Tree diversity promotes growth of late successional species despite increasing deer damage in a restored forest.

abstract：:Emerging aquatic insects from streams are important food sources for riparian predators, yet their availability is seasonally limited. Spatial heterogeneity in stream water temperature was found to spatially desynchronize the emergence timing of aquatic insects, and prolong their flight period, potentially enhancing c...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Uno H

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using long-term data on two kangaroo rats in the Chihuahuan Desert of North America, we fitted logistic models including the exogenous effects of seasonal rainfall patterns. Our aim was to test the effects of intraspecific interactions and seasonal rainfall in explaining and predicting the numerical fluctuations of th...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Lima M,Ernest SK,Brown JH,Belgrano A,Stenseth NC

更新日期：2008-09-01 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：:Body size and temperature are fundamental drivers of ecological processes because they determine metabolic rates at the individual level. Whether these drivers act independently on individual-level metabolic rates remains uncertain. Most studies of intraspecific scaling of unitary organisms must rely on preexisting di...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Barneche DR,White CR,Marshall DJ

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Global environmental change (GEC) is affecting species interactions and causing a rapid decline in biodiversity. In this study, I present a new Ecosystem Disruption Index to quantify the impacts of simulated nitrogen (N) deposition (0, 10, 20, and 50 kg N·ha-1 ·yr-1  + 6-7 kg N·ha-1 ·yr-1 background) on abiotic and bi...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Ochoa-Hueso R

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recording and monitoring wildlife is crucial for the conservation of wild species and the protection of their environment. The most common type of information reported from a monitoring scheme is a time series of population abundance estimates, but the potential of such data for analyzing population dynamics is limite...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Knape J,Besbeas P,de Valpine P

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although canopy height has long been a focus of interest in ecology, it has remained difficult to study at large spatial scales. Recently, satellite-borne LiDAR equipment produced the first systematic high resolution maps of vegetation height worldwide. Here we show that this new resource reveals three marked modes in...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Xu C,Hantson S,Holmgren M,van Nes EH,Staal A,Scheffer M

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical approaches for the analyses of density dependence assume that all the individuals in a population equally respond and equally contribute to density dependence. However, in age-structured populations, individuals of different ages may differ in their responses to changes in population size and how they contri...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Gamelon M,Grøtan V,Engen S,Bjørkvoll E,Visser ME,Saether BE

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments in temperate grasslands have shown that productivity positively correlates with plant species richness. Resource partitioning (in particular, nitrogen [N] partitioning) has been proposed as one possible mechanism to explain this pattern. There is evidence for inter...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Von Felten S,Niklaus PA,Scherer-Lorenzen M,Hector A,Buchmann N

更新日期：2012-11-01 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：:Latitudinal patterns of nonnative species richness suggest fewer successful invasions in the tropics, relative to temperate regions. One main hypothesis for this pattern is that biotic resistance to invasion is stronger in the tropics than at higher latitudes. Biotic resistance can limit the distribution and abundance...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Freestone AL,Rutz GM,Torchin ME

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many young birds on the Arctic tundra are confronted by a challenging task: they must molt their feathers and accumulate fat stores for the autumn migration before climatic conditions deteriorate. Our understanding of the costs and constraints associated with these stages is extremely limited. We investigated post-juv...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Bonier F,Martin PR,Jensen JP,Butler LK,Ramenofsky M,Wingfield JC

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neutral theory of biodiversity has been criticized for its neglect of species differences. Yet it is much less heeded that S. P. Hubbell's definition of neutrality allows species to differ in their birth and death rates as long as they have an equal per capita fitness. Using the lottery model of competition we fin...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Lin K,Zhang DY,He F

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent theory predicts that stochastic dilution effects may result in species-rich communities with statistically independent species spatial distributions, even if the underlying ecological processes structuring the community are driven by deterministic niche differences. Stochastic dilution is a consequence of the s...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Wang X,Wiegand T,Kraft NJ,Swenson NG,Davies SJ,Hao Z,Howe R,Lin Y,Ma K,Mi X,Su SH,Sun IF,Wolf A

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Should we build our own phylogenetic trees based on gene sequence data, or can we simply use available synthesis phylogenies? This is a fundamental question that any study involving a phylogenetic framework must face at the beginning of the project. Building a phylogeny from gene sequence data (purpose-built phylogeny...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Li D,Trotta L,Marx HE,Allen JM,Sun M,Soltis DE,Soltis PS,Guralnick RP,Baiser B

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of community assembly processes currently involves (a) longstanding questions about the relative importance of environmental filtering vs. niche partitioning in a wide range of ecosystems, and (b) more recent questions about methodology. The rapidly growing field of community phylogenetics has generated deba...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Best RJ,Stachowicz JJ

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In detritus-based ecosystems, autochthonous primary production contributes very little to the detritus pool. Yet primary producers may still influence the functioning of these ecosystems through complex interactions with decomposers and detritivores. Recent studies have suggested that, in aquatic systems, small amount...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Danger M,Cornut J,Chauvet E,Chavez P,Elger A,Lecerf A

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants interact with numerous enemies and mutualists simultaneously and sequentially. Such multispecies interactions can give rise to trait-mediated indirect effects that are likely to be common in nature but which are also inherently difficult to predict. Understanding multispecies interactions is also important in t...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Swope SM,Parker IM

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropical forests include a diversity of habitats, which has led to specialization in plants. Near Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, nutrient-rich clay forests surround nutrient-poor white-sand forests, each harboring a unique composition of habitat specialist trees. We tested the hypothesis that the combination of impo...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Fine PV,Miller ZJ,Mesones I,Irazuzta S,Appel HM,Stevens MH,Sääksjärvi I,Schultz JC,Coley PD

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic plasticity can be a passive response to fluctuating environmental conditions or an active and presumably adaptive (evolved) response selected for in different environments. Here we ask if the larval decision to enter diapause when reared on a host plant associated with a colder habitat is an active or a pas...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Friberg M,Wiklund C

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant reproductive phenology-the timing of reproduction-is shifting rapidly with global climate change. Many studies focus on flowering responses to climate, but few investigate how postflowering processes, such as how quickly plants develop from flowering to seed dispersal, respond to environmental factors. We examin...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Sethi ML,Theobald EJ,Breckheimer I,Hille Ris Lambers J

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predicting the dynamics of ecosystems requires an understanding of how trophic interactions respond to environmental change. In Antarctic marine ecosystems, food web dynamics are inextricably linked to sea ice conditions that affect the nature and magnitude of primary food sources available to higher trophic levels. R...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Norkko A,Thrush SF,Cummings VJ,Gibbs MM,Andrew NL,Norkko J,Schwarz AM

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The theory of evolution via natural selection predicts that the genetic composition of wild populations changes over time in response to the environment. Different genotypes should exhibit different demographic patterns, but genetic variation in demography is often impossible to separate from environmental variation. ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Shefferson RP,Roach DA

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The magnitude and direction of biological effects of environmental disturbances can vary considerably, especially among studies that use presence/absence manipulations. Because nonlinearities (e.g., humped relationships) are common in biological systems, this heterogeneity in effects may arise if systems are similar i...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Gil MA

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The scaling of metabolic rates to body size is widely considered to be of great biological and ecological importance, and much attention has been devoted to determining its theoretical and empirical value. Most debate centers on whether the underlying power law describing metabolic rates is 2/3 (as predicted by scalin...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Capellini I,Venditti C,Barton RA

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population responses of synanthropic species to urbanization may be explained by the resource-matching rule, which postulates that individuals should distribute themselves according to resource availability. According to the resource-matching rule, urban habitats will contain greater densities if they provide better r...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Rodewald AD,Shustack DP

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversity and composition of local communities depends strongly on the pool of species that have been able to colonize that community from elsewhere. Typically this is thought to depend on a larger regional species pool that is subject to local environmental constraints that act as "filters." Often, however, colon...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Cuellar-Gempeler C,Leibold MA

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been proposed that plant biodiversity may increase the erosion resistance of soils, yet direct evidence for any such relationship is lacking. We conducted a mesocosm experiment with eight species of riparian herbaceous plants, and found evidence that plant biodiversity significantly reduced fluvial erosion rate...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Allen DC,Cardinale BJ,Wynn-Thompson T

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Competitive interactions among species with similar ecological niches are known to regulate the assembly of biological communities. However, it is not clear whether such forms of competition can predict the collapse of communities and associated shifts in ecosystem function in the face of environmental change. Here, w...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Bregman TP,Lees AC,Seddon N,Macgregor HE,Darski B,Aleixo A,Bonsall MB,Tobias JA

更新日期：2015-10-01 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