Growth and reproduction of migrating and non-migrating Daphnia species under simulated food and temperature conditions of diurnal vertical migration.

abstract：:The gas exchange characteristics of two C3 desert annuals with contrasting phenologies, Geraea canescens T. & G. (winter-active) and Dicoria canescens T. & G. (summer-active), both Asteraceae, were determined for plants grown under a moderate (25°/15° C, day/night temperature) and a high (40°/27° C) growth temperature...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Toft NL,Pearcy RW

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Density dependence and environmental stochasticity are both potentially important processes influencing population demography and long-term population growth. Quantifying the importance of these two processes for population growth requires both long-term population as well as individual-based data. I use a 30-year dat...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Krüger O

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rarity of long-range seed dispersal (telechory) and commonness of antitelechory in desert plants are examined in light of contemporary mathematical theories of the evolution of dispersal and germination behaviors. Analysis of dispersal 3-habitat relationships in the flora of Israel supports the general trend towar...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Fllner S,Shmida A

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of hydraulic disturbances on the impact of two predatory benthic invertebrates on their prey were examined in a stream at two distinct spatial scales. At the scale of small habitat patches (0.0625 m2), hydraulic patch type was an important determinant of the microdistribution of prey and predators. Prey ab...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Lancaster J

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With multiple species introductions and rapid global changes, there is a need for comprehensive invasion models that can predict community responses. Evidence suggests that abiotic constraint, propagule pressure, and biotic resistance of resident species each determine plant invasion success, yet their interactions ar...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Byun C,de Blois S,Brisson J

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marion Island (47°S, 38°E) has one of the most oceanic climates on earth, with consistently low air temperatures, high precipitation, constantly high humidity, and low incident radiation. Since 1968 mean surface air temperature has increased significantly, by 0.025° C year-1. This was strongly associated with correspo...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Smith VR,Steenkamp M

更新日期：1990-11-01 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：:Global climate models forecast an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, including severe droughts. Based on multi-year relationships between precipitation amount and aboveground annual net primary production (ANPP), semi-arid grasslands are projected to be among the most sensitive ecosyste...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Cherwin K,Knapp A

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gas exchange measurements of two arctic tundra plants, Dupontia fischeri and Carex aquatilis, and two alpine tundra species, Deschampsia caespitosa and Geum rossii, were conducted under a range of atmospheric and soil moisture stress conditions to determine if photosynthetic adaptations to water stress may play a role...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Johnson DA,Caldwell MM

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Release from natural enemies is often cited as a key factor for understanding the success of invasive plant species in novel environments. However, with time invasive species will accumulate native enemies in their invaded range, with factors such as spread distance from the site of introduction, climate and leaf-leve...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Tabassum S,Leishman MR

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mortality estimates for the immature stages of two butterfly species, Danaus plexippus and D. chrysippus, were obtained by observing the survival of egg cohorts on different sized patches of food plants (Asclepias spp.), over a one-year period. Losses were variable (0-100%) but usually high (90% and over) throughout t...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Zalucki MP,Kitching RL

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many animals have seasonally plastic diets to take advantage of seasonally abundant plant resources, such as fruit or nectar. Switches from insectivorous diets that are protein rich to fruits or nectar that are carbohydrate rich present physiological challenges, but are routinely done by insectivorous songbirds during...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Frick WF,Shipley JR,Kelly JF,Heady PA 3rd,Kay KM

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tooth enamel apatite carbonate carbon and oxygen isotope ratios of modern kangaroos (Macropus spp.) collected on a 900-km latitudinal transect spanning a C(3)-C(4) transition zone were analysed to create a reference set for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction in southern Australia. The carbon isotope composition of ena...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Brookman TH,Ambrose SH

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of forest size on avian diversity was studied in oak forest patches in rural New Jersey. Number of bird species continued to increase significantly in old oak woods up through 40 ha. This was due to the progressive addition of carnivorous species with increasing minimum forest size requirements. One large w...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Forman RT,Galli AE,Leck CF

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent discussions on scaling issues in ecology have emphasized that processes acting at a wide range of spatial and temporal scales influence ecosystems and thus there is no appropriate single scale at which ecological processes should be studied. This may be particularly true for environmental disturbances (e.g. El ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Edwards MS

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abiotic drivers of environmental stress have been found to induce CAM expression (nocturnal carboxylation) in facultative CAM species such as Mesembryanthemum crystallinum. The role played by biotic factors such as competition with non-CAM species in affecting CAM expression, however, remains largely understudied. Thi...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Yu K,D'Odorico P,Li W,He Y

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents novel evidence that 15N natural abundance can be used as a robust indicator to detect pollutant nitrogen in natural plant communities. Vegetation from the heavily polluted industrial area of Cubatão in São Paulo State, SE Brazil, was strongly 15N depleted compared to plants at remote sites. Histori...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Stewart GR,Aidar MP,Joly CA,Schmidt S

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differences in the density of conspecific tree individuals in response to environmental gradients are well documented for many tree species, but how such density differences are generated and maintained is poorly understood. We examined the segregation of six dipterocarp species among three soil types in the Pasoh tro...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Yamada T,Yamada Y,Okuda T,Fletcher C

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The similarity in species composition between two communities generally decays as a function of increasing distance between them. Parasite communities in vertebrate definitive hosts follow this pattern but the respective relationship in intermediate invertebrate hosts of parasites with complex life cycles is unknown. ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Thieltges DW,Ferguson MA,Jones CS,Krakau M,de Montaudouin X,Noble LR,Reise K,Poulin R

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We modeled the dynamics of a metapopulation of the land snail Arianta arbustorum in north-eastern Switzerland to investigate the effect of population subdivision on the persistence of a land snail metapopulation and to analyze the interaction between spatial factors, population subdivision, and catastrophes. We develo...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Akçakaya HR,Baur B

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate change models predict that the range of the world's smallest tortoise, Homopus signatus signatus, will aridify and contract in the next decades. To evaluate the effects of annual variation in rainfall on the growth of H. s. signatus, we recorded annual growth rates of wild individuals from spring 2000 to sprin...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Loehr VJ,Hofmeyr MD,Henen BT

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model is presented that simulates nitrogen uptake and response to nitrogen deficiency by a growing annual plant canopy. It is a descriptive model as it is not based on a detailed definition of the biochemical processes involved. It does incorporate a considerable amount of experimental knowledge about these processe...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Seligman NG,van Keulen H,Goudriaan J

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The population ecology of Pardia tripunctana and Notocelia roborana, a bud- and a leaf-feeding tortricid respectively, on Rosa spp. was studied.Mortality factors of the egg and larval stages are low and density-independent.Pupal mortality in the soil is a regulatory mechanism: it compensates for density fluctuations, ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Bauer G

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Home range data were collected concurrently from four syntopic browsing ruminant species in a conserved savanna ecosystem. Mean home range areas were: giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) 282 km2; kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) 21.9 km2; impala (Aepyceros melampus) 5.82 km2; steenbok (Raphicerus campestris) 0.62 km2. Hom...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： du Toit JT

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linking spatial variation in environmental factors to variation in demographic rates is essential for a mechanistic understanding of the dynamics of populations. However, we still know relatively little about such links, partly because feedbacks via intraspecific density make them difficult to observe in natural popul...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Dahlgren JP,Ostergård H,Ehrlén J

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements were made of the photosynthetic gas exchange properties and water use efficiency of 19 species of mangrove in 9 estuaries with different salinity and climatic regimes in north eastern Australia and Papua New Guinea. Stomatal conductance and CO2 assimilation rates differed significantly between species at ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Clough BF,Sim RG

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Larger nymphs within aquatic insect taxa have been frequently observed to be transported down-stream in the stream drift only at night. Others have hypothesized this pattern results primarily from large nymphs' behavioural avoidance of entering drift during daylight, when size-selective, visually-feeding fish predator...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Poff NL,DeCino RD,Ward JV

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon dioxide efflux and soil microenvironmental factors were measured diurnally in Carex aquatilus-and Eriophorum angustifolium-dominated riparian tundra communities to determine the relative importance of soil environmental factors controlling ecosystem carbon dioxide exchange with the atmosphere. Measurements were...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Oberbauer SF,Gillespie CT,Cheng W,Gebauer R,Serra AS,Tenhunen JD

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leaf diffusion resistance (r 1) of the upper and lower leaf surfaces of several Populus clones was related to leaf water potential (ψ1), light intensity, vapor pressure deficit (VPD), and temperature by intrinsicallylinear, logarithmic multiple regression analyses. Regression equations accounted for up to 80% of varia...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Pallardy SG,Kozlowski TT

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beaver (Castor canadensis) affect the benthic invertebrate community of small woodland streams in Quebec through habitat modifications. Their activities influence community structure through the replacement of lotic taxa by lentic forms and community function by increasing the absolute importance of collectors and pre...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： McDowell DM,Naiman RJ

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00