Ectomycorrhizal fungal community assembly on regenerating Douglas-fir after wildfire and clearcut harvesting.

abstract：:In southeastern Arizona, Prosopis juliflora (Swartz) DC. and Quercus emoryi Torr. are the dominant woody species at grassland/woodland boundaries. The stability of the grassland/woodland boundary in this region has been questioned, although there is no direct evidence to confirm that woodland is encroaching into grass...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： McPherson GR,Boutton TW,Midwood AJ

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In highly dynamic and unpredictable environments such as the Southern Ocean, species that have evolved behaviors that reduce the effects of intra-specific competition may have a selective advantage. This is particularly true when juveniles face disadvantages when foraging due to morphological or physiological limitati...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Field IC,Bradshaw CJ,Burton HR,Sumner MD,Hindell MA

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:Inter-specific competition, facilitation and predation influence herbivore assemblages, but no study has experimentally explored the interactions between large ungulates and small rodents. In a fully replicated, landscape scale experiment, we manipulated densities of domestic sheep in mountain pastures in Norway. We t...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Steen H,Mysterud A,Austrheim G

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of irradiance during growth on biomass allocation, growth rates, leaf chlorophyll and protein contents, and on gas exchange responses to irradiance and CO2 partial pressures of the evergreen, sclerophyllous, chaparral shrub, Ceanothus megacarpus were determined. Plants were grown at 4 irradiances for the g...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Mahall BE,Schlesinger WH

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The food selection of the common goby, Pomatoschistus microps Krøyer, was studied in the field and in laboratory experiments on the Swedish west coast. The three most important prey organisms for P. microps in the study area were Corophium volutator, chironomid larvae and Nereis spp. Corophium was consumed more than a...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Magnhagen C,Wiederholm AM

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of hunger level and predation risk on habitat choice and foraging in crucian carp, Carassius carassius, were studied in a laboratory experiment. Experiments were carried out in aquaria with or without a predator (pike, Esox lucius). Habitat use and foraging activity of three-fish foraging groups of eithe...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Pettersson LB,Brönmark C

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed the effect of nutrient enrichment on organic matter breakdown in an alpine springbrook, using alder leaf packs to which phosphorus and nitrogen were added in the form of slow-release fertilizer briquettes. The breakdown of leaf packs with nutrients added (k=0.0284 day-1) was significantly faster th...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Robinson CT,Gessner MO

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the general extent to which sex-related differences in palatability occur in boreal dioecious woody plants, males and females of five dioecious woody plant species were presented to free-ranging mountain hares (Lepus timidus) during winter. Hares strongly preferred branches from male plants when feeding on...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hjältén J

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arthropods and pathogens damage leaves in natural ecosystems and may reduce photosynthesis at some distance away from directly injured tissue. We quantified the indirect effects of naturally occurring biotic damage on leaf-level photosystem II operating efficiency (Phi(PSII)) of 11 understory hardwood tree species usi...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Aldea M,Hamilton JG,Resti JP,Zangerl AR,Berenbaum MR,Frank TD,Delucia EH

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host plant use and availability were determined in early nymphal and adult-stage Schistocerca emarginata (=lineata) (Orthoptera: Acrididae) populations at six localities in Texas, USA. Early instar nymphal populations were feeding almost exclusively on either Ptelea trifoliata (Rutaceae) or Rubus trivialis (Rosaceae)....

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Sword GA,Dopman EB

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The percent of species of the Cyperaceae possessing the C4 pathway was calculated for twenty-five regions of North America. A stepwise multiple regression analysis was used to determine which climatic variables were most highly correlated with the percent C4 species among the various regions. The square of the mean Ju...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Teeri JA,Livingstone DA

更新日期：1980-12-01 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：:The population dynamics of Antarctic seabirds are influenced by variations in winter sea ice extent and persistence; however, the type of relationship differs according to the region and the demographic parameter considered. We used annual presence/absence data obtained from 1,138 individually marked birds to study th...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ballerini T,Tavecchia G,Olmastroni S,Pezzo F,Focardi S

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Future climate scenarios forecast a 10-50% decline in rainfall in Eastern Amazonia. Altered precipitation patterns may change important ecosystem functions like decomposition through either changes in physical and chemical processes or shifts in the activity and/or composition of species. We experimentally manipulated...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Rodríguez Pérez H,Borrel G,Leroy C,Carrias JF,Corbara B,Srivastava DS,Céréghino R

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe droughts may alter the reproductive phenology of tropical tree species, but our understanding of these effects has been hampered by confounded variation in drought, light and other factors during natural drought events. We used a large-scale experimental reduction of throughfall in an eastern-central Amazon for...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Brando P,Ray D,Nepstad D,Cardinot G,Curran LM,Oliveira R

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predator-prey interactions between the predatory leech, Glossiphonia complanata, and its gastropod prey were investigated in laboratory experiments, including behavioural observations with the aid of time-lapse video technique. Six gastropod species were investigated, viz. Lymnaea peregra, Planorbis planorbis, Physa f...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Brönmark C,Malmqvist B

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, community ecology has emphasized the multi-facetted aspects of biological diversity by linking species traits and the environment. Here, we explored environmental correlates of taxonomically-based and traits-based compositional distances using a comprehensive data set of diatom and macroinvertebrate communit...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Perez Rocha M,Bini LM,Grönroos M,Hjort J,Lindholm M,Karjalainen SM,Tolonen KE,Heino J

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interspecific relationships such as mutualism and parasitism are major drivers of biodiversity. Because such interactions often comprise more than two species, ecological studies increasingly focus on complex multispecies systems. However, the spatial heterogeneity of multi-species interactions is often poorly underst...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Schöner CR,Schöner MG,Kerth G,Grafe TU

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In tropical dry forests, a high interspecific variation in the strategies of fruiting phenology has been documented. Therefore, phenological responses may be mediated by influence of environmental variables, functional plant attributes or phylogenetic inertia. During 2 years, we recorded the fruiting phenology of 151 ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Cortés-Flores J,Cornejo-Tenorio G,Urrea-Galeano LA,Andresen E,González-Rodríguez A,Ibarra-Manríquez G

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the recovery of root nodules from P. glandulosa var. glandulosa in the eastern portion of its range, where the species reaches its greatest vegetational development. Single cores 4.7 cm in diameter and up to 250 cm deep yielded from 0 to over 250 nodules. Nodules were found at all depths below 10 cm, with th...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Johnson HB,Mayeux HS Jr

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial biofilms are increasingly seen as important for the successful settlement of marine invertebrate larvae. Here we tested the effects of biofilms on settlement of the sea urchin Heliocidaris erythrogramma. Larvae settled on many surfaces including various algal species, rocks, sand and shells. Settlement was r...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Huggett MJ,Williamson JE,de Nys R,Kjelleberg S,Steinberg PD

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of seed germination phenology is an important aspect of the life history strategy of invading annual plant species. In the obligately selfing winter annual grass Bromus tectorum, seeds are at least conditionally dormant at dispersal in early summer and lose dormancy through dry-afterripening. Patterns of ge...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Meyer SE,Allen PS

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous mechanisms are proposed to explain why exotic plants successfully invade natural communities. However, the positive effects of native engineers on exotic plant species have received less consideration. We tested whether the nutrient-rich soil patches created by a native ecological engineer (refuse dumps from ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Farji-Brener AG,Lescano N,Ghermandi L

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dry lichen thalli were enclosed in gas exchange chambers and treated with an air stream of high relative humidity (96.5 to near 100%) until water potential equilibrium was reached with the surrounding air (i.e., no further increase of weight through water vapor uptake). They were then sprayed with liquid water. The tr...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Lange OL,Kilian E,Ziegler H

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth of woody species has two components, one pertaining to increment of biomass, the other to the architectonic arrangement of dry matter in space. Only the combination of both components explained the competitive strength of species that dominate in different stages of a hedgerow succession in Central Europe. Biom...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Küppers M

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marion Island (47°S, 38°E) has one of the most oceanic climates on earth, with consistently low air temperatures, high precipitation, constantly high humidity, and low incident radiation. Since 1968 mean surface air temperature has increased significantly, by 0.025° C year-1. This was strongly associated with correspo...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Smith VR,Steenkamp M

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Competition for water surface prey between fish (Priapichtus annectens: Poeciliidae) and water striders (Potamobates unidentatus: Gerridae) was studied in the laboratory and in pools in a small tropical stream. Laboratory experiments showed that fish depressed activity and foraging success of water striders. Large fis...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Englund G,Johansson F,Olsson TI

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Short-term effects of environmental perturbations on various life history traits are reasonably well documented in birds and mammals. But, in the present context of global climate change, there is a need to consider potential long-term effects of natal conditions to better understand and predict the consequences of th...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Nevoux M,Weimerskirch H,Barbraud C

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sabal palmetto (Walt.) Lodd. ex Schultes (cabbage palm) is an arborescent palm common in many plant communities throughout Florida, U.S.A., and the Caribbean. Although its seedlings grow very slowly in forest understories, they survive damage and defoliation well, and the species may increase in dominance following di...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： McPherson K,Williams K

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00