Resource limited and equilibrium models of populations.

abstract：:Mistletoes constitute instructive study cases with which to address the role of generalist consumers in the study of plant-animal interactions. Their ranges of safe sites for recruitment are among the most restricted of any plant; therefore, frugivores specializing in mistletoe have been considered almost indispensabl...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Mellado A,Zamora R

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of invertebrate shredders on organic matter dynamics and phosphorus spiralling was studied over a 30-week period in laboratory streams. The streams were fed by groundwater, layered with cobble and gravel from a natural stream, covered with opaque material to eliminate algal growth, and initially contained 1...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Mulholland PJ,Elwood JW,Newbold JD,Ferren LA

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Branch sampling of branch diameter and fruit crop on 22 species of Barbadian trees and shrubs provided sufficient data to build regressions between plant size and fruit crop weight. Orchard plants bear much more fruit than wild, feral or garden plants of similar size, but this difference disappears in multiple regress...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Peters RH,Cloutier S,Dubé D,Evans A,Hastings P,Kaiser H,Kohn D,Sarwer-Foner B

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a Danish heathland invasion of oak shrub has taken place, the succession rate being approximately 300 m during the last 100 years. The colonisation has occurred in steps related to the delay time between seedling stage and fertility stage. Seedlings are often found in clusters originating from caches probably made ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Jensen TS,Nielsen OF

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Niche partitioning of resources by plants is believed to be a fundamental aspect of plant coexistence and biogeochemical cycles; however, measurements of the timing and location of resource use are often lacking because of the difficulties of belowground research. To measure niche partitioning of soil water by grasses...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Kulmatiski A,Beard KH

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential production of estuarine interstitial microalgae from two tidal flats differing in sediment texture was determined manometrically. Sediment cores from the Southbeach tidal flat showed a maximum amount of productivity in the lower intertidal zone whereas sediment cores from Sally's Bend showed no productio...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Riznyk RZ,Phinney HK

更新日期：1972-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Energy limitation has long been the primary assumption underlying conceptual models of evolutionary and ecological processes in cave ecosystems. However, the prediction that cave communities are actually energy-limited in the sense that constituent populations are consuming all or most of their resource supply is unte...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Venarsky MP,Huntsman BM,Huryn AD,Benstead JP,Kuhajda BR

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Globally, dung beetles (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) are linked to many critical ecosystem processes involving the consumption and breakdown of mammal dung. Endemic New Zealand dung beetles (Canthonini) are an anomaly, occurring at high abundance and low diversity on an island archipelago historically lacking terrestri...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Stavert JR,Gaskett AC,Scott DJ,Beggs JR

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epiphytic orchid, Dimerandra emarginata, occurs in habitats characterized by high light intensities and very variable water supply. Long-term observations of the water status indicate that this species experienced at least moderate water stress over most of the year. Well-watered, it showed high rates of net CO2 u...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Zotz G,Tyree MT

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freezing tolerance as a cold resistance mechanism is described for the first time in a plant growing in the tropical range of the Andean high mountains. Draba chionophila, the plant in which freezing tolerance was found, is the vascular plant which reaches the highest altitudes in the Venezuelan Andes (approximately 4...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Azocar A,Rada F,Goldstein G

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seed number per pod is negatively skewed in Leucaena leucocephala. Post-fertilisation abortion of pods does not completely explain the skewed distribution. It is shown that a pre-fertilisation regulation effectively restricts the formation of pods with less than a certain number of seeds. The regulation is rendered th...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ganeshaiah KN,Uma Shaanker R,Shivashankar G

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of time of the day and frequency of application and of purity of artificially deposited pollen loads on fruiting and seed set were studied in Rhinanthus angustifolius (diurnally visited by bumblebees) and Viscaria vulgaris (diurnally visited by bumblebees, nocturnally by sphingid moths).Time of the day did...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Kwak MM,Jennersten O

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thermoregulatory significance of a striped-melanic colour polymorphism in the common garter snake, Thamnophis sirtalis, was assessed through a combination of labortory experimentation and field study. In experiments with living snakes the melanic morph maintained a higher body temperature than the striped morph, w...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ralph Gibson A,Bruce Falls J

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the parasitoid communities associated with grass-feeding herbivores in Germany and Britain to examine geographical consistency in community composition and to test ecological characteristics of the plants and host insects that may explain variability in parasitoid community structure. The parasitoid commun...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Tscharntke T,Vidal S,Hawkins BA

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction of plant defence against herbivores may include the attraction by volatile infochemicals of natural enemies of the herbivore. The emitted volatiles that mediate this attraction may also affect the behaviour of the herbivore itself. In this paper we investigate the response of the herbivorous spider miteTetra...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Dicke M,Dijkman H

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of drought on embryonic development and on hatching was studied in 13 European Tettigoniidae species. Drought can affect development in three different ways: (1) Embryonic development proceeds slower than if the eggs are in contact with water; (2) it stops (for final diapause) in an earlier embryonic stage;...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ingrisch S

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenolics in marine brown algae have been thought to follow a latitudinal gradient with high phenolic species in high latitudes and low phenolic species in low latitudes. However, tropical brown algae from the western Caribbean have been shown to be high in phlorotannin concentration, indicating that latitude alone is...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Targett NM,Boettcher AA,Targett TE,Vrolijk NH

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate change causes species range expansions to higher latitudes and altitudes. It is expected that, due to differences in dispersal abilities between plants and soil biota, range-expanding plant species will become associated with a partly new belowground community in their expanded range. Theory on biological inva...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Wilschut RA,Magnée KJH,Geisen S,van der Putten WH,Kostenko O

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigating how prey density influences a prey's combined predation risk from multiple predator species is critical for understanding the widespread importance of multiple predator effects. We conducted experiments that crossed six treatments consisting of zero, one, or two predator species (hellgrammites, greenside...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Vance-Chalcraft HD,Soluk DA

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Size thresholds commonly underlie the induction of alternative morphological states. However, the respective importance of absolute and relative size to such thresholds remains uncertain. If absolute size governs expression, morph frequency should differ among environments that influence absolute sizes (e.g. resources...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Moore MP,Pechmann JHK,Whiteman HH

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the idea that variation in forelimb length among male anurans influences reproductive success, and does so independently of body size. Analyses of covariance and multivariate analyses of morphological data for five species of explosives breeders are used to test the prediction that for species in w...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Lee JC

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant secondary compounds are recognized deterrents and toxins to a variety of herbivores. The effect of secondary compounds on water balance of herbivores is virtually unexplored, yet secondary compounds could potentially cause a decrease in an animal's ability to maintain water balance. We investigated the effects o...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Dearing DM,Mangione AM,Karasov WH

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal feeding soil invertebrates feed on a wide spectrum of fungal species suggesting that mixed diets increase fitness. We investigated relationships between food preferences for seven saprophytic fungal species/forms and fitness parameters (mortality, growth, time to reproduction, reproduction, egg size) in two Col...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Scheu S,Simmerling F

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species assembly patterns of local communities are shaped by the balance between multiple abiotic/biotic filters and dispersal that both select individuals from species pools at the regional scale. Knowledge regarding functional assembly can provide insight into the relative importance of the deterministic and stochas...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Kubota Y,Kusumoto B,Shiono T,Ulrich W

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Demographic characteristics associated with the maintenance and growth of populations, such as seed dynamics, seedling emergence, survival, and tiller dynamics were examined for two tussock grasses, the native Agropyron spicatum and the introduced Agropyron desertorum in a 30-month field study. The introduced grass wa...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Pyke DA

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Like many polyphagous herbivores, individuals of Sarasinula plebeia (Fischer) (Soleolifera: Veronicellidae) consume a variety of plant species that may differ in nutritional content. In this study we determined the ability of these slugs to compensate for such variation in diet composition. Dilution with water of an a...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Rueda AA,Slansky F Jr,Wheeler GS

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fruit survival patterns, from fertilization to maturation, were examined for Carya ovata and C. tomentosa in a New Jersey USA forest. We observed fruiting and shoot growth characteristics over a 3-yr period to determine: (1) the patterns of fruit survivorship (from initiation to maturity) within and among years, (2) t...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： McCarthy BC,Quinn JA

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridization has been proposed as a mechanism by which exotic plants can increase their invasiveness. By generating novel recombinants, hybridization may result in phenotypes that are better adapted to the new environment than their parental species. We experimentally assessed the resistance of five exotic Fallopia t...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Krebs C,Gerber E,Matthies D,Schaffner U

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population dynamics of attached algae in a eutrophic farmland stream (Wellow Brook, England) were correlated through multiple regression analyses with changes in 7 physico-chemical parameters (temperature, light, water velocity, pH, NO3-N, P2O5-P, SiO2-Si). Samples were taken every 2 weeks for 25 consecutive months be...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Moore JW

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of irrigation and nitrogen fertilization in early summer on root and shoot growth of Atriplex confertifolia, a C4 shrub species, was examined in a cold-winter desert community in northern Utah. Soil water and xylem pressure potentials were monitored during the summer period.At the time of watering the su...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hodgkinson KC,Johnson PS,Norton BE

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00