Recruitment tolerance to increased temperature present across multiple kelp clades.

abstract：:Soil fungi link above- and belowground carbon (C) fluxes through their interactions with plants and contribute to C and nutrient dynamics through the production, turnover, and activity of fungal hyphae. Despite their importance to ecosystem processes, estimates of hyphal production and turnover rates are relatively un...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Cheeke TE,Phillips RP,Kuhn A,Rosling A,Fransson P

更新日期：2020-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Abiotic constraints and biotic interactions act simultaneously to shape communities. However, these community assembly mechanisms are often studied independently, which can limit understanding of how they interact to affect species dynamics and distributions. We develop a hierarchical Bayesian neighborhood modeling ap...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Fortunel C,Lasky JR,Uriarte M,Valencia R,Wright SJ,Garwood NC,Kraft NJB

更新日期：2018-10-01 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：:Most richness estimators currently in use are derived from models that consider sampling with replacement or from the assumption of infinite populations. Neither of the assumptions is suitable for sampling sessile organisms such as plants where quadrats are often sampled without replacement and the area of study is al...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Shen TJ,He F

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lightning fire is the dominant natural disturbance of the western mixedwood boreal forest of North America. We quantified the independent effects of weather and forest composition on lightning fire initiation (a detected and recorded fire start) patterns in Alberta, Canada, to demonstrate how these biotic and abiotic ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Krawchuk MA,Cumming SG,Flannigan MD,Wein RW

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Foundation species structure forest communities and ecosystems but are difficult to identify without long-term observations or experiments. We used statistical criteria--outliers from size-frequency distributions and scale-dependent negative effects on alpha diversity and positive effects on beta diversity--to identif...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Qiao X,Zhang J,Wang Z,Xu Y,Zhou T,Mi X,Cao M,Ye W,Jin G,Hao Z,Wang X,Wang X,Tian S,Li X,Xiang W,Liu Y,Shao Y,Xu K,Sang W,Zeng F,Ren H,Jiang M,Ellison AM

更新日期：2020-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The high herbivore diversity in savanna systems has been attributed to the inherent spatial and temporal heterogeneity related to the quantity and quality of food resources. Allometric scaling predicts that smaller-bodied grazers rely on higher quality forage than larger-bodied grazers. We replicated burns at varying ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Sensenig RL,Demment MW,Laca EA

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterogeneity is increasingly recognized as a foundational characteristic of ecological systems. Under global change, understanding temporal community heterogeneity is necessary for predicting the stability of ecosystem functions and services. Indeed, spatial heterogeneity is commonly used in alternative stable state ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Collins SL,Avolio ML,Gries C,Hallett LM,Koerner SE,La Pierre KJ,Rypel AL,Sokol ER,Fey SB,Flynn DFB,Jones SK,Ladwig LM,Ripplinger J,Jones MB

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human-mediated increases in nutrient availability alter patterns of primary production, impact species diversity, and threaten ecosystem function. Nutrients can also alter community structure by disrupting the relationships between nutrient-sharing mutualists that form the foundation of communities. Given their oligot...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Shantz AA,Burkepile DE

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many tropical forests are characterized by large losses of plant-available forms of nitrogen (N), indicating that they are N rich, and by an abundance of plants capable of symbiotic N fixation. These N-fixing plants can fix enough N to drive N richness. However, biological N fixation (BNF) is more expensive than using...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Menge DN,Levin SA

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although birds and mammals play important roles in several mechanisms hypothesized to maintain plant diversity in species-rich habitats, there have been few long-term, community-level tests of their importance. We excluded terrestrial birds and mammals from fourteen 6 x 7.5 m plots in Australian primary tropical rain ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Theimer TC,Gehring CA,Green PT,Connell JH

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphological traits provide the interface between species and their environment. For example, body size affects the fitness of individuals in various ways. Yet especially for ectotherms, the applicability of general rules of interspecific clines of body size and even more so of other morphological traits is still und...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Tiede Y,Hemp C,Schmidt A,Nauss T,Farwig N,Brandl R

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small streams account for the majority of channel length in river basins worldwide and are the primary conveyors of terrestrial nutrients to rivers and ultimately the oceans. The controls of stream nutrient fluxes, however, are debated. Classical models emphasize that nutrient transport in streams integrates nutrient ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Brookshire EN,Valett HM,Gerber S

更新日期：2009-02-01 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：:Indirect biotic interactions play a crucial role in structuring ecological communities, but many of these interactions have not been explored. Algal competition and corallivory are two major stressors contributing to the decline of coral reefs. Here, we provide the first evidence of algal-induced corallivory and syner...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Wolf AT,Nugues MM

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predation risk can strongly influence community dynamics through its effects on prey foraging decisions that often involve habitat shifts (i.e., from risky to refuge habitats). Although the within-generation effects of risk on prey are well appreciated, the effects of parental experience with risk on offspring decisio...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Donelan SC,Trussell GC

更新日期：2015-08-01 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：:Tropical forests include a diversity of habitats, which has led to specialization in plants. Near Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, nutrient-rich clay forests surround nutrient-poor white-sand forests, each harboring a unique composition of habitat specialist trees. We tested the hypothesis that the combination of impo...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Fine PV,Miller ZJ,Mesones I,Irazuzta S,Appel HM,Stevens MH,Sääksjärvi I,Schultz JC,Coley PD

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Global environmental change (GEC) is affecting species interactions and causing a rapid decline in biodiversity. In this study, I present a new Ecosystem Disruption Index to quantify the impacts of simulated nitrogen (N) deposition (0, 10, 20, and 50 kg N·ha-1 ·yr-1  + 6-7 kg N·ha-1 ·yr-1 background) on abiotic and bi...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Ochoa-Hueso R

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occurrence patterns of many sessile species in dynamic landscapes are not in equilibrium due to their slow rates of metapopulation colonization and extinction. Colonization-extinction data enable the estimation of colonization rates for such species, but collecting the necessary data may require long waiting times bet...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Fabritius H,Singer A,Pennanen J,Snäll T

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Limestone tropical forests represent a meaningful fraction of the land area in Central America (25%) and Southeast Asia (40%). These ecosystems are marked by high biological diversity, CO2 uptake capacity, and high pH soils, the latter making them fundamentally different from the majority of lowland tropical forest ar...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Winbourne JB,Brewer SW,Houlton BZ

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants commonly employ indirect resistance to reduce herbivory by provisioning predatory arthropod populations with additional resources. Numerous predatory arthropods consume pollen that is entrapped on dense, wooly trichomes of plants. Over two seasons, we supplemented pollen on the wooly leaves of turkey mullein, C...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Van Wyk JI,Krimmel BA,Crova L,Pearse IS

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduced species are frequently implicated in declines of native species. In many cases, however, evidence linking introduced species to native declines is weak. Failure to make strong inferences regarding the role of introduced species can hamper attempts to predict population viability and delay effective manageme...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Yackulic CB,Korman J,Yard MD,Dzul M

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between species richness and environmental variables may change depending on habitat structure, dispersal ability, species mixing, and community adaptation to the environment. It is crucial to know how these factors regulate the environment-diversity relationship. The land molluscan fauna of the Ogasa...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Chiba S

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased drought intensity and frequency due to climate change may reduce the abundance and activity of nitrogen (N2 )-fixing plants, which supply new N to terrestrial ecosystems. As a result, drought may indirectly reduce ecosystem productivity through its effect on the N cycle. Here, we manipulated growing season n...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Minucci JM,Miniat CF,Wurzburger N

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyze an age-, size- and sex-structured model to investigate how the interplay between individual-level energy budget dynamics and the feedback of population grazing on resources shapes the individual life history and the dynamics of ungulate populations, living in a predator-free, seasonal resource environment. ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： De Roos AM,Galic N,Heesterbeek H

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant traits are influenced by herbivore diet selection, but little is known about how traits are affected by different types of herbivores. We related eight traits of 27 subalpine shrub species in South Island, New Zealand, to damage of these shrubs by introduced red deer (Cervus elaphus) and native invertebrate herb...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Tanentzap AJ,Lee WG,Dugdale JS,Patrick BP,Fenner M,Walker S,Coomes DA

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Greater resource use by diverse communities might result from species occupying complementary niches. Demonstrating niche complementarity among species is challenging, however, due to the difficulty in relating differences between species in particular traits to their use of complementary resources. Here, we overcame ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Gable JT,Crowder DW,Northfield TD,Steffan SA,Snyder WE

更新日期：2012-09-01 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：: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