Establishing pathways of energy flow for insect predators using stable isotope ratios: field and laboratory evidence.

abstract：:Mycorrhizal fungi are crucial for the ecological success of land plants, providing their hosts with nutrients in exchange for organic C. However, not all plants are mycorrhizal, especially ferns, of which about one-third of the species lack this symbiosis. Because the mycorrhizal status is evolutionarily ancestral, th...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Kessler M,Güdel R,Salazar L,Homeier J,Kluge J

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mistletoes constitute instructive study cases with which to address the role of generalist consumers in the study of plant-animal interactions. Their ranges of safe sites for recruitment are among the most restricted of any plant; therefore, frugivores specializing in mistletoe have been considered almost indispensabl...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Mellado A,Zamora R

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterotrophic gains of carbon from various host species by the root hemiparasitic shrub Olax phyllanthi (Labill) R.Br. were assessed using techniques based on carbon isotope discrimination (δ13C) on C3 and C4 hosts and C:N ratios of xylem sap and dry matter of host and parasite. Heterotrophic benefits (H) to Olax base...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Tennakoon KU,Pate JS

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As humans continue to alter tropical landscapes across the world, it is important to understand what environmental factors help determine the persistence of biodiversity in modified ecosystems. Studies on well-known taxonomic groups can offer critical insights as to the fate of biodiversity in these modified systems. ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Moura NG,Lees AC,Aleixo A,Barlow J,Berenguer E,Ferreira J,Mac Nally R,Thomson JR,Gardner TA

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pace-of-life syndrome describes covariation between life-history, behavioral and physiological traits; while, the emerging behavioral-bioenergetics theory proposes mechanistic links between those traits in a spatial-ecological context. However, little is known about the association between the limits to metabolic ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Boratyński Z,Szyrmer M,Koteja P

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although consumers often rely on chemical information to optimize their foraging strategies, it is poorly understood how top carnivores above the third trophic level find resources in heterogeneous environments. Hyperparasitoids are a common group of organisms in the fourth trophic level that lay their eggs in or on t...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Cusumano A,Harvey JA,Dicke M,Poelman EH

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the effects of intraspecific variation in leaf nitrogen and water content on the growth, consumption, conversion efficiency and nitrogen use of Colias butterfly larvae. Pest and non-pest Colias philodice eriphyle larvae and Colias eurytheme larvae were fed field-collected alfalfa (Medicago sativa) ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Tabashnik BE

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relatively few published food webs have included parasites, and in this study we examined the animal community in a stream across eight contiguous seasons to test how inclusion of helminth parasites alters the topology or structure of the food web. Food webs constructed for each season and analyzed using common binary...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hernandez AD,Sukhdeo MV

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enemies hypothesis states that reduced insect herbivory in mixed-species stands can be attributed to more effective top-down control by predators with increasing plant diversity. Although evidence for this mechanism exists for invertebrate predators, studies on avian predation are comparatively rare and have not e...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Muiruri EW,Rainio K,Koricheva J

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of predation by roach (Rutilus rutilus) on zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) in a large, eutrophic lake showed that there was a clearly marked size threshold (∼ 160 mm SL) above which roach began to feed on mussels. Roach preying on various sizes of mussels selected them in proportions different from their a...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Prejs A,Lewandowski K,Stańczykowska-Piotrowska A

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enhanced ultraviolet-B (UV-B) radiation may have multiple effects on both plants and animals and affect plant-herbivore interactions directly and indirectly by inducing changes in host plant quality. In this study, we examined combined effects of UV-B and herbivory on the defence of the mountain birch (Betula pubescen...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Anttila U,Julkunen-Tiitto R,Rousi M,Yang S,Rantala MJ,Ruuhola T

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental size, as measured by cross-sectional area of the inhabited streams, and population density of Oxytrema proxima are related by the power function Y=8.074X -0.584, where Y=population density and X=cross-sectional area of the stream. Relationships were also found between maximum size and biomass and cross-s...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Foin TC Jr,Stiven AE

更新日期：1970-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals in fragmented landscapes have a major challenge to move between high-quality habitat patches through lower-quality matrix. Two current mechanistic hypotheses that describe the movement used by animals outside of their preferred patches (e.g., high-quality habitat or home range) are the biased, correlated rando...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： McIntire EJ,Rompré G,Severns PM

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At Bakers Hill, differential winter mortality of juvenile slowgrowing Amphibolurus ornatus is correlated with the incidence of frosts (Bradshaw, 1971). The present study shows that the probability an individual will spend the night in a refuge that is safe from the lethal effect of a frost is directly related to the i...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Baverstock PR

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The up-regulation of secondary metabolic pathways following herbivore attack and the subsequent reduction in herbivore performance have been identified in numerous woody plant species. Eucalypts constitutively express many secondary metabolites in the leaves, including terpenes and formylated phloroglucinol compounds ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Henery ML,Wallis IR,Stone C,Foley WJ

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the "Solling-Projekt" (IBP) of the "Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft" the decomposition of different qualities of leaves in acid soil (Solling) and in lime soil (Göttinger Wald) was studied under various conditions (October 1973-October 1974).Plastic rings were used as litter bags in the following way: on the bottom...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Herlitzius R,Herlitzius H

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The period between oviposition and the start of hatching varied from about 17 weeks at 3°C to about 1 week at 22°C, and the length of the hatching period varied from about 34 days at 3°C to about 3 days at 22°C. Regression equations are provided to estimate the lengths of both periods at all temperatures between 3°C a...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Elliott JM

更新日期：1972-03-01 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：:The amount of calcium in Eucalyptus diversicolor (karri) ecosystems is high in comparison with other eucalypt forest ecosystems in Australia. A large proportion of this calcium is present as crystalline Ca oxalate. Whewellite (CaC2O4·H2O) accumulates in leaf tissue of the over- and understorey species. Up to 70% of th...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： O'Connell AM,Malajczuk N,Gailitis V

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellulose toilet roll baits were exposed in three different subhabitats at Nylsvley Reserve, northern Transvaal, and respective attacks by up to eight species of termites are described and illustrated. In broad-leaved savanna attack was principally by Microcerotermes, a slow feeder that attacked rolls throughout the y...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ferrar P

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ligia oceanica can change its colour using melanophores, the animal's reflectance varying between about 2 and 10%. Darker individuals heat up more quickly, and to higher body temperatures, than do pale ones. Colour change shows an underlying circadian rhythm, though the pattern of this rhythm varies with temperature, ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Willmer PG,Baylis M,Simpson CL

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bradshaw (1965) proposed that phenotypic plasticity would be more common than adaptive genetic variability in species for which environmental fluctuations occur over periods roughly equal to that species' generation time. In an effort to examine this notion, sources of seasonal variation in two components of ovipositi...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Papaj DR,Rausher MD

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conspecific attraction is the preferential settlement into habitat patches with conspecifics. To be a good proximate strategy, fitness gains from settling with conspecifics must outweigh the costs of higher conspecific densities, such as intraspecific competition. Two types of benefits have been proposed to explain co...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Donahue MJ

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test whether the range of montane Compositae species may be restricted to higher sites because of greater herbivory levels in the lowlands, we transplanted six species, combining them in three species pairs each consisting of a rare montane and a widespread species. Individuals of all species were planted at four s...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Scheidel U,Bruelheide H

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ungulates are important to the diet of bears because they are high in protein, and the level of dietary protein strongly influences bear size. The size a bear obtains as an adult influences important life history characteristics, such as age of reproduction and reproductive success; therefore, it is important to know ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hatch KA,Kester KA,Auger J,Roeder BL,Bunnell K,Black HL

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the disturbance associated with prairie vole burrows and its effects on grassland plant diversity at the patch (1 m(2)) and metacommunity (>5 ha) scales. We expected vole burrows to increase patch-scale plant species diversity by locally reducing competition for resources or creating niche opportunities tha...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Questad EJ,Foster BL

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamics of vegetative and reproductive growth were compared in matched pairs of Mediteranean and desert populations of three unrelated annual species, Erucaria hispanica (L.) Druce, Brachypodium distachyon (L.) Beauv. and Bromus fasciculatus C. Presl., under high and low levels of water availability in a common-e...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Aronson J,Kigel J,Shmida A,Klein J

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the carbon supply status in species-rich mediterranean plant communities growing in a bowl-shaped 1-ha "CO2 spring" area near Sienna, Italy. A geothermic "lime-kiln" has provided these communities, for as long as historical records are available, with pure CO2 that mixes with ambient air at canopy leve...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Körner C,Miglietta F

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factors influencing the consumption of algae and the rate of feeding by the larvae of Heterotrissocladius changi Saether and Polypedilum nebeculosum (Meigen) (Chironomidae: Diptera) were determined from collections made between July 1975 and May 1977 in Yellowknife Bay, situated in the Canadian subarctic. Although bot...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Moore JW

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herbivores are thought to achieve adequate nutrition by consuming numerous species of plants or by occasionally consuming animal tissue. Although active selection of diverse foods is common in nature, the relationship between diet mixing and consumer fitness is poorly understood, especially in marine environments. We ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Cruz-Rivera E,Hay ME

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00