Processes driving short-term temporal dynamics of small mammal distribution in human-disturbed environments.

abstract：:Snail hosts of different ages constitute different resource environments for larval trematodes because each individual has a particular energy budget and energy allocation pattern at the time of infection. Effects of monomiracidial trematode infections on shell growth, body dry weight and reproductive effort of the sn...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gérard C,Théron A

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecosystem water-use efficiency (eWUE; the ratio of net ecosystem productivity to evapotranspiration rate) is a complex landscape-scale parameter controlled by both physical and biological processes occurring in soil and plants. Leaf WUE (lWUE; the ratio of leaf CO(2) assimilation rate to transpiration rate) is control...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Monson RK,Prater MR,Hu J,Burns SP,Sparks JP,Sparks KL,Scott-Denton LE

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants of Dudleya blochmanae were studied over a growing season (December-June) in their native habitat on the central California coast. During the season soil water potential fluctuatdd widely, becoming unmeasurably negative (<-5.0 MPa) by early May. In contrast, leaf water potential did not fluctuate greatly with th...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Teeri JA

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Energy budgets explain how organisms allocate energetic intake to accomplish essential processes. A likely life history trade-off occurs between growth and immune response in juvenile organisms, where growth is important to avoid predation or obtain larger prey and immune response is essential to survival in the prese...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Korfel CA,Chamberlain JD,Gifford ME

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naïveté can occur within any novel antagonistic interaction, and competitive forces play a fundamental role in shaping community structure, yet competitive naïveté has received very little attention in the literature to date. Naïveté towards a novel competitor is unlikely to result in immediate mortality, but could po...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Heavener SJ,Carthey AJ,Banks PB

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon dioxide exchange patterns of prickly-pear cactus (Opuntia phaeacantha var. discata) were studied throughout the year to determine temperature influences on and seasonal responses of the process. Cacti exhibit CAM which permits nighttime carboxylation of CO2 to malate and daytime decarboxylation of malate to CO2...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Nisbet RA,Patten DT

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The foraging behavior of Mesocyclops edax in artificial patches of high and low prey density was examined. In low density patches Mesocyclops swam in an irregular curvilinear path with little or no looping behavior. In high density patches Mesocyclops exhibited extensive horizontal and vertical looping behavior. Horiz...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Williamson CE

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined patterns of density and species diversity for leaf-mining Lepidopterans and gall-forming Hymenopterans in two oak (Quercus spp.) hybrid zones: Quercus depressipes x Q. rugosa and Q. emoryi x Q. coccolobifolia. In both species complexes, hybrid hosts typically supported significantly lower densities and spe...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Boecklen WJ,Spellenberg R

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been postulated that free amino acids in the diet of herbivores are a more readily available source of nitrogen than are amino acids in intact proteins. When plants are subjected to any of a number of stress factors the concentration of free amino acids in their tissues may increase relative to the protein cont...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Cockfield SD

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physiological responses to elevated CO2 at the leaf and canopy-level were studied in an intact pine (Pinus taeda) forest ecosystem exposed to elevated CO2 using a free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) technique. Normalized canopy water-use of trees exposed to elevated CO2 over an 8-day exposure period was similar to that of ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ellsworth DS,Oren R,Huang C,Phillips N,Hendrey GR

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although cascading effects of top predators can help structure communities, their influence may vary across habitats that differentially protect prey. Therefore, to understand how and to what degree habitat complexity can affect trophic interactions in adjacent habitats, we used a combination of a broad regional-scale...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Byers JE,Holmes ZC,Malek JC

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The isopod Sphaeroma terebrans, which bores into the prop roots of the red mangrove, Rhizophora mangle, can cause death and subsequent breakage of the inhabited root and, debatably, may reduce the support system of the tree. We examined whether different characteristics of a root or its physical setting, both of which...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Brooks AR,Bell SS

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed the effect of nutrient enrichment on organic matter breakdown in an alpine springbrook, using alder leaf packs to which phosphorus and nitrogen were added in the form of slow-release fertilizer briquettes. The breakdown of leaf packs with nutrients added (k=0.0284 day-1) was significantly faster th...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Robinson CT,Gessner MO

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carotenoids are antioxidant pigments involved in several physiological processes and signalling in animals that cannot synthesise them and therefore must acquire them from food. We experimentally investigated the effects of carotenoid availability in the diet during egg laying on antioxidant deposition in egg yolk and...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Biard C,Surai PF,Møller AP

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation in body size (weight) is examined across the order Carnivora in relation to taxonomy (phylogeny), latitude, habitat, zonation, activity cycle, diet, prey size, and prey diversity. Significant differences in body weight are observed with respect to family membership. Some of these differences may be explained...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gittleman JL

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inoculation with arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi is known to increase the species diversity of plant communities. One mechanism that can increase the likelihood of species co-existence, and thus species diversity, is a trade-off between competitive ability and the magnitude of plant growth response to AM fungal inoc...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Stanescu S,Maherali H

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soils of three Picea mariana-Cladina stellaris woodland sites, aged 2, 104 and 137 years after fire, were sampled at 3 cm intervals to 9 cm depth for soil microfungi. Mortierella, Mucor, Penicillium and Trichoderma were the most frequently isolated genera. The species composition of the microfungi remained much the sa...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Lucarotti CJ,Kelsey CT,Auclair AN

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parents are predicted to trade offspring number and quality against the costs of reproduction. In altricial birds, parasites can mediate these costs because intensity of parasitism may increase with parental effort. In addition, parasites may mediate a trade-off between offspring number and quality because nestlings i...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Saino N,Ferrari RP,Romano M,Ambrosini R,Møller A

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six early successional plant species with differing photosynthetic pathways (3 C3 species and 3 C4 species) were grown at either 300, 600, or 1,200 ppm CO2 and at either 0.0 or 0.25 ppm SO2. Total plant growth increased with CO2 concentration for the C3 species and varied only slightly with CO2 for the C4 species. Fum...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Carlson RW,Bazzaz FA

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes the germination responses of ten tropical dune species to several factors to which their seeds are exposed in the field. Species studied were: three sand dune endemics (Amaranthus greggii, Palafoxia lindenii, and Trachypogon gouini), three pantropical coastal species (Sesuvium portulacastrum, Spor...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Martínez ML,Valverde T,Moreno-Casasola P

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensitivity of carbon (C) assimilation to within-canopy nitrogen (N) allocation and of stomatal conductance (g s) to environmental variables were investigated along a vertical canopy gradient in a fertile Norway spruce [Picea abies (L.) Karst.] stand. Maximum rates of ribulose bisphosphate-saturated carboxylation ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Tarvainen L,Wallin G,Uddling J

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of irradiance during growth on biomass allocation, growth rates, leaf chlorophyll and protein contents, and on gas exchange responses to irradiance and CO2 partial pressures of the evergreen, sclerophyllous, chaparral shrub, Ceanothus megacarpus were determined. Plants were grown at 4 irradiances for the g...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Mahall BE,Schlesinger WH

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a laboratory assay to partition the effects of predation and intraspecific competition on the establishment, mating success, and brood development of an endophytic herbivore. We selected a system in which the same predator feeds both exophytically and endophytically on the same prey, to evaluate the role of he...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Aukema BH,Raffa KF

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:European data from 15 long-term censuses of breeding land bird communities were analysed in order to measure community stability. Stability was here operationally defined as year-to-year persistence of community structure (total density, number of species, diversity, evenness of the species-abundance distribution, spe...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Järvinen O

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nutrient resorption, a process by which plants degrade organic compounds and resorb their nutrients from senescing tissues, is a crucial plant function to increase growth and fitness in nutrient-poor environments. Tropical trees on phosphorus (P)-poor soils are particularly known to have high P-resorption efficiency (...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Tsujii Y,Onoda Y,Kitayama K

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At least once a year the mountain pine beetle searches for lodgepole pines that provide a suitable habitat for a new brood. After attacking females feed, they produce an attractant pheromone that causes beetles to aggregate and, during outbreaks, to usually mass attack the "focus" tree. Near the completion of mass att...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Geiszler DR,Gallucci VF,Gara RI

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents tests of a model of wound-induced defence in herbaceous plants. Many studies have reported both chemical changes in leaves and changes in the behaviour and/or physiology of herbivores as a result of wounding leaves. These studies and others have led to the development of various models to explain w...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Coleman RA,Barker AM,Fenner M

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many tropical regions show one distinct dry season. Often, this seasonality induces cambial dormancy of trees, particularly if these belong to deciduous species. This will often lead to the formation of annual rings. The aim of this study was to determine whether tree species in the Bolivian Amazon region form annual ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Brienen RJ,Zuidema PA

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the strength and type of interactions among species is vital to anticipate how ecosystems will respond to ongoing anthropogenic stressors. Here, we examine the ecological function of native (Ecklonia radiata) and invasive (Undaria pinnatifida) kelps in resisting shifts to sediment-trapping turf on reefs ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Reeves SE,Kriegisch N,Johnson CR,Ling SD

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In abandoned or extensively managed grasslands, the mechanisms involved in pioneer tree species success are not fully explained. Resource competition among plants and microclimate modifications have been emphasised as possible mechanisms to explain variation of survivorship and growth. In this study, we evaluated a nu...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Picon-Cochard C,Coll L,Balandier P

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00