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Human habitat modification, not apex scavenger decline, drives isotopic niche variation in a carnivore community Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Olivia Bell, Menna E. Jones, Manuel Ruiz-Aravena, David G. Hamilton, Sebastien Comte, Rowena Hamer, Rodrigo K. Hamede, Jason Newton, Stuart Bearhop, Robbie A. McDonald
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Vertical stratification and defensive traits of caterpillars against parasitoids in a lowland tropical forest in Cameroon Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Sam Finnie, Philip Butterill, Vojtech Novotny, Conor Redmond, Leonardo Ré Jorge, Tomokazu Abe, Greg P. A. Lamarre, Vincent Maicher, Katerina Sam
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Contrasting shrub and grass hydraulic responses to experimental drought Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Kimberly O’Keefe, Jesse B. Nippert, Rachel M. Keen, Katherine A. McCulloh
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Seabird guano inputs increase impacts from introduced mammals on the native plants and animals of an oceanic island Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Walter D. Espíndola, Tomás A. Carlo
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Coping with unpredictable environments: fine-tune foraging microhabitat use in relation to prey availability in an alpine species Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Davide Scridel, Matteo Anderle, Federico Capelli, Alessandro Forti, Chiara Bettega, Corrado Alessandrini, Maria del Mar Delgado, Luca Pedrotti, Piergiovanni Partel, Giuseppe Bogliani, Paolo Pedrini, Mattia Brambilla
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Flooding, season and habitat interact to drive changes in vertebrate scavenging and carcass persistence rates Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Zyna Krige, Emma E. Spencer, Mathew S. Crowther, Christopher R. Dickman, Thomas M. Newsome
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Exploring potential relationships between acoustic indices and ecosystem functions: a test on insect herbivory Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-06
Abstract Biodiversity loss is a global concern. Current technological advances allow the development of novel tools that can monitor biodiversity remotely with minimal disturbance. One example is passive acoustic monitoring (PAM), which involves recording the soundscape of an area using autonomous recording units, and processing these data using acoustic indices, for example, to estimate the diversity
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Seed germination and seedling growth response of Leymus chinensis to the allelopathic influence of grassland plants Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-06
Abstract Allelopathy has a profound impact on the germination and growth of plants, influencing the establishment of plant populations and shaping community ecological patterns. However, the allelopathic potential of many grassland species remains poorly understood. In this study, we prepared aqueous extracts from 17 herbaceous plants to investigate their allelopathic effects on the seed germination
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Leaf trait plasticity reveals interactive effects of temporally disjunct grazing and warming on plant communities Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Argo Ronk, Bazartseren Boldgiv, Brenda B. Casper, Pierre Liancourt
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Niche partitioning and individual specialisation in resources and space use of sympatric fur seals at their range margin Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Marcus Salton, Vincent Raoult, Ian Jonsen, Robert Harcourt
Ecological theory predicts niche partitioning between high-level predators living in sympatry as a mechanism to minimise the selective pressure of competition. Accordingly, male Australian fur seals Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus and New Zealand fur seals A. forsteri that live in sympatry should exhibit partitioning in their broad niches (in habitat and trophic dimensions) in order to coexist. However
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It is hot and cold here: the role of thermotolerance in the ability of spiders to colonize tree plantations in the southern Atlantic Forest Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Yolanda M. G. Piñanez-Espejo, Ana Munévar, Pablo E. Schilman, Gustavo Andrés Zurita
Worldwide, with the decline of natural habitats, species with reduced niche breadth (specialists) are at greater risk of extinction as they cannot colonise or persist in disturbed habitat types. However, the role of thermal tolerance as a critical trait in understanding changes in species diversity in disturbed habitats, e.g., due to forest replacement by tree plantations, is still understudied. To
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Mesocarnivores vary in their spatiotemporal avoidance strategies at communications hubs of an apex carnivore Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Maximilian L. Allen, Alexandra C. Avrin, Heiko U. Wittmer, Yiwei Wang, Christopher C. Wilmers
Mesocarnivores face interspecific competition and risk intraguild predation when sharing resources with apex carnivores. Within a landscape, carnivores across trophic levels may use the same communication hubs, which provide a mix of risks (injury/death) and rewards (gaining information) for subordinate species. We predicted that mesocarnivores would employ different strategies to avoid apex carnivores
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Vegetation biomass and topography are associated with seasonal habitat selection and fall translocation behavior in Arctic hares Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Ludovic Landry-Ducharme, Sandra Lai, François Vézina, Andrew Tam, Dominique Berteaux
Habitat selection theory suggests that environmental features selected at coarse scales reveal fundamental factors affecting animal fitness. When these factors vary across seasons, they may lead to large-scale movements, including long-distance seasonal migrations. We analyzed the seasonal habitat selection of 25 satellite-tracked Arctic hares from a population on Ellesmere Island (Nunavut, Canada)
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Intraspecific niche models for the invasive ambrosia beetle Xylosandrus crassiusculus suggest contrasted responses to climate change Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 T. Urvois, M.-A. Auger‑Rozenberg, A. Roques, C. Kerdelhué, J.-P. Rossi
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Effects of climate change on Lepidoptera pollen loads and their pollination services in space and time Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Behnaz Balmaki, Masoud A. Rostami, Julie M. Allen, Lee A. Dyer
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Temperature has an overriding role compared to photoperiod in regulating the seasonal timing of winter moth egg hatching Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-23
Abstract To accurately predict species’ phenology under climate change, we need to gain a detailed mechanistic understanding of how different environmental cues interact to produce the seasonal timing response. In the winter moth (Operophtera brumata), seasonal timing of egg hatching is strongly affected by ambient temperature and has been under strong climate change-induced selection over the past
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Linking African herbivore community enamel isotopes and environments: challenges, opportunities, and paleoecological implications Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Alexandra L. Norwood, Bian Wang, John D. Kingston
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Combined effects of fire and drought are not sufficient to slow shrub encroachment in tallgrass prairie Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-16
Abstract Woody encroachment—the spread of woody vegetation in open ecosystems—is a common threat to grasslands worldwide. Reversing encroachment can be exceedingly difficult once shrubs become established, particularly clonal species that resprout following disturbance. Single stressors are unlikely to reverse woody encroachment, but using multiple stressors in tandem could be successful in slowing
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Habitat modification by marram grass negatively affects recruitment of conspecifics Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Carlijn Lammers, Annika Schmidt, Tjisse van der Heide, Valérie C. Reijers
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No evidence of carbon storage usage for seed production in 18 dipterocarp masting species in a tropical rain forest Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Shuichi Igarashi, Shohei Yoshida, Tanaka Kenzo, Shoko Sakai, Hidetoshi Nagamasu, Fujio Hyodo, Ichiro Tayasu, Mohizah Mohamad, Tomoaki Ichie
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N-fertilization and disturbance exert long-lasting complex legacies on subarctic ecosystems Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Outi H. Manninen, Eero Myrsky, Anne Tolvanen, Sari Stark
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Mechanical traits as drivers of trophic interaction between macrodetritivores and leaf litter Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Théo Marchand, Benjamin Pey, Corinne Pautot, Antoine Lecerf
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Human infrastructures correspond to higher Adélie penguin breeding success and growth rate Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Yann Méheust, Karine Delord, Anne-Sophie Bonnet-Lebrun, Thierry Raclot, Julien Vasseur, Jimmy Allain, Virgil Decourteillle, Charles-André Bost, Christophe Barbraud
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Sister predatory mites collectively protect their eggs against predators Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-09
Abstract Group-living animals sometimes cooperatively protect their offspring against predators. This behavior is observed in a wide range of taxa but, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of its occurrence in arthropods that are not eusocial. Adult female predatory mites Gynaeseius liturivorus protect their eggs against egg predators, the predatory mite species Neoseiulus californicus
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Imprints of indirect interactions on a resource-mediated ant–plant network across different levels of network organization Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-06
Abstract Indirect interactions are pivotal in the evolution of interacting species and the assembly of populations and communities. Nevertheless, despite recently being investigated in plant–animal mutualism at the community level, indirect interactions have not been studied in resource-mediated mutualisms involving plant individuals that share different animal species as partners within a population
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Early post-settlement events, rather than settlement, drive recruitment and coral recovery at Moorea, French Polynesia Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-28
Abstract Understanding population dynamics is a long-standing objective of ecology, but the need for progress in this area has become urgent. For coral reefs, achieving this objective is impeded by a lack of information on settlement versus post-settlement events in determining recruitment and population size. Declines in coral abundance are often inferred to be associated with reduced densities of
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Relationship between wintering site and survival in a migratory waterbird using different migration routes Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-24
Abstract When wintering at different sites, individuals from the same breeding population can experience different conditions, with costs and benefits that may have implications throughout their lifetime. Using a dataset from a longitudinal study on Eurasian Spoonbills from southern France, we explored whether survival rate varied among individuals using different wintering sites. In the last 13 years
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Temporal variation in tree diversity effects on birds and its implications for top-down control of insect herbivores in a tropical system Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Carla Vázquez-González, Edith Villa-Galaviz, Martha Reyes-Hernández, Biiniza Perez-Niño, Teresa Quijano-Medina, Víctor Parra-Tabla, Kailen A. Mooney, Luis Abdala-Roberts
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Ensemble evaluation of potential distribution of Procambarus clarkii using multiple species distribution models Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-22
Abstract Procambarus clarkii is a notorious invasive species that has led to ecological concerns owing to its high viability and rapid reproduction. South Korea, a country exposed to a high risk of introduction of invasive species due to active international trade, has suffered from recent massive invasions by invasive species, necessitating the evaluation of potential areas requiring intensive monitoring
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Reciprocal facilitation between ants and small mammals in tidal marshes Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Alejandro D. Canepuccia, Fernando J. Hidalgo, Eugenia Fanjul, Oscar O. Iribarne
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The chytrid insurance hypothesis: integrating parasitic chytrids into a biodiversity–ecosystem functioning framework for phytoplankton–zooplankton population dynamics Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 András Abonyi, Johanna Fornberg, Serena Rasconi, Robert Ptacnik, Martin J. Kainz, Kevin D. Lafferty
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The effects of diet-shifting from invertebrates towards fruit on the condition of autumn-migrant Catharus thrushes Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-16
Abstract Migration is an energetically challenging and risky life history stage for many animals, but could be supported by dietary choices en route, which may create opportunities to improve body and physiological condition. However, proposed benefits of diet shifts, such as between seasonally available invertebrates and fruits, have received limited investigation in free-living animals. We quantified
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Environmental drivers of biogeography and community structure in a Mid-Atlantic estuary Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Haley A. Oleynik, Joseph J. Bizzarro, Edward A. Hale, Aaron B. Carlisle
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Opposing life history strategies allow grass shrimp parasites to avoid a conflict of interest Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Robert P. Finn, Julia C. Buck
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Parasites alter food-web topology of a subarctic lake food web and its pelagic and benthic compartments Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-07
Abstract We compared three sets of highly resolved food webs with and without parasites for a subarctic lake system corresponding to its pelagic and benthic compartments and the whole-lake food web. Key topological food-web metrics were calculated for each set of compartments to explore the role parasites play in food-web topology in these highly contrasting webs. After controlling for effects from
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A test of trade-offs in dispersal and reproduction within and between a sister species pair of specialist insect herbivores Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Amy M. Roush, Linyi Zhang, Glen Ray Hood, James R. Ott, Scott P. Egan
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Solitary foundation or colony fission in ants: an intraspecific study shows that worker presence and number increase colony foundation success Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Basile Finand, Nicolas Loeuille, Céline Bocquet, Pierre Fédérici, Thibaud Monnin
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Non-linear effects of non-host diversity on the removal of free-living infective stages of parasites Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Jennifer E. Welsh, Mirjana Markovic, Jaap van der Meer, David W. Thieltges
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Seed dispersal function of the brown bear Ursus arctos on Hokkaido Island in northern Japan: gut passage time, dispersal distance, germination, and effects of remaining pulp Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Yoshihiro Tsunamoto, Hifumi Tsuruga, Konomi Kobayashi, Takeshi Sukegawa, Takuya Asakura
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Trophic niches of Collembola communities change with elevation, but also with body size and life form Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Johannes Lux, Zhijing Xie, Xin Sun, Donghui Wu, Stefan Scheu
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Negative interaction effect of heat and drought stress at the warm end of species distribution Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Judith R. Schepers, Jessica Heblack, Yvonne Willi
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Experimental evidence that competition strength scales with ecological similarity: a case study using Anolis lizards Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Anna Thonis, H. Reşit Akçakaya
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Inter- and intrapopulation resource use variation of marine subsidized western fence lizards Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Alexi Ebersole, Marie E. Bunker, Stacey L. Weiss, Kena Fox-Dobbs
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Avian responses to climate extremes: insights into abundance curves and species sensitivity using the UK Breeding Bird Survey Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Pietro Tirozzi, Dario Massimino, Luciano Bani
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Non-photochemical quenching may contribute to the dominance of the pale mat-forming lichen Cladonia stellaris over the sympatric melanic Cetraria islandica Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Knut Asbjørn Solhaug, Gaute Eiterjord, Martine Hana Løken, Yngvar Gauslaa
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Tissue-specific carbon isotope patterns of amino acids in southern sea otters Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Alana L. Robinson, Emma A. Elliott Smith, Alexi C. Besser, Seth D. Newsome
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Distinct trophic ecologies of zooplankton size classes are maintained throughout the seasonal cycle Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Anna K. McLaskey, Ian Forster, Brian P. V. Hunt
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Host and parasite identity interact in scale-dependent fashion to determine parasite community structure Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Joshua I. Brian, David C. Aldridge
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The associational effects of host plant and mistletoe functional traits on leaf herbivory in mistletoe Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Guo-fa Su, Jin Chen, Ling Zhang
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Effects of microplastics and nanoplastics on host–parasite interactions in aquatic environments Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Mary K. C. Balsdon, Janet Koprivnikar
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Inferring condition in wild mammals: body condition indices confer no benefit over measuring body mass across ecological contexts Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Andrea E. Wishart, Adriana L. Guerrero-Chacón, Rebecca Smith, Deborah M. Hawkshaw, Andrew G. McAdam, Ben Dantzer, Stan Boutin, Jeffrey E. Lane
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Mating system induced lags in rates of range expansion for different simulated mating systems and dispersal strategies: a modelling study Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 W. H. Morgan, S. C. F. Palmer, X. Lambin
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Isopod mouthpart traits respond to a tropical forest recovery gradient Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Shawn B. H. Ang, Weng Ngai Lam, G. Kenny Png, Sylvia K. B. Tan, Benjamin P. Y.-H. Lee, Max Khoo, Matthew S. Luskin, David A. Wardle, Eleanor M. Slade
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Climate-dependent plant responses to earthworms in two land-use types Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Qun Liu, Nico Eisenhauer, Stefan Scheu, Gerrit Angst, Miriam Bücker, Yuanyuan Huang, Travis B. Meador, Martin Schädler
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The association between haemosporidian infection and non-breeding moult location in great reed warblers revisited by combining feather stable isotope profiles and geolocator data Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-23 Petr Procházka, Tamara Emmenegger, Silke Bauer, Arif Ciloglu, Dimitar Dimitrov, Bengt Hansson, Dennis Hasselquist, Elizabeth Yohannes, Pavel Zehtindjiev, Staffan Bensch
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Novel host plant use by a specialist insect depends on geographic variation in both the host and herbivore species Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 James P. Michielini, Xianfeng Yi, Leone M. Brown, Shan Ming Gao, Colin Orians, Elizabeth E. Crone
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Inconsistent dilution: experimental but not field evidence for a dilution effect in Daphnia–bacteria interactions Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Michelle L. Fearon, Camden D. Gowler, Meghan A. Duffy
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Signatures of autumn deluges revealed during spring drought in a semi-arid grassland Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Olivia L. Hajek, Alan K. Knapp
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Body size mediates latitudinal population differences in the response to chytrid fungus infection in two amphibians Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Sara Meurling, Mattias Siljestam, Maria Cortazar-Chinarro, David Åhlen, Patrik Rödin-Mörch, Erik Ågren, Jacob Höglund, Anssi Laurila
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Temperature dependence of carbon metabolism in the leaves in sun and shade in a subtropical forest Oecologia (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Xiaoping Chen, Jinlong Li, Josep Peñuelas, Xueqin Li, Dandan Hu, Mantang Wang, Quanlin Zhong, Dongliang Cheng