Consequences of herbivory in the mountain birch (Betula pubescens ssp tortuosa): importance of the functional organization of the tree.

abstract：:Field evidence indicates that adult microtines, especially females, may be a major cause of poor juvenile survival and this may be instrumental in their population regulation. This suggests that males and females behave differently towards young animals. To examine how adult males, nonlactating females, and lactating ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Boonstra R

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One explanation for long-term fluctuations in population density is that the intensity of interactions between species is variable. A population can experience variation in the intensity of a species interaction if (1) the density of species with which it directly interacts changes and/or (2) the strength of the inter...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Chalcraft DR,Andrews RM

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effect of increased N-supply on productivity and potential litter decay rates of Carex species, which are the dominant vascular plant species in peatlands in the Netherlands. We hypothesized that: (1) under conditions of N-limited plant growth, increased N-supply will lead to increased productivity...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Aerts R,van Logtestijn R,van Staalduinen M,Toet S

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clonal plants have more traits enabling individual persistence (larger belowground storage of buds and assimilates), whereas non-clonal plants have more traits enabling population persistence (a higher reliance on regeneration from seeds). This difference presumably makes those groups respond differently to disturbanc...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Martínková J,Klimeš A,Klimešová J

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mimicry between rewarding and non-rewarding flowers within individuals has been accepted as a strategy favored by selection to deceive pollinators. It has been proposed that this mechanism relies on the exploitation of pollinator's sensory biases, but field evidence is still scarce. In this study, we describe the mech...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Castillo RA,Caballero H,Boege K,Fornoni J,Domínguez CA

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes to the radiative environment arising from stratospheric ozone (O(3)) depletion and subsequent associations between these changes and the pigmentation of the moss Andreaea regularis were measured in late austral spring and early summer 1998 at Rothera Point on the western Antarctic Peninsula (67 degrees S, 68 d...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Newsham KK

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONCLUSION:For the abovementioned reasons, and with all due respect to the scholarship of Mansson and McGlade, who display a deep knowledge of thermodynamics and ecology, I cannot agree that Odum's use of energy concepts is "wholly discredited". Refinements from microscopic thermodynamics may not have been faithfully c...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Patten BC

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seedling recruitment is a critical driver of population dynamics and community assembly, yet we know little about functional traits that define different recruitment strategies. For the first time, we examined whether trait relatedness across germination and seedling stages allows the identification of general recruit...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Larson JE,Sheley RL,Hardegree SP,Doescher PS,James JJ

更新日期：2016-05-01 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：:The insect fauna of 80 day-old plots of corn and sweet potato monocultures and dicultures in Costa Rica were compared using sweep sampling. Six hundred sweeps were taken in each of the three habitats. There were 15% more total species in the diculture than either monoculture but approximately the same total number of ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Risch SJ

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Aspects of colonization by freshwater invertebrates on artificial substrata (macrophyte models) placed in the benthos of a eutrophic lake were studied. 2. Colonization was rapid, with equilibrium occuring at about 35 days. The colonization rate curve decreased with time but extinction rate remained constant. 3. Pre...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Mason CF

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of seed germination phenology is an important aspect of the life history strategy of invading annual plant species. In the obligately selfing winter annual grass Bromus tectorum, seeds are at least conditionally dormant at dispersal in early summer and lose dormancy through dry-afterripening. Patterns of ge...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Meyer SE,Allen PS

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eriophorum vaginatum is a characteristic species of northern peatlands and a keystone plant for cutover bog restoration. Understanding the factors affecting E. vaginatum seedling establishment (i.e. growth dynamics and allocation) under global change has practical implications for the management of abandoned mined bog...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Siegenthaler A,Buttler A,Grosvernier P,Gobat JM,Nilsson MB,Mitchell EA

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the potential impact on prey fitness and predator-prey interactions, most studies of predation risk ignore physiological responses and their dependence upon food level and sex. Therefore, we reared male and female larvae of the damselfly Lestes viridis under predator stress (dragonfly larvae) at high and low f...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Slos S,De Meester L,Stoks R

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to enhanced levels of ambient ultraviolet (UV) radiation (UVR) can have adverse effects on aquatic organisms including damage at the cellular and molecular level and impairment of development, fecundity and survival. Much research has been conducted on the role of the harmful UVB radiation. However, due to it...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Rick IP,Mehlis M,Eßer E,Bakker TC

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis that carnivorous plants are less responsive to prey at high soil nutrient levels than at lower levels (Givnish et al. 1984) is tested on four plant species (Drosera rotundifolia, Pinguicula alpina, P. villosa and P. vulgaris) from a subarctic environment. The response, measured in terms of seven charact...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Karlsson PS,Nordell KO,Carlsson BÅ,Svensson BM

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positive species interactions are ubiquitous and crucial components of communities, but they are still not well incorporated into established ecological theories. The definitions of facilitation and mutualism overlap, and both are often context dependent. Many interactions that are facilitative under stressful conditi...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Lim RJY,Lam WN,Tan HTW

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prey intake and selection were related to within-shoal position for Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) engaged in annual migration across the Newfoundland shelf in the northwest Atlantic. Comparisons made among fish occupying five regions from the front to rear of a large (>10 km across) migrating shoal indicated that leadin...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： DeBlois EM,Rose GA

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of an Australian arid-zone gecko community to sulphur dioxide and salt spray from a mine and industrial site was investigated from 1992 to 1995. Geckos were abundant and fecund at control sites in chenopod shrubland and annual capture rates were strongly influenced by minimum night temperatures. Capture r...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Read JL

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Populations of invasive species tend to have fewer parasites in their introduced ranges than in their native ranges and are also thought to have fewer parasites than native prey. This 'release' from parasites has unstudied implications for native predators feeding on exotic prey. In particular, shifts from native to e...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Locke SA,Bulté G,Marcogliese DJ,Forbes MR

更新日期：2014-05-01 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：:Seeds dispersed by tropical, arboreal mammals are usually deposited singly and without dung or in clumps of fecal material. After dispersal through defecation by mammals, most seeds are secondarily dispersed by dung beetles or consumed by rodents. These post-dispersal, plant-animal interactions are likely to interact ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Andresen E,Levey DJ

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasites often produce large numbers of offspring within their hosts. High parasite burdens are thought to be important for parasite transmission, but can also lower host fitness. We studied the protozoan Ophryocystis elektroscirrha, a common parasite of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus), to quantify the benefit...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： de Roode JC,Chi J,Rarick RM,Altizer S

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the publication of the theory of island biogeography, ecologists have postulated that fragmentation of continuous habitat presents a prominent threat to species diversity. However, negative fragmentation effects may be artifacts; the result of species diversity declining with habitat loss, and habitat loss corre...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： MacDonald ZG,Anderson ID,Acorn JH,Nielsen SE

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of stable isotopes to infer diet requires quantifying the relationship between diet and tissues and, in particular, knowing of how quickly isotopes turnover in different tissues and how isotopic concentrations of different food components change (discriminate) when incorporated into consumer tissues. We used f...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Pearson SF,Levey DJ,Greenberg CH,Martínez Del Rio C

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovipositing females of the cynipid waspPseudeucoila bochei discriminate between parasitized and unparasitized hosts, which results in a far more uniform distribution of eggs over the hosts than would be obtained if oviposition were random (Fig. 1,a 0-f 0).For the description of the distributions a few models were work...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Bakker K,Eijsackers HJ,van Lenteren JC,Meelis E

更新日期：1972-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We obtined data on body mass and growth rates for the immature members of two groups of wild baboons in Amboseli National Park, Kenya. Data were collected without feeding, trapping, or handling. The data were separated into cross-sectional and longitudinal components, allowing both the examination of body mass-age rel...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Altmann J,Alberts S

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small forest dwelling mammals are considered to be major consumers and vectors of hypogeous ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi, which have lost the ability of active spore discharge. Fungal spore dispersal by mycophagy is deemed an important process involved in forest regeneration, resilience and vitality, primarily based on...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Schickmann S,Urban A,Kräutler K,Nopp-Mayr U,Hackländer K

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of floral morphology on rates of pollen removal and deposition by different pollinators in generalist plant species are not well known. We studied pollination dynamics in wild radish, Raphanus raphanistrum, a plant visited by four groups of pollinators: honey bees, small native bees, butterflies, and syrph...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Conner JK,Davis R,Rush S

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Algal polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), essential for somatic growth and reproduction of aquatic animals, are influenced by ambient environmental conditions, including light and nutrients. Few studies have addressed the extent to which changes in algal PUFA can influence stream herbivore PUFA profiles and the implic...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Guo F,Kainz MJ,Sheldon F,Bunn SE

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00