A global database of nitrogen and phosphorus excretion rates of aquatic animals.

abstract：:Mutualisms are well known to influence individual fitness and the population dynamics of partner species, but little is known about whether they influence species distributions and the location of geographic range limits. Here, we examine the contribution of plant-pollinator interactions to the geographic range limit ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Moeller DA,Geber MA,Eckhart VM,Tiffin P

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Random walks are used to model movement in a wide variety of contexts: from the movement of cells undergoing chemotaxis to the migration of animals. In a two-dimensional biased random walk, the diffusion about the mean drift position is entirely dependent on the moments of the angular distribution used to determine th...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Codling EA,Bearon RN,Thorn GJ

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The "evolution of increased competitive ability" (EICA) hypothesis proposes that escape from natural enemies, e.g., after transcontinental introductions, alters the selection regime because costly defenses no longer enhance fitness. Such an evolutionary loss of defenses enables resources to be directed toward growth o...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Handley RJ,Steinger T,Treier UA,Müller-Schärer H

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soils host diverse communities of interacting microbes and the nature of interspecific interactions is increasingly recognized to affect ecosystem-level processes. Antagonistic interactions between bacteria and fungi are of particular relevance for soil functioning. A number of soil bacteria produce secondary metaboli...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Jousset A,Becker J,Chatterjee S,Karlovsky P,Scheu S,Eisenhauer N

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate description of spatial distribution of species is essential for correctly modeling macroecological patterns and thus to infer mechanisms of species coexistence. The Poisson and negative binomial distribution (NBD) are most widely used to respectively model random and aggregated distributions of species in inf...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Zillio T,He F

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation in habitat quality and quantity drive selection on dispersal traits in heterogeneous environments, but the extent to which environmental conditions predict geographic variation in dispersal is rarely evaluated. We assessed dispersal trait variation across the range of Cakile edentula var. lacustris, an annua...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： LaRue EA,Holland JD,Emery NC

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Avian dispersal of seeds of the wild olive tree (Olea europaea var. sylvestris) was studied in Mediterranean shrubland, southern Spain. Fourteen species of small frugivorous birds in the genera Sylvia, Turdus, Sturnus, and Erithacus accounted for 97.4% of the fruits consumed by birds. The significance of each bird spe...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Jordano P

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carry-over effects have major implications for individual fitness and population and evolutionary dynamics. The strength of these effects is dependent on an individual's intrinsic performance and the environmental conditions it experiences. However, understanding the relative importance of environmental and intrinsic ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Daunt F,Reed TE,Newell M,Burthe S,Phillips RA,Lewis S,Wanless S

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sea turtle nesting presents a potential pathway to subsidize nutrient-poor dune ecosystems, which provide the nesting habitat for sea turtles. To assess whether this positive feedback between dune plants and turtle nests exists, we measured N concentration and delta15N values in dune soils, leaves from a common dune p...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Hannan LB,Roth JD,Ehrhart LM,Weishampel JF

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most richness estimators currently in use are derived from models that consider sampling with replacement or from the assumption of infinite populations. Neither of the assumptions is suitable for sampling sessile organisms such as plants where quadrats are often sampled without replacement and the area of study is al...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Shen TJ,He F

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen and phosphorus frequently limit terrestrial plant production, but have a mixed record in regulating the abundance of terrestrial invertebrates. We contrasted four ways that Na could interact with an NP fertilizer to shape the plants and invertebrates of an inland prairie. We applied NP and Na to m2 plots in a...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Kaspari M,Roeder KA,Benson B,Weiser MD,Sanders NJ

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasites are ubiquitous in natural systems and ecosystem-level effects should be proportional to the amount of biomass or energy flow altered by the parasites. Here we quantified the extent to which a manipulative parasite altered the flow of energy through a forest-stream ecosystem. In a Japanese headwater stream, c...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Sato T,Watanabe K,Kanaiwa M,Niizuma Y,Harada Y,Lafferty KD

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biomass production efficiency (BPE), the ratio of biomass production to photosynthesis, varies greatly among ecosystems and typically increases with increasing nutrient availability. Reduced carbon partitioning to mycorrhizal fungi (i.e., per unit photosynthesis) is the hypothesized underlying mechanism, as mycorrhiza...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Verlinden MS,Ven A,Verbruggen E,Janssens IA,Wallander H,Vicca S

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil fungi link above- and belowground carbon (C) fluxes through their interactions with plants and contribute to C and nutrient dynamics through the production, turnover, and activity of fungal hyphae. Despite their importance to ecosystem processes, estimates of hyphal production and turnover rates are relatively un...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Cheeke TE,Phillips RP,Kuhn A,Rosling A,Fransson P

更新日期：2020-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Our ability to predict how temperature modifies phenology at the community scale is limited by our lack of understanding of responses by functional groups of flowering plants. These responses differ among species with different life histories. We performed a reciprocal transplant experiment along four elevation gradie...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Meng FD,Jiang LL,Zhang ZH,Cui SJ,Duan JC,Wang SP,Luo CY,Wang Q,Zhou Y,Li XE,Zhang LR,Li BW,Dorji T,Li YN,Du MY

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herbivory and dispersal play roles in the coexistence of primary producers with shared resource limitation by imposing trade-offs either through apparent competition or dispersal limitation. These mechanisms of coexistence can further interact with meta-ecosystem effects, which results in spatial heterogeneity through...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Marleau JN,Guichard F

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intensive land use activities, such as agriculture, are a leading cause of biodiversity loss and can have lasting impacts on ecological systems. Yet, few studies have investigated how land-use legacies impact phylogenetic diversity (the total amount of evolutionary history in a community) or how restoration activities...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Turley NE,Brudvig LA

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community and biogeographic surveys often conclude that plant-pollinator interactions are highly generalized. Thus, a central implication of the pollination syndrome concept, that floral trait evolution occurs primarily via specialized interactions of plants with their pollinators, has been questioned. However, broad ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Reynolds RJ,Westbrook MJ,Rohde AS,Cridland JM,Fenster CB,Dudash MR

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Empirical and theoretical investigations of monocarpy have usually addressed the question of minimum or threshold sizes for reproduction. However, the range of flowering sizes observed in many monocarpic species is extraordinarily large (well beyond what can be called a "threshold"), and the sizes of flowering and non...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Burd M,Read J,Sanson GD,Jaffré T

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological theory suggests that pathogens will not cause host extinctions because agents of disease should fade out when the host population is driven below a threshold density. Nevertheless, infectious diseases have threatened species with extinction on local scales by maintaining high incidence and the ability ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Ben-Horin T,Lenihan HS,Lafferty KD

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theory predicts that reproduction will change as individuals near the end of their lives by either increasing reproductive allocation (terminal allocation hypothesis) or decreasing allocation (senescence hypothesis) toward the end of life. Although senescence has received more support, few studies examine how both age...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Tarwater CE,Arcese P

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant-soil feedbacks can affect plant community dynamics by influencing processes of coexistence or invasion, or by maintaining alternate stable states. Darwin's naturalization hypothesis suggests that phylogenetic relatedness should be a critical factor governing such feedbacks in invaded communities but is rarely co...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Brandt AJ,Seabloom EW,Hosseini PR

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patches, gradients, and hierarchies are three common organizational frameworks for assessing the effects of spatial heterogeneity on species distributions. Since these frameworks are often chosen a priori, without knowledge of study systems, they may not correspond to the empirical heterogeneity present and may result...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Talley TS

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within most free-living species exists a cryptic community of interacting parasites. By combining multiscale field data with manipulative experiments, we evaluated patterns of parasite coinfection in amphibian hosts and their underlying mechanisms. Surveys of 86 wetlands and 1273 hosts revealed positive correlations b...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Johnson PT,Buller ID

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A central challenge in ecology is to understand the interplay of internal and external controls on the growth of populations. We examined the effects of temporal variation in weather and spatial variation in vegetation on the strength of density dependence in populations of large herbivores. We fit three subsets of th...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Wang G,Hobbs NT,Boone RB,Illius AW,Gordon IJ,Gross JE,Hamlin KL

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil nutrients influence the distribution of tree species in lowland tropical forests, but their effect on productivity, especially at local scales, remains unclear. We used tree census, canopy occupancy, and soil data from the Barro Colorado Island (BCI; Panama) 50-ha forest dynamics plot to investigate the influence...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Zemunik G,Davies SJ,Turner BL

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We considered Cushing's match/mismatch theory in a heterotrophic environment and hypothesized that settlement and recruitment success in blue mussel are higher when the food supply is rich in polyunsaturated and essential fatty acids (PUFA/EFA). To test this hypothesis, we monitored larval development as well as fatty...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Toupoint N,Gilmore-Solomon L,Bourque F,Myrand B,Pernet F,Olivier F,Tremblay R

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many pest species exhibit huge fluctuations in population abundance. Understanding their large-scale and long-term dynamics is necessary to develop effective control and management strategies. Occupancy models represent a promising approach to unravel interactions between environmental factors and spatiotemporal dynam...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Veran S,Simpson SJ,Sword GA,Deveson E,Piry S,Hines JE,Berthier K

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For sessile organisms, dispersal and recruitment are typically spatially stochastic, but there is little understanding of how this variability scales up to influence processes such as competitive coexistence. Here we argue that coexistence of benthic marine animals is enhanced by stochastic differences between species...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Edwards KF,Stachowicz JJ

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the drivers and consequences of disease epidemics is an important frontier in ecology. However, long-term data on hosts, their parasites, and the corresponding environmental conditions necessary to explore these interactions are often unavailable. We examined the dynamics of Daphnia pulicaria, a keystone...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Johnson PT,Ives AR,Lathrop RC,Carpenter SR

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00