ForC: a global database of forest carbon stocks and fluxes.

abstract：:The arcsine square root transformation has long been standard procedure when analyzing proportional data in ecology, with applications in data sets containing binomial and non-binomial response variables. Here, we argue that the arcsine transform should not be used in either circumstance. For binomial data, logistic r...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Warton DI,Hui FK

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coastal wetlands significantly contribute to global carbon storage potential. Sea-level rise and other climate-change-induced disturbances threaten coastal wetland sustainability and carbon storage capacity. It is critical that we understand the mechanisms controlling wetland carbon loss so that we can predict and man...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Stagg CL,Schoolmaster DR,Krauss KW,Cormier N,Conner WH

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying the factors that destabilize communities is critical for predicting and mitigating the ecological impacts of environmental change. Although theory has shown that local ecosystem size and regional dispersal can determine biodiversity, less is known about the direct and indirect effects of these factors on c...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Yeager ME,Gouhier TC,Hughes AR

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The need to model and test hypotheses about complex ecological systems has led to a steady increase in use of path analytical techniques, which allow the modeling of multiple multivariate dependencies reflecting hypothesized causation and mechanisms. The aim is to achieve the estimation of direct, indirect, and total ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Clough Y

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The predator satiation hypothesis posits that masting helps plants escape seed predation through starvation of predators in lean years, followed by satiation of predators in mast years. Importantly, successful satiation requires sufficiently delayed bottom-up effects of seed availability on seed consumers. However, so...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Bogdziewicz M,Marino S,Bonal R,Zwolak R,Steele MA

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interplay between local and large spatial scale processes in open systems is often dependent upon ecological context and species specific factors such as longevity, dispersal capability, or vulnerability to predation. When disturbance clears patches in open systems, the successful reestablishment of adult colonize...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Methratta ET,Petraitis PS

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Piles of large wood (LW) deposited by major floods in river corridors can interact with naturally occurring wildfires from uplands to impact the regeneration of riparian vegetation. This study examines the spatial and short-term temporal response of riparian vegetation and soil nutrients to fire along the Sabie River,...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Pettit NE,Naiman RJ

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in metabolic scaling theory have highlighted the importance of exchange surfaces and vascular network geometry in understanding the integration and scaling of whole-plant form and function. Additional work on leaf form and function has also highlighted general scaling relationships for many leaf traits...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Price CA,Enquist BJ

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although many studies have investigated plant growth in the context of episodic herbivory and pressed resource availability, relatively few have examined how plant growth is affected by pulsed resources and chronic herbivory. Periodical cicada (Magicicada spp.) adults represent a pulsed detrital subsidy that fertilize...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Yang LH,Karban R

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flexible modeling frameworks for species distribution models based on generalized additive models that allow for smooth, nonlinear effects and interactions are of increasing importance in ecology. Commonly, the flexibility of such smooth function estimates is controlled by means of penalized estimation procedures. How...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Hofner B,Müller J,Hothorn T

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early environmental conditions can influence the pattern of growth and development. While poor conditions generally cause slower growth, normal adult size can still be reached if growth accelerates or is prolonged once conditions improve, but such catch-up growth may have deleterious effects later in life. Here we inv...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Lee WS,Monaghan P,Metcalfe NB

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The introduction of chronic, infectious diseases by colonizing populations (invasive or reintroduced) is a serious hazard in conservation biology, threatening the original host and other spillover species. Most research on spatial invasion of diseases has pertained to established host populations, either at steady sta...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Bar-David S,Lloyd-Smith JO,Getz WM

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals of large or dark-colored ectothermic species often have a higher reproduction and activity than small or light-colored ones. However, investments into body size or darker colors should negatively affect the fitness of individuals as they increase their growth and maintenance costs. Thus, it is unlikely tha...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Pinkert S,Friess N,Zeuss D,Gossner MM,Brandl R,Brunzel S

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant-root-associated microbes influence plant phenotype and tolerance to environmental stress, and thus have been hypothesized to play a role in plant local adaptation. Here, we test this hypothesis with factorial experiments addressing the role of microbes in local adaptation of Hypericum perforatum (St. John's wort...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Petipas RH,Wruck AC,Geber MA

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatially synchronous population dynamics are important to ecosystem functioning and have several potential causes. By looking at synchrony in plant productivity over 18 years across two elevations in three types of coastal marsh habitat dominated by different clonal plant species in Georgia, USA, we were able to expl...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Liu W,Pennings SC

更新日期：2020-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We provide algebraic simplifications for the redundancy analysis (RDA) eigenvalue and the canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) eigenvalue in the special case of permanent plots sampled twice. The indices for RDA and CCA are interrelated and are intuitively interpretable. These simplifications also apply to simple s...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Palmer MW,McGlinn DJ,Westerberg L,Milberg P

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kelp systems dominate nearshore marine environments in upwelling zones characterized by cold temperatures and high nutrients. Worldwide, kelp population persistence and recruitment success generally decreases with rising water temperatures coupled with low nutrients, making kelp populations vulnerable to impending war...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Muth AF,Graham MH,Lane CE,Harley CDG

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of the mechanisms that shape biodiversity is essential to understand the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of interacting species. Recent studies posit that most of the organization of mutualistic networks is shaped by differences in species abundance among interacting species. In this study, we examined ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Dattilo W,Marquitti FM,Guimarães PR Jr,Izzo TJ

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecological communities are dynamic entities subjected to extinction/colonization events. Because species are connected through complex interaction networks, the arrival of a new species is likely to affect various species across the community, as observed in plant biological invasions. However, plant invasions usually...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Hernández-Castellano C,Rodrigo A,Gómez JM,Stefanescu C,Calleja JA,Reverté S,Bosch J

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionary pressures that drive long larval planktonic durations in some coastal marine organisms, while allowing direct development in others, have been vigorously debated. We introduce into the argument the asymmetric dispersal of larvae by coastal currents and find that the strength of the currents helps dete...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Pringle JM,Byers JE,Pappalardo P,Wares JP,Marshall D

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used tree ring data (AD 1601-2007) to examine the occurrence of and climatic influences on spruce beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis) outbreaks in south-central and southwest Alaska and found evidence of regional-scale outbreaks dating from the mid-1700s, related to climate variability at multiple temporal scales. Ove...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Sherriff RL,Berg EE,Miller AE

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature imposes a constraint on the rates and outcomes of ecological processes that determine community- and ecosystem-level patterns. The application of metabolic scaling theory has advanced our understanding of the influence of temperature on pattern and process in marine communities. Metabolic scaling theory us...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Bruno JF,Carr LA,O'Connor MI

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ongoing statistical sophistication allows a shift from describing species' spatial distributions toward statistically disentangling the possible roles of environmental variables in shaping species distributions. Based on a landscape-scale benthic survey in the Dutch Wadden Sea, we show the merits of spatially explicit...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Kraan C,Aarts G,Van der Meer J,Piersma T

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth rate (GR) hypothesis relates the evolution of plant defense to resource availability and predicts that plants that have evolved in abiotically stressful environments grow inherently more slowly and are more constitutively resistant to herbivory than plants from more productive habitats. Stress-adapted plant...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Van Zandt PA

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many pest species exhibit huge fluctuations in population abundance. Understanding their large-scale and long-term dynamics is necessary to develop effective control and management strategies. Occupancy models represent a promising approach to unravel interactions between environmental factors and spatiotemporal dynam...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Veran S,Simpson SJ,Sword GA,Deveson E,Piry S,Hines JE,Berthier K

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although direct tree demographic responses to drought are widely recognized, studies of drought-mediated changes in tree interactions are rare. We hypothesize that drought exacerbates soil-water limitation and intensifies competition for water, but reduces light limitation and competition for light. We predict that co...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Chen Y,Uriarte M,Wright SJ,Yu S

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over recent years there has been an accumulation of evidence from a variety of experimental, theoretical, and field studies that many organisms use a movement strategy approximated by Lévy flights when they are searching for resources. Lévy flights are random movements that can maximize the efficiency of resource sear...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Reynolds AM,Rhodes CJ

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-distance dispersal (LDD) may contribute disproportionately to range expansions, the creation of new evolutionary lineages, and species persistence in human-dominated landscapes. However, because data on the individual consequences of dispersal distance are extremely limited, we have little insight on how LDD is m...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Lowe WH

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecological structures and processes occur at specific spatiotemporal scales, and interactions that occur across multiple scales mediate scale-specific (e.g., individual, community, local, or regional) responses to disturbance. Despite the importance of scale, explicitly incorporating a multi-scale perspective into res...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Nash KL,Allen CR,Angeler DG,Barichievy C,Eason T,Garmestani AS,Graham NA,Granholm D,Knutson M,Nelson RJ,Nyström M,Stow CA,Sundstrom SM

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation is an essential feature of biological populations, yet much of ecological theory treats individuals as though they are identical. This simplifying assumption is often justified by the perception that variation among individuals does not have significant effects on the dynamics of whole populations. However, ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Johnson DW,Freiwald J,Bernardi G

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00