Distribution of carbonic anhydrase in British marine macroalgae.

abstract：:Because of a hard seed coat, entirely preventing absorption of water in desert species ofSida, germination is rendered impossible or difficult under laboratry conditions. This block was eliminated by high temperature pretreatments to ensure better germination. The seeds could tolerate extremely high temperatures for s...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Chawan DD

更新日期：1971-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mark-release-recapture techniques were adapted for studying the territorial black swallowtail butterfly, Papitio polyxenes. Population sizes were similar from year to year and somewhat higher in second broods. The overall sex ratio was a male-biased 4.0:1. Of 340 marked males, 45.3% were recaptured an average of 5.7 t...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Lederhouse RC

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of facilitative processes due to the presence of nitrogen-fixing legumes in temperate grasslands is a contentious issue in biodiversity experiments. Despite a multitude of studies of fertilization effects of legumes on associated nonfixers in agricultural systems, we know little about the dynamics in mo...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Temperton VM,Mwangi PN,Scherer-Lorenzen M,Schmid B,Buchmann N

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The costs and benefits of resource integration in Hydrocotyle bonariensis were examined by comparing severed and intact clones grown across multiple resource gradients. Basipetal movement of water, nitrogen and photosynthates was demonstrated to occur between two rhizome branch systems interconnecting hundreds of rame...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Evans JP

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mass loss of litter mixtures is often different than expected based on the mass loss of the component species. We investigated if the identity of neighbour species affects these litter-mixing effects. To achieve this, we compared decomposition rates in monoculture and in all possible two-species combinations of ei...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hoorens B,Coomes D,Aerts R

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements of carbon isotope ratios of nine taxa of arid zone mosses from North America and 24 taxa of European bryophytes show consistent values indicative of C3 metabolism. Other morphological, physiological and biochemical characteristics provide the mechanism of adaptation to environmental stresses of heat and e...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Rundel PW,Stichler W,Zander RH,Ziegler H

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Global climate change is expected to affect terrestrial ecosystems in a variety of ways. Some of the more well-studied effects include the biogeochemical feedbacks to the climate system that can either increase or decrease the atmospheric load of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide. Less well-stu...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Butler SM,Melillo JM,Johnson JE,Mohan J,Steudler PA,Lux H,Burrows E,Smith RM,Vario CL,Scott L,Hill TD,Aponte N,Bowles F

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenomenon of overyielding in species-diverse plant communities is mainly attributed to complementary resource use. Vertical niche differentiation belowground might be one potential mechanism for such complementarity. However, most studies that have analysed the diversity/productivity relationship and belowground ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Lei P,Scherer-Lorenzen M,Bauhus J

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of irrigation and nitrogen fertilization in early summer on root and shoot growth of Atriplex confertifolia, a C4 shrub species, was examined in a cold-winter desert community in northern Utah. Soil water and xylem pressure potentials were monitored during the summer period.At the time of watering the su...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hodgkinson KC,Johnson PS,Norton BE

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Not all hosts, communities or environments are equally hospitable for parasites. Direct and indirect interactions between parasites and their predators, competitors and the environment can influence variability in host exposure, susceptibility and subsequent infection, and these influences may vary across spatial scal...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gehman AM,Grabowski JH,Hughes AR,Kimbro DL,Piehler MF,Byers JE

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil amelioration by a wood-ant species and its consequences for the larval performance of autumnal moths feeding on mountain birch were studied at various distances from the nest mound. Soil nitrate and ammonium nitrogen did not show any clear relationship with distance. However, trees growing in the mound had over 2...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Karhu KJ,Neuvonen S

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specialist herbivores are known to alter their host's wound-induced responses but the beneficiaries of these alterations are unknown. Nicotiana attenuata plants release a burst of ethylene specifically in response to feeding by Manduca sexta larvae, which is known to suppress wound- and methyl jasmonate (MeJA)-inducib...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Voelckel C,Schittko U,Baldwin IT

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human activities can have a suite of positive and negative effects on animals and thus can affect various life history parameters. Human presence and agricultural practice can be perceived as stressors to which animals react with the secretion of glucocorticoids. The acute short-term secretion of glucocorticoids is co...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Almasi B,Béziers P,Roulin A,Jenni L

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tooth enamel apatite carbonate carbon and oxygen isotope ratios of modern kangaroos (Macropus spp.) collected on a 900-km latitudinal transect spanning a C(3)-C(4) transition zone were analysed to create a reference set for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction in southern Australia. The carbon isotope composition of ena...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Brookman TH,Ambrose SH

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Correlates of individual plant escape from seed predation were investigated for an East African population of the shrub Crotalaria pallida (Papilionaceae) in which seed mortality due to chewing insects is high and varies among neighboring individuals. Several plant properties expected to influence phytophagous insect ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Moore LR

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspects of the demography of Monhystera disjuncta were investigated at different temperatures (in agnotobiotic cultures) and in different feeding conditions (monoxenic cultures with different bacterial strains, and different densities in the feeding suspension with one strain). Embryonic development time, minimum gene...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Vranken G,Herman PM,Heip C

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enemy release often is invoked to explain the success of invasive plants: an invader benefits from reduced attack as it escapes specialized enemies through the invasion process. Enemy release typically is thought of as occurring at large geographic scales, but local-scale interactions may also be important for invader...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Nunes KA,Kotanen PM

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heavy damage of the mountain birch foliage, as well as application of small amounts of insect frass to the soil beneath the trees, reduced growth of Epirrita autumnata larvae reared in these trees in the following year. Foliage damage in the previous year decreased larval survival, too. Both foliage damage and insect ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Haukioja E,Suomela J,Neuvonen S

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental ponds were used as a model system of habitat patches to study the effect of habitat size on the relative growth performance of tadpoles of Bufo americanus and Pseudacris triseriata, and on colonization by predatory insects. Three pond depths and surface areas were habitat size treatments in a replicated, ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Pearman PB

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mortality and physiological status (body water content) of Asellus aquaticus (Isopoda) and Gammarus pulex (Amphipoda) were measured after 25 days exposure in 20 natural streams with a pH range of 4.3-7.5 and a colour range of 8-280 mg Pt L-1. In addition, the effects of keeping the animals as single species or tog...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hargeby A

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been postulated that free amino acids in the diet of herbivores are a more readily available source of nitrogen than are amino acids in intact proteins. When plants are subjected to any of a number of stress factors the concentration of free amino acids in their tissues may increase relative to the protein cont...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Cockfield SD

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although plant growth is generally recognized to be influenced by allocation to defense, genetic background (e.g., inbreeding), and gender, rarely have those factors been addressed collectively. In quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.), phenolic glycosides (PGs) and condensed tannins (CTs) constitute up to 30 % o...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Cole CT,Stevens MT,Anderson JE,Lindroth RL

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No-take marine reserves (NTMRs) provide hope that local carrying capacity may be partially restored if reserves are protected long enough. How long is long enough? We assess the duration of protection required for populations of large predatory reef fish in marine reserves to attain new steady states. We monitored bio...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Russ GR,Alcala AC

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Habitat selection, and its associated density and frequency-dependent evolution, has a profound influence on such vital phenomena as population regulation, species interactions, the assembly of ecological communities, and the origin and maintenance of biodiversity. Different strategies of habitat selection, and their ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Morris DW

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured the response of dark respiration (R(d)) to temperature and foliage characteristics in the upper canopies of tree species in temperate rainforest communities in New Zealand along a soil chronosequence (six sites from 6 years to 120,000 years). The chronosequence provided a vegetation gradient characterised ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Turnbull MH,Tissue DT,Griffin KL,Richardson SJ,Peltzer DA,Whitehead D

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interspecific interactions of herbivores sharing a host plant may be important in structuring herbivore communities. We investigated host plant-mediated interactions of root (Hylobius transversovittatus) and leaf herbivores (Galerucella calmariensis), released to control purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) in North...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hunt-Joshi TR,Blossey B

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the sessile hermit crab Discorsopagurus schmitti, four different feeding techniques are described: antennary beating, body-trap feeding, feeding on wafting particles, and scraping. This species' potential for being a generalist in its diet and opportunistic in its foraging behavior certainly opened the way for a se...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gherardi F

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tops of intertidal boulders on the east coast of Australia may carry a half-dozen algae, while the undersides may support a dozen or more species of sessile animals; mobile forms such as molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms are also common. These organisms are disturbed when boulders are moved by waves or buried...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： McGuinness KA

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of herbicides (Garlone 3A, MCPA, 2,4-D and Krenite) and nitrogen fertilizer (NH4NO3), commonly used in Swedish forestry, on nitrogen fixation (C2H2-reduction) by Peltigera praetextata (Sommerf.) Zopf. (field and laboratory) and its phycobiont Nostoc sp. (laboratory) were studied. The alga was affected by the h...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hällbom L,Bergman B

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The community structure of sedentary organisms is largely controlled by the outcome of direct competition for space. Understanding factors defining competitive outcomes among neighbors is thus critical for predicting large-scale changes, such as transitions to alternate states within coral reefs. Using a spatially exp...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Sandin SA,McNamara DE

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00