Ecology

Papers
(The TQCC of Ecology is 9. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
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Fire, grazers, and browsers interact with grass competition to determine tree establishment in an African savanna72
Warming reduced flowering synchrony and extended community flowering season in an alpine meadow on the Tibetan Plateau72
Comparing edge and fragmentation effects within seagrass communities: A meta‐analysis65
Condo or cuisine? The function of fine woody debris in driving decomposition, detritivores, and their predators53
Disturbance‐induced emigration: an overlooked mechanism that reduces metapopulation extinction risk51
Erratum to “Poor relationships between NEON airborne observation platform data and field‐based vegetation traits at a mesic grassland”51
The role of competition and herbivory in biotic resistance against invaders: a synergistic effect50
Density data for Lake Ontario benthic invertebrate assemblages from 1964 to 201849
Analyzing ecosystem services as part of ecological networks in three salt marsh ecosystems47
VTMaxHerp: A data set of voluntary thermal maximum temperatures of amphibians and reptiles from two Brazilian hotspots47
An exploration of the hidden endosymbionts of Corbicula in the native range45
Demographic consequences of changes in environmental periodicity44
Climate warming increases insect‐driven seed removal of two elaiosome‐bearing invasive thistle species41
Spatial habitat heterogeneity influences host–pathogen dynamics in a patchy population of Ranchman's tiger moth39
A lift in snail's gut provides an efficient colonization route for tardigrades38
Niche expansion via acquired metabolism facilitates competitive dominance in planktonic communities38
Dynamic sensitivity to resource availability influences population responses to mismatches in a shorebird38
Host density shapes the relative contribution of vector‐based and aerial transmission of a pathogenic fungus34
Emergent properties of microbial communities drive accelerated biogeochemical cycling in disturbed temperate forests34
Shining bright in the dusk: How do bat‐pollinated flowers reflect light?33
Biological invasions alter the structure of a tropical freshwater food web33
Integrated evidence‐based extent of occurrence for North American bison (Bison bison) since 1500 CE and before33
Camera trap surveys of Atlantic Forest mammals: A data set for analyses considering imperfect detection (2004–2020)33
FishShapes v1: Functionally relevant measurements of teleost shape and size on three dimensions32
Risk effects cascade up to an obligate scavenger31
Unified understanding of intrinsic and extrinsic controls of dissolved organic carbon reactivity in aquatic ecosystems31
Flower visitor insects display an interspecific dominance hierarchy on flowers30
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Phenological sensitivity of Bromus tectorum genotypes depends on current and source environments30
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Cryptogam plant community stability: Warming weakens influences of species richness but enhances effects of evenness30
Root microbes can improve plant tolerance to insect damage: A systematic review and meta‐analysis30
Disturbance‐mediated invasions are dependent on community resource abundance29
Endangered Black‐faced Spoonbills alter migration across the Yellow Sea due to offshore wind farms29
Early warning indicators capture catastrophic transitions driven by explicit rates of environmental change29
An Ips bark beetle tracks late Holocene range extension of its pinyon pine host29
The effectiveness of species distribution models in predicting local abundance depends on model grain size28
Turtle‐mediated dispersal of anostracan dormant eggs: Evidence for dominance hierarchy effects28
Plant community data collected by Robert H. Whittaker in the Siskiyou Mountains, Oregon and California, USA27
A 16th‐century biodiversity and crop inventory27
Commensal small mammal trapping data in Southern Senegal, 2012–2015: where invasive species meet native ones27
Petals and leaves: quantifying the use of nest building materials by the world's most valuable solitary bee27
Maximum stem diameter predicts liana population demography27
Sheltering oak: spotted turtles in a tree27
Productivity modifies the effects of fire severity on understory diversity26
Do plant communities show constant final yield?26
Icing‐related injuries in polar bears (Ursus maritimus) at high latitudes26
Modern honey bees disrupt the pollination of an ancient gymnosperm, Gnetum luofuense26
Climate and topography control variation in the tropical dry forest–rainforest ecotone26
Disturbance to biocrusts decreased cyanobacteria,N‐fixer abundance, and grass leafNbut increased fungal abundance25
Grassland bud and shoot demographic responses to single and recurrent droughts vary across an aridity gradient25
Measuring complexity for hierarchical models using effective degrees of freedom25
Parental investment in the Columbian ground squirrel: empirical tests of sex allocation models25
Escape from harmful soil biota at high elevations: Plant–soil feedbacks along stress gradients25
Historical forest disturbance results in variation in functional resilience of seed dispersal mutualisms25
A mechanistic model of functional response provides new insights into indirect interactions among arctic tundra prey24
GABI‐I: The global ant biodiversity informatics‐island database24
Revealing cryptic interactions between large mammalian herbivores and plant‐dwelling arthropods via DNA metabarcoding24
Precipitation versus temperature as phenology controls in drylands24
Green turtles shape the seascape through grazing patch formation around habitat features: Experimental evidence24
Predatory walls may impair climate warming‐associated population expansion24
Stochasticity causes high β‐diversity and functional divergence of bacterial assemblages in closed systems23
Delayed trophic response of a marine predator to ocean condition and prey availability during the past century23
What can occupancy models gain from time‐to‐detection data?23
Floral diversity increases butterfly diversity in a multitrophic metacommunity23
Mutualisms in a warming world: How increased temperatures affect the outcomes of multi‐mutualist interactions23
Going with the floe:Sea‐ice movement affects distance and destination duringAdélie penguin winter movements23
Beautiful swimmers attack at low tide22
Multiple resiliency metrics reveal complementary drivers of ecosystem persistence: An application to kelp forest systems22
A dataset of zooplankton occurrence, abundance, and biomass in the Far East seas and adjacent Pacific Ocean waters22
A hurricane alters the relationship between mangrove cover and marine subsidies22
Cue the chorus: Canyon treefrog calling phenology on the falling limb of spring floods and warming nights22
FRUGIVORY CAMTRAP: A dataset of plant–animal interactions recorded with camera traps22
Predation and competition drive trait diversity across space and time22
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Residential development reduces black bear (Ursus americanus) opportunity to scavenge cougar (Puma concolor) killed prey21
Herbivory and allelopathy contribute jointly to the diversity–invasibility relationship21
Breaking stereotypes in sexual selection: The female frogs' subtle seduction21
Effects of range and niche position on the population dynamics of a tropical plant21
Brooding and parthenogenesis enhance the success of the coral Porites astreoides relative to Orbicella annularis20
Life on the edge: Two dissimilar extreme events alter food webs through modification of top‐down control20
Dark nectar pouches are visually similar to colored nectar in bird‐pollinated flowers20
The potential and realized foraging movements of bees are differentially determined by body size and sociality20
Temperature impacts the environmental suitability for malaria transmission by Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles stephensi20
Influences of the bark economics spectrum and positive termite feedback on bark and xylem decomposition20
Ten years (2013–2023) of fish assemblage data collected seasonally with diver surveys on artificial and natural reefs20
Joining the locals: Plant invaders shift leaf defenses to match native neighbors20
Cascading impacts of changes in subsidy quality on recipient ecosystem functioning20
Pollination of Oberonia japonica (Orchidaceae) by gall midges (Cecidomyiidae)20
A peculiar coral formation in the Mediterranean Sea, and its associated biota20
Laubierinid snails are associates of crinoids and a modern analogue of Paleozoic platyceratids19
Plant defense synergies and antagonisms affect performance of specialist herbivores of common milkweed19
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Bird migration on the edge: Experimental manipulation of corticosterone advances departure dates19
Climate data from the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (1975–2022)19
Bucketloads of aquatic invertebrates in a dry intermittent stream19
Plant–soil feedbacks contribute to coexistence when considering multispecies assemblages over a soil depth gradient19
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Long‐haul flights and migratory routes of a nectar‐feeding bat19
Experimental insect suppression causes loss of induced, but not constitutive, resistance in Solanum carolinense18
Consequences of phenological shifts and a compressed breeding period in Magellanic penguins18
A global database of soil seed bank richness, density, and abundance18
Spawning and larval development of Colossendeis megalonyx, a giant Antarctic sea spider18
Rare and declining bee species are key to consistent pollination of wildflowers and crops across large spatial scales18
Spread of a sea urchin disease to the Indian Ocean causes widespread mortalities—Evidence from Réunion Island18
Environmental warming increases the importance of high‐turnover energy channels in stream food webs18
Vicuña dung gardens at the edge of the cryosphere: Comment18
Predicting responses to climate change using a joint species, spatially dependent physiologically guided abundance model18
Sample coverage estimation, rarefaction, and extrapolation based on sample‐based abundance data18
Maladaptive plastic responses of flowering time to geothermal heating18
Fungal communities are passengers in community development of dune ecosystems, while bacteria are not18
How does parasite environmental transmission stage concentration change before, during, and after disease outbreaks?18
Tolerance between wolves and golden jackals in India18
Consistent functional clusters explain the effects of biodiversity on ecosystem productivity in a long‐term experiment17
Flower power: Modeling floral resources of wild cherry (Prunus avium L.) for bee pollinators based on 3D data17
Sampling bias and the robustness of ecological metrics for plant–damage‐type association networks17
Fungal composition associated with host tree identity mediates nutrient addition effects on wood microbial respiration17
Diet analysis using generalized linear models derived from foraging processes using R package mvtweedie17
Spatial and seasonal trait selection in dung beetle assemblages along an aridity gradient in the Sahara17
Dear neighbor: Trees with extrafloral nectaries facilitate defense and growth of adjacent undefended trees17
Short‐term exposure to silicon rapidly enhances plant resistance to herbivory17
Do plant–soil interactions influence how the microbial community responds to environmental change?17
One hundred and six years of change in a Sonoran Desert plant community: Impact of climate anomalies and trends in species sensitivities17
Regional variation drives differences in microbial communities associated with sugar maple across a latitudinal range17
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An insect pheromone primes tolerance of herbivory in goldenrod plants16
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DiverReef: A global database of the behavior of recreational divers and their interactions with reefs over 20 years16
The Pharaoh's snakes of the teasel: New insights into Francis Darwin's observations16
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A long‐lasting, distant journey of a male griffon vulture informs on the success of differential parental investment16
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Absence of stress‐promoted facilitation coupled with a competition decrease in the microbiome of ephemeral saline lakes15
Complex nonmonotonic responses of biodiversity to habitat destruction15
Internal seed dispersal of Rhynchotechum discolor (Gesneriaceae) by a freshwater crab15
Challenging conventional views on the elevational limits of pronghorn habitat15
Dispersal capacity underlies scale‐dependent changes in species richness patterns under human disturbance15
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The year of a leaf: Tracking the fate of leaf litter and its nutrients during aquatic decomposition and consumption15
DAMA: the global Distribution of Alien Mammals database15
Estimates of species‐level tolerance of urban habitat in North American birds15
Dispersal limitation and fire feedbacks maintain mesic savannas in Madagascar: Comment15
Interspecific tandem flights in nocturnally migrating terrestrial birds15
It's about (taking up) space: Discreteness of individuals and the strength of spatial coexistence mechanisms15
The influence of lightning on insect and fungal dynamics in a lowland tropical forest15
Calling and foot‐flagging: Territory competition behavior of two male Buergeria otai15
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Eco‐evolutionary contributions to community trait change in floating aquatic plants15
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N supply mediates the radiative balance of N2O emissions and CO2 sequestration driven by N‐fixing vs. non‐fixing trees15
Function of an extraordinary display in sarcastic fringeheads (Neoclinusblanchardi) with comments on its evolution15
Perfoliate leaves reduce herbivory in the shield‐bracted monkeyflower (Mimulus glaucescens)15
MADERA: A standardized Pan‐Amazonian dataset for tropical timber species15
From treetops to river bottoms: Exploring the role of phyllosphere fungi in aquatic fungal communities15
AMAZONIA CAMTRAP: A data set of mammal, bird, and reptile species recorded with camera traps in the Amazon forest15
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Tree diversity shapes the spectral signature of light transmittance in developing forests15
Mycorrhizal dominance influences tree species richness and richness–biomass relationship in China's forests15
Phylogenetic and functional constraints of plant facilitation rewiring15
A keystone avian predator faces elevated energy expenditure in a warming Arctic15
Seasonal timing of fluorescence and photosynthetic yields at needle and canopy scales in evergreen needleleaf forests14
Developmental stage‐dependent effects of perceived predation risk on nestling tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor)14
Global plant invaders: a compendium of invasive plant taxa documented by the peer‐reviewed literature14
Competitive release during fire succession influences ecological turnover in a small mammal community14
Chemistry of surface water, precipitation, throughfall, leaves, sediment, soil, and air near a gold mining region in Peru14
Seasonal timing of ecosystem linkage mediates life‐history variation in a salmonid fish population14
A flexible and efficientBayesian implementation of point process models for spatial capture–recapture data14
Predator signaling of multiple prey on different trophic levels structures trophic cascades14
Remotely sensed crown nutrient concentrations modulate forest reproduction across the contiguous United States14
Predator–prey interactions across hunting mode, spatial domain size, and habitat complexities14
Pyrosomes, Pyrosoma atlanticum: Highlighting plankton as an important food source for coral reefs in Timor‐Leste14
Divergent seed dispersal outcomes: Interactions between seed, disperser, and forest traits14
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Top‐Down Processes Drive Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Diversity in a Model Aquatic Microbial Community14
Migrating shorebird killed by raptor at 3000 m above ground as revealed by high‐resolution tracking14
Spawning fish maintains trophic synchrony across time and space beyond thermal drivers13
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Warming shifts soil microbial communities and tropical tree seedling mortality13
Contrasting roles of fungal and oomycete pathogens in mediating nitrogen addition and winter grazing effects on biomass13
Modeling spatiotemporal abundance and movement dynamics using an integrated spatial capture–recapture movement model13
Vulnerability of grassland seed banks to resource‐enhancing global changes13
A sit‐and‐wait predator, but not an active‐pursuit predator, alters pollinator‐mediated selection on floral traits13
Invasive shrubs differentially alter autumnal activity for three common small‐mammal species13
The unimodal intransitivity–fertility relationship is not mediated by demographic trade‐offs in a subtropical forest13
Common juniper, the oldest nonclonal woody species across the tundra biome and the European continent13
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Reviewers of manuscripts13
Semiarid grasslands and extreme precipitation events: do experimental results scale to the landscape?13
Biological modification of coastal pH depends on community composition and time13
Phenotypic plasticity of light use favors a plant invader in nitrogen‐enriched ecosystems13
Functional trait database for Nova Scotian coastal barren, green roof, and ruderal flora13
Food webs coupled in space: Consumer foraging movement affects both stocks and fluxes13
Reconciling contrasting effects of nitrogen on host immunity and pathogen transmission using stoichiometric models13
Quantifying interspecific and intraspecific diversity effects on ecosystem functioning13
Canopy height, rather than neighborhood effects, shapes leaf herbivory in a tropical rainforest13
Idiosyncratic responses to biotic and environmental filters in wood‐inhabiting fungal communities13
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Low‐density aspen seedling establishment is widespread following recent wildfires in the western United States13
Stream and ocean hydrodynamics mediate partial migration strategies in an amphidromous Hawaiian goby13
Predation risk regulates prey assortative mating by reducing the expected reproductive value of mates13
Who is smashing the reef at night? A nocturnal mystery13
Boring into rock and hard substrates by the midge, Axarus (Diptera; Chironomidae)13
Mate‐guarding male desert locusts act as parasol for ovipositing females in an extremely hot desert environment13
Just a cat fight or something more sinister? Infanticide is rare among female leopards13
Host plant‐mediation of viral transmission and its consequences for a native butterfly13
Sex‐specific trade‐offs influence thermoregulation under climate change12
Effects of density, species interactions, and environmental stochasticity on the dynamics of British bird communities12
Regeneration strategies and forest resilience to changing fire regimes: Insights from a Goldilocks model12
Tree demographic drivers across temperate rain forests, after accounting for site‐, species‐, and stem‐level attributes12
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Annual biomass spatial data for southern California (2001–2021): Above‐ and belowground, standing dead, and litter12
Herbivores disrupt the flow of food resources to termites in dryland ecosystems12
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Niche dynamics suggest ecological factors influencing migration in an insectivorous owl12
Will a large complex model ecosystem be viable? The essential role of positive interactions12
Cover and density of southwestern ponderosa pine understory plants in permanent chart quadrats (2002–2020)12
Growth portfolios buffer climate‐linked environmental change in marine systems12
Host infection and disease‐induced mortality modify species contributions to the environmental reservoir12
Combining observational and experimental data to estimate environmental and species drivers of fungal metacommunity dynamics12
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Broad aggressive interactions among African carnivores suggest intraguild killing is driven by more than competition12
Optimal prey switching: Predator foraging costs provide a mechanism for functional responses in multi‐prey systems12
Coral assemblages at higher latitudes favor short‐term potential over long‐term performance12
Feral hogs control brackish marsh plant communities over time12
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Let's move out together: a framework for the intersections between movement and mutualism12
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Net primary productivity but not its remote‐sensing proxies predict mammal diversity in Andean‐Amazonian rainforests11
Substrate size modifies stream grazer–biofilm interactions in the presence of invertivorous fish11
Activity density at a continental scale: What drives invertebrate biomass moving across the soil surface?11
Fungivorous nematodes drive microbial diversity and carbon cycling in soil11
Vibrations and mushrooms: Do environmental vibrations promote fungal growth and fruit body formation?11
How do noncompetent hosts cause dilution of parasitism? Testing hypotheses for native and invasive mosquitoes11
Evolutionary history shapes grassland productivity through opposing effects on complementarity and selection11
Sunken trees in the deep sea link terrestrial and marine biodiversity11
Penguin‐mounted video camera provides new insights into predator–prey interactions with prey fish11
High sensitivity of tropical forest birds to deforestation at lower altitudes11
Why statistical innovations?11
Elevated temperatures shift flower head height distributions and seed dispersal patterns in two invasive thistle species11
Why are graminoid species more dominant? Trait‐mediated plant–soil feedbacks shape community composition11
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