Locomotory efficiency in the predation strategies of the British Notonecta (Hempitera, Heteroptera).

abstract：:Nutrient availability and herbivory can regulate primary production in ecosystems, but little is known about how, or whether, they may interact with one another. Here, we investigate how nitrogen availability and insect herbivory interact to alter aboveground and belowground plant community biomass in an old-field eco...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Blue JD,Souza L,Classen AT,Schweitzer JA,Sanders NJ

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atmospheric inputs of N and S in bulk deposition (open collectors) and throughfall (beneath canopy collectors) were measured in and adjacent to two Class 1 wilderness areas of the northeastern US. In general, atmospheric S inputs followed our expectations with throughfall S fluxes increasing with elevation in the Whit...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Templer PH,Weathers KC,Lindsey A,Lenoir K,Scott L

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much of the research into herbivore ecology and evolution has focused on patterns and mechanisms of niche partitioning in the diets of specialized grazers and browsers, but the significance of the balance of grazing and browsing within intermediate feeders present unique questions that have received less attention. We...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Christianson D,Creel S

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from the US/IBP Desert Biome validation studies indicate that above-ground production and biomass allocated to reproduction in Larrea tridentata vary from one year to another depending upon the timing and extent of soil-moisture availability. In an attempt to verify these observations and determine to what extent...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Cunningham GL,Syvertsen JP,Reynolds JF,Willson JM

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of seventeen plant extracts rich in phenolic materials, including condensed and hydrolysable tannins, have been subjected to a series of chemical analyses in an attempt to gather ecologically significant information about their structure. Procedures investigated were (i) the Folin-Denis and Hagerman and Butle...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Mole S,Waterman PG

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports a rare example where a native herbivorous insect frequently overexploits local populations of its perennial host. Local dynamics of a flightless weevil (Hadramphus spinipennis, Curculionidae) and its host plant (Aciphylla dieffenbachii, Apiaceae) were assessed for one discrete patch. In this main st...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Schöps K

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined under laboratory conditions the thermopreference of the migratory locust, Locusta migratoria migratorioides, following infection by the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae var. acridum and its influence on mycosis. Infected locusts raised their body temperature more frequently than healthy consp...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ouedraogo RM,Goettel MS,Brodeur J

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimates were made of the ecological fish production in two small lowland rivers uninhabited by salmonids. Eight sites were examined in the Utrata River drainage basin, and five in the Zalewka Brook. Nets were placed at the upper and lower limits of each site and fish were captured using electrofishing apparatus; at ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Penczak T

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shorter male larval and pupal durations were sufficient to produce the protandrous emergence pattern of the black swallowtail butterfly. In 9 broods observed under natural conditions, the first male was seen 7.1±6.5 days before the first female, although the peak of captures relative to the first capture was similar i...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Lederhouse RC,Finke MD,Scriber JM

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review I offer a solution to the problem why endotherm populations appear to be so inefficient in converting food energy into body substance despite the fact that individual endotherms are just as 'efficient' in this respect as individual ectotherms. Calculated for individuals of half the adult mass both ectot...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Wieser W

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual species can have profound effects on ecological communities, but, in hyperdiverse systems, it can be challenging to determine the underlying ecological mechanisms. Simplifying species' responses by trophic level or functional group may be useful, but characterizing the trait structure of communities may be ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Rogy P,Hammill E,Smith MA,Rost-Komiya B,Srivastava DS

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing sea surface temperatures are predicted to alter marine plant-herbivore interactions and, thus, the structure and function of algal and seagrass communities. Given the fundamental role of host plant quality in determining herbivore fitness, predicting the effects of increased temperatures requires an underst...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ledet J,Byrne M,Poore AGB

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tadpoles of two anuran species, Rana sylvatica and Xenopus laevis, were fed various concentrations of two algae, Anabaena sphaerica (large filaments) and Chlorella pyrenoidosa (small unicells). Filtering rates were measured indirectly with a Coulter Counter system; buccal pumping rates were observed directly.Exper...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Seale DB,Wassersug RJ

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physiological activity and C and N allocation of beech seedlings planted in two different beech forest soils (acid brown earth, rendzina) were studied over 80 days. One adult earthworm Octolasion lacteum (Örley) was placed in half of the containers. Transpiration, CO2, assimilation, chlorophyll synthesis and N inc...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Wolters V,Stickan W

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gas exchange characteristics under steadystate and transient light conditions were determined for a redwood forest understory herb Adenocaulon bicolor, that depends on use of sunflecks for a large fraction of its daily carbon gain. Measurements under steady-state conditions indicated that this species has photosyn...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Pfitsch WA,Pearcy RW

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty nine harpacticoid copepods are new to Bermuda and significant changes are noted in the distribution records of several species. Six temporary groups are organized to separate the copepods on their apparent zoogeographical ranges: (1) cosmopolitan, (2) warm temperate-tropical, (3) North Atlantic, (4) North Atlan...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Coull BC,Herman SS

更新日期：1970-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amount of calcium in Eucalyptus diversicolor (karri) ecosystems is high in comparison with other eucalypt forest ecosystems in Australia. A large proportion of this calcium is present as crystalline Ca oxalate. Whewellite (CaC2O4·H2O) accumulates in leaf tissue of the over- and understorey species. Up to 70% of th...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： O'Connell AM,Malajczuk N,Gailitis V

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mass loss of litter mixtures is often different than expected based on the mass loss of the component species. We investigated if the identity of neighbour species affects these litter-mixing effects. To achieve this, we compared decomposition rates in monoculture and in all possible two-species combinations of ei...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hoorens B,Coomes D,Aerts R

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison of photosynthetic adaptations of desert ephemerals from sun and shade environments has shown differences in the magnitude and timing of maximum CO2 assimilation. Photosynthetic rates of species from the sun environment were significantly higher, and maximum observed levels occurred both earlier in the day...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Wallace CS,Szarek SR

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hawaiian lobeliads have radiated into habitats from open alpine bogs to densely shaded rainforest interiors, and show corresponding adaptations in steady-state photosynthetic light responses and associated leaf traits. Shaded environments are not uniformly dark, however, but punctuated by sunflecks that carry most of ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Montgomery RA,Givnish TJ

更新日期：2008-03-01 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：:As a preliminary to a population study using markrelease-recapture techniques, specimens of the Satyrid buttfly Melanargia galathea (L.) were subjected to a number of marking and capture techniques. Although the adults are thought to display both aposematic and cryptic coloration, the use of marks of different sizes a...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Morton AC

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While parasites are increasingly recognized as important components of ecosystems, we currently know little about how they alter ecosystem nutrient availability via host-mediated nutrient cycling. We examined whether infection alters the flow of nutrients through hosts and whether such effects depend upon host diet qu...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Narr CF,Frost PC

更新日期：2015-12-01 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：:The Alaskan tussock tundra is a strongly nutrient-limited ecosystem, where almost all vascular plant species are mycorrhizal. We established a long-term removal experiment to document effects of arctic plant species on ecto- and ericoid mycorrhizal fungi and to investigate whether species interactions and/or nutrient ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Urcelay C,Bret-Harte MS,Díaz S,Chapin FS 3rd

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：: Field phenologies of high- (ca. 1500 m) and low- (ca. 500 m) altitude populations of the two most common European species of dung flies, Scathophaga stercoraria and Sepsis cynipsea, differ quite markedly due to differences in climate. To differentiate genetic adaptation due to natural selection and phenotypic plastic...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Blanckenhorn WU

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we investigated the relationship between food availability, feeding ecology and territoriality in a population of Cactus Finches, Geospiza scandens, on Isla Daphne Major, Galápagos, between 1979 and 1981.We monitored the phenologies of the principal food types on the island and related them to changes in...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Millington SJ,Grant PR

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatial variation in biotic interactions and natural selection are fundamental parts of natural systems, and can be driven by differences in both trait distributions and the local environmental context of the interaction. Most studies of plant-animal interactions have been performed only in natural settings, making it...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： König MA,Wiklund C,Ehrlén J

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the deme-formation hypothesis experimentally with four populations of leaf-galling grape phylloxera, Daktulosphaira vitifoliae, and its host, canyon grape (Vitis arizonica). An experiment designed to examine preference and performance showed that phylloxera populations did not significantly prefer their orig...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Kimberling DN,Price PW

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compared to terrestrial environments, grazing intensity on belowground plant parts may be particularly strong in aquatic environments, which may have great effects on plant-community structure. We observed that the submerged macrophyte, Potamogeton pectinatus, which mainly reproduces with tubers, often grows at interm...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Sandsten H,Klaassen M

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00