Interactions between the leech Glossiphonia complanata and its gastropod prey.

abstract：:In long-lived colonial birds, age at recruitment is an important life-history character. Variation in this parameter may reflect differences in several factors, including competitive ability and breeding strategies. Further, these differences may be due to timing of hatching (for instance through differences in compet...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Prévot-Julliard AC,Pradel R,Julliard R,Grosbois V,Lebreton JD

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The predator Amoeba proteus induced behavioural and morphological changes in ciliates of the genus Euplotes. The frequency of avoidance behaviour in E. octocarinatus increased from 16±5% to 84±5% (SD) after 14 h of coexistence with the predator. The ciliate's width increased from 59±3 μm to 77±4 μm (SDM) within 48 h. ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Kusch J

更新日期：1993-12-01 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：:A reanalysis of data presented by Henneman (1983) to examine the relationship between intrinsic rate of increase and basal metabolism suggests there is no statistically significant correlation between the two variables when both are treated with comparable statistical techniques. In addition, I suggest there is no the...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hayssen V

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predator-prey interactions between small mammals and their avian and mammalian predators have attracted much attention. However, large-scale field experiments examining small-mammal antipredatory responses under the risk of predation by mammals are rare. As recently pointed out, the scale of experiments may cause misl...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Jonsson P,Koskela E,Mappes T

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tree species Xylocarpus granatum is commonly described as occurring in the upper intertidal zone of mangrove forests, but mature trees are occasionally found at lower elevations. In the Utwe River basin, on the Pacific island of Kosrae, we investigated the relative importance of several biotic and abiotic factors ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Allen JA,Krauss KW,Hauff RD

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals with high metabolic rates are believed to have high rates of carbon and nitrogen isotopic incorporation. We hypothesized that (1) chronic exposure to cold, and hence an increase in metabolic rate, would increase the rate of isotopic incorporation of both 13C and 15N into red blood cells; and (2) that the rate ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Carleton SA,Martínez del Rio C

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to an overlap in the resources used by the flight muscles with the resources used during egg production, it has been hypothesised that an increased dispersal in fragmented landscapes may result in a physiological trade-off between flight and reproduction. In a common garden experiment, we investigated the effects ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gibbs M,Van Dyck H

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents tests of a model of wound-induced defence in herbaceous plants. Many studies have reported both chemical changes in leaves and changes in the behaviour and/or physiology of herbivores as a result of wounding leaves. These studies and others have led to the development of various models to explain w...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Coleman RA,Barker AM,Fenner M

更新日期：1996-10-01 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：:Principal and reduced major axes, and Bulmer's (1975) tests have been suggested as methods for detecting the presence of density dependence in a series of population censuses that are unsuitable for analysis by alternative means e.g. by k-factor analysis. These alternative methods are tested using census data, some of...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gaston KJ,Lawton JH

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food density, degree of hunger prior to foraging, and food processing difficulty were varied in order to determine their effects on the diet diversity of captive Peromyscus leucopus foraging for buried seeds. No relationship was found between diet diversity and food density. However, diet diversity exhibited a signifi...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ebersole JP,Wilson JC

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many species of planktonic cladocerans display substantial variation in habitat use (mean depth and diel vertical migration), both among and within populations. We examined whether clonal segregation and specialization contributes to such behavioral variation within several lake populations of the cladoceran, Daphnia ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Tessier AJ,Leibold MA

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon allocation demands from root-nodulating nitrogen-fixing bacteria (NFB) can modulate the host plant's chemical phenotype, with strong bottom-up effects on herbivores. In contrast to well-studied rhizobia, the effects of other important NFB on plant chemistry and herbivory are much less understood. Here, combinin...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ballhorn DJ,Elias JD,Balkan MA,Fordyce RF,Kennedy PG

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing popularity of stable isotope analysis (SIA) as an ecological research tool and the ease of automated analysis have created a knowledge gap between ecologists using SIA and the operators of isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS) equipment. This has led to deterioration in the understanding of IRMS method...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Jardine TD,Cunjak RA

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent work suggests that soil nutrient heterogeneity may modulate plant responses to drivers of global change, but interactions between N heterogeneity and changes in rainfall regime remain poorly understood. We used a model grassland system to investigate the interactive effects of N application pattern (homogeneous...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Xi N,Carrère P,Bloor JM

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some factors influencing the species richness of West African fish communities were studied in a sample of 26 rivers using four habitat and hydrologic variables. Analysis of a larger sample of 39 rivers showed that species richness was positively related to area. A power function with an exponent of 0.32 gave the best...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hugueny B

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants are often attacked by many herbivorous insects and pathogens at the same time. Two important suites of responses to attack are mediated by plant hormones, jasmonate and salicylate, which independently provide resistance to herbivorous insects and pathogens, respectively. Several lines of evidence suggest that t...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Thaler JS,Karban R,Ullman DE,Boege K,Bostock RM

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper gives the first reports on aphid effects on rhizosphere organisms as influenced by soil nutrient status and plant development. Barley plants grown in pots fertilized with N but without P (N), with N and P (NP), or not fertilized (0) were sampled in the early growth phase (day 25), 1 week before and 1 week a...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Vestergård M,Bjørnlund L,Christensen S

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of competitive suppression by vines on the non-vine plant community have received little attention in temperate habitats. This study investigated the impact vines have on their herbaceous hosts in a wetland community at two soil fertility levels. Plots in an oligohaline marsh were treated in a 2 × 2 factor...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gough L,Grace JB

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leaves of birch (Betula pendula Roth) and sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus L.) were initiated and grown either in a simulated shadelight (80 μmol m-2 s-1, R/FR ratio 0.28)/dark photoenvironment or a white light (250 μmol m-2 s-1, R/FR>1)/dark photoenvironment. Until the leaves were more than 50% expanded, growth rates (m...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Taylor G,Davies WJ

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simulation program on the germination of winter annuals is written in such a way that the influence of changing environmental conditions on germination characteristics such as the time of germination, the percentage of germination and the distribution function of germination is described as well as possible in accor...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Janssen JG

更新日期：1974-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen availability is a critical component of productivity in successional lowland rainforests, and nitrogen losses from a given system may largely depend on rates of nitrification in soils of the system. Two hypotheses were tested in a study of a 6-point secondary rainforest sere in the coastal lowlands of Costa R...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Philip Robertson G

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Field experiments were conducted to clarify the relationship between the extent of food limitation and the amount and nature of intraspecific competition in an orb weaver, the labyrinth spider Metepeira labyrinthea. In one experiment agonistic encounters between marked adult females were induced at natural web sites. ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Wise DH

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a field study of the haematocrit of pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) nestlings when close to fledging. First a descriptive study was conducted of both fledgling and adult haematocrit over 2 years to analyse correlates of variation in this trait. Then a swapping experiment was performed to see whether var...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Potti J,Moreno J,Merino S,Frías O,Rodríguez R

更新日期：1999-07-01 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：:For organisms that exhibit complex life cycles, resource conditions experienced by individuals before metamorphosis can strongly affect phenotypes later in life. Such resource-induced effects are known to arise from variation in resource quantity, yet little is known regarding effects stemming from variation in resour...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Stoler AB,Stephens JP,Relyea RA,Berven KA,Tiegs SD

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbohydrate, lipid, and protein compositions are stoichiometrically related to organic CHN (carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen) contents. Elemental CHN analyses of total biomass and ash, therefore, provide a basis for the calculation of proximate biochemical composition and bomb caloric value. The classical nitrogen to prote...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gnaiger E,Bitterlich G

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sabal palmetto (Walt.) Lodd. ex Schultes (cabbage palm) is an arborescent palm common in many plant communities throughout Florida, U.S.A., and the Caribbean. Although its seedlings grow very slowly in forest understories, they survive damage and defoliation well, and the species may increase in dominance following di...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： McPherson K,Williams K

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developing leaves that are soft, with high concentrations of resources, can be particularly vulnerable to herbivore damage. Since a developing leaf cannot be very tough, given the constraints of cell expansion, the major form of protection is likely to be chemical defence. We investigated changes in concentration of h...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Brunt C,Read J,Sanson GD

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00