Exploring the role of temperature in the ocean through metabolic scaling.

abstract：:Community ecology has long focused on energy and nutrients as currencies of species interactions. Evidence from physiological ecology and recent studies suggest that in terrestrial systems, water may influence animal behavior and global patterns of species richness. Despite these observations, water has received littl...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： McCluney KE,Sabo JL

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioclimatic envelope models use associations between aspects of climate and species' occurrences to estimate the conditions that are suitable to maintain viable populations. Once bioclimatic envelopes are characterized, they can be applied to a variety of questions in ecology, evolution, and conservation. However, som...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Araújo MB,Peterson AT

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Density dependence could maintain diversity in forests, but studies continue to disagree on its role. Part of the disagreement results from the fact that different studies have evaluated different responses (survival, recruitment, or growth) of different stages (seeds, seedlings, or adults) to different inputs (densit...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Zhu K,Woodall CW,Monteiro JV,Clark JS

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An individual's competitive ability is often dependent on its size, but the methods commonly used to analyze plant competition experiments generally assume that the outcome of interactions are size independent. A method for the analysis of experiments with paired competition treatments based on nonlinear regression wi...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Lamb EG,Cahill JF,Dale MR

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Consumers can alter decomposition rates through both feces and selective feeding in many ecosystems, but these combined effects have seldom been examined in tropical ecosystems. Members of the detrital food web (litter-feeders or microbivores) should presumably have greater effects on decomposition than herbivores, me...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Prather CM,Belovsky GE,Cantrell SA,González G

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：:Limestone tropical forests represent a meaningful fraction of the land area in Central America (25%) and Southeast Asia (40%). These ecosystems are marked by high biological diversity, CO2 uptake capacity, and high pH soils, the latter making them fundamentally different from the majority of lowland tropical forest ar...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Winbourne JB,Brewer SW,Houlton BZ

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial habitat heterogeneity hypothesis posits that habitat complexity increases the abundance and diversity of species. In tropical forests, lianas add substantial habitat heterogeneity and complexity throughout the vertical forest profile, which may maintain animal abundance and diversity. The effects of lianas...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Schnitzer SA,Michel NL,Powers JS,Robinson WD

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expansion of shrubs and trees across high-latitude ecosystems is one of the most dramatic ecological manifestations of climate change. Most of the work quantifying these changes has been done in small areas and over relatively recent time scales. These land-cover transitions are highly spatially variable, and we h...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Brodie JF,Roland CA,Stehn SE,Smirnova E

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydraulic traits are important for woody plant functioning and distribution. Associations among hydraulic traits, other leaf and stem traits, and species' performance are relatively well understood for trees, but remain poorly studied for lianas. We evaluated the coordination among hydraulic efficiency (i.e., maximum ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： van der Sande MT,Poorter L,Schnitzer SA,Engelbrecht BMJ,Markesteijn L

更新日期：2019-05-01 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：:Using long-term data on two kangaroo rats in the Chihuahuan Desert of North America, we fitted logistic models including the exogenous effects of seasonal rainfall patterns. Our aim was to test the effects of intraspecific interactions and seasonal rainfall in explaining and predicting the numerical fluctuations of th...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Lima M,Ernest SK,Brown JH,Belgrano A,Stenseth NC

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodium (Na) has a unique role in food webs as a nutrient primarily limiting for plant consumers, but not other trophic levels. Environmental Na levels vary with proximity to coasts, local geomorphology, climate, and with anthropogenic inputs (e.g., road salt). We tested two key predictions across 54 grasslands in Nort...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Welti EAR,Sanders NJ,de Beurs KM,Kaspari M

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because sea otters (Enhydra lutris) exert a wide array of direct and indirect effects on coastal marine ecosystems throughout their geographic range, we investigated the potential influence of sea otters on the ecology of Bald Eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, USA. We studied the diets...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Anthony RG,Estes JA,Ricca MA,Miles AK,Forsman ED

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatially synchronous population dynamics are important to ecosystem functioning and have several potential causes. By looking at synchrony in plant productivity over 18 years across two elevations in three types of coastal marsh habitat dominated by different clonal plant species in Georgia, USA, we were able to expl...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Liu W,Pennings SC

更新日期：2020-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The predator satiation hypothesis posits that masting helps plants escape seed predation through starvation of predators in lean years, followed by satiation of predators in mast years. Importantly, successful satiation requires sufficiently delayed bottom-up effects of seed availability on seed consumers. However, so...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Bogdziewicz M,Marino S,Bonal R,Zwolak R,Steele MA

更新日期：2018-11-01 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：:Despite the recent advances in seed science research, information on seed dormancy and germination traits is still missing for many lineages of the seed plants. We translated and digitized a huge data set on seed dormancy and germination from the Reference Book On Dormant Seed Germination by M. Nikolaeva, M. Razumova,...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Rosbakh S,Baskin CC,Baskin JM

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predator-prey relationships in poikilotherms are often size dependent, such as when adults of two interacting species are capable of eating juveniles of the other species. Such bi-directional predation can be important during the establishment and spread of an invading species, but its role remains poorly understood. ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Fraser DF,Lamphere BA

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work suggests that animal water balance can influence trophic interactions, with predators increasing their consumption of water-laden prey to meet water demands. But it is unclear how the need for water interacts with the need for energy to drive trophic interactions under shifting conditions. Using manipula...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Leinbach IL,McCluney KE,Sabo JL

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the factors that affect the performance of plants in their natural environment, it is essential to study interactions with other neighboring plants, as well as with above- and belowground higher trophic organisms. We used a long-term field experiment to study how local plant community diversity influenced...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Bezemer TM,Harvey JA,Kowalchuk GA,Korpershoek H,van der Putten WH

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coral reefs are highly complex ecological systems, where multiple processes interact across scales in space and time to create assemblages of exceptionally high biodiversity. Despite the increasing frequency of hierarchically structured sampling programs used in coral-reef science, little progress has been made in qua...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： MacNeil MA,Graham NA,Polunin NV,Kulbicki M,Galzin R,Harmelin-Vivien M,Rushton SP

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predators can increase the biomass of their prey, particularly when prey life stages differ in competitive ability and predation is stage specific. Akin to predators, parasites influence host population sizes and engage in stage-structured interactions, yet whether parasites can increase host population biomass remain...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Preston DL,Sauer EL

更新日期：2020-04-01 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：:Many insect herbivores build shelters on plants, which are then colonized by other arthropod species. To understand the impacts of such ecosystem engineering on associated species, the contributions of ecosystem engineer and host-plant identities must be understood. We investigated these contingencies at the patch sca...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Wang HG,Marquis RJ,Baer CS

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photoautotrophs are generally considered to be the base of food webs, and habitats that lack light, such as caves, frequently rely on surface-derived carbon. Here we show, based on analysis of gut contents and stable isotope ratios of tissues (13C:12C and 15N:14N), that sulfur-oxidizing bacteria are directly consumed ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Roach KA,Tobler M,Winemiller KO

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil microbial communities have the metabolic and genetic capability to adapt to changing environmental conditions on very short time scales. In this paper we combine biogeochemical and molecular approaches to reveal this potential, showing that microbial biomass can turn over on time scales of days to months in soil,...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Schmidt SK,Costello EK,Nemergut DR,Cleveland CC,Reed SC,Weintraub MN,Meyer AF,Martin AM

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rare species play limited ecological roles, but particular behavioral traits may predispose species to become functionally extinct before becoming rare. Flying foxes (Pteropodid fruit bats) are important dispersers of large seeds, but their effectiveness is hypothesized to depend on high population density that induce...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： McConkey KR,Drake DR

更新日期：2006-02-01 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

abstract：:River systems form dendritic ecological networks that influence the spatial structure of riverine communities. Few empirical studies have evaluated how regional, dispersal-related processes and local habitat factors interact to govern network patterns of species composition. We explore such interactions in a boreal wa...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Kuglerová L,Jansson R,Sponseller RA,Laudon H,Malm-Renöfält B

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00