Temperature regulation and water requirements of the monk parakeet, Myiopsitta monachus.

abstract：:The use of the landscape by animals is predicted to be a function of their body size. However, empirical data relating these two variables from an array of body sizes within a single mammalian community are scarce. We tested this prediction by assessing landscape use of mammals by analyzing strontium (Sr) isotope sign...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Feranec RS,Hadly EA,Paytan A

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：:Intra-colony demography and life history characteristics of neotropical Africanized and temperate European honey bearaces were compared under simulated feral conditions. Major differences in colony demography were found which nevertheless resulted in some similar reproductive characteristics. European colonies were la...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Winston ML,Dropkin JA,Taylor OR

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspects of the demography of Monhystera disjuncta were investigated at different temperatures (in agnotobiotic cultures) and in different feeding conditions (monoxenic cultures with different bacterial strains, and different densities in the feeding suspension with one strain). Embryonic development time, minimum gene...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Vranken G,Herman PM,Heip C

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enemy release often is invoked to explain the success of invasive plants: an invader benefits from reduced attack as it escapes specialized enemies through the invasion process. Enemy release typically is thought of as occurring at large geographic scales, but local-scale interactions may also be important for invader...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Nunes KA,Kotanen PM

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the stream-dwelling isopod Lirceus fontinalis, males and females engage in a precopulatory mate guarding phase prior to mating. We examined the energetic costs of mate guarding behavior in males by separately assaying glycogen and lipid content at different time increments following mating. We found that males that...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Sparkes TC,Keogh DP,Pary RA

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Life history theory predicts that larger propagules should be produced when the offspring are expected to experience intense competition. This study tested whether female cowpea weevils responded to high larval or adult density by producing larger eggs. In a splitbrood design I measured the effect of density experienc...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Kawecki TJ

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organic carbon-rich sediments from the surface of fresh, intermediate, brackish and salt marshes of coastal Louisiana were sampled and analyzed for their 13C content. The average ∂13C from all sites within each wetland type was-27.8‰,-22.1‰,-16.9‰, and-16.2‰, for fresh, intermediate, brackish and salt marshes, respect...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Chmura GL,Aharon P,Socki RA,Abernethy R

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the role of diversity in ecosystem processes and species interactions is a central goal of ecology. For plant-herbivore interactions, it has been hypothesized that when plant species diversity is reduced, loss of plant biomass to herbivores increases. Although long-standing, this hypothesis has received ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Salazar D,Jaramillo A,Marquis RJ

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined under laboratory conditions the thermopreference of the migratory locust, Locusta migratoria migratorioides, following infection by the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae var. acridum and its influence on mycosis. Infected locusts raised their body temperature more frequently than healthy consp...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ouedraogo RM,Goettel MS,Brodeur J

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indirect interactions among plant species mediated by frugivorous animals can be central to population and community dynamics, since the successful seed dispersal of species may depend on facilitative or competitive interactions with heterospecific plants. Yet, empirical evidence on these interactions is very scarce a...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Rumeu B,Álvarez-Villanueva M,Arroyo JM,González-Varo JP

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Masting is the intermittent production of large seed crops by a population of plants. Two main hypotheses have been proposed to explain masting. Variations in seed crop may result from stochastic climate factors (temperature, rainfall, etc.), and/or masting may be a plant evolutionary strategy to avoid specific seed p...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Poncet BN,Garat P,Manel S,Bru N,Sachet JM,Roques A,Despres L

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allelochemicals defend plants against herbivore and pathogen attack aboveground and belowground. Whether such plant defenses incur ecological costs by reducing benefits from plant mutualistic symbionts is largely unknown. We explored a potential trade-off between inherent plant chemical defense and belowground mutuali...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： De Deyn GB,Biere A,van der Putten WH,Wagenaar R,Klironomos JN

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two calanoid copepod genera, Boeckella and Calamoecia have broadly similar geographic distributions in Australia but Boeckella is more common than Calamoecia. A field survey and literature search indicate that Boeckella is usually the first calanoid to colonize newly formed bodies of water, and Boeckella is more commo...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Maly EJ

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four colonies of the desert leaf-cutter ant Acromyrmex versicolor versicolor (Pergande) located 30 miles N.E. of Tempe, Arizona were observed over a 7 month period. The ants utilized trails in foraging, a characteristic of higher attines, as well as foraging singly, a typical pattern among the more primitive gardeners...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gamboa GJ

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Competition for space is an important process on tropical coral reefs. Few studies have examined the role sponges play in community structure despite the fact that many sponges are competitively superior to reef-building corals in space acquisition. Surveys conducted throughout the Florida Keys indicated that Chondril...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hill MS

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among birds of the Bismarck Archipelago, only certain combinations of the species in a guild coexist on islands, and some species that are very similar ecologically have mutually exclusive distributions. Diamond (1975) interpreted these patterns as biologically significant, involving effects such as competition. Conno...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Diamond JM,Gilpin ME

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large number of time series of abundances of insects and birds from a variety of data sets were submitted to a new density dependence test. The results varied enormously between data sets, but the relation between the frequency of statistically significant density dependence (SSDD) and the length of the series was s...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Wolda H,Dennis B

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Controls of fine dynamics were investigated in a Pinus palustris Mill. (longleaf pine) woodland subjected to two understory vegetation treatments (control versus removed) and four overstory treatments (no gap control, and canopy gaps of three sizes with constant total gap area per stand). Fine root (<2 mm diameter) dy...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Jones RH,Mitchell RJ,Stevens G,Pecot S

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twospotted spider mites, Tetranychus urticae Koch are arrhenotokous. As a result of this genetic structure, primary and secondary sex ratios diverge from the 1:1 female:male ratio commonly found in diploid systems. Ratios vary, but 3:1 is the most common. The influence of life history parameters on spider mite sex rat...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Krainacker DA,Carey JR

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The principal function of isoprene biosynthesis in plants remains unclear, but emission rates are positively correlated with temperature and light, supporting a role for isoprene in maintaining photosynthesis under transient heat and light stress from sunflecks. Isoprene production is also inversely correlated with CO...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Way DA,Schnitzler JP,Monson RK,Jackson RB

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments are described which test the hypothesis that more host-specific species of caterpillars should be less aceptable to a generalist predator than polyphagous species. Caterpillars of all species were tested in paired choice tests with the Argentine ant, Iridomyrmex humilis. Experiments were replicated ten tim...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Bernays EA,Cornelius ML

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we test the mid-domain hypothesis as an explanation for observed patterns of flowering diversity in two sub-alpine communities of insect-pollinated plants. Observed species richness patterns showed an early-season increase in richness, a mid-season peak, and a late-season decrease. We show that a "mid-d...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Morales MA,Dodge GJ,Inouye DW

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diurnal course of the xylem water flow in a solitary Salix fragilis L. tree in a wet grassland was measured using the tissue heat-balance method. There was considerable variation due to meteorological factors. Maximum flow rate was 0.4 kg h-1 m-2 of crown projection area, or 5.9 kg h-1 kg-1 leaf dry weight. The da...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Čermák J,Jeník J,Kučera J,Žídek V

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the manner in which animals adjust the proportion of energy allocated to growth and storage in response to food availability. We compared univariate growth and length-mass relationships between juvenile adders (Vipera berus) reared under two different feeding regimes. Animals in the low- and high-food expe...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Forsman A,Lindell LE

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rates at which bumblebees of different proboscis lengths forage on flowers of a series of corolla tube lengths were determined. The results indicate significant correlations between proboscis length and time spent by bees on flowers. Bumblebees of long proboscis length can forage significantly faster than bees of ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Inouye DW

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility that resource limits constrain the growth of mobile epifaunal populations associated withSargassum patens plants was investigated by placing plants and associated animals into field microcosms which excluded fish predators, and then comparing faunal abundance and size-structure changes in different mic...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Edgar GJ,Aoki M

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined patterns of density and species diversity for leaf-mining Lepidopterans and gall-forming Hymenopterans in two oak (Quercus spp.) hybrid zones: Quercus depressipes x Q. rugosa and Q. emoryi x Q. coccolobifolia. In both species complexes, hybrid hosts typically supported significantly lower densities and spe...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Boecklen WJ,Spellenberg R

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the eight Pardosa species studied, aerial dispersal occurs generally in the young instars. The climatic conditions, particularly wind but also temperature and humidity, affect the occurrence of aerial dispersal. Within the different systematic groups in the genus, species with relatively high and relatively low dis...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Richter CJ

更新日期：1970-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dramatic perturbations of ecological communities through rapid shifts in environmental regime do not always result in complete mortality of residents. Instead, legacy individuals may remain and influence the succession and composition of subsequent communities. We used a reciprocal transplant experiment to investigate...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Mullineaux LS,Micheli F,Peterson CH,Lenihan HS,Markus N

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00