| Titre : | Journal of Ecology 101(3) - MAY 2013 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
K. David Coates, Auteur ;
Erica B. Lilles, Auteur ;
Rasmus Astrup, Auteur
Whether plant competition grows stronger or weaker across a soil fertility gradient is an area of great debate in plant ecology. We examined the effects of competition and soil fertility and their interaction on growth rates of the four dominant[...]
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Verena Cordlandwehr, Auteur ;
Rebecca L. Meredith, Auteur ;
Wim A. Ozinga, Auteur ;
Renee M. Bekker, Auteur ;
Jan M. van Groenendael, Auteur ;
Jan P. Bakker, Auteur
Trait-based approaches are increasingly used to obtain an insight into the functional aspects of plant communities. Since measuring traits can be time-consuming, large international databases of plant traits are being compiled to share the effor[...]
Article
Eunsuk Kim, Auteur ;
Kathleen Donohue, Auteur
Alpine plants are at high risk because of climate change. Assessing the performance of alpine plant species across different altitudes is useful for predicting how they may respond to changing climate. Adaptation and plasticity of early life sta[...]
Article
Lawrence R. Walker, Auteur ;
Aaron B. Shiels, Auteur ;
Peter J. Bellingham, Auteur ;
Ashley D. Sparrow, Auteur ;
Ned Fetcher, Auteur ;
Fred H. Landau, Auteur ;
Deborah J. Lodge, Auteur
Abiotic variables are critical drivers of succession in most primary seres, but how their influence on biota changes over time is rarely examined. Landslides provide good model systems for examining abiotic influences because they are spatially [...]
Article
Pieter De Frenne, Auteur ;
Bente J. Graae, Auteur ;
Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez, Auteur ;
Annette Kolb, Auteur ;
Olivier Chabrerie, Auteur ;
Guillaume Decocq, Auteur ;
Hanne De Kort, Auteur ;
An De Schrijver, Auteur ;
Martin Diekmann, Auteur ;
Ove Eriksson, Auteur ;
Robert Gruwez, Auteur ;
Martin Hermy, Auteur ;
Jonathan Lenoir, Auteur ;
Jan Plue, Auteur ;
David A. Coomes, Auteur ;
Kris Verheyen, Auteur
Macroclimatic variation along latitudinal gradients provides an excellent natural laboratory to investigate the role of temperature and the potential impacts of climate warming on terrestrial organisms. Here, we review the use of latitudinal gra[...]
Article
Nicolas Gross, Auteur ;
Luca Boerger, Auteur ;
Sara I. Soriano-Morales, Auteur ;
Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Auteur ;
Jose L. Quero, Auteur ;
Miguel Garcia-Gomez, Auteur ;
Enrique Valencia-Gomez, Auteur ;
Fernando T. Maestre, Auteur
Habitat filtering (HF, trait convergence) and niche differentiation (ND, trait divergence) are known to impact upon plant community structure. Both processes integrate individual responses to the abiotic environment and biotic interactions. Thus[...]
Article
Pierre Mariotte, Auteur ;
Charlotte Vandenberghe, Auteur ;
Paul Kardol, Auteur ;
Frank Hagedorn, Auteur ;
Alexandre Buttler, Auteur
According to the insurance hypothesis, more diverse plant communities are more likely to be resistant to drought. Whilst many experiments have been carried out to determine the effects of plant diversity on plant community insurance, the results[...]
Article
Hal Caswell, Auteur ;
Roberto Salguero-Gomez, Auteur
Senescence (an increase in the mortality rate or force of mortality, or a decrease in fertility, with increasing age) is a widespread phenomenon. Theories about the evolution of senescence have long focused on the age trajectories of the selecti[...]
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Jesse R. Lasky, Auteur ;
I.-Fang Sun, Auteur ;
Sheng-Hsin Su, Auteur ;
Zueng-Sang Chen, Auteur ;
Timothy H. Keitt, Auteur
Individual performance is a function of an individual's traits and its environment. This function, known as an environmental filter, varies in space and affects community composition. However, filters are poorly characterized because dispersal p[...]
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Roberto Salguero-Gomez, Auteur ;
Richard P. Shefferson, Auteur ;
Michael J. Hutchings, Auteur
Senescence, the physiological decline that results in decreasing survival and/or reproduction with age, remains one of the most perplexing topics in biology. Most theories explaining the evolution of senescence (i.e. antagonistic pleiotropy, acc[...]
Article
Ainhoa Magrach, Auteur ;
Luis Santamaria, Auteur ;
Asier R. Larrinaga, Auteur
The alteration and transformation of the areas surrounding native forests due to anthropogenic disturbance can result in differences near this newly created boundary, termed edge effects'. Our study describes the consequences of edge creation ov[...]
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M.-L. Benot, Auteur ;
A.-K. Bittebiere, Auteur ;
A. Ernoult, Auteur ;
Bernard Clement, Auteur ;
Cendrine Mony, Auteur
Non-random spatial patterns are a common feature of plant communities. However, the mechanisms leading to their formation remain unknown. The clonal dispersal ability of a species, that is, the average length of spacers between ramets, is common[...]
