Ecological studies on carabid beetles : III. Winter mortality in adult Calathus melanocephalus (Linn.), egg production and locomotory activity of the population which has hibernated.

abstract：:This study examines the idea that variation in forelimb length among male anurans influences reproductive success, and does so independently of body size. Analyses of covariance and multivariate analyses of morphological data for five species of explosives breeders are used to test the prediction that for species in w...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Lee JC

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:If the natural enemy component of biological control is functional in small mammals, then the introduciton of weasels should effectively reduce populations of deer mice and Oregon voles. Seven weasels introduced to an area of forest habitat in coastal British Columbia did not appreciably lower the abundance of mice or...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Sullivan TP,Sullivan DS

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The δ 13C, ‰ values of the two principal, widely distributed CAM species in Big Bend National Park, Texas, were examined and related to phytosociologic and macroclimatic parameters. Samples of Agave lecheguilla and Opuntia engelmannii were collected along an elevational gradient covering 1370 m, and δ values for both ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Eickmeier WG,Bender MM

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Global biodiversity is threatened by multiple anthropogenic stressors but little is known about the combined effects of environmental warming and invasive species on ecosystem functioning. We quantified thermal preferences and then compared leaf-litter processing rates at eight different temperatures (5.0-22.5 °C) by ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Kenna D,Fincham WN,Dunn AM,Brown LE,Hassall C

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a typical Dutch polder landscape the effects of nutrient transport from cultivated grassland to mesotrophic fen communities were studied. In a comparative approach, biomass production and nutrient (N, P and K) uptake were determined monthly in four fens and a hayfield differeing in productivity and species composit...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Verhoeven JT,van Beek S,Dekker M,Storm W

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of the landscape by animals is predicted to be a function of their body size. However, empirical data relating these two variables from an array of body sizes within a single mammalian community are scarce. We tested this prediction by assessing landscape use of mammals by analyzing strontium (Sr) isotope sign...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Feranec RS,Hadly EA,Paytan A

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that soil nitrification is inhibited as a succession develops. This hypothesis was examined in a sub tropical rain forest succession containing five successional stages. Soil mineral nitrogen was measured at the time of collection and after 20 days incubation in the laboratory or field. Sampling ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Lamb D

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effect of increased N-supply on productivity and potential litter decay rates of Carex species, which are the dominant vascular plant species in peatlands in the Netherlands. We hypothesized that: (1) under conditions of N-limited plant growth, increased N-supply will lead to increased productivity...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Aerts R,van Logtestijn R,van Staalduinen M,Toet S

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restoration of degraded landscapes through replantings of native vegetation has been proceeding in response to habitat loss and fragmentation and plummeting biodiversity. Little is known about whether the investments in ecological restoration have resulted in biodiversity benefits. We evaluated the potential of restor...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Selwood K,Mac Nally R,Thomson JR

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tree-ring records can provide valuable information to advance our understanding of contemporary terrestrial carbon cycling and to reconstruct key metrics in the decades preceding monitoring data. The growing use of tree rings in carbon-cycle research is being facilitated by increasing recognition of reciprocal benefit...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Babst F,Alexander MR,Szejner P,Bouriaud O,Klesse S,Roden J,Ciais P,Poulter B,Frank D,Moore DJ,Trouet V

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The costs and benefits of resource integration in Hydrocotyle bonariensis were examined by comparing severed and intact clones grown across multiple resource gradients. Basipetal movement of water, nitrogen and photosynthates was demonstrated to occur between two rhizome branch systems interconnecting hundreds of rame...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Evans JP

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four shrub species of the Australian Proteaceae (Hakea sericea, H. gibbosa, H. suaveolens and H. salicifolia) were introduced to South African fynbos shrublands between 1840 and 1860. H. sericea is highly invasive, H. gibbosa and H. suaveolens are moderately invasive and H. salicifolia is not invasive. The allocation ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Richardson DM,Van Wilgen BW,Mitchell DT

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ants were collected with sets of pitfall traps in four coniferous-forest habitats in southern Finland. A three-level competition hierarchy concept was used to generate predictions on ant community structure. The levels of the hierarchy, and the respective predictions, from top to bottom were: (1) The dominant territor...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Savolainen R,Vepsäläinen K,Wuorenrinne H

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigating how prey density influences a prey's combined predation risk from multiple predator species is critical for understanding the widespread importance of multiple predator effects. We conducted experiments that crossed six treatments consisting of zero, one, or two predator species (hellgrammites, greenside...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Vance-Chalcraft HD,Soluk DA

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Female lifetime reproductive success in a small population of individually-marked adders in southern Sweden was studied over a period of seven years. Reproductive characteristics varied little from year to year and were consistent through time in individual females. Most females mature at four years of age and reprodu...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Madsen T,Shine R

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many species, fecundity is dependent on age. For some populations - particularly those exploiting temporally variable environments - these age-specific fecundities may themselves vary with time. In this report, we investigate the general effects of age and time on clutch size in a wild population of Lesser Snow Gee...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Rockwell RF,Scott Findlay C,Cooke F

更新日期：1983-02-01 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：:Organisms normally grow at a sub-maximal rate. After experiencing a period of arrested growth, individuals often show compensatory growth responses by modifying their life-history, behaviour and physiology. However, the strength of compensatory responses may vary across broad geographic scales as populations differ in...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Orizaola G,Dahl E,Laurila A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimates were made of the ecological fish production in two small lowland rivers uninhabited by salmonids. Eight sites were examined in the Utrata River drainage basin, and five in the Zalewka Brook. Nets were placed at the upper and lower limits of each site and fish were captured using electrofishing apparatus; at ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Penczak T

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has commonly been assumed that pollinator energy intake increases with flowering plant density, and visitation to flowers should therefore be higher in denser stands. I therefore investigated the relationship between flight distance and flight time for bumblebees and butterflies foraging on Senecio integerrimus and...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Schmitt J

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytoplankton abundance in tropical lakes is more often judged to be limited by nitrogen than phosphorus, but seldom does the evidence include controlled enrichments of natural populations. In January 1980 we performed the first experimental fertilization in an equatorial African soda lake, Lake Sonachi, a small, mero...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Melack JM,Kilham P,Fisher TR

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interspecific interactions of herbivores sharing a host plant may be important in structuring herbivore communities. We investigated host plant-mediated interactions of root (Hylobius transversovittatus) and leaf herbivores (Galerucella calmariensis), released to control purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) in North...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hunt-Joshi TR,Blossey B

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant isoprene emissions are known to contribute to abiotic stress tolerance, especially during episodes of high temperature and drought, and during cellular oxidative stress. Recent studies have shown that genetic transformations to add or remove isoprene emissions cause a cascade of cellular modifications that inclu...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Monson RK,Weraduwage SM,Rosenkranz M,Schnitzler JP,Sharkey TD

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Natal philopatry and recruitment were measured in two populations of willow ptarmigan; one near Churchill, Manitoba and the other in northwestern British Columbia. We examined the return of tagged offspring in subsequent years with respect to geographical area, annual variation, their age when tagged, their sex, their...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Martin K,Hannon SJ

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gas exchange characteristics under steadystate and transient light conditions were determined for a redwood forest understory herb Adenocaulon bicolor, that depends on use of sunflecks for a large fraction of its daily carbon gain. Measurements under steady-state conditions indicated that this species has photosyn...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Pfitsch WA,Pearcy RW

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At constant cladode temperature the stomatal resistance of O. inermis increased when the cladode-air vapor pressure difference was increased and stomatal resistance decreased when the cladode-air vapor pressure difference was lowered. Net CO2 fixation in the dark was very responsive to these humidity dependent changes...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Osmond CB,Ludlow MM,Davis R,Cowan IR,Powles SB,Winter K

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent discussions on scaling issues in ecology have emphasized that processes acting at a wide range of spatial and temporal scales influence ecosystems and thus there is no appropriate single scale at which ecological processes should be studied. This may be particularly true for environmental disturbances (e.g. El ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Edwards MS

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many ecological studies rely heavily on chemical analysis of plant and animal tissues. Often, there is limited time and money to perform all the required analyses and this can result in less than ideal sampling schemes and poor levels of replication. Near infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) can relieve these cons...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Foley WJ,McIlwee A,Lawler I,Aragones L,Woolnough AP,Berding N

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of positive interspecific interactions within physically stressful habitats has received increased attention from community ecologists. The exposed sandy beach is an example of a physically rigorous environment where biological interactions have long been considered insignificant. We examined the intera...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Manning LM,Lindquist N

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Like many polyphagous herbivores, individuals of Sarasinula plebeia (Fischer) (Soleolifera: Veronicellidae) consume a variety of plant species that may differ in nutritional content. In this study we determined the ability of these slugs to compensate for such variation in diet composition. Dilution with water of an a...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Rueda AA,Slansky F Jr,Wheeler GS

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00