Natal philopatry and recruitment of willow ptarmigan in north central and northwestern Canada.

abstract：:Large-scale ocean-atmosphere physical dynamics can have profound impacts on the structure and organization of marine ecosystems. These changes have been termed "regime shifts", and five different episodes have been detected in the North Pacific Ocean, with concurrent changes also occurring in the Bering and Beaufort S...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Luque SP,Ferguson SH

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterizing the causes of spatial and temporal variation in parasite-induced mortality under natural conditions is crucial to better understanding the factors driving host population dynamics. Our goal was to quantify this variation in the amphipod Paracalliope novizealandiae, a second intermediate host of the trem...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Bates AE,Poulin R,Lamare MD

更新日期：2010-07-01 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：: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：:The responses of organisms to organic farming depend on the taxonomic group and landscape complexity. Following the intermediate landscape complexity hypothesis, organic farming can compensate for the lack of complexity in simple landscapes. Argentinian farmlands are simple with large fields and scarce linear habitat ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Serafini VN,Coda JA,Contreras F,Conroy MJ,Gomez MD,Priotto JW

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We document activity field temperatures, daily activity patterns, and extent of thermoregulation in four species of Liolaemus lizards inhabiting at high altitude (above 3500 m) in the Andes of northern Chile. These four species have similar activity field temperature (Tb near 29°C) despite their being distributed at d...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Marquet PA,Ortíz JC,Bozinovié F,Jaksié FM

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies have analysed plant responses to flooding or drought separately, without addressing the relations between plant resistance to each of these factors. In this paper, we compare the responses to drought and flooding under glasshouse conditions of three populations of Paspalum dilatatum, a perennial C4 grass ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Loreti J,Oesterheld M

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an increasing ecological interest in understanding the gradients in H(2)(18)O enrichment in leaf water (i.e. a Péclet effect), because an appreciation of the significance of the Péclet effect is important for improving our understanding of the mechanistic processes affecting the (18)O composition of leaf wate...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Barbour MM,Roden JS,Farquhar GD,Ehleringer JR

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cosmopolitan species of cellular slime molds occur continents apart in both tropical and temperate zones of the world though the spore masses are too heavy to be wind borne, and water dispersal is limited to the watercourses. A highly mobile distribution vector was found in ground-feeding migratory song birds. Nine ub...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Suthers HB

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transplants of white clover (Trifolium repens L.) were grown isolated from each other and in pairs placed at different distances apart. The paired plants developed asymmetrically and at the interface between paired clones both the density of nodes and of stolons appeared to reach ceiling values that were of the same o...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Solangaarachchi SM,Harper JL

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leaf water relationships were studied in four widespread forest tree species (Ilex opaca Ait., Cornus florida L., Acer rubrum L., and Liriodendron tulipifera L.). The individuals studied all occurred on the same site and were selected to represent a range of growth forms and water relationships in some of the principa...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Roberts SW,Strain BR,Knoerr KR

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) and grey partridges (Perdix perdix) were maintained together on land known to be contaminated with eggs of the caecal nematode Heterakis gallinarum to examine the hypothesis that this shared parasite has a greater impact on grey partridges than on pheasants. Since an inverse relationshi...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Tompkins DM,Dickson G,Hudson PJ

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding community dynamics during early life stages of trees is critical for the prediction of future species composition. In Mediterranean forests drought is a major constraint for regeneration, but likely not the only factor determining the observed spatial patterns. We carried out a sowing experiment aimed at...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Granda E,Escudero A,Valladares F

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison of photosynthetic adaptations of desert ephemerals from sun and shade environments has shown differences in the magnitude and timing of maximum CO2 assimilation. Photosynthetic rates of species from the sun environment were significantly higher, and maximum observed levels occurred both earlier in the day...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Wallace CS,Szarek SR

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predators have far-reaching effects on communities by triggering top-down trophic cascades that influence ecosystem functioning. Omnivory and intraguild interactions between predators give rise to reticulate food webs and may either strengthen or dampen trophic cascades depending on context. Disentangling the effects ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Mestre L,Piñol J,Barrientos JA,Espadaler X

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is illustrated theoretically that in a heterogeneous habitat the dispersal of individuals, even when it is random and density-independent, may have a pronounced effect of raising the average reproductive rate of the whole population, in addition to the effect of stabilization in the usual sense of reducing its vari...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Kuno E

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The host specificity of insect parasitoids and herbivores is thought to be shaped by a suite of traits that mediate host acceptance and host suitability. We conducted laboratory experiments to identify mechanisms shaping the host specificity of the aphid parasitoid Binodoxys communis. Twenty species of aphids were exp...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Desneux N,Barta RJ,Hoelmer KA,Hopper KR,Heimpel GE

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disturbances such as fire, grazing, and soil mixing by animals interact to shape vegetation in grassland ecosystems. Animal-generated disturbances are unique in that they arise from a suite of behaviors that are themselves subject to modification by external factors. The manner in which co-occurring animal taxa intera...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Alba-Lynn C,Detling JK

更新日期：2008-08-01 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 patterns of flower visitation by lizards (Podarcis lilfordi, Lacertidae) and insects (mainly flies, bees and wasps) on the shrub Euphorbia dendroides, were studied in the island of Cabrera (Balearic Islands) during the flowering seasons of 1995 and 1996. Lizards act as true pollinators of the plant, moving large q...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Traveset A,Sáez E

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The percent of species of the Cyperaceae possessing the C4 pathway was calculated for twenty-five regions of North America. A stepwise multiple regression analysis was used to determine which climatic variables were most highly correlated with the percent C4 species among the various regions. The square of the mean Ju...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Teeri JA,Livingstone DA

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptopterna dolobrata (L.) (Holarctis) and Calocoris roseomaculatus (De Geer) (Palaearctis) are single-brooded in the whole range of their distribution and hibernate in the egg stage. Both species are active only for 21/2 months, while the egg stage lasts over 9 months.The main food plants of Leptopterna are Dactylis ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Braune HJ

更新日期：1971-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our field observations on submersed macrophytes in the littoral zone of Cayuga Lake, N.Y., USA indicate that the shift in dominance from Myriophyllum spicatum L. to Elodea canadensis Michx. may be explained by the high abundance of an aquatic lepidopteran larva, Acentria ephemerella Denis & Schiffermüller. Experimenta...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gross EM,Johnson RL,Hairston NG Jr

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two annual species of Bromus, an invader (B. hordeaceus, ex B. mollis) and a non-invader (B. intermedius), were grown for 28 days in growth chambers, at 5 and 100 μM NO 3- in flowing nutrient solution. No differences between the two species were observed at either NO 3- level, in terms of relative growth rate (RGR) or...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Garnier E,Koch GW,Roy J,Mooney HA

更新日期：1989-06-01 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：:The energy turnover of weevil populations ofPhyllobius argentatus L.,Polydrosus undatus F., andStrophosomus sp. was investigated in a 123 years old (1970) beech forest in special consideration of their soil-living rhizophagous larvae (results of the energy turnover ofStrophosomus sp. imagines, see Grimm, 1973). I. Lif...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Schauermann J

更新日期：1973-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The δ 13C, ‰ values of the two principal, widely distributed CAM species in Big Bend National Park, Texas, were examined and related to phytosociologic and macroclimatic parameters. Samples of Agave lecheguilla and Opuntia engelmannii were collected along an elevational gradient covering 1370 m, and δ values for both ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Eickmeier WG,Bender MM

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1985-1987, patterns of fruit and seed set were studied in a population of mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum), a clonal, self-incompatible herb found in deciduous woods in eastern North America. Mayapple flowers do not produce nectar, but depend on infrequent visits by nectar-seeking queen bumble bees for pollination...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Laverty TM

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecosystem water-use efficiency (eWUE; the ratio of net ecosystem productivity to evapotranspiration rate) is a complex landscape-scale parameter controlled by both physical and biological processes occurring in soil and plants. Leaf WUE (lWUE; the ratio of leaf CO(2) assimilation rate to transpiration rate) is control...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Monson RK,Prater MR,Hu J,Burns SP,Sparks JP,Sparks KL,Scott-Denton LE

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In altricial mammals and birds, the presence of a large number of litter or brood mates often affects the development of individual offspring by reducing the share of resources provided by the parents. However, sibling presence can also be favourable, conferring thermoregulatory benefits when ambient temperatures are ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Rödel HG,Hudson R,von Holst D

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00