When is a type III functional response stabilizing? Theory and practice of predicting plankton dynamics under enrichment.

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：:Early environmental conditions can influence the pattern of growth and development. While poor conditions generally cause slower growth, normal adult size can still be reached if growth accelerates or is prolonged once conditions improve, but such catch-up growth may have deleterious effects later in life. Here we inv...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Lee WS,Monaghan P,Metcalfe NB

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of food web studies are based on connectivity, top-down impacts, bottom-up flows, or trophic position (TP), and ecologists have argued for decades which is best. Rarely have any two been considered simultaneously. The present study uses a procedure that integrates the last three approaches based on taxon-...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Benke AC

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple description of temporal dynamics of ecological communities may help us understand how community assembly proceeds, predict ecological responses to environmental disturbances, and improve the performance of biological conservation actions. Although community changes take place at multiple temporal scales, the ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Ontiveros VJ,Capitán JA,Casamayor EO,Alonso D

更新日期：2020-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We used tree ring data (AD 1601-2007) to examine the occurrence of and climatic influences on spruce beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis) outbreaks in south-central and southwest Alaska and found evidence of regional-scale outbreaks dating from the mid-1700s, related to climate variability at multiple temporal scales. Ove...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Sherriff RL,Berg EE,Miller AE

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A data set of common forest metrics was prepared using inventory data from Ecological Reserves in Maine, northeastern USA. An Ecological Reserve is generally defined as an area where timber harvesting does not occur and natural disturbance events are allowed to proceed without significant human influence. Beginning in...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Kuehne C,Puhlick J,Weiskittel A,Cutko A,Cameron D,Sferra N,Schlawin J

更新日期：2018-12-01 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：:Although many species face numerous predators in nature, the combined impact of multiple predators on the inducible defenses of prey has rarely been studied. Prey may respond with an intermediate phenotype that balances the risk from several sources or may simply respond to the most dangerous predator. I examined the ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Bourdeau PE

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predictive classifications of life histories are essential for evolutionary ecology. While attempts to apply a single approach to all organisms may be overambitious, recent advances suggest that more narrow ordination schemes can be useful. However, these schemes mostly lack easily observable proxies of the position o...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Davis RB,Javoiš J,Kaasik A,Õunap E,Tammaru T

更新日期：2016-08-01 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：: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：:Ecological communities are dynamic entities subjected to extinction/colonization events. Because species are connected through complex interaction networks, the arrival of a new species is likely to affect various species across the community, as observed in plant biological invasions. However, plant invasions usually...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Hernández-Castellano C,Rodrigo A,Gómez JM,Stefanescu C,Calleja JA,Reverté S,Bosch J

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is now ample evidence that biodiversity stabilizes aggregated ecosystem functions, such as primary production, in changing environments. In primary producer systems, this stabilizing effect is found to be driven by higher functional resistance (i.e., reduced changes in functions by environmental changes) rather ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Baert JM,De Laender F,Sabbe K,Janssen CR

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abiotic soil properties, plant community composition, and herbivory all have been reported as important factors influencing the composition of soil communities. However, most studies thus far have considered these factors in isolation, whereas they strongly interact in the field. Here, we study how grazing by vertebra...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Veen GF,Olff H,Duyts H,van der Putten WH

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Litter burning and biological decomposition are oxidative processes co-occurring in many terrestrial ecosystems, producing organic matter with different chemical properties and differently affecting plant growth and soil microbial activity. We tested the chemical convergence hypothesis, i.e., materials with different ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Bonanomi G,Incerti G,Abd El-Gawad AM,Cesarano G,Sarker TC,Saulino L,Lanzotti V,Saracino A,Rego FC,Mazzoleni S

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analyzing ecological data often requires modeling the autocorrelation created by spatial and temporal processes. Many seemingly disparate statistical methods used to account for autocorrelation can be expressed as regression models that include basis functions. Basis functions also enable ecologists to modify a wide r...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Hefley TJ,Broms KM,Brost BM,Buderman FE,Kay SL,Scharf HR,Tipton JR,Williams PJ,Hooten MB

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our ability to predict how temperature modifies phenology at the community scale is limited by our lack of understanding of responses by functional groups of flowering plants. These responses differ among species with different life histories. We performed a reciprocal transplant experiment along four elevation gradie...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Meng FD,Jiang LL,Zhang ZH,Cui SJ,Duan JC,Wang SP,Luo CY,Wang Q,Zhou Y,Li XE,Zhang LR,Li BW,Dorji T,Li YN,Du MY

更新日期：2017-03-01 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：: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：:Many terrestrial plant and marine benthic communities involve intense competition for space as a means to survive and reproduce. Superior competitors can dominate other species numerically with high reproductive rates, indirectly with high growth rates that facilitate space acquisition, or directly with competitive ov...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Lord J,Whitlatch R

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measures of body condition, immune function, and hematological health are widely used in ecological studies of vertebrate populations, predicated on the assumption that these traits are linked to fitness. However, compelling evidence that these traits actually predict long-term survival and reproductive success among ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Bowers EK,Hodges CJ,Forsman AM,Vogel LA,Masters BS,Johnson BG,Johnson LS,Thompson CF,Sakaluk SK

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecological research is increasingly concentrated at particular locations or sites. This trend reflects a variety of advantages of intensive, site-based research, but also raises important questions about the nature of such spatially delimited research: how well does site based research represent broader areas, and doe...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Fahey TJ,Templer PH,Anderson BT,Battles JJ,Campbell JL,Driscoll CT,Fusco AR,Green MB,Kassam KA,Rodenhouse NL,Rustad L,Schaberg PG,Vadeboncoeur MA

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The forage maturation hypothesis (FMH) states that herbivores should follow the onset of growth in spring to obtain access to forage of higher quality and quantity, the so-called "green wave surfing." Several studies have found correlative evidence in support of this by associating animal movement with plant phenology...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Rivrud IM,Heurich M,Krupczynski P,Müller J,Mysterud A

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A principal impact of invasive species is that they reduce local species richness. However, it is unknown whether the magnitude of the richness decrease has been consistent over the past two decades of published research. We used cumulative meta-analysis to synthesize evidence from 240 articles evaluating whether this...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Crystal-Ornelas R,Lockwood JL

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Grazing, fire, and climate shape mesic grassland communities. With global change altering all three factors, understanding how grasslands respond to changes in these combined drivers may aid in projecting future changes in grassland ecosystems. We manipulated rainfall and simulated grazing (clipping) in two long-term ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Koerner SE,Collins SL

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Consumer-resource systems with linear arrays of substitutable resources form the conceptual basis of much of present-day competition theory. However, most analyses of the limiting similarity of competitors have only employed consumer-resource models as a justification for using the Lotka-Volterra competition equations...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Abrams PA,Rueffler C

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological theory suggests that pathogens will not cause host extinctions because agents of disease should fade out when the host population is driven below a threshold density. Nevertheless, infectious diseases have threatened species with extinction on local scales by maintaining high incidence and the ability ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Ben-Horin T,Lenihan HS,Lafferty KD

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theory of invasion ecology indicates that the number of invading individuals (propagule size) and the timing of invasion are important for invasion success. Propagule size affects establishment success due to an Allee effect and the effect of demographic stochasticity, whereas the timing of invasion does so via niche ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Yamamichi M,Yoshida T,Sasaki A

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in metabolic scaling theory have highlighted the importance of exchange surfaces and vascular network geometry in understanding the integration and scaling of whole-plant form and function. Additional work on leaf form and function has also highlighted general scaling relationships for many leaf traits...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Price CA,Enquist BJ

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microorganisms drive biogeochemical processes, but linking these processes to real changes in microbial communities under field conditions is not trivial. Here, we present a model-based approach to estimate independent contributions of microbial community shifts to ecosystem properties. The approach was tested empiric...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Powell JR,Welsh A,Hallin S

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00