Ecology

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Analyzing ecosystem services as part of ecological networks in three salt marsh ecosystems	93
Comparing edge and fragmentation effects within seagrass communities: A meta‐analysis	88
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Phenological sensitivity of Bromus tectorum genotypes depends on current and source environments	85
Cryptic predation on coral spawn: Hidden trophic links in the dead of night	78
Niche expansion via acquired metabolism facilitates competitive dominance in planktonic communities	66
Warming reduced flowering synchrony and extended community flowering season in an alpine meadow on the Tibetan Plateau	58
Camera trap surveys of Atlantic Forest mammals: A data set for analyses considering imperfect detection (2004–2020)	52
Cryptogam plant community stability: Warming weakens influences of species richness but enhances effects of evenness	51
A lift in snail's gut provides an efficient colonization route for tardigrades	49
Fire, grazers, and browsers interact with grass competition to determine tree establishment in an African savanna	47
Erratum to “Poor relationships between NEON airborne observation platform data and field‐based vegetation traits at a mesic grassland”	47
Condo or cuisine? The function of fine woody debris in driving decomposition, detritivores, and their predators	44
Host density shapes the relative contribution of vector‐based and aerial transmission of a pathogenic fungus	40
Integrated evidence‐based extent of occurrence for North American bison (Bison bison) since 1500 CE and before	40
Spatial habitat heterogeneity influences host–pathogen dynamics in a patchy population of Ranchman's tiger moth	38
Climate warming increases insect‐driven seed removal of two elaiosome‐bearing invasive thistle species	36
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An exploration of the hidden endosymbionts of Corbicula in the native range	35
Dynamic sensitivity to resource availability influences population responses to mismatches in a shorebird	35
FishShapes v1: Functionally relevant measurements of teleost shape and size on three dimensions	34
Demographic consequences of changes in environmental periodicity	33
Biological invasions alter the structure of a tropical freshwater food web	33
Risk effects cascade up to an obligate scavenger	33

Unified understanding of intrinsic and extrinsic controls of dissolved organic carbon reactivity in aquatic ecosystems	33
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Leaf allocation improves predictability of interspecific growth rates in a broadleaf deciduous temperate forest	32
Emergent properties of microbial communities drive accelerated biogeochemical cycling in disturbed temperate forests	32
Transgenerational pathogen effects: Maternal pathogen exposure reduces offspring fitness	32
VTMaxHerp: A data set of voluntary thermal maximum temperatures of amphibians and reptiles from two Brazilian hotspots	32
Predatory walls may impair climate warming‐associated population expansion	31
The effectiveness of species distribution models in predicting local abundance depends on model grain size	31
GABI‐I: The global ant biodiversity informatics‐island database	31
Resource quantity and quality co‐limit consumer production in forest streams	30
Endangered Black‐faced Spoonbills alter migration across the Yellow Sea due to offshore wind farms	30
Disturbance‐mediated invasions are dependent on community resource abundance	30
Climate and topography control variation in the tropical dry forest–rainforest ecotone	30
A 16th‐century biodiversity and crop inventory	30
Soil carbon:nitrogen ratios explain successional trajectories in the mycorrhizal makeup of south‐temperate humid forests	29
Plant community data collected by Robert H. Whittaker in the Siskiyou Mountains, Oregon and California, USA	28
Historical forest disturbance results in variation in functional resilience of seed dispersal mutualisms	28
Maximum stem diameter predicts liana population demography	28
Escape from harmful soil biota at high elevations: Plant–soil feedbacks along stress gradients	28
Early warning indicators capture catastrophic transitions driven by explicit rates of environmental change	28
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Flower visitor insects display an interspecific dominance hierarchy on flowers	28
Turtle‐mediated dispersal of anostracan dormant eggs: Evidence for dominance hierarchy effects	28
Sheltering oak: spotted turtles in a tree	27
Productivity modifies the effects of fire severity on understory diversity	27
Grassland bud and shoot demographic responses to single and recurrent droughts vary across an aridity gradient	27
Icing‐related injuries in polar bears (Ursus maritimus) at high latitudes	26
Petals and leaves: quantifying the use of nest building materials by the world's most valuable solitary bee	26
An Ips bark beetle tracks late Holocene range extension of its pinyon pine host	26
Disturbance to biocrusts decreased cyanobacteria,N‐fixer abundance, and grass leafNbut increased fungal abundance	25
Measuring complexity for hierarchical models using effective degrees of freedom	25
Root microbes can improve plant tolerance to insect damage: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	25
Do plant communities show constant final yield?	25
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Cue the chorus: Canyon treefrog calling phenology on the falling limb of spring floods and warming nights	24
Predation and competition drive trait diversity across space and time	24
A dataset of zooplankton occurrence, abundance, and biomass in the Far East seas and adjacent Pacific Ocean waters	24
Pollination of Oberonia japonica (Orchidaceae) by gall midges (Cecidomyiidae)	24
Precipitation versus temperature as phenology controls in drylands	24
A hurricane alters the relationship between mangrove cover and marine subsidies	24
Breaking stereotypes in sexual selection: The female frogs' subtle seduction	23
Herbivory and allelopathy contribute jointly to the diversity–invasibility relationship	23
Residential development reduces black bear (Ursus americanus) opportunity to scavenge cougar (Puma concolor) killed prey	23
Delayed trophic response of a marine predator to ocean condition and prey availability during the past century	22
A peculiar coral formation in the Mediterranean Sea, and its associated biota	22
A mechanistic model of functional response provides new insights into indirect interactions among arctic tundra prey	22
Dark nectar pouches are visually similar to colored nectar in bird‐pollinated flowers	22
Ten years (2013–2023) of fish assemblage data collected seasonally with diver surveys on artificial and natural reefs	22
Laubierinid snails are associates of crinoids and a modern analogue of Paleozoic platyceratids	22
Brooding and parthenogenesis enhance the success of the coral Porites astreoides relative to Orbicella annularis	22

Green turtles shape the seascape through grazing patch formation around habitat features: Experimental evidence	22
Temperature impacts the environmental suitability for malaria transmission by Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles stephensi	22
Life on the edge: Two dissimilar extreme events alter food webs through modification of top‐down control	21
What can occupancy models gain from time‐to‐detection data?	21
Plant–soil feedbacks contribute to coexistence when considering multispecies assemblages over a soil depth gradient	21
Climate data from the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (1975–2022)	21
Multiple resiliency metrics reveal complementary drivers of ecosystem persistence: An application to kelp forest systems	21
Joining the locals: Plant invaders shift leaf defenses to match native neighbors	21
Going with the floe:Sea‐ice movement affects distance and destination duringAdélie penguin winter movements	21
Floral diversity increases butterfly diversity in a multitrophic metacommunity	21
Cascading impacts of changes in subsidy quality on recipient ecosystem functioning	20
Effects of range and niche position on the population dynamics of a tropical plant	20
Beautiful swimmers attack at low tide	20
Stochasticity causes high β‐diversity and functional divergence of bacterial assemblages in closed systems	20
Small rainfall events increase belowground production in Chihuahuan Desert grassland	20
Bird migration on the edge: Experimental manipulation of corticosterone advances departure dates	20
Estimating latent individual demographic heterogeneity using structural equation models	20
Revealing cryptic interactions between large mammalian herbivores and plant‐dwelling arthropods via DNA metabarcoding	20
FRUGIVORY CAMTRAP: A dataset of plant–animal interactions recorded with camera traps	20
Mutualisms in a warming world: How increased temperatures affect the outcomes of multi‐mutualist interactions	20
Spread of a sea urchin disease to the Indian Ocean causes widespread mortalities—Evidence from Réunion Island	19
Maladaptive plastic responses of flowering time to geothermal heating	19
Dear neighbor: Trees with extrafloral nectaries facilitate defense and growth of adjacent undefended trees	19
A global database of soil seed bank richness, density, and abundance	19
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One hundred and six years of change in a Sonoran Desert plant community: Impact of climate anomalies and trends in species sensitivities	19
The potential and realized foraging movements of bees are differentially determined by body size and sociality	19
Spawning and larval development of Colossendeis megalonyx, a giant Antarctic sea spider	19
Bucketloads of aquatic invertebrates in a dry intermittent stream	18
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Long‐haul flights and migratory routes of a nectar‐feeding bat	18
Fungal composition associated with host tree identity mediates nutrient addition effects on wood microbial respiration	18
Predicting responses to climate change using a joint species, spatially dependent physiologically guided abundance model	18
Sample coverage estimation, rarefaction, and extrapolation based on sample‐based abundance data	18
Plant defense synergies and antagonisms affect performance of specialist herbivores of common milkweed	18
Vicuña dung gardens at the edge of the cryosphere: Comment	18
Rare and declining bee species are key to consistent pollination of wildflowers and crops across large spatial scales	18
Fungal communities are passengers in community development of dune ecosystems, while bacteria are not	18
Experimental insect suppression causes loss of induced, but not constitutive, resistance in Solanum carolinense	18
Tolerance between wolves and golden jackals in India	18
Flower power: Modeling floral resources of wild cherry (Prunus avium L.) for bee pollinators based on 3D data	18
Environmental warming increases the importance of high‐turnover energy channels in stream food webs	18
Spatial and seasonal trait selection in dung beetle assemblages along an aridity gradient in the Sahara	18
Regional variation drives differences in microbial communities associated with sugar maple across a latitudinal range	18
Diet analysis using generalized linear models derived from foraging processes using R package mvtweedie	18
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Sampling bias and the robustness of ecological metrics for plant–damage‐type association networks	17
Complex nonmonotonic responses of biodiversity to habitat destruction	17
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MADERA: A standardized Pan‐Amazonian dataset for tropical timber species	17
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Do plant–soil interactions influence how the microbial community responds to environmental change?	17
Joint species‐trait distribution modeling: The role of intraspecific trait variation in community assembly	17
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Calling and foot‐flagging: Territory competition behavior of two male Buergeria otai	17
How does parasite environmental transmission stage concentration change before, during, and after disease outbreaks?	17
Perfoliate leaves reduce herbivory in the shield‐bracted monkeyflower (Mimulus glaucescens)	16
Estimates of species‐level tolerance of urban habitat in North American birds	16
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Interspecific tandem flights in nocturnally migrating terrestrial birds	16
AMAZONIA CAMTRAP: A data set of mammal, bird, and reptile species recorded with camera traps in the Amazon forest	16
A keystone avian predator faces elevated energy expenditure in a warming Arctic	16
The influence of lightning on insect and fungal dynamics in a lowland tropical forest	16
Mycorrhizal dominance influences tree species richness and richness–biomass relationship in China's forests	16
Eco‐evolutionary contributions to community trait change in floating aquatic plants	16
Function of an extraordinary display in sarcastic fringeheads (Neoclinusblanchardi) with comments on its evolution	16
The Pharaoh's snakes of the teasel: New insights into Francis Darwin's observations	16
Tree diversity shapes the spectral signature of light transmittance in developing forests	16
The year of a leaf: Tracking the fate of leaf litter and its nutrients during aquatic decomposition and consumption	16
An insect pheromone primes tolerance of herbivory in goldenrod plants	16
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Internal seed dispersal of Rhynchotechum discolor (Gesneriaceae) by a freshwater crab	16
Dispersal limitation and fire feedbacks maintain mesic savannas in Madagascar: Comment	16
Phylogenetic and functional constraints of plant facilitation rewiring	16
From treetops to river bottoms: Exploring the role of phyllosphere fungi in aquatic fungal communities	16
Divergent seed dispersal outcomes: Interactions between seed, disperser, and forest traits	15
Top‐Down Processes Drive Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Diversity in a Model Aquatic Microbial Community	15
Hidden decay of live trees in a tropical rain forest	15

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Absence of stress‐promoted facilitation coupled with a competition decrease in the microbiome of ephemeral saline lakes	15
DiverReef: A global database of the behavior of recreational divers and their interactions with reefs over 20 years	15
Spawning fish maintains trophic synchrony across time and space beyond thermal drivers	15
Chemistry of surface water, precipitation, throughfall, leaves, sediment, soil, and air near a gold mining region in Peru	15
Competitive release during fire succession influences ecological turnover in a small mammal community	15
DAMA: the global Distribution of Alien Mammals database	15
A long‐lasting, distant journey of a male griffon vulture informs on the success of differential parental investment	15
Challenging conventional views on the elevational limits of pronghorn habitat	15
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Pyrosomes, Pyrosoma atlanticum: Highlighting plankton as an important food source for coral reefs in Timor‐Leste	15
Pacific Northwest birds have shifted their abundances upslope in response to 30 years of warming temperatures	15
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Dispersal capacity underlies scale‐dependent changes in species richness patterns under human disturbance	15
It's about (taking up) space: Discreteness of individuals and the strength of spatial coexistence mechanisms	15
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A flexible and efficientBayesian implementation of point process models for spatial capture–recapture data	14
Biological modification of coastal pH depends on community composition and time	14
Stream and ocean hydrodynamics mediate partial migration strategies in an amphidromous Hawaiian goby	14
Decades of historical outbreak cycles in a multivoltine insect reveal a plastic phenological response to climate change	14
Contrasting roles of fungal and oomycete pathogens in mediating nitrogen addition and winter grazing effects on biomass	14
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Warming shifts soil microbial communities and tropical tree seedling mortality	14
Migrating shorebird killed by raptor at 3000 m above ground as revealed by high‐resolution tracking	14
Seasonal timing of ecosystem linkage mediates life‐history variation in a salmonid fish population	14
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Seasonal timing of fluorescence and photosynthetic yields at needle and canopy scales in evergreen needleleaf forests	14
Phenotypic plasticity of light use favors a plant invader in nitrogen‐enriched ecosystems	14
Stoichiometric acclimation of a bacterial parasite to shifts in the diet quality of a single host	14
Modeling spatiotemporal abundance and movement dynamics using an integrated spatial capture–recapture movement model	14
Global plant invaders: a compendium of invasive plant taxa documented by the peer‐reviewed literature	14
Predator signaling of multiple prey on different trophic levels structures trophic cascades	14
Predator–prey interactions across hunting mode, spatial domain size, and habitat complexities	14
Developmental stage‐dependent effects of perceived predation risk on nestling tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor)	14
Functional trait database for Nova Scotian coastal barren, green roof, and ruderal flora	13
Cover and density of southwestern ponderosa pine understory plants in permanent chart quadrats (2002–2020)	13
Remotely sensed crown nutrient concentrations modulate forest reproduction across the contiguous United States	13
Common juniper, the oldest nonclonal woody species across the tundra biome and the European continent	13
The unimodal intransitivity–fertility relationship is not mediated by demographic trade‐offs in a subtropical forest	13
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Host plant‐mediation of viral transmission and its consequences for a native butterfly	13
Sex‐specific trade‐offs influence thermoregulation under climate change	13
Mate‐guarding male desert locusts act as parasol for ovipositing females in an extremely hot desert environment	13
Predation risk regulates prey assortative mating by reducing the expected reproductive value of mates	13
Niche dynamics suggest ecological factors influencing migration in an insectivorous owl	13
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Boring into rock and hard substrates by the midge, Axarus (Diptera; Chironomidae)	13
Will a large complex model ecosystem be viable? The essential role of positive interactions	13
Tree demographic drivers across temperate rain forests, after accounting for site‐, species‐, and stem‐level attributes	13
Just a cat fight or something more sinister? Infanticide is rare among female leopards	13
Reviewers of manuscripts	13
Host infection and disease‐induced mortality modify species contributions to the environmental reservoir	12
Optimal prey switching: Predator foraging costs provide a mechanism for functional responses in multi‐prey systems	12
Food webs coupled in space: Consumer foraging movement affects both stocks and fluxes	12
Regeneration strategies and forest resilience to changing fire regimes: Insights from a Goldilocks model	12
Reconciling contrasting effects of nitrogen on host immunity and pathogen transmission using stoichiometric models	12
Effects of density, species interactions, and environmental stochasticity on the dynamics of British bird communities	12
Natal dispersal patterns in a social wild mammal: What does family tell us?	12
Quantifying interspecific and intraspecific diversity effects on ecosystem functioning	12
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Competition for waterborne food resources among tropical shallow‐water sponges	12
Canopy height, rather than neighborhood effects, shapes leaf herbivory in a tropical rainforest	12
FAIRTraits: An enriched, FAIR‐compliant database of plant traits from Mediterranean populations of 240 species	12
Coral assemblages at higher latitudes favor short‐term potential over long‐term performance	12
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Broad aggressive interactions among African carnivores suggest intraguild killing is driven by more than competition	12
Idiosyncratic responses to biotic and environmental filters in wood‐inhabiting fungal communities	12
Environmental context alters plant–soil feedback effects on plant coexistence	12
Invasive shrubs differentially alter autumnal activity for three common small‐mammal species	12
Feral hogs control brackish marsh plant communities over time	12
Growth portfolios buffer climate‐linked environmental change in marine systems	12
Why are graminoid species more dominant? Trait‐mediated plant–soil feedbacks shape community composition	11
Seasonal role of a specialist predator in rodent cycles: Ermine–lemming interactions in the High Arctic	11
Temperature synchronizes temporal variation in laying dates across European hole‐nesting passerines	11
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Specialized petal with conspicuously fringed margin influences reproductive success in Habenaria radiata (Orchidaceae)	11
Why statistical innovations?	11
Vibrations and mushrooms: Do environmental vibrations promote fungal growth and fruit body formation?	11
Global warming disrupts the relative allocation between sexual and clonal reproduction in a common salt marsh plant	11
Evolutionary history shapes grassland productivity through opposing effects on complementarity and selection	11
Elevated temperatures shift flower head height distributions and seed dispersal patterns in two invasive thistle species	11
Net primary productivity but not its remote‐sensing proxies predict mammal diversity in Andean‐Amazonian rainforests	11
Parasitism by multiple strepsipterans accelerates timing of adult parasite emergence	11
Effects of multiple mammalian herbivores and climate on grassland–shrubland transitions in the Chihuahuan Desert	11
Patterns of frequency and density dependence are highly variable in diverse annual flowering plant communities	11
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Assessing how biofilms modulate stream periphyton metacommunity assemblage: A translocation experiment	11
Fungivorous nematodes drive microbial diversity and carbon cycling in soil	11
Activity density at a continental scale: What drives invertebrate biomass moving across the soil surface?	11
Combining observational and experimental data to estimate environmental and species drivers of fungal metacommunity dynamics	11
The effects of dispersal, herbivory, and competition on plant community assembly	11
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High sensitivity of tropical forest birds to deforestation at lower altitudes	11
Sunken trees in the deep sea link terrestrial and marine biodiversity	11