| Titre : | Journal of Ecology 99(6) - NOV 2011 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
Maria B. Garcia, Auteur ;
Johan P. Dahlgren, Auteur ;
Johan Ehrlen, Auteur
1. Understanding how vital rates and reproductive value change with age is fundamental to demography, life history evolution and population genetics. The universality of organism senescence has been questioned on both theoretical and empirical g[...]
Article
Rafael Zas, Auteur ;
Xoaquin Moreira, Auteur ;
Luis Sampedro, Auteur
1. Current hypotheses predict contrasting roles for natural enemies in determining the success or failure of plant invasions. Differences in plant-induced resistance and tolerance to native herbivores between native and exotic species might cont[...]
Article
Calum Brown, Auteur ;
Richard Law, Auteur ;
Janine B. Illian, Auteur ;
David F. R. P. Burslem, Auteur
1. Attempts to infer underlying ecological process from observed patterns in ecology have been widespread, but have generally relied on first-order (non-spatial) community characteristics such as the species abundance distribution (SAD). This me[...]
Article
Yong Luo, Auteur ;
Han Y. H. Chen, Auteur
1. Tree mortality has important influences on forest structure and composition, but the mechanisms that cause tree mortality are not well understood. Asymmetric competition is known to be a dominant cause of plant mortality, but this idea has no[...]
Article
Maxime Rejou-Mechain, Auteur ;
Olivier Flores, Auteur ;
Nils Bourland, Auteur ;
Jean-Louis Doucet, Auteur ;
Richard F. Feteke, Auteur ;
Alexandra Pasquier, Auteur ;
Olivier J. Hardy, Auteur
1. In tropical forests, species distribution patterns may be strongly context-dependent owing to local stochasticity of recruitment and/or to the specific history and environment of each site. Recent studies have reported, however, that the degr[...]
Article
Stavros D. Veresoglou, Auteur ;
Robin Sen, Auteur ;
Andreas P. Mamolos, Auteur ;
Demetrios S. Veresoglou, Auteur
1. Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi and ammonia oxidizers (AO) represent key soil microbial groups regulating nitrogen (N) cycling in terrestrial ecosystems. Both utilize soil ammonium-N reserves for N assimilation, whilst the latter, through a[...]
Article
Sarah E. Evans, Auteur ;
Kerry M. Byrne, Auteur ;
William K. Lauenroth, Auteur ;
Ingrid C. Burke, Auteur
1. Models predict that the duration and intensity of drought will increase under future climate regimes. Although semi-arid grasslands are adapted to moisture limitation, the sensitivity of semi-arid grassland vegetation to extreme and sustained[...]
