Delayed seed dispersal and rapid germination as survival mechanisms of the desert plant Blepharis persica (Burm.) kuntze.

abstract：:Life history changes may change resource use. Such shifts are not well understood in the dung beetles, despite recognised differences in larval and adult feeding ability. We use the flightless dung beetle Circellium bacchus to explore such shifts, identifying dung sources of adults using DNA metabarcoding, and compari...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Kerley GIH,Landman M,Ficetola GF,Boyer F,Bonin A,Rioux D,Taberlet P,Coissac E

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patterns of β-diversity can provide insight into forces shaping community assembly. We analyzed species-rich insect assemblages in two reserve fragments that had once been part of one contiguous Mediterranean coastal pine forest. Local environments are still similar across both fragments, but their landscape context d...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Uhl B,Wölfling M,Fiedler K

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the effects of defoliation by a graminivorous grasshopper on the foliage quality of the C3 plant, western wheatgrass (Pascopyrum smithii [Rydb] A. Love). Additionally, we determined the effects of this defoliation upon the subsequent feeding of the graminivorous grasshopper Phoetaliotes nebrascensis Thom...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Redak RA,Capinera JL

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During unusually wet years the salinity of the Great Salt Lake (Utah) decreased from above 100 g/L to 50 g/L. This allowed the predaceous insect Trichocorixa verticalis to invade the pelagic region of the lake and reach a mean summer density of 52/m3. Concurrent changes in the pelagic ecosystem were: a decrease in the...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Wurtsbaugh WA

更新日期：1992-02-01 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：:A series of field and laboratory experiments were conducted to examine whether natural levels of insect herbivory affect the arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) colonization of two plant species. The plant species were the highly mycorrhizal (mycotrophic) Plantago lanceolata, which suffers small amounts of insect damage conti...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gange AC,Bower E,Brown VK

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In ant-plant symbioses, the behavior of ant inhabitants affects the nature of the interaction, ranging from mutualism to parasitism. Mutualistic species confer a benefit to the plant, while parasites reap the benefits of the interaction without reciprocating, potentially resulting in a negative impact on the host plan...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Tillberg CV

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

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：:The sensible and latent heat losses of a maritime pine stand (Pinus pinaster Aiton) and of its understorey were measured in Portugal, in conditions of mild water stress, using an eddy covariance technique (monodimensional sonic anemometer coupled with a thin thermocouple and a fast-response hygrometer) at two levels a...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Berbigier P,Bonnefond JM,Loustau D,Ferreira MI,David JS,Pereira JS

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The maintenance of separated diploid and polyploid populations within a contact zone is possible due to both prezygotic and postzygotic isolation mechanisms. Niche differentiation between two cytotypes may be an important prezygotic isolating mechanism and can be studied using reciprocal transplant experiments. We inv...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Raabová J,Fischer M,Münzbergová Z

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of the xylem-tapping mistletoe Phoradendron juniperinum on the nitrogen and water relations of its host Juniperus osteosperma was investigated under natural field conditions. Leaf conductance, leaf water potential, and leaf Kjeldahl nitrogen contents were followed through the growing season on mistletoes, i...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ehleringer JR,Cook CS,Tieszen LL

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impacts of ungulates on small mammals in an East African savanna habitat were investigated by monitoring the population and community responses of small mammals on replicated 4-ha plots from which ungulates had been excluded. The dominant small mammal in this habitat is the pouched mouse, Saccostomusmearnsi, a med...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Keesing F

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that green sunfish, Lepomis cyanellus, have strong effects on the activity, habitat use, social interactions and mating dynamics of a stream-dwelling water strider, Aquarius remigis (family Gerridae, hence, gerrids). In nature, however, stream pools often contain not just sunfish and water ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Sih A,Krupa JJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of pollination, predispersal seed predation, and plant density upon seed production of Astragalus canadensis L. in a tall-grass prairie were studied by experimental manipulation of plant density. Seed production was greater at high than low plant densities; this was inferred to result from differences in p...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Platt WJ,Hill GR,Clark S

更新日期：1974-03-01 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：:In this paper we test three plant species for the inducibility of their alkaloid production. The plants were heavily damaged by cutting off 50% of their leaf surface using a pair of scissors. The cut-off leaf tips were used as controls for possible diurnal fluctuations. After 3, 6, 12, 24 and 48 h, respectively, the l...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： van Dam NM,van der Meijden E,Verpoorte R

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how habitat selection changes with population density is a key concept in population regulation, community composition and managing impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services. At low density, it is expected that individuals select habitats in terms of their preference, but as population density incre...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Pérez-Barbería FJ,Hooper RJ,Gordon IJ

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：:Growth and morphology of seedlings of ten tropical rain forest species were studied at Los Tuxtlas, Mexico. Seedlings were grown in three environmental conditions: the shaded forest understorey (FU, receiving 0.9-2.3% of the daily photosynthetic photon flux, PF, above the canopy), a small canopy gap of approx. 50 m2 (...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Popma J,Bongers F

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents novel evidence that 15N natural abundance can be used as a robust indicator to detect pollutant nitrogen in natural plant communities. Vegetation from the heavily polluted industrial area of Cubatão in São Paulo State, SE Brazil, was strongly 15N depleted compared to plants at remote sites. Histori...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Stewart GR,Aidar MP,Joly CA,Schmidt S

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reptile ticks mate while females are attached to their host. Following mating, females engorge, detach and then lay their eggs. This study examines whether the time that females of the reptile tick Amblyomma limbatum spend on hosts prior to mating and the time they take to engorge on hosts after mating influence their...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Chilton NB,Andrews RH,Bull CM

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outflying and homeflying activity pattern of a colony of the Indian pygmy bat Pipistrellus mimus occupying a tunnel was studied under natural conditions. Before leaving the tunnel for foraging, the bats made circling flights outside to sample the environmental light conditions. The onset and end of activity was re...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Isaac SS,Marimuthu G

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid and often remote location of suitable habitats used by migrating organisms is often critical to their subsequent recruitment, fitness and survival, and this includes in the marine environment. However, for the non-feeding post-larval stage of spiny lobsters, effective settlement cues for habitat selection ar...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Stanley JA,Hesse J,Hinojosa IA,Jeffs AG

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Weight losses from sweet chestnut and beech leaves, attributable to biotic and abiotic breakdown processes, leaching and microbial decomposition have been studied using tethered leaves and litter bags. The experimental sites were two adjacent areas of deciduous woodland. In one area (the Castanea site) a mor-like mode...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Anderson JM

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Energy limitation has long been the primary assumption underlying conceptual models of evolutionary and ecological processes in cave ecosystems. However, the prediction that cave communities are actually energy-limited in the sense that constituent populations are consuming all or most of their resource supply is unte...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Venarsky MP,Huntsman BM,Huryn AD,Benstead JP,Kuhajda BR

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emergence and survival of honey mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa var.glandulosa Torr.) seedlings was quantified on sites with contrasting grazing histories: long-term continuous grazing (LTG) and long-term protection (LTP) from grazing by cattle. On each site, different levels of heroaceous defoliation were imposed at mo...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Brown JR,Archer S

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique is presented in which desiccation as a source of error in fresh weight determinations of soft-bodied microfauna is avoided by weighing the animal in a drop of silica fluid. ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Lundkvist H

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data on flower colour polymorphism were recorded for 341 of some 426 species of Erica occurring in the south-western Cape, South Africa. Thirty-eight per cent of these Erica species are colour polymorphic, the incidence of polymorphism being greater than expected for ornithophilous species and lower than expected for ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Rebelo AG,Siegfried WR

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Larvae of the pyralid moth, Herpetogramma aeglealis, construct feeding shelters upon the Christmas fern (Polystichum acrostichoides). Field and laboratory study involving 532 shelters showed that as the larvae mature, they sequentially inhabit approximately 5 shelters of 3 distinct types, constructed at night on diffe...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ruehlmann TE,Matthews RW,Matthews JR

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen (N) deposition and climate are acknowledged drivers of change in biodiversity and ecosystem function at large scales. However, at a local scale, their impact on functions and community structure of organisms is filtered by drivers like habitat quality and food quality/availability. This study assesses the rel...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Mitchell RJ,Urpeth HM,Britton AJ,Black H,Taylor AR

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00