Seasonal variation in exploitative competition between honeybees and bumblebees.

abstract：:Interspecific hybridization is an important and common evolutionary mechanism, but field-based evaluations of changes in realized niches and zonation patterns of native and exotic hybrids relative to those of their parental plant species are rare. Would native hybrids forming hybrid zones between their parental specie...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gallego-Tévar B,Curado G,Grewell BJ,Figueroa ME,Castillo JM

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In both single- and mixed-species social groups, certain participants are known to play important roles in providing benefits. Identifying these participants is critical for understanding group dynamics, but is often difficult with large roving social groups in the wild. Here, we develop a new approach to characterize...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Sridhar H,Shanker K

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of studies at large scales have pointed out that abiotic factors and recolonization dynamics appear to be more important than biotic interactions in structuring stream-fish assemblages. In contrast, experimental and field studies at small scales show the importance of competition among stream fishes. However,...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Peres-Neto PR

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is important to understand the role that different predators can have to be able to predict how changes in the predator assemblage may affect the prey community and ecosystem attributes. We tested the effects of different stream predators on macroinvertebrates and ecosystem attributes, in terms of benthic algal bio...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Nilsson E,Olsson K,Persson A,Nyström P,Svensson G,Nilsson U

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the stream-dwelling isopod Lirceus fontinalis, males and females engage in a precopulatory mate guarding phase prior to mating. We examined the energetic costs of mate guarding behavior in males by separately assaying glycogen and lipid content at different time increments following mating. We found that males that...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Sparkes TC,Keogh DP,Pary RA

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intensity of resource exploitation by phytophagous insects is usually considered to reflect population size. For populations of two flowerhead-attacking tephritid flies, however, the resources utilised were not related to the numbers of searching adults. Tephritis bardanae Schrank attacked 11-13% of the total flow...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Straw NA

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major goal of modern ecology is to understand macroecological patterns based on their mechanistic underpinnings. The metabolic theory of ecology predicts a monotonic increase of biodiversity with temperature based on the principles of metabolism. For marine copepods, observations have shown that while biodiversity d...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Record NR,Pershing AJ,Maps F

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the relationships between body size and (a) abundance and (b) host specificity in fleas parasitic on small mammals (rodents and shrews) in the Palearctic taking into account the confounding effect of phylogeny. We tested these relationships both across 127 flea species and within separate phylogenetic clade...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Surkova EN,Warburton EM,van der Mescht L,Khokhlova IS,Krasnov BR

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The random-mixing assumptions of many parasite-transmission models are challenged if healthy individuals can alter their behaviour to reduce their risk of infection. Some pathogens reduce the attractiveness of their hosts' excretions, for example, potentially altering contact rates and thus the predicted force of infe...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hughes NK,Helsen S,Tersago K,Leirs H

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CO2 assimilation of primary foliage of red maple (Acer rubrum L.) and red oak (Quercus rubra L.), and of regrowth foliage produced in response to simulated insect defoliation, was measured throughout the season by infrared gas analysis: parallel measurements of leaf conductance were obtained by ventilated diffusio...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Heichel GH,Turner NC

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested whether interspecific competition from Aedes albopictus had measurable effects on A. aegypti at the typical numbers of larval mosquitoes found in cemetery vases in south Florida. We also tested whether the effect of interspecific competition from A. albopictus on A. aegypti differed between sites where A. ae...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Juliano SA,Lounibos LP,O'Meara GF

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental size, as measured by cross-sectional area of the inhabited streams, and population density of Oxytrema proxima are related by the power function Y=8.074X -0.584, where Y=population density and X=cross-sectional area of the stream. Relationships were also found between maximum size and biomass and cross-s...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Foin TC Jr,Stiven AE

更新日期：1970-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to determine the influence of the hydrogen-ion concentration on the damage exerted to lichens by sulfur dioxide gas, thalli of the species Hypogymnia physodes and Xanthoria parietina were submerged in buffer solutions of pH 2 to pH 8 and subsequently exposed to SO2 gas. Net photosynthesis was employed as a cr...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Türk R,Wirth V

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasticity in life history strategies can be advantageous for species that occupy spatially or temporally variable environments. We examined how phenotypic plasticity influences responses of the mole salamander, Ambystoma talpoideum, to disturbance events at the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge (SMNWR), FL, USA from...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Davis CL,Miller DA,Walls SC,Barichivich WJ,Riley J,Brown ME

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined how independent and interactive effects of CO2 concentrations, water supply and wind speed affect growth rates, biomass partitioning, water use efficiency, diffusive conductance and stomatal density of plants. To test the prediction that wind stress will be ameliorated by increased CO2 and/or by unrestrict...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Retuerto R,Woodward FI

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Like many polyphagous herbivores, individuals of Sarasinula plebeia (Fischer) (Soleolifera: Veronicellidae) consume a variety of plant species that may differ in nutritional content. In this study we determined the ability of these slugs to compensate for such variation in diet composition. Dilution with water of an a...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Rueda AA,Slansky F Jr,Wheeler GS

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the mechanisms by which populations are regulated is critical for predicting the effects of large-scale perturbations. While discrete mortality events provide clear evidence of direct impacts, indirect pathways are more difficult to assess but may play important roles in population and ecosystem dynamics...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Schmidt JH,Putera J,Wilson TL

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraspecific variation in behavior and diet can have important consequences for population and ecosystem dynamics. Here, we examine how differences in reproductive investment and spatial ecology influence individual diet specialization in male and female southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis). We hypothesize tha...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Smith EA,Newsome SD,Estes JA,Tinker MT

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of irradiance during growth on biomass allocation, growth rates, leaf chlorophyll and protein contents, and on gas exchange responses to irradiance and CO2 partial pressures of the evergreen, sclerophyllous, chaparral shrub, Ceanothus megacarpus were determined. Plants were grown at 4 irradiances for the g...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Mahall BE,Schlesinger WH

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osmoderma eremita is a species of beetle that inhabits hollows in ancient trees, which is a habitat that has decreased significantly during the last century. In southeastern Sweden, we studied the metapopulation dynamics of this beetle over a 25 year period, using capture-mark-recapture. The metapopulation size had be...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Lindman L,Larsson MC,Mellbrand K,Svensson GP,Hedin J,Tranberg O,Ranius T

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Northern hemispheric background concentrations of ozone are increasing, but few studies have assessed the ecological significance of these changes for grasslands of high conservation value under field conditions. We carried out a 3-year field experiment in which ozone was released at a controlled rate over three exper...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Wedlich KV,Rintoul N,Peacock S,Cape JN,Coyle M,Toet S,Barnes J,Ashmore M

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of the response of vascular, terrestrial plants to nitrogen (N) addition is advanced and provides the foundation for modern agriculture. In comparison, information on responses of marine macroalgae to increased nitrogen is far less developed. We investigated how in situ pulses of nitrate (NO3 (-)) af...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Stephens TA,Hepburn CD

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For a symbiosis to be a mutualism, benefits received must exceed costs incurred for both partners. Partners can prevent costly overexploitation through behaviors that moderate interactions with the other symbiont. In a symbiosis between crayfish and branchiobdellidan annelids, the worms can increase crayfish survival ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Farrell KJ,Creed RP,Brown BL

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A stage-by-stage protocol for identifying simple or biased lottery, or non-lottery, patterns of seedling recruitment is outlined. For a simple (weighted) lottery to apply, the proportion of total individuals accounted for by one species at one stage of recruitment plotted against the proportion accounted for at a prev...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Lamont BB,Witkowski ET

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies focused on how prey trade-off predation and starvation risk are prevalent in behavioral ecology. However, our current understanding of these trade-offs is limited in one key respect: we know little about the behavior of predators. In this study, we provide some of the first detailed information on temporal pat...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Roth TC 2nd,Lima SL

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatiotemporal variation in the interactions among plants and animals is widespread; yet our conceptual and empirical understanding of this variation is limited to a few types of visitors, mainly herbivores, pollinators, seed predators, and seed dispersers. Despite the ubiquity of nectar robbing and the strength of it...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Irwin RE,Maloof JE

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As described earlier, the native arido-active perennial Hammada scoparia and the cultivated Prunus armeniaca exhibit characteristic seasonal shifts of their temperature optimum of net photosynthesis (OP) under desert conditions in the Negev. In the present paper the OP values were compared with the actual tissue tempe...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Lange OL,Schulze ED,Evenari M,Kappen L,Buschbom U

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) is an abundant weed in its native North America, despite supporting a wide range of natural enemies. Here, we tested whether these enemies have significant impacts on the performance of this plant in its native range. We excluded enemies from the three principal life-history st...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： MacDonald AA,Kotanen PM

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physiological responses to elevated CO2 at the leaf and canopy-level were studied in an intact pine (Pinus taeda) forest ecosystem exposed to elevated CO2 using a free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) technique. Normalized canopy water-use of trees exposed to elevated CO2 over an 8-day exposure period was similar to that of ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ellsworth DS,Oren R,Huang C,Phillips N,Hendrey GR

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of seed germination phenology is an important aspect of the life history strategy of invading annual plant species. In the obligately selfing winter annual grass Bromus tectorum, seeds are at least conditionally dormant at dispersal in early summer and lose dormancy through dry-afterripening. Patterns of ge...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Meyer SE,Allen PS

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00