Plant diversity and density predict belowground diversity and function in an early successional alpine ecosystem.

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：:Soil microbial communities have the metabolic and genetic capability to adapt to changing environmental conditions on very short time scales. In this paper we combine biogeochemical and molecular approaches to reveal this potential, showing that microbial biomass can turn over on time scales of days to months in soil,...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Schmidt SK,Costello EK,Nemergut DR,Cleveland CC,Reed SC,Weintraub MN,Meyer AF,Martin AM

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Competition is predicted to affect the expression of inducible defenses, but because costs of behavioral and morphological antipredator defenses differ along resource gradients, its effects on defenses may depend on the traits considered. We tested the predictions from different defense models in tadpoles of the commo...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Teplitsky C,Laurila A

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pollination and herbivory networks have mainly been studied separately, highlighting their distinct structural characteristics and the related processes and dynamics. However, most plants interact with both pollinators and herbivores, and there is evidence that both types of interaction affect each other. Here we inve...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Sauve AMC,Thébault E,Pocock MJO,Fontaine C

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of facilitation have primarily been limited to single mechanisms, species, or environments. We examined interacting mechanisms governing the facilitative effects of Pinus flexilis on two later successional understory species, Pseudotsuga menziesii and Ribes cereum, in different microhabitats and seasons at the...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Baumeister D,Callaway RM

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many organisms, specific predator species induce defensive phenotypes that are qualitatively different from the phenotypes induced by other predator species. This differential induction implies that there is no optimal phenotype that works best against all predators. However, few studies have actually tested the hy...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Benard MF

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In conservation and evolutionary ecology, quantifying and accounting for individual heterogeneity in vital rates of open populations is of particular interest. Individual random effects have been used in capture-recapture models, adopting a Bayesian framework with Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) to carry out estimatio...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Gimenez O,Choquet R

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selection of prey that are small and in poor body condition is a widespread phenomenon in terrestrial predator-prey systems and may benefit prey populations by removing substandard individuals. Similar selection is widely assumed to operate in aquatic systems. Indeed, size-selective predation is a longstanding and cen...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Tucker S,Hipfner JM,Trudel M

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intensive land use activities, such as agriculture, are a leading cause of biodiversity loss and can have lasting impacts on ecological systems. Yet, few studies have investigated how land-use legacies impact phylogenetic diversity (the total amount of evolutionary history in a community) or how restoration activities...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Turley NE,Brudvig LA

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations generally alter element stoichiometry in plants. However, a comprehensive evaluation of the elevated CO2 impact on plant nitrogen: phosphorus (N:P) ratios and the underlying mechanism has not been conducted. We synthesized the results from 112 previously published studies usin...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Deng Q,Hui D,Luo Y,Elser J,Wang YP,Loladze I,Zhang Q,Dennis S

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The scaling of metabolic rates to body size is widely considered to be of great biological and ecological importance, and much attention has been devoted to determining its theoretical and empirical value. Most debate centers on whether the underlying power law describing metabolic rates is 2/3 (as predicted by scalin...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Capellini I,Venditti C,Barton RA

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological models concerned with the control of malaria using interventions such as bed nets and vaccines increasingly incorporate realistic aspects of malaria biology. The increasing complexity of these models limits their ability to abstract ecological processes and to address questions on the regulation of pop...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Chaves LF,Kaneko A,Pascual M

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because sea otters (Enhydra lutris) exert a wide array of direct and indirect effects on coastal marine ecosystems throughout their geographic range, we investigated the potential influence of sea otters on the ecology of Bald Eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, USA. We studied the diets...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Anthony RG,Estes JA,Ricca MA,Miles AK,Forsman ED

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated breeding bird communities of isolated woodlots (1.8-600 ha) in east-central Illinois during three summers (1979-1981) to compare the influence of area and habitat on community structure. Woodlots supported from 9 to 43 species and composition was relatively constant among years. Ecological generalists ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Blake JG,Karr JR

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seed predation is an important biotic filter that can influence abundance and spatial distributions of native species through differential effects on recruitment. This filter may also influence the relative abundance of nonnative plants within habitats and the communities' susceptibility to invasion via differences in...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Connolly BM,Pearson DE,Mack RN

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that genetically based traits of plants can structure associated arthropod and microbial communities, but whether the effects are consistent and repeatable across years is unknown. If communities are both heritable (i.e., related individuals tend to support similar communities) and repeatable...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Keith AR,Bailey JK,Whitham TG

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants interact with numerous enemies and mutualists simultaneously and sequentially. Such multispecies interactions can give rise to trait-mediated indirect effects that are likely to be common in nature but which are also inherently difficult to predict. Understanding multispecies interactions is also important in t...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Swope SM,Parker IM

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the context of species distribution models, scrutiny arises from the choice of meaningful environmental predictors. Thermal conditions are not the sole driver, but are the most widely acknowledged abiotic driver of plant life within alpine ecosystems. We linked long-term measurements of direct, plant-relevant, ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Löffler J,Pape R

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Grazing, fire, and climate shape mesic grassland communities. With global change altering all three factors, understanding how grasslands respond to changes in these combined drivers may aid in projecting future changes in grassland ecosystems. We manipulated rainfall and simulated grazing (clipping) in two long-term ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Koerner SE,Collins SL

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial distribution of species is not random; instead, individuals tend to gather, resulting in a non-random pattern. Previous studies used the independent negative binomial distribution (NBD) to model the distributional aggregation of a single species, in which the independence of the distribution of individuals...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Chen Y,Shen TJ,Condit R,Hubbell SP

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex ratios are commonly skewed and variable in wild populations, but few studies track temporal trends in this demographic parameter. We examined variation in the operational sex ratio at two protected and declining breeding colonies of Magellanic Penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus) in Chubut, Argentina. Penguins from ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Gownaris NJ,García Borboroglu P,Boersma PD

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of the relative strength of evolution and the environment on a phenotype is required to predict species responses to environmental change and decide where to source plant material for ecological restoration. This information is critically needed for dominant species that largely determine the productivity of...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Mendola ML,Baer SG,Johnson LC,Maricle BR

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the dynamics of tree establishment is critical to assess forests' composition, management practices, and current responses to global change. We carried out a field seedling transplant experiment to assess not only the direct effects of resources influencing recruitment of four tree species, but also thei...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Ibáñez I,McCarthy-Neumann S

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing evidence for the influence of plant intraspecific variation on associated multi-trophic communities, but the traits driving such effects are largely unknown. We conducted a field experiment with selected genetic lines of the dioecious shrub Baceharis salicifolia to investigate the effects of plant gro...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Abdala-Roberts L,Pratt JD,Pratt R,Schreck TK,Hanna V,Mooney KA

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The temporal stability of aggregate community and ecosystem properties is influenced by the variability of component populations, the interactions among populations, and the influence of environmental fluctuations on populations. Environmental fluctuations that enhance population variability are generally expected to ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Downing AL,Brown BL,Perrin EM,Keitt TH,Leibold MA

更新日期：2008-11-01 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：:Consumer-mediated nutrient supply is increasingly recognized as an important functional process in many ecosystems. Yet, experimentation at relevant spatial and temporal scales is needed to fully integrate this bottom-up pathway into ecosystem models. Artificial reefs provide a unique approach to explore the importanc...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Allgeier JE,Yeager LA,Layman CA

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant biomass or productivity and the species richness of birds are associated across a range of spatial scales. Species-energy theory is generally assumed to explain these correlations. If true, bird richness should also track productivity temporally, and there should be spatial and temporal relationships between pro...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Dobson LL,La Sorte FA,Manne LL,Hawkins BA

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predicting biotic responses to environmental change requires understanding the joint effects of abiotic conditions and biotic interactions on community dynamics. One major challenge is to separate the potentially confounding effects of abiotic environmental variation and local biotic interactions on individual perform...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Muscarella R,Messier J,Condit R,Hubbell SP,Svenning JC

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Added Na was used to determine whether litter decomposition and associated fungal biomass and termites are limited by Na availability in a lowland tropical rainforest at Yasuni, Ecuador. This is a partial test of the "sodium ecosystem respiration" (SER) hypothesis that posits Na is critical for consumers but not plant...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Kaspari M,Clay NA,Donoso DA,Yanoviak SP

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00