abstract：:The IUCN provides a spatial database for many species, including terrestrial mammals. This database includes shapefiles with taxonomic information and the extent of occurrence for each species, and has been used in hundreds of studies in ecology, biogeography and conservation. Here we provide updated distribution maps...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Rojas D,Moreira M,Ramos Pereira MJ,Fonseca C,Dávalos LM

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite decades of interest, few studies have provided evidence supporting theoretical expectations for coupled relationships between aboveground and belowground diversity and ecosystem functioning in non-manipulated natural ecosystems. We characterized plant species richness and density, soil bacterial, fungal and eu...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Porazinska DL,Farrer EC,Spasojevic MJ,Bueno de Mesquita CP,Sartwell SA,Smith JG,White CT,King AJ,Suding KN,Schmidt SK

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphological traits provide the interface between species and their environment. For example, body size affects the fitness of individuals in various ways. Yet especially for ectotherms, the applicability of general rules of interspecific clines of body size and even more so of other morphological traits is still und...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Tiede Y,Hemp C,Schmidt A,Nauss T,Farwig N,Brandl R

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation in habitat quality and quantity drive selection on dispersal traits in heterogeneous environments, but the extent to which environmental conditions predict geographic variation in dispersal is rarely evaluated. We assessed dispersal trait variation across the range of Cakile edentula var. lacustris, an annua...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： LaRue EA,Holland JD,Emery NC

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surf zones, classified from reflective to dissipative, separate the ocean from shore and subsidies from the coastal ocean must pass through surf zones to reach the shore. We have observed that variations in phytoplankton concentrations in the water over the intertidal zone varied with surf-zone hydrodynamics and we hy...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Salant CD,Shanks AL

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The field of movement ecology has rapidly grown during the last decade, with important advancements in tracking devices and analytical tools that have provided unprecedented insights into where, when, and why species move across a landscape. Although there has been an increasing emphasis on making animal movement data...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Morato RG,Thompson JJ,Paviolo A,de La Torre JA,Lima F,McBride RT Jr,Paula RC,Cullen L Jr,Silveira L,Kantek DLZ,Ramalho EE,Maranhão L,Haberfeld M,Sana DA,Medellin RA,Carrillo E,Montalvo V,Monroy-Vilchis O,Cruz P,Jaco

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forests play an influential role in the global carbon (C) cycle, storing roughly half of terrestrial C and annually exchanging with the atmosphere more than five times the carbon dioxide (CO2 ) emitted by anthropogenic activities. Yet, scaling up from field-based measurements of forest C stocks and fluxes to understan...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Anderson-Teixeira KJ,Wang MMH,McGarvey JC,Herrmann V,Tepley AJ,Bond-Lamberty B,LeBauer DS

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of food web studies are based on connectivity, top-down impacts, bottom-up flows, or trophic position (TP), and ecologists have argued for decades which is best. Rarely have any two been considered simultaneously. The present study uses a procedure that integrates the last three approaches based on taxon-...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Benke AC

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding and modeling population change is urgently needed to predict effects of climate change on biodiversity. High trophic-level organisms are influenced by fluctuations of prey quality and abundance, which themselves may depend on climate oscillations. Modeling effects of such fluctuations is challenging beca...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Champagnon J,Lebreton JD,Drummond H,Anderson DJ

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While it is well established that climate change affects species distributions and abundances, the impacts of climate change on species interactions has not been extensively studied. This is particularly important for specialists whose interactions are tightly linked, such as between the monarch butterfly (Danaus plex...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Faldyn MJ,Hunter MD,Elderd BD

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Consumers can alter decomposition rates through both feces and selective feeding in many ecosystems, but these combined effects have seldom been examined in tropical ecosystems. Members of the detrital food web (litter-feeders or microbivores) should presumably have greater effects on decomposition than herbivores, me...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Prather CM,Belovsky GE,Cantrell SA,González G

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduced species are frequently implicated in declines of native species. In many cases, however, evidence linking introduced species to native declines is weak. Failure to make strong inferences regarding the role of introduced species can hamper attempts to predict population viability and delay effective manageme...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Yackulic CB,Korman J,Yard MD,Dzul M

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterogeneity is increasingly recognized as a foundational characteristic of ecological systems. Under global change, understanding temporal community heterogeneity is necessary for predicting the stability of ecosystem functions and services. Indeed, spatial heterogeneity is commonly used in alternative stable state ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Collins SL,Avolio ML,Gries C,Hallett LM,Koerner SE,La Pierre KJ,Rypel AL,Sokol ER,Fey SB,Flynn DFB,Jones SK,Ladwig LM,Ripplinger J,Jones MB

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ecological drivers of soil biodiversity in the Southern Hemisphere remain underexplored. Here, in a continental survey comprising 647 sites, across 58 degrees of latitude between tropical Australia and Antarctica, we evaluated the major ecological patterns in soil biodiversity and relative abundance of ecological ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Delgado-Baquerizo M,Reith F,Dennis PG,Hamonts K,Powell JR,Young A,Singh BK,Bissett A

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Co-occurrence methods are increasingly utilized in ecology to infer networks of species interactions where detailed knowledge based on empirical studies is difficult to obtain. Their use is particularly common, but not restricted to, microbial networks constructed from metagenomic analyses. In this study, we test the ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Freilich MA,Wieters E,Broitman BR,Marquet PA,Navarrete SA

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inherently multidimensional nature of the niche has not yet been integrated into the investigation of individual niche specialization within populations. We propose a framework for modeling the between- and within-individual components of the population niche as a set of variance-covariance matrices, which can be ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Ingram T,Costa-Pereira R,Araújo MS

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence accumulates about the role of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi in shaping plant communities, but little is known about the factors determining the biomass and coexistence of several types of AM fungi in a plant community. Here, using a consumer-resource framework that treats the relationship between plants a...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Bachelot B,Lee CT

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Litter burning and biological decomposition are oxidative processes co-occurring in many terrestrial ecosystems, producing organic matter with different chemical properties and differently affecting plant growth and soil microbial activity. We tested the chemical convergence hypothesis, i.e., materials with different ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Bonanomi G,Incerti G,Abd El-Gawad AM,Cesarano G,Sarker TC,Saulino L,Lanzotti V,Saracino A,Rego FC,Mazzoleni S

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The literature suggests that small genomes promote invasion in plants, but little is known about the interaction of genome size with other traits or about the role of genome size during different phases of the invasion process. By intercontinental comparison of native and invasive populations of the common reed Phragm...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Pyšek P,Skálová H,Čuda J,Guo WY,Suda J,Doležal J,Kauzál O,Lambertini C,Lučanová M,Mandáková T,Moravcová L,Pyšková K,Brix H,Meyerson LA

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is commonly assumed that microbial communities are structured by "bottom-up" ecological forces, although few experimental manipulations have rigorously tested the mechanisms by which resources structure soil communities. We investigated how plant substrate availability might structure fungal communities and belowgr...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Cline LC,Hobbie SE,Madritch MD,Buyarski CR,Tilman D,Cavender-Bares JM

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparing the structure of presence/absence (i.e., binary) matrices with those of randomized counterparts is a common practice in ecology. However, differences in the randomization procedures (null models) can affect the results of the comparisons, leading matrix structural patterns to appear either "random" or not. S...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Strona G,Ulrich W,Gotelli NJ

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predators can impact ecosystems through consumptive or risk effects on prey. Physiologically, risk effects can be mediated by energetic mechanisms or stress responses. The predation-stress hypothesis predicts that risk induces stress in prey, which can affect survival and reproduction. However, empirical support for t...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Hammerschlag N,Meÿer M,Seakamela SM,Kirkman S,Fallows C,Creel S

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant tolerance of herbivory, i.e., the ability to recover after damage, is an important component of how plants cope with herbivores. Tolerance has long been hypothesized to be constrained evolutionarily by plant resistance to herbivores, traits that allow plants to cope with stressful growing conditions, and traits ...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Pearse IS,Aguilar J,Schroder J,Strauss SY

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimating the species, phylogenetic, and functional diversity of a community is challenging because rare species are often undetected, even with intensive sampling. The Good-Turing frequency formula, originally developed for cryptography, estimates in an ecological context the true frequencies of rare species in a si...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Chao A,Chiu CH,Colwell RK,Magnago LFS,Chazdon RL,Gotelli NJ

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A longstanding problem in ecology is whether structured life cycles impede or facilitate coexistence between species. Theory based on populations with only two discrete stages in the life-cycle indicates that for two species to coexist, at least one must shift its niche between stages and each species must be a better...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Bassar RD,Travis J,Coulson T

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms of community assembly and ecosystem function are often analyzed using community-weighted mean trait values (CWMs). We present a novel conceptual framework to quantify the contribution of demographic processes (i.e., growth, recruitment, and mortality) to temporal changes in CWMs. We used this framework to a...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Muscarella R,Lohbeck M,Martínez-Ramos M,Poorter L,Rodríguez-Velázquez JE,van Breugel M,Bongers F

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nearly universal positive relationship between the distribution and abundance of species has been explained by several hypotheses but hitherto no consensus has been reached. Here, we used monitoring data of 105 phytophagous true bug species (Heteroptera) from 150 grassland sites over six years to test how (1) rang...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Friess N,Gossner MM,Weisser WW,Brandl R,Brändle M

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theory predicts that reproduction will change as individuals near the end of their lives by either increasing reproductive allocation (terminal allocation hypothesis) or decreasing allocation (senescence hypothesis) toward the end of life. Although senescence has received more support, few studies examine how both age...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Tarwater CE,Arcese P

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coastal wetlands significantly contribute to global carbon storage potential. Sea-level rise and other climate-change-induced disturbances threaten coastal wetland sustainability and carbon storage capacity. It is critical that we understand the mechanisms controlling wetland carbon loss so that we can predict and man...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Stagg CL,Schoolmaster DR,Krauss KW,Cormier N,Conner WH

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The data set provided here includes 8,320 frugivory interactions (records of pairwise interactions between plant and frugivore species) reported for the Atlantic Forest. The data set includes interactions between 331 vertebrate species (232 birds, 90 mammals, 5 fishes, 1 amphibian, and 3 reptiles) and 788 plant specie...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Bello C,Galetti M,Montan D,Pizo MA,Mariguela TC,Culot L,Bufalo F,Labecca F,Pedrosa F,Constantini R,Emer C,Silva WR,da Silva FR,Ovaskainen O,Jordano P

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dreissenid mussels, including the zebra (Dreissena polymorpha) and quagga (Dreissena rostiformus bugensis) mussel, are invasive species known for their capacity to act as ecosystem engineers. They have caused significant changes in the many freshwater systems they have invaded by increasing water clarity, reducing pri...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Fera SA,Rennie MD,Dunlop ES

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymorphisms play critical roles in allowing organisms to adapt to novel environments while enabling ecological speciation under divergent selection. Ambystoma maculatum, the spotted salamander, exhibits a unique polymorphism in the structure and appearance of its egg masses with two common morphs, white and clear. A...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Pintar MR,Resetarits WJ Jr

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prey are often difficult to locate visually, which may help them avoid predators. However, an animal's appearance might also evolve in response to the abiotic environment. Here, we investigate the processes that determine the appearance of silk webbing built by New Zealand's largest endemic moth Aenetus virescens (Lep...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Yule K,Burns K

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals can be important in modulating ecosystem-level nutrient cycling, although their importance varies greatly among species and ecosystems. Nutrient cycling rates of individual animals represent valuable data for testing the predictions of important frameworks such as the Metabolic Theory of Ecology (MTE) and ecol...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Vanni MJ,McIntyre PB,Allen D,Arnott DL,Benstead JP,Berg DJ,Brabrand Å,Brosse S,Bukaveckas PA,Caliman A,Capps KA,Carneiro LS,Chadwick NE,Christian AD,Clarke A,Conroy JD,Cross WF,Culver DA,Dalton CM,Devine JA,Domine

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many tropical forests are characterized by large losses of plant-available forms of nitrogen (N), indicating that they are N rich, and by an abundance of plants capable of symbiotic N fixation. These N-fixing plants can fix enough N to drive N richness. However, biological N fixation (BNF) is more expensive than using...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Menge DN,Levin SA

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurately evaluating the strengths of direct (i.e., consumptive and non-consumptive) effects and indirect (density- and trait-mediated) interactions is crucial for understanding the mechanisms of the maintenance and dynamics of an ecosystem. However, an in situ evaluation has not been conducted for a long enough peri...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Wada Y,Iwasaki K,Ida TY,Yusa Y

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our ability to predict how temperature modifies phenology at the community scale is limited by our lack of understanding of responses by functional groups of flowering plants. These responses differ among species with different life histories. We performed a reciprocal transplant experiment along four elevation gradie...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Meng FD,Jiang LL,Zhang ZH,Cui SJ,Duan JC,Wang SP,Luo CY,Wang Q,Zhou Y,Li XE,Zhang LR,Li BW,Dorji T,Li YN,Du MY

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Limestone tropical forests represent a meaningful fraction of the land area in Central America (25%) and Southeast Asia (40%). These ecosystems are marked by high biological diversity, CO2 uptake capacity, and high pH soils, the latter making them fundamentally different from the majority of lowland tropical forest ar...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Winbourne JB,Brewer SW,Houlton BZ

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By inflicting damage to prey tissues, consumer species may increase stress in prey hosts and reduce overall fitness (i.e., primary effects, such as growth or reproduction) or cause secondary effects by affecting prey interactions with other species such as microbes. However, little is known about how abiotic condition...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Shaver EC,Shantz AA,McMinds R,Burkepile DE,Vega Thurber RL,Silliman BR

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disease dynamics during pathogen invasion and establishment determine the impacts of disease on host populations and determine the mechanisms of host persistence. Temporal progression of prevalence and infection intensity illustrate whether tolerance, resistance, reduced transmission, or demographic compensation allow...

journal_title：Ecology

authors： Frick WF,Cheng TL,Langwig KE,Hoyt JR,Janicki AF,Parise KL,Foster JT,Kilpatrick AM

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00