Frerea indica, a stem succulent CAM plant with deciduous C3 leaves.

abstract：:Plant compensatory growth responses to herbivory are mediated by soil fertility and can have significant feedbacks that affect overall ecosystem nutrient cycling. The sedge Eriophorum vaginatum is the dominant graminoid in arctic mesic tundra, and is heavily consumed by caribou. Here, we compare the principal compensa...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Grogan P,Zamin TJ

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation in body size (weight) is examined across the order Carnivora in relation to taxonomy (phylogeny), latitude, habitat, zonation, activity cycle, diet, prey size, and prey diversity. Significant differences in body weight are observed with respect to family membership. Some of these differences may be explained...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gittleman JL

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using data from three fires in northeastern Spain, we tested a condition necessary to support the idea that fire has been a factor in the evolution of the resprouting habit: populations of all resprouting species within a community should show high levels of genet survival after fires and show a low coefficient of var...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： López-Soria L,Castell C

更新日期：1992-10-01 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：: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：:In this study we tested the hypothesis that the presence of chemical stimuli from a hungry predator would initiate anti-predator responses, while stimuli from a satiated predator would not. We used chemical stimuli released from starved perch (Perca fluviatilis) and from satiated perch (predator). As prey we used adul...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Åbjörnsson K,Wagner BM,Axelsson A,Bjerselius R,Olsén KH

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For many amphibians, high temperatures and limited precipitation are crucial habitat characteristics that limit species ranges and modulate life-history characteristics. Although knowledge of the ability of amphibians to cope with such environmental harshness is particularly relevant in the light of ongoing environmen...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Reniers J,Brendonck L,Roberts JD,Verlinden W,Vanschoenwinkel B

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reproduction is a demanding activity for animals, since they must produce, and in some cases protect and provision, their young. It is often overlooked that demands of reproduction may also be exacerbated by exposure to contaminants. In this study, we make use of an exceptional long-term dataset to perform a cross-sec...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Costantini D,Meillère A,Carravieri A,Lecomte V,Sorci G,Faivre B,Weimerskirch H,Bustamante P,Labadie P,Budzinski H,Chastel O

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predicted changes in soil water availability regimes with climate and land-use change will impact the community of functionally important soil organisms, such as macro-detritivores. Identifying and quantifying the functional traits that underlie interspecific differences in desiccation resistance will enhance our abil...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Dias AT,Krab EJ,Mariën J,Zimmer M,Cornelissen JH,Ellers J,Wardle DA,Berg MP

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increases in terrestrial primary productivity across the Arctic and northern alpine ecosystems are leading to altered vegetation composition and stature. Changes in vegetation stature may affect predator-prey interactions via changes in the prey's ability to detect predators, changes in predation pressure, predator id...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Wheeler HC,Chipperfield JD,Roland C,Svenning JC

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate change effects on plants are expected to be primarily mediated through early life stage transitions. Snowfall variability, in particular, may have profound impacts on seedling recruitment, structuring plant populations and communities, especially in mid-latitude systems. These water-limited and frequently inva...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gornish ES,Aanderud ZT,Sheley RL,Rinella MJ,Svejcar T,Englund SD,James JJ

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No definitive explanation for the form of the relationship between species diversity and ecosystem productivity exists nor is there agreement on the mechanisms linking diversity and productivity across scales. Here, we examine changes in the form of the diversity-productivity relationship within and across the plant c...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Jennings MD,Williams JW,Stromberg MR

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies have analysed plant responses to flooding or drought separately, without addressing the relations between plant resistance to each of these factors. In this paper, we compare the responses to drought and flooding under glasshouse conditions of three populations of Paspalum dilatatum, a perennial C4 grass ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Loreti J,Oesterheld M

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At constant cladode temperature the stomatal resistance of O. inermis increased when the cladode-air vapor pressure difference was increased and stomatal resistance decreased when the cladode-air vapor pressure difference was lowered. Net CO2 fixation in the dark was very responsive to these humidity dependent changes...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Osmond CB,Ludlow MM,Davis R,Cowan IR,Powles SB,Winter K

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of the ant communities and their foraging dynamics were studied in two annual agroecosystems of the Mexican tropical lowlands: a "forest milpa" of corn, beans, and squash made by cutting and buring 40-year-old forest, and a "field milpa" of corn, beans, and squash made by plowing 1-year-old second grow...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Risch SJ,Carroll CR

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that green sunfish, Lepomis cyanellus, have strong effects on the activity, habitat use, social interactions and mating dynamics of a stream-dwelling water strider, Aquarius remigis (family Gerridae, hence, gerrids). In nature, however, stream pools often contain not just sunfish and water ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Sih A,Krupa JJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invertebrate algal grazer densities were manipulated in a temperate river to discover the impact of differences in riffle-scale architectural complexity on the strength of the trophic interaction between grazers and epilithic algae. Animal densities were manipulated by manual removal in architecturally complex boulder...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Robson BJ

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chaparral shrub Eriodictyon californicum secretes a phenolic leaf resin composed of flavonoid aglycones. We used leaves with artificially altered resin contents to test the effects of resin on the feeding, growth, and oviposition of the specialist herbivore Trirhabda diducta. In addition, we compared Trirhabda fee...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Johnson ND,Brain SA,Ehrlich PR

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predation by invasive species is a major threat to the persistence of naïve prey. Typically, this negative effect is addressed by suppressing the population size of the invasive predator to a point where the predation pressure does not hinder the viability of the prey. However, this type of intervention may not be eff...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： García-Díaz P,Binny RN,Anderson DP

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely recognized that pollinators vary in their effectiveness in pollination mutualisms, due both to differences in flower-pollinator morphological fit as well as pollinator behaviour. However, pollination webs typically treat all interactions as equal, and we contend that this method may provide misleading res...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Sánchez-Lafuente AM,Rodríguez-Gironés MA,Parra R

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:Hemiparasitic plants tend to thrive in and significantly affect plant communities in low-nutrient, high-light environments. Hemiparasites are assumed to be weak competitors for light but strong parasites, leading to the prediction that effects on hosts and communities should be a function of resource supply. We invest...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Borowicz VA,Armstrong JE

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants of Dudleya blochmanae were studied over a growing season (December-June) in their native habitat on the central California coast. During the season soil water potential fluctuatdd widely, becoming unmeasurably negative (<-5.0 MPa) by early May. In contrast, leaf water potential did not fluctuate greatly with th...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Teeri JA

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review I offer a solution to the problem why endotherm populations appear to be so inefficient in converting food energy into body substance despite the fact that individual endotherms are just as 'efficient' in this respect as individual ectotherms. Calculated for individuals of half the adult mass both ectot...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Wieser W

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1997 to 1999, we monitored the reproductive success of individual rufous-crowned sparrows (Aimophila ruficeps) in coastal sage scrub habitat of southern California, USA. Annual reproductive output of this ground-nesting species varied strongly with annual variation in rainfall, attributed to the El Niño-Southern ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Morrison SA,Bolger DT

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much of the research into herbivore ecology and evolution has focused on patterns and mechanisms of niche partitioning in the diets of specialized grazers and browsers, but the significance of the balance of grazing and browsing within intermediate feeders present unique questions that have received less attention. We...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Christianson D,Creel S

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：: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：:Myrmecophytic symbioses are widespread in tropical ecosystems and their diversity makes them useful tools for understanding the origin and evolution of mutualisms. Obligate ant-plants, or myrmecophytes, provide a nesting place, and, often, food to a limited number of plant-ant species. In exchange, plant-ants protect ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Orivel J,Lambs L,Malé PJ,Leroy C,Grangier J,Otto T,Quilichini A,Dejean A

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of litter has the potential to alter the population dynamics of plants. In this paper, we explore the effects of litter on population dynamics using a simple experimental laboratory system with populations of the annual crucifer, Cardamine pensylvanica. Using a factorial experiment with four densities and...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Molofsky J,Lanza J,Crone EE

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00