Climate change jeopardizes the persistence of freshwater zooplankton by reducing both habitat suitability and demographic resilience
Higher temperatures and increased environmental variability under climate change could jeopardize the persistence of species. Organisms that rely on short windows of rainfall to complete their life-cycles, lik... (Source: BMC Ecology)
Source: BMC Ecology - January 24, 2018 Category: Biology Authors: Tom Pinceel, Falko Buschke, Margo Weckx, Luc Brendonck and Bram Vanschoenwinkel Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Altered environmental light drives retinal change in the Atlantic Tarpon (Megalops atlanticus) over timescales relevant to marine environmental disturbance
For many fish species, retinal function changes between life history stages as part of an encoded developmental program. Retinal change is also known to exhibit plasticity because retinal form and function can... (Source: BMC Ecology)
Source: BMC Ecology - January 18, 2018 Category: Biology Authors: Lorian E. Schweikert and Michael S. Grace Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Genetic diversity and structure related to expansion history and habitat isolation: stone marten populating rural –urban habitats
Population genetic diversity and structure are determined by past and current evolutionary processes, among which spatially limited dispersal, genetic drift, and shifts in species distribution boundaries have ... (Source: BMC Ecology)
Source: BMC Ecology - December 22, 2017 Category: Biology Authors: Anna Wereszczuk, Rapha ël Leblois and Andrzej Zalewski Tags: Research article Source Type: research
Estimating species pools for a single ecological assemblage
The species pool concept was formulated over the past several decades and has since played an important role in explaining multi-scale ecological patterns. Previous statistical methods were developed to identi... (Source: BMC Ecology)
Source: BMC Ecology - December 22, 2017 Category: Biology Authors: Tsung-Jen Shen, Youhua Chen and You-Fang Chen Tags: Research article Source Type: research
Diversity of root-knot nematodes in Moroccan olive nurseries and orchards: does Meloidogyne javanica disperse according to invasion processes?
Root-knot nematodes (RKN) are major pest of olive tree (Olea europaea ssp. europaea), especially in nurseries and high-density orchards. Soil samples were collected from main olive growing areas of Morocco, to ch... (Source: BMC Ecology)
Source: BMC Ecology - December 19, 2017 Category: Biology Authors: Mohamed A ït Hamza, Nadine Ali, Johannes Tavoillot, Odile Fossati-Gaschignard, Hassan Boubaker, Abdelhamid El Mousadik and Thierry Mateille Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Ephemeral-habitat colonization and neotropical species richness of Caenorhabditis nematodes
The drivers of species co-existence in local communities are especially enigmatic for assemblages of morphologically cryptic species. Here we characterize the colonization dynamics and abundance of nine specie... (Source: BMC Ecology)
Source: BMC Ecology - December 19, 2017 Category: Biology Authors: C éline Ferrari, Romain Salle, Nicolas Callemeyn-Torre, Richard Jovelin, Asher D. Cutter and Christian Braendle Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Non-invasive genetic monitoring involving citizen science enables reconstruction of current pack dynamics in a re-establishing wolf population
Carnivores are re-establishing in many human-populated areas, where their presence is often contentious. Reaching consensus on management decisions is often hampered by a dispute over the size of the local car... (Source: BMC Ecology)
Source: BMC Ecology - December 19, 2017 Category: Biology Authors: Hanna Granroth-Wilding, Craig Primmer, Meri Lindqvist, Jenni Poutanen, Olaf Thalmann, Jouni Aspi, Jenni Harmoinen, Ilpo Kojola and Toni Laaksonen Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Complementing endozoochorous seed dispersal patterns by donkeys and goats in a semi-natural island ecosystem
Endozoochory is, in grazing systems, a substantial vector for seed dispersal. It can play an important role in vegetation dynamics, especially in colonization processes through seed input on the vegetation and... (Source: BMC Ecology)
Source: BMC Ecology - December 19, 2017 Category: Biology Authors: Julia Tabea Treitler, Tim Drissen, Robin Stadtmann, Stefan Zerbe and Jasmin Mantilla-Contreras Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Cost of resistance to trematodes in freshwater snail populations with low clonal diversity
The persistence of high genetic variability in natural populations garners considerable interest among ecologists and evolutionary biologists. One proposed hypothesis for the maintenance of high levels of gene... (Source: BMC Ecology)
Source: BMC Ecology - December 13, 2017 Category: Biology Authors: Yael Dagan, Evsey Kosman and Frida Ben-Ami Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
High altitude population of Arabidopsis thaliana is more plastic and adaptive under common garden than controlled condition
Population differentiation and their adaptation to a particular environment depend on their ability to respond to a new environment. This, in turn is governed to an extent, by the degree of phenotypic plastici... (Source: BMC Ecology)
Source: BMC Ecology - December 13, 2017 Category: Biology Authors: Akanksha Singh and Sribash Roy Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Habitat modification by invasive crayfish can facilitate its growth through enhanced food accessibility
Invasive ecosystem engineers can facilitate their invasions by modifying the physical environment to improve their own performance, but this positive feedback process has rarely been tested empirically except ... (Source: BMC Ecology)
Source: BMC Ecology - December 12, 2017 Category: Biology Authors: Shota Nishijima, Chisato Nishikawa and Tadashi Miyashita Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Biotic and abiotic drivers of intraspecific trait variation within plant populations of three herbaceous plant species along a latitudinal gradient
The importance of intraspecific trait variation (ITV) is increasingly acknowledged among plant ecologists. However, our understanding of what drives ITV between individual plants (ITVBI) at the population level i... (Source: BMC Ecology)
Source: BMC Ecology - December 12, 2017 Category: Biology Authors: Kenny Helsen, Kamal P. Acharya, J örg Brunet, Sara A. O. Cousins, Guillaume Decocq, Martin Hermy, Annette Kolb, Isgard H. Lemke, Jonathan Lenoir, Jan Plue, Kris Verheyen, Pieter De Frenne and Bente J. Graae Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Unifying the functional diversity in natural and cultivated soils using the overall body-mass distribution of nematodes
Sustainable use of our soils is a key goal for environmental protection. As many ecosystem services are supported belowground at different trophic levels by nematodes, soil nematodes are expected to provide ob... (Source: BMC Ecology)
Source: BMC Ecology - November 28, 2017 Category: Biology Authors: Christian Mulder and Rob Maas Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Foraging dispersion of Ryukyu flying-foxes and relationships with fig abundance in East-Asian subtropical island forests
Figs are widely distributed key resources to many tropical-subtropical animals, and flying-foxes are major consumers and seed dispersers of figs. Bat-fig interrelationships, however, may vary among species dif... (Source: BMC Ecology)
Source: BMC Ecology - November 14, 2017 Category: Biology Authors: Ya-Fu Lee, Yen-Min Kuo, Hsin-Yi Chang, Chi-Feng Tsai and Shigeyuki Baba Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Thermal conditions during early life influence seasonal maternal strategies in the three-spined stickleback
Conditions experienced by a female during early life may affect her reproductive strategies and maternal investment later in life. This effect of early environmental conditions is a potentially important mecha... (Source: BMC Ecology)
Source: BMC Ecology - November 10, 2017 Category: Biology Authors: Sin-Yeon Kim, Neil B. Metcalfe, Alberto da Silva and Alberto Velando Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
