Roles for structural and temporal shelter-changing by fern-feeding lepidopteran larvae.

abstract：:To investigate the physiological, behavioral, and genetic contributions to growth rate, we studied the thermal sensitivity of growth rate in hatchlings of the iguanid lizards Sceloporus occidentalis and S. graciosus in the laboratory. We used a cycling thermal regime patterned after thermal environments found in natur...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Sinervo B,Adolph SC

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resource selection is a function of interactions of organisms (competition, predation) as well as characteristics of the resource and organisms. I provide a quantitative model that integrates these factors. I use the model to predict profitability of fruits to tropical birds, but the model and its predictions are appl...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Martin TE

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteolytic activity in the gut contents of two cichlids and six cyprinids from an artificial basin in Sri Lanka was measured using a simple film strip method. This comparative study contributes to our general knowledge of digestion in herbivorous fish: 1) Specific proteolytic activity (per ml of gut content) is lower...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hofer R,Schiemer F

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increases in terrestrial primary productivity across the Arctic and northern alpine ecosystems are leading to altered vegetation composition and stature. Changes in vegetation stature may affect predator-prey interactions via changes in the prey's ability to detect predators, changes in predation pressure, predator id...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Wheeler HC,Chipperfield JD,Roland C,Svenning JC

更新日期：2015-07-01 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：:A key question in savanna ecology is how trees and grasses coexist under N limitation. We used N stable isotopes and N content to study N source partitioning across seasons from trees and associated grasses in a semi-arid savanna. We also used (15)N tracer additions to investigate possible redistribution of N by trees...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Priyadarshini KV,Prins HH,de Bie S,Heitkönig IM,Woodborne S,Gort G,Kirkman K,Fry B,de Kroon H

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite many studies highlighting the widespread occurrence and effects of resource movement between ecosystems, comparatively little is known about how anthropogenic alterations to ecosystems affect the strength, direction and importance of such fluxes. Hydrological regime and riparian land use cause well-documented ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Greenwood MJ,Booker DJ

更新日期：2016-02-01 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：: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：:We have investigated interspecific interactions between larvae of the 3 native British anurans, Rana temporaria, Bufo bufo and B. calamita in the field and in the laboratory. Over a 3 year period, predation of B. calamita spawn by the two competitively superior species accounted for only 0.3-3.0% of the total deposite...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Banks B,Beebee TJ

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osmoderma eremita is a species of beetle that inhabits hollows in ancient trees, which is a habitat that has decreased significantly during the last century. In southeastern Sweden, we studied the metapopulation dynamics of this beetle over a 25 year period, using capture-mark-recapture. The metapopulation size had be...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Lindman L,Larsson MC,Mellbrand K,Svensson GP,Hedin J,Tranberg O,Ranius T

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONCLUSION:For the abovementioned reasons, and with all due respect to the scholarship of Mansson and McGlade, who display a deep knowledge of thermodynamics and ecology, I cannot agree that Odum's use of energy concepts is "wholly discredited". Refinements from microscopic thermodynamics may not have been faithfully c...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Patten BC

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent investigations into the nutrient cycling of coastal ecosystems have suggested that migratory or anadromous fish could be important vectors of marine nutrients. Anadromous fish have assimilated marine nutrients that would contribute to the nutrient budgets of freshwater systems by excretion, gamete release, or t...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： MacAvoy SE,Macko SA,McIninch SP,Garman GC

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpine Trifolium species have high rates of symbiotic N2-fixation which may influence the abundance and growth of plant species growing near them. The potential for facilitative effects on plant abundance and growth in dry meadow alpine tundra of Niwot Ridge, Colo., characterized by low resource availability, was inve...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Thomas BD,Bowman WD

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the mechanisms producing and maintaining discontinuities between patches in mosaics of habitats is necessary to predict changes in patterns of abundance and distribution of species. On temperate rocky reefs, physical and biological disturbance can result in a mosaic of patches of encrusting coralline, tu...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Bulleri F,Benedetti-Cecchi L

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sea urchin, Lytechinus variegatus, has been estimated to consume between 50 and 90% of annual net aboveground production in selected turtlegrass (Thalassia testudinum) meadows in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Nevertheless, turtlegrass persists where sea urchin grazing is intense. We hypothesized that turtlegrass pro...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Valentine JF,Heck KL,Busby J Jr,Webb D

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While trying to achieve their nutritional requirements, foraging herbivores face the costs of plant defenses, such as toxins. Teasing apart the costs and benefits of various chemical constituents in plants is difficult because their chemical defenses and nutrient concentrations often co-vary. We used an approach deriv...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Bedoya-Pérez MA,Issa DD,Banks PB,McArthur C

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-to-five-year population oscillations of northern small rodents are usually synchronous over hundreds of square kilometers. This regional synchrony could be due to similarity in climatic factors, or due to nomadic predators reducing the patches of high prey density close to the average density of a larger area. W...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Norrdahl K,Korpimäki E

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present evidence of genetic variation in and covariation between leaf-level gas exchange properties and leaf size among family lines of Polygonum arenastrum. This self-fertilizing annual had previously been shown to vary genetically in developmental phenology and in morphology (size of leaves, internodes, flowers a...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Geber MA,Dawson TE

更新日期：1990-12-01 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：:Host use by herbivores is largely determined by host properties such as nutrient content and chemical defence against foragers. The impacts of these attributes on a herbivore may largely depend on its life cycle stage. Lichen species are known to differ in nutritional quality and level of chemical defence and, consequ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Pöykkö H,Backor M,Bencúrová E,Molcanová V,Backorová M,Hyvärinen M

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mixed infections, where more than one parasite genotype is present in a single host, have been suggested to be an important factor in host-parasite interactions. As the host represents a limited resource, co-infecting parasite genotypes are expected to be under resource competition. Competition will not only modify th...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Vizoso DB,Ebert D

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that a heterogeneous environment enhances species richness and allows for the coexistence of species. However, there is increasing evidence that environmental heterogeneity can have no effect or even a negative effect on plant species richness and plant coexistence at a local scale. We examined w...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Douda J,Doudová-Kochánková J,Boublík K,Drašnarová A

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anuran amphibians have traditionally been considered suitable model organisms for community ecology studies. In this paper, we review and quantitatively re-analyze the original studies published on dietary relationships among anuran communities worldwide. We re-analyzed 33 independent communities from all continents, ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Vignoli L,Luiselli L

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aboveground herbivory is well known to change plant growth and defence. In contrast, effects of soil organisms, acting alone or in concert, on allocation patterns are less well understood. We investigated separate and combined effects of the endogeic earthworm species Aporrectodea caliginosa and the root feeding nemat...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Lohmann M,Scheu S,Müller C

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a food provisioning experiment in a population of Pied Flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca breeding at high altitude in central Spain to test if food availability before and during laying determines clutch size. Food was provided to one of two pairs with the same date of initiation of nest-building (15 dyads o...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Sanz JJ,Moreno J

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The abundance and composition of the submerged macrophyte seed bank in the Doñana marsh (southwestern Spain) was evaluated to assess its relationship with the overlying vegetation. The results obtained demonstrate the existence of a dense seed-bank, both in terms of the number of seeds and their biomass, which represe...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Grillas P,Garcia-Murillo P,Geertz-Hansen O,Marbá N,Montes C,Duarte CM,Tan Ham L,Grossmann A

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of predation by roach (Rutilus rutilus) on zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) in a large, eutrophic lake showed that there was a clearly marked size threshold (∼ 160 mm SL) above which roach began to feed on mussels. Roach preying on various sizes of mussels selected them in proportions different from their a...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Prejs A,Lewandowski K,Stańczykowska-Piotrowska A

更新日期：1990-06-01 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 glossiphoniid leeches Helobdella stagnalis and Glossiphonia complanata co-exist on the stony shores of British lakes. Because both species have a similar life-style and are food limited, the question arises as to how coexistence persists. Laboratory experiments investigated if either leech has a competitive advant...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Young JO,Martin AJ,Seaby RM

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00