A meta-analysis of the response of soil respiration, net nitrogen mineralization, and aboveground plant growth to experimental ecosystem warming.

abstract：:We examined the relative ability of multiple factors to explain variation in two interrelated life-history traits, interclutch interval and annual reproductive success, in feral pigeons. Seasonal influences, brood size, and female body mass and tarsus length explained significant amounts of variation in interclutch in...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Johnson SG,Johnston RF

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the tropical dry forest of the central Pacific coast of Mexico the pollination and reproductive success of the bombacaceous tree Ceiba grandiflora was negatively affected by habitat disruption. Two of the three bat species that function as effective pollinators for this species ( Glossophaga soricina and Musonycter...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Quesada M,Stoner KE,Rosas-Guerrero V,Palacios-Guevara C,Lobo JA

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mixed infections, where more than one parasite genotype is present in a single host, have been suggested to be an important factor in host-parasite interactions. As the host represents a limited resource, co-infecting parasite genotypes are expected to be under resource competition. Competition will not only modify th...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Vizoso DB,Ebert D

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of generalisations concerning plant responses to herbivory are based on studies of natural or simulated defoliation. However, effects caused by insects feeding on plant sap are likely to differ from the effects of folivory. We assessed the general patterns and sources of variation in the effects of sap fe...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Zvereva EL,Lanta V,Kozlov MV

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Northern deer populations are typically partially migratory, but the relationship between migratory movements and parasites has received little attention. Migration often involves movement from a low-elevation winter range towards a summer range at higher elevation. In Europe these movements may also involve a gradien...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Mysterud A,Qviller L,Meisingset EL,Viljugrein H

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The duration times of the eggs, nauplii and copepodites of Cyclops vicinus and Eudiaptomus gracilis were obtained, by experiment, at 5, 10, 15 and 20°C. In contrast with previously published work on copepod development, the ovigerous females, used in the cultures at these temperatures, were removed from a water storag...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Munro IG

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herbivores can have strong deleterious effects on plant growth, reproduction, and even survival. Because these effects might be strongly interrelated, the direct consumptive effects of herbivores and a variety of indirect effects are difficult to untangle. Reductions in growth, for example, may strongly impact the flo...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Brys R,Shefferson RP,Jacquemyn H

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid and often remote location of suitable habitats used by migrating organisms is often critical to their subsequent recruitment, fitness and survival, and this includes in the marine environment. However, for the non-feeding post-larval stage of spiny lobsters, effective settlement cues for habitat selection ar...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Stanley JA,Hesse J,Hinojosa IA,Jeffs AG

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Models incorporating the energetics of individual daphnids (Cladocera) have been developed to predict the effect of environmental variables, particularly food availability, on population dynamics. One of them, that of Kooijman (1986), assumes that all assimilated energy enters a storage compartment prior to use in pro...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Bradley MC,Perrin N,Calow P

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The respiratory physiology of four species of Australian desert-dwelling beetle was examined using a flow-through respirometry system over the temperature range of 20-40°C. The two species of tenebrionid beetles (Heleus waitei and Pterohelaeus sp.) did not exhibit the discontinuous gas exchange cycles (DGC), a mechani...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Duncan FD,Dickman CR

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our experiments addressed systemic metabolic effects in above-ground plant tissue as part of the plant's response to the arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) interaction. Due to the physiology of this interaction, we expected effects in the areas of plant mineral nutrition, carbon allocation and stress-related metabolism, but ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Fester T,Fetzer I,Buchert S,Lucas R,Rillig MC,Härtig C

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used Y-plant, a computer-based model of crown architecture, to examine the implications of leaf reorientation resulting from petiole bending in Psychotria limonensis (Rubiaceae) seedlings. During this reorientation process, bending of the petioles of lower leaves that are potentially self-shaded by the upper leaves...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gálvez D,Pearcy RW

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Habitat fragmentation poses an inherent problem for metacommunity dynamics, as dispersal among communities is hindered by increasing isolation and the loss of patches. Wetlands are one such system that have undergone excessive destruction and fragmentation in recent years. Zooplankton within these communities have his...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Allen MR

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bromus tectorum L. dominates sites of large-scale disturbance, while Poa pratensis L. dominates the sites of small-scale disturbance in the Festuca/Symphoricarpos habitat type in eastern Washington (USA). The role of incident irradiation in influencing these distributions was examined using field and glasshouse experi...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Bookman PA,Mack RN

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasites can generate complex life history trade-offs in a host. In this study, we experimentally reduced the infection level of intestinal helminth parasites in the Taiwan field mouse (Apodemus semotus) to test (1) whether parasite richness and load are biased towards male or female mice (sex-biased parasitism) and ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Lo HY,Shaner PL

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：: Fluorogenic substrate analogues (MUF substrates) are very sensitive in detecting hydrolytic enzymes. This method was adapted for the quantitative analysis of extracellular enzymes in snails and other animals. It was then used to determine cellobiase, chitobiase, protease, esterase, phosphatase and lipase in the diges...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Brendelberger H

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analysed the importance of worker ants (Proformica longiseta, Formicidae) as pollinators of a mass-flowering woody plant (Hormathophylla spinosa, Cruciferae) in the high-mountain area of the Sierra Nevada (southern Spain). We have quantified the abundance and foraging behavior of P. longiseta in comparison wit...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gómez JM,Zamora R

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Size thresholds commonly underlie the induction of alternative morphological states. However, the respective importance of absolute and relative size to such thresholds remains uncertain. If absolute size governs expression, morph frequency should differ among environments that influence absolute sizes (e.g. resources...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Moore MP,Pechmann JHK,Whiteman HH

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate that natural heat stress on wild larval Drosophila melanogaster results in severe developmental defects in >10% of eclosing adults, and that increased copy number of the gene encoding the major inducible heat shock protein of D. melanogaster, Hsp70, is sufficient to reduce the incidence of such abnormal...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Roberts SP,Feder ME

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By analogy with deterministic stability, the stability of stochastic ecological systems can be viewed as a tendency for population densities to avoid dynamic boundaries (i.e. boundedness) or to approach a dynamic attractor (i.e. attraction). At the population level, these two views generate predictions consistent with...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Crowley PH

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past 10 million years, tropical savanna environments have selected for small growth forms within woody plant lineages. The result has been the evolution of subshrubs (geoxyles), presumably as an adaptation to frequent fire. To evaluate the traits associated with the shift from tree to subshrub growth forms, w...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Giroldo AB,Scariot A,Hoffmann WA

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For unicellular organisms, a lack of effects of local species richness on ecosystem function has been proposed due to their locally high species richness and their ubiquitous distribution. High dispersal ability and high individual numbers may enable unicellular taxa to occur everywhere. Using our own and published da...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hillebrand H,Watermann F,Karez R,Berninger UG

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to the plant vigour hypothesis, galling insects should respond positively and perform better on vigorous plants or plant parts, the opposite of the predictions of the plant stress hypothesis. I carried out field experiments to analyse the effects of sustained abiotic stress on the interactions between the co...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： De Bruyn L

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dormancy is a common way in which organisms survive environmental conditions that would be lethal to the active individual. However, while dormant, individuals forego reproduction. Hence theory suggests an optimal time in which to enter dormancy, depending on risks associated with both remaining active and entering do...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Cáceres CE,Tessier AJ

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have been releasing economically unimportant herbivorous mites of one species early in the season and protecting grapevines against another, more damaging herbivorous mite throughout the growing season. In this experiment, releases of economically unimportant Willamette mites alone, or of predatory mites alone, fai...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Karban R,Hougen-Eitzmann D,English-Loeb G

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of litter has the potential to alter the population dynamics of plants. In this paper, we explore the effects of litter on population dynamics using a simple experimental laboratory system with populations of the annual crucifer, Cardamine pensylvanica. Using a factorial experiment with four densities and...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Molofsky J,Lanza J,Crone EE

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predators have far-reaching effects on communities by triggering top-down trophic cascades that influence ecosystem functioning. Omnivory and intraguild interactions between predators give rise to reticulate food webs and may either strengthen or dampen trophic cascades depending on context. Disentangling the effects ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Mestre L,Piñol J,Barrientos JA,Espadaler X

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has commonly been assumed that pollinator energy intake increases with flowering plant density, and visitation to flowers should therefore be higher in denser stands. I therefore investigated the relationship between flight distance and flight time for bumblebees and butterflies foraging on Senecio integerrimus and...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Schmitt J

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we test the influence of temperature and interference competition by dominant species on the foraging of subordinate species in Mediterranean ant communities. We have analyzed the changes in resource use by subordinate species in plots with different abundances of dominant ants, and in different periods ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Cerdá X,Retana J,Manzaneda A

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased biological diversity due to invasion by non-indigenous species (NIS) is a global phenomenon with potential effects on trophic interactions and ecosystem processes in the invaded habitat. We assessed the effects of resource availability and invasion of three non-indigenous invertebrate grazers (two crustacean...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Wikström SA,Hillebrand H

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00