Functional species pool framework to test for biotic effects on community assemblyEcology - Tập 93 Số 10 - Trang 2263-2273 - 2012
Francesco de Bello, Jodi N. Price, Tamara Münkemüller, Jaan Liira, Martin Zobel, Wilfried Thuiller, Pille Gerhold, Lars Götzenberger, Sébastien Lavergne, Jan Lepš, Kristjan Zobel, Meelis Pärtel
Functional trait differences among species are increasingly used to infer the effects of biotic and abiotic processes on species coexistence. Commonly, the trait diversity observed within communities is compared to patterns simulated in randomly generated communities based on sampling within a region. The resulting patterns of trait convergence and divergence are assumed to reveal abiotic ...... hiện toàn bộ
Vegetation and Climate Change in Eastern North America Since the Last Glacial MaximumEcology - Tập 72 Số 6 - Trang 2038-2056 - 1991
I. Colin Prentice, Patrick J. Bartlein, Thompson Webb
Response surfaces describing the empirical dependence of surface pollen percentages of 13 taxa on three standard climatic variables (mean July temperature, mean January temperature, and mean annual precipitation) in eastern North America were used to infer past climates from palynological data. Inferred climates at 3000—yr intervals from 18 000 years ago to the present, based on six taxa (...... hiện toàn bộ
Patterns of Fish and Urchin Grazing on Caribbean Coral Reefs: Are Previous Results Typical?Ecology - Tập 65 Số 2 - Trang 446-454 - 1984
Mark E. Hay
Strips of the seagrass Thalassia testudinum were used in a field bioassay to assess herbivory on 11 coral reefs scattered throughout the Caribbean. Patterns of herbivory on overfished reefs in Haiti and the United States Virgin Islands were compared to patterns on seven less fished reefs (United States Virgin Islands, Panama, Honduras, Belize, and the Bahamas). On the overfished reefs, the...... hiện toàn bộ
Scale and the isotopic record of C4 plants in pedogenic carbonate: from the biome to the rhizosphereEcology - Tập 90 Số 6 - Trang 1498-1511 - 2009
H. Curtis Monger, David R. Cole, Brenda J. Buck, Robert A Gallegos
The 13C/12C ratio in pedogenic carbonate (i.e., CaCO3 formed in soil) is a significant tool for investigating C4 biomes of the past. However, the paleoecological meaning of δ13C values in pedogenic carbonate can change with the scale at which one considers the data. We describe studies ...... hiện toàn bộ
The Sustainable Biosphere Initiative: An Ecological Research Agenda: A Report from the Ecological Society of AmericaEcology - Tập 72 Số 2 - Trang 371-412 - 1991
Jane Lubchenco, Annette M. Olson, Linda B. Brubaker, Stephen R. Carpenter, Marjorie M. Holland, Stephen P. Hubbell, Simon A. Levin, James A. MacMahon, Pamela A. Matson, Jerry M. Melillo, Harold A. Mooney, Charles H. Peterson, H. Ronald Pulliam, Leslie A. Real, Philip J. Regal, Paul G. Risser
Predicting coastal algal blooms in southern CaliforniaEcology - Tập 98 Số 5 - Trang 1419-1433 - 2017
John A. McGowan, Ethan R. Deyle, Hao Ye, Melissa Carter, Charles T. Perretti, Kerri D. Seger, Alain de Verneil, George Sugihara
AbstractThe irregular appearance of planktonic algae blooms off the coast of southern California has been a source of wonder for over a century. Although large algal blooms can have significant negative impacts on ecosystems and human health, a predictive understanding of these events has eluded science, and many have come to regard them as ultimately random phenom...... hiện toàn bộ