Behavioural and morphological changes in ciliates induced by the predator Amoeba proteus.

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：:Spatial genetic patterns can be influenced by a broad range of factors across a landscape. The hypothesis that heterogeneous vegetation and habitat fragmentation rather than water flow influence genetic patterns in two riparian plant species with different niches was tested. Genotyping by sequencing was used to assess...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hopley T,Byrne M

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：: Habitat fragmentation is becoming increasingly common, yet, the effect of habitat spatial structure on population dynamics remains undetermined for most species. Populations of a single species found in fragmented and nonfragmented habitat present a rare opportunity to examine the effect of habitat spatial structure ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Peacock MM,Smith AT

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple regression analyses were made of the effect of food composition upon energetic efficiency and existence energy of House Sparrows, Passer domesticus. Protein content of experimental food is the most important of eleven independent variables tested in the prediction of energetic efficiency. Other variables sign...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Blem CR

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indications of global climate change and associated unusual temperature fluctuations have become increasingly obvious over the past few decades. Consequently, the relevance of temperature increases for ecological communities and for whole ecosystems is one of the major challenges of current ecological research. One ap...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Norf H,Arndt H,Weitere M

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In long-lived colonial birds, age at recruitment is an important life-history character. Variation in this parameter may reflect differences in several factors, including competitive ability and breeding strategies. Further, these differences may be due to timing of hatching (for instance through differences in compet...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Prévot-Julliard AC,Pradel R,Julliard R,Grosbois V,Lebreton JD

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sea lion and seal populations in Alaskan waters underwent various degrees of decline during the latter half of the twentieth century and the cause(s) for the declines remain uncertain. The stable carbon ((13)C/(12)C) and nitrogen ((15)N/(14)N) isotope ratios in bone collagen from wild Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jub...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hirons AC,Schell DM,Finney BP

更新日期：2001-12-01 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：:Branch sampling of branch diameter and fruit crop on 22 species of Barbadian trees and shrubs provided sufficient data to build regressions between plant size and fruit crop weight. Orchard plants bear much more fruit than wild, feral or garden plants of similar size, but this difference disappears in multiple regress...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Peters RH,Cloutier S,Dubé D,Evans A,Hastings P,Kaiser H,Kohn D,Sarwer-Foner B

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Net photosynthetic rates for the lichen Parmelia praesignis Nyl. were obtained as a function of 5 light levels, 5 temperature levels, and of water content as thalli dried from saturated conditions. Data are described as second order polynomials in the light, and as saturation curves in the dark. Rates in the light wer...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Link SO,Nash TH 3rd

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chemostat study was conducted to investigate the influence of water quality parameters related to acidification processes on the decomposition of floating leaves of Nymphaea alba L. HCO inf3sup- and total Al concentration and pH influenced the decay rate. The activity of four cell-wall decaying exoenzymes was measur...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Kok CJ,Van der Velde G

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bradshaw (1965) proposed that phenotypic plasticity would be more common than adaptive genetic variability in species for which environmental fluctuations occur over periods roughly equal to that species' generation time. In an effort to examine this notion, sources of seasonal variation in two components of ovipositi...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Papaj DR,Rausher MD

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gas exchange measurements of two arctic tundra plants, Dupontia fischeri and Carex aquatilis, and two alpine tundra species, Deschampsia caespitosa and Geum rossii, were conducted under a range of atmospheric and soil moisture stress conditions to determine if photosynthetic adaptations to water stress may play a role...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Johnson DA,Caldwell MM

更新日期：1975-06-01 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：:Chronic atmospheric N deposition has modified relative N availability, altering the biogeochemical cycles of forests and the stoichiometry of nutrients in trees, inducing P limitation, and modifying the N:P ratios of plant biomass. This study examines how the variation in the foliar stoichiometry of Abies pinsapo acro...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Blanes MC,Viñegla B,Merino J,Carreira JA

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatial and temporal variation in resource distribution affect the movement and foraging behavior of many animals. In the case of animal-dispersed trees, numerous studies have addressed masting-the synchronized variation in seed production between years-but the fitness consequences of spatial variation in seed product...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Pesendorfer MB,Koenig WD

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two atlantic voyages were made by the FS Meteor during which pollen and spores were collected from the air. In the course of 32 days the average pollen content was 29/100 m3 air, the average spore content came to 5x104/100 m3 air. Both voyages occurred in late autumn. On the trip from Hamburg to the Azores the spore c...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Stix E

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At least once a year the mountain pine beetle searches for lodgepole pines that provide a suitable habitat for a new brood. After attacking females feed, they produce an attractant pheromone that causes beetles to aggregate and, during outbreaks, to usually mass attack the "focus" tree. Near the completion of mass att...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Geiszler DR,Gallucci VF,Gara RI

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of tree canopy, understory, herbivores, and litter depth on seedling establishment, survival, and reproduction of the alien grass, Bromus tectorum (cheatgrass), was examined in a series of experiments in four forest habitat types in western North America. Higher recruitment, survival, and reproduction on cl...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Pierson EA,Mack RN

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A factorial design of clipping and compaction was used to study the responses of Schizachyrium scoparium and its mycorrhizal symbionts to these stresses. All treatment combinations significantly reduced the growth and biomass of plants relative to controls. Compaction significantly reduced tillering and crown expansio...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Wallace LL

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Geographic patterns of intraspecific variations in traits related to photosynthesis and biomass were examined in two separate common garden experiments using seed collected from 26 Sitka alder (Alnus sinuata Rydb.) and 18 paper birch (Betula papyrifera Marsh.) populations from climatically diverse locations in British...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Benowicz A,Guy RD,El-Kassaby YA

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined how independent and interactive effects of CO2 concentrations, water supply and wind speed affect growth rates, biomass partitioning, water use efficiency, diffusive conductance and stomatal density of plants. To test the prediction that wind stress will be ameliorated by increased CO2 and/or by unrestrict...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Retuerto R,Woodward FI

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the response of the birch tube-maker Acrobasis betulella Hulst (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) to habitat patch isolation and edges. Density of A.␣betulella larva was higher on distant islands than on islands close to the shore. Following experimental removal of all larvae from the islands, adults were able to re...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Cappuccino N,Martin MA

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The leaf area to sapwood area ratio (A l:A s) of trees has been hypothesized to decrease as trees become older and taller. Theory suggests that A l:A s must decrease to maintain leaf-specific hydraulic sufficiency as path length, gravity, and tortuosity constrain whole-plant hydraulic conductance. We tested the hypoth...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： McDowell N,Barnard H,Bond B,Hinckley T,Hubbard R,Ishii H,Köstner B,Magnani F,Marshall J,Meinzer F,Phillips N,Ryan M,Whitehead D

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although cascading effects of top predators can help structure communities, their influence may vary across habitats that differentially protect prey. Therefore, to understand how and to what degree habitat complexity can affect trophic interactions in adjacent habitats, we used a combination of a broad regional-scale...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Byers JE,Holmes ZC,Malek JC

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increases in woody vegetation and declines in grasses in arid and semi-arid ecosystems have occurred globally since the 1800s, but the mechanisms driving this major land-cover change remain uncertain and controversial. Working in a shrub-encroached grassland in the northern Chihuahuan Desert where grasses and shrubs t...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Throop HL,Reichmann LG,Sala OE,Archer SR

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compare results of field study and model analysis of two butterfly populations to evaluate the importance of alternative mechanisms causing changes in abundance. Although understanding and predicting population fluctuations is a central goal of population ecology, it is not often achieved because long-term abundanc...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： McLaughlin JF,Hellmann JJ,Boggs CL,Ehrlich PR

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The palatability of 14 species of woody plant was assessed for three species of browsing ruminant, namely kudus, impalas and goats. Results show that palatability was most clearly related to leaf contents of condensed tannins. The effect was a threshold one, with all plants containing more than 5% condensed tannins be...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Cooper SM,Owen-Smith N

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two physiological races of the carabid beetle, Pterostichus nigrita, are compared. The larvae from the northern Scandinavian population (polar circle) develop faster in all temperature regimens, have a reduced mortality in lower temperatures and an increased growth rate in high temperatures compared with the central E...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ferenz HJ

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For some animals, the habitat which they first experience can influence the type of habitat which they select later in life and, thus, potentially their population distribution and dynamics. However, for many insect herbivores, whose natal habitat may consist of a single hostplant, the consequences of natal hostplant ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Merwin AC,Inouye BD,Underwood N

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00