Fruit secondary compounds mediate the retention time of seeds in the guts of Neotropical fruit bats.

abstract：: Field phenologies of high- (ca. 1500 m) and low- (ca. 500 m) altitude populations of the two most common European species of dung flies, Scathophaga stercoraria and Sepsis cynipsea, differ quite markedly due to differences in climate. To differentiate genetic adaptation due to natural selection and phenotypic plastic...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Blanckenhorn WU

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mediterranean evergreen forests of Corsica are characterized by relatively high species diversity of arthropods with low population densities. Food is never superabundant for Corsican blue tits Parus caeruleus. This study focused on the composition of the food of blue tit nestlings and especially on two main component...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Bańbura J,Blondel J,de Wilde-Lambrechts H,Galan MJ,Maistre M

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of defoliation of alder (Alnus glutinosa) on subsequent herbivory by alder leaf beetle (Agelastica alni) were studied in ten alder stands in northern Germany. At each site, one tree was manually defoliated (c. 20% of total foliage) to simulate herbivory. Subsequent damage by A. alni was assessed on ten ald...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Dolch R,Tscharntke T

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding and explaining the causes of variation in food-chain length is a fundamental challenge for community ecology. The productive-space hypothesis, which suggests food-chain length is determined by the combination of local resource availability and ecosystem size, is central to this challenge. Two different a...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Post DM

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species distributions are dependent on interactions with abiotic and biotic factors in the environment. Abiotic factors like temperature, moisture, and soil nutrients, along with biotic interactions within and between species, can all have strong influences on spatial distributions of plants and animals. Terrestrial A...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Potts LJ,Gantz JD,Kawarasaki Y,Philip BN,Gonthier DJ,Law AD,Moe L,Unrine JM,McCulley RL,Lee RE Jr,Denlinger DL,Teets NM

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interspecific hybridization is an important and common evolutionary mechanism, but field-based evaluations of changes in realized niches and zonation patterns of native and exotic hybrids relative to those of their parental plant species are rare. Would native hybrids forming hybrid zones between their parental specie...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gallego-Tévar B,Curado G,Grewell BJ,Figueroa ME,Castillo JM

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the tropical dry forest of the central Pacific coast of Mexico the pollination and reproductive success of the bombacaceous tree Ceiba grandiflora was negatively affected by habitat disruption. Two of the three bat species that function as effective pollinators for this species ( Glossophaga soricina and Musonycter...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Quesada M,Stoner KE,Rosas-Guerrero V,Palacios-Guevara C,Lobo JA

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to monitor the nitrate assimilation capability of mire plants, in vivo current and maximally induced nitrate reductase activity (NRA) were investigated in 14 species of vascular plants from four different sites in a central Swedish mire. One of the sites was a swamp forest. The plants studied included species...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Högbom L,Ohlson M

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mature growth-phase internodes of Alaska paper birch (Betula resinifera) are preferred by the snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus) over juvenile growth-phase internodes due to the low food value of the latter. While the mature over juvenile preferencec cannot be explained by the levels of inorganic nutrients or gross chem...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Reichardt PB,Bryant JP,Clausen TP,Wieland GD

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reproduction is an important life history trait that strongly affects dynamics of plant populations. Although it has been well documented that elevated carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere greatly enhances biomass production in plants, the overall effect of elevated CO2 on reproductive allocation (RA), i.e., the pro...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Wang X,Taub DR,Jablonski LM

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the demographic costs of Chaoborus-induced defensive spine structures in Daphnia pulex. Our aim was to assess the role of resource limitation and the interaction effects of limiting food level and antipredator structures on fitness of D. pulex and to pinpoint those life stages that are most sensitive to ch...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Walls M,Caswell H,Ketola M

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an increasing ecological interest in understanding the gradients in H(2)(18)O enrichment in leaf water (i.e. a Péclet effect), because an appreciation of the significance of the Péclet effect is important for improving our understanding of the mechanistic processes affecting the (18)O composition of leaf wate...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Barbour MM,Roden JS,Farquhar GD,Ehleringer JR

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The palatability of 14 species of woody plant was assessed for three species of browsing ruminant, namely kudus, impalas and goats. Results show that palatability was most clearly related to leaf contents of condensed tannins. The effect was a threshold one, with all plants containing more than 5% condensed tannins be...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Cooper SM,Owen-Smith N

更新日期：1985-08-01 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：:We compared movement patterns and rhythms of activity of a top predator, the Iberian lynx Lynx pardinus, a mesopredator, the red fox Vulpes vulpes, and their shared principal prey, the rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus, in relation to moon phases. Because the three species are mostly nocturnal and crepuscular, we hypothesi...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Penteriani V,Kuparinen A,del Mar Delgado M,Palomares F,López-Bao JV,Fedriani JM,Calzada J,Moreno S,Villafuerte R,Campioni L,Lourenço R

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shoot herbivory by the sapling specialist shoot-borer Cromarcha stroudagnesia (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae, Chrysauginae) is shown to have large direct and indirect effects on the rates of height increment and mortality of saplings of its host tree, Tabebuia ochracea (Bignoniaceae), in the secondary successional tropical d...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Sullivan JJ

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In both single- and mixed-species social groups, certain participants are known to play important roles in providing benefits. Identifying these participants is critical for understanding group dynamics, but is often difficult with large roving social groups in the wild. Here, we develop a new approach to characterize...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Sridhar H,Shanker K

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dramatic perturbations of ecological communities through rapid shifts in environmental regime do not always result in complete mortality of residents. Instead, legacy individuals may remain and influence the succession and composition of subsequent communities. We used a reciprocal transplant experiment to investigate...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Mullineaux LS,Micheli F,Peterson CH,Lenihan HS,Markus N

更新日期：2009-08-01 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：:Anthropogenic disturbance can have important indirect effects on ecosystems by disrupting species interactions. Here we examine the effects of anthropogenic disturbance on distance dispersal by ants for the diaspores of myrmecochorous Euphorbiaceae in Brazilian Caatinga. Rates of diaspore removal and distances removed...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Leal LC,Andersen AN,Leal IR

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of ornamental characters exposed to directional selection may be particularly sensitive to the effect of parasitic infections. Antlers are ornamental characters of importance in intraspecific interactions, and are in reindeer (Rangifer) developed by both males and females. By antihelmintic treatment of nat...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Folstad I,Arneberg P,Karter AJ

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The abundance and composition of the submerged macrophyte seed bank in the Doñana marsh (southwestern Spain) was evaluated to assess its relationship with the overlying vegetation. The results obtained demonstrate the existence of a dense seed-bank, both in terms of the number of seeds and their biomass, which represe...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Grillas P,Garcia-Murillo P,Geertz-Hansen O,Marbá N,Montes C,Duarte CM,Tan Ham L,Grossmann A

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The responses to drought of the solar tracking winter annualLupinus arizonicus (Wats.) were examined under field and laboratory growth regimes. Under drought conditions tracking movements were maintained until the plant reached the wilting point. The leaves and leaflets were observed to cup in response to decreases in...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Forseth I,Ehleringer JR

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The seasonal and long-term population dynamics of helminths parasitizing voles suggested that density-dependent factors might be important in the population dynamics of common species, whereas density-independent factors predominate in the regulation of the rare species. To test this, we used single and multiple regre...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Haukisalmi V,Henttonen H

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased nitrogen (N) deposition, resulting from the combustion of fossil fuels, production of synthetic fertilizers, growth of N(2)-fixing crops and high-intensity agriculture, is one of the anthropogenic factors most likely to cause global biodiversity changes over the next century. This influence may be especially...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Skogen KA,Holsinger KE,Cardon ZG

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mycobiont of the high-light-susceptible forest lichen Lobaria pulmonaria was shown to deposit brown, melanic compounds in the outer layer of the upper cortex, depending on the long-term level of solar radiation in its natural habitat. Furthermore, pale thalli from a shady habitat produced melanic compounds after t...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gauslaa Y,Solhaug KA

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescent probes have been applied to study by epifluorescence microscopy interactions between species in an Anabaena flos-aquae association, derived from a freshwater community. Glycoconjugates (macromolecules containing carbohydrate residues) have been shown to play a vital role in recognition processes and in for...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Müller U,Sengbusch PV

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phytochemical action of Erica scoparia L. upon its environment was studied. The toxicity of biogenic heath products on red clover seedlings was demonstrated by biological tests. Ten phenolic hydrosoluble compounds were identified; p-Hydroxybenzoic, vanillic, syringic, caffeic, ferulic, p-coumaric, protocatechuic, ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ballester A,Albo JM,Vieitez E

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The habitats occupied by species of wood warblers (Emberizidae) were compared at two study areas, Itasca State Park, Minnesota and Mount Blue State Park, Maine. Univariate comparisons of each variable of habitat structure show geographic differences for each species of warbler. Habitats available were also different b...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Collins SL

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents novel evidence that 15N natural abundance can be used as a robust indicator to detect pollutant nitrogen in natural plant communities. Vegetation from the heavily polluted industrial area of Cubatão in São Paulo State, SE Brazil, was strongly 15N depleted compared to plants at remote sites. Histori...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Stewart GR,Aidar MP,Joly CA,Schmidt S

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00