Comparisons of AM fungal spore communities with the same hosts but different soil chemistries over local and geographic scales.

abstract：:In the Central Negev, the arido-active Hammada scoparia (Chenopodiaceae) is mainly distributed in runnels and loessial plains of the wadis and exists with fewer and smaller individuals on slopes and tops of the neighboring hills. At the end of the dry season, water relations and chloride content of plants from these h...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Kappen L,Lange OL,Schulze ED,Evenari M,Buschbom U

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial distributions of selected soil properties in two adjacent sites in southwest Michigan were examined to evaluate the potential effects of chronic disturbance on resource heterogeneity. One site was a cultivated field that had been cleared, plowed, and cropped annually for decades prior to sampling while the...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Robertson GP,Crum JR,Ellis BG

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the water-soluble thiol (SH) content and the osmolality of the cell sap in spruce trees of both low- and high-altitude origin that were transplanted to two test areas at different altitudes (400 m and 1700 m). There was little or no significant difference in SH content and osmotic value between trees of ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Grill D,Pfeifhofer H,Tschulik A,Hellig K,Holzer K

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dolman (1995) measured the intake rates of snow buntings feeding on seed patches at difference bird densities, for each of two different seed densities. Interference occurred in the low food density treatment, with intake rate declining at high bird densities, but did not occur in the high food density treatment. Dolm...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Moody AL,Ruxton GD

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant species vary greatly in the degree to which floral morphology restricts access to the flower interior. Restrictiveness of flower corollas may influence heterospecific pollen receipt, but the impact of floral morphology on heterospecific pollen transfer has received little attention. We characterized patterns of ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Montgomery BR,Rathcke BJ

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Short-term responses of producers highlight that key nutrients (e.g., N, P)-or combinations of these nutrients-limit primary production in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. These discoveries continue to provide highly valuable insights, but it remains important to ask whether nutrients always predominantly limit pro...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Darcy-Hall TL,Hall SR

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the mechanisms by which populations are regulated is critical for predicting the effects of large-scale perturbations. While discrete mortality events provide clear evidence of direct impacts, indirect pathways are more difficult to assess but may play important roles in population and ecosystem dynamics...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Schmidt JH,Putera J,Wilson TL

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factors influencing the consumption of algae and the rate of feeding by the larvae of Heterotrissocladius changi Saether and Polypedilum nebeculosum (Meigen) (Chironomidae: Diptera) were determined from collections made between July 1975 and May 1977 in Yellowknife Bay, situated in the Canadian subarctic. Although bot...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Moore JW

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple regression analyses were made of the effect of food composition upon energetic efficiency and existence energy of House Sparrows, Passer domesticus. Protein content of experimental food is the most important of eleven independent variables tested in the prediction of energetic efficiency. Other variables sign...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Blem CR

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：: Black and white spruce (Picea mariana and P. glauca) exhibit a striking micro-geographic distribution pattern at the southern edge of the boreal forest. Black spruce grows in flooded nutrient-poor muskegs, while white spruce is found primarily on drier upland sites, and the two rarely form mixed stands. In an attempt...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Patterson TB,Guy RD,Dang QL

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Masting is the intermittent production of large seed crops by a population of plants. Two main hypotheses have been proposed to explain masting. Variations in seed crop may result from stochastic climate factors (temperature, rainfall, etc.), and/or masting may be a plant evolutionary strategy to avoid specific seed p...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Poncet BN,Garat P,Manel S,Bru N,Sachet JM,Roques A,Despres L

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluctuations in the abundance of main prey species might shape animal communities, by inducing numerical responses and dietary shifts in predators. Whether numerical responses and dietary shifts differ among individuals of different age and sex has so far gained little attention. These differences could affect how muc...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Masoero G,Laaksonen T,Morosinotto C,Korpimäki E

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Populations of dioecious plant species often exhibit biased sex ratios. Such biases may arise as a result of sex-based differences in life history traits, or as a result of spatial segregation of the sexes. Of these, sex-based differentiation in life history traits is likely to be the most common cause of bias. In dio...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Nicotra AB

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indications of global climate change and associated unusual temperature fluctuations have become increasingly obvious over the past few decades. Consequently, the relevance of temperature increases for ecological communities and for whole ecosystems is one of the major challenges of current ecological research. One ap...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Norf H,Arndt H,Weitere M

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term fertilization of acidic tussock tundra has led to changes in plant species composition, increases in aboveground production and biomass and substantial losses of soil organic carbon (SOC). Root litter is an important input to SOC pools, although little is known about fine root demography in tussock tundra. I...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Sullivan PF,Sommerkorn M,Rueth HM,Nadelhoffer KJ,Shaver GR,Welker JM

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous animals have successfully invaded urban habitats, although the factors associated with invasion success remain poorly understood. Urban areas are characterized by warmer microclimates, higher levels of primary productivity, longer breeding seasons and higher levels of pollutants. All these factors should caus...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Møller AP,Erritzøe J,Karadas F

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data on soil nutrient availability for humid tropical forests are often reported, but are rarely integrated in an ecologically meaningful way with other measures of nutrient cycling. In this paper, estimates of soil nutrient availability and the inverse of litterfall nutrient concentrations (as an index of plant nutri...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Silver WL

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During summer, 1971, a massive outbreak of red tide resulted in defaunation of a previously characterized sandy, intertidal habitat in upper Old Tampa Bay, Tampa, Florida. Repopulation of the polychaete fauna was studied from August, 1971, to July, 1973. A transect composed of 4 stations running from just below mean h...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Dauer DM,Simon JL

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil amelioration by a wood-ant species and its consequences for the larval performance of autumnal moths feeding on mountain birch were studied at various distances from the nest mound. Soil nitrate and ammonium nitrogen did not show any clear relationship with distance. However, trees growing in the mound had over 2...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Karhu KJ,Neuvonen S

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A laboratory experiment was conducted to determine whether the sea star Asterias forbesi and the naticid gastropod Euspira heros feed on surfclams, Spisula solidissima, in an additive or non-additive manner. Predators were allowed to feed on clams with conspecifics and in the presence of the other predator species. Cl...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Weissberger EJ

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon isotope ratios, photosynthesis, and transpiration were measured on a xylem-tapping mistletoe (Phoradendron juniperinum) and its host (Juniperus osteosperma) in southern Utah, USA. For host tissues, the carbon isotope ratios agreed with theoretical values predicted from gas exchange observations. However, for mi...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Marshall JD,Ehleringer JR

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many species of planktonic cladocerans display substantial variation in habitat use (mean depth and diel vertical migration), both among and within populations. We examined whether clonal segregation and specialization contributes to such behavioral variation within several lake populations of the cladoceran, Daphnia ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Tessier AJ,Leibold MA

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In abandoned or extensively managed grasslands, the mechanisms involved in pioneer tree species success are not fully explained. Resource competition among plants and microclimate modifications have been emphasised as possible mechanisms to explain variation of survivorship and growth. In this study, we evaluated a nu...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Picon-Cochard C,Coll L,Balandier P

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Historically, ecologists have been more interested in organisms feeding at the tops of food chains than in organisms feeding at or near the bottom. The problem of taxonomic and trophic inconsistency within and among described food webs is central to criticisms of contemporary food web research. To study the effects of...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Sugihara G,Bersier LF,Schoenly K

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freezing tolerance as a cold resistance mechanism is described for the first time in a plant growing in the tropical range of the Andean high mountains. Draba chionophila, the plant in which freezing tolerance was found, is the vascular plant which reaches the highest altitudes in the Venezuelan Andes (approximately 4...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Azocar A,Rada F,Goldstein G

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I assessed the impact of both vertebrate and invertebrate predators on a lotic benthic community in a 1-month-long experiment, using enclosures containing cobble/gravel bottoms, with large-mesh netting that allowed invertebrates to drift freely. Brown trout (Salmo trutta) and leeches (Erpobdella octoculata) were used ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Dahl J

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although plant growth is generally recognized to be influenced by allocation to defense, genetic background (e.g., inbreeding), and gender, rarely have those factors been addressed collectively. In quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.), phenolic glycosides (PGs) and condensed tannins (CTs) constitute up to 30 % o...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Cole CT,Stevens MT,Anderson JE,Lindroth RL

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resprouting is the main regeneration mechanism after fire in Mediterranean-type ecosystems. Herbivores play an important role in controlling postfire seedling establishment, but their influence on regeneration by resprouting is less well known. To study the effects of fire intensity on resprouting of Adenostoma fascic...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Moreno JM,Oechel WC

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The duration and amount of water captured on leaves and its functional significance is highly varied. Leaf surface wettability influences water absorption, gas exchange, pathogen infection, nutrient leaching, contamination by pollutants, self-cleaning properties and in freezing environments the probability of extrinsi...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Aryal B,Neuner G

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Desert annuals of Death Valley, California have higher average light-saturated photosynthetic capacities and leaf nitrogen contents than do early-successional annuals of Illinois. The leaves of annuals in the light-unlimited Death Valley environment change little in specific weight, nitrogen, or photosynthetic capacit...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Mooney HA,Field C,Gulmon SL,Bazzaz FA

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00