Ecology

Papers
(The median citation count of Ecology is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Mutualisms impact species' range expansion speeds and spatial distributions289
Feral hogs control brackish marsh plant communities over time116
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Characterizing tree trait variance over spatiotemporal scales75
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Temperature predicts maximum tree‐species richness and water availability and frost shape the residual variation68
Climate warming increases insect‐driven seed removal of two elaiosome‐bearing invasive thistle species68
Host infection and disease‐induced mortality modify species contributions to the environmental reservoir67
Navigating the landscape of fear: Fruit flies exhibit distinct antipredator and antiparasite defensive behaviors65
Special Feature: Linking capture–recapture and movement63
An assessment of statistical methods for nonindependent data in ecological meta‐analyses: Comment63
Spatial habitat heterogeneity influences host–pathogen dynamics in a patchy population of Ranchman's tiger moth61
Just a cat fight or something more sinister? Infanticide is rare among female leopards51
Optimal prey switching: Predator foraging costs provide a mechanism for functional responses in multi‐prey systems47
Pollinator type strongly impacts gene flow within and among plant populations for six Neotropical species45
Andean non‐volant small mammals: A dataset of community assemblages of non‐volant small mammals from the high Andes44
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Insectivorous birds reduce herbivory but do not increase mangrove growth across productivity zones41
The rupicolous bromeliad (Encholirium spectabile) as a keystone species for Brazilian semiarid biodiversity41
Battle for the mounds: Niche competition between upside‐down jellyfish and invasive seagrass39
HeadwaterstreamSNevada: Data on riparian vegetation and water parameters of headwater streams in Sierra Nevada, Spain38
Host density shapes the relative contribution of vector‐based and aerial transmission of a pathogenic fungus38
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Cover and density of southwestern ponderosa pine understory plants in permanent chart quadrats (2002–2020)35
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A data set of the crackdown on cross‐border wildlife crimes in China, 2014–202030
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Does a history of population co‐occurrence predict plant performance, community productivity, or invasion resistance?30
A sit‐and‐wait predator, but not an active‐pursuit predator, alters pollinator‐mediated selection on floral traits30
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Ecosystem engineering alters density‐dependent feedbacks in an aquatic insect population29
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Getting to the root of it: Root colonization by fungal symbionts in the invasive grass Ventenata dubia27
Plant phenological dataset collated by the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters27
Disturbance‐induced emigration: an overlooked mechanism that reduces metapopulation extinction risk26
The role of seasonal migration in spatial population synchrony26
An exploration of the hidden endosymbionts of Corbicula in the native range26
Predation risk regulates prey assortative mating by reducing the expected reproductive value of mates26
The unimodal intransitivity–fertility relationship is not mediated by demographic trade‐offs in a subtropical forest26
Feather mites at night: an exploration of their feeding, reproduction, and spatial ecology26
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Decay of similarity across tropical forest communities: integrating spatial distance with soil nutrients25
Regeneration strategies and forest resilience to changing fire regimes: Insights from a Goldilocks model25
The role of competition and herbivory in biotic resistance against invaders: a synergistic effect24
Evolution of leapfrog migration: A test of competition‐based hypotheses24
Small mammals from the Caatinga: A dataset for the Brazilian semiarid biome24
Invasive shrubs differentially alter autumnal activity for three common small‐mammal species23
Increasing and fluctuating resource availability enhances invasional meltdown23
Who is smashing the reef at night? A nocturnal mystery23
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Mass disappearance of intertidal mussels after an unusual winter cold snap in eastern Canada23
Brown meets green: light and nutrients alter detritivore assimilation of microbial nutrients from leaf litter22
Bet‐hedgers commit to the hedge: Zooplankton in ephemeral semiarid wetlands of tropical Brazil that widely spread risk22
Analyzing ecosystem services as part of ecological networks in three salt marsh ecosystems22
ArcticBirdSounds: An open‐access, multiyear, and detailed annotated dataset of bird songs and calls21
Density data for Lake Ontario benthic invertebrate assemblages from 1964 to 201821
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Large‐scale, multidecade monitoring data from kelp forest ecosystems in California and Oregon (USA)21
A phenology of fear: Investigating scale and seasonality in predator–prey games between wolves and white‐tailed deer21
Camera trap surveys of Atlantic Forest mammals: A data set for analyses considering imperfect detection (2004–2020)21
ATLANTIC ANTS: a data set of ants in Atlantic Forests of South America21
Long‐term seedling and small sapling census data from the Barro Colorado Island 50 ha Forest Dynamics Plot, Panama21
Symbiotic ant traits produce differential host‐plant carbon and water dynamics in a multi‐species mutualism20
Commercial krill fishing within a foraging supergroup of fin whales in the Southern Ocean20
Asynchrony, density dependence, and persistence in an amphibian20
Shining bright in the dusk: How do bat‐pollinated flowers reflect light?20
Invisible grazers of seaweed propagules20
Dynamic sensitivity to resource availability influences population responses to mismatches in a shorebird20
Data on vegetation across forest edges from the FERN (Forest Edge Research Network)20
Movement drives population dynamics of one of the most mobile ungulates on Earth: Insights from a mechanistic model20
A lift in snail's gut provides an efficient colonization route for tardigrades20
Mutualism within a parasitism within a mutualism: the bees and coccids that inhabit Cecropia ant‐plants20
Tree demographic strategies largely overlap across succession in Neotropical wet and dry forest communities20
Reconciling contrasting effects of nitrogen on host immunity and pathogen transmission using stoichiometric models20
Defaunation changes leaf trait composition of recruit communities in tropical forests in French Guiana20
Estimating phenology and phenological shifts with hierarchical modeling20
Lessons from the invasion of Spartina alterniflora in coastal China19
Extreme rainfall flushes out tadpoles of the yellow‐bellied toad Bombinavariegata from its breeding ponds19
Ants, camel crickets, and cockroaches as pollinators: The unsung heroes of a non‐photosynthetic plant19
A century of statistical Ecology19
The return of Scarface: Philopatry in an ocean wandering shark?19
Dominant species stabilize pollination services through response diversity, but not cross‐scale redundancy19
Seagrass wasting disease prevalence and lesion area increase with invertebrate grazing across the northeastern Pacific19
Nest microclimate and limits to egg viability explain avian life‐history variation across latitudinal gradients19
Functional consequences of animal community changes in managed grasslands: An application of the CAFE approach19
Tree demographic drivers across temperate rain forests, after accounting for site‐, species‐, and stem‐level attributes19
Niche partitioning in a periphyton metacommunity peaks at intermediate species richness in midsized rivers19
Diurnal temperature variation impacts energetics but not reproductive effort across seasons in a temperate dung beetle18
Common juniper, the oldest nonclonal woody species across the tundra biome and the European continent18
BatFly: A database of Neotropical bat–fly interactions18
Condo or cuisine? The function of fine woody debris in driving decomposition, detritivores, and their predators18
Erratum to “Poor relationships between NEON airborne observation platform data and field‐based vegetation traits at a mesic grassland”18
Fire, grazers, and browsers interact with grass competition to determine tree establishment in an African savanna17
Non‐additive biotic interactions improve predictions of tropical tree growth and impact community size structure17
Negative impacts of dominance on bee communities: Does the influence of invasive honey bees differ from native bees?17
Fruit secondary metabolites alter the quantity and quality of a seed dispersal mutualism17
An occurrence data set for invasive and naturalized alien plants in India17
Seasonal upwelling reduces herbivore control of tropical rocky intertidal algal communities17
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FishShapes v1: Functionally relevant measurements of teleost shape and size on three dimensions17
Ecology of fear alters behavior of grizzly bears exposed to bear‐viewing ecotourism17
Darwin's naturalization conundrum reconciled by changes of species interactions17
Capture–mark–recapture data on the strictly protected Speleomantes italicus17
Host plant‐mediation of viral transmission and its consequences for a native butterfly16
Exotic tree species have consistently lower herbivore load in a cross‐Atlantic tree biodiversity experiment16
Niche expansion via acquired metabolism facilitates competitive dominance in planktonic communities16
Hidden biodiversity: Spatial mosaics of eelgrass genotypic diversity at the centimeter to meadow scale16
A graphical causal model for resolving species identity effects and biodiversity–ecosystem function correlations: comment16
Coral assemblages at higher latitudes favor short‐term potential over long‐term performance16
Metabolic depression in sea urchin barrens associated with food deprivation16
Fitness and niche differences are both important in explaining responses of plant diversity to nutrient addition16
Does invasion by armored catfish shift trophic ecology of native fishes? Evidence from stable isotope analysis16
VTMaxHerp: A data set of voluntary thermal maximum temperatures of amphibians and reptiles from two Brazilian hotspots16
Phenotypic dissimilarity index: Correcting for intra‐ and interindividual variability when quantifying phenotypic variation16
Coral hosts provide more than shelter to boring bivalves15
A spatial capture–recapture model for group‐living species15
Environmental variation drives continental‐scale synchrony of European beech reproduction15
Phytotelmata‐dwelling frog larvae might exhibit no defecation: A unique adaptation to a closed aquatic environment15
Mate‐guarding male desert locusts act as parasol for ovipositing females in an extremely hot desert environment15
Dual mechanisms of autonomous selfing in Roscoea nepalensis (Zingiberaceae)15
Niche dynamics suggest ecological factors influencing migration in an insectivorous owl15
Location probing by males complicates sexual dynamics and successful mate‐guarding in squid groups15
Testing the context dependence of ant nutrient preference across habitat strata and trophic levels in Neotropical biomes15
Predator–prey space use and landscape features influence movement behaviors in a large‐mammal community15
Gains in soil carbon storage under anthropogenic nitrogen deposition are rapidly lost following its cessation15
Response diversity in corals: hidden differences in bleaching mortality among cryptic Pocillopora species15
Understanding the state‐dependent impact of species correlated responses on community sensitivity to perturbations15
Finding love in a hopeless place: A global database of misdirected amplexus in anurans15
Phylogenetic conservatism explains why plants are more likely to produce fleshy fruits in the tropics15
Birds and bats reduce herbivory damage in Papua New Guinean highland forests15
Geographic variation in leaf traits and palatability of a native plant invader during domestic expansion15
Nutrient limitation may induce microbial mining for resources from persistent soil organic matter15
Plant–pollinator interactions between generalists persist over time and space15
Analysis of resting status reveals distinct elevational variation in metabolisms of lizards14
Boring into rock and hard substrates by the midge, Axarus (Diptera; Chironomidae)14
Escaping via the predator's gill: A defensive tactic of juvenile eels after capture by predatory fish14
An assessment of statistical methods for non‐independent data in ecological meta‐analyses: Reply14
Broad aggressive interactions among African carnivores suggest intraguild killing is driven by more than competition14
Cryptogam plant community stability: Warming weakens influences of species richness but enhances effects of evenness14
The contribution of nearshore oceanography to temporal variation in larval dispersal14
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Long‐term, low incidence of web‐decorating by spiders in the Mariana Islands, Micronesia14
Effects of density, species interactions, and environmental stochasticity on the dynamics of British bird communities14
Plant–animal interactions mediate climatic effects on selection on flowering time14
Multi‐tissue and multi‐isotope (δ13C, δ15N, δ18O and 87/86Sr) data for early medieval human and animal palaeoecology14
Risk versus reward: Burmese python mothers select precarious oviposition sites14
Historical Plant Sales (HPS) database: Documenting the spatiotemporal history of plant sales in the conterminous U.S.14
Integrated ecosystems: linking food webs through reciprocal resource reliance14
Geographic variation in offspring size: Long‐ and short‐term climate affect mean seed mass ofStreptanthuspopulations14
Decomposing decomposition: isolating direct effects of temperature from other drivers of detrital processing13
Gastrointestinal morphology is an effective functional dietary proxy that predicts small mammal community structure13
Rates and controls of nitrogen fixation in postfire lodgepole pine forests13
Does deterministic coexistence theory matter in a finite world?13
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Long‐term drought promotes invasive species by reducing wildfire severity13
Vulnerability of grassland seed banks to resource‐enhancing global changes13
Extensive regional variation in the phenology of insects and their response to temperature across North America13
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Resting in plain sight: Dormancy ecology of the intermediate snail host of Schistosoma haematobium13
Idiosyncratic responses to biotic and environmental filters in wood‐inhabiting fungal communities13
Attenuated asymmetry of above‐ versus belowground stoichiometry to a decadal nitrogen addition during stand development13
Seasonality of reproduction in an ever‐wet lowland tropical forest in Amazonian Ecuador13
Niche breadth of Amazonian trees increases with niche optimum across broad edaphic gradients13
Juvenile survival increases with dispersal distance and varies across years: 15 years of evidence in a prairie perennial13
HiDaFernPT: Historical data of spore availability for 121 fern and lycopod taxa in Portugal (1926–2013)13
Uncovering the mechanisms underpinning divergent environmental change impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning13
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Temporal variability and predictability predict alpine plant community composition and distribution patterns13
Grassland sensitivity to drought is related to functional composition across East Asia and North America13
Female treefrog preference for breeding sites matches offspring performance in the presence of two anuran competitors13
Improved inferences about landscape connectivity from spatial capture–recapture by integration of a movement model13
Biological invasions alter the structure of a tropical freshwater food web12
Growth portfolios buffer climate‐linked environmental change in marine systems12
Directional movement of consumer fronts associated with creek heads in salt marshes12
Galls on galls: A hypergall‐inducing midge and its parasitoid community12
Plasticity in response to plant–plant interactions and water availability12
Atlantic bluefin tuna spawn early to avoid metabolic meltdown in larvae12
Experimental species removal reveals species contributions to positive pollinator‐mediated reproductive interactions12
Do plant–soil feedbacks promote coexistence in a sagebrush steppe?12
An integrated path for spatial capture–recapture and animal movement modeling12
Understanding temporal variability across trophic levels and spatial scales in freshwater ecosystems12
Sound production in wild Mediterranean blonde ray Raja brachyura12
Risk effects cascade up to an obligate scavenger12
Integrated evidence‐based extent of occurrence for North American bison (Bison bison) since 1500 CE and before12
Rhizobial variation, more than plant variation, mediates plant symbiotic and fitness responses to herbicide stress12
Fish and invertebrate communities show greater day–night partitioning on tropical than temperate reefs12
Canopy height, rather than neighborhood effects, shapes leaf herbivory in a tropical rainforest12
Short‐term plant–soil feedback experiment fails to predict outcome of competition observed in long‐term field experiment12
Habitat functionality: Integrating environmental and geographic space in niche modeling for conservation planning12
Suboptimal foraging theory: How inaccurate predictions and approximations can make better models of adaptive behavior12
Demographic consequences of changes in environmental periodicity12
Will a large complex model ecosystem be viable? The essential role of positive interactions11
Distributive stress: individually variable responses to hypoxia expand trophic niches in fish11
Food webs coupled in space: Consumer foraging movement affects both stocks and fluxes11
Frequent disturbance to a foundation species disrupts consumer‐mediated nutrient cycling in giant kelp forests11
Secondary pollinators contribute to reproductive success of a pink‐flowered sand verbena population11
Rapid geographic divergence in competitive ability of cane toad larvae (Rhinella marina) during a biological invasion11
Nonadditive effects of two contrasting introduced herbivores on the reproduction of a pollination‐specialized palm11
Variation in disturbance to a foundation species structures the dynamics of a benthic reef community11
Phenological sensitivity of Bromus tectorum genotypes depends on current and source environments11
Biotic homogenization destabilizes ecosystem functioning by decreasing spatial asynchrony11
Linking genetic diversity and species diversity through plant–soil feedback11
Asymmetric root distributions reveal press–pulse responses in retreating coastal forests11
The relative influence of climate extremes and species richness on the temporal variability of bird communities11
Genetically diverse populations spread faster in benign but not in challenging environments11
Dual species interaction and ecological community stability11
Large herbivores in a partially migratory population search for the ideal free home11
Warming reduced flowering synchrony and extended community flowering season in an alpine meadow on the Tibetan Plateau11
Bird diversity in historical paintings of the Song dynasty (960–1279)11
Potential caterpillar mimicry in a tropical hummingbird11
Unified understanding of intrinsic and extrinsic controls of dissolved organic carbon reactivity in aquatic ecosystems11
Topographic heterogeneity triggers complementary cascades that enhance ecosystem multifunctionality11
Seasonal structural stability promoted by forest diversity and composition explains overyielding11
Mesopredator release moderates trophic control of plant biomass in a Georgia salt marsh11
Imaging spectroscopy reveals topographic variability effects on grassland functional traits and drought responses11
A fiddler crab reduces plant growth in its expanded range11
Functional trait database for Nova Scotian coastal barren, green roof, and ruderal flora11
Turtle‐mediated dispersal of anostracan dormant eggs: Evidence for dominance hierarchy effects10
Multiscale phenological niches of seed fall in diverse Amazonian plant communities10
Early warning indicators capture catastrophic transitions driven by explicit rates of environmental change10
Combining observational and experimental data to estimate environmental and species drivers of fungal metacommunity dynamics10
Leaf N:P ratio does not predict productivity trends across natural terrestrial ecosystems10
Functional trait analysis reveals the hidden stability of multitrophic communities10
Detrital supply suppresses deforestation to maintain healthy kelp forest ecosystems10
Kleptopharmacophagy: Milkweed butterflies scratch and imbibe from Apocynaceae‐feeding caterpillars10
GABI‐I: The global ant biodiversity informatics‐island database10
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Might field experiments also be inadvertent metacommunities?10
Quantifying interspecific and intraspecific diversity effects on ecosystem functioning10
Differential impacts of alternate primary producers on carbon cycling10
Penguin‐mounted video camera provides new insights into predator–prey interactions with prey fish10
Oasis or trap? Mass mortality of overwintering fishes at an Arctic perennial spring and subsequent scavenging activity10
SNAPSHOT USA 2021: A third coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States10
Viral association with cyanobacterial mat community mortality10
Long‐term monitoring of Mount St. Helens micrometeorology10
Inconsistent response of taxonomic groups to space and environment in mediterranean and tropical pond metacommunities10
Grassland bud and shoot demographic responses to single and recurrent droughts vary across an aridity gradient10
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Fitness homeostasis across an experimental water gradient predicts species' geographic range and climatic breadth10
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