Inducible defenses, competition and shared predation in planktonic food chains.

abstract：:Sources of variation in floral nectar production were investigated in a natural population of Epilobium canum (Onagraceae), a hummingbird-pollinated herbaceous shrub. Field measurements showed significant phenotypic variation among plants in floral nectar production rates. Average variance among flowers within plants ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Boose DL

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seed dispersal is an important ecosystem function, but it is contentious how structural and functional diversity of plant and bird communities are associated with seed-dispersal functions. We used structural equation models to test how structural (i.e., abundance, species richness) and functional diversity (i.e., func...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Quitián M,Santillán V,Espinosa CI,Homeier J,Böhning-Gaese K,Schleuning M,Neuschulz EL

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In altricial mammals and birds, the presence of a large number of litter or brood mates often affects the development of individual offspring by reducing the share of resources provided by the parents. However, sibling presence can also be favourable, conferring thermoregulatory benefits when ambient temperatures are ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Rödel HG,Hudson R,von Holst D

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breeding birds were censused along four elevational gradients in the Adirondack Mountains, New York, and the Green Mountains, Vermont. The bird communities of the four gradients were basically similar in species composition, richness and amplitude patterns. Three measures of species diversity decreased with increasing...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Able KP,Noon BR

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Provenance translocations of tree species are promoted in forestry, conservation, and restoration in response to global climate change. While this option is driven by adaptive considerations, less is known of the effects translocations can have on dependent communities. We investigated the relative importance and cons...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gosney BJ,Potts BM,Forster LG,Whiteley C,O'Reilly-Wapstra JM

更新日期：2021-01-20 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：:The possibility that resource limits constrain the growth of mobile epifaunal populations associated withSargassum patens plants was investigated by placing plants and associated animals into field microcosms which excluded fish predators, and then comparing faunal abundance and size-structure changes in different mic...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Edgar GJ,Aoki M

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A widely cited benefit of predator diversity is greater suppression of insect herbivores, with corresponding increases in plant biomass. In the context of a vector-borne pathogen system, predator species richness may also influence plant disease risk via the direct effects of predators on the abundance and behavior of...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Long EY,Finke DL

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants are often attacked by many herbivorous insects and pathogens at the same time. Two important suites of responses to attack are mediated by plant hormones, jasmonate and salicylate, which independently provide resistance to herbivorous insects and pathogens, respectively. Several lines of evidence suggest that t...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Thaler JS,Karban R,Ullman DE,Boege K,Bostock RM

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to an overlap in the resources used by the flight muscles with the resources used during egg production, it has been hypothesised that an increased dispersal in fragmented landscapes may result in a physiological trade-off between flight and reproduction. In a common garden experiment, we investigated the effects ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gibbs M,Van Dyck H

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding climatic controls on tropical forest productivity is key to developing more reliable models for predicting how tropical biomes may respond to climate change. Currently there is no consensus on which factors control seasonal changes in tropical forest tree growth. This study reports the first comprehensiv...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Rowland L,Malhi Y,Silva-Espejo JE,Farfán-Amézquita F,Halladay K,Doughty CE,Meir P,Phillips OL

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species-habitat relationships are an important aspect of fish life history, particularly in early ontogeny. To address the lack of information on the microhabitat use/requirements of European coarse fishes, particularly 0-group fishes in riverine systems, an empirical model was generated from data collected in the Riv...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Copp GH

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigating factors which affect the decline in survival with age, i.e. actuarial senescence, is important in order to understand how demographic rates vary in wild populations. Although the evidence for the occurrence of actuarial senescence in wild populations is growing, very few studies have compared actuarial s...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Holand H,Kvalnes T,Gamelon M,Tufto J,Jensen H,Pärn H,Ringsby TH,Sæther BE

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments are described that were designed to investigate the effects of food availability and rate of exploitation on the growth and production of populations of Folsomia candida (Willem). In an initial experiment in which there was excess food it was found that increasing the rate of exploitation resulted in incre...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Usher MB,Longstaff BC,Southall DR

更新日期：1971-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rodents of the family Heteromyidae are proficient gatherers and hoarders of seeds. A major component of their adaptive specialization for harvesting and transporting seeds is their spacious, fur-lined cheek pouches. Precise measurements of cheek pouch capacities are essential if ecologists are to understand the foragi...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Vander Wall SB,Longland WS,Pyare S,Veech JA

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neotropical shrub Pentagonia macrophylla Benth. (Rubiaceae) has protandrous two-day flowers. Synchronous development among flowers on a single individual results in sequential phenotypic unisexuality: the entire plant alternates gender from day to day. Pistillate flowers produce more nectar than staminate flowers ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： McDade LA

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reproductive traits are tightly linked to plant fitness and may therefore be mechanisms driving biological invasions, including the greater success of more phylogenetically novel introduced species in some systems. We present a phylogenetic comparative analysis of "Baker's law'', that introduced plants with the abilit...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Burns JH,Ashman TL,Steets JA,Harmon-Threatt A,Knight TM

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthropogenic land use may shape vegetation composition and affect trophic interactions by altering concentrations of host plant metabolites. Here, we investigated the hypotheses that: (1) plant N and defensive secondary metabolite contents of the herb Plantago lanceolata are affected by land use intensity (LUI) and t...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Wäschke N,Hancock C,Hilker M,Obermaier E,Meiners T

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We obtined data on body mass and growth rates for the immature members of two groups of wild baboons in Amboseli National Park, Kenya. Data were collected without feeding, trapping, or handling. The data were separated into cross-sectional and longitudinal components, allowing both the examination of body mass-age rel...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Altmann J,Alberts S

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In tropical dry forests, a high interspecific variation in the strategies of fruiting phenology has been documented. Therefore, phenological responses may be mediated by influence of environmental variables, functional plant attributes or phylogenetic inertia. During 2 years, we recorded the fruiting phenology of 151 ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Cortés-Flores J,Cornejo-Tenorio G,Urrea-Galeano LA,Andresen E,González-Rodríguez A,Ibarra-Manríquez G

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a new obligate pollination mutualism involving the senita cactus, Lophocereus schottii (Cactaceae, Pachyceereae), and the senita moth, Upiga virescens (Pyralidae, Glaphyriinae) in the Sonoran Desert and discuss the evolution of specialized pollination mutualisms. L. schottii is a night-blooming, self-incompa...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Fleming TH,Holland JN

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The theory that early successional plants and annual plants will be less well defended against generalist herbivores than later successional plants and perennial plants, because they avoid herbivores by escaping in space and time, is evaluated. The theory is not supported in the ecosystem examined. The correlation bet...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Otte D

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Short-term effects of environmental perturbations on various life history traits are reasonably well documented in birds and mammals. But, in the present context of global climate change, there is a need to consider potential long-term effects of natal conditions to better understand and predict the consequences of th...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Nevoux M,Weimerskirch H,Barbraud C

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some plant secondary compounds, such as terpenes, are very flammable; however, their role in enhancing plant flammability is poorly understood and often neglected in reviews on plant chemical ecology. This is relevant as there is growing evidence that flammability-enhancing traits are adaptive in fire-prone ecosystems...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Pausas JG,Alessio GA,Moreira B,Segarra-Moragues JG

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：:We studied the disturbance associated with prairie vole burrows and its effects on grassland plant diversity at the patch (1 m(2)) and metacommunity (>5 ha) scales. We expected vole burrows to increase patch-scale plant species diversity by locally reducing competition for resources or creating niche opportunities tha...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Questad EJ,Foster BL

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 13 tropical tree species on Barro Colorado Island, species with high seedling mortality rates during the first year in shade had higher reltive growth rates (RGR) from germination to 2 months in both sun (23% full sun) and shade [2%, with and without lowered red: far red (R:FR) ratio] than shade tolerant species...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Kitajima K

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Size-limited predation is an important process during the development of many aquatic species, and mortality rates of early larval stages and small individuals can be particularly high. Structurally complex habitats can mediate predator-prey interactions and provide a potentially important mechanism for decreasing pre...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Babbitt KJ,Tanner GW

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the laboratory the consumption (C), egestion (F), assimilation (A) and assimilation efficiency (A/C) of dry matter and of the bioelements C, N, P, K, Ca, Mg, S and Na were studied weekly during the whole feeding stage. The larvae were reared in clusters of 10 individuals (on average 3.5 ♂♂ and 6.5 ♀♀), fed one-year...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Larsson S,Tenow O

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined how independent and interactive effects of CO2 concentrations, water supply and wind speed affect growth rates, biomass partitioning, water use efficiency, diffusive conductance and stomatal density of plants. To test the prediction that wind stress will be ameliorated by increased CO2 and/or by unrestrict...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Retuerto R,Woodward FI

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00