Snail numbers, biomass and respiratory metabolism in a beech woodland - Wytham Woods, Oxford.

abstract：:Although exotic plant invasions threaten natural systems worldwide, we know little about the specific ecological impacts of invaders, including the magnitude of effects and underlying mechanisms. Exotic plants are likely to impact higher trophic levels when they overrun native plant communities, affecting habitat qual...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ortega YK,McKelvey KS,Six DL

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The species composition of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal (VAM) fungal communities changed during secondary succession of abandoned fields based on a field to forest chronosequence. Twenty-five VAM fungal species were identified. Seven species were clearly early successional and five species were clearly late succes...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Johnson NC,Zak DR,Tilman D,Pfleger FL

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition and projected increases in rainfall variability (the frequency of drought and heavy rainfall events) are expected to strongly influence ecosystem processes such as litter decomposition. However, how these two global change factors interact to influence litter decomposition is largely ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Schuster MJ

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The daily course of net photosynthesis and transpiration was measured with temperature and humidity controlled cuvettes at the end of the dry summer season in the Negev Desert. Species studied included: dominant species of the natural vegetation, cultivated plants in the run-off farm Avdat and permanently irrigated pl...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Schulze ED,Lange OL,Koch W

更新日期：1972-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterizing the causes of spatial and temporal variation in parasite-induced mortality under natural conditions is crucial to better understanding the factors driving host population dynamics. Our goal was to quantify this variation in the amphipod Paracalliope novizealandiae, a second intermediate host of the trem...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Bates AE,Poulin R,Lamare MD

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gas exchange characteristics of droughted and rewatered Portulacaria afra were studied during the seasonal shift from CAM to C3 photosynthesis. 14CO2 uptake, stomatal conductance, and total titratable acidity were determined for both irrigated and 2, 4, and 7.5 month waterstressed plants from summer 1984 to summer 198...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Guralnick LJ,Ting IP

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some factors influencing the species richness of West African fish communities were studied in a sample of 26 rivers using four habitat and hydrologic variables. Analysis of a larger sample of 39 rivers showed that species richness was positively related to area. A power function with an exponent of 0.32 gave the best...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hugueny B

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of simulated goose grazing on Phleum pratense plants were tested in an Iceland hayfield during the spring goose staging period (19 April-11 May 1997). Plants in an area exclosed from the influence of grazing and the nutrient effects of goose faeces were subject to the removal of the youngest lamina once, t...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Fox AD,Kristiansen JN,Stroud DA,Boyd H

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The leaves of Cymopterus longipes form prostrate rosettes early in the spring. As the weather warms, these leaves are elevated on a pseudoscape (false stem) which develops below the rosette through the elongation of the caudex (in the region between root and shoot). The effect of this growth form change on the water r...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Werk KS,Ehleringer J,Harley PC

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental filtering and niche differentiation are processes proposed to drive community assembly, generating nonrandom patterns in community trait distributions. Despite the substantial intraspecific trait variation present in plant communities, most previous studies of trait-based community assembly have used spe...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Siefert A

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecological stoichiometry has advanced food web ecology by emphasising the importance of food quality over food quantity for herbivores. Here, we focus on the effects of abiotic factors such as nutrients and light (known to influence food quality) on grazer growth rates. As model organism we used the mudsnail Potamopyr...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Liess A,Lange K

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Egyptian Zygophyllum species, though limited in number, contribute in considerable measure to the desert vegetation. They represent a group of succulent plants which are drought resistant or salt tolerant living under severe dry climatic conditions. Their abundance is attributed to these characteristics in additio...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Batanouny KH,Ezzat NH

更新日期：1971-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For organisms that exhibit complex life cycles, resource conditions experienced by individuals before metamorphosis can strongly affect phenotypes later in life. Such resource-induced effects are known to arise from variation in resource quantity, yet little is known regarding effects stemming from variation in resour...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Stoler AB,Stephens JP,Relyea RA,Berven KA,Tiegs SD

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When heterospecific seabirds are part of a nesting colony, there may be less opportunity for conspecifics to come in direct contact with each other, resulting in lower intraspecific aggressiveness. To determine if individuals spend less time in aggressive behavior when nesting in conspecific rather than heterospecific...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Pius SM,Leberg PL

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eggs of the elm leaf beetle Xanthogaleruca luteola are often heavily attacked by the chalcidoid wasp Oomyzus gallerucae. We studied the chemical signals mediating interactions between the egg parasitoid, its host, and the plant Ulmus campestris. Olfactometer bioassays with O. gallerucae showed that volatiles of the ho...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Meiners T,Hilker M

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, coral death has been the most conspicuous outcome of warming tropical seas, but as temperatures stabilize at higher values, the consequences for the corals remaining will be mediated by their demographic responses to the sub-lethal effects of temperature. To gain insight into the nature of these responses, he...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Edmunds PJ

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used Y-plant, a computer-based model of crown architecture, to examine the implications of leaf reorientation resulting from petiole bending in Psychotria limonensis (Rubiaceae) seedlings. During this reorientation process, bending of the petioles of lower leaves that are potentially self-shaded by the upper leaves...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gálvez D,Pearcy RW

更新日期：2003-03-01 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：:Larval digenetic trematodes commonly castrate their first intermediate hosts, and should therefore impose strong selection on the timing and mode of host reproduction. Here we examine spatial variation in infection by trematodes in the freshwater snail Potamopyrgus antipodarum. Snails were collected at 11 different si...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Jokela J,Lively CM

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tropical ants Ectatomma ruidum and E. tuberculatum (Formicidae) regularly patrol leaves, flowers, and fruits of the understory shrub, Psychotria limonensis (Rubiaceae), on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Ant and pollinator exclusion experiments elucidated both positive and negative effects of ant attendance on plan...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Altshuler DL

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Northern hemispheric background concentrations of ozone are increasing, but few studies have assessed the ecological significance of these changes for grasslands of high conservation value under field conditions. We carried out a 3-year field experiment in which ozone was released at a controlled rate over three exper...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Wedlich KV,Rintoul N,Peacock S,Cape JN,Coyle M,Toet S,Barnes J,Ashmore M

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants of the cerrado tree species Qualea grandiflora and the annual herb Bidens gardneri were grown from seed in controlled environment rooms at 30/20° C and 12 hour photoperiod. Seedlings were grown in pots or small tubes containing sand and provided with various amounts of mineral solutions based on the formulation...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Felippe GM,Dale JE

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asexual fungal endophytes, which do not produce reproductive structures, spread in host populations only vertically via the propagules of their hosts. With such a close relationship between the fitness of the asexual endophyte and that of the host, the relationship is traditionally thought to be mutualistic. Here we p...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Olejniczak P,Lembicz M

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compare results of field study and model analysis of two butterfly populations to evaluate the importance of alternative mechanisms causing changes in abundance. Although understanding and predicting population fluctuations is a central goal of population ecology, it is not often achieved because long-term abundanc...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： McLaughlin JF,Hellmann JJ,Boggs CL,Ehrlich PR

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Common generalizations concerning the ecologic significance of C4 photosynthesis were tested in a study of plant gas exchange, productivity, carbon balance, and water use in monospecific communities of C3 and C4 salt desert shrubs. Contrary to expectations, few of the hypotheses concerning the performance of C4 specie...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Caldwell MM,White RS,Moore RT,Camp LB

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resource supply and pollen delivery are often thought to equally limit seed production in animal-pollinated plants. At equilibrium, plants should show no response to experimental pollen supplementation because resources limit seed set above the current level of pollen attraction, while experimental reduction in pollen...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ornelas JF,Lara C

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of feeding of the mirid bug Capsodes infuscatus on fruit production of the geophyte Asphodelus ramosus was studied in a desert area in Israel. Plant and bug densities and percent loss of fruit production were measured in a relatively dry lower colluvial slope, an intermediate upper colluvial slope, and a re...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ayal Y,Izhaki I

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gut extracts of Gammarus fossarum liberated reducing substances (at pH values ≤7) and amino acids (pH≥7) from freshly shed oak leaves only after removal of soluble leaf phenols. When carboxymethylcellulose was used at a concentration equal to that of leaf cellulose, release of reducing substances was considerably high...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Bärlocher F

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While elaborate carotenoid-based traits in adult birds may have evolved as honest signals of individual quality in the context of sexual selection or other social interactions, the function of carotenoid-based colours in juveniles is less well understood. We investigated the hypothesis that carotenoid-based nestling c...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Tschirren B,Fitze PS,Richner H

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disturbance is now recognized as a key ecosystem process but few studies have examined its indirect effects on individuals in a population or its relationship to ecological dominance in a community. Using an ecologically dominant small mammal population in experimentally burned habitat as a model, I empirically tested...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Plavsic MJ

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00