Oikos 2003 - Abstracts

Oikos 2003
TitleSubjectAuthors
A comment on Hubbell's zero-sum ecological drift model.Environmental issuesRobert E. Ricklefs
A community-level fractal property produces power-law species-area relationships.Environmental issuesJ.L. Green, A. Ostling, J. Harte, A.P. Kinzig
Adjacency arrangement effects on plant diversity and composition in woodland patches.Environmental issuesRichard T.T. Forman, Anna M. Hersperger
A few more hypotheses for the evolution of dioecy in figs (Ficus, Moraceae).Environmental issuesRhett D. Harrison, Norio Yamamura
A long-term study of non-native-heartworm transmission among coyotes in a Mediterranean ecosystem.Environmental issuesBenjamin N. Sacks, David L. Woodward, Arthur E. Colwell
A mechanistic examination of diversity-stability relationships in annual plant communities.Environmental issuesThomas J. Valone, Catherine D. Hoffman
An experimental analysis of self-thinning in juvenile steelhead trout.Environmental issuesErnest R. Keeley
Antipredator defence of the hermit crab Pagurus filholi induced by predatory crabs.Environmental issuesAzusa Mima, satoshi Wada, Seiji Goshima
Ants in your plants: effects of nectar-thieves on pollen fertility and seed-siring capacity in the alpine wildflower, Polemonium viscosum.Environmental issuesCandace Galen, Brian Butchart
A parasite spatially structures its host population.Environmental issuesTodd Wellnitz, Luisa Giari, Barbara Maynard, Bahram S. Dezfuli
A particular case and a general pattern: hyperaggressive behaviour by one species may mediate avifaunal decreases in fragmented Australian forests.Environmental issuesCarla P. Catterall, Scott D. Piper
A radiotelemetric study of movements and thermal biology of insular Chinese pit-vipers (Gloydius shedaoensis, Viperidae).Environmental issuesRichard Shine, Li Xin Sun, Mark Fitzgerald, Michael Kearney
Are fast growing birch leaves more asymmetrical?Environmental issuesMikhail V. Kozlov
Are indirect measures of abundance a useful index of population density? the case of red grouse harvesting.Environmental issuesPeter J. Hudson, Simon J. Thirgood, Isabella M. Cattadori, Daniel T. Haydon
A reply to Kozlov.(response to article in this issue, p. 654)Environmental issuesJocelyn Martel, Kyosti Lempa
Are spatially correlated or uncorrelated disturbance regimes better for the survival of species?Environmental issuesKarin Johst, Martin Drechsler
Are wing size, wing shape and asymmetry related to field fitness of Trichogramma egg parasitoids?Environmental issuesAry A. Hoffmann, Ursula M. Kolliker-Ott, Mark W. Blows
Arguments for rejecting the sequential Bonferri in ecological studies.Environmental issuesMatthew D. Moran
A scalar analysis of landscape connectivity.Environmental issuesC.P. Brooks
Assessing differential prey selection patterns between two sympatric large carnivores.Environmental issuesDennis L. Murray, Curt Mack, Jason S. Husseman, Gary Power, C.R. Wenger, Howard Quigley
A test of host specialization by insect vectors as a mechanism for reproductive isolation among entomophilous fungal species.Environmental issuesThomas L. Bultman, Adrian Leuchtmann
Behavioral plasticity in relation to egg and time limitation: the case of two fly species in the genus Anastrepha (Diptera:Tephritidae).Environmental issuesFrancisco Diaz-Fleischer, Martin Aluja
Biodiversity and stability of grassland ecosystem functioning.Environmental issuesDavid A. Wardle, Philip J. Grime
Biotic and abiotic factors affecting ectomycorrhizal diversity in boreal mixed-woods.Environmental issuesG. Kernaghan, P. Widden, Y. Bergeron, S. Legare, D. Pare
Birds have no impact on folivorous insect guilds on a montane willow.Environmental issuesCandace Low, Edward F. Connor
Body size and the timing of egg production in parasitoid wasps.Environmental issuesJacintha Ellers, Mark Jervis
Breeding success of sympatric dabbling ducks in relation to population density and food resources.Environmental issuesHannu Poysa, Johan Elmberg, Petri Nummi, Kjell Sjoberg
C and N mineralisation in the decomposer food webs of a European forest transect.Environmental issuesDagmar Schroter, Volkmar Wolters, Peter C. De Ruiter
Can noise induce chaos?Environmental issuesBrian Dennis, Robert A. Desharnais, J.M. Cushing, Shandelle M. Henson, R.F. Costantino
Can ungulates foraging in a multiple-use landscape alter forest nitrogen budgets?Environmental issuesSteven W. Seagle
Causes and consequences of individual variation in territory size in the American red squirrel.Environmental issuesDennis L. Murray, Todd D. Steury
Causes of sex-biased adult survival in ungulates: sexual size dimorphism, mating tactic or environment harshness?Environmental issuesJean-Michel Gaillard, Carole Toigo
Changes in community properties during microbial succession.Environmental issuesColin R. Jackson
Changing importance of habitat structure across multiple spatial scales for three species of insects.Environmental issuesMeg A. Krawchuk, Philip D. Taylor
Coexistence of specialist parasitoids with host refuges in the laboratory and the dynamics of spatial heterogeneity in attack rate.Environmental issuesBradford A. Hawkins, Eric E. Porter
Cold winter microenvironments conserve energy and improve overwintering survival and potential fecundity of the goldenrod gall fly, Eurosta solidaginis.Environmental issuesJason T. Irwin, Richard E. Jr. Lee
Colonisation by a dominant ant facilitated by anthropogenic disturbance: effects on ant assemblage composition, biomass and resource use.Environmental issuesHeloise Gibb, Dieter F. Hochuli
Comment to Oksanen (2001): reconciling Oksanen (2001) and Hurlbert (1984).Environmental issuesLuc De Meester, Karl Cottenie
Community assembly time and the relationship between local and regional species richness.Environmental issuesT.E. Miller, N. Mouquet, P. Munguia, J.M. Kneitel
Comparing species richness among assemblages using sample units: why not use extrapolation methods to standardize different sample sizes?Environmental issuesAdriano S. Melo, Rodrigo A.S. Pereira, Adalberto J. Santos, George J. Shepherd, Glauco. Machado, Ricardo J. Sawaya, Hermes F. Medeiros
Competition coefficients in a marine epibenthic assemblage depend on spatial structure.Environmental issuesPiers K. Dunstan, Craig R. Johnson
Conflicts between plants and pollinators that reproduce within inflorescences: evolutionary variations on a theme.Environmental issuesMathilde Dufay, Marie-Charlotte Anstett
Constrained by available raptor hosts and islands: density-dependent reproductive success in red-breasted geese.Environmental issuesJohn L. Quinn, Jouke Prop
Continuing debate in the face of biodiversity loss.Environmental issuesShahid Naeem
Control of plant species diversity and community invasibility by species immigration: seed richness versus seed density.Environmental issuesRebecca L. Brown, Jason D. Fridley
Costs of parasites in common eiders: effects of antiparasite treatment.Environmental issuesSveinn Are Hanssen, Ivar Folstad, Kjell Einar Erikstad, Antti Oksanen
Crab spiders affect flower visitation by bees.Environmental issuesDouglass H. Morse, Reuven Dukas
Crowding-induced responses in a geometrid moth revisited: a field experiment.Environmental issuesPekka Kaitaniemi, Kai Ruohomaki, Tero Klemola, Miia Kaar
Current measures of nutrient resorption efficiency lead to a substantial underestimation of real resorption efficiency: facts and solutions.Environmental issuesR. Aerts, L.M. van Heerwaarden, S. Toet
Cyclic voles, prey switching in red fox, and roe deer dynamics - a test of the alternative prey hypothesis.Environmental issuesPetter Kjellander, Jonas Nordstrom
Delayed timing as a strategy to avoid nest-site competition: testing a model using data from starlings and flickers.Environmental issuesKaren L. Wiebe
Density dependence, regulation and open-closed populations: insights from the wigeon, Anas penelope.Environmental issuesHannu Poysa, Mauri Pesonen
Density dependent population growth of the two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae, on the host plant, Leonurus cardiaca.Environmental issuesKarin A. Rotem, Anurag A. Agrawal
Determinants of lepidopteran community composition and species diversity in eastern deciduous forests: roles of season, eco-region and patch-size.Environmental issuesKeith S. Summerville, Thomas Crist O.
Dietary conservatism may facilitate the initial evolution of aposematism.Environmental issuesR.J. Thomas, N.M. Marples, I.C. Cuthill, M. Takahashi, E.A. Gibson
Differential response of tellimagrandin II and total bioactive hydrolysable tannins in an aquatic angiosperm to changes in light and nitrogen.Environmental issuesElisabeth M. Gross
Digestive mutualism, an alternate pathway in plant carnivory.Environmental issuesBruce Anderson, Jeremy J. Midgley
Direct and indirect effects of UV radiation on benthic communities: epilithic food quality and invertebrate growth in four montane lakes.Environmental issuesDavid W. Schindler, Suzanne E. Tank, Michael T. Arts
Dispersal of the lycaenid Plebejus argus in response to patches of its mutualist ant Lasius niger.Environmental issuesAdrian S. Seymour, David Gutierrez, Diego Jordano
Dissecting components of population-level variation in seed production and the evolution of mating behavior.Environmental issuesWalter D. Koenig, Joseph S. Elkinton, Richard P. Duncan, Dave Kelly, Vistoria L. Sork, Robert D. Westfall, Mikko S. Peltonen
Diversity effects in reproductive biology.Environmental issuesGiorgina Bernasconi, Bernhard Schmid, Melanie Paschke
Does anti-parasitoid defense explain host-plant selection by a polyphagous caterpillar?Environmental issuesM.S. Singer, J.O. Stireman III
Does the Fretwell-Oksanen model apply to invertebrates?Environmental issuesMartin Schadler, Gertraud Jung, Harald Auge, Roland Brandl
Do individual branches of immune defence correlate? A comparative case study of scavenging and non-scavenging birds.Environmental issuesAnders Pape Moller, Jonathan Wright, Jonathan D. Blount, David C. Houston
Do non-additive effects on decomposition in litter-mix experiments result from differences in resource quality between litters? .Environmental issuesVictoria C. Smith, Mark A. Bradford
Do seedlings in gaps interact? A field test of assumptions in ESS seed size models.Environmental issuesJonathan Silvertown, James M. Bullock
Dynamics of an immune response in house sparrows Passer domesticus in relation to time of day, body condition and blood parasite infection.Environmental issuesA.P. Moller, C. Navarro, A. Marzal, F. de Lope
Dynamics of aquatic insect flux affects distribution of riparian web-building spiders.Environmental issuesShigeru Nakano, Chika Kato, Tomoya Iwata, Daisuke Kishi
Dynamics of refuge use: diurnal, vertical migration by predatory and herbivorous mites within cassava plants.Environmental issuesMaurice W. Sabelis, Alexis Onza, Rachid Hanna, Ignace Zannou, John S. Yaninek
Ecological dynamics of extinct species in empty habitat networks. 1. The role of habitat pattern and quantity, stochasticity and dispersal.Environmental issuesJorge L. Leon-Cortes, Jack J. Lennon, Chris D. Thomas
Ecological dynamics of extinct species in empty habitat networks. 2. The role of host plant dynamics.Environmental issuesJorge L. Leon-Cortes, Jack J. Lennon, Chris D. Thomas
Ecological strategies of ectomycorrhizal fungi of Salix repens: root manipulation versus root replacement.Environmental issuesE.W. van der Heijden, Th.W. Kuyper
Edge-mediated effects on stand dynamic processes in forest interiors: a coupled field and simulation approach.Environmental issuesJohn A. Kupfer, James R. Runkle
Effects of host shading on consumption and growth of the geometrid Epirrita autumnata: interactive roles of water, primary and secondary compounds.Environmental issuesJ. Henriksson, E. Haukioja, V. Ossipov, S. Sillanpaa, K. Pihlaja, L. Kapari
Effects of intraspecific and interspecific density on the demography of a perennial herb, Sanicula europaea.Environmental issuesJohan Ehrlen, Christel Gustafsson
Effects of landscape context on herbivory and parasitism at different spatial scales.Environmental issuesIngolf Steffan-Dewenter, Carsten Thies, Teja Tscharntke
Effects of light and prey availability on nocturnal, lunar and seasonal activity of tropical nightjars.Environmental issuesWalter Jetz, Jan Steffen, Karl Eduard Linsenmair
Effects of natural and simulated herbivory on spine lengths of Acacia drepanolobium in Kenya.Environmental issuesCaroline E. Christian, Truman P. Young, Maureen L. Stanton
Effects of nutrient availability on biomass allocation as well as constitutive and rapid induced herbivore resistance in poplar.Environmental issuesRobert Hansen, Daniel A. Herms, William J. Mattson, Carolyn Glynn, Marie Egawa
Effects of prey quality and availability on the life hisotry of a trap-building predator.Environmental issuesFritz Vollrath, David Mayntz, Soren Toft
Effects of repeated damage and fertilization on palatability of Vaccinium myrtillus to grey sided voles, Clethrionomys rufocanus.Environmental issuesJohan Olofsson, Joachim Strengbom, Johanna Witzell, Jonas Dahlgren
Effects of seed size of wind-dispersed pines (Pinus) on secondary seed dispersal and the caching behavior of rodents.Environmental issuesStephen B. Vander Wall
Effects of selective episodes in the field on life history traits in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris.Environmental issuesPaul Schmid-Hempel, Boris Baer
Environmental noise and population dynamics of the ciliated protozoa Tetrahymena thermophila in aquatic microcosms.Environmental issuesVeijo Kaitala, Jouni Laakso, Katja Loytynoja
Estimating plant migration rates under habitat loss and fragmentation.Environmental issuesSandra Lavorel, Eloy Revilla, Steven I. Higgins
Estimating rates of local extinction and colonization in colonial species and an extension to the metapopulation and community levels.Environmental issuesJames E. Hines, James D. Nichols, Christophe Barbraud, Heinz Hafner
Estimation by capture-recapture of recruitment and dispersal over several sites.(Sterna dugallii)Environmental issuesJ.D. Lebreton, J.E. Hines, R. Pradel, J.D. Nichols, J.A. Spendelow
Evidence for adaptive self-superparasitism in the dryinid parasitoid Haplogonatopus atratus when conspecifics are present.Environmental issuesYoshihiro Y. Yamada, Kazuma Sugaura
Evolutionary aspects of host plant specialization - a study on bruchids (Coleoptera: Bruchidae).Environmental issuesTibor Jermy, Arpad Szentesi
Evolution of tolerance: the genetic basis of a host's resistance against parasite manipulation.Environmental issuesJacob C. Koella, Mette H.H. Hansen
Expanding traditional views on suspension feeders - quantifying their role as ecosystem engineers.Environmental issuesKjell Leonardsson, Roger S. Wotton, Bjorn Malmqvist
Experimental determination of predation intensity in an intertidal predator guild: dominant versus subordinate prey.Environmental issuesSergio A. Navarette, Juan C. Castilla
Experimental evidence of a tripartite mutualism: bacteria protect ant fungus gardens from specialized parasites. .Environmental issuesJ.J. Boomsma, C.R. Currie, A.N.M. Bot
Experimental evidence that aboveground predators are sustained by underground detritivores.Environmental issuesTadashi Miyashita, Mayura Takada, Aya Shimazaki
Experimental small-scale grassland fragmentation alters aphid population dynamics.Environmental issuesBrigitte Braschler, Gerolf Lampel, Bruno Baur
Explaining adaptive shifts in body size on islands: a life history approach.Environmental issuesEric P. Palkovacs
Explaining density-dependent regulation in earthworm populations using life-history analysis.Environmental issuesJan E. Kammenga, David J. Spurgeon, Claus Svendson, Jason M. Weeks
Explaining productivity-diversity relationships in plants.Environmental issuesTara K. Rajaniemi
Explaining variable costs of the immune response: selection for specific versus non-specific immunity and facultative life history change.Environmental issuesYannick Moret
Extrinsic and intrinsic factors determine the eruptive dynamics of Brandt's voles Microtus brandti in Inner Mongolia, China.Environmental issuesStephen Davis, Zhibin Zhang, Roger Pech, Dazhao Shi, Wan, Xinrong; Zhong, Wenqin
Facilitation between coastal dune shrubs: a non-nitrogen fixing shrub facilitates establishment of a nitrogen-fixer.Environmental issuesJohn L. Maron, Jennifer A. Rudgers
Fig choice by the pollinator of a gynodioecious fig: selection to rush, or intersexual mimicry?Environmental issuesS.G. Compton, A.M. Dunn, M.J. Hatcher, J.C. Moore
Finding habitat patches and directional connectivity.Environmental issuesRobert L. Schooley, John A. Wiens
Foraging and mate-finding in the silver Y moth, Autographa gamma (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) under the risk of predation.Environmental issuesNiels Skals, Dainius Plepys, Christer Lofstedt
Foraging of multimammate mice, Mastomys natalensis, under different predation pressure: cover, patch-dependent decisions and density-dependent GUDs.(giving-up density)Environmental issuesKathrine Mohr, Solveig Vibe-Petersen, Leif Lau Jeppesen, Mogens Bildsoe, Herwig Leirs
Forces structuring tree squirrel communities in landscapes fragmented by agriculture: species differences in perceptions of forest connectivity and carrying capacity.Environmental issuesMichael S. Miller, Robert K. Swihart, Jacob R. Goheen, Thomas M. Gehring
Functional equivalence of non-lethal effects: generalized fish avoidance determines distribution of gray treefrog, Hyla chrysoscelis, larvae.Environmental issuesChristopher A. Binckley, William J. Resetarits Jr.
Functional responses in polar bear habitat selection.Environmental issuesRolf A. Ims, Mette Mauritzen, Stanislav Belikov E., Andrei N. Boltunov, Andrew Derocher E., Hansen, Edmond;, Nigel Yoccoz, Oystein Wiig
Genetic diversity and invasibility: a test using a model system with a novel experimental design.Environmental issuesJ.F. Weltzin, B. Von Holle, N.Z. Muth, P.G. Cole
Geography of fluctuating asymmetry in the greenfinch, Carduelis chloris.Environmental issuesEevi Karvonen, Pekka T. Rintamaki, Juha Merila, Stefan van Dongen
Global warming and the export of dissolved organic carbon from boreal peatlands.Environmental issuesJohn Pastor, Jeremy Soli, Scott D. Bridgham, Karen Updegraff, Cal Harth, Braadley Dewey, Peter Weishampel
Growing tall vs. growing wide: tree architecture and allometry of Acacia karroo in forest, savanna, and arid environments.Environmental issuesSally Archibald, William J. Bond
Guilds or functional groups: does it matter?Environmental issuesJacques Blondel
Habitat composition as a determinant of reproductive success of Tengmalm's owls under fluctuating food conditions.Environmental issuesAri Nikula, Erkki Korpimaki, Harri Hakkarainen, Sakari Mykra, Sami Kurki, Vesa Koivunen
Herbivore damage to sagebrush induces resistance in wild tobacco: evidence for eavesdropping between plants.Environmental issuesJohn Maron, Richard Karban, Gary W. Felton, Gary Ervin, Herbert Eichenseer
Herbivores do not discriminate between leaves of female and hermaphrodite individuals of gynodioecious Daphne laureola (Thymelaeaceae).Environmental issuesConchita Alonso
Herbivory and plant resource competition: a review of two interacting interactions. .Environmental issuesPeter A. Hamback, Andrew P. Beckerman
How litter quality affects mass loss and N loss from decomposing Sphagnum.Environmental issuesFrank Berendse, Juul Limpens
Hungry predators render predator-avoidance behavior in tadpoles ineffective.Environmental issuesRes Altwegg
Impacts of temporal variation on apparent competition and coexistence in open ecosystems.Environmental issuesRobert D. Holt, Michael Barfield
Implication of climate change for the persistence of raptors in arid savanna.Environmental issuesFlorian Jeltsch, Kirk A. Moloney, Christian Wissel, Matthias C. Wichmann, W. Richard J. Dean
Increased risk of parasitism as ecological costs of using aggregation pheromones: laboratory and field study of Drosophila-Leptopilina interaction.Environmental issuesMarcel Dicke, Louise E.M. Vet, Bregje Werthiem
Induced responses of nestling great tits reduce hen flea reproduction.Environmental issuesHeinz Richner, Mirjam Walker, Susanne Steiner, Martin W.G. Brinkhof
Induction of phlorotannin production in a brown alga: defense or resource dynamics?Environmental issuesVeijo Jormalainen, Tuija Honkanen, Riitta Koivikko, Janne Eranen
Influence of adult and egg predation on reproductive success of Epirrita autumnata (Lepidoptera: Geometridae).Environmental issuesPekka Kaitaniemi, Kai Ruohomaki, Miia Tanhuanpaa
Influence of pulsed resources and marine subsidies on insular rodent populations.Environmental issuesGary A. Polis, Paul Stapp
Integrating methods that investigate how complementarity influences ecosystem functioning.Environmental issuesOwen L. Petchey
Interaction between fungal endophytes and environmental stressors influences plant resistance to insects.Environmental issuesThomas L. Bultman, Gregory D. Bell
Interactions among elk, aspen, galling sawflies and insectivorous birds.Environmental issuesThomas G. Whitham, Joseph K. Bailey
Interactions between above- and belowground insect herbivores as mediated by the plant defense system.Environmental issuesT.M. Bezemer, R. Wagenaar, N.M. Van Dam, F.L. Wackers
Interferences between Sphagnum and vascular plants: effects on plant community structure and peat formation.Environmental issuesNils Malmer, Crister Albinsson, Brita M. Svensson, Bo Wallen
Interspecific interactions and biomass allocation among grassland plant species.Environmental issuesDavid A. Wardle, Duane A. Peltzer
Intraspecific competition and density dependence in an Ephestia kuehniella-Venturia canescens laboratory system.Environmental issuesStephen D. Lane, Nicholas J. Mills
Intriguing compensation by adult female spiders for food limitation experienced as juveniles.Environmental issuesJordi Moya-Larano, David H. Wise, Juan Manuel Orta-Ocana, Jose Antonio Barrientos, Carmen Bach
Invasibility of plankton food webs along a trophic state gradient.Environmental issuesJay T. Lennon, Val H. Smith, Andrew R. Dzialowski
Isolate-dependent impacts of fungal endophytes in a multitrophic interaction.Environmental issuesThomas L. Bultman, M.R. McNeill, S.L. Goldson
Is the productivity of vegetation plots higher or lower when there are more species? Variable predictions from interaction of the 'sampling effect' and 'competitive dominance effect' on the habitat templet.Environmental issuesLonnie W. Aarssen, Robert A. Laird, Jason Pither
Is there a trade-off between the plant's growth response to elevated CO2 and subsequent litter decomposability?(carbon dioxide)Environmental issuesBart Hoorens, Rien Aerts, Martin Stroetenga
Is the relation between nutrient supply and biodiversity co-determined by the type of nutrient limitation?Environmental issuesR. Aerts, H. de Caluwe, B. Beltman
Keystone predator effects and grazer control of planktonic primary production.Environmental issuesChristopher F. Steiner
Landscape-dependent response to predation risk by forest birds.Environmental issuesAndre Desrochers, Yves Turcotte
Laws of nature and laws of ecology.Environmental issuesMark Colyvan, Lev R. Ginzburg
Leaf expansion rate, final leaf size and leaf expansion period are not necessarily correlated.Environmental issuesShucun Sun
Leaf expansion times: a response to Sun (2003).Environmental issuesAngela T. Moles, Mark Westoby
Lichens and mosses promote alternate stable plant communities in the New Jersey Pinelands.Environmental issuesEkaterina G. Sedia, Joan G. Ehrenfeld
Life-history trade-off in two predators species sharing the same prey: a study on cassava-inhabiting mites.Environmental issuesS. Magalhaes, J.E. Brommer, E.S. Silva, F.M. Bakker, M.W. Sabelis
Life in the land of the midnight sun: are northern lizards adapted to longer days?Environmental issuesMats Olsson, Tobias Uller
Light dependent shift in the anti-predator response of a pyralid moth.Environmental issuesNiels Skals, A. Monica Svensson, Johan Eklof, Jens Rydell
Linking frequencies of acorn masting in temperate forests to long-term population growth rates in a songbird: the veery (Catharus fuscescens).Environmental issuesKenneth A. Schmidt
Local adaptation and ecological genetics of host-plant specialization in a leaf beetle.Environmental issuesPierluigi Ballabeni, Karl Gotthard, Aline Kayumba, Martine Rahier
Local populations and metapopulations are both natural and operational categories.Environmental issuesMichel Baguette, Virginie M. Stevens
Local texture convergence: a new approach to seeking assembly rules.Environmental issuesJ. Bastow Wilson, Anni J. Watkins
Maternal age is a predominant determinant of progeny sex ratio variation in ungulates: a reply to Hewison et al.Environmental issuesDavid Saltz, Burt P. Kotler, Jacob Blaustein
Measuring dispersal in a metapopulation using stable isotope enrichment: high rates of sex-biased dispersal between patches in a mayfly metapopulation.Environmental issuesChristopher C. Caudill
Mechanisms underlying shoal composition in the Trinidadian guppy, Poecilia reticulata.Environmental issuesD.P. Croft, B.J. Arrowsmith, J. Bielby, K. Skinner, E. White, J. Krause, I. Ramnarine, A.E. Magurran, I.D. Couzin
Melanins, metals, and mate quality.Environmental issuesKevin J. McGraw
Metamorphic synchrony and aggregation as antipredator responses in American toads.Environmental issuesJill DeVito
Mixed blend of herbivore-induced plant volatiles and foraging success of carnivorous arthropods.Environmental issuesMarcel Dicke, Jetske G. de Boer, Marleen Hofte, M. Carmen Rocha-Granados
Modelling the role of social behavior in the persistence of the alpine marmot Marmota marmota.Environmental issuesVolker Grimm, Norbert Dorndorf, Fredy Frey-Roos, Christian Wissel, Tomasz Wyszomirski, Walter Arnold
Model-supervised kernel smoothing for the estimation of spatial usage.Environmental issuesJason Matthiopoulos
Modes of speciation and the lifespans of species under neutrality: a response to the comment of Robert E. Ricklefs.Environmental issuesStephen P. Hubbell
Mollusks as ecosystem engineers: the role of shell production in aquatic habitats.Environmental issuesDavid L. Strayer, Clive G. Jones, Jorge L. Gutierrez, Oscar O. Iribarne
Morphology dependent foraging efficiency in perch: a trade-off for ecological specialization?Environmental issuesRichard Svanback, Peter Eklov
Multiple scales and the relationship between density and Cin littoral zone communities.Environmental issuesRick J. Stoffels, Gerard P. Closs, Carolyn W. Burns
Mycorrhizal species identity affects plant community structure and invasion: a microcosm study.Environmental issuesElizabeth D. Stampe, Curtis C. Dachler
Nest predation in forest birds: influence of predator type and predator's habitat quality.Environmental issuesJean-Louis Martin, Mathieu Joron
Non-significant results in ecology: a burden or a blessing in disguise?Environmental issuesJulia Koricheva
Nutrient enrichment overwhelms diversity effects in leaf decomposition by stream fungi.Environmental issuesFelix Barlocher, Miranda Corkum
Nutrient retranslocation hypothesis: a subset of the flush-feeding/senescence-feeding hypothesis.Environmental issuesT.C.R. White
On principles, laws and theory in population ecology.Environmental issuesA.A. Berryman
On the relationship between seed mass and species abundance in plant communities.Environmental issuesMichelle R. Leishman, Brad R. Murray
On the role of spatial stochastic models in understanding landscape indices in ecology.Environmental issuesM.-J. Fortin, B. Boots, F. Csillag, T.K. Remmel
Ontogenetic succession in Amazonian ant trees.Environmental issuesCarlos Roberto Fonseca, Woodruff Whitman Benson
Opposing effects of grazing and nutrients on diversity.Environmental issuesHelmut Hillebrand
Palatability, decomposition and insect herbivory: patterns in a successional old-field plant community.Environmental issuesMartin Schadler, Gertraud Jung, Harald Auge, Roland Brandl
Parasites and size-assortative schooling in three-spined sticklebacks.Environmental issuesIain Barber
Patch shape and orientation influences on seagrass epifauna are mediated by dispersal abilities.Environmental issuesJason E. Tanner
Phenotypic modifications to conspecific density arising from predation risk assessment.Environmental issuesScott D. Peacor
Plant abundance: the measurement and relationship with seed size.Environmental issuesQinfeng Guo
Plant diversity and insect herbivores: effects of environmental change in contrasting model systems. .Environmental issuesS.E. Hartley, T.H. Jones
Plant species diversity, plant biomass and responses of the soil community on abandoned land across Europe: idiosyncracy or above-belowground time lags..Environmental issuesC. Van Dijk, K. Hedlund, I. Santa Regina, W.H. VanDer Putten, J. Leps, T. Diaz, M. Smilauerova, P. Smilauer, Mortimer, S.R.;Roy, J., G.W. Korthals, C. Rodriguez Barrueco, D. Gormsen, V.K. Brown, S. Lavorel
Population consequences of movement decisions in a patchy landscape.Environmental issuesRobin E. Russell, Robert K. Swihart, Zhilan Feng
Population dynamics of microtine rodents: an experimental test of the predation hypothesis.Environmental issuesJanne Sundell
Population dynamics of rice rats (a Hantavirus reservoir) in Southern Chile: feedback structure and non-linear effects of climatic oscillations.Environmental issuesMauricio Lima, Roberto Murua, Luz A. Gonzalez
Predation rate, prey preference and predator switching: experiments on voles and weasels.Environmental issuesJanne Sundell, Jana A. Eccard, Raisa Tiilikainen, Hannu Ylonen
Predator-induced morphological defence in ciliates: interclonal variation for sensitivity to the inducing factors.(Euplotes octocarinatus)Environmental issuesKrzysztof Wiackowski, Janusz Fyda, Agnieszka Pajdak-Stos, Katarzyna Adamus
Predatory fish impact on competition between stream insect grazers: a consideration of behaviorally- and density-mediated effects on an apparrent coexistence pattern.Environmental issuesHitoshi Miyasaka, Motomi Genkai-Kato, Naotoshi Kuhara, Shigeru Nakano
Predicting root biomass from branching patterns of Douglas-fir root systems.Environmental issuesAndrew D. Richardson, Heinrich zu Dohna
Preference and performance of a gall-inducing sawfly: plant vigor, sex, gall traits and phenology.Environmental issuesCris G. Hochwender, Robert S. Fritz, Beau A. Crabb
Recruitment rates exhibit high elasticity and high temporal variation in populations of a short-lived perennial herb.Environmental issuesF. Xavier Pico, Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio, Eric S. Menges, Fabiola Lopez-Barrera
Redundancy, synergism, and active inhibitory range of non-host volatiles in reducing pheromone attraction in European spruce bark beetle Ips typographus.Environmental issuesQing-He Zhang, Fredrik Schlyter
Regional and local patterns in plant species richness with respect to resource availability.Environmental issuesWilliam K. Cornwell, Peter J. Grubb
Relatedness and competitive asymmetry-implications for growth and population dynamics.Environmental issuesSusanna Pakkasmaa, Sami Aikio
Relatedness and competitive asymmetry -- the growth and development of common frog tadpoles.(Rana temporaria)Environmental issuesSusanna Pakkasmaa, Sami Aikio
Response of plant-pollinator communities to fire: changes in diversity, abundance and floral reward structure.Environmental issuesSimon G. Potts, Betsy Vulliamy, Amots Dafni, Gidi Ne'eman, O'Toole, Chris;;, Stuart Roberts, Pat Willmer
Responses of moist non-acidic arctic tundra to altered environment: productivity, biomass, and species richness.Environmental issuesSarah E. Hobbie, Laura Gough
Resprouting of herbs in disturbed habitats: is it adequately described by Bellingham-Sparrow's model?Environmental issuesJitka Klimesova, Leos Klimes
Reversed sexual dimorphism in tawny owls, Strix aluco, correlates with duty division in breeding effort.Environmental issuesPeter Sunde, Mikkel S. Bolstad, Julie D. Moller
Ruminant diversification as an adaptation to the physicomechanical characteristics of forage. A reevaluation of an old debate and a new.Environmental issuesMarcus Clauss, Matthias Lechner-Doll, W. Jurgen Streich
Safety in numbers for secondary prey populations: an experimental test using egg predation by small mammals in New Zealand.Environmental issuesChristopher Jones
Scale as modifier in vegetation diversity experiments: effects on herbivores and predators.Environmental issuesRiccardo Bommarco, John E. Banks
Scale-dependence and mechanisms of dispersal in freshwater zooplankton.Environmental issuesGaleet M. Cohen, Jonathan B. Shurin
Scale-dependent indirect interactions between two prey species through a shared predator.Environmental issuesAnthony R. Ives, Orjan Ostman
Scavenging by vertebrates: behavioral, ecological, and evolutionary perspectives on an important energy transfer pathway in terrestrial ecosystems.Environmental issuesJohn A. Shivik, Olin E. Rhodes Jr., Travis L. DeVault
Searching behavior of the sevenspotted ladybird, Coccinella septempunctata -- effects of plant-plant odor interaction.Environmental issuesVelimir Ninkovic, Jan Pettersson
Seasonal and ontogenetic dynamics in trophic transmission for parasites.Environmental issuesPer-Arne Amundsen, Rune Knudsen, Armand M. Kuris, Roar Kristoffersen
Seasonal energetic constraints in Mediterranean benthic suspension feeders: effects at different levels of ecological organization.Environmental issuesRafel Coma, Marta Ribes
Seedling resistance to herbivory as a predictor of relative abundance in a synthesised prairie community.Environmental issuesG.S. Burt-Smith, J.P. Grime, D. Tilman
Selection of Arctic charr generated by competition from brown trout.Environmental issuesIan A. Fleming, Bror Jonsson, Torbjorn Forseth, Ola Ugedal
Self-organised instability and megafaunal extinctions in Australia.Environmental issuesMichael A. Forster
Self-organization and complexity in historical landscape patterns.Environmental issuesJames Bolliger, Julien C. Sprott, David J. Mladenoff
Sentenced without trial: reviling and revamping the Resource Dispersion Hypothesis.(Resource Dispersion Hypothesis)Environmental issuesDavid W. Macdonald, Dominic D.P. Johnson
Significance of butterfly eyespots as an anti-predator device in ground-based and aerial attacks.Environmental issuesPaul M. Brakefield, Johanna Mappes, Anne Lyytinen
Site selection under differential predation risks by drifting prey in streams.Environmental issuesCarl R. Ruetz III, David W. Stephens
Spatial dynamics in breeding performance of a predator: the connection to prey availability.Environmental issuesEsa Ranta, Veijo Kaitala, Patrik Byholm, Pertti Saurola, Harto Linden
Spatial occurrence and colonisations in patch-tracking metapopulations: local conditions versus dispersal.Environmental issuesT. Snall, P.J. Ribeiro Jr., H. Rydin
Spatial synchrony of the two-year cycle budworm outbreaks in central British Columbia, Canada.Environmental issuesQi-Bin Zhang, Rene I. Alfaro
Species richness along multiple gradients: testing a general multivariate model in oak savannas.Environmental issuesEvan Weiher
Species vs community perspectives in biodiversity experiments.Environmental issuesBernhard Schmid, Andrea B. Pfisterer
Spite: altruism's evil twin.Environmental issuesJ.S. Brown, W.L. Vickery, G.J. FitzGerald
State-dependent risk-taking by predators in systems with defended prey.Environmental issuesThomas N. Sherratt
Stochastic relations between species richness and the variability of species composition.Environmental issuesOwen L. Petchey, Peter E. Smouse, M. Henry H. Stevens
Strong and weak tests of macroecological theory.Environmental issuesBrian McGill
Strong and weak trophic cascades along a productivity gradient.Environmental issuesJonathan M. Chase
Strong indirect interactions of Tarsonemus mites (Acarina: Tarsonemidae) and Dendroctonus frontalis (Coleoptera: Scolytidae).Environmental issuesMaria J. Lombardero, Matthew P. Ayres, Richard W. Hofstetter, John C. Moser, Kier D. Lepzig
Strong interactions between species of phytophagous fly: a case of intraguild kleptoparasitism.Environmental issuesTom Reader
Survival during adverse seasons reveals size-dependent competitive ability in a deposit-feeding amphipod, Monoporeia affinis.Environmental issuesAlbashir A. Aljetlawi, Kjell Leonardsson
Synchrony in brown trout, Salmo trutta, population dynamics: a 'Moran effect' on early-life stages.Environmental issuesFranck Cattaneo, Bernard Hugueny, Nicolas Lamouroux
Temporally fluctuating prey and coexistence among unequal conspecific interferers.Environmental issuesGraeme D. Ruxton, P. Anders Nilsson, J. Hakan Nilsson
Testing predictions of the lake food web theory on pelagic communities of Australian reservoirs.Environmental issuesVladimir Matveev
Testing the defence trade-off hypothesis: how contents of nutrients and secondary compounds affect fruit removal.Environmental issuesH. Martin Schaefer, V. Schmidt, H. Winkler
The anatomy of a range expansion: changes in cranial morphology and rates of energy extraction for North American red squirrels from different latitudes.Environmental issuesJacob R. Goheen
The architecture of shrubs after defoliation and the subsequent feeding behavior of browsers.Environmental issuesS.M. Cooper, M.K. Owens, D.E. Spalinger, T.F. Ginnett
The concept of sexually transmitted disease in plants: definition and applicability.Environmental issuesLars Ericson, Anders Wennstrom
The deductive method in community ecology.Environmental issuesJ. Bastow Wilson
The distance dependence prediction of the Janzen-Connell hypothesis: a meta-analysis.Environmental issuesWei Fang, Laura A. Hyatt, Michael S. Rosenberg, Timothy G. Howard, Gregory Bole, Jean Anastasia, Kerry Brown, Et Al
The effect of food supplementation on reproductive success in bumblebee field colonies.Environmental issuesLuc Pelletier, Jeremy N. McNeil
The energetic equivalence rule rejected because of a potentially common sampling error: evidence from carabid beetles.Environmental issuesPer Arneberg, Johan Andersen
The feeding behavior of the weevil, Exophthalmus jekelianus, with respect to the nutrients and allelochemicals in host plant leaves.Environmental issuesStephen J. Simpson, David Raubenheimer, Geraldine A. Wright, Philip C. Stevenson
The 'ghost of settlement past' determines mortality and fecundity in the barnacle, Semibalanus balanoides.Environmental issuesJeremy M. Hills, Jeremy C. Thomason
The influence of larval density, food availability and habitat longevity on the life history and population growth rate of the midge Chironomus riparius.Environmental issuesThomas H. Hutchinson, Helen L. Hooper, Richard M. Sibly, Steve J. Maund
The influence of varying spatial heterogeneity on the refuge model for coexistence of specialist parasitoid assemblages.Environmental issuesBradford A. Hawkins, Eric E. Porter
The interaction between epiphytic algae, a parasitic fungus and Sphagnum as affected by N and P.Environmental issuesFrank Berendse, Juul Limpens, Jeffrey T.A.G. Raymakers, Jacqueline Baar, Jantineke D. Zijlstra
The long-term relationship between plant diversity and total plant biomass depends on the mechanism maintaining diversity.Environmental issuesJeremy W. Fox
Theory of plant defensive level: example of process and pitfalls in development of ecological theory.Environmental issuesN. Stamp
The response of a three trophic level soil food web to the identity and diversity of plant species and functional groups.Environmental issuesDavid A. Wardle, Gregor W. Yeates, Wendy Williamson, Karen I. Bonner
The response of benthic rhizopods to sediment disturbance does not support the intermediate disturbance hypothesis.Environmental issuesTobias Garstecki, Stephen A. Wickham
The role of habitat selection behavior in population dynamics: source-sink systems and ecological traps.Environmental issuesWilliam B. Kristan III
The role of predators in ship rat and house mouse population eruptions: drivers or passengers?Environmental issuesG.L. Blackwell, M.A. Potter, J.A. McLennan, E.O. Minot
The significance of predation in nest site selection of turtles: an experimental consideration of macro- and microhabitat preferences.Environmental issuesRicky-John Spencer, Michael B. Thompson
The soil fauna community in pure and mixed stands of beech and spruce of different age: trophic structure and structuring forces .Environmental issuesStefan Scheu, Derk Albers, Jorn Alphei, Romuald Buryn, Jorg-Alfred Salamon, Ute Klages, Christian Platner, Sonja Migge
Timing an ontogenetic niche shift: reponses of emerging salmon alevins to chemical cues from predators and competitors.Environmental issuesNina Peuhkuri, Anssi Laurila, Jorma Piironen, Mirkka Jones, Teija Seppa
To grow and defend: lack of tradeoffs for brown algal phlorotannins.Environmental issuesT.M. Arnold, N.M. Targett
Topological properties of food webs: from real data to community assembly models.Environmental issuesJose M. Montoya, Ricard V. Sole
Towards a functional resource-based concept for habitat: a butterfly biology viewpoint.Environmental issuesRoger L.H. Dennis, Tim G. Shreeve, Hans Van Dyck
Uncertain biotic and abiotic interactions in benthic communities.Environmental issuesPer Lundberg, Jacob Hagberg, Niclas Jonzen, Jorgen Ripa
Underestimation of Spartina productivity in western Atlantic marshes: marsh invertebrates eat more than just detritus.Environmental issuesBrian R. Silliman, Alejandro Bortolus
Using pattern-oriented modeling for revealing hidden information: a key for reconciling ecological theory and application.Environmental issuesIlkka Hanski, Thornsten Wiegand, Florian Jeltsch, Volker Grimm
Variability in diapause duration in the chestnut weevil: mixed ESS, genetic polymorphism or bet-hedging?(Evolutionary Stable Strategy)Environmental issuesFrederic Menu, Bertrand Soula
Variation in top-down control of avian reproductive success across a fragmentation gradient.Environmental issuesDouglas T. Bolger, Michael A. Patten
Variation in trophic shift for stable isotope ratios of carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur.Environmental issuesJames H. McCutchan Jr., William M. Lewis, Carol Kendall, Claire C. McGrath
What determines disturbance-productivity-diversity relationships? The effect of scale, species and environment on richness patterns in Australian woodland.Environmental issuesKimberly G. Allcock, David S. Hik
What determines the foraging distribution of raptors on heather moorland?Environmental issuesStephen M. Redpath, Simon J. Thirgood, Isla M. Graham
What does the Resource Dispersion Hypothesis explain, if anything?(Resource Dispersion Hypothesis)Environmental issuesEloy Revilla
What kind of spatial and temporal details are required in models of heterogeneous systems?Environmental issuesDavid L. Strayer, Holly A. Ewing, Seth Bigelow
Why ecology fails at application: should we consider variability more than regularity?Environmental issuesL. Hansson
Wing morph-related differences in the walking pattern and dispersal in a flightless bug, Pyrrhocoris apterus (Heteroptera).Environmental issuesRadomir Socha, Rostilav Zemek
Winter browsing on Alaska feltleaf willow twigs improves leaf nutritional value for snowshoe hares in summer.Environmental issuesJohn P. Bryant
Within-brood distribution of ectoparasite attacks on nestling blue tits: a test of the tasty chick hypothesis using inulin as a tracer.Environmental issuesA. Simon, D.W. Thomas, J. Blondel, M.M. Lambrechts, P. Perret
Within-generation bet hedging: a seductive explanation?Environmental issuesJay A. Rosenheim, Keith R. Hopper, Tim Prout, Sara J Oppenheim
Wooded habitat edges as refugia from microtine herbivory in tallgrass prairies.Environmental issuesBrent J. Danielson, Anne M. Nickel, Kirk A. Moloney
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