Effects of stream predator richness on the prey community and ecosystem attributes.

abstract：:The diurnal course of the xylem water flow in a solitary Salix fragilis L. tree in a wet grassland was measured using the tissue heat-balance method. There was considerable variation due to meteorological factors. Maximum flow rate was 0.4 kg h-1 m-2 of crown projection area, or 5.9 kg h-1 kg-1 leaf dry weight. The da...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Čermák J,Jeník J,Kučera J,Žídek V

更新日期：1984-10-01 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：:The logistic equation has been used as the basis of two distinct models of population dynamics, a resource limited model and an equilibrium model. It is argued that although the two models are very different, the distinction between them has been obscured by the use of the same terminology for the parameters of both. ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Pollard E

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pea aphids have several alternative responses to the detection of alarm pheromone produced by conspecifics. One of these, dropping from the feeding site to the ground, is potentially costly owing to the risk of desiccation-induced mortality on the ground before another host plant can be reached. Both dropping and walk...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Dill LM,Fraser AH,Roitberg BD

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two general approaches have usually been taken towards understanding the distributions and dynamics of localised species in heterogeneous landscapes, namely habitat characterisation and metapopulation dynamics. We show how habitat and metapopulation dynamics interact to generate a highly localised distribution of a bu...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Gutiérrez D,Thomas CD,León-Cortés JL

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Root proliferation in nutrient-rich soil patches is an important mechanism facilitating nutrient capture by plants. Although the phenomenon of root proliferation is well documented, the specific timing of this proliferation has not been investigated. We studied the timing and degree of root proliferation for three per...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Jackson RB,Caldwell MM

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous publications have reported on investigations of CO2 exchange in the desert lichenRamalina maciformis both in its natural habitat in the Negev and in the laboratory. Utilizing laboratory data, net photosynthesis and dark respiration were expressed as mathematical functions of the most important environmental f...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Lange OL,Geiger IL,Schulze E-

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male dragonflies of the species Aeschna cyanea pay several visits per day to a suitable pond in search of mates. The influence of the population density upon the daily duration of presence of single dragonfly males was investigated by means of multiple regression analysis. Several environmental factors were also consi...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Kaiser H

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theory on intraguild (IG) predation predicts that coexistence of IG-predators and IG-prey is only possible for a limited set of parameter values, suggesting that IG-predation would not be common in nature. This is in conflict with the observation that IG-predation occurs in many natural systems. One possible explanati...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Choh Y,van der Hammen T,Sabelis MW,Janssen A

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovipositing females of the cynipid waspPseudeucoila bochei discriminate between parasitized and unparasitized hosts, which results in a far more uniform distribution of eggs over the hosts than would be obtained if oviposition were random (Fig. 1,a 0-f 0).For the description of the distributions a few models were work...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Bakker K,Eijsackers HJ,van Lenteren JC,Meelis E

更新日期：1972-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two methods of extraction were used in the estimation of snail population densities in woodland litter. The time-consuming-Vágvölgyi technique proved to be 6.25 times more efficient than infra-red heat extraction but it was shown that the results obtained by the latter method could be easily corrected to conform with ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Phillipson J,Abel R

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive species are capable of altering ecosystems through the consumption of basal resources. However, quantifying the effects of invasive species in large ecosystems is challenging. Measuring changes in basal resources (i.e., phytoplankton) at an ecosystem scale is an important and potentially translatable response...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Tumolo BB,Flinn MB

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seasonal and nutritionally induced changes of whole body protein metabolism have been studied in 45 to 57 mm shell-length Mytilus edulis from Whitsand Bay, southwest England. The subtraction of measured net protein balances from coincident rates of protein synthesis, determined in vivo by supplying 15N-labelled alga a...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hawkins AJ

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ectomycorrhizal (EM) fungi form relationships with higher plants; plants transfer C to fungi, and fungi transfer nutrients to their host. While evidence indicates that this interaction is largely mutualistic, less is known about how nutrient supply and EM associates may alter C and nutrient exchanges, especially in in...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Albarracín MV,Six J,Houlton BZ,Bledsoe CS

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perennial species have evolved several strategies to survive fire, with resprouters and seeders forming two major categories. Gompholobium marginatum is a herbaceous seeder legume occurring in the Western Australian jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) forest which since 1961 has been subjected to burns every sixth year. Suc...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hansen A,Pate JS,Hansen AP

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Controls of fine dynamics were investigated in a Pinus palustris Mill. (longleaf pine) woodland subjected to two understory vegetation treatments (control versus removed) and four overstory treatments (no gap control, and canopy gaps of three sizes with constant total gap area per stand). Fine root (<2 mm diameter) dy...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Jones RH,Mitchell RJ,Stevens G,Pecot S

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated direct and indirect interactions between the ant, Pheidole megacephala (Fabr.), the green scale, Coccus viridis (Green), and the scale's host plant, Pluchea indica (L.). To examine the influence of ants on scales and host plants, scale population densities, scale mortality rates, and plant perf...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Bach CE

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecophysiological differences related to photosynthesis were compared in holm oak Quercus ilex leaves from undisturbed holm-oak vegetation, resprouts after fire and resprouts after tree-fell. No significant differences in any parameter measured were observed between the two kinds of resprout throughout the first growin...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Fleck I,Grau D,Sanjosé M,Vidal D

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements of carbon isotope ratios of nine taxa of arid zone mosses from North America and 24 taxa of European bryophytes show consistent values indicative of C3 metabolism. Other morphological, physiological and biochemical characteristics provide the mechanism of adaptation to environmental stresses of heat and e...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Rundel PW,Stichler W,Zander RH,Ziegler H

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While parasites are increasingly recognized as important components of ecosystems, we currently know little about how they alter ecosystem nutrient availability via host-mediated nutrient cycling. We examined whether infection alters the flow of nutrients through hosts and whether such effects depend upon host diet qu...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Narr CF,Frost PC

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed the effect of nutrient enrichment on organic matter breakdown in an alpine springbrook, using alder leaf packs to which phosphorus and nitrogen were added in the form of slow-release fertilizer briquettes. The breakdown of leaf packs with nutrients added (k=0.0284 day-1) was significantly faster th...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Robinson CT,Gessner MO

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gut extracts of Gammarus fossarum liberated reducing substances (at pH values ≤7) and amino acids (pH≥7) from freshly shed oak leaves only after removal of soluble leaf phenols. When carboxymethylcellulose was used at a concentration equal to that of leaf cellulose, release of reducing substances was considerably high...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Bärlocher F

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecosystem-wide effects of introduced brown trout (Salmo trutta L.) and native river galaxias (Galaxiaseldoni McDowall) were studied by analysing ecosystem production budgets for two adjacent tributaries of a grassland stream-system in the South Island of New Zealand. One tributary was inhabited by brown trout, the oth...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Huryn AD

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predawn water potential of representative plant species, together with stable isotope composition of stem water and potential water sources were investigated in four low-elevation tropical hardwood hammocks in the Lower Florida Keys, during a one year period. Hammock species had the lowest water potentials when soil w...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ish-Shalom N,Sternberg LD,Ross M,O'Brien J,Flynn L

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptive within-clutch allocation of resources by laying females is an important focus of evolutionary studies. However, the critical assumption of these studies, namely that within-clutch egg-size deviations affect offspring performance, has been properly tested only rarely. In this study, we investigated effects of ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Krist M,Remes V,Uvírová L,Nádvorník P,Bures S

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimal diet theory often fails to predict a forager's diet choice when prey are mobile. Because they escape or defend themselves, mobile prey are likely to increase the forager's handling time, thereby decreasing its fitness gain rate. Many animals have been shown to select their prey so as to maximize either their f...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Barrette M,Wu GM,Brodeur J,Giraldeau LA,Boivin G

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new technique based upon the dilution of C 14 /C 12 ratios in structural carbon of root systems during the course of the growing season was used to evaluate belowground turnover or productivity of two cool desert communities in northern Utah, USA. This technique provides a measure of turnover of the root system of e...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Caldwell MM,Camp LB

更新日期：1974-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corridors connect otherwise isolated habitat patches and can direct movement of animals among such patches. In eight experimental landscapes, we tested two hypotheses of how corridors might affect dispersal behavior. The Traditional Corridor hypothesis posits that animals preferentially leave patches via corridors, fo...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Fried JH,Levey DJ,Hogsette JA

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful reproduction in a seasonal environment can be accomplished with resources that are stored before use ("capital resources") or resources that are used immediately ("income resources"). Research examining capital versus income resource usage during reproduction has primarily focused on assigning species to po...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Fletcher QE,Landry-Cuerrier M,Boutin S,McAdam AG,Speakman JR,Humphries MM

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The responses of organisms to organic farming depend on the taxonomic group and landscape complexity. Following the intermediate landscape complexity hypothesis, organic farming can compensate for the lack of complexity in simple landscapes. Argentinian farmlands are simple with large fields and scarce linear habitat ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Serafini VN,Coda JA,Contreras F,Conroy MJ,Gomez MD,Priotto JW

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00