Prey selection by molluscivorous cichlids foraging on a schistosomiasis vector snail, Biomphalaria glabrata.

abstract：:Studies of phenotypic variation in nature often consider only a single potential selective agent. In such cases, it remains an open question as to whether variation attributed to that single measured agent might be influenced by some other unmeasured agent. Previous research has shown that phenotypic variation in the ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gotanda KM,Delaire LC,Raeymaekers JA,Pérez-Jvostov F,Dargent F,Bentzen P,Scott ME,Fussmann GF,Hendry AP

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The life ofOncopeltus fasciatus centers on the seeds of milkweeds (Asclepiadaceae,Asclepias syriaca in this study). Adults reproduce prolifically on these seeds, but they engage in only half as much copulation and lay only a few eggs when fed milkweed buds and flowers instead. They can not maintain body weight on a di...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ralph CP

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined in the laboratory the feeding response of two populations of the generalist herbivorous snail Arianta arbustorum (Helicidae) towards the composite Adenostyles alliariae and towards various allelochemicals. These were: a pyrrolizidine alkaloid (PA) extract of Adenostyles leaves; senecionine (a PA present ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Speiser B,Harmatha J,Rowell-Rahier M

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A central point in life history theory is that parental investment in current reproduction should be balanced by the costs in terms of residual reproductive value. Long-lived seabirds are considered fixed investors, that is, parents fix a specific level of investment in their current reproduction independent to the br...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Navarro J,González-Solís J

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A stage-by-stage protocol for identifying simple or biased lottery, or non-lottery, patterns of seedling recruitment is outlined. For a simple (weighted) lottery to apply, the proportion of total individuals accounted for by one species at one stage of recruitment plotted against the proportion accounted for at a prev...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Lamont BB,Witkowski ET

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The supply of recruits plays an important role in plant and animal population dynamics, and may be governed by environmental and behavioral constraints on animals. Mated females of the mayfly genus Baetis alight on rocks protruding from streams, crawl under water and deposit a single egg mass under a rock. We surveyed...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Peckarsky BL,Taylor BW,Caudill CC

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper investigates the effect of brood parasitism in a dung beetle assemblage in an arid region of Spain. The study was conducted during the spring season (March-May 1994-1998) using mesh cylinders buried into the ground, filled with sand and with sheep dung on top. We quantified the proportion of nests containin...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： González-Megías A,Sánchez-Piñero F

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the performance of two estimators of species richness, the Chao2 and the Coleman 'random placement curve'. Using a dataset of intertidal fish from the Norwegian Skagerrak coast, we found that Chao2 was effective for low sampling intensity, often reaching asymptotic values for few samples, but for higher sa...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Lekve K,Ellingsen KE,Lingjaerde OC,Gjøsaeter J,Stenseth NC

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Warming effects on shoot growth, production, reproductive activity, and vegetation structure of alpine shrubs were measured over 5 years in a mid-latitude alpine fellfield in northern Japan. Open-top chambers (OTC) increased the daily mean air-temperature by 1.5-2.3 degrees C throughout the growing season but the effe...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Kudo G,Suzuki S

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimal foraging theory is based on the assumption that at least some aspects of foraging behavior are genetically determined (Pyke et al. 1977; Kamil and Sargent 1980; Pyke 1984). Nonetheless, very few studies have examined the role of genetics in foraging behavior. Here, we report on geographical differences in the ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hedrick AV,Riechert SE

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant species vary greatly in the degree to which floral morphology restricts access to the flower interior. Restrictiveness of flower corollas may influence heterospecific pollen receipt, but the impact of floral morphology on heterospecific pollen transfer has received little attention. We characterized patterns of ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Montgomery BR,Rathcke BJ

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluation of size-dependent variation in statoblast numbers in Plumatella repens indicates that this freshwater bryozoan employs divergent strategies in dispersing its asexual offspring in space and time. While the numbers of sessoblasts which were cemented to local substrates did not vary per unit ramet size, number...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Karlson RH

更新日期：1992-03-01 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：:Festuca idahoensis (Idaho fescue) is a perennial caespitose grass, common in semi-arid rangelands of the Intermountain West. To determine how individuals are recruited into a population, we studied two long-term monitoring plots that were established in 1937 at the Northern Great Basin Experimental Range in southeaste...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Liston A,Wilson BL,Robinson WA,Doescher PS,Harris NR,Svejcar T

更新日期：2003-10-01 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：:Sea lion and seal populations in Alaskan waters underwent various degrees of decline during the latter half of the twentieth century and the cause(s) for the declines remain uncertain. The stable carbon ((13)C/(12)C) and nitrogen ((15)N/(14)N) isotope ratios in bone collagen from wild Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jub...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hirons AC,Schell DM,Finney BP

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing concern about loss of biodiversity and its effects on ecosystem functioning has triggered a series of manipulative experiments worldwide, which have demonstrated a general trend for ecosystem functioning to increase with diversity. General mechanisms proposed to explain diversity effects include complementa...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Tobner CM,Paquette A,Reich PB,Gravel D,Messier C

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthropogenic disturbance can have important indirect effects on ecosystems by disrupting species interactions. Here we examine the effects of anthropogenic disturbance on distance dispersal by ants for the diaspores of myrmecochorous Euphorbiaceae in Brazilian Caatinga. Rates of diaspore removal and distances removed...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Leal LC,Andersen AN,Leal IR

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I used a combination of laboratory experiments and field surveys to examine the role that population-specific predation risk may play in shaping the life history strategy of a stream-dwelling isopod Lirceus fontinalis. Two focal populations were identified that were exposed to different predator types. The first popul...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Sparkes TC

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two physiological races of the carabid beetle, Pterostichus nigrita, are compared. The larvae from the northern Scandinavian population (polar circle) develop faster in all temperature regimens, have a reduced mortality in lower temperatures and an increased growth rate in high temperatures compared with the central E...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ferenz HJ

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Populations with dispersive larvae are often demographically open such that local reproduction and subsequent larval settlement are not linked. Thus, understanding whether and how settlement patterns are established and subsequently modified is central to understanding local demography. Settlement is typically not mea...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Webster MS

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dreissenid mussels (Dreissena polymorpha and D. bugensis) have re-engineered Great Lakes ecosystems since their introduction in the late 1980s. Dreissenids can have major indirect impacts on profundal habitats by redirecting nutrients and energy away from pelagic production (which supplies profundal production) and de...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Rennie MD,Sprules WG,Johnson TB

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies published over the last years suggest that the ability of many species to cope with global change will be closely related to the current amount of plasticity for fitness-related traits. Thus, disentangling general patterns in phenotypic flexibility, which could be then included in models aimed to predi...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Aguilar-Kirigin ÁJ,Naya DE

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(i) The growth of ca. 100 individuals of a small deciduous tree Euphorbia pyrifolia, of different ages and edaphic regimes, and with different levels of infestation by the coccid Icerya seychellarum, has been studied on Aldabra Atoll over two years (1976-1978). Infestation on leaves ranged between 0 and 1.3 mg dry wei...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Newbery DM

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Root proliferation in nutrient-rich soil patches is an important mechanism facilitating nutrient capture by plants. Although the phenomenon of root proliferation is well documented, the specific timing of this proliferation has not been investigated. We studied the timing and degree of root proliferation for three per...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Jackson RB,Caldwell MM

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endozoochory plays a prominent role for the dispersal of seed plants, and dispersal vectors are well known. However, for taxa such as ferns and bryophytes, endozoochory has only been suggested anecdotally but never tested in controlled experiments. We fed fertile leaflets of three ferns and capsules of four bryophyte ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Boch S,Berlinger M,Fischer M,Knop E,Nentwig W,Türke M,Prati D

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small changes in environmental conditions can unexpectedly tip an ecosystem from one community type to another, and these often irreversible shifts have been observed in semi-arid grasslands, freshwater lakes and ponds, coral reefs, and kelp forests. A commonly accepted explanation is that these ecosystems contain mul...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Petraitis PS,Methratta ET,Rhile EC,Vidargas NA,Dudgeon SR

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the selective loss of individuals susceptible to disease can favor the evolution of female preference for older males, the interrelationship between age, infection, longevity, and mating success remains poorly characterized in natural populations. In a longitudinal study of 61 male common yellowthroats (Geoth...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Freeman-Gallant CR,Taff CC

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatial and temporal niche differentiation are potential mechanisms of plant species' coexistence in many communities, including many grasslands. In a 6-year field experiment, a dominant prairie bunchgrass, Schizachyrium scoparium, excluded species sharing similar phenology and rooting depth, but coexisted with specie...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Fargione J,Tilman D

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Global biodiversity is threatened by multiple anthropogenic stressors but little is known about the combined effects of environmental warming and invasive species on ecosystem functioning. We quantified thermal preferences and then compared leaf-litter processing rates at eight different temperatures (5.0-22.5 °C) by ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Kenna D,Fincham WN,Dunn AM,Brown LE,Hassall C

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00