Influence of hydrological regime and land cover on traits and potential export capacity of adult aquatic insects from river channels.

abstract：:Interrelationships between morphology, microhabitat, water relations, and photosynthesis of a xeric fern, Notholaena parryi D.C. Eat. (Pteridaceae), were examined in the western Colorado desert. In its typical microhabitat rock outcroppings protected N. parryi from direct sunlight and moderated the diurnal variations ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Nobel PS

更新日期：1978-01-01 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：:According to the plant vigour hypothesis, galling insects should respond positively and perform better on vigorous plants or plant parts, the opposite of the predictions of the plant stress hypothesis. I carried out field experiments to analyse the effects of sustained abiotic stress on the interactions between the co...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： De Bruyn L

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured the response of dark respiration (R(d)) to temperature and foliage characteristics in the upper canopies of tree species in temperate rainforest communities in New Zealand along a soil chronosequence (six sites from 6 years to 120,000 years). The chronosequence provided a vegetation gradient characterised ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Turnbull MH,Tissue DT,Griffin KL,Richardson SJ,Peltzer DA,Whitehead D

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Geographic variation in species interactions can have major effects on species distributions and can be important for the resistance of resident communities to invasive species. We tested the hypothesis that coexistence or replacement of a resident North American mosquito Aedes aegypti with the invasive Aedes albopict...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Leisnham PT,Juliano SA

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differences in the density of conspecific tree individuals in response to environmental gradients are well documented for many tree species, but how such density differences are generated and maintained is poorly understood. We examined the segregation of six dipterocarp species among three soil types in the Pasoh tro...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Yamada T,Yamada Y,Okuda T,Fletcher C

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data in the literature that in the Netherlands Carabus problematicus is an autumn breeder with overwintering larvae and adults have been confirmed. Pitfall catches show two peaks of adult beetles. The first small peak of activity is realized in May, the significance of which is not yet understood. The second higher pe...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Rijnsdorp AD

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the epiphytic lichen vegetation on maple trees along an 1.1-km avenue leading from the outer suburbs of Freiburg toward the city center. A special aim of this investigation was to examine the variation in the coverage by lichens altogether and by each lichen species as a function of increasing dis...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Wirth V,Brinckmann B

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of fertilization on leaf longevity and leaf mortality in the Alaskan evergreen shrub, Ledum palustre (Ait.) Hult., were investigated in a field experiment. The fertilization treatments included N alone, P alone, N plus P, and N plus P plus K. After 5 years all treatments had the same effect on leaf longevi...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Shaver GR

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of time of the day and frequency of application and of purity of artificially deposited pollen loads on fruiting and seed set were studied in Rhinanthus angustifolius (diurnally visited by bumblebees) and Viscaria vulgaris (diurnally visited by bumblebees, nocturnally by sphingid moths).Time of the day did...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Kwak MM,Jennersten O

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many organisms undergo ontogenetic niche shifts due to considerable changes in size during their development. These ontogenetic shifts can alter the trophic position of individuals, the type and strength of ecological interactions across species, and allow for cannibalism within species. In this study we ask if and ho...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Rudolf VH,Armstrong J

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a Danish heathland invasion of oak shrub has taken place, the succession rate being approximately 300 m during the last 100 years. The colonisation has occurred in steps related to the delay time between seedling stage and fertility stage. Seedlings are often found in clusters originating from caches probably made ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Jensen TS,Nielsen OF

更新日期：1986-09-01 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：:Understanding the effects of invasive plants on native consumers is important because consumer-mediated indirect effects have the potential to alter the dynamics of coexistence in native communities. Invasive plants may promote changes in consumer pressure due to changes in protective cover (i.e., the architectural co...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Dutra HP,Barnett K,Reinhardt JR,Marquis RJ,Orrock JL

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Florivores are present in many pollination systems and can have direct and indirect effects on both plants and pollinators. Although the impact of florivores are commonly examined in facultative pollination mutualisms, their effects on obligate mutualism remain relatively unstudied. Here, we used experimental manipula...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Althoff DM,Xiao W,Sumoski S,Segraves KA

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios in autotrophs, aquatic invertebrates and fishes from the Orinoco River floodplain of Venezuela reveal that microalgae, including both phytoplankton and epiphytic (attached) forms, are predominant energy sources for many aquatic animals, even though aquatic vascular plants are ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hamilton SK,Lewis WM Jr,Sippel SJ

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements were made of the photosynthetic gas exchange properties and water use efficiency of 19 species of mangrove in 9 estuaries with different salinity and climatic regimes in north eastern Australia and Papua New Guinea. Stomatal conductance and CO2 assimilation rates differed significantly between species at ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Clough BF,Sim RG

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two physiological races of the carabid beetle, Pterostichus nigrita, are compared. The larvae from the northern Scandinavian population (polar circle) develop faster in all temperature regimens, have a reduced mortality in lower temperatures and an increased growth rate in high temperatures compared with the central E...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ferenz HJ

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herbivore damage often deters pollinator visitation and many invasive plants in North America are pollinator-dependent. This has important implications for the biological control of invasive plants because it means that agents that deter pollinators may have a larger than expected impact on the plant. Yet interactions...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Swope SM

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seed predation and seed dispersal can have strong effects on early life history stages of plants. These processes have often been studied as individual effects, but the degree to which their relative importance co-varies with seed predator abundance and how this influences seed germination rates is poorly understood. ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Klinger R,Rejmánek M

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of competitive suppression by vines on the non-vine plant community have received little attention in temperate habitats. This study investigated the impact vines have on their herbaceous hosts in a wetland community at two soil fertility levels. Plots in an oligohaline marsh were treated in a 2 × 2 factor...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gough L,Grace JB

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deuterium isotope analyses have revolutionized the study of migratory connectivity because global gradients of deuterium in precipitation (deltaD(P)) are expressed on a continental scale. Several authors have constructed continental scale base maps of deltaD(P) to provide a spatial reference for studying the movement ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Farmer A,Cade BS,Torres-Dowdall J

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freezing tolerance as a cold resistance mechanism is described for the first time in a plant growing in the tropical range of the Andean high mountains. Draba chionophila, the plant in which freezing tolerance was found, is the vascular plant which reaches the highest altitudes in the Venezuelan Andes (approximately 4...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Azocar A,Rada F,Goldstein G

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pre-hatching developmental times for prosobranch gastropods are greatly influenced by temperature and taxonomic affinity. If the data used here (including all available data from the Muricacea) are a representative sample, then reasonably accurate estimates of developmental time can be obtained for most prosobranchs k...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Spight TM

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frugivorous birds disperse the seeds of many fruit-bearing plants, but the fate of seeds after defecation or regurgitation is often unknown. Some rodents gather and scatter hoard seeds, and some of these may be overlooked, germinate, and establish plants. We show that these two disparate modes of seed dispersal are li...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Vander Wall SB,Kuhn KM,Gworek JR

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes to the radiative environment arising from stratospheric ozone (O(3)) depletion and subsequent associations between these changes and the pigmentation of the moss Andreaea regularis were measured in late austral spring and early summer 1998 at Rothera Point on the western Antarctic Peninsula (67 degrees S, 68 d...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Newsham KK

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to enhanced levels of ambient ultraviolet (UV) radiation (UVR) can have adverse effects on aquatic organisms including damage at the cellular and molecular level and impairment of development, fecundity and survival. Much research has been conducted on the role of the harmful UVB radiation. However, due to it...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Rick IP,Mehlis M,Eßer E,Bakker TC

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water and nitrogen (N) interact to influence soil N cycling and plant N acquisition. We studied indices of soil N availability and acquisition by woody plant taxa with distinct nutritional specialisations along a north Australian rainfall gradient from monsoonal savanna (1,600-1,300 mm annual rainfall) to semi-arid wo...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Soper FM,Richards AE,Siddique I,Aidar MP,Cook GD,Hutley LB,Robinson N,Schmidt S

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：:Water stress and temperature effects on growth, translocation and reallocation of 14C assimilated by blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis (H.B.K.) Lag. ex Steud.) were studied for sods extracted from shortgrass prairie. The sods were kept at either 24°/16° or 34°/16°C (day/nigh) temperatures and were labeled at two phenolog...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Chung HH,Trlica MJ

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00