Dynamics of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae during old field succession.

abstract：:The effect of the heat interaction between a water column and sediments on the formation, development, and duration of existence of anaerobic zones in ice-covered lakes is estimated based on observational data from five frozen lakes located in northwestern Russia and North America. A simple one-dimensional model that ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Golosov S,Maher OA,Schipunova E,Terzhevik A,Zdorovennova G,Kirillin G

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper discusses the interactions among prefire shrub abundance, soil moisture, and plant and animal species on postfire seedling establishment in mixed chparral in southern California. Postfire germination and survival of seedlings in a stand dominated by a facultative seeder (Adenostoma fasciculatum) and by an o...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Moreno JM,Oechel WC

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensitivity of carbon (C) assimilation to within-canopy nitrogen (N) allocation and of stomatal conductance (g s) to environmental variables were investigated along a vertical canopy gradient in a fertile Norway spruce [Picea abies (L.) Karst.] stand. Maximum rates of ribulose bisphosphate-saturated carboxylation ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Tarvainen L,Wallin G,Uddling J

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioral games predators play among themselves may have profound effects on behavioral games predators play with their prey. We studied the behavioral game between predators and prey within the framework of social foraging among predators. We tested how conspecific interactions among predators (little egret) change ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Vardi R,Abramsky Z,Kotler BP,Altstein O,Rosenzweig ML

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stratospheric ozone depletion has caused ground-level ultraviolet-B (UV-B) radiation to rise in temperate latitudes of both hemispheres. Because the effects of enhanced UV-B radiation on the nutrition of food consumed by mammalian herbivores are unknown, we measured nutritional and chemical constituents of 18 forages ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Thines NJ,Shipley LA,Bassman JH,Slusser JR,Gao W

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe differences in senescence among populations of grasshoppers that occur along an altitudinal gradient in the Sierra Nevada, California. Experimental males from five populations of the Melanoplus sanguinipes/devastator sibling species complex were reared in each of two thermal culture conditions from eggs of...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Tatar M,Gray DW,Carey JR

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both top-down and bottom-up processes are common in terrestrial ecosystems, but how these opposing forces interact and vary over time is poorly understood. We tested the variation of these processes over seasonal time in a natural temperate zone grassland, a field site characterized by strong seasonal changes in abiot...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Boyer AG,Swearingen RE,Blaha MA,Fortson CT,Gremillion SK,Osborn KA,Moran MD

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In southeastern Arizona, Prosopis juliflora (Swartz) DC. and Quercus emoryi Torr. are the dominant woody species at grassland/woodland boundaries. The stability of the grassland/woodland boundary in this region has been questioned, although there is no direct evidence to confirm that woodland is encroaching into grass...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： McPherson GR,Boutton TW,Midwood AJ

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between the anther smutMicrobotryum violaceum and its hostSilene dioica was studied during 1985-1990 in 47 populations of different ages, sizes and densities, in an archipelago area in northern Sweden. The sizes of these populations had also been surveyed in the early 1970s. Our results indicate that e...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Carlsson U,Elmqvist T

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential production of estuarine interstitial microalgae from two tidal flats differing in sediment texture was determined manometrically. Sediment cores from the Southbeach tidal flat showed a maximum amount of productivity in the lower intertidal zone whereas sediment cores from Sally's Bend showed no productio...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Riznyk RZ,Phinney HK

更新日期：1972-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An adaptive explanation for environmental sex determination is that it promotes sexual size dimorphism when larger size benefits one sex more than the other. That is, if growth rates are determined by environment during development, then it is beneficial to match developmental environment to the sex that benefits more...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： St Clair RC

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes the germination responses of ten tropical dune species to several factors to which their seeds are exposed in the field. Species studied were: three sand dune endemics (Amaranthus greggii, Palafoxia lindenii, and Trachypogon gouini), three pantropical coastal species (Sesuvium portulacastrum, Spor...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Martínez ML,Valverde T,Moreno-Casasola P

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the abundance of studies on competitive interactions, relatively few experiments have been used to fit explicit competition models and estimate competition coefficients. Such estimates are valuable for making contact between theoretical and empirical studies, which tend to measure competition in different unit...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Inouye BD

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies relating reproduction to food availability are usually restricted to food quantity, but ignore food quality and the effects of habitat structure on obtaining the food. This is particularly true for insectivorous birds. In this study we relate measures of reproductive success, time of reproduction and nestling ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Brodmann PA,Reyer HU,Bollmann K,Schläpfer AR,Rauter C

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The photosynthetic pathways of 42 species of the genusEuphorbia growing wild, naturalized or cultivated in Egypt were investigated. The criteria used included the δ13C- and δD-values and Kranz anatomy of the leaves. There is a relationship between the photosynthetic pathway and the ecological conditions in the habitat...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Batanouny KH,Stichler W,Ziegler H

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some factors influencing the species richness of West African fish communities were studied in a sample of 26 rivers using four habitat and hydrologic variables. Analysis of a larger sample of 39 rivers showed that species richness was positively related to area. A power function with an exponent of 0.32 gave the best...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hugueny B

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mature male parr successfully fertilized eggs of anadromous female Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, in competition with anadromous males under simulated natural conditions. Mating situations were created in which mature male parr and anadromous males competing for the opportunity to spawn with an anadromous female differ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hutchings JA,Myers RA

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is considerable variation in cannibalism between different species and also between individuals of different species, although relatively little is known about what creates this variation. We investigated the degree of cannibalism in guppy (Poecilia reticulata) populations originating from high and low predation...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Nilsson KA,Lundbäck S,Postavnicheva-Harri A,Persson L

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predation pressure and resource availability often interact in structuring herbivore communities, with their relative influence varying in space and time. The operation of multiple ecological pressures and guild-specific herbivore responses may combine to override simple predictions of how the roles of plant quality a...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Zehnder CB,Stodola KW,Cooper RJ,Hunter MD

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to separate the effects of plant biomass and growth rate on vegetative reproduction in two species of cat-tail, Typha latifolia and T. angustifolia. Replicate clones of both species were grown under conditions of 100%, 42%, 24%, and 9% full sunlight with harvests at 41, 70, and 91 days ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Grace JB,Wetzel RG

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analysed the spatial and temporal pattern of egg laying in great spotted cuckoo females using microsatellite typing to determine parentage of the eggs and nestlings found in host (magpie) nests. The results showed that there were no exclusive laying territories in the study area. Cases of multiparasitism could be d...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Martínez JG,Soler JJ,Soler M,Burke T

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasticity in the physiological and behavioural responses of animals to prolonged food shortages may determine the persistence of species under climate warming. This is particularly applicable for species that can "adaptively fast" by conserving protein to protect organ function while catabolizing endogenous tissues. ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Whiteman JP,Harlow HJ,Durner GM,Regehr EV,Amstrup SC,Ben-David M

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early models of hostplant exploitation by phytophagous insects suffer from unwarranted assumptions and may not be generally applicable. Wordmodels of the co-evolutionary approach may assume unwarranted evolutionary stability in 'strategic' explanations, whilst mathematical models derived from earlier optimal-diet stud...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Courtney SP

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In East African savanna we found that leaves of mature tree species with symbiotic N2 fixation contained lower concentrations of polyphenols than leaves of species without this symbiosis. We suggest that the root symbiosis is costly to the plant in terms of photosynthate that otherwise could be used in chemical defens...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Thomas Palo R,Gowda J,Högberg P

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated direct and indirect interactions between the ant, Pheidole megacephala (Fabr.), the green scale, Coccus viridis (Green), and the scale's host plant, Pluchea indica (L.). To examine the influence of ants on scales and host plants, scale population densities, scale mortality rates, and plant perf...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Bach CE

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fruiting phenology and pattern of fruit removal of two shrubby dogwoods were examined in relation to fruit composition. It was predicted that fruit of the species bearing high fat fruit would disappear more rapidly and fall to the ground sooner than fruit of the species bearing low fat fruit. Field observation at two ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Borowicz VA,Stephenson AG

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the effects of intraspecific variation in leaf nitrogen and water content on the growth, consumption, conversion efficiency and nitrogen use of Colias butterfly larvae. Pest and non-pest Colias philodice eriphyle larvae and Colias eurytheme larvae were fed field-collected alfalfa (Medicago sativa) ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Tabashnik BE

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In white pine (Pinus strobus) seedlings grown in five forest soils from New York State, net photosynthetic capacity (Amax) plant-1 was correlated with total foliar N plant-1 (r 2=0.57), but was more highly correlated with total foliar P plant-1 (r 2=0.82). There was no relationship (r 2<0.01) between Amax [g leaf]-1 a...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Reich PB,Schoettle AW

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of caterpillar food supply on the breeding performance of a population of the Japanese great tit Parus major minor were investigated. Since more than 90% of the food items in our study site were caterpillars living on trees, we estimated the food availability using 20 frass traps per hectare. The sampling ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Seki SI,Takano H

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seed predation and seed dispersal can have strong effects on early life history stages of plants. These processes have often been studied as individual effects, but the degree to which their relative importance co-varies with seed predator abundance and how this influences seed germination rates is poorly understood. ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Klinger R,Rejmánek M

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00