The role of chemotactile stimuli in the oviposition preferences of Colias butterflies.

abstract：:Plant resistance and tolerance to herbivores, parasites, pathogens, and abiotic factors may involve two types of costs. First, resistance and tolerance may be costly in terms of plant fitness. Second, resistance and tolerance to multiple enemies may involve ecological trade-offs. Our study species, the stinging nettle...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Puustinen S,Koskela T,Mutikainen P

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies that test community assembly hypotheses in observational communities frequently evaluate patterns for plots or entire communities, yet studies that examine assembly patterns across spatial scales show that they are greatly influenced by scale. Here, we test the spatial dependency of patterns of relatedness and...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Jin LS,Yin D,Fortin MJ,Cadotte MW

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large number of herbaceous and woody plants from tropical woodland, savanna, and monsoon forest were analysed to determine the impact of environmental factors (nutrient and water availability, fire) and biological factors (microbial associations, systematics) on plant delta(15)N values. Foliar delta(15)N values of h...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Schmidt S,Stewart GR

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predator-prey interactions between small mammals and their avian and mammalian predators have attracted much attention. However, large-scale field experiments examining small-mammal antipredatory responses under the risk of predation by mammals are rare. As recently pointed out, the scale of experiments may cause misl...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Jonsson P,Koskela E,Mappes T

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has commonly been assumed that pollinator energy intake increases with flowering plant density, and visitation to flowers should therefore be higher in denser stands. I therefore investigated the relationship between flight distance and flight time for bumblebees and butterflies foraging on Senecio integerrimus and...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Schmitt J

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate-mediated shifts in species' phenologies are expected to alter species interactions, but predicting the consequences of this is difficult because phenological shifts may be driven by different climate factors that may or may not be correlated. Temperature could be an important factor determining effects of phen...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Rudolf VH,Singh M

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to respond in a specific manner to different light conditions imposed by different species of grass is a major factor contributing to white clover persistence in pastures. Gaps in a pasture provide light with a higher red:far-red ratio (R:FR) and higher photosynthetic photon flux density (PPFD) than the li...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Marcuvitz S,Turkington R

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dreissenid mussels (Dreissena polymorpha and D. bugensis) have re-engineered Great Lakes ecosystems since their introduction in the late 1980s. Dreissenids can have major indirect impacts on profundal habitats by redirecting nutrients and energy away from pelagic production (which supplies profundal production) and de...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Rennie MD,Sprules WG,Johnson TB

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to scale up from the ecophysiological characters of individual plants to population-level questions, we need to determine if character patterns in natural populations are stable through time, and if the characters are related to growth and survival. We investigated these questions in a 3-year study for one ch...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Donovan LA,Ehleringer JR

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen mineralization and net nitrification rates were 3-7 times greater in soil incubations from a girdled Liriodendron tulipifera (L.) stand than in a control stand. Neither litter nor root extracts had an inhibitory effect on nitrogen mineralization or nitrification rate. A lack of nitrification inhibitors also w...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Johnson DW,Edwards NT

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tenets of optimal foraging theory are used to contrast the behavior of the predatory snail Acantina spirata when feeding on the barnacles Balanus glandula and Chthamalus fissus under conditions of satiation and starvation. As predicted in optimal diet models, A. spirata is less selective (ratio of attack frequency...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Perry DM

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a survey of 28 plant species of 6 major growth forms from Alaskan tundra, we found no consistent difference among growth forms in the chemical nature of stored reserves except for lichens and mosses (which stored C primarily as polysaccharides) and shrubs (which tended to store C more as sugars than as polysacchari...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Chapin FS 3rd,Shaver GR

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An adaptive explanation for environmental sex determination is that it promotes sexual size dimorphism when larger size benefits one sex more than the other. That is, if growth rates are determined by environment during development, then it is beneficial to match developmental environment to the sex that benefits more...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： St Clair RC

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Populations ofDipodomys microps andD. merriami in eastern California (37°11'N. Lat.) are active on the surface throughout the night and during the whole year. These two species, and the males and females within each species, show no significant differences in times of beginning or end of activity. Beginning and end of...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Kenagy GJ

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predator-prey interactions between the predatory leech, Glossiphonia complanata, and its gastropod prey were investigated in laboratory experiments, including behavioural observations with the aid of time-lapse video technique. Six gastropod species were investigated, viz. Lymnaea peregra, Planorbis planorbis, Physa f...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Brönmark C,Malmqvist B

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatiotemporal patchiness in the soil environment is thought to be crucial for the maintenance of soil biodiversity. It provides diverse microhabitats (allowing resource partitioning), and presents these in a complex mosaic, such that competitors may be spatially and temporally separated (promoting patch dynamics). Th...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ettema CH,Rathbun SL,Coleman DC

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the non-reproductive period, six species of brood parasites (4 cuckoos, 2 viduines) observed in Rhodesia and in the Kalahari were found to inhabit other areas than their hosts, being either nomadic or migratory in habit. They are hence exposed to different environmental conditions.Histological examination of the go...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Immelmann K

更新日期：1969-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two atlantic voyages were made by the FS Meteor during which pollen and spores were collected from the air. In the course of 32 days the average pollen content was 29/100 m3 air, the average spore content came to 5x104/100 m3 air. Both voyages occurred in late autumn. On the trip from Hamburg to the Azores the spore c...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Stix E

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carotenoids are antioxidant pigments involved in several physiological processes and signalling in animals that cannot synthesise them and therefore must acquire them from food. We experimentally investigated the effects of carotenoid availability in the diet during egg laying on antioxidant deposition in egg yolk and...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Biard C,Surai PF,Møller AP

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The parasitoids known to attack 191 phytophagous species of gall midges (Cecidomyiidae) were used to examine factors influencing parasitoid assemblage size. The number of parasitoid species a midge species supports was tested against nine variables describing geographical, biological and ecological attributes of hosts...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hawkins BA,Gagné RJ

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Net photosynthetic rates for the lichen Parmelia praesignis Nyl. were obtained as a function of 5 light levels, 5 temperature levels, and of water content as thalli dried from saturated conditions. Data are described as second order polynomials in the light, and as saturation curves in the dark. Rates in the light wer...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Link SO,Nash TH 3rd

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To estimate the optimality of brood size, it is essential to study the effects of brood size manipulation on offspring survival and reproductive success. Moreover, testing the generality of the hypothesis of reproductive costs requires experimental data from a diversity of organisms. Here I present data on the growth,...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Koskela E

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding social evolution requires us to understand the processes regulating the number of breeders within social groups and how they partition reproduction. Queens in polygynous (multiple queens per colony) ants often seek adoption in established colonies instead of founding a new colony independently. This mode...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Holzer B,Chapuisat M,Keller L

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the effects of defoliation by a graminivorous grasshopper on the foliage quality of the C3 plant, western wheatgrass (Pascopyrum smithii [Rydb] A. Love). Additionally, we determined the effects of this defoliation upon the subsequent feeding of the graminivorous grasshopper Phoetaliotes nebrascensis Thom...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Redak RA,Capinera JL

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil nutrient availability directly enhances vegetative growth, flowering, and fruiting in alpine ecosystems. However, the impacts of nutrient addition on pollinator visitation, which could affect seed output indirectly, are unknown. In a nutrient addition experiment, we tested the hypothesis that seed output in the i...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Muñoz AA,Celedon-Neghme C,Cavieres LA,Arroyo MT

更新日期：2005-03-01 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：:Both phenotypic and genetic quality can influence the survival of individuals through time, although their relative influences are rarely addressed simultaneously. Here we used capture-mark-recapture modelling to assess the influence of both multilocus heterozygosity (MLH) and body size on apparent adult survival in a...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Cézilly F,Quinard A,Motreuil S,Pradel R

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reptile ticks mate while females are attached to their host. Following mating, females engorge, detach and then lay their eggs. This study examines whether the time that females of the reptile tick Amblyomma limbatum spend on hosts prior to mating and the time they take to engorge on hosts after mating influence their...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Chilton NB,Andrews RH,Bull CM

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In southeastern Arizona, Prosopis juliflora (Swartz) DC. and Quercus emoryi Torr. are the dominant woody species at grassland/woodland boundaries. The stability of the grassland/woodland boundary in this region has been questioned, although there is no direct evidence to confirm that woodland is encroaching into grass...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： McPherson GR,Boutton TW,Midwood AJ

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen deposition in the northeastern US changed N availability in the latter part of the twentieth century, with potential legacy effects. However, long-term N cycle measurements are scarce. N isotopes in tree rings have been used as an indicator of N availability through time, but there is little verification of w...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Burnham MB,Adams MB,Peterjohn WT

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00