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- 1From: Oecologia. (Vol. 163, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedEutrophication has long been known to negatively affect aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems worldwide. In freshwater ecosystems, excessive nutrient input results in a shift from vascular plant dominance to algal...
- 2From: Oecologia. (Vol. 163, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThere is increasing empirical evidence that the quality of habitat patches (determined by either habitat degradation or natural heterogeneity in the quality of habitat) plays an important role in determining species...
- 3From: Oecologia. (Vol. 163, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAmong tree fine roots, the distal small-diameter lateral branches comprising first- and second-order roots lack secondary (wood) development. Therefore, these roots are expected to decompose more rapidly than higher...
- 4From: Oecologia. (Vol. 163, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFruit-eating animals can influence the germination success of seeds through transportation and handling. We experimentally tested the contribution of ingestion by the common fruit-eating bat, Artibeus jamaicensis...
- 5From: Oecologia. (Vol. 163, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe potential role of prey refuges in stabilizing predator-prey interactions is of longstanding interest to ecologists, but mechanisms underlying a sigmoidal predator functional response remain to be fully elucidated....
- 6From: Oecologia. (Vol. 163, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe ideal free distribution (IFD) predicts that organisms will disperse to sites that maximize their fitness based on availability of resources. Habitat heterogeneity underlies resource variation and influences spatial...
- 7From: Oecologia. (Vol. 163, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMany studies have failed to detect costs of defense and some have even found a positive correlation between growth and the concentrations of chemical defenses. These studies contradict the theoretical assumption that...
- 8From: Oecologia. (Vol. 163, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe metacommunity concept has recently been described to account for the roles of dispersal in regulating community structure. Despite its strong theoretical basis, there exist few large-scale and long-term examples of...
- 9From: Oecologia. (Vol. 163, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedHow big to make an egg is a life history decision that in birds is made coincident with a series of other similar decisions (how many eggs to have, whether to fortify them with maternally derived hormones or immune...
- 10From: Oecologia. (Vol. 163, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedHabitat-forming invasive species cause large, novel changes to the abiotic environment. These changes may elicit important behavioural responses in native fauna, yet little is known about mechanisms driving this...
- 11From: Oecologia. (Vol. 163, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe uropygial gland of birds secretes wax that is applied to the plumage, where the secretions are hypothesized to eliminate fungi and bacteria, thereby potentially providing important benefits in terms of plumage...
- 12From: Oecologia. (Vol. 163, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMigration is an energy-demanding life-history period and also a significant population-limiting factor of long-distance migratory birds. It is important to understand how corticosterone, the main energy regulating...
- 13From: Oecologia. (Vol. 163, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedNutrients that are limited in availability, such as carotenoids, are potentially involved in trade-offs between homeostasis and reproduction. Despite their importance, factors that affect the capacity of female birds to...
- 14From: Oecologia. (Vol. 163, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAlien predators have been recognised as one possible cause for amphibian declines around the world, but little is known of habitat-mediated predation impacts especially on adult amphibians. We studied common frog Rana...
- 15From: Oecologia. (Vol. 163, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThere is a genuine need for consensus on a clear terminology in the study of species diversity given that the nature of the components of diversity is the subject of an ongoing debate and may be the key to understanding...
- 16From: Oecologia. (Vol. 163, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAvailability of light and water differs between tropical moist and dry forests, with typically higher understorey light levels and lower water availability in the latter. Therefore, growth trajectories of juvenile...
- 17From: Oecologia. (Vol. 163, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSpecies with complex life cycles pose challenges for understanding what processes regulate population densities, especially if some life stages disperse. Most studies of such animals that are thought to be recruitment...
- 18From: Oecologia. (Vol. 163, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWater availability is a principal factor limiting the distribution of closed-canopy forest in the seasonal tropics, suggesting that forest tree species may not be well adapted to cope with seasonal drought. We studied...
- 19From: Oecologia. (Vol. 163, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe spatial context in which seed predation occurs may modify the spatial structure of recruitment generated by seed dispersal. The Janzen-Connell (J-C) model predicts that granivores will exert greater pressure on the...
- 20From: Oecologia. (Vol. 163, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedInvasive rats (Rattus rattus, R. norvegicus, R. exulans) have large impacts on island habitats through both direct and indirect effects on plants. Rats affect vegetation by extirpating burrowing seabirds through...