Are geckos useful bioindicators of air pollution?

abstract：:Genotypes of the annual legume Amphicarpaea bracteata vary in their degree of specialization toward different nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Plants of lineages "Ib" and "II" are specialized for mutualism with a limited group of bacterial genotypes. Lineage "Ia" plants are symbiotic generalists, interacting with all bacteri...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Wilkinson HH,Parker MA

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factors affecting oophagy among siblings in the land snail Arianta arbustorum were studied in 3 populations from different altitudes in Switzerland. The degree of egg cannibalism in A. arbustorum is a function of hatching asynchrony since the earliest hatched snails will devour the unhatched eggs in the same clutch. C...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Baur B,Baur A

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The co-occurrence of several species, all of which share similar resource requirements, remains a paradox in ecology. Here, I evaluated resource use along multiple environmental axes to understand the potential for niche partitioning and complementarity in a guild of suspension-feeding rocky shore invertebrates. I foc...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Bracken MES

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous papers we have described and verified a primary production model of the desert shrub Larrea tridentata. Here we address the validation phase of the evaluation of this model. Two versions of the model which differ in the priority scheme used for allocating carbon to reproductive or vegetative organs were co...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Reynolds JF,Cunningham GL

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seeds dispersed by tropical, arboreal mammals are usually deposited singly and without dung or in clumps of fecal material. After dispersal through defecation by mammals, most seeds are secondarily dispersed by dung beetles or consumed by rodents. These post-dispersal, plant-animal interactions are likely to interact ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Andresen E,Levey DJ

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple regression analyses were made of the effect of food composition upon energetic efficiency and existence energy of House Sparrows, Passer domesticus. Protein content of experimental food is the most important of eleven independent variables tested in the prediction of energetic efficiency. Other variables sign...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Blem CR

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the effect of different densities and the removal of all neighbours at different stages of development on all components of reproduction in the inbreeding annual Thlaspi arvense L. A 64-fold increase in density significantly reduced all repooductive components. The number of flower buds per plant w...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Matthies D

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intensity of resource exploitation by phytophagous insects is usually considered to reflect population size. For populations of two flowerhead-attacking tephritid flies, however, the resources utilised were not related to the numbers of searching adults. Tephritis bardanae Schrank attacked 11-13% of the total flow...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Straw NA

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physiological activity and C and N allocation of beech seedlings planted in two different beech forest soils (acid brown earth, rendzina) were studied over 80 days. One adult earthworm Octolasion lacteum (Örley) was placed in half of the containers. Transpiration, CO2, assimilation, chlorophyll synthesis and N inc...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Wolters V,Stickan W

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecosystem-wide effects of introduced brown trout (Salmo trutta L.) and native river galaxias (Galaxiaseldoni McDowall) were studied by analysing ecosystem production budgets for two adjacent tributaries of a grassland stream-system in the South Island of New Zealand. One tributary was inhabited by brown trout, the oth...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Huryn AD

更新日期：1998-06-01 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：:A search for desiccation tolerant grasses in India revealed nine grass species (in the genera Eragrostiella, Oropetium and Tripogon) whose ability to recover from airdryness had not previously been reported. Dry leaves of these species recover uninjured within 24 h of plants receiving water. Desiccation tolerance limi...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gaff DF,Bole PV

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synchronous leaf production has been proposed as a mechanism to reduce herbivore damage to young leaves by satiating herbivores. To test this hypothesis, I measured leaf production, leaf survivorship, and herbivore damage on juveniles of Gustavia superba (H.B.K.) Berg (Lecythidaceae), in two sites in Central Panama. L...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Aide TM

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most aphids show cyclical parthenogenesis, have short generation times and complete several generations each season. Two hypotheses have been proposed to account for the adaptive seasonal trends observed in the reproductive strategies of aphids. Firstly, individuals of each generation modify their reproductive strateg...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Dixon AF,Kundu R

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a complete block design to experimentally study direct and indirect interactions in a three trophic-level freshwater system consisting of a top predator, the green sunfish, Lepomis cyanellus, an intermediate predator, small-mouthed salamander larvae, Ambystoma barbouri, and prey, hatchling isopods, Lirceus fon...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Huang C,Sih A

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosynthetic induction under constant and fluctuating light conditions was investigated in intact leaves of Alocasia macrorrhiza and Toona australis, two species native to Australian rainforests. When leaves were exposed to saturating light following a long period at low light intensity, an induction period of 25-40...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Chazdon RL,Pearcy RW

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements are reported of carbon isotope ratios of Dudleya species growing in natural plant communities. Considerable variation in the δ13C values are interpreted as indicating substantial flexibility of the photosynthetic pathways between C3 and CAM. The variability in photosynthetic pathway was in response to gen...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Troughton JH,Mooney HA,Berry JA,Verity D

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our experiments addressed systemic metabolic effects in above-ground plant tissue as part of the plant's response to the arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) interaction. Due to the physiology of this interaction, we expected effects in the areas of plant mineral nutrition, carbon allocation and stress-related metabolism, but ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Fester T,Fetzer I,Buchert S,Lucas R,Rillig MC,Härtig C

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epiphytic orchid, Dimerandra emarginata, occurs in habitats characterized by high light intensities and very variable water supply. Long-term observations of the water status indicate that this species experienced at least moderate water stress over most of the year. Well-watered, it showed high rates of net CO2 u...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Zotz G,Tyree MT

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution and movements of two stoat populations were studied by capture-recapture and tracking in the Swiss Jura Mountains. On the Brévine area in summer 1977 the population was at a high density phase and evenly distributed. A well established intrasexual territorial system was observed, with a high degree of...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Debrot S,Mermod C

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial context in which seed predation occurs may modify the spatial structure of recruitment generated by seed dispersal. The Janzen-Connell (J-C) model predicts that granivores will exert greater pressure on the parent plant or at those sites where the density of dispersed seeds is higher. We have investigated ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Blendinger PG,Díaz-Vélez MC

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most theoretical models for the evolution of temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) rely upon differential fitness of male and female offspring incubated under different thermal regimes. However, there are few convincing data on this topic. We studied incubation effects in a lizard species (Bassiana duperreyi, ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Elphick MJ,Shine R

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After a period of food deprivation, animals often respond with a period of faster than normal growth. Such responses have been suggested to result in decreased chromosomal maintenance, which in turn may affect the future fitness of an individual. Here, we present a field experiment in which a food deprivation period o...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Näslund J,Pauliny A,Blomqvist D,Johnsson JI

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hawaiian lobeliads have radiated into habitats from open alpine bogs to densely shaded rainforest interiors, and show corresponding adaptations in steady-state photosynthetic light responses and associated leaf traits. Shaded environments are not uniformly dark, however, but punctuated by sunflecks that carry most of ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Montgomery RA,Givnish TJ

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1977 through 1983 we conducted experiments on a desert rodent community where supplemental seeds were added or certain rodent species and ants were removed from 0.25-ha fenced plots in a Chihuahuan Desert site in southeastern Arizona, USA. In this paper we examine the patterns of microhabitat use relative to vege...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Bowers MA,Thompson DB,Brown JH

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

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：:It is shown that litter of flowering plants of Cirsium vulgare inhibits the growth of seedlings of the same species at concentrations as low as 0.4% (g litter/g soil). The inhibition of growth cannot be fully compensated by adding nutrients, which indicates that autotoxicity may occur. It must be concluded, however, f...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： de Jong TJ,Klinkhamer PG

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecologists routinely set out to estimate the trophic position of individuals, populations, and species composing food webs, and nitrogen stable isotopes (δ(15)N) are a widely used proxy for trophic position. Although δ(15)N values are often sampled at the level of individuals, estimates and confidence intervals are fr...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Reum JC,Marshall KN

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Floral visitors vary in their pollination efficiency and their preferences for floral traits. If low-efficiency pollinators decrease the amount of pollen available to higher efficiency visitors, then low-efficiency visitors may actually have negative fitness consequences for the plants that they visit. We used experim...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Lau JA,Galloway LF

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the sessile hermit crab Discorsopagurus schmitti, four different feeding techniques are described: antennary beating, body-trap feeding, feeding on wafting particles, and scraping. This species' potential for being a generalist in its diet and opportunistic in its foraging behavior certainly opened the way for a se...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gherardi F

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00