Carnivore body size: Ecological and taxonomic correlates.

abstract：:This study investigated seasonal variation in the origin of water used by plants in a riparian tropical rainforest community and explored linkages between plant water source, plant xylem hydraulic conductivity and response to the onset of dry conditions. The study focused on five co-dominant canopy species, comprising...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Drake PL,Franks PJ

更新日期：2003-11-01 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：:1 Intake of food, fat, protein and carbohydrates and their fecal output were recorded during the annual body weight cycle of the garden warbler, and old-world longdistance migratory bird species, and the efficiencies of food and nutrient utilization, defined as the ratio (intake-fecal output)/intake, were calculated. ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Bairlein F

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-termed fumigation of pea seedlings with SO2 caused typical alterations of the concentration of free glutamate and glutamine as well as fluctuations of the activity of glutamate dehydrogenase and glutamine synthetase. Shortly after the beginning of the fumigation with low concentrations of SO2 (up to 0,3 ppm) the ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Jäger HJ,Pahlich E

更新日期：1972-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthropogenic land use may shape vegetation composition and affect trophic interactions by altering concentrations of host plant metabolites. Here, we investigated the hypotheses that: (1) plant N and defensive secondary metabolite contents of the herb Plantago lanceolata are affected by land use intensity (LUI) and t...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Wäschke N,Hancock C,Hilker M,Obermaier E,Meiners T

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degree of CAM-cycling was examined in plants from 23 populations representing five morphologically similar species of Talinum to determine how CAM-cycling correlates with site aridity and drought stress. In the field, CAM-cycling, as indicated by the amount of malic acid accumulated in plant tissues overnight, and...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Harris FS,Martin CE

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：: In spite of recent theoretical interest, few field studies have addressed the links between individual behavioral decisions and population distribution. This work analyzes the foraging behavior of individuals and the spatial distribution of a population of blue tits (Parus caeruleus) just before the main breeding sea...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Pulido FJ,Díaz M

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1997 to 1999, we monitored the reproductive success of individual rufous-crowned sparrows (Aimophila ruficeps) in coastal sage scrub habitat of southern California, USA. Annual reproductive output of this ground-nesting species varied strongly with annual variation in rainfall, attributed to the El Niño-Southern ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Morrison SA,Bolger DT

更新日期：2002-11-01 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：:Understanding how communities respond to extreme climatic events is important for predicting the impact of climate change on biodiversity. The plant vigor and stress hypotheses provide a theoretical framework for understanding how arthropods respond to stress, but are rarely tested at the community level. Following a ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Stone AC,Gehring CA,Whitham TG

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disturbance is now recognized as a key ecosystem process but few studies have examined its indirect effects on individuals in a population or its relationship to ecological dominance in a community. Using an ecologically dominant small mammal population in experimentally burned habitat as a model, I empirically tested...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Plavsic MJ

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Desert annuals of Death Valley, California have higher average light-saturated photosynthetic capacities and leaf nitrogen contents than do early-successional annuals of Illinois. The leaves of annuals in the light-unlimited Death Valley environment change little in specific weight, nitrogen, or photosynthetic capacit...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Mooney HA,Field C,Gulmon SL,Bazzaz FA

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying the drivers and evolutionary consequences of species interactions is a major goal of community ecology. Network-based analyses can provide mathematical tools to detect non-random patterns of interactions, and potentially help predicting the consequences of such patterns on evolutionary dynamics of symbioti...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Chagnon PL,Magain N,Miadlikowska J,Lutzoni F

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Models incorporating the energetics of individual daphnids (Cladocera) have been developed to predict the effect of environmental variables, particularly food availability, on population dynamics. One of them, that of Kooijman (1986), assumes that all assimilated energy enters a storage compartment prior to use in pro...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Bradley MC,Perrin N,Calow P

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theory suggests that source-sink dynamics can allow coexistence of intraguild predators and prey, but empirical evidence for this coexistence mechanism is limited. We used capture-mark-recapture, genetic methods, and stable isotopes to test whether source-sink dynamics promote coexistence between stream fishes, the in...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Sepulveda AJ,Lowe WH

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals in fragmented landscapes have a major challenge to move between high-quality habitat patches through lower-quality matrix. Two current mechanistic hypotheses that describe the movement used by animals outside of their preferred patches (e.g., high-quality habitat or home range) are the biased, correlated rando...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： McIntire EJ,Rompré G,Severns PM

更新日期：2013-05-01 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：:The use of stable isotopes to infer diet requires quantifying the relationship between diet and tissues and, in particular, knowing of how quickly isotopes turnover in different tissues and how isotopic concentrations of different food components change (discriminate) when incorporated into consumer tissues. We used f...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Pearson SF,Levey DJ,Greenberg CH,Martínez Del Rio C

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When testing census data of insect populations for regulation, and/or for overall density dependence in the course of numbers over years, certain conditions, which follow from the testing models, should be fulfilled. Even if the series of densities may be considered a piece of first-order Markov chain (a necessary con...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Den Boer PJ

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enhanced ultraviolet-B (UV-B) radiation may have multiple effects on both plants and animals and affect plant-herbivore interactions directly and indirectly by inducing changes in host plant quality. In this study, we examined combined effects of UV-B and herbivory on the defence of the mountain birch (Betula pubescen...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Anttila U,Julkunen-Tiitto R,Rousi M,Yang S,Rantala MJ,Ruuhola T

更新日期：2010-09-01 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：:The parasitoids known to attack 191 phytophagous species of gall midges (Cecidomyiidae) were used to examine factors influencing parasitoid assemblage size. The number of parasitoid species a midge species supports was tested against nine variables describing geographical, biological and ecological attributes of hosts...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hawkins BA,Gagné RJ

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interspecific relationships such as mutualism and parasitism are major drivers of biodiversity. Because such interactions often comprise more than two species, ecological studies increasingly focus on complex multispecies systems. However, the spatial heterogeneity of multi-species interactions is often poorly underst...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Schöner CR,Schöner MG,Kerth G,Grafe TU

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The post-dispersal fate of seeds and fruit (diaspores) of three vertebrate-dispersed trees, Crataegus monogyna, Prunus mahaleb and Taxus baccata, was studied in the Andalusian highlands, south-eastern Spain. Exclosures were used to quantify separately the impact of vertebrates and invertebrates on seed removal in rela...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hulme PE

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature-mediated plasticity in life history traits strongly affects the capability of ectotherms to cope with changing environmental temperatures. We hypothesised that temperature-mediated reaction norms of ectotherms are constrained by the availability of essential dietary lipids, i.e. polyunsaturated fatty acids...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Martin-Creuzburg D,Wacker A,Ziese C,Kainz MJ

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a severe outbreak of sarcoptic mange (Sarcoptes scabiei vulpes) starting among red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) in Sweden in the 1970s, we studied: 1) the establishment and spread of the disease in northernmost Sweden (by inquiries), and 2) the 1970-84 bag records for foxes and mountain hares (Lepus timidus) (an alter...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Danell K,Hörnfeldt B

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate change does affect not only average rainfall and temperature but also their variation, which can reduce the predictability of suitable conditions for growth and reproduction. This situation is problematic for inhabitants of temporary waters whose reproductive success depends on rainfall and evaporation that de...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Pinceel T,Vanschoenwinkel B,Hawinkel W,Tuytens K,Brendonck L

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant species and functionally related species groups from arid and semi-arid habitats vary in their capacity to take up summer precipitation, acquire nitrogen quickly after summer precipitation, and subsequently respond with ecophysiological changes (e.g. water and nitrogen relations, gas exchange). For species that ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Snyder KA,Donovan LA,James JJ,Tiller RL,Richards JH

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The responses of Polygonum pensylvanicum L., an early successional annual, and of Polygonum virginianum L., a late successional perennial, were examined along discontinuous gradients of soil moisture, light and nutrient availability. In the case of P. virginianum both individuals grown from seed and individuals grown ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Lee HS,Zangerl AR,Garbutt K,Bazzaz FA

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although host preferences in phytophagous insects may be generated by several factors, few studies have simultaneously examined several potential host choice determinants. In this study we tested the impact of the following potential host choice determinants on host preference of the semi-aquatic lepidopteran Munroess...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Dorn NJ,Cronin G,Lodge DM

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00