Yong Zhou,A Carla Staver,Andrew B Davies
Yong Zhou
Termites consume substantial amounts of plant material across tropical and subtropical ecosystems. During the process of lignocellulose digestion, the symbiotic methanogenesis within termites' guts produces the potent greenhouse gas methane...
Functional thresholds alter the relationship of plant resistance and recovery to drought [0.03%]
功能阈值改变了植物抗旱性和恢复力之间的关系
Johannes Ingrisch,Nikolaus Umlauf,Michael Bahn
Johannes Ingrisch
The ecological consequences of future droughts are difficult to predict due to a limited understanding of the nonlinear responses of plants to increasing drought intensity, which can change abruptly when critical thresholds of drought inten...
Temperature synchronizes temporal variation in laying dates across European hole-nesting passerines [0.03%]
温度同步了欧洲洞穴筑巢鸣鸟产卵时间的年度波动
Stefan J G Vriend,Vidar Grøtan,Marlène Gamelon et al.
Stefan J G Vriend et al.
Identifying the environmental drivers of variation in fitness-related traits is a central objective in ecology and evolutionary biology. Temporal fluctuations of these environmental drivers are often synchronized at large spatial scales. Ye...
Reconstructing midge consumer-resource dynamics using carbon stable isotope signatures of archived specimens [0.03%]
基于档案标本的碳稳定同位素信号重建小虫消费者-资源动力学
Amanda R McCormick,Joseph S Phillips,Jamieson C Botsch et al.
Amanda R McCormick et al.
Population cycles can be caused by consumer-resource interactions. Confirming the role of consumer-resource interactions, however, can be challenging due to an absence of data for the resource candidate. For example, interactions between mi...
Green turtles shape the seascape through grazing patch formation around habitat features: Experimental evidence [0.03%]
海龟通过围绕栖息地特征的放牧斑块形成来塑造海洋景观：实验证据
F O H Smulders,E S Bakker,O R O&#x;Shea et al.
F O H Smulders et al.
Understanding how megaherbivores incorporate habitat features into their foraging behavior is key toward understanding how herbivores shape the surrounding landscape. While the role of habitat structure has been studied within the context o...
Bats reduce insect density and defoliation in temperate forests: An exclusion experiment [0.03%]
蝙蝠通过减少昆虫数量和食叶活动来保护温带森林
Elizabeth A Beilke,Joy M O&#x;Keefe
Elizabeth A Beilke
Bats suppress insect populations in agricultural ecosystems, yet the question of whether bats initiate trophic cascades in forests is mainly unexplored. We used a field experiment to test the hypothesis that insectivorous bats reduce defoli...
Above- and belowground net-primary productivity: A field-based global database of grasslands [0.03%]
地上和地下净初级生产力：基于全球草地实地观测的数据库
Yuanfeng Sun,Jinfeng Chang,Jingyun Fang
Yuanfeng Sun
Net primary productivity (NPP) over global grasslands is crucial for understanding the terrestrial carbon cycling and for the assessments of wild herbivores food security. During the past few decades, numerous field investigations have been...
Rare and declining bee species are key to consistent pollination of wildflowers and crops across large spatial scales [0.03%]
稀有濒危蜜蜂种类对大范围内的野生鲜花和农作物授粉具有重要作用
Mark A Genung,James Reilly,Neal M Williams et al.
Mark A Genung et al.
Biodiversity promotes ecosystem function (EF) in experiments, but it remains uncertain how biodiversity loss affects function in larger-scale natural ecosystems. In these natural ecosystems, rare and declining species are more likely to be ...
Mass falls of crustacean carcasses link surface waters and the deep seafloor [0.03%]
甲壳类动物群体死亡事件链接表层海洋和深海_floor
Erik Simon-Lledó,Brian J Bett,Noëlie M A Benoist et al.
Erik Simon-Lledó et al.
Pollinator type strongly impacts gene flow within and among plant populations for six Neotropical species [0.03%]
传粉类型强烈影响六种新热带植物物种种内和种间的基因流动
Diana Gamba,Nathan Muchhala
Diana Gamba
Animal pollinators directly affect plant gene flow by transferring pollen grains between individuals. Pollinators with restricted mobility are predicted to limit gene flow within and among populations, whereas pollinators that fly longer di...