Trade-offs between sexual and asexual reproduction in the genus Mimulus.

abstract：:The relationships between prey utilization and jaw biomechanics were explored in two Caribbean populations (La Parguera and Mona Island) of four trigger-fishes. The volumetric contribution of major prey types and six biomechanical features of the jaws that characterize biting strength were contrasted between populatio...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Turingan RG,Wainwright PC,Hensley DA

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant stigmas and bee pollinators are competitors for pollen. Pollen placed on a pollinator's body can be picked up by conspecific stigmas or it can be collected by the pollinator as food. Hypothetically, one solution is for pollen to be placed on 'safe sites' on the pollinator's body, sites where the pollinator canno...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Tong ZY,Huang SQ

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The foraging strategies of four naturally co-existing heteromyid rodent species were investigated: Dipodomys deserti (≈100 g), D. merriami (≈38 g), Microdipodops pallidus (≈13 g), and Perognathus longimembris (≈7 g). In 208 over-night laboratory foraging trials animals were provided with millet seed distributed in clu...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Trombulak SC,Kenagy GJ

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The similarity in species composition between two communities generally decays as a function of increasing distance between them. Parasite communities in vertebrate definitive hosts follow this pattern but the respective relationship in intermediate invertebrate hosts of parasites with complex life cycles is unknown. ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Thieltges DW,Ferguson MA,Jones CS,Krakau M,de Montaudouin X,Noble LR,Reise K,Poulin R

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of habitat fragmentation on species diversity and herbivore-parasitoid interactions were analyzed using the insect community of seed feeders and their parasitoids in the pods of the bush vetch (Vicia sepium L.). Field studies were carried out on 18 old meadows differing in area and isolation. The area of these...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Kruess A,Tscharntke T

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resprouting is the main regeneration mechanism after fire in Mediterranean-type ecosystems. Herbivores play an important role in controlling postfire seedling establishment, but their influence on regeneration by resprouting is less well known. To study the effects of fire intensity on resprouting of Adenostoma fascic...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Moreno JM,Oechel WC

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:11 fruit fly species captured at 47 sites in a natural forest area at Cooloola (south-east Queensland) revealed specific patterns of spatial abundance. Although all species were collected throughout the study area, D. bryoniae, D. mayi, D. neohumeralis and D. tryoni were more prevalent (average number caught per trap)...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Zalucki MP,Drew RA,Hooper GH

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two methods of extraction were used in the estimation of snail population densities in woodland litter. The time-consuming-Vágvölgyi technique proved to be 6.25 times more efficient than infra-red heat extraction but it was shown that the results obtained by the latter method could be easily corrected to conform with ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Phillipson J,Abel R

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of ectoparasitic water mite larvae (Arrenurus) on the fluctuating asymmetry (FA) of forewing length and cell number in the foreweings of the damselfly Coenagrion puella has been investigated. We show a significant correlation between the FA of forewing length and the mite load. Most explanations for incr...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Bonn A,Gasse M,Rolff J,Martens A

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To maximize fitness, many animals must trade off their need to forage efficiently against their need to avoid predators. We studied such a trade-off in four species of tits (Paridae) in a forest near Oxford, UK. During winter, tits form flocks which increase feeding efficiency and reduce predation risk. These flocks f...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Walther B,Gosler A

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The remains of northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus) are among the most abundant of pinniped elements recovered from mainland coastal archaeological sites in both California and Oregon. This is surprising as all contemporary northern fur seals breed exclusively on offshore islands, primarily at high latitudes, and ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Burton RK,Snodgrass JJ,Gifford-Gonzalez D,Guilderson T,Brown T,Koch PL

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The foraging behavior of Mesocyclops edax in artificial patches of high and low prey density was examined. In low density patches Mesocyclops swam in an irregular curvilinear path with little or no looping behavior. In high density patches Mesocyclops exhibited extensive horizontal and vertical looping behavior. Horiz...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Williamson CE

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant population and community dynamics may be altered by increasing atmospheric CO(2) concentrations [[CO(2)]] through intraspecific variation in the responses of vegetative and reproductive growth. Although these responses may be regulated by age at flowering, little is known about the direct effects of age at flowe...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Lewis JD,Wang X,Griffin KL,Tissue DT

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In plagiotropic plants, axillary buds on the stolon can be exposed to low red:far-red (R:FR) ratios, while the leaves may be positioned in the uppermost layer of the sward where they are exposed to a high R:FR ratio. We tested whether the light environment of unfolded leaves influences outgrowth of the axillary buds a...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Lötscher M,Nösberger J

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of processing of beech leaf litter (Fagus sylvatica L.) of different ages by the diplopodGlomeris marginata (Villers) on status and turnover of microorganisms was investigated in the laboratory. Microbial biomass, basal respiration and metabolic quotient of litter-material from three different beechwood sit...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Maraun M,Scheu S

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although ontogenetic changes in the carbon isotope ratios of marine fauna have been well studied those of freshwater organisms have not. As a result, we may have a less than adequate assessment of the incorporation of allochthonous detritus into freshwater foodwebs. This study found a δ13C range of 9‰ for crayfish (Or...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： France R

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate change is driving species range shifts worldwide. However, physiological responses related to distributional changes are not fully understood. Oceanographers have reported an increase in ocean temperature in the northwest Iberian Peninsula that is potentially related to the decline in some cold-temperate inter...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Martínez B,Arenas F,Rubal M,Burgués S,Esteban R,García-Plazaola I,Figueroa FL,Pereira R,Saldaña L,Sousa-Pinto I,Trilla A,Viejo RM

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluxes of CO2 and N2O were measured from both natural and experimentally augmented snowpacks during the winters of 1993 and 1994 on Niwot Ridge in the Colorado Front Range. Consistent snow cover insulated the soil surface from extreme air temperatures and allowed heterotrophic activity to continue through much of the ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Brooks PD,Schmidt SK,Williams MW

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Models of the evolution of seed dormancy reveal that dormancy is favoured either when opportunities for establishment vary over time and when there is wide variation in the probability of success, or when the probability of success is limited by frequency dependence. Empirical evidence supporting the temporal heteroge...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Zammit C,Zedler PH

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the increasing imperative for societies to act to curb climate change by increasing carbon stores and sinks, it has become critical to understand how organic carbon is produced, released, transformed, transported, and sequestered within and across ecosystems. In freshwater and open-ocean systems, shredders play a...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Filbee-Dexter K,Pedersen MF,Fredriksen S,Norderhaug KM,Rinde E,Kristiansen T,Albretsen J,Wernberg T

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple studies have examined the effects of clouds on shoot and canopy-level microclimate and physiological processes; none have yet done so on the scale of individual plant crowns. We compared incident photosynthetically active radiation (PAR), leaf temperatures, chlorophyll fluorescence, and photosynthetic gas exc...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hernandez-Moreno JM,Bayeur NM,Coley HD 4th,Hughes NM

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of a number of factors, notably leaf mining insects, on the longevity of beech and holm oak leaves have been studied. The regular monitoring of individually labelled leaves was complemented by analysis of leaf fall data. Both methods confirm that these mining insects have only a slight impact on their host...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Pritchard IM,James R

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decomposition of standing dead trees that were killed by fire was examined for 10 species in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The decrease in wood density as fire age increased was used to estimate decomposition rates. Quercus prinus had the fastest decay rate (11% yr-1) while Pinus virginiana had the slowest ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Harmon ME

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among birds of the Bismarck Archipelago, only certain combinations of the species in a guild coexist on islands, and some species that are very similar ecologically have mutually exclusive distributions. Diamond (1975) interpreted these patterns as biologically significant, involving effects such as competition. Conno...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Diamond JM,Gilpin ME

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies have shown that nonlethal predator effects such as trait-mediated interactions (TMIs) can have significant impacts on the structure and function of communities, but the role that environmental conditions play in modulating the scale and magnitude of these effects has not been carefully investigated. TMIs ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Smee DL,Ferner MC,Weissburg MJ

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the strength and type of interactions among species is vital to anticipate how ecosystems will respond to ongoing anthropogenic stressors. Here, we examine the ecological function of native (Ecklonia radiata) and invasive (Undaria pinnatifida) kelps in resisting shifts to sediment-trapping turf on reefs ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Reeves SE,Kriegisch N,Johnson CR,Ling SD

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An "environmental productivity index" based on physiological responses to three environmental variables was used to predict the net productivity of a common succulent perennial of the Sonoran Desert, Agave deserti, on a monthly basis. Productivity was also independently measured in the field from dry weight changes. T...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Nobel PS

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While morphological differences such as tongue length are often featured as drivers of pollinator floral preferences, differences in chemical detection and tolerance to secondary compounds may also play a role. We sought to better understand the role of secondary compounds in floral preference by examining visitation ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Villalona E,Ezray BD,Laveaga E,Agrawal AA,Ali JG,Hines HM

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pronounced spatial variation in recruitment occurs in many marine invertebrate and fish populations and is thought to be critical to the demography of these species. In this study I examined the importance of habitat structure and the presence of conspecific residents to spatial variation in larval settlement and recr...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Levin PS

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetic properties of NAD malate dehydrogenase (MDH) and glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase (GOT) were analyzed in two genotypes of Arabidopsis thaliana collected in two sites of contrasting climates. Plants from each genotype were acclimated under controlled conditions at four different thermoperiods: 5-10° C, 7-15°...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Simon JP,Potvin C,Blanchard MH

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00