Impact of high predation risk on genome-wide hippocampal gene expression in snowshoe hares.

abstract：:Several studies have suggested that aquatic microcrustaceans are relatively efficient dispersers in a variety of landscapes, whereas others have indicated dispersal limitation at large spatial scales or under specific circumstances. Based on a survey of a set of recently created ponds in an area of approximately 18 × ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Juračka PJ,Declerck SA,Vondrák D,Beran L,Černý M,Petrusek A

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance of Pteridium aquilinum to insect attack was studied by incorporating air dried bracken leaf meal and extracts of bracken leaf meal into an artificial diet for Trichoplusia ni (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). When larvae are reared on diets containing 6% bracken leaf meal, they do not mature past the second instar ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hendrix SD

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The responses of Polygonum pensylvanicum L., an early successional annual, and of Polygonum virginianum L., a late successional perennial, were examined along discontinuous gradients of soil moisture, light and nutrient availability. In the case of P. virginianum both individuals grown from seed and individuals grown ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Lee HS,Zangerl AR,Garbutt K,Bazzaz FA

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined how different exploratory behavioral types of largemouth bass responded to differing prey communities by determining effects on growth, survival and diet in experimental ponds. We found evidence that non-explorer largemouth bass target young-of-year bluegill early on in life, but bluegill were not an impor...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Nannini MA,Wahl DH

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the effects of defoliation by a graminivorous grasshopper on the foliage quality of the C3 plant, western wheatgrass (Pascopyrum smithii [Rydb] A. Love). Additionally, we determined the effects of this defoliation upon the subsequent feeding of the graminivorous grasshopper Phoetaliotes nebrascensis Thom...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Redak RA,Capinera JL

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of malarial parasitism on the ability of male western fence lizards, Sceloporus occidentalis, to compete for access to females was assessed experimentally. Pairs of male lizards, one infected with the malarial parasite, Plasmodium mexicanum, and the other not infected, were matched by size and color and pla...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Schall JJ,Dearing MD

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon dioxide efflux and soil microenvironmental factors were measured diurnally in Carex aquatilus-and Eriophorum angustifolium-dominated riparian tundra communities to determine the relative importance of soil environmental factors controlling ecosystem carbon dioxide exchange with the atmosphere. Measurements were...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Oberbauer SF,Gillespie CT,Cheng W,Gebauer R,Serra AS,Tenhunen JD

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatial distribution in the two collembolan species Tomocerus minor and Orchesella cincta is greatly influenced by the distribution of the environmental factors water and food. T. minor is totally restricted in distribution to water-saturated places, where it forms spaced-out aggregations. O. cincta assembles in water...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Verhoef HA,Nagelkerke CJ

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moths eclosed earlier from pupae of the bertha armyworm,Mamestra configurata, that were exposed briefly (1 to 5 days) to a warm temperature (15 or 20°C) at the beginning of postdiapause pupal-adult metamorphosis and then incubated at 10 or 12.5°C than from pupae incubated at 10 or 12.5°C throughout metamorphosis. The ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Turnock WJ,Bodnaryk RP,Abramson D

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The density of a plant population is expected to influence reproductive success through changes in the quantity and quality of pollination service, or because both density and reproduction respond to quality of the local environment. We reported previously that seed set in sparse natural populations of Delphinium nutt...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Bosch M,Waser NM

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant roots transfer water between soil layers of different water potential thereby significantly affecting the distribution and availability of water in the soil profile. We used a modification of the heat pulse method to measure sap flow in roots of Grevillea robusta and Eucalyptus camaldulensis and demonstrated a r...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Burgess SS,Adams MA,Turner NC,Ong CK

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used Y-plant, a computer-based model of crown architecture, to examine the implications of leaf reorientation resulting from petiole bending in Psychotria limonensis (Rubiaceae) seedlings. During this reorientation process, bending of the petioles of lower leaves that are potentially self-shaded by the upper leaves...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gálvez D,Pearcy RW

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that a heterogeneous environment enhances species richness and allows for the coexistence of species. However, there is increasing evidence that environmental heterogeneity can have no effect or even a negative effect on plant species richness and plant coexistence at a local scale. We examined w...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Douda J,Doudová-Kochánková J,Boublík K,Drašnarová A

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contamination in marine foodwebs is nowadays of great environmental concern owing to the increasing levels of pollution in marine ecosystems from different anthropogenic sources. Seabirds can be used as indicators of regional contaminant patterns across large temporal and spatial scales. We analysed Hg, Se and Pb leve...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ramos R,González-Solís J,Forero MG,Moreno R,Gómez-Díaz E,Ruiz X,Hobson KA

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：:Research on winter energy management in small vertebrates has focused on the regulation of body mass (BM) within a framework of starvation-predation trade-off. Winter-acclimatized birds exhibit a seasonal increase in both BM and basal metabolic rate (BMR), although the patterns of co-variation between the two traits r...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Broggi J,Nilsson JF,Koivula K,Hohtola E,Nilsson JÅ

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing evidence has shown that nutrients and consumers interact to control primary productivity in natural systems, but how abiotic stress affects this interaction is unclear. Moreover, while herbivores can strongly impact zonation patterns in a variety of systems, there are few examples of this in salt marshes. W...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Alberti J,Méndez Casariego A,Daleo P,Fanjul E,Silliman BR,Bertness M,Iribarne O

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analyses of carbon-assimilation patterns in response to intercellular CO2 concentrations, and the photosynthetic water-and nitrogen-use efficiencies, were conducted for a C3, a C4, and three C3-C4 species in the genus Flaveria in order to determine some of the advantages and disadvantages of C3-C4 intermediate photosy...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Monson RK

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prey intake and selection were related to within-shoal position for Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) engaged in annual migration across the Newfoundland shelf in the northwest Atlantic. Comparisons made among fish occupying five regions from the front to rear of a large (>10 km across) migrating shoal indicated that leadin...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： DeBlois EM,Rose GA

更新日期：1996-10-01 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：:The infestation of small alpine mammals with fleas during the year and at different altitudes was investigated. The data are based on an investigation carried out between 1966 and 1969 in Tirol (Austria) in different altitudinal zones of the alps, 1136 fleas having been collected from 625 insectivores and rodents. By ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Mahnert V

更新日期：1972-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beaver (Castor canadensis) affect the benthic invertebrate community of small woodland streams in Quebec through habitat modifications. Their activities influence community structure through the replacement of lotic taxa by lentic forms and community function by increasing the absolute importance of collectors and pre...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： McDowell DM,Naiman RJ

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tests of density dependent regulation of population size depend on the concept of equilibrium population size. Such an equilibrium is a purely theoretical construct whose existence in the field is debatable and whose value cannot be measured. An equilibrium is supposed to fluctuate in time, but the extent of the fluct...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Wolda H

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The life-cycle of the dominant brackish water ostracod Cyprideis torosa (Jones, 1850) has been studied during 4 years. The species has only one generation anually. Reproduction is fairly similar throughout the years and appears to be tuned in to temperature. The number of adults has one peak every year and can be desc...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Heip C

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trirhabda bacharidis (Weber) (Chrysomelidae), a univoltine, monophagous beetle is the dominant herbivore on Baccharis halimifolia (Compositae), a woody, perennial shrub that leafs out in early spring and retains its leaves into November. Available plant biomass increases during the season but T. bacharidis feeds only ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Kraft SK,Denno RF

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large-bodied zooplankton of the genus Daphnia are thought to be keystone species in freshwater pelagic habitats, potentially able to exert strong grazing effects and enhance phosphorus limitation of algae. I examined the degree to which Daphnia pulex differ from small-bodied zooplankton in their effects on algal bioma...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Steiner CF

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon allocation demands from root-nodulating nitrogen-fixing bacteria (NFB) can modulate the host plant's chemical phenotype, with strong bottom-up effects on herbivores. In contrast to well-studied rhizobia, the effects of other important NFB on plant chemistry and herbivory are much less understood. Here, combinin...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ballhorn DJ,Elias JD,Balkan MA,Fordyce RF,Kennedy PG

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The partitioning of energy in three species of nematode, Paroigolaimella bernensis, Diplogasteritus nudicapitatus and Rhabditis curvicaudata, from a polysaprobic environment is considered. Temperature was shown to have a profound impact on the rate at which these organisms obtained food resources and on the partitioni...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Woombs M,Laybourn-Parry J

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most fish species are regularly subjected to periods of starvation during which a reduction of energy turnover might be favourable for the animal. This reduction of energy flux may be achieved by changes in thermal behaviour and/or swimming activity. We investigated such behavioural changes during starvation and subse...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： van Dijk P,Staaks G,Hardewig I

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the hypothesis that leaves of broad-leaved tree species are more highly defended at low latitudes than at high latitudes. We used canonical discriminant analysis to compare tree species from Panama (9°N, 39 species), Missouri, USA (38°N, 37 species), and southern Ontario, Canada (44°N, 34 species) with respe...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Marquis RJ,Ricklefs RE,Abdala-Roberts L

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00