10°C ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Nobel PS

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rodents of the family Heteromyidae are proficient gatherers and hoarders of seeds. A major component of their adaptive specialization for harvesting and transporting seeds is their spacious, fur-lined cheek pouches. Precise measurements of cheek pouch capacities are essential if ecologists are to understand the foragi...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Vander Wall SB,Longland WS,Pyare S,Veech JA

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants are often attacked by many herbivorous insects and pathogens at the same time. Two important suites of responses to attack are mediated by plant hormones, jasmonate and salicylate, which independently provide resistance to herbivorous insects and pathogens, respectively. Several lines of evidence suggest that t...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Thaler JS,Karban R,Ullman DE,Boege K,Bostock RM

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four colonies of the desert leaf-cutter ant Acromyrmex versicolor versicolor (Pergande) located 30 miles N.E. of Tempe, Arizona were observed over a 7 month period. The ants utilized trails in foraging, a characteristic of higher attines, as well as foraging singly, a typical pattern among the more primitive gardeners...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gamboa GJ

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasticity in the physiological and behavioural responses of animals to prolonged food shortages may determine the persistence of species under climate warming. This is particularly applicable for species that can "adaptively fast" by conserving protein to protect organ function while catabolizing endogenous tissues. ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Whiteman JP,Harlow HJ,Durner GM,Regehr EV,Amstrup SC,Ben-David M

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasitic plants often attack multiple host species with unique defenses, physiology, and ecology. Reproductive phenology and vectors of parasitic plant genes (pollinators and dispersers) can contribute to or erode reproductive isolation of populations infecting different host species. We asked whether desert mistleto...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Yule KM,Bronstein JL

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Populations of dioecious plant species often exhibit biased sex ratios. Such biases may arise as a result of sex-based differences in life history traits, or as a result of spatial segregation of the sexes. Of these, sex-based differentiation in life history traits is likely to be the most common cause of bias. In dio...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Nicotra AB

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, coral death has been the most conspicuous outcome of warming tropical seas, but as temperatures stabilize at higher values, the consequences for the corals remaining will be mediated by their demographic responses to the sub-lethal effects of temperature. To gain insight into the nature of these responses, he...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Edmunds PJ

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impacts of climatic change on organisms depend on the interaction of multiple stressors and how these may affect the interactions among species. Consumer-prey relationships may be altered by changes to the abundance of either species, or by changes to the per capita interaction strength among species. To examine t...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Poore AG,Graba-Landry A,Favret M,Sheppard Brennand H,Byrne M,Dworjanyn SA

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to assess the role of parasitoids in the regulation of non-outbreaking populations of Epirrita autumnata, a geometrid lepidopteran with outbreaking populations in northern Europe, we examined the temporal and spatial variation of larval parasitism in southwestern Finland during 6 successive years. The study w...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Teder T,Tanhuanpää M,Ruohomäki K,Kaitaniemi P,Henriksson J

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The food selection of the common goby, Pomatoschistus microps Krøyer, was studied in the field and in laboratory experiments on the Swedish west coast. The three most important prey organisms for P. microps in the study area were Corophium volutator, chironomid larvae and Nereis spp. Corophium was consumed more than a...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Magnhagen C,Wiederholm AM

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal-pollinated plants can be susceptible to changes in pollinator availability. Honeydew-producing treehoppers frequently occur on inflorescences, potentially enhancing ant-mediated negative effects on pollination services. However, the effect of ant-attended, honeydew-producing insects on plant reproduction remain...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ibarra-Isassi J,Oliveira PS

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seasonal reductions in food availability may cause animals to catabolize endogenous tissue and the resulting loss of lean mass can hinder their ability to forage and reproduce. While several studies have considered nitrogen isotopes (δ15N) as an indicator of catabolism, relationships between protein intake, body condi...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hughes KL,Whiteman JP,Newsome SD

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies have analysed plant responses to flooding or drought separately, without addressing the relations between plant resistance to each of these factors. In this paper, we compare the responses to drought and flooding under glasshouse conditions of three populations of Paspalum dilatatum, a perennial C4 grass ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Loreti J,Oesterheld M

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00