Showing papers in "Basic and Applied Ecology in 2005"
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the mechanisms behind changes in agricultural land use and found that the main mechanism behind these changes is a change in the relative prices of inputs and output.
404 citations
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TL;DR: A more careful treatment of behavioural components of mobility within observational and experimental studies of animal dispersal is needed to model dispersal with more biological realism and better understand evolutionary consequences.
365 citations
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TL;DR: This research presents a novel and scalable approach called “Smart grids” that allows for smart grids to be connected to smart homes through smart grids.
311 citations
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TL;DR: D.J. Shorthouse, A. Raman, and D.D. Wool are among the artists whose work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City this year.
215 citations
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TL;DR: The increase in the cover of trees after the end of grazing may be more detrimental to grassland plants than the lack of grazing per se, emphasize the importance of high solar radiation, grazing and low cover of Trees for plant species richness in mesic semi-natural grasslands in northern Europe.
212 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, a set of fundamental criteria that a meaningful index of functional diversity should satisfy to reasonably behave in ecological research are proposed, and a family of measures that are most appropriate for a correct evaluation of the relations between biological diversity and ecosystem functioning is presented.
201 citations
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TL;DR: An overview of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi-nematode interactions is presented, highlighting the need to understand more fully the role of fungal “spatially aggregating cells” in fungal establishment and “community establishment”.
150 citations
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TL;DR: The consequences of grazing abandonment for changes in floristic and functional vegetation composition in dehesa systems in Central Spain are identified and plant attributes linked to dispersal, establishment, and persistence are analysed.
148 citations
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TL;DR: The published evidence on mechanisms that may underlie the observed variation in parasitism rates by Trichogramma spp.
132 citations
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TL;DR: Ants, wasps and flies were significantly more abundant on treated tendrils than on untreated controls already after 1 week, suggesting that also some of the flying visitors have played a role as putative defenders of Lima beans.
128 citations
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TL;DR: The observed successional pattern of the above- and belowground communities provides an example of the facilitation models of primary succession.
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TL;DR: Seed dispersal via ingestion and defecation by large herbivores provides a possible aid for ecological restoration of plant communities, by connecting source communities of target species with habitat restoration sites, and Insight into the factors determining internal seed dispersal could improve the management of grazed ecosystems.
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TL;DR: The gall-inducing aphids on Pistacia in Israel show radiation into many adaptive zones, with different gall types and galling sites on the host plant, even though the radiation is much less extensive than in sawflies and gall wasps.
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TL;DR: Since conservation appears more effective in areas of lower agricultural productivity, it should pay more attention to relationships between fertility and economic yield and whether some current agri-environment schemes are appropriate tools for the conservation of a country's natural grassland heritage.
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TL;DR: Though a number of parameters may contribute to the observed patterns, it is suggested that these primarily are caused by the livestock removing vegetation cover, thereby influencing the number and size of patches with high, dense vegetation in the vicinity of grass that is rejuvenated by grazing.
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TL;DR: In this article, a random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis of ten populations of Primula farinosa along an altitudinal gradient 96 fragments could be amplified of which 82.3% were polymorphic.
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TL;DR: Current understanding of oak cynipid communities is summarized, key questions regarding their evolution and ecology remain unanswered and key questions for further research are outlined.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors search for seasonal acclimation of the sun-screening parietin in a natural lichen population using Xanthoria parietina, sampled at an open seashore rock at 58°N.
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TL;DR: High species richness enabled low-density communities to reach productivity levels otherwise seen only at high density, indicating that the diversity–productivity relationship was flatter at higher than at lower density.
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TL;DR: The results emphasise the importance of large herbivores as potentially strong seed dispersal vectors and the possible role of endozoochory for conservation of plant diversity in grassland is concerned.
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TL;DR: The Giessen FACE (F ree A ir C arbon dioxide E nrichment) experiment started in a grassland ecosystem near Giessen, Germany, consisting of three enrichment (E plots) and three ambient control rings (A plots) as mentioned in this paper.
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TL;DR: A change from ground nesting species that predominantly forage above-ground to the increasing abundance of the hypogaeic Lasius flavus foraging mainly below-ground marks an alteration of the functional structure of the ant community.
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TL;DR: CSR- as well as LHS-strategies were found to differ predominantly between the study sites, and significant differences between the management treatments could be identified when the effect of habitat properties was removed arithmetically.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative analysis of two neighbouring chalk hillsides, constituted of mosaics of patches of different secondary successional ages but differing with respect to recent land use history (stable vs. variable), was performed to study the relationships between vegetation and environmental variables so as to interpret the present vegetation variability.
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TL;DR: The results suggest that variation in the proportion of sexual and clonal reproduction in G. reptans is probably more shaped by individual, i.e. plastic responses to local environmental conditions than by environmental gradients.
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TL;DR: High mortality and low growth of spiders in treatments without alternative prey likely resulted from starvation indicating that intraspecific prey is of low food quality and does not allow spider development.
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TL;DR: The spatial distribution of nectar production and its effects on pollinator behaviour in a natural population of Echium vulgare showed a hierarchy and spatial aggregation as expressed by Gini coefficients and significant Moran's I values, which stress the importance of small-scale patterns for ecological relationships and evolutionary change.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that cattle grazing in a 15-year ungrazed alvar area increased the number of vascular plant species and reduced canopy height, litter thickness and vascular plant cover.
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TL;DR: In this article, the relation between land-use changes and biodiversity changes at the meso-level in the province of Drenthe is investigated, and it is found that the biodiversity parameters that react most unambiguously to changing land use are plant functional types.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the root water uptake of mature trees under field conditions with respect to average rates, and diurnal and seasonal changes of root surface area (J s ) was investigated.