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abstract：:This study examined the effects of elevated CO2 on secondary metabolites for saplings of tropical trees. In the first experiment, nine species of trees were grown in the ground in open-top chambers in central Panama at ambient and elevated CO2 (about twice ambient). On average, leaf phenolic contents were 48% higher u...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Coley P,Massa M,Lovelock C,Winter K

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The comparative responses of photosynthesis and growth to salinity were investigated for two C3 and one C4 species native to the tidal marshes of the San Francisco Bay-Sacramento River estuary of Northern California. At low salinities (0 or 150 meq l-1), where photosynthetic rates were maximal for all species, the C4 ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Pearcy RW,Ustin SL

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Canopy CO2 concentrations in a tropical rainforest in French Guiana were measured continuously for 5 days during the 1994 dry season and the 1995 wet season. Carbon dioxide concentrations ([CO2]) throughout the canopy (0.02-38 m) showed a distinct daily pattern, were well-stratified and decreased with increasing heigh...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Buchmann N,Guehl JM,Barigah TS,Ehleringer JR

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many plant species currently exist in fragmented populations of different sizes, while they also experience unpredictable climatic fluctuation over time. However, we still understand little about how plant demography responds to such spatial and temporal environmental variability. We studied population dynamics of an ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Tomimatsu H,Ohara M

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differential predation pressure and the probability of predation on a Batesian mimicry complex and on alternative prey were estimatedin a field experiment. The mimicry complex was composed of a noxious model (Eleodes obscura (Say)) and a palatable mimic (Stenomorpha marginata (LeConte)). House crickets (Acheta domesti...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hetz M,Slobodchikoff CN

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macoma balthica (L.) is a common clam of the estuarine seafloor, belonging to an important group of invertebrates possessing the capacity to choose between the two fundamental modes of feeding available, using its siphon to inhale either suspended food particles from the water or food particles deposited on the sedime...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Skilleter GA,Peterson CH

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate change is affecting both the volume and distribution of precipitation, which in turn is expected to affect the growth and reproduction of plant populations. The near ubiquity of local adaptation suggests that adaptive differentiation may have important consequences for how populations are affected by and respo...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gorton AJ,Tiffin P,Moeller DA

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leaf turnover and aboveground productivity in relation to nutrient availability were studied in the evergreen shrubs Erica tetralix and Calluna vulgaris. In monospecific stands of these species four levels of nutrient (NPK) availability were created during three growing seasons. Percentage survival and life expectancy...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Aerts R

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During unusually wet years the salinity of the Great Salt Lake (Utah) decreased from above 100 g/L to 50 g/L. This allowed the predaceous insect Trichocorixa verticalis to invade the pelagic region of the lake and reach a mean summer density of 52/m3. Concurrent changes in the pelagic ecosystem were: a decrease in the...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Wurtsbaugh WA

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure and seasonal dynamics of phytoplankton communities in the littoral zone were compared between oligotrophic and eutrophic lakes in the southeastern United States. Differences in diversity and species composition between lakes could be ascribed to long-term variation in nutrients corresponding to trophic s...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Lemly AD,Dimmick JF

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the role of nematode predation in the functioning of detrital food webs assembled in microcosms. The microcosms contained defaunated humus and litter materials, a diverse microbial community with bacteria, fungi and protozoa, and a birch (Betula pendula) seedling infected with mycorrhizal fungi. Different l...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Laakso J,Setälä H

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil nutrient availability directly enhances vegetative growth, flowering, and fruiting in alpine ecosystems. However, the impacts of nutrient addition on pollinator visitation, which could affect seed output indirectly, are unknown. In a nutrient addition experiment, we tested the hypothesis that seed output in the i...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Muñoz AA,Celedon-Neghme C,Cavieres LA,Arroyo MT

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review I offer a solution to the problem why endotherm populations appear to be so inefficient in converting food energy into body substance despite the fact that individual endotherms are just as 'efficient' in this respect as individual ectotherms. Calculated for individuals of half the adult mass both ectot...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Wieser W

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance of Pteridium aquilinum to insect attack was studied by incorporating air dried bracken leaf meal and extracts of bracken leaf meal into an artificial diet for Trichoplusia ni (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). When larvae are reared on diets containing 6% bracken leaf meal, they do not mature past the second instar ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hendrix SD

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined how different exploratory behavioral types of largemouth bass responded to differing prey communities by determining effects on growth, survival and diet in experimental ponds. We found evidence that non-explorer largemouth bass target young-of-year bluegill early on in life, but bluegill were not an impor...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Nannini MA,Wahl DH

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seedlings of six subtropical rainforest tree species representing early (Omalanthus populifolius, Solanum aviculare), middle (Duboisia myoporoides, Euodia micrococca) and late (Acmena ingens, Argyrodendron actinophyllum) successional stages in forest development were grown in a glasshouse, under four levels of neutral...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Turnbull MH

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of the degree of order in species assemblages in terms of nested subsets has received increased interest during the last decade. However, recently a series of papers have questioned the validity of methods employed for testing whether observed patterns deviate from random expectations. The current view seems ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Jonsson BG

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both spatial processes and environmental control may structure metacommunities, but their relative importance may be contingent on the dispersal ability of organisms. I examined the roles of spatial and environmental factors for the structuring of littoral macroinvertebrate communities across a set of lakes in a borea...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Heino J

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herbivores decrease plant fitness by consuming reproductive tissues, limiting resources, and/or affecting mutualisms. Although these mechanisms were extensively tested in chewing herbivores, the impact of other functional groups (e.g., sap-feeders) remains poorly understood. We investigated whether aphids affect plant...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Devegili AM,Chalcoff VR

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a preliminary to a population study using markrelease-recapture techniques, specimens of the Satyrid buttfly Melanargia galathea (L.) were subjected to a number of marking and capture techniques. Although the adults are thought to display both aposematic and cryptic coloration, the use of marks of different sizes a...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Morton AC

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Geographic variation in species interactions can have major effects on species distributions and can be important for the resistance of resident communities to invasive species. We tested the hypothesis that coexistence or replacement of a resident North American mosquito Aedes aegypti with the invasive Aedes albopict...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Leisnham PT,Juliano SA

更新日期：2010-09-01 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：:Nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) has been widely used to study the relationship between nitrogen uptake and dry mass production in the plant. As a subsystem of plant nitrogen use efficiency (NUE), I have defined leaf-level NUE as the surplus production (gross production minus leaf respiration) per unit amount of nitrogen...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hirose T

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the impact of multiple stressors on ecosystems is of pronounced importance, particularly when one or more of those stressors is anthropogenic. Here we investigated the role of physical disturbance and increased nutrients on reefs dominated by the canopy-forming kelp Ecklonia radiata. We combined experime...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Carnell PE,Keough MJ

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraspecific variation in behavior and diet can have important consequences for population and ecosystem dynamics. Here, we examine how differences in reproductive investment and spatial ecology influence individual diet specialization in male and female southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis). We hypothesize tha...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Smith EA,Newsome SD,Estes JA,Tinker MT

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper considers a model of competition, based upon the Lotka-Volterra equations, which explicitly considers the effect of density independent mortality upon the outcome of competition. The model's possible application to wild Drosophila species in Europe are considered. ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Shorrocks B,Begon M

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tropical ants Ectatomma ruidum and E. tuberculatum (Formicidae) regularly patrol leaves, flowers, and fruits of the understory shrub, Psychotria limonensis (Rubiaceae), on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Ant and pollinator exclusion experiments elucidated both positive and negative effects of ant attendance on plan...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Altshuler DL

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Difficulties in using genetic markers to demonstrate that changes in gene frequency cause fluctuations in the density of animal populations are illustrated. The frequency of chicks with light-coloured down increased during 4 years when population density of red grouse declined and the inherent level of aggressive beha...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Moss R,Watson A

更新日期：1987-10-01 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：:Parasites often produce large numbers of offspring within their hosts. High parasite burdens are thought to be important for parasite transmission, but can also lower host fitness. We studied the protozoan Ophryocystis elektroscirrha, a common parasite of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus), to quantify the benefit...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： de Roode JC,Chi J,Rarick RM,Altizer S

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00