Altitudinal differences in herbivory on montane Compositae species.

abstract：:We determined the water-soluble thiol (SH) content and the osmolality of the cell sap in spruce trees of both low- and high-altitude origin that were transplanted to two test areas at different altitudes (400 m and 1700 m). There was little or no significant difference in SH content and osmotic value between trees of ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Grill D,Pfeifhofer H,Tschulik A,Hellig K,Holzer K

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmentally controlled experiments on damping-off disease of garden cress (Lepidium sativum) caused by Pythium irregulare were used to study the effect of clumped planting patterns upon epidemic rates. In clumped stands of seedlings the rate of multiplication of disease was, in general, slower than in unclumped, e...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Burdon JJ,Chilvers GA

更新日期：1976-03-01 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：:The spatial context in which seed predation occurs may modify the spatial structure of recruitment generated by seed dispersal. The Janzen-Connell (J-C) model predicts that granivores will exert greater pressure on the parent plant or at those sites where the density of dispersed seeds is higher. We have investigated ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Blendinger PG,Díaz-Vélez MC

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parents are expected to overproduce the less costly sex under poor food conditions. The previously regular 3-year cycle in the abundance of voles, the main prey of the Ural owl, Strix uralensis, temporarily disappeared in 1999-2001. We studied Ural owls' parental feeding investment and sex allocation during these poor...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Brommer JE,Karell P,Pihlaja T,Painter JN,Primmer CR,Pietiäinen H

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study links summer foraging and scatter-hoarding to winter larder-hoarding and winter survival in yellow pine chipmunks (Tamias amoenus) by comparing patterns of time allocation and winter larder contents in 2 years with very different levels of resource availability. In 2003, seed production and the number of tr...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Kuhn KM,Vander Wall SB

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of temperature changes on phytoplankton communities seem to be highly context-specific, but few studies have analyzed whether this context specificity depends on differences in the abiotic conditions or in species composition between studies. We present an experiment that allows disentangling the contribution ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Striebel M,Schabhüttl S,Hodapp D,Hingsamer P,Hillebrand H

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The time at which plants emerge from the soil is shown to be correlated with both survival and growth in each of four years in a plant community emerging after yearly plowing. For all seven species investigated, earlier emerging individuals generally had both a higher biomass and probability of survival. There were di...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Miller TE

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frugivorous birds disperse the seeds of many fruit-bearing plants, but the fate of seeds after defecation or regurgitation is often unknown. Some rodents gather and scatter hoard seeds, and some of these may be overlooked, germinate, and establish plants. We show that these two disparate modes of seed dispersal are li...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Vander Wall SB,Kuhn KM,Gworek JR

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that green sunfish, Lepomis cyanellus, have strong effects on the activity, habitat use, social interactions and mating dynamics of a stream-dwelling water strider, Aquarius remigis (family Gerridae, hence, gerrids). In nature, however, stream pools often contain not just sunfish and water ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Sih A,Krupa JJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated interspecific interactions between larvae of the 3 native British anurans, Rana temporaria, Bufo bufo and B. calamita in the field and in the laboratory. Over a 3 year period, predation of B. calamita spawn by the two competitively superior species accounted for only 0.3-3.0% of the total deposite...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Banks B,Beebee TJ

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factors affecting oophagy among siblings in the land snail Arianta arbustorum were studied in 3 populations from different altitudes in Switzerland. The degree of egg cannibalism in A. arbustorum is a function of hatching asynchrony since the earliest hatched snails will devour the unhatched eggs in the same clutch. C...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Baur B,Baur A

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Warming-induced nutrient enrichment in the Arctic may lead to shifts in leaf-level physiological properties and processes with potential consequences for plant community dynamics and ecosystem function. To explore the physiological responses of Arctic tundra vegetation to increasing nutrient availability, we examined ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Prager CM,Boelman NT,Eitel JUH,Gersony JT,Greaves HE,Heskel MA,Magney TS,Menge DNL,Naeem S,Shen C,Vierling LA,Griffin KL

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In five California evergreen trees and shrubs cooccurring in this study but most common in habitats of different moisture availability, leaf nitrogen was a major determinant of photosynthetic capacity. Within each species, stomatal conductance was highly correlated with photosynthetic capacity, resulting in little var...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Field C,Merino J,Mooney HA

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluation of size-dependent variation in statoblast numbers in Plumatella repens indicates that this freshwater bryozoan employs divergent strategies in dispersing its asexual offspring in space and time. While the numbers of sessoblasts which were cemented to local substrates did not vary per unit ramet size, number...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Karlson RH

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal feeding soil invertebrates feed on a wide spectrum of fungal species suggesting that mixed diets increase fitness. We investigated relationships between food preferences for seven saprophytic fungal species/forms and fitness parameters (mortality, growth, time to reproduction, reproduction, egg size) in two Col...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Scheu S,Simmerling F

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The foraging behavior of Mesocyclops edax in artificial patches of high and low prey density was examined. In low density patches Mesocyclops swam in an irregular curvilinear path with little or no looping behavior. In high density patches Mesocyclops exhibited extensive horizontal and vertical looping behavior. Horiz...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Williamson CE

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple life table model was constructed for Tetranychus urticae in which daily survivorship of eggs and motil stages, fecundity, and development time was altered to assess the impact of each parameter on the intrinsic rate of increase. r. Interpretation of the trade-offs focused on management considerations.A second...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Carey JR

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The predator Amoeba proteus induced behavioural and morphological changes in ciliates of the genus Euplotes. The frequency of avoidance behaviour in E. octocarinatus increased from 16±5% to 84±5% (SD) after 14 h of coexistence with the predator. The ciliate's width increased from 59±3 μm to 77±4 μm (SDM) within 48 h. ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Kusch J

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amphibian life history traits are affected by temperature and precipitation. Yet, connecting these relationships to population growth, especially for multiple populations within a species, is lacking and precludes our understanding of amphibian population dynamics and distributions. Therefore, we constructed integral ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Caruso NM,Staudhammer CL,Rissler LJ

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant stigmas and bee pollinators are competitors for pollen. Pollen placed on a pollinator's body can be picked up by conspecific stigmas or it can be collected by the pollinator as food. Hypothetically, one solution is for pollen to be placed on 'safe sites' on the pollinator's body, sites where the pollinator canno...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Tong ZY,Huang SQ

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most fish species are regularly subjected to periods of starvation during which a reduction of energy turnover might be favourable for the animal. This reduction of energy flux may be achieved by changes in thermal behaviour and/or swimming activity. We investigated such behavioural changes during starvation and subse...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： van Dijk P,Staaks G,Hardewig I

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is shown that litter of flowering plants of Cirsium vulgare inhibits the growth of seedlings of the same species at concentrations as low as 0.4% (g litter/g soil). The inhibition of growth cannot be fully compensated by adding nutrients, which indicates that autotoxicity may occur. It must be concluded, however, f...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： de Jong TJ,Klinkhamer PG

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agricultural intensification (AI) is currently a major driver of biodiversity loss and related ecosystem functioning decline. However, spatio-temporal changes in community structure induced by AI, and their relation to ecosystem functioning, remain largely unexplored. Here, we analysed 16 quantitative cereal aphid-par...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gagic V,Hänke S,Thies C,Scherber C,Tomanović Z,Tscharntke T

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tropical ants Ectatomma ruidum and E. tuberculatum (Formicidae) regularly patrol leaves, flowers, and fruits of the understory shrub, Psychotria limonensis (Rubiaceae), on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Ant and pollinator exclusion experiments elucidated both positive and negative effects of ant attendance on plan...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Altshuler DL

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments are described that were designed to investigate the effects of food availability and rate of exploitation on the growth and production of populations of Folsomia candida (Willem). In an initial experiment in which there was excess food it was found that increasing the rate of exploitation resulted in incre...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Usher MB,Longstaff BC,Southall DR

更新日期：1971-03-01 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：:Canopy structure and tree species diversity, shaped by succession, disturbance, and community composition, are linked to numerous ecosystem functions, including net primary production (NPP). Understanding of how ecosystem structural metrics are interrelated and mechanistically link to NPP, however, is incomplete. We c...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Scheuermann CM,Nave LE,Fahey RT,Nadelhoffer KJ,Gough CM

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In arctic tundra soil, oxygen depletion associated with soil flooding may control plant growth either directly through anoxia or indirectly through effects on nutrient availability. This study was designed to evaluate whether plant growth and physiology of two arctic sedge species are more strongly controlled by the d...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gebauer RL,Reynolds JF,Tenhunen JD

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements are reported of carbon isotope ratios of Dudleya species growing in natural plant communities. Considerable variation in the δ13C values are interpreted as indicating substantial flexibility of the photosynthetic pathways between C3 and CAM. The variability in photosynthetic pathway was in response to gen...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Troughton JH,Mooney HA,Berry JA,Verity D

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00