Secondary compounds enhance flammability in a Mediterranean plant.

abstract：:The dynamics of vegetative and reproductive growth were compared in matched pairs of Mediteranean and desert populations of three unrelated annual species, Erucaria hispanica (L.) Druce, Brachypodium distachyon (L.) Beauv. and Bromus fasciculatus C. Presl., under high and low levels of water availability in a common-e...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Aronson J,Kigel J,Shmida A,Klein J

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atmospheric inputs of N and S in bulk deposition (open collectors) and throughfall (beneath canopy collectors) were measured in and adjacent to two Class 1 wilderness areas of the northeastern US. In general, atmospheric S inputs followed our expectations with throughfall S fluxes increasing with elevation in the Whit...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Templer PH,Weathers KC,Lindsey A,Lenoir K,Scott L

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As primary producers, plants are known to influence higher trophic interactions by initiating food chains. However, as architects, plants may bypass consumers to directly affect predators with important but underappreciated trophic ramifications. Invasion of western North American grasslands by the perennial forb, spo...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Pearson DE

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant-soil feedbacks have been widely implicated as a driver of plant community diversity, and the coexistence prediction generated by a negative plant-soil feedback can be tested using the mutual invasibility criterion: if two populations are able to invade one another, this result is consistent with stable coexisten...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Burns JH,Brandt AJ,Murphy JE,Kaczowka AM,Burke DJ

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of tree canopy, understory, herbivores, and litter depth on seedling establishment, survival, and reproduction of the alien grass, Bromus tectorum (cheatgrass), was examined in a series of experiments in four forest habitat types in western North America. Higher recruitment, survival, and reproduction on cl...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Pierson EA,Mack RN

更新日期：1990-10-01 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：:Gut extracts of Gammarus fossarum liberated reducing substances (at pH values ≤7) and amino acids (pH≥7) from freshly shed oak leaves only after removal of soluble leaf phenols. When carboxymethylcellulose was used at a concentration equal to that of leaf cellulose, release of reducing substances was considerably high...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Bärlocher F

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of litter has the potential to alter the population dynamics of plants. In this paper, we explore the effects of litter on population dynamics using a simple experimental laboratory system with populations of the annual crucifer, Cardamine pensylvanica. Using a factorial experiment with four densities and...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Molofsky J,Lanza J,Crone EE

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental effects on parents can strongly affect the phenotype of their offspring, which alters the heritability of traits and the offspring's responses to the environment. We examined whether P limitation of the aquatic invertebrate, Daphnia magna, alters the responses of its offspring to inadequate P nutrition. ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Frost PC,Ebert D,Larson JH,Marcus MA,Wagner ND,Zalewski A

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of ant attendance on parasitization of the larvae of three hawthorn psyllid species [Cacopsylla peregrina Förster, C. melanoneura Förster, C. crataegi (Schrank)] was studied over 2 years. All three psyllid species had low parasitization rates. However, the ant-attended C. crataegi was almost exclusively ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Novak H

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most hypotheses attempting to explain the evolution of reversed sexual dimorphism (RSD) assume that size-related differences in foraging ability are of prime importance, but the studies on sex-specific differences in foraging behaviour remain scarce. We compare the foraging behaviour of males and females in a seabird ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Weimerskirch H,Le Corre M,Ropert-Coudert Y,Kato A,Marsac F

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptations to aridity of the reedfrog Hyperolius viridiflavus nitidulus, living in different parts of the season-ally very dry and hot West African savanna, are investigated. 1. During the dry season mainly juveniles (weighing 200-600 mg) were found in the field. A very low rate of evaporative water loss (EWL; about ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Geise W,Linsenmair KE

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In beech-dominated forests in Central Europe, many spring geophytes show adaptations to seed dispersal by ants (myrmecochory). Ants, however, can be rare in such moist forests. Motivated by observations of slug feeding on seeds we investigated the seed consumption of two plant species, Anemone nemorosa and Asarum euro...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Türke M,Heinze E,Andreas K,Svendsen SM,Gossner MM,Weisser WW

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：: Quantifying pathways of energy transfer between plants, pests, and beneficial insects is a necessary step toward maintaining pest stable agroecosystems in the absence of chemical subsidies. A diet switching experiment utilizing a predatory ladybird beetle, Hippodamia variegata (Goeze), evaluated the use of naturally ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ostrom PH,Colunga-Garcia M,Gage SH

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasitic plants often attack multiple host species with unique defenses, physiology, and ecology. Reproductive phenology and vectors of parasitic plant genes (pollinators and dispersers) can contribute to or erode reproductive isolation of populations infecting different host species. We asked whether desert mistleto...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Yule KM,Bronstein JL

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The absence of essential biochemical nutrients, such as polyunsaturated fatty acids or sterols, has been considered as a mechanism determining trophic interactions between the herbivore Daphnia and its phytoplankton food source. Here, we experimentally quantify the sensitivity of two Daphnia species to decreasing amou...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Martin-Creuzburg D,Wacker A,von Elert E

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The post-dispersal fate of seeds and fruit (diaspores) of three vertebrate-dispersed trees, Crataegus monogyna, Prunus mahaleb and Taxus baccata, was studied in the Andalusian highlands, south-eastern Spain. Exclosures were used to quantify separately the impact of vertebrates and invertebrates on seed removal in rela...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hulme PE

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Provenance translocations of tree species are promoted in forestry, conservation, and restoration in response to global climate change. While this option is driven by adaptive considerations, less is known of the effects translocations can have on dependent communities. We investigated the relative importance and cons...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gosney BJ,Potts BM,Forster LG,Whiteley C,O'Reilly-Wapstra JM

更新日期：2021-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Seed predation in relation to patterns of pod (and seed) distribution was examined in five samples of the common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca L.), in tests of the "resource-concentration" effect both within- and beween-plants. The proportion of pods in a cluster that were attacked, particularly by the weevil Rhyssomatu...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Franson SE,Willson MF

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Argyrodes antipodianus is a small kleptobiotic spider that steals prey from webs of the large orb-weaving spider Nephila plumipes, and sometimes removes the web itself. We used experiments in a greenhouse to test how the presence of the kleptobiont, differences in food availability, and web damage affected fitness of ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Grostal P,Walter DE

更新日期：1997-08-01 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：:Nitrogen availability is a critical component of productivity in successional lowland rainforests, and nitrogen losses from a given system may largely depend on rates of nitrification in soils of the system. Two hypotheses were tested in a study of a 6-point secondary rainforest sere in the coastal lowlands of Costa R...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Philip Robertson G

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Habitat fragmentation modifies ecological patterns and processes through changes in species richness and abundance. In the coastal Maulino forest, central Chile, both species richness and abundance of insectivorous birds increases in forest fragments compared to continuous forest. Through a field experiment, we examin...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： González-Gómez PL,Estades CF,Simonetti JA

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Senecio vulgaris from ruderal habitats may colonise crop fields and persist in the new environment. Persistence may occur through phenotypic plasticity or genetic differentiation. In the presence of genetic variation, differential responses of life history traits to selection may lead to local adaptation. A reciprocal...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Leiss KA,Müller-Schärer H

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous mechanisms are proposed to explain why exotic plants successfully invade natural communities. However, the positive effects of native engineers on exotic plant species have received less consideration. We tested whether the nutrient-rich soil patches created by a native ecological engineer (refuse dumps from ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Farji-Brener AG,Lescano N,Ghermandi L

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants derived from ten representative Limnanthes alba populations in Northern California, grown in a common environment, showed significant among-population genetic variation of certain floral and life history characters. Variation of these two sets of characters also correlated with the geographic distribution of po...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ritland K,Jain S

更新日期：1984-08-01 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：:Animal-pollinated invasive species have frequently been demonstrated to outcompete native species for pollinator attention, which can have detrimental effects on the reproductive success and population dynamics of native species. Many animal-pollinated invasive species exhibit showy flowers and provide substantial rew...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Da Silva EM,King VM,Russell-Mercier JL,Sargent RD

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecosystem-wide effects of introduced brown trout (Salmo trutta L.) and native river galaxias (Galaxiaseldoni McDowall) were studied by analysing ecosystem production budgets for two adjacent tributaries of a grassland stream-system in the South Island of New Zealand. One tributary was inhabited by brown trout, the oth...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Huryn AD

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we assessed the effectiveness of rodents as dispersers of Quercus ilex in a patchy landscape in southeastern Spain. We experimentally followed the fates of 3,200 marked and weighed acorns from dispersal through the time of seedling emergence over three years. Rodents handled about 99% of acorns, and disp...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gómez JM,Puerta-Piñero C,Schupp EW

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00