Plant-animal interactions in suburban environments: implications for floral evolution.

abstract：:We report a new obligate pollination mutualism involving the senita cactus, Lophocereus schottii (Cactaceae, Pachyceereae), and the senita moth, Upiga virescens (Pyralidae, Glaphyriinae) in the Sonoran Desert and discuss the evolution of specialized pollination mutualisms. L. schottii is a night-blooming, self-incompa...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Fleming TH,Holland JN

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The post-dispersal fate of seeds and fruit (diaspores) of three vertebrate-dispersed trees, Crataegus monogyna, Prunus mahaleb and Taxus baccata, was studied in the Andalusian highlands, south-eastern Spain. Exclosures were used to quantify separately the impact of vertebrates and invertebrates on seed removal in rela...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hulme PE

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The population dynamics of snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus) are fundamental to the ecosystem dynamics of Canada's boreal forest. During the 8- to 11-year population cycle, hare densities can fluctuate up to 40-fold. Predators in this system (lynx, coyotes, great-horned owls) affect population numbers not only through...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Lavergne SG,McGowan PO,Krebs CJ,Boonstra R

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Feeding behavior in B. calyciflorus was observed in both constrained and unconfined individuals. There are at least three mechanisms by which the ingestion of suspended particles may be regulated. First, the cirri of the pseudotrochus may be extended, allowing particles to enter the funnel-shaped buccal field, or they...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gilbert JJ,Starkweather PL

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined patterns of density and species diversity for leaf-mining Lepidopterans and gall-forming Hymenopterans in two oak (Quercus spp.) hybrid zones: Quercus depressipes x Q. rugosa and Q. emoryi x Q. coccolobifolia. In both species complexes, hybrid hosts typically supported significantly lower densities and spe...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Boecklen WJ,Spellenberg R

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freezing tolerance as a cold resistance mechanism is described for the first time in a plant growing in the tropical range of the Andean high mountains. Draba chionophila, the plant in which freezing tolerance was found, is the vascular plant which reaches the highest altitudes in the Venezuelan Andes (approximately 4...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Azocar A,Rada F,Goldstein G

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The host specificity of insect parasitoids and herbivores is thought to be shaped by a suite of traits that mediate host acceptance and host suitability. We conducted laboratory experiments to identify mechanisms shaping the host specificity of the aphid parasitoid Binodoxys communis. Twenty species of aphids were exp...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Desneux N,Barta RJ,Hoelmer KA,Hopper KR,Heimpel GE

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pace-of-life syndrome describes covariation between life-history, behavioral and physiological traits; while, the emerging behavioral-bioenergetics theory proposes mechanistic links between those traits in a spatial-ecological context. However, little is known about the association between the limits to metabolic ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Boratyński Z,Szyrmer M,Koteja P

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Daily energy metabolism and water flux were measured with doubly labeled water in the free-living insectivorous lizards Cnemidophorus tigris (mean body mass 15.7 g) and Callisaurus draconoides (8.6 g) in June 1979 in the Colorado Desert of California. C. tigris was an active forager; it spent 91% of its 5-h daily acti...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Anderson RA,Karasov WH

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reproductive behaviour of the toad Bufo calamita was studied in a large population in the northern Rhineland, Germany. Toads bred at four spatially separated but neighbouring areas including 34 breeding ponds. Three methods were applied to monitor quantitatively the intensity of breeding and migratory activity: ca...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Sinsch U

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An automated, fiber optic point quadrat system for vegetation sampling is described. Because the effective point diameter of this system never exceeds 25 μm it minimizes the substantial errors which can arise with conventional point quadrats. Automatic contact detection eliminates operator subjectivity, and permits wo...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Caldwell MM,Harris GW,Dzurec RS

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of N supply on shoot and leaf lifespan was investigated in established stands of four herbaceous Carex species which differed in maximum dry matter production. These species were, in rank order of increasing maximum dry matter production (per unit ground area): Carex diandra≤C. rostrata

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Aerts R,de Caluwe H

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural abundance of (15)N and [N] was studied in thalli of mat-forming lichens collected from tundra and heathland sites in the northern and southern hemispheres. The study includes samples of British Cladonia portentosa from sites in regions of high and low N-loading and in heathland growing both directly on peat an...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ellis CJ,Crittenden PD,Scrimgeour CM,Ashcroft C

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regularly inundated region of the middle Amazon river together with its marginal lakes is characterized by special hydrographic, hydrochemical and biological conditions [1-4]. It is called "Várzea". Regular investigations of such Várzea lakes revealed several correlations between changes in water level, thermic an...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： de Menezes Santos U

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the abundance of studies on competitive interactions, relatively few experiments have been used to fit explicit competition models and estimate competition coefficients. Such estimates are valuable for making contact between theoretical and empirical studies, which tend to measure competition in different unit...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Inouye BD

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corridors connect otherwise isolated habitat patches and can direct movement of animals among such patches. In eight experimental landscapes, we tested two hypotheses of how corridors might affect dispersal behavior. The Traditional Corridor hypothesis posits that animals preferentially leave patches via corridors, fo...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Fried JH,Levey DJ,Hogsette JA

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pre-hatching developmental times for prosobranch gastropods are greatly influenced by temperature and taxonomic affinity. If the data used here (including all available data from the Muricacea) are a representative sample, then reasonably accurate estimates of developmental time can be obtained for most prosobranchs k...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Spight TM

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The competitive interactions between roach (Rutilus rutilus) and rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalmus) were investigated in two habitats, the open water and the waterlily zone. The growth rates of both species in enclosures were lower when confined together than when alone, demonstrating interspecific competition. Allopa...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Johansson L

更新日期：1987-08-01 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：:During a severe outbreak of sarcoptic mange (Sarcoptes scabiei vulpes) starting among red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) in Sweden in the 1970s, we studied: 1) the establishment and spread of the disease in northernmost Sweden (by inquiries), and 2) the 1970-84 bag records for foxes and mountain hares (Lepus timidus) (an alter...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Danell K,Hörnfeldt B

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changing environments can have divergent effects on biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships at alternating trophic levels. Freshwater mussels fertilize stream foodwebs through nutrient excretion, and mussel species-specific excretion rates depend on environmental conditions. We asked how differences in mussel di...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Spooner DE,Vaughn CC,Galbraith HS

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this study was to evaluate the contribution of oak trees (Quercus spp.) and their associated mycorrhizal fungi to total community soil respiration in a deciduous forest (Black Rock Forest) and to explore the partitioning of autotrophic and heterotrophic respiration. Trees on twelve 75 × 75-m plots were gir...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Levy-Varon JH,Schuster WS,Griffin KL

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indications of global climate change and associated unusual temperature fluctuations have become increasingly obvious over the past few decades. Consequently, the relevance of temperature increases for ecological communities and for whole ecosystems is one of the major challenges of current ecological research. One ap...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Norf H,Arndt H,Weitere M

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to determine the influence of the hydrogen-ion concentration on the damage exerted to lichens by sulfur dioxide gas, thalli of the species Hypogymnia physodes and Xanthoria parietina were submerged in buffer solutions of pH 2 to pH 8 and subsequently exposed to SO2 gas. Net photosynthesis was employed as a cr...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Türk R,Wirth V

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pycnogonum litorale has a terminal anecdysis. After attaining maturity it does not moult again. Maturity can be attained at different body size, the female usually being larger than the male.The pre-adult instar can also be entered at various body sizes. The duration of the pre-adult instar depends upon body size: At ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Schmidt HW

更新日期：1971-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtus duodecimcostatus in a mediterranean vole which is not known to display spectacular increases in population numbers as in some microtine species. A population was studied in southern France with a capture-recapture method. The population included resident adults which have a high and constant survival rate (mo...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Paradis E,Guédon G

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimal foraging theory is based on the assumption that at least some aspects of foraging behavior are genetically determined (Pyke et al. 1977; Kamil and Sargent 1980; Pyke 1984). Nonetheless, very few studies have examined the role of genetics in foraging behavior. Here, we report on geographical differences in the ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hedrick AV,Riechert SE

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water stress and temperature effects on growth, translocation and reallocation of 14C assimilated by blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis (H.B.K.) Lag. ex Steud.) were studied for sods extracted from shortgrass prairie. The sods were kept at either 24°/16° or 34°/16°C (day/nigh) temperatures and were labeled at two phenolog...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Chung HH,Trlica MJ

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes to the radiative environment arising from stratospheric ozone (O(3)) depletion and subsequent associations between these changes and the pigmentation of the moss Andreaea regularis were measured in late austral spring and early summer 1998 at Rothera Point on the western Antarctic Peninsula (67 degrees S, 68 d...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Newsham KK

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stress-gradient hypothesis (SGH) predicts that the community-wide prevalence of positive interactions, relative to negative interactions, is greater under more severe environmental conditions. Because the frequency of positive and negative interactions within a community is the aggregate of multiple pair-wise inte...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： le Roux PC,McGeoch MA

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00