Jackson, J B Buss, L
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Species of ectoprocts and solitary encrusting animals were subjected in aquaria to homogenates of 11 sympatric species of sponges and colonial ascidians. Five of the nine sponge species and one of the two ascidian species exhibited species-specific allelochemical effects. Evidence suggests that alleochemical provide a wide-spread, specific, and com...
Ulltang, Øyvind
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Developments in Marine Biology
Witting, Lars Loeschcke, Volker
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Biological Conservation
Vet, Louise E. M.
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Journal of Chemical Ecology
The marriage of chemistry with ecology has been a productive one, providing a wealth of examples of how chemicals play important roles in the loves and lives of living organisms. At first the marriage may have been a simple and monogamous one with the major scientific aim of making proximate analyses of chemically mediated, individual level interac...
Hughes, Jennifer B Roughgarden, Joan
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The American naturalist
With the current accelerating rate of biodiversity extinction, there is great interest in how species diversity influences ecosystem properties. In this article, we investigate the relationship between species diversity and the stability of community biomass in the face of stochastic perturbations of species' abundances. The model explicitly includ...
Chong, Charles T. Larned, Scott T. Covich, Alan P. Kinzie, Robert A. III
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Hydrobiologia
Native Hawaiian estuarine detritivores; the prawn Macrobrachium grandimanus, and the neritid gastropod Neritina vespertina, were maintained in flow-through microcosms with conditioned leaves from two riparian tree species, Hau (Hibiscus tiliaceus) and guava (Psidium guajava). Their ability to beak down leaf detritus was determined when alone and wh...
Sato, Mário Eidi Raga, Adalton Cerávolo, Leonardo Coutinho Souza Filho, Miguel Francisco De Rossi, Antônio Carlos Moraes, Gilberto José De
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Experimental & Applied Acarology
The study was carried out to evaluate the effect of some insecticides and fungicides on the interaction between predacious mites of the families Phytoseiidae and Stigmaeidae on citrus. Euseius citrifolius Denmark and Muma, Euseius concordis (Chant) (Phytoseiidae), and Agistemus aff. bakeri (Stigmaeidae) were the most abundant species of predacious ...
Marco, Diana E. Páez, Sergio A. Cannas, Sergio A.
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Biological Invasions
The study of invasiveness, the traits that enable a species to invade a habitat, and invasibility, the habitat characteristics that determine its susceptibility to the establishment and spread of an invasive species, provide a useful conceptual framework to formulate the biological invasion problem in a modelling context. Another important aspect i...
Lhomme, Jean-Paul Winkel, T.
In plant communities, the portfolio effect, also called "statistical averaging effect", expresses the fact that stability in aggregate community properties such as biomass productivity generally rises with species diversity, simply because of the statistical averaging of the fluctuations in species' properties. This paper essentially upgrades the p...
Köster, Friedrich W. Schnack, Dietrich Möllmann, Christian
Based on an extensive review of available knowledge, several sources of information have been identified as potentially useful in fish stock predictions. They refer to a variety of biological processes of importance for stock dynamics, e.g. growth, maturation and egg production as well as early and juvenile life stage survival and subsequent recrui...
