Beobachtungen über wasserbewegungen, chemische Schichtung und fischwanderungen in Várzea-Seen am mittleren Solimões (Amazonas).

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：:We compared above-ground allocation patterns in mature shrubs of Banksia hookeriana from three 13-year-old populations, growing on nutrient-impoverished sands to determine whether C (dry mass) could be a substitute for mineral nutrients (N, P, K, Ca, Mg and NA). The percentage of reproductive structures to total above...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Witkowski ET,Lamont BB

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：:Many plant species currently exist in fragmented populations of different sizes, while they also experience unpredictable climatic fluctuation over time. However, we still understand little about how plant demography responds to such spatial and temporal environmental variability. We studied population dynamics of an ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Tomimatsu H,Ohara M

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen (N) deposition and climate are acknowledged drivers of change in biodiversity and ecosystem function at large scales. However, at a local scale, their impact on functions and community structure of organisms is filtered by drivers like habitat quality and food quality/availability. This study assesses the rel...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Mitchell RJ,Urpeth HM,Britton AJ,Black H,Taylor AR

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many species of planktonic cladocerans display substantial variation in habitat use (mean depth and diel vertical migration), both among and within populations. We examined whether clonal segregation and specialization contributes to such behavioral variation within several lake populations of the cladoceran, Daphnia ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Tessier AJ,Leibold MA

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：: Fluorogenic substrate analogues (MUF substrates) are very sensitive in detecting hydrolytic enzymes. This method was adapted for the quantitative analysis of extracellular enzymes in snails and other animals. It was then used to determine cellobiase, chitobiase, protease, esterase, phosphatase and lipase in the diges...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Brendelberger H

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emergence and survival of honey mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa var.glandulosa Torr.) seedlings was quantified on sites with contrasting grazing histories: long-term continuous grazing (LTG) and long-term protection (LTP) from grazing by cattle. On each site, different levels of heroaceous defoliation were imposed at mo...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Brown JR,Archer S

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The optimal strategy in the design of nature reserves is investigated by means of the theory of island biogeography. Some previous results are revised. A new form of the incidence functions is presented. Their merit is that they do not ignore the minimum area requirements, they are more flexible, and in a number of in...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Kindlmann P

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:White-footed mice, Peromyscus leucopus noveboracensis, and deer mice, P. maniculatus nubiterrae, occur sympatically throughout much of the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States. Previous studies have shown that these two species are behaviorally and ecologically similar and do not partition food or microh...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Wolff JO

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although an increase in competition is a common cost associated with intraspecific crowding, spatial aggregation across food-limited resource patches is a widespread phenomenon in many insect communities. Because intraspecific aggregation of competing insect larvae across, e.show $132#g. fruits, dung, mushrooms etc., ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Rohlfs M,Hoffmeister TS

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimal diet theory often fails to predict a forager's diet choice when prey are mobile. Because they escape or defend themselves, mobile prey are likely to increase the forager's handling time, thereby decreasing its fitness gain rate. Many animals have been shown to select their prey so as to maximize either their f...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Barrette M,Wu GM,Brodeur J,Giraldeau LA,Boivin G

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In long-lived colonial birds, age at recruitment is an important life-history character. Variation in this parameter may reflect differences in several factors, including competitive ability and breeding strategies. Further, these differences may be due to timing of hatching (for instance through differences in compet...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Prévot-Julliard AC,Pradel R,Julliard R,Grosbois V,Lebreton JD

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The site of settlement of barnacles (Balanus improvisus) attached on shells of bluemussels (Mytilus edulis) was mapped from a sample of mussels collected in the Baltic Sea. Most barnacles had settled near the siphonal apertures of the mussel. An experiment was made to measure the disadvantages and advantages that livi...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Laihonen P,Furman ER

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new technique based upon the dilution of C 14 /C 12 ratios in structural carbon of root systems during the course of the growing season was used to evaluate belowground turnover or productivity of two cool desert communities in northern Utah, USA. This technique provides a measure of turnover of the root system of e...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Caldwell MM,Camp LB

更新日期：1974-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Provenance translocations of tree species are promoted in forestry, conservation, and restoration in response to global climate change. While this option is driven by adaptive considerations, less is known of the effects translocations can have on dependent communities. We investigated the relative importance and cons...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gosney BJ,Potts BM,Forster LG,Whiteley C,O'Reilly-Wapstra JM

更新日期：2021-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The photosynthetic incorporation of H14CO3- by the alga Platymonas subcordiformis decreased with increasing concentrations of NaCl in the medium. There was no correlation between the response of P. subcordiformis to salinity in high or low NaCl-concentrations in the growing solution. When other osmotic substances were...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Kirst GO

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison of photosynthetic adaptations of desert ephemerals from sun and shade environments has shown differences in the magnitude and timing of maximum CO2 assimilation. Photosynthetic rates of species from the sun environment were significantly higher, and maximum observed levels occurred both earlier in the day...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Wallace CS,Szarek SR

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naïveté can occur within any novel antagonistic interaction, and competitive forces play a fundamental role in shaping community structure, yet competitive naïveté has received very little attention in the literature to date. Naïveté towards a novel competitor is unlikely to result in immediate mortality, but could po...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Heavener SJ,Carthey AJ,Banks PB

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：: In spite of recent theoretical interest, few field studies have addressed the links between individual behavioral decisions and population distribution. This work analyzes the foraging behavior of individuals and the spatial distribution of a population of blue tits (Parus caeruleus) just before the main breeding sea...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Pulido FJ,Díaz M

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fine root extractions from soil cores of a south facing slope in the Southern Californian chaparral were used to study the dynamics of feeder root growth in a summer-dry area. The studies were concentrated on the root systems of Adenostoma fasciculatum, Arctostaphylos glauca, Ceanothus greggii, and Rhus ovata. The tot...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Kummerow J,Krause D,Jow W

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study quantified both the age- and sex-specific survival rates of juveniles and adults, and tested for interannual differences in age-specific survival rates of the southern elephant seal population at Marion Island. Pups were tagged on an annual basis from 1983 onwards at Marion Island, and a consistent recaptur...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Pistorius PA,Bester MN,Kirkman SP

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth of woody species has two components, one pertaining to increment of biomass, the other to the architectonic arrangement of dry matter in space. Only the combination of both components explained the competitive strength of species that dominate in different stages of a hedgerow succession in Central Europe. Biom...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Küppers M

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the recovery of root nodules from P. glandulosa var. glandulosa in the eastern portion of its range, where the species reaches its greatest vegetational development. Single cores 4.7 cm in diameter and up to 250 cm deep yielded from 0 to over 250 nodules. Nodules were found at all depths below 10 cm, with th...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Johnson HB,Mayeux HS Jr

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Southern grasshopper mice (Onychomys torridus) were allowed to junt buried mealworms in a laboratory arena. The prey were arranged in two patterns, one aggregated and one relatively dispersed. Mice captured more prey from the dispersed treatment in the 2 h experiment, a result that can be attributed to both the greate...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Taylor RJ

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis that carnivorous plants are less responsive to prey at high soil nutrient levels than at lower levels (Givnish et al. 1984) is tested on four plant species (Drosera rotundifolia, Pinguicula alpina, P. villosa and P. vulgaris) from a subarctic environment. The response, measured in terms of seven charact...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Karlsson PS,Nordell KO,Carlsson BÅ,Svensson BM

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the physiological, behavioral, and genetic contributions to growth rate, we studied the thermal sensitivity of growth rate in hatchlings of the iguanid lizards Sceloporus occidentalis and S. graciosus in the laboratory. We used a cycling thermal regime patterned after thermal environments found in natur...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Sinervo B,Adolph SC

更新日期：1989-03-01 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：:We reared larvae of three generalist insect species on plants occurring in their habitats. Individuals of each species were kept either on mixed diets, or on each plant species separately. We measured food plant preference in the mixed-diet group and compared insect performance on single plants to the performance on t...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hägele BF,Rowell-Rahier M

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Not all hosts, communities or environments are equally hospitable for parasites. Direct and indirect interactions between parasites and their predators, competitors and the environment can influence variability in host exposure, susceptibility and subsequent infection, and these influences may vary across spatial scal...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gehman AM,Grabowski JH,Hughes AR,Kimbro DL,Piehler MF,Byers JE

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00