Search Results - "Ecology (Durham)"

Demography of snowshoe hare population cycles by Oli, Madan K., Krebs, Charles J., Kenney, Alice J., Boonstra, Rudy, Boutin, Stan, Hines, James E.

“…Cyclic fluctuations in abundance exhibited by some mammalian populations in northern habitats (“population cycles”) are key processes in the functioning of…”
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The Global Naturalized Alien Flora (GloNAF) database by van Kleunen, Mark, Pyšek, Petr, Dawson, Wayne, Essl, Franz, Kreft, Holger, Pergl, Jan, Weigelt, Patrick, Stein, Anke, Dullinger, Stefan, König, Christian, Lenzner, Bernd, Maurel, Noëlie, Moser, Dietmar, Seebens, Hanno, Kartesz, John, Nishino, Misako, Aleksanyan, Alla, Ansong, Michael, Antonova, Liubov A., Barcelona, Julie F., Breckle, Siegmar W., Brundu, Giuseppe, Cabezas, Francisco J., Cárdenas, Dairon, Cárdenas-Toro, Juliana, Castaño, Nicolás, Chacón, Eduardo, Chatelain, Cyrille, Conn, Barry, de Sá Dechoum, Michele, Dufour-Dror, Jean-Marc, Ebel, Aleksandr L., Figueiredo, Estrela, Fragman-Sapir, Ori, Fuentes, Nicol, Groom, Quentin J., Henderson, Lesley, Inderjit, Jogan, Nejc, Krestov, Pavel, Kupriyanov, Andrey, Masciadri, Silvana, Meerman, Jan, Morozova, Olga, Nickrent, Daniel, Nowak, Arkadiusz, Patzelt, Annette, Pelser, Pieter B., Shu, Wen-Sheng, Thomas, Jacob, Uludag, Ahmet, Velayos, Mauricio, Verkhosina, Alla, Villaseñor, José L., Weber, Ewald, Wieringa, Jan J., Yazlik, Ayşe, Zeddam, Abida, Zykova, Elena, Winter, Marten

“…This dataset provides the Global Naturalized Alien Flora (GloNAF) database, version 1.2. GloNAF represents a data compendium on the occurrence and identity of…”
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Model selection for ecologists: the worldviews of AIC and BIC by Aho, Ken, Derryberry, DeWayne, Peterson, Teri

“…Ecologists frequently ask questions that are best addressed with a model comparison approach. Under this system, the merit of several models is considered…”
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Hierarchical filters determine community assembly of urban species pools by Aronson, Myla F. J., Nilon, Charles H., Lepczyk, Christopher A., Parker, Tommy S., Warren, Paige S., Cilliers, Sarel S., Goddard, Mark A., Hahs, Amy K., Herzog, Cecilia, Katti, Madhusudan, La Sorte, Frank A., Williams, Nicholas S. G., Zipperer, Wayne

“…The majority of humanity now lives in cities or towns, with this proportion expected to continue increasing for the foreseeable future. As novel ecosystems,…”
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Critical transition of soil bacterial diversity and composition triggered by nitrogen enrichment by Liu, Weixing, Jiang, Lin, Yang, Sen, Wang, Zhou, Tian, Rui, Peng, Ziyang, Chen, Yongliang, Zhang, Xingxu, Kuang, Jialiang, Ling, Ning, Wang, Shaopeng, Liu, Lingli

“…Soil bacterial communities are pivotal in regulating terrestrial biogeochemical cycles and ecosystem functions. The increase in global nitrogen (N) deposition…”
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Resistance and resilience of a grassland ecosystem to climate extremes by Hoover, David L, Knapp, Alan K, Smith, Melinda D

“…Climate change forecasts of more frequent climate extremes suggest that such events will become increasingly important drivers of future ecosystem dynamics and…”
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Integrating the underlying structure of stochasticity into community ecology by Shoemaker, Lauren G., Sullivan, Lauren L., Donohue, Ian, Cabral, Juliano S., Williams, Ryan J., Mayfield, Margaret M., Chase, Jonathan M., Chu, Chengjin, Harpole, W. Stanley, Huth, Andreas, HilleRisLambers, Janneke, James, Aubrie R. M., Kraft, Nathan J. B., May, Felix, Muthukrishnan, Ranjan, Satterlee, Sean, Taubert, Franziska, Wang, Xugao, Wiegand, Thorsten, Yang, Qiang, Abbott, Karen C.

“…Stochasticity is a core component of ecology, as it underlies key processes that structure and create variability in nature. Despite its fundamental importance…”
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The misuse of ratios in ecological stoichiometry by Isles, Peter D. F.

“…Ecological stoichiometry is concerned with the ratios of different elements, particularly carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus. Ratios by their nature do not…”
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Increasing effects of chronic nutrient enrichment on plant diversity loss and ecosystem productivity over time by Seabloom, Eric W., Adler, Peter B., Alberti, Juan, Biederman, Lori, Buckley, Yvonne M., Cadotte, Marc W., Collins, Scott L., Dee, Laura, Fay, Philip A., Firn, Jennifer, Hagenah, Nicole, Harpole, W. Stanley, Hautier, Yann, Hector, Andy, Hobbie, Sarah E., Isbell, Forest, Knops, Johannes M. H., Komatsu, Kimberly J., Laungani, Ramesh, MacDougall, Andrew, McCulley, Rebecca L., L. Moore, Joslin, Morgan, John W., Ohlert, Timothy, Prober, Suzanne M., Risch, Anita C., Schuetz, Martin, Stevens, Carly J., Borer, Elizabeth T.

“…Human activities are enriching many of Earth’s ecosystems with biologically limiting mineral nutrients such as nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P). In grasslands,…”
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On the relationship between phylogenetic diversity and trait diversity by Tucker, Caroline M., Davies, T. Jonathan, Cadotte, Marc W., Pearse, William D.

“…Niche differences are key to understanding the distribution and structure of biodiversity. To examine niche differences, we must first characterize how species…”
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Enhanced activity of soil nutrient-releasing enzymes after plant invasion: a meta-analysis by Zhou, Yong, Staver, A. Carla

“…Plant invasion can significantly alter soil nutrient cycling of ecosystems. How these changes are linked to soil enzyme activities is still unknown, however,…”
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Competition for nutrients and light: testing advances in resource competition with a natural phytoplankton community by Burson, Amanda, Stomp, Maayke, Greenwell, Emma, Grosse, Julia, Huisman, Jef

“…A key challenge in ecology is to understand how nutrients and light affect the biodiversity and community structure of phytoplankton and plant communities…”
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novel soil manganese mechanism drives plant species loss with increased nitrogen deposition in a temperate steppe by Tian, Qiuying, Liu, Nana, Bai, Wenming, Li, Linghao, Chen, Jiquan, Reich, Peter B, Yu, Qiang, Guo, Dali, Smith, Melinda D, Knapp, Alan K, Cheng, Weixin, Lu, Peng, Gao, Yan, Yang, An, Wang, Tianzuo, Li, Xin, Wang, Zhengwen, Ma, Yibing, Han, Xingguo, Zhang, Wen‐Hao

“…Loss of plant diversity with increased anthropogenic nitrogen (N) deposition in grasslands has occurred globally. In most cases, competitive exclusion driven…”
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Plants alter their vertical root distribution rather than biomass allocation in response to changing precipitation by Zhang, Bingwei, Cadotte, Marc W., Chen, Shiping, Tan, Xingru, You, Cuihai, Ren, Tingting, Chen, Minling, Wang, Shanshan, Li, Weijing, Chu, Chengjin, Jiang, Lin, Bai, Yongfei, Huang, Jianhui, Han, Xingguo

“…Elucidating the variation of allocation pattern of ecosystem net primary productivity (NPP) and its underlying mechanisms is critically important for…”
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Heterogeneity in ecological and evolutionary meta-analyses: its magnitude and implications by Senior, Alistair M., Grueber, Catherine E., Kamiya, Tsukushi, Lagisz, Malgorzata, O'dwyer, Katie, Santos, Eduardo S. A., Nakagawa, Shinichi

“…Meta-analysis is the gold standard for synthesis in ecology and evolution. Together with estimating overall effect magnitudes, meta-analyses estimate…”
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Local environmental factors influence beta-diversity patterns of tropical fish assemblages more than spatial factors by López-Delgado, Edwin O., Winemiller, Kirk O., Villa-Navarro, Francisco A.

“…A major goal in ecology is to understand mechanisms that influence patterns of biodiversity and community assembly at various spatial and temporal scales…”
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Effects of dispersal and environmental heterogeneity on the replacement and nestedness components of [Beta]-diversity by Gianuca, Andros T, Declerck, Steven A J, Lemmens, Pieter, De Meester, Luc

“…Traditionally metacommunity studies have quantified the relative importance of dispersal and environmental processes on observed β-diversity. Separating…”
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Nutrient limitation may induce microbial mining for resources from persistent soil organic matter by Hicks, Lettice C., Lajtha, Kate, Rousk, Johannes

“…Fungi and bacteria are the two principal microbial groups in soil, responsible for the breakdown of organic matter (OM). The relative contribution of fungi and…”
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Nitrogen enrichment buffers phosphorus limitation by mobilizing mineral‐bound soil phosphorus in grasslands by Wang, Ruzhen, Yang, Junjie, Liu, Heyong, Sardans, Jordi, Zhang, Yunhai, Wang, Xiaobo, Wei, Cunzheng, Lü, Xiaotao, Dijkstra, Feike A., Jiang, Yong, Han, Xingguo, Peñuelas, Josep

“…Phosphorus (P) limitation is expected to increase due to nitrogen (N)‐induced terrestrial eutrophication, although most soils contain large P pools immobilized…”
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Effects of dispersal and environmental heterogeneity on the replacement and nestedness components of β-diversity by Gianuca, Andros T., Declerck, Steven A. J., Lemmens, Pieter, De Meester, Luc

“…Traditionally metacommunity studies have quantified the relative importance of dispersal and environmental processes on observed β-diversity. Separating…”
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