Intact amino acid uptake by northern hardwood and conifer trees.

abstract：:Prey subsidies originating from detritus add nutrients and energy to arboreal communities. Measurement of this subsidy is required in the understanding of how food web dynamics respond to changes in surrounding environments. Shrub spiders are one of the key predators involved in food web coupling. We evaluate the effe...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Haraguchi TF,Uchida M,Shibata Y,Tayasu I

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six early successional plant species with differing photosynthetic pathways (3 C3 species and 3 C4 species) were grown at either 300, 600, or 1,200 ppm CO2 and at either 0.0 or 0.25 ppm SO2. Total plant growth increased with CO2 concentration for the C3 species and varied only slightly with CO2 for the C4 species. Fum...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Carlson RW,Bazzaz FA

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatial distribution in the two collembolan species Tomocerus minor and Orchesella cincta is greatly influenced by the distribution of the environmental factors water and food. T. minor is totally restricted in distribution to water-saturated places, where it forms spaced-out aggregations. O. cincta assembles in water...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Verhoef HA,Nagelkerke CJ

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prosopis is a genus of phreatophytic trees inhabiting hot deserts and semiarid grasslands of the world. Although desert trees are exposed to unusual environmental temperature and water stress, few investigations have evaluated their water relations. This is particularly true for Prosopis species growing in areas where...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Nilsen ET,Rundel PW,Sharifi MR

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) and grey partridges (Perdix perdix) were maintained together on land known to be contaminated with eggs of the caecal nematode Heterakis gallinarum to examine the hypothesis that this shared parasite has a greater impact on grey partridges than on pheasants. Since an inverse relationshi...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Tompkins DM,Dickson G,Hudson PJ

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CO2 assimilation of primary foliage of red maple (Acer rubrum L.) and red oak (Quercus rubra L.), and of regrowth foliage produced in response to simulated insect defoliation, was measured throughout the season by infrared gas analysis: parallel measurements of leaf conductance were obtained by ventilated diffusio...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Heichel GH,Turner NC

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the general extent to which sex-related differences in palatability occur in boreal dioecious woody plants, males and females of five dioecious woody plant species were presented to free-ranging mountain hares (Lepus timidus) during winter. Hares strongly preferred branches from male plants when feeding on...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hjältén J

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many mammals, early survival differs between the sexes, with males proving the more fragile sex ["Fragile male (FM) hypothesis"], especially in sexually dimorphic species where males are the larger sex. Male-biased allocation (MBA) by females may offset this difference. Here, we evaluate support for the FM and MBA ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Kraus C,Mueller B,Meise K,Piedrahita P,Pörschmann U,Trillmich F

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The duration times of the eggs, nauplii and copepodites of Cyclops vicinus and Eudiaptomus gracilis were obtained, by experiment, at 5, 10, 15 and 20°C. In contrast with previously published work on copepod development, the ovigerous females, used in the cultures at these temperatures, were removed from a water storag...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Munro IG

更新日期：1974-12-01 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：:Correlates of individual plant escape from seed predation were investigated for an East African population of the shrub Crotalaria pallida (Papilionaceae) in which seed mortality due to chewing insects is high and varies among neighboring individuals. Several plant properties expected to influence phytophagous insect ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Moore LR

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigating how prey density influences a prey's combined predation risk from multiple predator species is critical for understanding the widespread importance of multiple predator effects. We conducted experiments that crossed six treatments consisting of zero, one, or two predator species (hellgrammites, greenside...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Vance-Chalcraft HD,Soluk DA

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the non-reproductive period, six species of brood parasites (4 cuckoos, 2 viduines) observed in Rhodesia and in the Kalahari were found to inhabit other areas than their hosts, being either nomadic or migratory in habit. They are hence exposed to different environmental conditions.Histological examination of the go...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Immelmann K

更新日期：1969-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seasonal excavations of ramet systems in overlapping natural populations of Typha latifolia and T. angustifolia revealed intrapopulation variation in ramet size and reproduction. Reproductive "states" were recognized based on whether or not a ramet had flowered and the number of offspring ramets it possessed. As the g...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Grace JB,Wetzel RG

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selection of sites for oviposition when the risk of predation by green frogs was variable studied in tandems of the damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula. In the absence of predators the number of tandems landing increased with the size of the oviposition site and with the number of pairs already present. Pairs approaching an...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Rehfeldt GE

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enemies hypothesis states that reduced insect herbivory in mixed-species stands can be attributed to more effective top-down control by predators with increasing plant diversity. Although evidence for this mechanism exists for invertebrate predators, studies on avian predation are comparatively rare and have not e...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Muiruri EW,Rainio K,Koricheva J

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Every summer the deepest parts of the inner Flensburg fjord are subject to O2-deficiency lasting from a few weeks to several months. In spring, however, populations of Metridium senile can be found in these areas, in spite of the fact that frequently the local anoxic period of the previous summer has been 2-3 times lo...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Wahl M

更新日期：1985-09-01 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：:Predation by Saduria entomon on the depositfeeding amphipods Monoporeia (=Pontoporeia) affinis and Pontoporeia femorata was studied in laboratory experiments. Prey vulnerabilities were compared in singleprey treatments and in mixed-prey treatments, where the proportions of the two species were varied at one total dens...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hill C,Elmgren R

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent discussions on scaling issues in ecology have emphasized that processes acting at a wide range of spatial and temporal scales influence ecosystems and thus there is no appropriate single scale at which ecological processes should be studied. This may be particularly true for environmental disturbances (e.g. El ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Edwards MS

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is no correlation between protein-precipitating capacity and either total phenolic or proanthocyanidin content of extracts of mature foliage from six species of oaks: Quercus alba (white oak), Q. bicolor (swamp white oak), Q. macrocarpa (bur oak), Q. palustris (pin oak), Q. rubra (red oak), and Q. velutina (blac...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Martin JS,Martin MM

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computer simulations of a pollinator foraging in a mixture of two species were used to explore how plant reproduction can be influenced by interspecific pollination movements. Interspecific pollen transfer led to strong competitive effects when availabilities of pollen, receptive stigma surfaces, or pollinator movemen...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Waser NM

更新日期：1978-01-01 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 epiphytic orchid, Dimerandra emarginata, occurs in habitats characterized by high light intensities and very variable water supply. Long-term observations of the water status indicate that this species experienced at least moderate water stress over most of the year. Well-watered, it showed high rates of net CO2 u...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Zotz G,Tyree MT

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals were acclimitized to a daily cycle of 15-25°C and a photoperiod of LD 12:12. Parietalectomized animals in an experimental thermal gradient (15°C-40°C, LD 12:12) selected significantly higher temperatures than controls at all hours of the day except from 0800-1200. These results suggest that the lizard parapine...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hutchison VH,Kosh RJ

更新日期：1974-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental effects on parents can strongly affect the phenotype of their offspring, which alters the heritability of traits and the offspring's responses to the environment. We examined whether P limitation of the aquatic invertebrate, Daphnia magna, alters the responses of its offspring to inadequate P nutrition. ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Frost PC,Ebert D,Larson JH,Marcus MA,Wagner ND,Zalewski A

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten populations of the perennial herb, Liatris acidota Engelm. & Gray (Compositae), growing on the Texas Gulf Coast (USA) were analyzed for age structure, frequency of predation, and frequency of asexual reproduction. Nine of the ten populations exhibited non-stable age distributions due to a deficiency of young non-s...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Schaal BA

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When two ecosystem engineers share the same natural environment, the outcome of their interaction will be unclear if they have contrasting habitat-modifying effects (e.g., sediment stabilization vs. sediment destabilization). The outcome of the interaction may depend on local environmental conditions such as season or...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Govers LL,Pieck T,Bouma TJ,Suykerbuyk W,Smolders AJ,van Katwijk MM

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased biological diversity due to invasion by non-indigenous species (NIS) is a global phenomenon with potential effects on trophic interactions and ecosystem processes in the invaded habitat. We assessed the effects of resource availability and invasion of three non-indigenous invertebrate grazers (two crustacean...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Wikström SA,Hillebrand H

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parents are expected to overproduce the less costly sex under poor food conditions. The previously regular 3-year cycle in the abundance of voles, the main prey of the Ural owl, Strix uralensis, temporarily disappeared in 1999-2001. We studied Ural owls' parental feeding investment and sex allocation during these poor...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Brommer JE,Karell P,Pihlaja T,Painter JN,Primmer CR,Pietiäinen H

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00