Stoichiometric constraints modulate temperature and nutrient effects on biomass distribution and community stability [0.03%]
化学计量约束调节温度和营养对生物量分布及群落稳定性的影响
Arnaud Sentis,Bart Haegeman,José M Montoya
Arnaud Sentis
Temperature and nutrients are two of the most important drivers of global change. Both can modify the elemental composition (i.e. stoichiometry) of primary producers and consumers. Yet their combined effect on the stoichiometry, dynamics an...
Evolutionary irony: evidence that 'defensive' plant spines act as a proximate cue to attract a mammalian herbivore [0.03%]
进化讽刺：证据表明“防御性”的植物刺作为吸引哺乳动物食草动物的近因信号
Kevin D Kohl,Aaron W Miller,M Denise Dearing
Kevin D Kohl
Many plants produce structural defenses to deter feeding by herbivores. However, many previous studies testing whether spines are effective at defending against mammalian herbivores have produced equivocal results. These ambiguous results a...
The challenges that spatial context present for synthesizing community ecology across scales [0.03%]
空间尺度下社区生态学综合研究的挑战
Christopher J Patrick,Lester L Yuan
Christopher J Patrick
Accurately characterizing spatial patterns on landscapes is necessary to understand the processes that generate biodiversity, a problem that has applications in ecological theory, conservation planning, ecosystem restoration, and ecosystem ...
Functional richness of local hoverfly communities (Diptera, Syrphidae) in response to land use across temperate Europe [0.03%]
欧洲温带地区不同土地利用方式下本地蝇类群落(双翅目花蝇科)的功能多样性研究
Oliver Schweiger,Martin Musche,Debra Bailey et al.
Oliver Schweiger et al.
Environmental change is not likely to act on biodiversity in a random manner, but rather according to species traits that affect assembly processes, thus, having potentially serious consequences on ecological functions. We investigated the ...
Phenological plasticity is a poor predictor of subalpine plant population performance following experimental climate change [0.03%]
物候可塑性不能很好地预测气候变暖引起的亚高山植物种群表现型变化
Sebastián Block,Jake M Alexander,Jonathan M Levine
Sebastián Block
Phenological shifts, changes in the seasonal timing of life cycle events, are among the best documented responses of species to climate change. However, the consequences of these phenological shifts for population dynamics remain unclear. P...
Static and dynamic expression of life history traits in the Northern Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) [0.03%]
北北极鹱(Fulmarus glacialis)生命史特征的静态和动态表达
Steven Hecht Orzack,Ulrich K Steiner,Shripad Tuljapurkar et al.
Steven Hecht Orzack et al.
Understanding the static and dynamic expression of life history traits is a prerequisite for the development of a causal theory of the evolution of aging and of life histories. We analyzed the statics and dynamics of reproduction and surviv...
R Craig Stillwell
R Craig Stillwell
Body size of animals often increases with increasing latitude. These latitudinal clines in body size have interested biologists for over 150 years. However, the mechanisms that generate these clines in size are still unclear, though latitud...
Compensatory growth following transient intraguild predation risk in predatory mites [0.03%]
食肉螨在短暂的种内捕食风险后出现补偿生长
Andreas Walzer,Natalia Lepp,Peter Schausberger
Andreas Walzer
Compensatory or catch-up growth following growth impairment caused by transient environmental stress, due to adverse abiotic factors or food, is widespread in animals. Such growth strategies commonly balance retarded development and reduced...
Werner Ulrich,Santiago Soliveres,Wojciech Kryszewski et al.
Werner Ulrich et al.
Assessing the relative importance of intransitive competition networks in nature has been difficult because it requires a large number of pairwise competition experiments linked to observed field abundances of interacting species. Here we i...
Evolutionary relationships can be more important than abiotic conditions in predicting the outcome of plant-plant interactions [0.03%]
进化关系比非生物条件更能够预测植物-植物相互作用的结果
Santiago Soliveres,Rubén Torices,Fernando T Maestre
Santiago Soliveres
Positive and negative plant-plant interactions are major processes shaping plant communities. They are affected by environmental conditions and evolutionary relationships among the interacting plants. However, the generality of these factor...