Warming effects on growth, production, and vegetation structure of alpine shrubs: a five-year experiment in northern Japan.

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：:The food selection of the common goby, Pomatoschistus microps Krøyer, was studied in the field and in laboratory experiments on the Swedish west coast. The three most important prey organisms for P. microps in the study area were Corophium volutator, chironomid larvae and Nereis spp. Corophium was consumed more than a...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Magnhagen C,Wiederholm AM

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stand thinning across different soil drainage types was used to test the ecophysiological basis for the control of foliar monoterpenes in current-year foliage of balsam trees [Abies balsamea (L.) P. Mill.] the year following treatment. Photosynthetic capacity (A max) was greater on mesic sites than on sub-hygric and h...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Lamontagne M,Bauce É,Margolis H

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple studies have examined the effects of clouds on shoot and canopy-level microclimate and physiological processes; none have yet done so on the scale of individual plant crowns. We compared incident photosynthetically active radiation (PAR), leaf temperatures, chlorophyll fluorescence, and photosynthetic gas exc...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hernandez-Moreno JM,Bayeur NM,Coley HD 4th,Hughes NM

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimal foraging theory is based on the assumption that at least some aspects of foraging behavior are genetically determined (Pyke et al. 1977; Kamil and Sargent 1980; Pyke 1984). Nonetheless, very few studies have examined the role of genetics in foraging behavior. Here, we report on geographical differences in the ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Hedrick AV,Riechert SE

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many animals have seasonally plastic diets to take advantage of seasonally abundant plant resources, such as fruit or nectar. Switches from insectivorous diets that are protein rich to fruits or nectar that are carbohydrate rich present physiological challenges, but are routinely done by insectivorous songbirds during...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Frick WF,Shipley JR,Kelly JF,Heady PA 3rd,Kay KM

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To improve the understanding of how native plant diversity influences invasion, we examined how population and community diversity may directly and indirectly be related to invasion in a natural field setting. Due to the large impact of the dominant C(4) grass species (Andropogon gerardii) on invasion resistance of ta...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Chang CC,Smith MD

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The palatability of 14 species of woody plant was assessed for three species of browsing ruminant, namely kudus, impalas and goats. Results show that palatability was most clearly related to leaf contents of condensed tannins. The effect was a threshold one, with all plants containing more than 5% condensed tannins be...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Cooper SM,Owen-Smith N

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moths eclosed earlier from pupae of the bertha armyworm,Mamestra configurata, that were exposed briefly (1 to 5 days) to a warm temperature (15 or 20°C) at the beginning of postdiapause pupal-adult metamorphosis and then incubated at 10 or 12.5°C than from pupae incubated at 10 or 12.5°C throughout metamorphosis. The ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Turnock WJ,Bodnaryk RP,Abramson D

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluxes of CO2 and N2O were measured from both natural and experimentally augmented snowpacks during the winters of 1993 and 1994 on Niwot Ridge in the Colorado Front Range. Consistent snow cover insulated the soil surface from extreme air temperatures and allowed heterotrophic activity to continue through much of the ...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Brooks PD,Schmidt SK,Williams MW

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythronium japonicum (Liliaceae) inhabits deciduous mesic forests of Hokkaido, northern Japan. Myrmecochory of this species was investigated, especially the dispersal frequency, the effect of seed predators and the seed fall pattern. In the quadrat census using marked seeds of E. japonicum, the ant Myrmica kotokui fr...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ohkawara K,Higashi S,Ohara M

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some perennial fugitive plants that colonize badger disturbances in xeric prairies have a limited dispersal capacity, and consequently propagules are dispersed over a small area. I hypothesized that high density-dependent mortality might occur early in the life history of such species, and thus increased survival migh...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Platt WJ

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments are described which test the hypothesis that more host-specific species of caterpillars should be less aceptable to a generalist predator than polyphagous species. Caterpillars of all species were tested in paired choice tests with the Argentine ant, Iridomyrmex humilis. Experiments were replicated ten tim...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Bernays EA,Cornelius ML

更新日期：1989-05-01 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：: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：:Dry lichen thalli were enclosed in gas exchange chambers and treated with an air stream of high relative humidity (96.5 to near 100%) until water potential equilibrium was reached with the surrounding air (i.e., no further increase of weight through water vapor uptake). They were then sprayed with liquid water. The tr...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Lange OL,Kilian E,Ziegler H

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-four species of marine macroalgae from around St. Andrews, Scotland, have been assayed for their external activity and thirty-three species for their total activity of carbonic anhydrase. Activity was detected in all the Rhodophyta tested apart from Chondrus crispus, but was absent in Codium fragile, Enteromorp...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Giordano M,Maberly SC

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Southern grasshopper mice (Onychomys torridus) were allowed to junt buried mealworms in a laboratory arena. The prey were arranged in two patterns, one aggregated and one relatively dispersed. Mice captured more prey from the dispersed treatment in the 2 h experiment, a result that can be attributed to both the greate...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Taylor RJ

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linking spatial variation in environmental factors to variation in demographic rates is essential for a mechanistic understanding of the dynamics of populations. However, we still know relatively little about such links, partly because feedbacks via intraspecific density make them difficult to observe in natural popul...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Dahlgren JP,Ostergård H,Ehrlén J

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate-mediated shifts in species' phenologies are expected to alter species interactions, but predicting the consequences of this is difficult because phenological shifts may be driven by different climate factors that may or may not be correlated. Temperature could be an important factor determining effects of phen...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Rudolf VH,Singh M

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to the plant vigour hypothesis, galling insects should respond positively and perform better on vigorous plants or plant parts, the opposite of the predictions of the plant stress hypothesis. I carried out field experiments to analyse the effects of sustained abiotic stress on the interactions between the co...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： De Bruyn L

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population dynamics of attached algae in a eutrophic farmland stream (Wellow Brook, England) were correlated through multiple regression analyses with changes in 7 physico-chemical parameters (temperature, light, water velocity, pH, NO3-N, P2O5-P, SiO2-Si). Samples were taken every 2 weeks for 25 consecutive months be...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Moore JW

更新日期：1977-09-01 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：:The life ofOncopeltus fasciatus centers on the seeds of milkweeds (Asclepiadaceae,Asclepias syriaca in this study). Adults reproduce prolifically on these seeds, but they engage in only half as much copulation and lay only a few eggs when fed milkweed buds and flowers instead. They can not maintain body weight on a di...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Ralph CP

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Like many polyphagous herbivores, individuals of Sarasinula plebeia (Fischer) (Soleolifera: Veronicellidae) consume a variety of plant species that may differ in nutritional content. In this study we determined the ability of these slugs to compensate for such variation in diet composition. Dilution with water of an a...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Rueda AA,Slansky F Jr,Wheeler GS

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many small organisms in various life stages can be transported in the digestive system of larger vertebrates, a process known as endozoochory. Potential dispersal distances of these "propagules" are generally calculated after monitoring retrieval in experiments with resting vector animals. We argue that vectors in nat...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： van Leeuwen CH,Tollenaar ML,Klaassen M

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research on winter energy management in small vertebrates has focused on the regulation of body mass (BM) within a framework of starvation-predation trade-off. Winter-acclimatized birds exhibit a seasonal increase in both BM and basal metabolic rate (BMR), although the patterns of co-variation between the two traits r...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Broggi J,Nilsson JF,Koivula K,Hohtola E,Nilsson JÅ

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatial and temporal variation in resource distribution affect the movement and foraging behavior of many animals. In the case of animal-dispersed trees, numerous studies have addressed masting-the synchronized variation in seed production between years-but the fitness consequences of spatial variation in seed product...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Pesendorfer MB,Koenig WD

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The demographic and ecological characteristics of island populations of small mammals have received increasing attention in recent years, but few studies have compared the behavioral characteristics of island populations with those of mainland populations. Behavior is considered an important variable because it is bel...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Halpin ZT

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the deme-formation hypothesis experimentally with four populations of leaf-galling grape phylloxera, Daktulosphaira vitifoliae, and its host, canyon grape (Vitis arizonica). An experiment designed to examine preference and performance showed that phylloxera populations did not significantly prefer their orig...

journal_title：Oecologia

authors： Kimberling DN,Price PW

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00