Nonlinear disruption of ecological interactions in response to nitrogen deposition.

abstract：:A longstanding problem in ecology is whether structured life cycles impede or facilitate coexistence between species. Theory based on populations with only two discrete stages in the life-cycle indicates that for two species to coexist, at least one must shift its niche between stages and each species must be a better...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Bassar RD,Travis J,Coulson T

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ongoing statistical sophistication allows a shift from describing species' spatial distributions toward statistically disentangling the possible roles of environmental variables in shaping species distributions. Based on a landscape-scale benthic survey in the Dutch Wadden Sea, we show the merits of spatially explicit...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Kraan C,Aarts G,Van der Meer J,Piersma T

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in metabolic scaling theory have highlighted the importance of exchange surfaces and vascular network geometry in understanding the integration and scaling of whole-plant form and function. Additional work on leaf form and function has also highlighted general scaling relationships for many leaf traits...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Price CA,Enquist BJ

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population growth and decline are particularly sensitive to changes in three key life-history parameters: annual productivity, juvenile survival, and adult survival. However, for many species these parameters remain unknown. For example, although grassland songbirds are imperiled throughout North America, for this gui...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Perlut NG,Strong AM,Donovan TM,Buckley NJ

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species abundances in natural systems are usually close to some equilibrium, making mechanisms that maintain or prevent species coexistence difficult to discern. Biological control projects provide an opportunity to observe systems transition between equilibriums as a result of the influence of the newly introduced sp...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： LeBrun EG,Plowes RM,Gilbert LE

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in ecological niche modeling (ENM) algorithms, in conjunction with increasing availability of geographic information system (GIS) data, allow species' niches to be predicted over broad geographic areas using environmental characteristics associated with point localities for a given species. Consequentl...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Knouft JH,Losos JB,Glor RE,Kolbe JJ

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms of community assembly and ecosystem function are often analyzed using community-weighted mean trait values (CWMs). We present a novel conceptual framework to quantify the contribution of demographic processes (i.e., growth, recruitment, and mortality) to temporal changes in CWMs. We used this framework to a...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Muscarella R,Lohbeck M,Martínez-Ramos M,Poorter L,Rodríguez-Velázquez JE,van Breugel M,Bongers F

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Belowground herbivory is commonly overlooked as a mechanism of top-down control in vegetated habitats, particularly in aquatic ecosystems. Recent research has revealed that increased densities of the herbivorous crab Sesarma reticulatum have led to runaway herbivory and widespread salt marsh die-off on Cape Cod, Massa...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Coverdale TC,Altieri AH,Bertness MD

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Global biodiversity decline has prompted great interest in the effects of habitat modification and diversity on the functioning and stability of ecosystem processes. However, the applicability of previous modeled or mesocosm community studies to real diverse communities in different habitats remains ambiguous. We expo...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Tylianakis JM,Tscharntke T,Klein AM

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Empirical tests of the resource dispersion hypothesis (RDH), a theory to explain group living based on resource heterogeneity, have been complicated by the fact that resource patch dispersion and richness have proved difficult to define and measure in natural systems. Here, we studied the ecology of African lions Pant...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Valeix M,Loveridge AJ,MacDonald DW

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In conservation and evolutionary ecology, quantifying and accounting for individual heterogeneity in vital rates of open populations is of particular interest. Individual random effects have been used in capture-recapture models, adopting a Bayesian framework with Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) to carry out estimatio...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Gimenez O,Choquet R

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphological traits provide the interface between species and their environment. For example, body size affects the fitness of individuals in various ways. Yet especially for ectotherms, the applicability of general rules of interspecific clines of body size and even more so of other morphological traits is still und...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Tiede Y,Hemp C,Schmidt A,Nauss T,Farwig N,Brandl R

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photoautotrophs are generally considered to be the base of food webs, and habitats that lack light, such as caves, frequently rely on surface-derived carbon. Here we show, based on analysis of gut contents and stable isotope ratios of tissues (13C:12C and 15N:14N), that sulfur-oxidizing bacteria are directly consumed ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Roach KA,Tobler M,Winemiller KO

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of interspecific competition to structuring population and community dynamics remains controversial and poorly tested. Interspecific competition has long been thought to influence the structure of migrant-resident bird communities in winter, yet experimental evidence remains elusive. The arrival of bi...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Powell LL,Ames EM,Wright JR,Matthiopoulos J,Marra PP

更新日期：2020-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The curvature of generalized Holling type functional response curves is controlled by a shape parameter b yielding hyperbolic type II (b = 1) to increasingly sigmoid type III (b > 1) responses. Empirical estimates of b vary considerably across taxa. Larger consumer-resource body mass ratios have been suggested to gene...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Uszko W,Diehl S,Pitsch N,Lengfellner K,Müller T

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predators can increase the biomass of their prey, particularly when prey life stages differ in competitive ability and predation is stage specific. Akin to predators, parasites influence host population sizes and engage in stage-structured interactions, yet whether parasites can increase host population biomass remain...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Preston DL,Sauer EL

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterogeneity in site quality can play an important role in patterns of abundance and population dynamics. Yet, estimating site quality in natural systems can be problematic because site quality can (1) vary through ontogeny for a focal organism, leading to shifts in site quality with age, (2) be confounded with (or m...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Shima JS,Osenberg CW,St Mary CM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For animals living in natural or semi-natural settings, empirical data on how sociality changes in response to increasing population density are few, especially with respect to true conspecific density and not group size. However, insight into this line of research may be far-reaching--from understanding density depen...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Vander Wal E,Yip H,McLoughlin PD

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolonged droughts exacerbated by climate change have been widely documented to interact with consumers to decimate vegetation in many ecosystems. Although climate change is increasing within-year variation in precipitation and temperature, how weather fluctuations affect the impact of consumers on vegetation processe...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： He Q,Silliman BR,van de Koppel J,Cui B

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Essential fatty acids (EFAs) are primarily generated by phytoplankton in aquatic ecosystems, and can limit the growth, development, and reproduction of higher consumers. Among the most critical of the EFAs are highly unsaturated fatty acids (HUFAs), which are only produced by certain groups of phytoplankton. Changing ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Charette C,Derry AM

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative successional trajectories (AST) may result in multiple climax states within an ecosystem when disturbances affect colonization history. In the boreal forest, ungulates have been proposed to drive AST because, under herbivore pressure, preferred species may go extinct and apparent competition may benefit br...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Hidding B,Tremblay JP,Côté SD

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flexible modeling frameworks for species distribution models based on generalized additive models that allow for smooth, nonlinear effects and interactions are of increasing importance in ecology. Commonly, the flexibility of such smooth function estimates is controlled by means of penalized estimation procedures. How...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Hofner B,Müller J,Hothorn T

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of functional connectivity following habitat loss and fragmentation could drive species declines. A comprehensive understanding of fragmentation effects on functional connectivity of an ecological assemblage requires investigation of multiple species with different mobilities, at different spatial scales, for eac...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Amos N,Harrisson KA,Radford JQ,White M,Newell G,Mac Nally R,Sunnucks P,Pavlova A

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging aquatic insects from streams are important food sources for riparian predators, yet their availability is seasonally limited. Spatial heterogeneity in stream water temperature was found to spatially desynchronize the emergence timing of aquatic insects, and prolong their flight period, potentially enhancing c...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Uno H

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of predation may cascade down the food web. By alleviating interspecific competition among prey, predators may promote biodiversity, but the precise mechanisms of how predators alter competition have remained elusive. Here we report on a predator-exclosure experiment carried out in a tropical intertidal ecosys...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： van Gils JA,van der Geest M,Jansen EJ,Govers LL,de Fouw J,Piersma T

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interplay between local and large spatial scale processes in open systems is often dependent upon ecological context and species specific factors such as longevity, dispersal capability, or vulnerability to predation. When disturbance clears patches in open systems, the successful reestablishment of adult colonize...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Methratta ET,Petraitis PS

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant species composition and diversity is often influenced by early life history stages; thus, global change could dramatically affect plant community structure by altering seed production. Unfortunately, plant reproductive responses to global change are rarely studied in field settings, making it difficult to assess...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： HilleRisLambers J,Harpole WS,Schnitzer S,Tilman D,Reich PB

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most hypotheses explaining the general gradient of higher diversity toward the equator are implicit or explicit about greater species packing in the tropics. However, global patterns of diversity within guilds, including trophic guilds (i.e., groups of organisms that use similar food resources), are poorly known. We e...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Boyero L,Pearson RG,Dudgeon D,Graça MA,Gessner MO,Albariño RJ,Ferreira V,Yule CM,Boulton AJ,Arunachalam M,Callisto M,Chauvet E,Ramírez A,Chará J,Moretti MS,Gonçalves JF Jr,Helson JE,Chará-Serna AM,Encalada AC,Davies

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The size of the regional species pool may influence local patterns of diversity. However, it is unclear whether certain spatial scales are less sensitive to regional influences than others. Additive partitioning was used to separate coral-dwelling fish diversity to its alpha and beta components, at multiple scales, in...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Belmaker J,Ziv Y,Shashar N,Connolly SR

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reproductive success in flowering plants is influenced by the morphology and timing of reproductive structures as well as the density of surrounding conspecifics. In species with separate male and female flower phases, successful pollen transfer is also expected to vary with the density and ratio of surrounding male a...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Bartkowska MP,Johnston MO

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00