[BOOK][B] Ecological niches: linking classical and contemporary approaches

JM Chase, MA Leibold - 2009 - books.google.com
Why do species live where they live? What determines the abundance and diversity of
species in a given area? What role do species play in the functioning of entire ecosystems …

Effect of a change in physical structure and cover on fish and fish habitat in freshwater ecosystems–a review and meta-analysis

KE Smokorowski, TC Pratt - Environmental Reviews, 2007 - cdnsciencepub.com
Aquatic resource managers are continually faced with construction or site development
proposals which, if allowed to proceed, would ultimately alter the physical structure and …

Body size and shoaling in fish

DJ Hoare, J Krause, N Peuhkuri… - Journal of fish …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Shoaling behaviour is generally described as a trade‐off between the anti‐predator benefits
of living in groups and the costs of increased foraging competition. An individual's fitness …

Logic of experiments in ecology: is pseudoreplication a pseudoissue?

L Oksanen - Oikos, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Hurlbert divides experimental ecologist into 'those who do not see any need for dispersion
(of replicated treatments and controls), and those who do recognize its importance and take …

The logic and realism of the hypothesis of exploitation ecosystems

L Oksanen, T Oksanen - The American Naturalist, 2000 - journals.uchicago.edu
Hypotheses on trophic dynamics in terrestrial ecosystems fall into two major categories:
those in which plants are assumed to be invulnerable to their consumers and those in which …

Population ecology of an invasion: effects of brook trout on native cutthroat trout

DP Peterson, KD Fausch, GC White - Ecological Applications, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Invasion by nonnative brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) often results in replacement of
cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki) in the inland western United States, but the underlying …

Host immunity and synchronized epidemics of syphilis across the United States

NC Grassly, C Fraser, GP Garnett - Nature, 2005 - nature.com
A central question in population ecology is the role of 'exogenous' environmental factors
versus density-dependent 'endogenous' biological factors in driving changes in population …

Intraspecific competition drives multiple species resource polymorphism in fish communities

R Svanbäck, P Eklöv, R Fransson, K Holmgren - Oikos, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
It has been hypothesized that inter‐specific competition will reduce species niche utilization
and drive morphological evolution in character displacement. In the absence of a competitor …

Why study ecology in temporary pools?

L Blaustein, SS Schwartz - Israel journal of zoology, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
Temporary pools, loosely and broadly defined in this journal issue to include all standing
water bodies that intermittently dry, are collectively very common worldwide and diverse in …

Diet shifts and food selection of perch Perca fluviatilis and roach Rutilus rutilus in humic lakes of varying water colour

S Estlander, L Nurminen, M Olin, M Vinni… - Journal of fish …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The field data from four humic lakes suggested that water colour may have both direct and
indirect effects on inter‐and intra‐specific interactions of perch Perca fluviatilis and roach …