Nestling diet variation in an insular Mediterranean population of blue tits Parus caeruleus: effects of years, territories and individuals.

abstract：:Selective feeding by herbivores on establishing seedlings has been suggested to affect genotype frequencies in several plant populations. The existence of genotypes susceptible to herbivores calls for an explanation in such populations. In the present study we assessed the choice of multiple herbivores, field voles (M...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Pusenius J,Prittinen K,Heimonen J,Koivunoro K,Rousi M,Roininen H

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marion Island (47°S, 38°E) has one of the most oceanic climates on earth, with consistently low air temperatures, high precipitation, constantly high humidity, and low incident radiation. Since 1968 mean surface air temperature has increased significantly, by 0.025° C year-1. This was strongly associated with correspo...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Smith VR,Steenkamp M

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mimicry between rewarding and non-rewarding flowers within individuals has been accepted as a strategy favored by selection to deceive pollinators. It has been proposed that this mechanism relies on the exploitation of pollinator's sensory biases, but field evidence is still scarce. In this study, we describe the mech...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Castillo RA,Caballero H,Boege K,Fornoni J,Domínguez CA

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disturbances reduce the biota in stream ecosystems, and leave biological legacies, including remnant species, which potentially influence post-disturbance community development but are poorly understood. We investigated whether three remnant species, the snail Radix peregra, the mayfly Serratella ignita and the freshw...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ledger ME,Harris RM,Milner AM,Armitage PD

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relationships involving fire and perennial grasses are controversial in Chihuahuan Desert grasslands of southern New Mexico, USA. Research suggests that fire delays the resprouting of perennial grasses well after two growing seasons. However, such results are confounded by livestock grazing, soil erosion, and drought....

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Drewa PB,Peters DP,Havstad KM

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Canopy CO2 concentrations in a tropical rainforest in French Guiana were measured continuously for 5 days during the 1994 dry season and the 1995 wet season. Carbon dioxide concentrations ([CO2]) throughout the canopy (0.02-38 m) showed a distinct daily pattern, were well-stratified and decreased with increasing heigh...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Buchmann N,Guehl JM,Barigah TS,Ehleringer JR

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The population metabolism of N. muscorum at a beechwood site in southern England was determined for two separate year periods by two methods; a detailed computer analysis and a 'best estimate'. These methods, which are based on data of biomass, population dynamics, field temperatures, and respiration rates of all life...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Goddard SJ

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies relating reproduction to food availability are usually restricted to food quantity, but ignore food quality and the effects of habitat structure on obtaining the food. This is particularly true for insectivorous birds. In this study we relate measures of reproductive success, time of reproduction and nestling ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Brodmann PA,Reyer HU,Bollmann K,Schläpfer AR,Rauter C

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prescribed burning is a major control over element cycles in Tallgrass prairie (Eastern Kansas, USA). In this paper we report potential effects of fire on nonsymbiotic nitrogen fixation. Fire resulted in additions of available P in ash, which may stimulate nitrogen fixation by terrestrial cyanobacteria. Cyanobacterial...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Eisele KA,Schimel DS,Kapustka LA,Parton WJ

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Belowground processes in light gap openings are poorly understood, particularly in tropical forests. Fine roots in three zones of light gap openings and adjacent intact forest were regularly measured in buried bags and surface litter envelopes for 2 years. Fine root biomass does not vary significantly within gaps for ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Sanford RL Jr

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A trade-off between antimicrobial defences and palatability to dispersers may place limits on fruit persistence in nature. The retention times of ripe fruits on 34 wild plant species under natural conditions (unbagged persistence) and when fruits had been bagged with nylon mesh to exclude frugivores (bagged persistenc...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Tang AM,Corlett RT,Hyde KD

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dreissenid mussels (Dreissena polymorpha and D. bugensis) have re-engineered Great Lakes ecosystems since their introduction in the late 1980s. Dreissenids can have major indirect impacts on profundal habitats by redirecting nutrients and energy away from pelagic production (which supplies profundal production) and de...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Rennie MD,Sprules WG,Johnson TB

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During extensive field surveys in central and eastern Europe, 21 herbivorous root insect species were found on Centaurea maculosa ssp. rhenana Boreau, 12 species on C. diffusa Lam. and 11 species on C. vallesiaca Jordan, representing 12 families in 4 orders. The large geographic distribution (species-area function), t...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Müller H

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen genotypes (varieties) of soybean (Glycine max) were screened for levels of induced resistance to Mexican bean beetle (Epilachna varivestis) damage, and a subset of 6 of those varieties was screened for levels of constitutive resistance to Mexican bean beetles. Experiments were carried out in the greenhouse, w...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Underwood N,Morris W,Gross K,Lockwood Iii JR

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Why can alien species succeed in environments to which they have had no opportunity to adapt and even become more abundant than many native species? Ecological theory suggests two main possible answers for this paradox: competitive superiority of exotic species over native species and opportunistic use of ecological o...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Sol D,Bartomeus I,Griffin AS

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arthropods and pathogens damage leaves in natural ecosystems and may reduce photosynthesis at some distance away from directly injured tissue. We quantified the indirect effects of naturally occurring biotic damage on leaf-level photosystem II operating efficiency (Phi(PSII)) of 11 understory hardwood tree species usi...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Aldea M,Hamilton JG,Resti JP,Zangerl AR,Berenbaum MR,Frank TD,Delucia EH

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arafura filesnakes (Acrochordus arafurae) are large (up to 2.5 m, 5 kg) aquatic nonvenomous snakes that feed entirely on fishes. A 10-year field study in the Australian wet-dry tropics revealed strong correlations between rainfall patterns, fish abundance, and snake population dynamics. All of these characteristics sh...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Madsen T,Shine R

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Female ornaments are present in many species, and it is more and more accepted that sexual or social selection may lead to their evolution. By contrast, the information conveyed by female ornaments is less well understood. Here, we investigated the links between female ornaments and maternal effects. In birds, an impo...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Midamegbe A,Grégoire A,Staszewski V,Perret P,Lambrechts MM,Boulinier T,Doutrelant C

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of ornamental characters exposed to directional selection may be particularly sensitive to the effect of parasitic infections. Antlers are ornamental characters of importance in intraspecific interactions, and are in reindeer (Rangifer) developed by both males and females. By antihelmintic treatment of nat...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Folstad I,Arneberg P,Karter AJ

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Honeybees (Apis mellifera) and bumblebees (Bombus spp.) often undergo exploitative competition for shared floral resources, which can alter their foraging behaviour and flower choice, even causing competitive exclusion. This may be strongest in summer, when foraging conditions are most challenging for bees, compared t...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Wignall VR,Campbell Harry I,Davies NL,Kenny SD,McMinn JK,Ratnieks FLW

更新日期：2020-02-01 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：: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：:Contamination in marine foodwebs is nowadays of great environmental concern owing to the increasing levels of pollution in marine ecosystems from different anthropogenic sources. Seabirds can be used as indicators of regional contaminant patterns across large temporal and spatial scales. We analysed Hg, Se and Pb leve...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ramos R,González-Solís J,Forero MG,Moreno R,Gómez-Díaz E,Ruiz X,Hobson KA

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：:Compared to terrestrial environments, grazing intensity on belowground plant parts may be particularly strong in aquatic environments, which may have great effects on plant-community structure. We observed that the submerged macrophyte, Potamogeton pectinatus, which mainly reproduces with tubers, often grows at interm...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Sandsten H,Klaassen M

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterizing the causes of spatial and temporal variation in parasite-induced mortality under natural conditions is crucial to better understanding the factors driving host population dynamics. Our goal was to quantify this variation in the amphipod Paracalliope novizealandiae, a second intermediate host of the trem...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Bates AE,Poulin R,Lamare MD

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the relationships between body size and (a) abundance and (b) host specificity in fleas parasitic on small mammals (rodents and shrews) in the Palearctic taking into account the confounding effect of phylogeny. We tested these relationships both across 127 flea species and within separate phylogenetic clade...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Surkova EN,Warburton EM,van der Mescht L,Khokhlova IS,Krasnov BR

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of offspring by vertebrates is often timed to coincide with the annual peak in resource availability. However, capital breeders can extend the energetic benefits of a resource pulse by storing food or fat, thus relaxing the need for synchrony between energy supply and demand. Food-hoarding red squirrels...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Williams CT,Lane JE,Humphries MM,McAdam AG,Boutin S

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescent probes have been applied to study by epifluorescence microscopy interactions between species in an Anabaena flos-aquae association, derived from a freshwater community. Glycoconjugates (macromolecules containing carbohydrate residues) have been shown to play a vital role in recognition processes and in for...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Müller U,Sengbusch PV

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although ecological disturbances can have a strong influence on pollinators through changes in habitat, virtually no studies have quantified how characteristics of wildfire influence the demography of essential pollinators. Nevertheless, evaluating this topic is critical for understanding how wildfire is linked to pol...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Galbraith SM,Cane JH,Rivers JW

更新日期：2021-01-03 00:00:00