Effects of neighborhood trait composition on tree survival differ between drought and postdrought periods.

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：:Previous work suggests that animal water balance can influence trophic interactions, with predators increasing their consumption of water-laden prey to meet water demands. But it is unclear how the need for water interacts with the need for energy to drive trophic interactions under shifting conditions. Using manipula...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Leinbach IL,McCluney KE,Sabo JL

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Terrestrial ecosystems in the Northern Hemisphere are a globally important sink for anthropogenic CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere, slowing its accumulation as well as the pace of climate warming. With the use of a long-term field experiment (ca. 20 yr), we show that the expression of fungal class II peroxidase genes, wh...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Zak DR,Argiroff WA,Freedman ZB,Upchurch RA,Entwistle EM,Romanowicz KJ

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Habitat fragmentation often arises from human-induced alterations to the matrix that reduce or eliminate dispersal between habitat patches. Elimination of dispersal increases local extinction and decreases recolonization. These phenomena were observed in the eastern collared lizard (Crotaphytus collaris collaris), whi...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Templeton AR,Brazeal H,Neuwald JL

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：:Savannas are characterized by a competitive tension between grasses and trees, and theoretical models illustrate how this competitive tension is influenced by resource availability, competition for these resources, and disturbances. How this universe of theoretical possibilities translates into the real world is, howe...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Higgins SI,Scheiter S,Sankaran M

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies indicate that highly aged material is a major component of organic matter transported by most rivers. However, few studies have used natural 14C to trace the potential entry of this aged material into modern river food webs. Here we use natural abundance 14C, 13C, and deuterium (2H) to trace the contrib...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Caraco N,Bauer JE,Cole JJ,Petsch S,Raymond P

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We chose the interaction between the Mediterranean dwarf palm (Chamaerops humilis) and its major seed disperser, the Eurasian badger (Meles meles), to evaluate the hypothesis that endozoochory is characterized by a mixture of conflicting and overlapping interests, with the capacity of being positive or negative for pl...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Fedriani JM,Delibes M

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic diversity, like species diversity, can have important consequences for communities and ecosystems. However, little is known about whether the effects of genetic diversity demonstrated in experimental assemblages are of sufficient strength to generate patterns in natural systems. We conducted a survey of eelgra...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Hughes AR,Stachowicz JJ

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal endophytes are found in asymptomatic photosynthetic tissues of all major lineages of land plants. The ubiquity of these cryptic symbionts is clear, but the scale of their diversity, host range, and geographic distributions are unknown. To explore the putative hyperdiversity of tropical leaf endophytes, we compa...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Arnold AE,Lutzoni F

更新日期：2007-03-01 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：:Foraging theory posits that isolation from refuge habitat within a landscape increases perceived predation risk and, thus, suppresses the foraging behavior of prey species. However, these effects may depend fundamentally on resource availability, which could affect prey boldness and can change considerably through bot...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Gil MA,Zill J,Ponciano JM

更新日期：2017-02-01 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：:The study of ecological differences among coexisting microparasites has been largely neglected, but it addresses important and unusual issues because there is no clear distinction in such cases between conventional (resource) and apparent competition. Here patterns in the population dynamics are examined for four spec...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Telfer S,Clough HE,Birtles LR,Bennett M,Carslake D,Helyar S,Begon M

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Empirical and theoretical investigations of monocarpy have usually addressed the question of minimum or threshold sizes for reproduction. However, the range of flowering sizes observed in many monocarpic species is extraordinarily large (well beyond what can be called a "threshold"), and the sizes of flowering and non...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Burd M,Read J,Sanson GD,Jaffré T

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We experimentally increased salinities in a tidal freshwater marsh on the Altamaha River (Georgia, USA) by exposing the organic rich soils to 3.5 yr of continuous (press) and episodic (pulse) treatments with dilute seawater to simulate the effects of climate change such as sea level rise (press) and drought (pulse). W...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Solohin E,Widney SE,Craft CB

更新日期：2020-12-01 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：:The color of many lakes and seas is changing, which is likely to affect the species composition of freshwater and marine phytoplankton communities. For example, cyanobacteria with phycobilisomes as light-harvesting antennae can effectively utilize green or orange-red light. However, recent studies show that they use b...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Luimstra VM,Verspagen JMH,Xu T,Schuurmans JM,Huisman J

更新日期：2020-03-01 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：:Models of two-patch predator-prey metacommunities are used to explore how the global predator population changes in response to additional mortality in one of the patches. This could describe the dynamics of a predator in an environment that includes a refuge area where that predator is protected and a spatially disti...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Abrams PA,Ruokolainen L,Shuter BJ,McCann KS

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecological theory suggests that pathogens are capable of regulating or limiting host population dynamics, and this relationship has been empirically established in several settings. However, although studies of childhood diseases were integral to the development of disease ecology, few studies show population limitati...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Manlove K,Cassirer EF,Cross PC,Plowright RK,Hudson PJ

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The arcsine square root transformation has long been standard procedure when analyzing proportional data in ecology, with applications in data sets containing binomial and non-binomial response variables. Here, we argue that the arcsine transform should not be used in either circumstance. For binomial data, logistic r...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Warton DI,Hui FK

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crop rotation schemes are believed to work by preventing specialist soil-borne pests from depressing the future yields of similar crops. In ecology, such negative plant-soil feedbacks may be viewed as a type of Janzen-Connell effect, which promotes species coexistence and diversity by preventing the same species from ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Petermann JS,Fergus AJ,Turnbull LA,Schmid B

更新日期：2008-09-01 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：:Metabolism shapes the ecosystem role of organisms by dictating their energy demand and nutrient recycling potential. Metabolic theory (MTE) predicts consumer metabolic and recycling rates will rise with warming, especially if body size declines, but it ignores potential for adaptation. We measured metabolic and nutrie...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Moffett ER,Fryxell DC,Palkovacs EP,Kinnison MT,Simon KS

更新日期：2018-10-01 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：: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：:Epidemiological theory suggests that pathogens will not cause host extinctions because agents of disease should fade out when the host population is driven below a threshold density. Nevertheless, infectious diseases have threatened species with extinction on local scales by maintaining high incidence and the ability ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Ben-Horin T,Lenihan HS,Lafferty KD

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amount of fresh carbon input into soil is experiencing substantial changes under global change. It is unclear what will be the consequences of such input changes on native soil carbon decomposition across ecosystems. By synthesizing data from 143 experimental comparisons, we show that, on average, fresh carbon inp...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Luo Z,Wang E,Smith C

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Megaherbivores and small burrowing mammals commonly coexist and play important functional roles in grassland ecosystems worldwide. The interactive effects of these two functional groups of herbivores in shaping the structure and function of grassland ecosystems are poorly understood. In North America's central grassla...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Davidson AD,Ponce E,Lightfoot DC,Fredrickson EL,Brown JH,Cruzado J,Brantley SL,Sierra-Corona R,List R,Toledo D,Ceballos G

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00