Species replacement by a nonnative salmonid alters ecosystem function by reducing prey subsidies that support riparian spiders.

abstract：:In this paper we test three plant species for the inducibility of their alkaloid production. The plants were heavily damaged by cutting off 50% of their leaf surface using a pair of scissors. The cut-off leaf tips were used as controls for possible diurnal fluctuations. After 3, 6, 12, 24 and 48 h, respectively, the l...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： van Dam NM,van der Meijden E,Verpoorte R

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we test the influence of temperature and interference competition by dominant species on the foraging of subordinate species in Mediterranean ant communities. We have analyzed the changes in resource use by subordinate species in plots with different abundances of dominant ants, and in different periods ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Cerdá X,Retana J,Manzaneda A

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The promise of "trait-based" plant ecology is one of generalized prediction across organizational and spatial scales, independent of taxonomy. This promise is a major reason for the increased popularity of this approach. Here, we argue that some important foundational assumptions of trait-based ecology have not receiv...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Shipley B,De Bello F,Cornelissen JH,Laliberté E,Laughlin DC,Reich PB

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dormancy is a common way in which organisms survive environmental conditions that would be lethal to the active individual. However, while dormant, individuals forego reproduction. Hence theory suggests an optimal time in which to enter dormancy, depending on risks associated with both remaining active and entering do...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Cáceres CE,Tessier AJ

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heavy damage of the mountain birch foliage, as well as application of small amounts of insect frass to the soil beneath the trees, reduced growth of Epirrita autumnata larvae reared in these trees in the following year. Foliage damage in the previous year decreased larval survival, too. Both foliage damage and insect ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Haukioja E,Suomela J,Neuvonen S

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blue-footed boobies (Sula nebouxii) in the Galápagos Islands nest at coastal sites such as cliff edges if Nazca boobies (S. granti) are absent. However, if sympatric with nesting Nazca boobies, they nest nearby, but farther inland, in areas with little topographical relief. Nazca boobies nest at the coastal sites whet...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Townsend HM,Huyvaert KP,Hodum PJ,Anderson DJ

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diel vertical migration (DVM) of herbivorous zooplankton is a widespread behavioural phenomenon in freshwater ecosystems. So far only little attention has been paid to the impact of DVM on the phytoplankton community in the epilimnion. Some theoretical models predict that algal population growth in the epilimnion shou...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Reichwaldt ES,Wolf ID,Stibor H

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenological synchrony between herbivorous insects and host plants is an important determinant of insect distribution and abundance. Non-native insects often experience novel climates, photoperiods, and host plants. How critical time periods of insect life cycles coincide with-or diverge from-phenological windows of h...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ward SF,Moon RD,Herms DA,Aukema BH

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lianas are an important component of tropical forests, contributing up to 25% of the woody stems and 35% of woody species diversity. Lianas invest less in structural support but more in leaves compared to trees of similar biomass. These physiological and morphological differences suggest that lianas may interact with ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Wright A,Tobin M,Mangan S,Schnitzer SA

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most commonly cited hypotheses explaining invasion success is the enemy release hypothesis (ERH), which maintains that populations are regulated by coevolved natural enemies where they are native but are relieved of this pressure in the new range. However, the role of resident enemies in plant invasion rema...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Bohl Stricker K,Stiling P

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cosmopolitan species of cellular slime molds occur continents apart in both tropical and temperate zones of the world though the spore masses are too heavy to be wind borne, and water dispersal is limited to the watercourses. A highly mobile distribution vector was found in ground-feeding migratory song birds. Nine ub...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Suthers HB

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By analogy with deterministic stability, the stability of stochastic ecological systems can be viewed as a tendency for population densities to avoid dynamic boundaries (i.e. boundedness) or to approach a dynamic attractor (i.e. attraction). At the population level, these two views generate predictions consistent with...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Crowley PH

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cottonwoods are dominant riparian trees of the western United States and are known for their propensity to hybridize. We compared the decomposition of leaf litter from two species (Populus angustifolia and P. fremontii) and their hybrids. Three patterns were found. First, in one terrestrial and two aquatic experiments...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Driebe EM,Whitham TG

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The population dynamics of snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus) are fundamental to the ecosystem dynamics of Canada's boreal forest. During the 8- to 11-year population cycle, hare densities can fluctuate up to 40-fold. Predators in this system (lynx, coyotes, great-horned owls) affect population numbers not only through...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Lavergne SG,McGowan PO,Krebs CJ,Boonstra R

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios in autotrophs, aquatic invertebrates and fishes from the Orinoco River floodplain of Venezuela reveal that microalgae, including both phytoplankton and epiphytic (attached) forms, are predominant energy sources for many aquatic animals, even though aquatic vascular plants are ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hamilton SK,Lewis WM Jr,Sippel SJ

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated seasonal variation in the origin of water used by plants in a riparian tropical rainforest community and explored linkages between plant water source, plant xylem hydraulic conductivity and response to the onset of dry conditions. The study focused on five co-dominant canopy species, comprising...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Drake PL,Franks PJ

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I tested hypotheses for ecological roles of storage carbohydrates in perennating organs (roots and branches) of alpine Oxytropis sericea, a leguminous herb. In naturally growing plants, total nonstructural carbohydrates achieved their maximal concentration in the fall, declined during winter, and reached minimal level...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Wyka T

更新日期：1999-08-01 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：:The infestation of small alpine mammals with fleas during the year and at different altitudes was investigated. The data are based on an investigation carried out between 1966 and 1969 in Tirol (Austria) in different altitudinal zones of the alps, 1136 fleas having been collected from 625 insectivores and rodents. By ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Mahnert V

更新日期：1972-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple studies have examined the effects of clouds on shoot and canopy-level microclimate and physiological processes; none have yet done so on the scale of individual plant crowns. We compared incident photosynthetically active radiation (PAR), leaf temperatures, chlorophyll fluorescence, and photosynthetic gas exc...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hernandez-Moreno JM,Bayeur NM,Coley HD 4th,Hughes NM

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The optimal strategy in the design of nature reserves is investigated by means of the theory of island biogeography. Some previous results are revised. A new form of the incidence functions is presented. Their merit is that they do not ignore the minimum area requirements, they are more flexible, and in a number of in...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Kindlmann P

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the impacts of woody, N2-fixing invasive Acacia spp. on the patterns of nutrient cycling in two invaded ecosystems of differing nutrient status in the Cape floristic region. Patterns of soil nutrient mineralization were measured by a field incubation method while the significance of the fixation pr...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Stock WD,Wienand KT,Baker AC

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stable isotope analyses are often used to calculate relative contributions of multiple food sources in an animal's diet. One prerequisite for a precise calculation is the determination of the diet-tissue fractionation factor. Isotopic ratios in animals are not only affected by the composition of the diet, but also by ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gaye-Siessegger J,Focken U,Muetzel S,Abel H,Becker K

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carotenoids are antioxidant pigments involved in several physiological processes and signalling in animals that cannot synthesise them and therefore must acquire them from food. We experimentally investigated the effects of carotenoid availability in the diet during egg laying on antioxidant deposition in egg yolk and...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Biard C,Surai PF,Møller AP

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the manner in which animals adjust the proportion of energy allocated to growth and storage in response to food availability. We compared univariate growth and length-mass relationships between juvenile adders (Vipera berus) reared under two different feeding regimes. Animals in the low- and high-food expe...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Forsman A,Lindell LE

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amazon forests along a toposequence at San Carlos de Rio Negro (Venezuela) show distinct nutrient limitations depending on slope position. Soils were collected by genetic horizons and analysed to provide information on the relationships between soil P and N status and the nutrition of natural forest at three locations...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Tiessen H,Chacon P,Cuevas E

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 500 species of the Poaceae are found in Kenya, East Africa. Eighteen of twenty-seven tribes are exclusively (except the Paniceae and Danthonieae) of the C3 photosynthetic type. A floristic analysis of low altitude grasslands suggests that nearly all species at these low altitudes are of the C4 photosynthetic...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Tieszen LL,Senyimba MM,Imbamba SK,Troughton JH

更新日期：1979-01-01 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：:We tested the hypothesis whether differences between plant populations in root colonization by arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi could be caused by genetic differentiation between populations. In addition, we investigated whether the response to AM fungi differs between plants from different populations and if it is a...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Pánková H,Münzbergová Z,Rydlová J,Vosátka M

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When testing census data of insect populations for regulation, and/or for overall density dependence in the course of numbers over years, certain conditions, which follow from the testing models, should be fulfilled. Even if the series of densities may be considered a piece of first-order Markov chain (a necessary con...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Den Boer PJ

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00