Plant stress and larval performance of a dipterous gall former.

abstract：:Disturbances such as fire, grazing, and soil mixing by animals interact to shape vegetation in grassland ecosystems. Animal-generated disturbances are unique in that they arise from a suite of behaviors that are themselves subject to modification by external factors. The manner in which co-occurring animal taxa intera...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Alba-Lynn C,Detling JK

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual male and female Bufo woodhousei spent only two or three nights of the several week breeding season in the pond. In spite of the continual arriving and leaving of individuals the operational sex ratio (the number of females available to mate/number of males attempting to mate) varied little, either temporall...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Woodward BD

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caterpillars of Maculinea arion are obligate predators of the brood of Myrmica sabuleti ants. In the aboratory, caterpillars eat the largest available ant larvae, although eggs, small larvae and prepupae are also palatable. This is an efficient way to predate. It ensures that newly-adopted caterpillars consume the fin...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Thomas JA,Wardlaw JC

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A laboratory experiment was conducted to determine whether the sea star Asterias forbesi and the naticid gastropod Euspira heros feed on surfclams, Spisula solidissima, in an additive or non-additive manner. Predators were allowed to feed on clams with conspecifics and in the presence of the other predator species. Cl...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Weissberger EJ

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resource competition is commonly invoked to explain negative effects of invasive plants on native plant abundance. If invasives out-compete natives, global changes that elevate resource availability may interact with invasives to exacerbate impacts on native communities. Indeed, evidence is accumulating that elevated ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Bradford MA,Schumacher HB,Catovsky S,Eggers T,Newingtion JE,Tordoff GM

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seasonal reductions in food availability may cause animals to catabolize endogenous tissue and the resulting loss of lean mass can hinder their ability to forage and reproduce. While several studies have considered nitrogen isotopes (δ15N) as an indicator of catabolism, relationships between protein intake, body condi...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hughes KL,Whiteman JP,Newsome SD

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species-habitat relationships are an important aspect of fish life history, particularly in early ontogeny. To address the lack of information on the microhabitat use/requirements of European coarse fishes, particularly 0-group fishes in riverine systems, an empirical model was generated from data collected in the Riv...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Copp GH

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aquatic larvae of two species of salamanders coexist as a result of differences in their competitive abilities: Ambystoma talpoideum is a superior aggressor, whereas A. maculatum is a superior forager. I examined the behavioral mechanisms that permit these species to coexist with their predatory congener, A. opacu...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Walls SC

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of forest size on avian diversity was studied in oak forest patches in rural New Jersey. Number of bird species continued to increase significantly in old oak woods up through 40 ha. This was due to the progressive addition of carnivorous species with increasing minimum forest size requirements. One large w...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Forman RT,Galli AE,Leck CF

更新日期：1976-03-01 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：:Plants are often simultaneously or sequentially attacked by multiple herbivores and changes in host plants induced by one herbivore can influence the performance of other herbivores. We examined how sequential feeding on the plant Plantago lanceolata by the aboveground herbivore Spodoptera exigua and the belowground h...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Wang M,Biere A,Van der Putten WH,Bezemer TM

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Density-dependent mortality may regulate many populations, but due to an offshore larval phase in benthic marine organisms, it is often difficult to quantify the effects of mortality of arriving individuals. We added approximately 600 recruit-sized individuals onto coral reef that parallels patterns in naturally settl...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Brunton BJ,Booth DJ

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water and nitrogen (N) interact to influence soil N cycling and plant N acquisition. We studied indices of soil N availability and acquisition by woody plant taxa with distinct nutritional specialisations along a north Australian rainfall gradient from monsoonal savanna (1,600-1,300 mm annual rainfall) to semi-arid wo...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Soper FM,Richards AE,Siddique I,Aidar MP,Cook GD,Hutley LB,Robinson N,Schmidt S

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：:1 Intake of food, fat, protein and carbohydrates and their fecal output were recorded during the annual body weight cycle of the garden warbler, and old-world longdistance migratory bird species, and the efficiencies of food and nutrient utilization, defined as the ratio (intake-fecal output)/intake, were calculated. ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Bairlein F

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Global changes interact with plant invasions by differentially impacting native and invasive species. For example, invasive plants often benefit from eutrophication to a greater degree than native plants. While this is well-documented, a broad, trait-based explanation for this phenomenon is lacking. Recent research sh...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Harvey JT,Leffler AJ

更新日期：2020-08-01 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：: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：: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：:We report evidence from controlled experiments that long straight thorns deter herbivory by browsers. Cut branches of three woody species that had their thorns removed suffered significantly greater herbivory by a tethered goat than did paired intact branches. Branches on living Acacia seyal plants that had their thor...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Milewski AV,Young TP,Madden D

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the increasing imperative for societies to act to curb climate change by increasing carbon stores and sinks, it has become critical to understand how organic carbon is produced, released, transformed, transported, and sequestered within and across ecosystems. In freshwater and open-ocean systems, shredders play a...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Filbee-Dexter K,Pedersen MF,Fredriksen S,Norderhaug KM,Rinde E,Kristiansen T,Albretsen J,Wernberg T

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：:We used field and mesocosm experiments to measure effects of southern redbelly dace (Phoxinus erythrogaster), a grazing minnow, on stream ecosystem structure and function. Ecosystem structure was quantified as algal filament length, algal biomass, size distribution of particulate organic matter (POM), algal assemblage...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Bertrand KN,Gido KB

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diurnal changes in proline and water contents of Zygophyllum quatarense and Francoeuria crispa were investigated under desert conditions. In both plants, the proline content was low before sunrise amounting to 10.42 μmoles/g fresh weight in Zygophyllum and 6.3 μmoles/g fresh weight in Francoeuria. By the progress ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Batanouny KH,Ebeid MM

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two methods of extraction were used in the estimation of snail population densities in woodland litter. The time-consuming-Vágvölgyi technique proved to be 6.25 times more efficient than infra-red heat extraction but it was shown that the results obtained by the latter method could be easily corrected to conform with ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Phillipson J,Abel R

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four brook-dwelling populations of Ancylus fluviatilis were studied. Data on life-cycle, specimen number, biomass and egg capsule biomass are reported. By means of experimental data on ingestion, assimilation, growth and egg-production, energy balances are calculated for whole populations.Mean annual biomass turned ou...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Streit B

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many organisms undergo ontogenetic niche shifts due to considerable changes in size during their development. These ontogenetic shifts can alter the trophic position of individuals, the type and strength of ecological interactions across species, and allow for cannibalism within species. In this study we ask if and ho...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Rudolf VH,Armstrong J

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herbivory can reduce plant fitness, and its effects can be increased by competition. Though numerous studies have examined the joint effects of herbivores and competitors on plant performance, these interactive effects are seldom considered in the context of plant invasions. Here, we examined variation in plant perfor...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Huang W,Carrillo J,Ding J,Siemann E

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activity of soil decomposer microorganisms is generally limited by carbon availability, but factors controlling saprophagous soil animals remain largely unknown. In contrast to microorganisms, animals are unable to exploit mineral nutrient pools. Therefore, it has been suggested that soil animals, and earthworms in pa...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Tiunov AV,Scheu S

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous publications have reported on investigations of CO2 exchange in the desert lichenRamalina maciformis both in its natural habitat in the Negev and in the laboratory. Utilizing laboratory data, net photosynthesis and dark respiration were expressed as mathematical functions of the most important environmental f...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Lange OL,Geiger IL,Schulze E-

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00