Supporting Spartina: Interdisciplinary perspective shows Spartina as a distinct solid genus.

abstract：:Recent advances in ecological niche modeling (ENM) algorithms, in conjunction with increasing availability of geographic information system (GIS) data, allow species' niches to be predicted over broad geographic areas using environmental characteristics associated with point localities for a given species. Consequentl...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Knouft JH,Losos JB,Glor RE,Kolbe JJ

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predators exert a strong influence on ecological communities by reducing the abundance of prey (consumptive effects) and shaping their foraging behavior (non-consumptive effects). Although the prevalence of trophic cascades triggered by non-consumptive effects is increasingly recognized in a wide range of ecosystems, ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Pessarrodona A,Boada J,Pagès JF,Arthur R,Alcoverro T

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasites can alter communities by reducing densities of keystone hosts, but few studies have examined how trait-mediated indirect effects of parasites can alter ecological communities. We test how trematode parasites (Microphallus spp.) that affect invasive crayfish (Orconectes rusticus) behavior alter how crayfish i...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Reisinger LS,Lodge DM

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most hypotheses explaining the general gradient of higher diversity toward the equator are implicit or explicit about greater species packing in the tropics. However, global patterns of diversity within guilds, including trophic guilds (i.e., groups of organisms that use similar food resources), are poorly known. We e...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Boyero L,Pearson RG,Dudgeon D,Graça MA,Gessner MO,Albariño RJ,Ferreira V,Yule CM,Boulton AJ,Arunachalam M,Callisto M,Chauvet E,Ramírez A,Chará J,Moretti MS,Gonçalves JF Jr,Helson JE,Chará-Serna AM,Encalada AC,Davies

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:River systems form dendritic ecological networks that influence the spatial structure of riverine communities. Few empirical studies have evaluated how regional, dispersal-related processes and local habitat factors interact to govern network patterns of species composition. We explore such interactions in a boreal wa...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Kuglerová L,Jansson R,Sponseller RA,Laudon H,Malm-Renöfält B

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodium (Na) has a unique role in food webs as a nutrient primarily limiting for plant consumers, but not other trophic levels. Environmental Na levels vary with proximity to coasts, local geomorphology, climate, and with anthropogenic inputs (e.g., road salt). We tested two key predictions across 54 grasslands in Nort...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Welti EAR,Sanders NJ,de Beurs KM,Kaspari M

更新日期：2019-03-01 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：:Although many species face numerous predators in nature, the combined impact of multiple predators on the inducible defenses of prey has rarely been studied. Prey may respond with an intermediate phenotype that balances the risk from several sources or may simply respond to the most dangerous predator. I examined the ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Bourdeau PE

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Litter burning and biological decomposition are oxidative processes co-occurring in many terrestrial ecosystems, producing organic matter with different chemical properties and differently affecting plant growth and soil microbial activity. We tested the chemical convergence hypothesis, i.e., materials with different ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Bonanomi G,Incerti G,Abd El-Gawad AM,Cesarano G,Sarker TC,Saulino L,Lanzotti V,Saracino A,Rego FC,Mazzoleni S

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple description of temporal dynamics of ecological communities may help us understand how community assembly proceeds, predict ecological responses to environmental disturbances, and improve the performance of biological conservation actions. Although community changes take place at multiple temporal scales, the ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Ontiveros VJ,Capitán JA,Casamayor EO,Alonso D

更新日期：2020-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A predictive framework for the ecology of species invasions requires that we learn what limits successful invaders in their native range. The red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta) is invasive in the United States, Puerto Rico, Australia, New Zealand, and China. Solenopsis invicta appears to be a superior competit...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Feener DH Jr,Orr MR,Wackford KM,Longo JM,Benson WW,Gilbert LE

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The greater abundance of some exotic plants in their nonnative ranges might be explained in part by biogeographic differences in the strength of competition, but these competitive effects have not been experimentally examined in the field. We compared the effects of neighbors on the growth and reproduction of spotted ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Callaway RM,Waller LP,Diaconu A,Pal R,Collins AR,Mueller-Schaerer H,Maron JL

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecologists are faced with the challenge of how to scale up from the activities of individual plants and animals to the macroscopic dynamics of populations and communities. It is especially difficult to do this in communities of plants where the fate of individuals depends on their immediate neighbors rather than an av...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Adams TP,Holland EP,Law R,Plank MJ,Raghib M

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying the factors that destabilize communities is critical for predicting and mitigating the ecological impacts of environmental change. Although theory has shown that local ecosystem size and regional dispersal can determine biodiversity, less is known about the direct and indirect effects of these factors on c...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Yeager ME,Gouhier TC,Hughes AR

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decades of ecological study have demonstrated the importance of top-down and bottom-up controls on food webs, yet few studies within this context have quantified the magnitude of energy and material fluxes at the whole-ecosystem scale. We examined top-down and bottom-up effects on food web fluxes using a field experim...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Collins SM,Thomas SA,Heatherly T 2nd,MacNeill KL,Leduc AO,López-Sepulcre A,Lamphere BA,El-Sabaawi RW,Reznick DN,Pringle CM,Flecker AS

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nearly universal positive relationship between the distribution and abundance of species has been explained by several hypotheses but hitherto no consensus has been reached. Here, we used monitoring data of 105 phytophagous true bug species (Heteroptera) from 150 grassland sites over six years to test how (1) rang...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Friess N,Gossner MM,Weisser WW,Brandl R,Brändle M

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disruptions to historic disturbance and herbivory regimes have altered plant assemblages in forests worldwide. An emerging consensus suggests that these disruptions often result in impoverished forest biotas. This is particularly true for eastern U.S. deciduous forests where large gaps and understory fires were once r...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Royo AA,Collins R,Adams MB,Kirschbaum C,Carson WP

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Does climate determine species' ranges? Rapid rates of anthropogenic warming make this classic ecological question especially relevant. We ask whether climate controls range limits by quantifying relationships between climatic variables (precipitation, temperature) and tree growth across the altitudinal ranges of six ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Ettinger AK,Ford KR,HilleRisLambers J

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given recent focus on large rivers as conduits for excess nutrients to coastal zones, their role in processing and retaining nutrients has been overlooked and understudied. Empirical measurements of nutrient uptake in large rivers are lacking, despite a substantial body of knowledge on nutrient transport and removal i...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Tank JL,Rosi-Marshall EJ,Baker MA,Hall RO Jr

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate description of spatial distribution of species is essential for correctly modeling macroecological patterns and thus to infer mechanisms of species coexistence. The Poisson and negative binomial distribution (NBD) are most widely used to respectively model random and aggregated distributions of species in inf...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Zillio T,He F

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative importance of bottom-up or top-down forces has been mainly studied for herbivores but rarely for pollinators. Habitat fragmentation might change driving forces of population dynamics by reducing the area of resource-providing habitats, disrupting habitat connectivity, and affecting natural enemies more th...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Steffan-Dewenter I,Schiele S

更新日期：2008-05-01 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：:The extent to which populations in nature are regulated by density-dependent processes is unresolved. While experiments increasingly find evidence of strong density dependence, unmanipulated population time series yield much more ambiguous evidence of regulation, especially when accounting for effects of observation e...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Thibaut LM,Connolly SR

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the context of species distribution models, scrutiny arises from the choice of meaningful environmental predictors. Thermal conditions are not the sole driver, but are the most widely acknowledged abiotic driver of plant life within alpine ecosystems. We linked long-term measurements of direct, plant-relevant, ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Löffler J,Pape R

更新日期：2020-01-01 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

abstract：:Coral reefs are highly complex ecological systems, where multiple processes interact across scales in space and time to create assemblages of exceptionally high biodiversity. Despite the increasing frequency of hierarchically structured sampling programs used in coral-reef science, little progress has been made in qua...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： MacNeil MA,Graham NA,Polunin NV,Kulbicki M,Galzin R,Harmelin-Vivien M,Rushton SP

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predators play a key role in shaping natural ecosystems, and understanding the factors that influence a predator's kill rate is central to predicting predator-prey dynamics. While prey density has a well-established effect on predation, it is increasingly apparent that predator density also can critically influence pr...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Hossie TJ,Murray DL

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photoautotrophs are generally considered to be the base of food webs, and habitats that lack light, such as caves, frequently rely on surface-derived carbon. Here we show, based on analysis of gut contents and stable isotope ratios of tissues (13C:12C and 15N:14N), that sulfur-oxidizing bacteria are directly consumed ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Roach KA,Tobler M,Winemiller KO

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual variation in movement can have important consequences for spatial population dynamics. For instance, individual variation increases leptokurtosis in dispersal distance, such that more individuals move very short and very long distances relative to a homogeneous population. We quantified individual variation...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Brown LM,Crone EE

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature imposes a constraint on the rates and outcomes of ecological processes that determine community- and ecosystem-level patterns. The application of metabolic scaling theory has advanced our understanding of the influence of temperature on pattern and process in marine communities. Metabolic scaling theory us...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Bruno JF,Carr LA,O'Connor MI

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00