Dung beetles in an avian-dominated island ecosystem: feeding and trophic ecology.

abstract：:Herbivores can have strong deleterious effects on plant growth, reproduction, and even survival. Because these effects might be strongly interrelated, the direct consumptive effects of herbivores and a variety of indirect effects are difficult to untangle. Reductions in growth, for example, may strongly impact the flo...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Brys R,Shefferson RP,Jacquemyn H

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A two year comparative field water relations study was conducted in central Maryland on three sympatric temperate lianas, Lonicera japonica, Vitis vulpina and Parthenocissus quinquefolia. Seasonal physiological activity was longer by approximately 9 weeks in the evergreen L. japonica, while peak rates of stem elongati...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Bell DJ,Forseth IN,Teramura AH

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study uses short-term assays and long-term transplant experiments to document the potential importance of fish predation and herbivory to the distribution and abundance of reef-building corals in a Caribbean back-reef system. Experimental manipulations of fish access reveal that the zonal patterns of the two reef...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Littler MM,Taylor PR,Littler DS

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In abandoned or extensively managed grasslands, the mechanisms involved in pioneer tree species success are not fully explained. Resource competition among plants and microclimate modifications have been emphasised as possible mechanisms to explain variation of survivorship and growth. In this study, we evaluated a nu...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Picon-Cochard C,Coll L,Balandier P

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

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：:Disturbance is now recognized as a key ecosystem process but few studies have examined its indirect effects on individuals in a population or its relationship to ecological dominance in a community. Using an ecologically dominant small mammal population in experimentally burned habitat as a model, I empirically tested...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Plavsic MJ

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of invertebrate shredders on organic matter dynamics and phosphorus spiralling was studied over a 30-week period in laboratory streams. The streams were fed by groundwater, layered with cobble and gravel from a natural stream, covered with opaque material to eliminate algal growth, and initially contained 1...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Mulholland PJ,Elwood JW,Newbold JD,Ferren LA

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper considers prey size selection by four molluscivorous cichlids feeding on the intermediate host snail of Schistosoma parasites, Biomphalaria glabrata. Haplochromis ishmaeli obtains its prey by crushing the snails between the pharyngeal jaws, whereas H. xenognathus, H. sauvagei and Macropleurodus bicolor appl...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Slootweg R

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the impact of anthropogenic activities intensifies worldwide, an increasing proportion of landscape is converted to early successional stages every year. To understand and anticipate the global effects of the human footprint on wildlife, assessing short-term changes in animal populations in response to disturbance ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Martineau J,Pothier D,Fortin D

更新日期：2016-07-01 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：:Synchronous leaf production has been proposed as a mechanism to reduce herbivore damage to young leaves by satiating herbivores. To test this hypothesis, I measured leaf production, leaf survivorship, and herbivore damage on juveniles of Gustavia superba (H.B.K.) Berg (Lecythidaceae), in two sites in Central Panama. L...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Aide TM

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the simultaneously hermaphroditic marine fish, Serranus subligarius, male role individuals are known to pair spawn, group spawn and streak spawn. While the effects of these common mating tactics on mating success in the male role have been well studied, their consequences for the reproductive success of the individ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Adreani MS

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bryophytes dominate the carbon and nitrogen cycling of many poorly drained terrestrial ecosystems and are important in the vegetation-atmosphere exchange of carbon and water, yet few studies have estimated their leaf area at the stand scale. This study quantified the bryophyte-specific leaf area (SLA) and leaf area in...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Bond-Lamberty B,Gower ST

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theoretical models about the benefits of philopatry predict that immigrant fitness can be higher, lower or similar to that of philopatrics depending on habitat heterogeneity, dispersal costs, distance between patches or population densities. In this study, we compared transience rates, local survival and recruitment a...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Oro D,Tavecchia G,Genovart M

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stand thinning across different soil drainage types was used to test the ecophysiological basis for the control of foliar monoterpenes in current-year foliage of balsam trees [Abies balsamea (L.) P. Mill.] the year following treatment. Photosynthetic capacity (A max) was greater on mesic sites than on sub-hygric and h...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Lamontagne M,Bauce É,Margolis H

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions among granivores and seeds depend on the foraging behaviour and morphology of the granivores and on the attributes and availability of seeds. We investigated seed selection by the seed harvesting ant Messor bouvieri in three adjacent plant communities in Spain by relating the harvested seeds to those in t...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Willott SJ,Compton SG,Incoll LD

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four colonies of the desert leaf-cutter ant Acromyrmex versicolor versicolor (Pergande) located 30 miles N.E. of Tempe, Arizona were observed over a 7 month period. The ants utilized trails in foraging, a characteristic of higher attines, as well as foraging singly, a typical pattern among the more primitive gardeners...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gamboa GJ

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predators can alter the outcome of ecological interactions among other members of the food web through their effects on prey behavior. While it is well known that animals often alter their behavior with the imposition of predation risk, we know less about how other features of predators may affect prey behavior. For e...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Turner AM,Fetterolf SA,Bernot RJ

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate change due to greenhouse gas emissions is predicted to raise the mean global temperature by 1.0-3.5°C in the next 50-100 years. The direct and indirect effects of this potential increase in temperature on terrestrial ecosystems and ecosystem processes are likely to be complex and highly varied in time and spac...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Rustad L,Campbell J,Marion G,Norby R,Mitchell M,Hartley A,Cornelissen J,Gurevitch J,GCTE-NEWS.

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Larger nymphs within aquatic insect taxa have been frequently observed to be transported down-stream in the stream drift only at night. Others have hypothesized this pattern results primarily from large nymphs' behavioural avoidance of entering drift during daylight, when size-selective, visually-feeding fish predator...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Poff NL,DeCino RD,Ward JV

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When testing census data of insect populations for regulation, and/or for overall density dependence in the course of numbers over years, certain conditions, which follow from the testing models, should be fulfilled. Even if the series of densities may be considered a piece of first-order Markov chain (a necessary con...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Den Boer PJ

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to test if females of the aphid hyperparasitoid Dendrocerus carpenteri (Curtis produce patch marks. We tested if these marks inform a foraging female of the identity of the producer of the mark (the female herself or a conspecific female) and on the producer's success or failure in finding ho...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Höller C,Hörmann R

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the factors that influence plant distributions is a considerable challenge for ecologists in the face of environmental change. Here, we quantify spatial and temporal variation in the finite rate of population increase of the annual grass Vulpia fasciculata. Specifically, we test the hypothesis that the n...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Norton LR,Firbank LG,Scott A,Watkinson AR

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intermediate disturbance hypothesis (IDH) predicts that species diversity is maximized at moderate disturbance levels. This model is often applied to grassy ecosystems, where disturbance can be important for maintaining vascular plant composition and diversity. However, effects of disturbance type and frequency on...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： O'Bryan KE,Prober SM,Lunt ID,Eldridge DJ

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(i) The growth of ca. 100 individuals of a small deciduous tree Euphorbia pyrifolia, of different ages and edaphic regimes, and with different levels of infestation by the coccid Icerya seychellarum, has been studied on Aldabra Atoll over two years (1976-1978). Infestation on leaves ranged between 0 and 1.3 mg dry wei...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Newbery DM

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adults of the leaf beetle Plagiodera versicolora Laich, avoided previously injured shoots of Salix alba 'Tristis' in favor of nearby uninjured ones. The response was rapid and persisted for five days of study. During brief periods of observation, the vast majority of beetles engaged in behaviors other than locomotion ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Raupp MJ,Sadof CS

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we test three plant species for the inducibility of their alkaloid production. The plants were heavily damaged by cutting off 50% of their leaf surface using a pair of scissors. The cut-off leaf tips were used as controls for possible diurnal fluctuations. After 3, 6, 12, 24 and 48 h, respectively, the l...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： van Dam NM,van der Meijden E,Verpoorte R

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the population structure of a high arctic breeding wader bird species, the White-rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis. Breeding adults, chicks and juveniles were sampled at seven localities throughout the species' breeding range in arctic Canada in 1999. The mitochondrial control region was analysed by DNA...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Wennerberg L,Klaassen M,Lindström Å

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For organisms that exhibit complex life cycles, resource conditions experienced by individuals before metamorphosis can strongly affect phenotypes later in life. Such resource-induced effects are known to arise from variation in resource quantity, yet little is known regarding effects stemming from variation in resour...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Stoler AB,Stephens JP,Relyea RA,Berven KA,Tiegs SD

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper investigates the effect of brood parasitism in a dung beetle assemblage in an arid region of Spain. The study was conducted during the spring season (March-May 1994-1998) using mesh cylinders buried into the ground, filled with sand and with sheep dung on top. We quantified the proportion of nests containin...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： González-Megías A,Sánchez-Piñero F

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00