Juvenile river herring habitat use and marine emigration trends: comparing populations.

abstract：:Invasive generalist ectoparasites provide a tool to study factors affecting expansion rates. An increase in the number of host species may facilitate geographic range expansion by increasing the number of suitable habitats and by affecting local extinction and colonization rates. A geographic perspective on parasite h...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Välimäki P,Kaitala A,Madslien K,Härkönen L,Várkonyi G,Heikkilä J,Jaakola M,Ylönen H,Kortet R,Ytrehus B

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prey subsidies originating from detritus add nutrients and energy to arboreal communities. Measurement of this subsidy is required in the understanding of how food web dynamics respond to changes in surrounding environments. Shrub spiders are one of the key predators involved in food web coupling. We evaluate the effe...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Haraguchi TF,Uchida M,Shibata Y,Tayasu I

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial distributions of selected soil properties in two adjacent sites in southwest Michigan were examined to evaluate the potential effects of chronic disturbance on resource heterogeneity. One site was a cultivated field that had been cleared, plowed, and cropped annually for decades prior to sampling while the...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Robertson GP,Crum JR,Ellis BG

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although host preferences in phytophagous insects may be generated by several factors, few studies have simultaneously examined several potential host choice determinants. In this study we tested the impact of the following potential host choice determinants on host preference of the semi-aquatic lepidopteran Munroess...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Dorn NJ,Cronin G,Lodge DM

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to understand habitat selection, it is important to consider the way individual animals assess the suitability of a future reproductive site. One way of investigating mechanisms (such as those involved in nest site selection) is to examine breeding success and habitat characteristics in terms of animals retur...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hoi H,Krištín A,Valera F,Hoi C

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two methods of extraction were used in the estimation of snail population densities in woodland litter. The time-consuming-Vágvölgyi technique proved to be 6.25 times more efficient than infra-red heat extraction but it was shown that the results obtained by the latter method could be easily corrected to conform with ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Phillipson J,Abel R

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dreissenid mussels (Dreissena polymorpha and D. bugensis) have re-engineered Great Lakes ecosystems since their introduction in the late 1980s. Dreissenids can have major indirect impacts on profundal habitats by redirecting nutrients and energy away from pelagic production (which supplies profundal production) and de...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Rennie MD,Sprules WG,Johnson TB

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements are reported of carbon isotope ratios of Dudleya species growing in natural plant communities. Considerable variation in the δ13C values are interpreted as indicating substantial flexibility of the photosynthetic pathways between C3 and CAM. The variability in photosynthetic pathway was in response to gen...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Troughton JH,Mooney HA,Berry JA,Verity D

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective feeding by herbivores on establishing seedlings has been suggested to affect genotype frequencies in several plant populations. The existence of genotypes susceptible to herbivores calls for an explanation in such populations. In the present study we assessed the choice of multiple herbivores, field voles (M...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Pusenius J,Prittinen K,Heimonen J,Koivunoro K,Rousi M,Roininen H

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility of ecosystem boundary changes in northern Brazilian Amazonia during the Holocene period was investigated using soil organic carbon isotope ratios. Determination of past and present fluctuations of the forest-savanna boundary involved the measurement of natural 13C isotope abundance, expressed as δ13C, ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Desjardins T,Filho AC,Mariotti A,Girardin C,Chauvel A

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most commonly cited hypotheses explaining invasion success is the enemy release hypothesis (ERH), which maintains that populations are regulated by coevolved natural enemies where they are native but are relieved of this pressure in the new range. However, the role of resident enemies in plant invasion rema...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Bohl Stricker K,Stiling P

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth and reproduction of twoDaphnia species (Cladocera) from Lake Constance were measured experimentally in a through-flow laboratory system under different food conditions, in order to investigate the effect of food quality on zooplankton populations. The cryptomonadRhodomonas sp. and the diatomStephanodiscus hantz...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Giani A

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen (N) deposition and climate are acknowledged drivers of change in biodiversity and ecosystem function at large scales. However, at a local scale, their impact on functions and community structure of organisms is filtered by drivers like habitat quality and food quality/availability. This study assesses the rel...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Mitchell RJ,Urpeth HM,Britton AJ,Black H,Taylor AR

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we test the influence of temperature and interference competition by dominant species on the foraging of subordinate species in Mediterranean ant communities. We have analyzed the changes in resource use by subordinate species in plots with different abundances of dominant ants, and in different periods ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Cerdá X,Retana J,Manzaneda A

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Global climate models forecast an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, including severe droughts. Based on multi-year relationships between precipitation amount and aboveground annual net primary production (ANPP), semi-arid grasslands are projected to be among the most sensitive ecosyste...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Cherwin K,Knapp A

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to determine the influence of the hydrogen-ion concentration on the damage exerted to lichens by sulfur dioxide gas, thalli of the species Hypogymnia physodes and Xanthoria parietina were submerged in buffer solutions of pH 2 to pH 8 and subsequently exposed to SO2 gas. Net photosynthesis was employed as a cr...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Türk R,Wirth V

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Correlates of individual plant escape from seed predation were investigated for an East African population of the shrub Crotalaria pallida (Papilionaceae) in which seed mortality due to chewing insects is high and varies among neighboring individuals. Several plant properties expected to influence phytophagous insect ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Moore LR

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasion of non-native annuals across the Intermountain West is causing a widespread transition from perennial sagebrush communities to fire-prone annual herbaceous communities and grasslands. To determine how this invasion affects ecosystem function, carbon and water fluxes were quantified in three, paired sagebrush ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Prater MR,Obrist D,Arnone JA 3rd,DeLucia EH

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant compensatory growth responses to herbivory are mediated by soil fertility and can have significant feedbacks that affect overall ecosystem nutrient cycling. The sedge Eriophorum vaginatum is the dominant graminoid in arctic mesic tundra, and is heavily consumed by caribou. Here, we compare the principal compensa...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Grogan P,Zamin TJ

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：:Severe droughts may alter the reproductive phenology of tropical tree species, but our understanding of these effects has been hampered by confounded variation in drought, light and other factors during natural drought events. We used a large-scale experimental reduction of throughfall in an eastern-central Amazon for...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Brando P,Ray D,Nepstad D,Cardinot G,Curran LM,Oliveira R

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disturbances such as fire, grazing, and soil mixing by animals interact to shape vegetation in grassland ecosystems. Animal-generated disturbances are unique in that they arise from a suite of behaviors that are themselves subject to modification by external factors. The manner in which co-occurring animal taxa intera...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Alba-Lynn C,Detling JK

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many ecologically generalized populations are composed of relatively specialized individuals that selectively consume a subset of their population's diet, a phenomenon known as 'individual specialization'. The Niche Variation Hypothesis posits that this individual specialization can arise during ecological release if ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Snowberg LK,Hendrix KM,Bolnick DI

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：: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：:Global biodiversity is threatened by multiple anthropogenic stressors but little is known about the combined effects of environmental warming and invasive species on ecosystem functioning. We quantified thermal preferences and then compared leaf-litter processing rates at eight different temperatures (5.0-22.5 °C) by ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Kenna D,Fincham WN,Dunn AM,Brown LE,Hassall C

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enemies hypothesis states that reduced insect herbivory in mixed-species stands can be attributed to more effective top-down control by predators with increasing plant diversity. Although evidence for this mechanism exists for invertebrate predators, studies on avian predation are comparatively rare and have not e...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Muiruri EW,Rainio K,Koricheva J

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relationships between leaf traits and the gap dependence for regeneration, and ontogenetic changes therein, were investigated in juvenile and adult tropical rainforest tree species. The juveniles of the 17 species included in the study were grown in high light, similar to the exposed crowns of the adult trees. The tra...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Houter NC,Pons TL

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reciprocal transplant experiments have been used to estimate the probability that negative frequency-dependent selection by natural enemies has occurred in host populations by determining whether pest populations are less adapted to "foreign" (rare) hosts, which originate from a population with which the pests have no...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Roy BA

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I suggest that between-community variations in diversity patterns during succession in plant communities are due to the effects of selection on life history strategies under different disturbance regimes. Natural disturbances to plant communities are simultaneously a source of mortality for some individuals and a sour...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Denslow JS

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00