Competition-colonization trade-offs in a ciliate model community.

abstract：:This study uses short-term assays and long-term transplant experiments to document the potential importance of fish predation and herbivory to the distribution and abundance of reef-building corals in a Caribbean back-reef system. Experimental manipulations of fish access reveal that the zonal patterns of the two reef...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Littler MM,Taylor PR,Littler DS

更新日期：1989-08-01 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：:Life history responses of four Daphnia magna clones at two food levels were studied to assess the importance of maturation instar on the plasticity of fitness responses under simulated mortality regimes. Females of the clones studied could vary offspring size with consequent effects on their maturation time. Significa...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Barata C,Baird D,Soares A

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During five consecutive growing seasons (winters) ca. 110 plants of the desert geophyte Bellevalia desertorum were marked individually in a 25 m2 plot on a south-facing slope in the central Negev Desert of Israel. The number of rosette leaves of each plant was recorded, as well as whether it flowered and produced seed...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Boeken B

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seeds dispersed by tropical, arboreal mammals are usually deposited singly and without dung or in clumps of fecal material. After dispersal through defecation by mammals, most seeds are secondarily dispersed by dung beetles or consumed by rodents. These post-dispersal, plant-animal interactions are likely to interact ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Andresen E,Levey DJ

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emergence and survival of honey mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa var.glandulosa Torr.) seedlings was quantified on sites with contrasting grazing histories: long-term continuous grazing (LTG) and long-term protection (LTP) from grazing by cattle. On each site, different levels of heroaceous defoliation were imposed at mo...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Brown JR,Archer S

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasticity of plant traits is commonly quantified by comparing different phenotypes at the same age. In this paper, we present a method in which the effect of resource conditions on plant weight is used as a basis for quantifying the plasticity of individual plant traits. Abutilon theophrasti individuals were grown in...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Rice SA,Bazzaz FA

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species distributions are dependent on interactions with abiotic and biotic factors in the environment. Abiotic factors like temperature, moisture, and soil nutrients, along with biotic interactions within and between species, can all have strong influences on spatial distributions of plants and animals. Terrestrial A...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Potts LJ,Gantz JD,Kawarasaki Y,Philip BN,Gonthier DJ,Law AD,Moe L,Unrine JM,McCulley RL,Lee RE Jr,Denlinger DL,Teets NM

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The natural geographical occurrence, carbon assimilation, and structural and biochemical diversity of species with C4 photosynthesis in the vegetation of Mongolia was studied. The Mongolian flora was screened for C4 plants by using 13C/12C isotope fractionation, determining the early products of 14CO2 fixation, micros...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Pyankov VI,Gunin PD,Tsoog S,Black CC

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predictions of plant responses to climate change are frequently based on organisms' presence in warmer locations, which are then assumed to reflect future performance in cooler areas. However, as plant life stages may be affected differently by environmental changes, there is little empirical evidence that this approa...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ibáñez I,Katz DSW,Lee BR

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CrowdedEpirrita larvae had shorter larval periods than, and similar pupal masses to, their solitary siblings when reared on low quality diets. When fed on high quality diets, pupal masses of crowded larvae were lower than in singletons, and there was no difference in larval period. Because changes in food availability...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Haukioja E,Pakarinen E,Niemelä P,Iso-Iivari L

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hypothesis for amphibian declines is that increased dryness attributed to global climate change exposes amphibians to greater biotic threat and, consequently, greater mortality. But, little is known about behavioral responses of terrestrial amphibians to dry conditions alone or in combination with biotic threats. ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Rohr JR,Madison DM

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

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：:Life history theory and empirical studies suggest that large size or earlier metamorphosis are suitable proxies for increased lifetime fitness. Thus, across a gradient of larval habitat quality, individuals with similar phenotypes for these traits should exhibit similar post-metamorphic performance. Here we examine th...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Van Allen BG,Briggs VS,McCoy MW,Vonesh JR

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Avian malaria parasites are known to have negative effects on their hosts, including consequences for reproductive success and survival. However, the outcome of disease may vary greatly among individuals, due to their particular genetic background, their past history of exposure to infections, or the way they respond ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Arriero E,Pérez-Tris J,Ramírez A,Remacha C

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a food provisioning experiment in a population of Pied Flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca breeding at high altitude in central Spain to test if food availability before and during laying determines clutch size. Food was provided to one of two pairs with the same date of initiation of nest-building (15 dyads o...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Sanz JJ,Moreno J

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense Desf.), a rhizomatous, perennial herb, was the subject of a 2-year field experiment that examined two factors potentially affecting fruit and seed production: pollen addition and ramet isolation. Ramets were either open pollinated or overpollinated by hand to supplement natural ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ganger MT

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of spines on woody plants has been shown to limit the loss of foliage to large mammalian browsers by restricting both bite size and biting rate. We tested the hypothesis that plant spines are also an effective defense against browsing by small mammals, such as rodents, that climb within the canopy of shru...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Cooper SM,Ginnett TF

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predation pressure and resource availability often interact in structuring herbivore communities, with their relative influence varying in space and time. The operation of multiple ecological pressures and guild-specific herbivore responses may combine to override simple predictions of how the roles of plant quality a...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Zehnder CB,Stodola KW,Cooper RJ,Hunter MD

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1989, 313 foraging flights of common terns in the Wadden Sea were radio-tracked. The feeding trips lasted on average 115 min covering about 30 km per flight. Completely tracked flights had a mean radius of 6.3 km. The terns preferred distinct foraging areas in the Wadden Sea. These were visited at site-specific pha...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Becker PH,Frank D,Sudmann SR

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial context in which seed predation occurs may modify the spatial structure of recruitment generated by seed dispersal. The Janzen-Connell (J-C) model predicts that granivores will exert greater pressure on the parent plant or at those sites where the density of dispersed seeds is higher. We have investigated ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Blendinger PG,Díaz-Vélez MC

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The photosynthetic pathways of 42 species of the genusEuphorbia growing wild, naturalized or cultivated in Egypt were investigated. The criteria used included the δ13C- and δD-values and Kranz anatomy of the leaves. There is a relationship between the photosynthetic pathway and the ecological conditions in the habitat...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Batanouny KH,Stichler W,Ziegler H

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the ecomorphological structure of a guild of rhinolophoid bats in a Malaysian rainforest first described by Heller and von Helversen (1989). These authors found that the distribution of echolocation call frequencies used by 12 syntopic species was more even than expected from allometric relationships or in...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Kingston T,Jones G,Zubaid A,Kunz TH

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated in the field the carbon (C) transfer between sugar maple (Acer saccharum) saplings and the spring ephemeral Erythronium americanum via the mycelium of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. Sugar maple saplings and E. americanum plants were planted together in pots placed in the ground of a maple forest in...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Lerat S,Gauci R,Catford JG,Vierheilig H,Piché Y,Lapointe L

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transition between wintertime net carbon loss and springtime net carbon assimilation has an important role in controlling the annual rate of carbon uptake in coniferous forest ecosystems. We studied the contributions of springtime carbon assimilation to the total annual rate of carbon uptake and the processes invo...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Monson RK,Sparks JP,Rosenstiel TN,Scott-Denton LE,Huxman TE,Harley PC,Turnipseed AA,Burns SP,Backlund B,Hu J

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The competitive interactions between roach (Rutilus rutilus) and rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalmus) were investigated in two habitats, the open water and the waterlily zone. The growth rates of both species in enclosures were lower when confined together than when alone, demonstrating interspecific competition. Allopa...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Johansson L

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared prefledging growth, energy expenditure, and time budgets in the arctic-breeding red knot (Calidris canutus) to those in temperate shorebirds, to investigate how arctic chicks achieve a high growth rate despite energetic difficulties associated with precocial development in a cold climate. Growth rate of kn...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Schekkerman H,Tulp I,Piersma T,Visser GH

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental plots covering a 120 years' observation period in unthinned, even-aged pure stands of common beech (Fagus sylvatica), Norway spruce (Picea abies), Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris), and common oak (Quercus Petraea) are used to scrutinize Reineke's (1933) empirically derived stand density rule [see text], N=tr...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Pretzsch H

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using data from three fires in northeastern Spain, we tested a condition necessary to support the idea that fire has been a factor in the evolution of the resprouting habit: populations of all resprouting species within a community should show high levels of genet survival after fires and show a low coefficient of var...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： López-Soria L,Castell C

更新日期：1992-10-01 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