Interspecific competition for frugivores: population-level seed dispersal in contrasting fruiting communities.

abstract：:Herbivores decrease plant fitness by consuming reproductive tissues, limiting resources, and/or affecting mutualisms. Although these mechanisms were extensively tested in chewing herbivores, the impact of other functional groups (e.g., sap-feeders) remains poorly understood. We investigated whether aphids affect plant...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Devegili AM,Chalcoff VR

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecological systems have naturally high interannual variance in phenology. Component species have presumably evolved to maintain appropriate phenologies under historical climates, but cases of inappropriate phenology can be expected with climate change. Understanding controls on phenology permits predictions of ecologi...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Valtonen A,Ayres MP,Roininen H,Pöyry J,Leinonen R

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I suggest that between-community variations in diversity patterns during succession in plant communities are due to the effects of selection on life history strategies under different disturbance regimes. Natural disturbances to plant communities are simultaneously a source of mortality for some individuals and a sour...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Denslow JS

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A key question in savanna ecology is how trees and grasses coexist under N limitation. We used N stable isotopes and N content to study N source partitioning across seasons from trees and associated grasses in a semi-arid savanna. We also used (15)N tracer additions to investigate possible redistribution of N by trees...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Priyadarshini KV,Prins HH,de Bie S,Heitkönig IM,Woodborne S,Gort G,Kirkman K,Fry B,de Kroon H

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful reproduction in a seasonal environment can be accomplished with resources that are stored before use ("capital resources") or resources that are used immediately ("income resources"). Research examining capital versus income resource usage during reproduction has primarily focused on assigning species to po...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Fletcher QE,Landry-Cuerrier M,Boutin S,McAdam AG,Speakman JR,Humphries MM

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gas exchange measurements of two arctic tundra plants, Dupontia fischeri and Carex aquatilis, and two alpine tundra species, Deschampsia caespitosa and Geum rossii, were conducted under a range of atmospheric and soil moisture stress conditions to determine if photosynthetic adaptations to water stress may play a role...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Johnson DA,Caldwell MM

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon dioxide efflux and soil microenvironmental factors were measured diurnally in Carex aquatilus-and Eriophorum angustifolium-dominated riparian tundra communities to determine the relative importance of soil environmental factors controlling ecosystem carbon dioxide exchange with the atmosphere. Measurements were...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Oberbauer SF,Gillespie CT,Cheng W,Gebauer R,Serra AS,Tenhunen JD

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：: Field phenologies of high- (ca. 1500 m) and low- (ca. 500 m) altitude populations of the two most common European species of dung flies, Scathophaga stercoraria and Sepsis cynipsea, differ quite markedly due to differences in climate. To differentiate genetic adaptation due to natural selection and phenotypic plastic...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Blanckenhorn WU

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two atlantic voyages were made by the FS Meteor during which pollen and spores were collected from the air. In the course of 32 days the average pollen content was 29/100 m3 air, the average spore content came to 5x104/100 m3 air. Both voyages occurred in late autumn. On the trip from Hamburg to the Azores the spore c...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Stix E

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison of photosynthetic adaptations of desert ephemerals from sun and shade environments has shown differences in the magnitude and timing of maximum CO2 assimilation. Photosynthetic rates of species from the sun environment were significantly higher, and maximum observed levels occurred both earlier in the day...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Wallace CS,Szarek SR

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Declines in density of one natural, three artificially-seeded and eight experimental populations of Anadara granosa were monitored over periods ranging from seven to twelve months. For three of four large populations the decline in density has been adequately described by a model of the form N t=N 0·e zt where N t is ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Broom MJ

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper considers prey size selection by four molluscivorous cichlids feeding on the intermediate host snail of Schistosoma parasites, Biomphalaria glabrata. Haplochromis ishmaeli obtains its prey by crushing the snails between the pharyngeal jaws, whereas H. xenognathus, H. sauvagei and Macropleurodus bicolor appl...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Slootweg R

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we test three plant species for the inducibility of their alkaloid production. The plants were heavily damaged by cutting off 50% of their leaf surface using a pair of scissors. The cut-off leaf tips were used as controls for possible diurnal fluctuations. After 3, 6, 12, 24 and 48 h, respectively, the l...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： van Dam NM,van der Meijden E,Verpoorte R

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Alexander Archipelago wolf (Canis lupus ligoni) is unique to southeast Alaska, occurring on islands south of Frederick Sound and along the mainland between Dixon Entrance and Yakutat Bay. Sitka black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus sitkensis) are an important prey species for wolves across the southern part of th...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Szepanski MM,Ben-David M,Van Ballenberghe V

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cladoceran hatching frequency can easily be calculated from observed egg age distribution and estimated egg development time. The large timelag errors of models incorporating birth rates in the equation are avoided, and the population growth rate can be estimated directly. ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Johnsen G

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteolytic activity in the gut contents of two cichlids and six cyprinids from an artificial basin in Sri Lanka was measured using a simple film strip method. This comparative study contributes to our general knowledge of digestion in herbivorous fish: 1) Specific proteolytic activity (per ml of gut content) is lower...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hofer R,Schiemer F

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As primary producers, plants are known to influence higher trophic interactions by initiating food chains. However, as architects, plants may bypass consumers to directly affect predators with important but underappreciated trophic ramifications. Invasion of western North American grasslands by the perennial forb, spo...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Pearson DE

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changing environments can have divergent effects on biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships at alternating trophic levels. Freshwater mussels fertilize stream foodwebs through nutrient excretion, and mussel species-specific excretion rates depend on environmental conditions. We asked how differences in mussel di...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Spooner DE,Vaughn CC,Galbraith HS

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thermoregulatory significance of a striped-melanic colour polymorphism in the common garter snake, Thamnophis sirtalis, was assessed through a combination of labortory experimentation and field study. In experiments with living snakes the melanic morph maintained a higher body temperature than the striped morph, w...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ralph Gibson A,Bruce Falls J

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The locomotor activity of European salamanders differs from species to species. At all stages of development Triturus vulgaris is more light-active, Salamandra salamandra is dark-active, while Triturus alpestris and cristatus occupy an intermediate position. 2. The activity of the larvae is high but the rhythm is n...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Himstedt W

更新日期：1971-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate change has been shown to affect the timing of reproduction, with earlier reproduction being associated with an increase in temperature. Changes in the timing of reproduction arise from changes in food availability as well as other factors, and differences in the timing of reproduction among sites may cause sit...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Møller AP

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of irrigation and nitrogen fertilization in early summer on root and shoot growth of Atriplex confertifolia, a C4 shrub species, was examined in a cold-winter desert community in northern Utah. Soil water and xylem pressure potentials were monitored during the summer period.At the time of watering the su...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hodgkinson KC,Johnson PS,Norton BE

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Terpenoid emissions from ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa subsp. scopulorum) were measured in Colorado, USA over two growing seasons to evaluate the role of incident light, needle temperature, and stomatal conductance in controlling emissions of 2-methyl-3-buten-2-ol (MBO) and several monoterpenes. MBO was the dominant...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Harley P,Eller A,Guenther A,Monson RK

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution and movements of two stoat populations were studied by capture-recapture and tracking in the Swiss Jura Mountains. On the Brévine area in summer 1977 the population was at a high density phase and evenly distributed. A well established intrasexual territorial system was observed, with a high degree of...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Debrot S,Mermod C

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the hypothesis that leaves of broad-leaved tree species are more highly defended at low latitudes than at high latitudes. We used canonical discriminant analysis to compare tree species from Panama (9°N, 39 species), Missouri, USA (38°N, 37 species), and southern Ontario, Canada (44°N, 34 species) with respe...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Marquis RJ,Ricklefs RE,Abdala-Roberts L

更新日期：2012-07-01 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：:Seedlings of six subtropical rainforest tree species representing early (Omalanthus populifolius, Solanum aviculare), middle (Duboisia myoporoides, Euodia micrococca) and late (Acmena ingens, Argyrodendron actinophyllum) successional stages in forest development were grown in a glasshouse, under four levels of neutral...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Turnbull MH

更新日期：1991-06-01 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：:One explanation for long-term fluctuations in population density is that the intensity of interactions between species is variable. A population can experience variation in the intensity of a species interaction if (1) the density of species with which it directly interacts changes and/or (2) the strength of the inter...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Chalcraft DR,Andrews RM

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to test the role of disturbance and the effects of disturbance frequency on stream communities, an experiment was conducted in New Hope Creek, North Carolina, USA. Patches of cobbles were tumbled 0, 1 or 2 times in a 6 week span. These tumbling disturbances lasted only 30 seconds. The recovery of the macroinv...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Reice SR

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00