Mating success of alternative maturation phenotypes in male Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar.

abstract：:Competition for water surface prey between fish (Priapichtus annectens: Poeciliidae) and water striders (Potamobates unidentatus: Gerridae) was studied in the laboratory and in pools in a small tropical stream. Laboratory experiments showed that fish depressed activity and foraging success of water striders. Large fis...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Englund G,Johansson F,Olsson TI

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adjustment of hydraulic architecture in response to environmental conditions was studied in two warm-desert sub-shrubs, Hymenoclea salsola and Ambrosia dumosa, both at the level of genetic adaptation along a climatic gradient and plastic response to immediate growth conditions. Individuals of both species originating ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Comstock JP

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant physiological strategies of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) uptake and metabolism are often regarded as outcomes of environmental selection. This is likely true, but the role of evolutionary history may also be important in shaping patterns of functional diversity. Here, we used leaf C and N stable isotope ratios (δ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Goud EM,Sparks JP

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In both single- and mixed-species social groups, certain participants are known to play important roles in providing benefits. Identifying these participants is critical for understanding group dynamics, but is often difficult with large roving social groups in the wild. Here, we develop a new approach to characterize...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Sridhar H,Shanker K

更新日期：2014-11-01 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：:It is widely recognized that pollinators vary in their effectiveness in pollination mutualisms, due both to differences in flower-pollinator morphological fit as well as pollinator behaviour. However, pollination webs typically treat all interactions as equal, and we contend that this method may provide misleading res...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Sánchez-Lafuente AM,Rodríguez-Gironés MA,Parra R

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data on soil nutrient availability for humid tropical forests are often reported, but are rarely integrated in an ecologically meaningful way with other measures of nutrient cycling. In this paper, estimates of soil nutrient availability and the inverse of litterfall nutrient concentrations (as an index of plant nutri...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Silver WL

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An automated, fiber optic point quadrat system for vegetation sampling is described. Because the effective point diameter of this system never exceeds 25 μm it minimizes the substantial errors which can arise with conventional point quadrats. Automatic contact detection eliminates operator subjectivity, and permits wo...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Caldwell MM,Harris GW,Dzurec RS

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen (N) losses constrain rates of plant carbon dioxide (CO2) uptake and storage in many ecosystems globally. N isotope models have been used to infer that ~30 % of terrestrial N losses occur via microbial denitrification; however, this approach assumes a small isotope effect associated with N leaching losses. Pas...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Mnich ME,Houlton BZ

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The late-glacial climatic oscillation, 12-10 ka BP, is characterised in ice core oxygen isotope profiles by a rapid and abrupt return to glacial climate. Recent work has shown that associated with this cooling was a drop in atmospheric CO2 concentration of ca. 50 ppm. In this paper, the impact of these environmental c...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Beerling DJ

更新日期：1996-10-01 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：:The use of the landscape by animals is predicted to be a function of their body size. However, empirical data relating these two variables from an array of body sizes within a single mammalian community are scarce. We tested this prediction by assessing landscape use of mammals by analyzing strontium (Sr) isotope sign...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Feranec RS,Hadly EA,Paytan A

更新日期：2007-10-01 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 importance of facilitative processes due to the presence of nitrogen-fixing legumes in temperate grasslands is a contentious issue in biodiversity experiments. Despite a multitude of studies of fertilization effects of legumes on associated nonfixers in agricultural systems, we know little about the dynamics in mo...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Temperton VM,Mwangi PN,Scherer-Lorenzen M,Schmid B,Buchmann N

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CrowdedEpirrita larvae had shorter larval periods than, and similar pupal masses to, their solitary siblings when reared on low quality diets. When fed on high quality diets, pupal masses of crowded larvae were lower than in singletons, and there was no difference in larval period. Because changes in food availability...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Haukioja E,Pakarinen E,Niemelä P,Iso-Iivari L

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining how environmental conditions interact with individual intrinsic properties is important for unravelling the underlying mechanisms that drive variation in reproductive decisions among migratory species. We investigated the influence of sea ice conditions and body condition at arrival on the breeding propens...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Jean-Gagnon F,Legagneux P,Gilchrist G,Bélanger S,Love OP,Bêty J

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vein placement has been hypothesised to control leaf hydraulic properties, but the ecophysiological significance of variation in vein placement in the angiosperms has remained poorly understood. The highly diverse Neotropical Bromeliaceae offers an excellent system for exploring understudied relationships between leaf...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Males J

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diurnal course of the xylem water flow in a solitary Salix fragilis L. tree in a wet grassland was measured using the tissue heat-balance method. There was considerable variation due to meteorological factors. Maximum flow rate was 0.4 kg h-1 m-2 of crown projection area, or 5.9 kg h-1 kg-1 leaf dry weight. The da...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Čermák J,Jeník J,Kučera J,Žídek V

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although insect herbivores have many well documented effects on plant performance, there are few studies that assess the impact of above-ground herbivory on below-ground plant growth. For a seven year period in which no large-scale herbivore outbreaks occurred, a broad spectrum insecticide was utilized to suppress her...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Cain ML,Carson WP,Root RB

更新日期：1991-10-01 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：:Experiments are described which demonstrate that the seeds of the desert species Blepharis persica are capable of germinating within 50 min of being exposed to moisture. Their radicles reach a length of about 49 mm within the first 24 h from wetting. The seeds can germinate in light and dark at temperatures ranging fr...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gutterman Y

更新日期：1972-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genotype frequencies of adult and juvenile Actinia tenebrosa from 2 populations showed that settlement and recruitment predominantly involved the localised asexual (ameiotic) proliferation of established genotypes. However, there is strong indirect evidence that the genotypic variation was generated by sexual reproduc...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ayre DJ

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen (N) deposition and climate are acknowledged drivers of change in biodiversity and ecosystem function at large scales. However, at a local scale, their impact on functions and community structure of organisms is filtered by drivers like habitat quality and food quality/availability. This study assesses the rel...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Mitchell RJ,Urpeth HM,Britton AJ,Black H,Taylor AR

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasticity in water-use efficiency (WUE) was examined in populations of Picea glauca (Moench) Voss and P. sitchensis (Bong.) Carr. and their natural hybrids from an ecocline along the Skeena Valley, British Columbia, which runs from the dry continental interior (P. glauca) to the wet maritime Pacific coast (P. sitchen...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Silim S,Guy R,Patterson T,Livingston N

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Aspects of colonization by freshwater invertebrates on artificial substrata (macrophyte models) placed in the benthos of a eutrophic lake were studied. 2. Colonization was rapid, with equilibrium occuring at about 35 days. The colonization rate curve decreased with time but extinction rate remained constant. 3. Pre...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Mason CF

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecophysiological differences related to photosynthesis were compared in holm oak Quercus ilex leaves from undisturbed holm-oak vegetation, resprouts after fire and resprouts after tree-fell. No significant differences in any parameter measured were observed between the two kinds of resprout throughout the first growin...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Fleck I,Grau D,Sanjosé M,Vidal D

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most commonly cited hypotheses explaining invasion success is the enemy release hypothesis (ERH), which maintains that populations are regulated by coevolved natural enemies where they are native but are relieved of this pressure in the new range. However, the role of resident enemies in plant invasion rema...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Bohl Stricker K,Stiling P

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most animals metamorphose, changing morphology, physiology, behavior and ecological interactions. Size- and habitat-dependent mortality risk is thought to affect the evolution and plastic expression of metamorphic timing, and high predation during the morphological transition is posited as a critical selective force s...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Touchon JC,Jiménez RR,Abinette SH,Vonesh JR,Warkentin KM

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Argyrodes antipodianus is a small kleptobiotic spider that steals prey from webs of the large orb-weaving spider Nephila plumipes, and sometimes removes the web itself. We used experiments in a greenhouse to test how the presence of the kleptobiont, differences in food availability, and web damage affected fitness of ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Grostal P,Walter DE

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of floral morphology on rates of pollen removal and deposition by different pollinators in generalist plant species are not well known. We studied pollination dynamics in wild radish, Raphanus raphanistrum, a plant visited by four groups of pollinators: honey bees, small native bees, butterflies, and syrph...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Conner JK,Davis R,Rush S

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00