Tree species preferences of foraging insectivorous birds in a northern hardwoods forest.

abstract：:Fine root extractions from soil cores of a south facing slope in the Southern Californian chaparral were used to study the dynamics of feeder root growth in a summer-dry area. The studies were concentrated on the root systems of Adenostoma fasciculatum, Arctostaphylos glauca, Ceanothus greggii, and Rhus ovata. The tot...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Kummerow J,Krause D,Jow W

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of predation by the robber fly Proctacanthus milbertii Macquart on populations of adult grasshoppers from grasslands of the Nebraska sandhills was estimated. Densities of P. milbertii were estimated at 437 individuals per hectare (2 se=122). Overall densities of 23 species of grasshoppers were estimated to ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Joern A,Rudd NT

更新日期：1982-10-01 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：:Amphibian life history traits are affected by temperature and precipitation. Yet, connecting these relationships to population growth, especially for multiple populations within a species, is lacking and precludes our understanding of amphibian population dynamics and distributions. Therefore, we constructed integral ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Caruso NM,Staudhammer CL,Rissler LJ

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the increasing sophistication of ecological models with respect to the size and spatial arrangement of habitat, there is relatively little empirical documentation of how species dynamics change as a function of habitat size and the fraction of habitat occupied. In an assemblage of tidepool fishes, I used maxim...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Pfister CA

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The changing populations of weeds during 13 years of the Broadbalk continuous wheat experiment were analysed to investigate the extent of differences in shortterm variability of cover between species. The data were from two sections of the experiment where winter wheat was grown continuously under herbicide treatment ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Firbank LG

更新日期：1993-06-01 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：: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：:Water and nitrogen (N) interact to influence soil N cycling and plant N acquisition. We studied indices of soil N availability and acquisition by woody plant taxa with distinct nutritional specialisations along a north Australian rainfall gradient from monsoonal savanna (1,600-1,300 mm annual rainfall) to semi-arid wo...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Soper FM,Richards AE,Siddique I,Aidar MP,Cook GD,Hutley LB,Robinson N,Schmidt S

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：:We have analysed the importance of worker ants (Proformica longiseta, Formicidae) as pollinators of a mass-flowering woody plant (Hormathophylla spinosa, Cruciferae) in the high-mountain area of the Sierra Nevada (southern Spain). We have quantified the abundance and foraging behavior of P. longiseta in comparison wit...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gómez JM,Zamora R

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The photosynthetic incorporation of H14CO3- by the alga Platymonas subcordiformis decreased with increasing concentrations of NaCl in the medium. There was no correlation between the response of P. subcordiformis to salinity in high or low NaCl-concentrations in the growing solution. When other osmotic substances were...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Kirst GO

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been postulated that free amino acids in the diet of herbivores are a more readily available source of nitrogen than are amino acids in intact proteins. When plants are subjected to any of a number of stress factors the concentration of free amino acids in their tissues may increase relative to the protein cont...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Cockfield SD

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined how different exploratory behavioral types of largemouth bass responded to differing prey communities by determining effects on growth, survival and diet in experimental ponds. We found evidence that non-explorer largemouth bass target young-of-year bluegill early on in life, but bluegill were not an impor...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Nannini MA,Wahl DH

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positive species interactions are ubiquitous and crucial components of communities, but they are still not well incorporated into established ecological theories. The definitions of facilitation and mutualism overlap, and both are often context dependent. Many interactions that are facilitative under stressful conditi...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Lim RJY,Lam WN,Tan HTW

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Every summer the deepest parts of the inner Flensburg fjord are subject to O2-deficiency lasting from a few weeks to several months. In spring, however, populations of Metridium senile can be found in these areas, in spite of the fact that frequently the local anoxic period of the previous summer has been 2-3 times lo...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Wahl M

更新日期：1985-09-01 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：: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 respiratory physiology of four species of Australian desert-dwelling beetle was examined using a flow-through respirometry system over the temperature range of 20-40°C. The two species of tenebrionid beetles (Heleus waitei and Pterohelaeus sp.) did not exhibit the discontinuous gas exchange cycles (DGC), a mechani...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Duncan FD,Dickman CR

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Empirical and modeling studies of the N cycle in temperate forests of eastern North America have focused on the mechanisms regulating the production of inorganic N, and assumed that only inorganic forms of N are available for plant growth. Recent isotope studies in field conditions suggest that amino acid capture is a...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gallet-Budynek A,Brzostek E,Rodgers VL,Talbot JM,Hyzy S,Finzi AC

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural history collections are now being championed as key to broad ecological studies, especially those involving human impacts in the Anthropocene. However, collections are going through a crisis that threatens their present and future value, going beyond underfunding/understaffing to a more damaging practice: curr...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Salvador RB,Cunha CM

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dusky-footed woodrats (Neotoma fuscipes) and desert woodrats (N. lepida) experience pronounced seasonal variations in the aridity of their habitats. The effects of seasonal aridity upon the water conserving abilities of these species were assessed through measurements of water conserving abilities and kidney structure...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Stallone JN

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In indeterminate plant species, the rate of vegetative growth usually declines during the stage of active reproductive growth. Fruit shedding, as induced by insect herbivores, could counteract this decline. Due to the relative increase in vegetative growth, plants that have suffered reproductive damage could be better...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Sadras VO

更新日期：1997-02-01 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：:Spartina alterniflora has been reported to lose significant amounts of oxygen to its rhizosphere with potentially important effects on salt-marsh biogeochemical cycling and plant productivity. The potential significance of this oxidative pathway was evaluated using laboratory split-chamber experiments to quantify oxyg...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Howes BL,Teal JM

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The energy turnover of weevil populations ofPhyllobius argentatus L.,Polydrosus undatus F., andStrophosomus sp. was investigated in a 123 years old (1970) beech forest in special consideration of their soil-living rhizophagous larvae (results of the energy turnover ofStrophosomus sp. imagines, see Grimm, 1973). I. Lif...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Schauermann J

更新日期：1973-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salicinoid phenolic glycosides are common defence substances in salicaceous trees and specialist leaf beetles use these compounds for their own defence against predators. Salicinoids vary qualitatively and qualitatively in aspen (Populus tremula) and this variation has a genetic basis. The foliar endophyte mycobiome i...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Albrectsen BR,Siddique AB,Decker VHG,Unterseher M,Robinson KM

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mating durations of copepods were found to differ significantly between fishless high-altitude waters and lowland lakes containing fish. In lowland species the whole mating process was completed within a few minutes, but it averaged over an hour in high-altitude species. Alpine copepods showed a prolonged post-copulat...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Jersabek CD,Luger MS,Schabetsberger R,Grill S,Strickler JR

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional diversity has been identified as a key to understanding ecosystem and community functioning. However, due to the lack of a sound definition its nature and measurement are still poorly understood. In the same way that species diversity can be split into species richness and species evenness, so functional di...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Mouillot D,Mason WH,Dumay O,Wilson JB

更新日期：2005-01-01 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