Local and regional processes determine plant species richness in a river-network metacommunity.

abstract：:The introduction of chronic, infectious diseases by colonizing populations (invasive or reintroduced) is a serious hazard in conservation biology, threatening the original host and other spillover species. Most research on spatial invasion of diseases has pertained to established host populations, either at steady sta...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Bar-David S,Lloyd-Smith JO,Getz WM

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In January 1958, a survey of alpine flora was conducted along a recently constructed access road across the upper volcanic slopes of Mauna Loa, Hawaii (2525-3397 m). Only five native Hawaiian species were encountered on sparsely vegetated historic and prehistoric lava flows adjacent to the roadway. A resurvey of roads...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Juvik JO,Rodomsky BT,Price JP,Hansen EW,Kueffer C

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasites can alter communities by reducing densities of keystone hosts, but few studies have examined how trait-mediated indirect effects of parasites can alter ecological communities. We test how trematode parasites (Microphallus spp.) that affect invasive crayfish (Orconectes rusticus) behavior alter how crayfish i...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Reisinger LS,Lodge DM

更新日期：2016-06-01 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：:Edge effects are a dominant subject in landscape ecology literature, yet they are highly variable and poorly understood. Often, the literature suggests simple models for edge effects-positive (enhancement at the edge), negative (enhancement at the interior), or no effect (neutral)--on a variety of metrics, including a...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Carroll JM,Furman BT,Tettelbach ST,Peterson BJ

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes how to test, and potentially falsify, a multivariate causal hypothesis involving only observed variables (i.e., a path analysis) when the data have a hierarchical or multilevel structure, when different variables are potentially defined at different levels of such a hierarchy, and when different v...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Shipley B

更新日期：2009-02-01 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：: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：:In response to temporal changes in the quality and availability of food resources, consumers should adjust their foraging behavior in a manner that maximizes energy and nutrient intake and, when resources are limiting, minimizes dietary overlap with other consumers. Floodplains of the Amazon and its lowland tributarie...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Correa SB,Winemiller KO

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:Abstract. Physical attributes of rivers control the quantity and quality of energy sources available to consumers, but it remains untested whether geomorphic conditions of whole watersheds affect the assimilation of different resources by stream organisms. We compared the fatty acid (FA) compositions of two invertebra...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Smits AP,Schindler DE,Brett MT

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under a metacommunity framework, the spatial configuration of habitat fragments could determine local community structure. Yet, quantifying fragment connectivity is challenging, as it depends on multiple variables at several geographical scales. We assessed the extent to which fragment connectivity and area explain pa...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Santos M,Cagnolo L,Roslin T,Marrero HJ,Vázquez DP

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inherently multidimensional nature of the niche has not yet been integrated into the investigation of individual niche specialization within populations. We propose a framework for modeling the between- and within-individual components of the population niche as a set of variance-covariance matrices, which can be ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Ingram T,Costa-Pereira R,Araújo MS

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flowering sex ratios of dioecious plants are commonly male-biased but rarely female-biased. While greater costs of reproduction from females have been repeatedly demonstrated and explain male biases, male reproductive costs almost never exceed female costs, making the origins of female biases enigmatic. I investigated...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Shelton AO

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：: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：:A predictive framework for the ecology of species invasions requires that we learn what limits successful invaders in their native range. The red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta) is invasive in the United States, Puerto Rico, Australia, New Zealand, and China. Solenopsis invicta appears to be a superior competit...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Feener DH Jr,Orr MR,Wackford KM,Longo JM,Benson WW,Gilbert LE

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragmentation of landscapes is a pervasive source of environmental change. Although understanding the effects of fragmentation has occupied ecologists for decades, there remain important gaps in our understanding of the way that fragmentation influences mobile organisms. In particular, there is little tested theory ex...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Blackburn HB,Hobbs NT,Detling JK

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lianas (woody vines) are an important and dynamic component of many forests throughout the world, and increases in CO2, mean winter temperature, and forest fragmentation may promote their growth and proliferation in temperate forests. In this study, we used a 45-year data set to test the hypothesis that lianas have in...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Londré RA,Schnitzer SA

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although direct tree demographic responses to drought are widely recognized, studies of drought-mediated changes in tree interactions are rare. We hypothesize that drought exacerbates soil-water limitation and intensifies competition for water, but reduces light limitation and competition for light. We predict that co...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Chen Y,Uriarte M,Wright SJ,Yu S

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Competitive outcomes among plants can vary in different abiotic and biotic conditions. Here we tested the effects of two phylotypes of Alternaria endophytes on the growth, competitive effects, and competitive responses of the exotic invasive forb Centaurea stoebe. Centaurea stoebe was a better competitor against North...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Aschehoug ET,Metlen KL,Callaway RM,Newcombe G

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:Species richness has been shown to increase biomass production of plant communities. Such overyielding occurs when a community performs better than its component monocultures due to the complementarity or dominance effect and is mostly detected in substrate-bound plant communities (terrestrial plants or submerged macr...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Schmidtke A,Gaedke U,Weithoff G

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The existence of deterministic assembly rules for plant communities remains an important and unresolved topic in ecology. Most studies examining community assembly have sampled aboveground species diversity and composition. However, plants also coexist belowground, and many coexistence theories invoke belowground comp...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Price JN,Hiiesalu I,Gerhold P,Pärtel M

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Density dependence in vital rates is key to population regulation. Rather than being constant, the strength of density dependence may vary throughout the year, but empirical evidence is limited. Based on 22 years of data of color-banded birds from a recovering population of Eurasian Spoonbills Platalea leucorodia leuc...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Lok T,Overdijk O,Tinbergen JM,Piersma T

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurately evaluating the strengths of direct (i.e., consumptive and non-consumptive) effects and indirect (density- and trait-mediated) interactions is crucial for understanding the mechanisms of the maintenance and dynamics of an ecosystem. However, an in situ evaluation has not been conducted for a long enough peri...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Wada Y,Iwasaki K,Ida TY,Yusa Y

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the study of resource subsidies has emerged as a key topic in both ecosystem and food web ecology, the dialogue over their role has been limited by separate approaches that emphasize either subsidy quantity or quality. Considering quantity and quality together may provide a simple, but previously unexplored, ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Marcarelli AM,Baxter CV,Mineau MM,Hall RO Jr

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecologists are faced with the challenge of how to scale up from the activities of individual plants and animals to the macroscopic dynamics of populations and communities. It is especially difficult to do this in communities of plants where the fate of individuals depends on their immediate neighbors rather than an av...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Adams TP,Holland EP,Law R,Plank MJ,Raghib M

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population cycles of herbivores are thought to be driven by trophic interaction mechanisms, either between food plant and herbivore or between the herbivorous prey and its natural enemies. Observational data have indicated that hymenopteran parasitoids cause delayed density-dependent mortality in cyclic autumnal moth ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Klemola N,Andersson T,Ruohomäki K,Klemola T

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen (N) deposition in heavily polluted southern Californian shrublands is estimated to be 20-45 kg N x ha(-1) x yr(-1), but more exposed locales can receive as much as 145 kg N x ha(-1) x yr(-1). This large anthropogenic N input has the capacity to alter the composition of plant communities. We conducted N-fertil...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Vourlitis GL,Pasquini SC

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00