Galápagos mockingbirds tolerate introduced parasites that affect Darwin's finches.

abstract：:Disturbance such as wildfire may create opportunities for plant communities to reorganize in response to climate change. The interaction between climate change and disturbance may be particularly important in forests, where many of the foundational plant species (trees) are long-lived and where poor initial tree estab...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Young DJN,Werner CM,Welch KR,Young TP,Safford HD,Latimer AM

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial distribution of species is not random; instead, individuals tend to gather, resulting in a non-random pattern. Previous studies used the independent negative binomial distribution (NBD) to model the distributional aggregation of a single species, in which the independence of the distribution of individuals...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Chen Y,Shen TJ,Condit R,Hubbell SP

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For decades, ecologists have been testing for species saturation by using regression analysis to determine the relationship between local and regional species richness. The cumulative result of scores of studies and meta-analyses has led to a general consensus that evidence of species saturation is relatively uncommon...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Szava-Kovats RC,Ronk A,Pärtel M

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyze an age-, size- and sex-structured model to investigate how the interplay between individual-level energy budget dynamics and the feedback of population grazing on resources shapes the individual life history and the dynamics of ungulate populations, living in a predator-free, seasonal resource environment. ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： De Roos AM,Galic N,Heesterbeek H

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The data set provided here includes 8,320 frugivory interactions (records of pairwise interactions between plant and frugivore species) reported for the Atlantic Forest. The data set includes interactions between 331 vertebrate species (232 birds, 90 mammals, 5 fishes, 1 amphibian, and 3 reptiles) and 788 plant specie...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Bello C,Galetti M,Montan D,Pizo MA,Mariguela TC,Culot L,Bufalo F,Labecca F,Pedrosa F,Constantini R,Emer C,Silva WR,da Silva FR,Ovaskainen O,Jordano P

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wind disturbance profoundly shapes temperate forests but few studies have evaluated patterns and mechanisms of long-term forest dynamics following major windthrows. In 1990, we initiated a large hurricane simulation experiment in a 0.8-ha manipulation (pulldown) and 0.6-ha control area of a maturing Quercus rubra--Ace...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Plotkin AB,Foster D,Carlson J,Magill A

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adaptive nature of sociality has long been a central question in ecology and evolution. However, the relative importance of social behavior for fitness, compared to morphology and environment, remains largely unknown. We assessed the importance of sociality for fitness (lamb production and survival) in a populatio...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Vander Wal E,Festa-Bianchet M,Réale D,Coltman DW,Pelletier F

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intensive land use activities, such as agriculture, are a leading cause of biodiversity loss and can have lasting impacts on ecological systems. Yet, few studies have investigated how land-use legacies impact phylogenetic diversity (the total amount of evolutionary history in a community) or how restoration activities...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Turley NE,Brudvig LA

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the major mechanisms of plant diversification has been the evolution of polyploid populations that differ from their diploid progenitors in morphology, physiology, and environmental tolerances. Recent studies have indicated that polyploidy may also have major effects on ecological interactions with herbivores a...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Thompson JN,Merg KF

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nutritional imbalances are of great interest in the ecological stoichiometry literature, in which researchers have focused almost exclusively on cases where nutrients are available in low amounts relative to energy (carbon), and animal growth is impaired due to insufficient nutrient intake. Little attention has been g...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Boersma M,Elser JJ

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small streams account for the majority of channel length in river basins worldwide and are the primary conveyors of terrestrial nutrients to rivers and ultimately the oceans. The controls of stream nutrient fluxes, however, are debated. Classical models emphasize that nutrient transport in streams integrates nutrient ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Brookshire EN,Valett HM,Gerber S

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasites are ubiquitous in natural systems and ecosystem-level effects should be proportional to the amount of biomass or energy flow altered by the parasites. Here we quantified the extent to which a manipulative parasite altered the flow of energy through a forest-stream ecosystem. In a Japanese headwater stream, c...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Sato T,Watanabe K,Kanaiwa M,Niizuma Y,Harada Y,Lafferty KD

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate variability, which is expected to increase in the future, can promote coexistence through a mechanism called the storage effect. Currently, we have little understanding of how the importance of the storage effect varies among ecosystems. We tested for the three conditions of the storage effect in a sagebrush s...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Adler PB,HilleRisLambers J,Levine JM

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fundamental gaps remain in our knowledge of how positive species interactions, such as facilitation and mutualism, structure and maintain populations and communities. Foundation species create extensive biogenic habitats, but we know little of how their traits, such as density, age, and patch size, modify their abilit...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Irving AD,Bertness MD

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparing the structure of presence/absence (i.e., binary) matrices with those of randomized counterparts is a common practice in ecology. However, differences in the randomization procedures (null models) can affect the results of the comparisons, leading matrix structural patterns to appear either "random" or not. S...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Strona G,Ulrich W,Gotelli NJ

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Habitat fragmentation produces small, spatially isolated populations that promote inbreeding. Remnant populations often contain inbred and outbred individuals, but it is unclear how inbreeding relative to outbreeding affects the expression of functional traits and biotic interactions such as herbivory. We measured a s...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Kittelson PM,Wagenius S,Nielsen R,Qazi S,Howe M,Kiefer G,Shaw RG

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population cycles in forest Lepidoptera often result from recurring density-dependent epizootics of entomopathogens. While these systems are typically dominated by a single pathogen species, insects are often infected by multiple pathogens, yet little is known how pathogens interact to affect host dynamics. The appare...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Liebhold AM,Plymale R,Elkinton JS,Hajek AE

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many young birds on the Arctic tundra are confronted by a challenging task: they must molt their feathers and accumulate fat stores for the autumn migration before climatic conditions deteriorate. Our understanding of the costs and constraints associated with these stages is extremely limited. We investigated post-juv...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Bonier F,Martin PR,Jensen JP,Butler LK,Ramenofsky M,Wingfield JC

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climatic extremes, such as severe drought, are expected to increase in frequency and magnitude with climate change. Thus, identifying mechanisms of resilience is critical to predicting the vulnerability of ecosystems. An exceptional drought (

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Wilcox KR,Koerner SE,Hoover DL,Borkenhagen AK,Burkepile DE,Collins SL,Hoffman AM,Kirkman KP,Knapp AK,Strydom T,Thompson DI,Smith MD

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

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：:Soil fungi link above- and belowground carbon (C) fluxes through their interactions with plants and contribute to C and nutrient dynamics through the production, turnover, and activity of fungal hyphae. Despite their importance to ecosystem processes, estimates of hyphal production and turnover rates are relatively un...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Cheeke TE,Phillips RP,Kuhn A,Rosling A,Fransson P

更新日期：2020-11-23 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：:Interference competition may lead to a tragedy of the commons in which individuals driven by self-interest reduce the fitness of the entire group. We investigated this hypothesis in Allenby's gerbils, Gerbillus andersoni allenbyi, by comparing foraging behaviors of single vs. pairs of gerbils. We recorded strong inter...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Berger-Tal O,Embar K,Kotler BP,Saltz D

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative successional trajectories (AST) may result in multiple climax states within an ecosystem when disturbances affect colonization history. In the boreal forest, ungulates have been proposed to drive AST because, under herbivore pressure, preferred species may go extinct and apparent competition may benefit br...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Hidding B,Tremblay JP,Côté SD

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The limits on annual seed production have long been characterized as restriction by either pollination success or resource provision to seed development. This expected dichotomy between pollen and resource limitation is based on the assumption that reproductive resources are fixed, which is reasonable for semelparous ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Ida TY,Harder LD,Kudo G

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:What determines the seasonal and interannual variation of growth rates in trees in a tropical forest? We explore this question with a novel four-year high-temporal-resolution data set of carbon allocation from two forest plots in the Bolivian Amazon. The forests show strong seasonal variation in tree wood growth rates...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Doughty CE,Malhi Y,Araujo-Murakami A,Metcalfe DB,Silva-Espejo JE,Arroyo L,Heredia JP,Pardo-Toledo E,Mendizabal LM,Rojas-Landivar VD,Vega-Martinez M,Flores-Valencia M,Sibler-Rivero R,Moreno-Vare L,Viscarra LJ,Chuviru-Castro

更新日期：2014-08-01 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：:The consequences of declining biodiversity remain controversial, in part because many studies focus on a single metric of ecosystem functioning and fail to consider diversity's integrated effects on multiple ecosystem functions. We used tide pool microcosms as a model system to show that different conclusions about th...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Bracken ME,Stachowicz JJ

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many pest species exhibit huge fluctuations in population abundance. Understanding their large-scale and long-term dynamics is necessary to develop effective control and management strategies. Occupancy models represent a promising approach to unravel interactions between environmental factors and spatiotemporal dynam...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Veran S,Simpson SJ,Sword GA,Deveson E,Piry S,Hines JE,Berthier K

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00