Oikos 2006 - Abstracts

Oikos 2006
TitleSubjectAuthors
A bounded null model explains juvenile tree community structure along light availability gradients in a temperate rain forest.Environmental issuesChristopher H. Lusk, Robin L. Chazdon, Glenn Hofmann
Abundance and co-occurrence patterns of core and satellite species of ground beetles on small lake islands.Environmental issuesWerner Ulrich, Marcin Zalewski
Accumulation of local pathogens: A new hypothesis to explain exotic plant invasions.Environmental issuesC. Dekker, Maarten B. Eppinga, Max Rieterk, C. Stefan, Peter C. De Ruiter
A comparison of the species-time relationship across ecosystems and taxonomic groups.Environmental issuesDawn M. Kaufman, David Greenberg, Melinda D. Smith, Ethan P. White, Peter B. Adler, William K. Lauenroth, Richard A. Gill, Andres Rassweiler, James A. Rusak, John R. Steinbeck, Robert B. Waide, Jin Yao
Additive genetic variation of secondary and primary metabolites in mountain birch.Environmental issuesIrma Saloniemi, Vladimir Ossipov, Erkki Haukioja, Sanna Haviola
Aggregation, intraguild interactions and the coexistence of competitors on small ephemeral patches.Environmental issuesTom Reader, Pejman Rohani, Stephen J. Cornell
A hump-shaped-density-area relationship for island lizards.Environmental issuesJoan Roughgarden, Lauren B. Buckley
Allochtonous input and trophic level heterogeneity: Impact on an aquatic food web.Environmental issuesJ. Lovgren, M. Reinikainen, L. Persson
Allometry and selection in a novel predator-prey system: Australian snakes and the invading cane toad.Environmental issuesRichard Shine, Ben L. Phillips
Alternative stable states, trait dispersion and ecological restoration.Environmental issuesTadashi Fukami, William G. Lee
A meta-analysis of tradeoffs between plant tolerance and resistance to herbivores: Combining the evidence from ecological and agricultural studies.Environmental issuesJulia Koricheva, Roosa Leimu
A multivariate model of plant species richness in forested systems: Old-growth montane forests with a long history of fire.Environmental issuesJames B. Grace, Daniel C. Laughlin
A mutualism's indirect costs: The most aggressive plant bodyguards also deter pollinators.Environmental issuesJoshua H. Ness
An analysis of the analysis of herbivore population dynamics.Environmental issuesPer Lundberg, Lena Mansson
Annual routines of non-migratory birds: Optimal moult strategies.Environmental issuesJohn M. McNamara, Zoltan Barta, Alasdair I. Houston, Robert K. Welham, Anders Hedenstrom, Thomas P. Webber, Orsolya Fero
Antagonism between bacteria and fungi: Substrate competition and a possible tradeoff between fungal growth and tolerance towards bacteria.Environmental issuesLars J. Tranvik, Cecilia Mille-Lindblom, Helmut Fischer
Are animals capable of Bayesian updating? An empirical review.Environmental issuesThomas J. Valone
Are morphology-performance relationships invariant across different seasons? A test with the green anole lizard (Anolis carolinensis).Environmental issuesDuncan J. Irschick, Margarita Ramos, Christine Buckley, Justin Elstrott, Anthony Herrel, Bieke Vanhooydonck, Elizabeth Carlisle, Simon P. Lailvaux, Natasha Bloch
Are polyphagous geometrid moths with flightless females adapted to budburst phenology of local host species? .Environmental issuesOlli-Pekka Tikkanen, Ben Woodcock, Allan Watt, Kerry Lock
A simple null model predicts fruit-frugivore interactions in a temperate rainforest.Environmental issuesK.C. Burns
A simpler, more general method of finding the optimal foraging strategy for Bayesian birds.Environmental issuesRichard F. Green
Assessing impacts of ecosystem engineers on community organization: A general approach illustrated by effects of a high-Andean cushion plant.Environmental issuesClive G. Jones, Justin P. Wright, Ernesto I. Badano, Lohengrin A. Cavieres
A statistical approach to estimate soil ciliate diversity and distribution based on data from five continents.Environmental issuesAnne Chao, P.C. Li, S. Agatha, W. Foissner
A stochastic model for integrating changes in species richness and community similarity across spatial scales.Environmental issuesJulie L. Lockwood, Tim M. Blackburn, Dov F. Sax, Phillip Cassey
Avoid your neighbors: Size-determined spatial distribution patterns among northern pike individuals.Environmental issuesP. Anders Nilsson
Bayes' theorem and its applications in animal behavior.Environmental issuesRichard F. Green, Ola Olsson, John C. Mcnamara
Body weight distributions of European Hymenoptera.Environmental issuesWerner Ulrich
Breeding performance, mate fidelity, and nest site fidelity in a long-lived seabird: Behaving against the current?Environmental issuesEmmanuelle Cam, Liliana C. Naves, Jean Yves Monnat
Can prey behavior induce spatially synchronic aggregation of solitary predators?Environmental issuesMiguel Ferrer, Vincenzo Penteriani, Fermin Otalora, Miguel A. Fortuna, Carlos J. Melian
Categorical data analysis and artificial nests: What exactly is a log-linear model?Environmental issuesSean E. Walker
Changes in the ratio of twig to foliage in litterfall with species composition, and consequences for decomposition across a long term chronosequence.Environmental issuesDavid A. Wardle, Fiona M. Dearden, Helena Dehlin, Marle-Charlotte Nilsson
Choosing benefits or partners: A review of the evidence for the evolution of myrmecochory.Environmental issuesItamar Giladi
Climate change, migratory connectivity and changes in laying date and clutch size of the pied flycatcher.Environmental issuesToni Laaksonen, Markus Ahola, Tapio Eeva, Risto A. Vaisanen, Esa Lehikoinen
Combined impact of Allee effects and parasitism.Environmental issuesFranck Courchamp, Anne Deredec
Community-level birth rate: A missing link between ecology, evolution and diversity.Environmental issuesH. H. Bruun, R. Ejrves
Community modification by a grass invader has differing impacts for marine habits.Environmental issuesMegan N. Dethier, Sally D. Hacker
Community structure of canopy arthropods associated to Quercus crassifolia x Quercus crassipes complex.Environmental issuesKen Oyama, Efrain Tovar-Sanchez
Compensatory growth of fast-growing willow (Salix) coppice in response to simulated large herbivore browsing.Environmental issuesRoger Bergstrom, Christel Guillet
Complex interactions on fig trees: Ants capturing parasitic wasps as possible indirect mutualists of the fig-fig wasp interaction.Environmental issuesBertrand Schatz, Magali Proffit, B.V. Rakhi, Renee M. Borges, Martine Hossaert-McKey
Components of breeding performance in two competing species: Habitat heterogeneity, individual quality and density-dependence.Environmental issuesMartina Carrete, Jose A. Sanchez-Zapata, Jose L. Tella, Jose M. Gil-Sanchez, Marcos Moleon
Conditional outcomes in plant-herbivore interactions: Neighbors matter.Environmental issuesElena Baraza, Regino Zamora, Jose A. Hodar
Condition-dependent virulence in a horizontally and vertically transmitted bacterial parasite.Environmental issuesOlivier Restif, Oliver Kaltz
Consequences of differing competitive abilities between juvenile and adult plants.Environmental issuesEric G. Lamb, James F. Cahill
Consequences of forest fragmentation for polyporous fungi at two spatial scales.Environmental issuesI. Hanski, R. Penttila, M. Lindgren, O. Miettinen, H. Rita
Consequences of prolonged clonal growth on local and regional genetic structure and fruiting success of the forest perennial Maianthemum bifolium.Environmental issuesMartin Hermy, Hans Jacquemyn, Oliver Honnay, Isabel Roldan-Ruiz
Consequences of varying regional heterogeneity in source-sink metacommunities.Environmental issuesT.E. Miller, N. Mouquet, J.M. Kneitel, T. Daufresne
Consumer diversity mediates invasion dynamics at multiple trophic levels.Environmental issuesKristin E. France, Emmett J. Duffy
Consumer vs environmental productivity control of bacterial diversity and bacteria-mediated organic matter decomposition.Environmental issuesLin Jiang, Jeffifer Adams Krumins
Context-dependent changes in the resistance and resilience of soil microbes to an experimental disturbance for three primary plant chronosequences.Environmental issuesDavid A. Wardle, Kate H. Orwin, Laurence G. Greenfield
Contrasting responses of bee communities to coffee flowering at different spatial scales.Environmental issuesDorthe Veddeler, Alexandra-Maria Klein, Teja Tscharnike
Cost of chemical defense in the red alga Delisea pulchra.Environmental issuesPeter D. Steinberg, Symon A. Dworjanyn, Jeffrey T. Wright, Nicholas A. Paul, Rocky De Nys
Costs of parasite resistance for female survival and parental care in a freshwater isopod.Environmental issuesJukka Jokela, E. Tellervo Valtonen, Tiina Hasu
Could sex be maintained through harmful males?Environmental issuesJoachim L. Dagg
Cumulative reproduction and survival costs in female red deer.Environmental issuesT.H. Clutton-Brock, T. Coulson, A. Donald, K. Moyes, J.T. Morgan, S.J. Morris
Current food web models cannot explain the overall topological structure of observed food webs.Environmental issuesJeremy W. Fox
Current velocity and habitat patchiness shape stream herbivore movement.Environmental issuesJulian D. Olden, Todd Wellnitz, John A. Wiens, Aaron L. Hoffman, Jeremy B. Monroe, N. LeRoy Poff
Dancing between the devil and deep blue sea: The stabilizing effect of enemy-free and victimless sinks.Environmental issuesSebastian J. Schreiber, Romuald N. Lipcius, Rochelle D. Seitz, W. Chris Long
Decay of multiple species of seagrass detritus is dominated by species identity, with an important influence of mixing litters.Environmental issuesTim N. Moore, Peter G. Fairweather
Decreased reproductive investment of female threespine stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus infected with the cestode Schistocephalus solidus: Parasite adaptation, host adaptation, or side effect?Environmental issuesEric T. Schultz, Michelle Topper, David C. Heins
Delays in nutrient cycling and plant population oscillations.Environmental issuesJohn Pastor
Density-dependent and geographical variation in bird immune response.Environmental issuesS. Merino, A. P. Meller, M. Martin-Vivaldi, J. J. Soler
Detecting the effects of introduced species: A case study of competition between Apis and Bombus.Environmental issuesDiane M. Thomson
Detritivory and the stoichiometry of nutrient cycling by a dominant fish species in lakes of varying productivity.Environmental issuesMaria J. Gonzalez, Karen A. Higgins, Michael J. Vanni
Different responses of plants and herbivore insects to a gradient of vegetation height: An indicator of the vertebrate grazing intensity and successional age.Environmental issuesJuha Pykala, Miska Luoto, Juha Poyry, Juha Paukkunen, Katja Raatikainen, Mikko Kuussaari
Disease dynamics, host specificity and pathogen persistence in isolated host populations.Environmental issuesUlla Carlsson-Graner
Disentangling interference competition from exploitative competition in a crab-bivalve system using a novel experimental approach.Environmental issuesJaap Van der Meer, Isabel M. Smallegange, Ralf H. J. M. Kurvers
Disentangling the selective factors that act on male color in wild guppies.Environmental issuesAndrew P. Hendry, David N. Reznick, Nathan P. Millar, Michael T. Kinnison
Dispersal and mortality of prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) in fragmented landscapes: A field experiment.Environmental issuesGeorge O. Batzli, Jennifer E. Smith
Disturbance alters habitat isolation's effect on biodiversity in aquatic microcosm.Environmental issuesJonathan M. Chase, Orjan Ostman, Jamie M. Kneitel
Disturbance and habitat use: Is edge more important than area?Environmental issuesDouglas W. Morris, Alissa E. Moenting
Diversity: Between neutrality and structure.Environmental issuesSalvador Pueyo
Do autumn leaf colors serve as a reproductive insurance against sucking herbivores?Environmental issuesAki Sinkkonen
Does a lack of mating opportunities explain monandry in the green-veined white butterfly (Pieris napi)?Environmental issuesArja Kaitala, Panu Valimaki
Does a long-term oscillation in nitrogen concentration reflect climate impact on submerged vegetation and vulnerability to state shifts in a shallow lake?Environmental issuesNiclas Jonzen, Anders Hargeby, Irmgard Blindow
Does ecological filtering across a productivity gradient explain variation in species pool-richness relationships?Environmental issuesKatherine L. Gross, Gregory R. Houseman
Does seasonality explain the evolution and maintenance of delayed implantation in the family Mustelidae (Mammalia: Carnivora)?Environmental issuesSerge Lariviere, Steven H. Ferguson, Jeff W. Higdon
Does tiger shark predation risk influence foraging habitat use by bottlenose dolphins at multiple spatial scales?Environmental issuesLawrence M. Dill, Michael R. Heithaus
Do generalized scaling law exist for species abundance distribution in mountains?Environmental issuesYuxin Zhang, Keming Ma, Madhur Anand, Bojie Fu
Do herbivores cause habitat degradation or vegetation state transition? Evidence from the tundra.Environmental issuesRene Van Der Wal
Dominant species identity regulates invasibility of old-field plant communities.Environmental issuesKatherine L. Gross, Sarah M. Emery
Early-successional plants regulate grassland productivity and species composition: A removal experiment.Environmental issuesH. Wayne Polley, Hyrum B. Johnson, Brian J. Wilsey, Jusitn D. Derner, Joaquin Sanabria
Ecological stoichiometry and the shape of resource-based tradeoffs.Environmental issuesTakehito Yoshida
Effect of dispersal at range edges on the structure of species ranges.Environmental issuesVolker Bahn, Raymond J. O'Connor, William B. Krohn
Effects of cognitive abilities on metapopulation connectivity.Environmental issuesNicolas Perrin, Severine Vuilleumier
Effects of enrichment on protist abundances and bacterial composition in simple microbial communities.Environmental issuesSebastian Diehl, Antonia Liess
Effects of food quality, diet preference and water on patch use by Nubian ibex.Environmental issuesBurt P. Kotler, Valeria Hochman
Effects of productivity on species-area curves in herbaceous vegetation: Evidence from experimental and observational data.Environmental issuesAlessandro Chiarucci, Daniele Viciani, Christina Winter, Martin Diekmann
Elevated CO2 levels and herbivore damage alter host plant preferences.(carbon dioxide)Environmental issuesPeter Anderson, Jep Agrell, Wieslaw Oleszek, Anna Stochmal, Cecilia Agrell
Empirical evaluation of observation scale effects in community time series.Environmental issuesDaniel E. Schindler, Stephanie E. Hampton
Energy input and species diversity patterns in microcosms.Environmental issuesPhilip H. Warren, Anita J. Weatherby
Entropy and diversity.Environmental issuesLou Jost
Environmental influence and cohort effects in a sexual ornament in the house sparrow, Passer domesticus.Environmental issuesHenrik Jensen, Bernt-Erik Saether, Torkild Svorkmo-Lundberg, Thor Harald Ringsby
Environmental variability influences the structure of benthic algal communities in an oligotrophic lake.Environmental issuesHelene Cyr, Shelley Kathleen McCabe
Estimating nutrient intake in comparative studies of animals: An example using dietary carotenoid content in birds.Environmental issuesValerie A. Olson
Estimation of local extinction rates when species detectability covaries with extinction probability: Is it a problem?Environmental issuesThierry Boulinier, Stephanie Jenouvrier
Evidence for local specialization in a generalist mammalian herbivore, Neotoma fuscipes.Environmental issuesMary Brooke McEachern, Collin A. Eagles-Smith, Charles M. Efferson, Dirk H. Van Vuren
Evolution of local adaptations in dispersal strategies.Environmental issuesAndreas Gros, Hans Joachim Poethke, Thomas Hovestadt
Evolving dispersal and age at death.Environmental issuesJustin M.J. Travis, Calvin Dytham
Feedback structures of northern small rodent populations.Environmental issuesNils Chr. Stenseth, Mauricio Lima, Alan A. Berryman
Fish foraging effects on benthic assemblages along a warm-temperate stream: Differences among drift feeders, benthic predators and grazers.Environmental issuesMikio Inoue, Masanobu Miyayoshi
Food web complexity affects stiochiometric and rophic interactions.Environmental issuesPeter Eklov, Helmut Hillebrand, Antonia Liess, Jens Olsson, Mario Quevedo, Tobias Vrede
Foraging costs and accessibility as determinants of giving-up densities in a swan-pondweed system.Environmental issuesBart A. Nolet, Verinne N. Fuld, Marielle E.C. van Rijswijk
Form defining function: Interpreting leaf functional variability in integrated plant phenotypes.Environmental issuesStephen P. Bonser
Frequency-dependent pollinator foraging in polymorphic Clarkia xantiana ssp. xantiana populations: Implications for flower colour evolution and pollinator.Environmental issuesVincent M. Eckhart, Naomi S. Rushing, Georgia M. Hart, Joseph D. Hansen
Functional and numerical responses of four lemming predators in high arctic Greenland.Environmental issuesIlkka Hanski, Pierre Delattre, Olivier Gilg, Benoit Sittler, Brigitte Sabard, Arnaud Hurstel, Raphael Sane
Functional group diversity, resource preemption and the genesis of invasion resistance in a community of marine algae.Environmental issuesKevin H. Britton-Simmons
Genetic consequences of a demographic bottleneck in the Scandinavian arctic fox.Environmental issuesV. Nystrom, A. Angerbjorn, L. Dalen
Genotypic variation in induced resistance and induced susceptibility in the peach-Myzus periscae aphid system.Environmental issuesMarie-Helene Sauge, Florence Mus, Jean-Philippe Lacroze, Thierry Pascal, Jocelyne Kervella, Jean-Luc Poessel
Geographically partitioned spatial synchrony among cyclic moth populations.Environmental issuesKai Ruohomaki, Tero Klemola, Otso Huitu
Grazing lawns contribute to the subsistence of mesoherbivores on dystrophic savannas.Environmental issuesRichard J.T. Verweij, Jochem Verrelst, Paul E. Loth, Ignas M.A. Heitkonig, Arend M.H. Brunsting
Growing large in a low grade environment: Size dependent foraging gain and niche shifts to cannibalism in Arctic char.Environmental issuesOla Ugedal, Anders Gravbrot Finstad, Ole Kristian Berg
Growth rate constrain morphological divergence when driven by competition.Environmental issuesRichard Svanback, Peter Eklov, Jens Olsson
Habitat, environment and niche: What are we modelling?Environmental issuesM. Kearney
Habitat use under latent predation risk: A case study with wintering forest birds.Environmental issuesLuis M. Carrascal, Cesar Luis Alonso
Herbivory differentially alters plant litter dynamics of evergreen and deciduous trees.Environmental issuesThomas G. Whitham, Jennifer A. Schweitzer, Samantha K. Chapman
Herbivory modifies the genetic structure of birch populations.Environmental issuesKaarina Prittinen, Heikki Roininen, Jyrki Pusenius, Jorma Tahvanainen, Matti Rousi, Jaakko Heinonen
Host traits and parasite species richness in even and odd-toed hoofed mammals, Artiodactyla and Perissodactyla.Environmental issuesSamantha A. Price, Vanessa O. Ezenwa, Sonia Altizer, Nicholas D. Vitome, Catherine C. Cook
Increased soil nitrogen associated with dinitrogen-fixing, terricolors lichens of the genus Peltigera in northern Minnesota.Environmental issuesJohn Pastor, Rebecca D. Knowles, David D. Biesboer
Indirect effects of predatory trout on organic matter processing in detritus-based stream food webs.Environmental issuesHamish S. Greig, Angus R. McIntosh
Influence of marine-derived nutrients from spawning salmon on aquatic insect communities in southeast Alaskan streams.Environmental issuesRichard W. Merritt, JoAnna L. Lessard
Instability of stream salmonid population dynamics under strong environmental limitations- A reply.Environmental issuesJavier Lobon-Cervia
Intake rate at differently scaled heterogeneous food distributions explained by the ability of tactile-foraging mallard to concentrate foraging effort within profitable areas.Environmental issuesBart A. Nolet, Raymond H.G. Klaassen, Jim de Fouw
Inter-annual variation in herring, Clupea harengus, and sprat, Sprattus sprattus, condition in the central Baltic Sea: What gives the tune?Environmental issuesJoakim Hjelm, Massimiliano Cardinale, Michele Casini
Interpatch movement and edge effects: The role of behavioral responses to the landscape matrix.Environmental issuesKyle J. Haynes, James T. Cronin
Interspecific population regulation and the stability of mutualism: Fruit abortion and density-dependent mortality of pollinating seed-eating insects.Environmental issuesJ.N. Holland, D.L. DeAngelis
Is delayed selfing adjusted to chemical cues of density in the freshwater snail Physa acuta.Environmental issuesThomas Lenormand, Philippe Jarne, Pierre-Yves Henry, Ludovic Vimond
Is the composition of phytophagous insects and parasitic fungi among trees predictable?Environmental issuesRoland Brandl, Martin Brandle
Landscape structure and phenotypic plasticity in flight morphology in butterfly Pararge aegeria.Environmental issuesThomas Merckx, Hans Van Dyck
Larch- and pine-feeding host races of the larch bud moth (Zeiraphera diniana) have cyclic and synchronous population fluctuations.Environmental issuesAlain Roques, Laurent Dormont, Werner Baltensweiler, Remi Choquet
Large-scale spatial and temporal patterns in population dynamics of the stoat, Mustela Erminea, and the least weasel, M. nivalis, in Finland.Environmental issuesHeikki Henttonen, Janne Sundell, Paavo Hellstedt, Pekka Helle
Latitudinal gradients in the phenetic diversity of New World bat communities.Environmental issuesRichard E. Strauss, Michael R. Willig, Richard D. Stevens
Latitudinal gradients of species richness: A test of the geographic area hypothesis at two ecological scales.Environmental issuesMichael R. Willig, Christopher P. Bloch
Life history strategies affect climate based spatial synchrony in population dynamics of West African freshwater fishes.Environmental issuesBernard Hugueny, Pablo Tedesco
Limiting similarity revisited.Environmental issuesPeter Szabo, Geza Meszena
Local population dynamics and the impact of scale and isolation: A study on different little owl populations.Environmental issuesMichael Schaub, Gerhard Knotzsch, Bruno Ulrich, Patrick Albrecht, Christian Meisser
Local vs. regional factors as determinants of the invasibility of indigenous forest fragments by alien plant species.Environmental issuesJ. Bastow Wilson, Ralf Ohlemiiller, Susan Walker
Masting in Buxus balearica: Assessing fruiting patterns and processes at a large spatial scale.Environmental issuesMarcos Mendez, Amparo Lazaro, Anna Traveset
Maximum body size among insular Komodo dragon populations covaries with large prey density.Environmental issuesThomas Madsen, Tim S. Jessop, Joanna Sumner, John A. Phillips, Heru Rudiharto, Claudio Ciofi
Mobile scavengers create hotspots of freshwater productivity.Environmental issuesJonathan W. Moore, Laura X. Payne
Morphological variation does not influence locomotor performance within a cohort of hatchling lizards (Amphibolurus muricatus, Agamidae).Environmental issuesRichard Shine, Daniel A. Warner
Movements and mortality of common Bucephala clangula broods in a patchy environment.Environmental issuesHannu Poysa, Antti Paasivaara
Natural and artificial floral damage induces resistance in Nemophila menziesii (Hydrophyllaceae) flowers.Environmental issuesAndrew C. McCall
Neutral theory in macroecology and population genetics.Environmental issuesStephen P. Hubbell, Fangliang He, Xin-Sheng Hu
Non-additivity among multiple cues of predation risk: A behaviorally-driven trophic cascade between owls and songbirds.Environmental issuesKenneth A. Schmidt
Non-neutral community dynamics: Empirical predictions for ecosystem function and diversity from linearized consumer-resource interactions.Environmental issuesWilliam G. Wilson, Per Lundberg
Nutrient enrichment weakens the stabilizing effect of species richness.Environmental issuesJurek Kolasa, Richard J. Vogt, Tamara N. Romanuk
On dendrogram-based measures of functional diversity.Environmental issuesJanos Podani, Denes Schmera
On ecological fitting, plant-insect associations, herbivore host shifts, and host plant selection.Environmental issuesSalvatore J. Agosta
On optimal propagule size and developmental time.Environmental issuesMosbe Kiflawl
On testing for a tradeoff between constitutive and induced resistance.Environmental issuesJoy Bergelson, William F. Morris, M. Brian Traw
On the indices of plant-plant competition and their pitfalls.Environmental issuesLauri Oksanen, Marek Sammul, Merike Magi
On the value of information: Studying changes in patch assessment abilities through learning.Environmental issuesRodrigo A. Vasquez, Bruno Grossi, I. Natalia Marquez
On the virtue of being the first born: The influence of date of birth on fitness in the mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis.Environmental issuesDerek Roff, David Reznick, Eric Schultz, Steve Morey
Optimal time allocation in parasitic wasps searching for hosts and food.Environmental issuesMichael A. Keller, Brigitte Tenhumberg, Gitta Slekmann
Parasite strain coexistence in a heterogeneous host population.Environmental issuesDarren M. Green, Istavn Z. Kiss, Rowland R. Kao
Parasitoids on the loose--Experimental lack of support of the parasitoid movement hypothesis.Environmental issuesDavid Roth, Tomas Roslin, Jens Roland
Partitioning the effects of algal species identity and richness on benthic marine primary production.Environmental issuesSarah C. Lee, John F. Bruno, J. Emmett Duffy, Johanna S. Kertesz, Robert C. Carpenter, Zachary T. Long
Patch use behavior in benthic fish depends on their long-term growth prospects.Environmental issuesAnders Persson, Marika Stenberg
Persistence despite omnivory: Benthic communities and the discrepancy between theory and observation.Environmental issuesReinier HilleRisLambers, Johan Van de Koppel, Peter M. J. Herman
Phenotypic plasticity in reproductive traits induced by food availability in a lacertid lizard, Takydromus septentrionalis.Environmental issuesWei-Guo Du
Physiological responses to stoichiometric constraints: Nutrient limitation and compensatory feeding in a freshwater snail.Environmental issuesPatrick Fink, Eric Von Elert
Plant quality and predation risk mediated by plant ontogeny: Consequences for herbivores and plants.Environmental issuesRobert J. Marquis, Karina Boege
Plastic and constant developmental traits contribute to adaptive difference in co-occurring Polygonum species.Environmental issuesSonia E. Sultan, Timothy M. Griffith
Ploidy level interacts with population size and habitat conditions to determine the degree of herbivory damage in plant populations.Environmental issuesZuzana Munzbergova
Pollinator aggregative and functional responses to flower density: Does pollinator response to patches of plants accelerate at low-densities?Environmental issuesTracy S. Feldman
Population dynamics of a host-specific root-feeding cyst nematode and resource quantity in the root zone of a clonal grass.Environmental issuesW.H. Van der Putten, C.D. Van der Stoel, H. Duyts
Population fluctuations, regulation and limitation in stream-living brown trout.Environmental issuesOlivier Renault, Martin Daufresne
Population genetic effects of human mediated plant range expansions on native phytophagous insects.Environmental issuesJeffrey C. Oliver
Population regulation and demography in a harvested freshwater crayfish from Madagascar.Environmental issuesJulia P.G. Jones, Tim Coulson
Predation risk effects on fitness related measures in a resident bird.Environmental issuesMikko Monkkonen, Jukka T. Forsman, Robert L. Thomson, Markku Hukkanen, Markku Orell, Kari Koivula, Seppo Rytkonen
Predicting local-regional richness relationships using island biography models.Environmental issuesJ.W. Fox, D. Srivastava
Preferences, patterns and consequences of branch removal on the dioecious tropical tree Spondias purpurea (Anacardiaceae) by the insect borer Oncideres albomarginata chamela (Cerambycidae).Environmental issuesMauricio Quesada, Claudia A. Uribe-Mu
Public information and patch estimation for group foragers: A re-evaluation of patch quitting strategies in a patchy environment.Environmental issuesGraeme D. Ruxton, Chris P. Fraser, Mark Broom
Quantifying temporal variability in population abundances.Environmental issuesJoel P. Heath
Recent changes in body weight and wing length among some British passerine birds.Environmental issuesYoram Yom-Tov, Jonathan Wright, Shlomith Yom-Tov, Chris J.R. Thorne, Richard Du Feu
Recent studies improve understanding of population dynamics across species ranges.Environmental issuesSteven D. Gaines, Raphael D. Sagarin
Recovery of forest soil fauna diversity and composition after repeated summer droughts.Environmental issuesJanne Bengtsson, Niklas Lindberg
Redefining the community: A species-based approach.Environmental issuesWalter K. Dodds, Jennifer A. Nelson
Regional effects on competition-productivity relationship: A set of field experiments in two distant regions.Environmental issuesLauri Oksanen, Marek Sammul, Merike Magi
Resource availability and biodiversity effects on the productivity, temporal variability and resistance of experimental algal communities.Environmental issuesQuan-Guo Zhang, Da-Yong Zhang
Resource partitioning and interspecific competition in snakes: The search for general geographical and guild patterns.Environmental issuesLuca Luiselli
Seasonal time constraints do not explain exceptions in the temperature size rule in ectotherms.Environmental issuesDavid Atkinson, Rui Cabanita
Seed size and plant strategy across the whole life cycle.Environmental issuesAngela T. Moles, Mark Westoby
Seeing the trees for the leaves - oaks are mosaics for a host-specific moth.Environmental issuesTomas Roslin, Kalevi Pihlaja, Sofia Gripenberg, Pertti Pulkkinen, Juha-Pekka Salminen, Maarit Karonen, Robert B. O'Hara
Self-similarity in species-area relationship and in species abundance distribution.Environmental issuesSalvador Pueyo
Sex biases in dispersal and philopatry: Insights from a meta-analysis based on capture-mark-capture studies of damselflies.Environmental issuesMark R. Forbes, Marc J. Lajeunesse, Kirsten Beirinckx, Hans Van Gossum
Sexual size dimorphism in seabirds: Sexual selection, fecundity selection and differential niche-utilization.Environmental issuesTamas Szekely, Martin-Alejandro Serrano-Meneses
Shoot herbivory on the invasive plant, Centaurea maculosa, does not reduce its competitive effects on conspecifics and natives.Environmental issuesRagan M. Callaway, Beth A. Newingham
Size and temperature dependent foraging capacities and metabolism: Consequences for winter starvation mortality in fish.Environmental issuesPar Bystrom, Jens Andersson, Anders Kiessling, Lars-Ove Eriksson
Size constraints and flower abundance determine the number of interactions in a plant-flower visitor web.Environmental issuesMartina Stang, Peter G.L. Klinkhamer, Eddy van der Meijden
Small habitat size and isolation can promote species richness: Second-order effects on biodiversity in shallow lakes and ponds.Environmental issuesM. Scheffer, G.J. van Geest, K. Zimmer, E. Jeppesen, M. Sondergaard, M.G. Butler, M.A. Hanson, S. Declerck, L. De Meester
Spatial synchrony in population fluctuations: Extending the Moran theorem to cope with spatially heterogeneous dynamics.Environmental issuesBernard Hugueny
Species abundance models and patterns in dragonfly communities; effect of fish predators.Environmental issuesGoran Englund, Hans Gardfjell, Tomas Brodin, Frank Johansson
Species richness destabilizes ecosystem functioning in experimental aquatic microcosms.Environmental issuesQuan-Guo Zhang, Da-Yong Zhang
Species richness peaks for intermediate levels of biomass in a fractal succession with quasi-neutral interactions.Environmental issuesNicolas Mouquet, David Mouillot
Species richness-variability relationships in multi-trophic aquatic microcosms.Environmental issuesJurek Kolasa, Richard J. Vogt, Tamara N. Romanuk
Stable isotope analyses document intraguild predation in wolf spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae) and underline beneficial effects of alternative prey and microhabitat structure on intraguild prey survival.Environmental issuesStefan Scheu, Silke Rickers, Reinhard Langel
Structure in plant-animal interaction assemblages.Environmental issuesThomas M. Lewinsohn, Paulo Indcio Prado
Survival costs of adult dormancy and the confounding influence of size in lady's slipper orchids, genus Cypripedium.Environmental issuesRichard P. Shefferson
The effects of cattle grazing on plant-pollinator communities in a fragmented Mediterranean landscape.Environmental issuesSimon G. Potts, Betsy Vulliamy, P.G. Willmer
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The foraging benefits of information and the penalty of ignorance.Environmental issuesJoel S. Brown, Ola Olsson
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The predation cost of being a male: Implications for sex-specific rates of ageing.Environmental issuesA. Roulin, P. Chirste, L. Keller
The refuge as an integrating concept in ecology and evolution.Environmental issuesBradford A. Hawkins, Alan A. Berryman
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The role of stochastic processes in producing nested patterns of species distributions.Environmental issuesRichard E. Strauss, Michael R. Willig, Christopher L. Higgins
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Towards maturation of the population concept.Environmental issuesJ.A. Schaefer
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Tri-trophic effects of plant defenses: Chickadees consume caterpillars based on host leaf chemistry.Environmental issuesMartina S. Muller, Richard L. Lindroth, Scott R. McWilliams, David Podlesak, Jack R. Donaldson, Helen M. Bothwell
Trophic and non-trophic pathways mediate apparent competition through post-dispersal seed predation in a Patagonian mixed forest.Environmental issuesThomas Kitzberger, Enrique J. Chaneton, Fernando Caccia
Trophic egg laying: Hypotheses and tests.Environmental issuesJ.C. Perry, B.D. Roithberg
Tropical rodents change rapidly germinating seeds into long-term food supplies.Environmental issuesHerbert H.T. Prins, Frans Bongers, Patrick A. Jansen
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Two ecologically-divergent generalist predators have different responses to landscape fragmentation.Environmental issuesSean E. Walker, Samuel D. Marshall, Ann L. Rypstra
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