Ecology

Papers
(The TQCC of Ecology is 8. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Comparing edge and fragmentation effects within seagrass communities: A meta‐analysis89
Analyzing ecosystem services as part of ecological networks in three salt marsh ecosystems87
Biological invasions alter the structure of a tropical freshwater food web82
Integrated evidence‐based extent of occurrence for North American bison (Bison bison) since 1500 CE and before80
An exploration of the hidden endosymbionts of Corbicula in the native range78
FishShapes v1: Functionally relevant measurements of teleost shape and size on three dimensions62
Host density shapes the relative contribution of vector‐based and aerial transmission of a pathogenic fungus54
Demographic consequences of changes in environmental periodicity50
Spatial habitat heterogeneity influences host–pathogen dynamics in a patchy population of Ranchman's tiger moth50
Density data for Lake Ontario benthic invertebrate assemblages from 1964 to 201847
Climate warming increases insect‐driven seed removal of two elaiosome‐bearing invasive thistle species44
VTMaxHerp: A data set of voluntary thermal maximum temperatures of amphibians and reptiles from two Brazilian hotspots43
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Camera trap surveys of Atlantic Forest mammals: A data set for analyses considering imperfect detection (2004–2020)39
Niche expansion via acquired metabolism facilitates competitive dominance in planktonic communities39
A lift in snail's gut provides an efficient colonization route for tardigrades38
Dynamic sensitivity to resource availability influences population responses to mismatches in a shorebird37
Fire, grazers, and browsers interact with grass competition to determine tree establishment in an African savanna35
Erratum to “Poor relationships between NEON airborne observation platform data and field‐based vegetation traits at a mesic grassland”35
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Condo or cuisine? The function of fine woody debris in driving decomposition, detritivores, and their predators34
Phenological sensitivity of Bromus tectorum genotypes depends on current and source environments33
Cryptogam plant community stability: Warming weakens influences of species richness but enhances effects of evenness33
Warming reduced flowering synchrony and extended community flowering season in an alpine meadow on the Tibetan Plateau33
Unified understanding of intrinsic and extrinsic controls of dissolved organic carbon reactivity in aquatic ecosystems33
Cryptic predation on coral spawn: Hidden trophic links in the dead of night32
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Emergent properties of microbial communities drive accelerated biogeochemical cycling in disturbed temperate forests31
Measuring complexity for hierarchical models using effective degrees of freedom31
Risk effects cascade up to an obligate scavenger31
Plant community data collected by Robert H. Whittaker in the Siskiyou Mountains, Oregon and California, USA30
Soil carbon:nitrogen ratios explain successional trajectories in the mycorrhizal makeup of south‐temperate humid forests30
Early warning indicators capture catastrophic transitions driven by explicit rates of environmental change30
Disturbance‐mediated invasions are dependent on community resource abundance30
Resource quantity and quality co‐limit consumer production in forest streams30
Flower visitor insects display an interspecific dominance hierarchy on flowers29
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Escape from harmful soil biota at high elevations: Plant–soil feedbacks along stress gradients29
Historical forest disturbance results in variation in functional resilience of seed dispersal mutualisms29
Maximum stem diameter predicts liana population demography28
Productivity modifies the effects of fire severity on understory diversity28
Grassland bud and shoot demographic responses to single and recurrent droughts vary across an aridity gradient28
Turtle‐mediated dispersal of anostracan dormant eggs: Evidence for dominance hierarchy effects28
Sheltering oak: spotted turtles in a tree28
Disturbance to biocrusts decreased cyanobacteria,N‐fixer abundance, and grass leafNbut increased fungal abundance27
Petals and leaves: quantifying the use of nest building materials by the world's most valuable solitary bee27
Climate and topography control variation in the tropical dry forest–rainforest ecotone27
An Ips bark beetle tracks late Holocene range extension of its pinyon pine host27
Root microbes can improve plant tolerance to insect damage: A systematic review and meta‐analysis27
Icing‐related injuries in polar bears (Ursus maritimus) at high latitudes27
Endangered Black‐faced Spoonbills alter migration across the Yellow Sea due to offshore wind farms26
Precipitation versus temperature as phenology controls in drylands25
Predatory walls may impair climate warming‐associated population expansion25
A 16th‐century biodiversity and crop inventory25
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GABI‐I: The global ant biodiversity informatics‐island database24
The effectiveness of species distribution models in predicting local abundance depends on model grain size24
FRUGIVORY CAMTRAP: A dataset of plant–animal interactions recorded with camera traps24
Do plant communities show constant final yield?24
Breaking stereotypes in sexual selection: The female frogs' subtle seduction23
Ten years (2013–2023) of fish assemblage data collected seasonally with diver surveys on artificial and natural reefs23
Residential development reduces black bear (Ursus americanus) opportunity to scavenge cougar (Puma concolor) killed prey23
Delayed trophic response of a marine predator to ocean condition and prey availability during the past century23
Mutualisms in a warming world: How increased temperatures affect the outcomes of multi‐mutualist interactions23
Herbivory and allelopathy contribute jointly to the diversity–invasibility relationship23
Dark nectar pouches are visually similar to colored nectar in bird‐pollinated flowers23
Beautiful swimmers attack at low tide23
Pollination of Oberonia japonica (Orchidaceae) by gall midges (Cecidomyiidae)22
A dataset of zooplankton occurrence, abundance, and biomass in the Far East seas and adjacent Pacific Ocean waters22
A mechanistic model of functional response provides new insights into indirect interactions among arctic tundra prey22
Cue the chorus: Canyon treefrog calling phenology on the falling limb of spring floods and warming nights22
Predation and competition drive trait diversity across space and time22
Brooding and parthenogenesis enhance the success of the coral Porites astreoides relative to Orbicella annularis22
A hurricane alters the relationship between mangrove cover and marine subsidies22
A peculiar coral formation in the Mediterranean Sea, and its associated biota21
Plant–soil feedbacks contribute to coexistence when considering multispecies assemblages over a soil depth gradient21
Laubierinid snails are associates of crinoids and a modern analogue of Paleozoic platyceratids21
Green turtles shape the seascape through grazing patch formation around habitat features: Experimental evidence21
Life on the edge: Two dissimilar extreme events alter food webs through modification of top‐down control21
Going with the floe:Sea‐ice movement affects distance and destination duringAdélie penguin winter movements21
Bird migration on the edge: Experimental manipulation of corticosterone advances departure dates21
Joining the locals: Plant invaders shift leaf defenses to match native neighbors21
Temperature impacts the environmental suitability for malaria transmission by Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles stephensi21
Climate data from the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (1975–2022)20
Estimating latent individual demographic heterogeneity using structural equation models20
The potential and realized foraging movements of bees are differentially determined by body size and sociality20
Floral diversity increases butterfly diversity in a multitrophic metacommunity20
Effects of range and niche position on the population dynamics of a tropical plant20
Cascading impacts of changes in subsidy quality on recipient ecosystem functioning20
Multiple resiliency metrics reveal complementary drivers of ecosystem persistence: An application to kelp forest systems20
Stochasticity causes high β‐diversity and functional divergence of bacterial assemblages in closed systems20
What can occupancy models gain from time‐to‐detection data?20
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Bucketloads of aquatic invertebrates in a dry intermittent stream19
Spread of a sea urchin disease to the Indian Ocean causes widespread mortalities—Evidence from Réunion Island19
Long‐haul flights and migratory routes of a nectar‐feeding bat19
Sampling bias and the robustness of ecological metrics for plant–damage‐type association networks19
Plant defense synergies and antagonisms affect performance of specialist herbivores of common milkweed19
Predicting responses to climate change using a joint species, spatially dependent physiologically guided abundance model19
Revealing cryptic interactions between large mammalian herbivores and plant‐dwelling arthropods via DNA metabarcoding19
Spatial and seasonal trait selection in dung beetle assemblages along an aridity gradient in the Sahara19
Rare and declining bee species are key to consistent pollination of wildflowers and crops across large spatial scales19
Experimental insect suppression causes loss of induced, but not constitutive, resistance in Solanum carolinense19
Spawning and larval development of Colossendeis megalonyx, a giant Antarctic sea spider18
Vicuña dung gardens at the edge of the cryosphere: Comment18
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Flower power: Modeling floral resources of wild cherry (Prunus avium L.) for bee pollinators based on 3D data18
Diet analysis using generalized linear models derived from foraging processes using R package mvtweedie18
Fungal communities are passengers in community development of dune ecosystems, while bacteria are not18
Fungal composition associated with host tree identity mediates nutrient addition effects on wood microbial respiration18
Environmental warming increases the importance of high‐turnover energy channels in stream food webs18
Tolerance between wolves and golden jackals in India18
Regional variation drives differences in microbial communities associated with sugar maple across a latitudinal range18
Calling and foot‐flagging: Territory competition behavior of two male Buergeria otai17
Absence of stress‐promoted facilitation coupled with a competition decrease in the microbiome of ephemeral saline lakes17
Challenging conventional views on the elevational limits of pronghorn habitat17
Dear neighbor: Trees with extrafloral nectaries facilitate defense and growth of adjacent undefended trees17
A global database of soil seed bank richness, density, and abundance17
Complex nonmonotonic responses of biodiversity to habitat destruction17
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The year of a leaf: Tracking the fate of leaf litter and its nutrients during aquatic decomposition and consumption17
Maladaptive plastic responses of flowering time to geothermal heating17
Sample coverage estimation, rarefaction, and extrapolation based on sample‐based abundance data17
One hundred and six years of change in a Sonoran Desert plant community: Impact of climate anomalies and trends in species sensitivities17
It's about (taking up) space: Discreteness of individuals and the strength of spatial coexistence mechanisms17
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Do plant–soil interactions influence how the microbial community responds to environmental change?17
How does parasite environmental transmission stage concentration change before, during, and after disease outbreaks?17
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MADERA: A standardized Pan‐Amazonian dataset for tropical timber species16
Estimates of species‐level tolerance of urban habitat in North American birds16
Phylogenetic and functional constraints of plant facilitation rewiring16
Interspecific tandem flights in nocturnally migrating terrestrial birds16
Perfoliate leaves reduce herbivory in the shield‐bracted monkeyflower (Mimulus glaucescens)16
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From treetops to river bottoms: Exploring the role of phyllosphere fungi in aquatic fungal communities16
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Dispersal limitation and fire feedbacks maintain mesic savannas in Madagascar: Comment16
An insect pheromone primes tolerance of herbivory in goldenrod plants16
Dispersal capacity underlies scale‐dependent changes in species richness patterns under human disturbance16
Internal seed dispersal of Rhynchotechum discolor (Gesneriaceae) by a freshwater crab16
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Eco‐evolutionary contributions to community trait change in floating aquatic plants16
Mycorrhizal dominance influences tree species richness and richness–biomass relationship in China's forests16
The Pharaoh's snakes of the teasel: New insights into Francis Darwin's observations16
Function of an extraordinary display in sarcastic fringeheads (Neoclinusblanchardi) with comments on its evolution16
Biological modification of coastal pH depends on community composition and time15
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A long‐lasting, distant journey of a male griffon vulture informs on the success of differential parental investment15
DAMA: the global Distribution of Alien Mammals database15
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Seasonal timing of fluorescence and photosynthetic yields at needle and canopy scales in evergreen needleleaf forests15
Predator signaling of multiple prey on different trophic levels structures trophic cascades15
A keystone avian predator faces elevated energy expenditure in a warming Arctic15
The influence of lightning on insect and fungal dynamics in a lowland tropical forest15
Tree diversity shapes the spectral signature of light transmittance in developing forests15
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Remotely sensed crown nutrient concentrations modulate forest reproduction across the contiguous United States15
Developmental stage‐dependent effects of perceived predation risk on nestling tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor)15
DiverReef: A global database of the behavior of recreational divers and their interactions with reefs over 20 years15
AMAZONIA CAMTRAP: A data set of mammal, bird, and reptile species recorded with camera traps in the Amazon forest15
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Decades of historical outbreak cycles in a multivoltine insect reveal a plastic phenological response to climate change15
Competitive release during fire succession influences ecological turnover in a small mammal community14
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
Warming shifts soil microbial communities and tropical tree seedling mortality14
Migrating shorebird killed by raptor at 3000 m above ground as revealed by high‐resolution tracking14
Seasonal timing of ecosystem linkage mediates life‐history variation in a salmonid fish population14
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Modeling spatiotemporal abundance and movement dynamics using an integrated spatial capture–recapture movement model14
Top‐Down Processes Drive Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Diversity in a Model Aquatic Microbial Community14
A flexible and efficientBayesian implementation of point process models for spatial capture–recapture data14
Global plant invaders: a compendium of invasive plant taxa documented by the peer‐reviewed literature14
Chemistry of surface water, precipitation, throughfall, leaves, sediment, soil, and air near a gold mining region in Peru14
Stream and ocean hydrodynamics mediate partial migration strategies in an amphidromous Hawaiian goby14
Phenotypic plasticity of light use favors a plant invader in nitrogen‐enriched ecosystems14
Spawning fish maintains trophic synchrony across time and space beyond thermal drivers14
Divergent seed dispersal outcomes: Interactions between seed, disperser, and forest traits14
Contrasting roles of fungal and oomycete pathogens in mediating nitrogen addition and winter grazing effects on biomass14
Idiosyncratic responses to biotic and environmental filters in wood‐inhabiting fungal communities13
Effects of density, species interactions, and environmental stochasticity on the dynamics of British bird communities13
Stoichiometric acclimation of a bacterial parasite to shifts in the diet quality of a single host13
Feral hogs control brackish marsh plant communities over time13
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Host infection and disease‐induced mortality modify species contributions to the environmental reservoir13
Niche dynamics suggest ecological factors influencing migration in an insectivorous owl13
Just a cat fight or something more sinister? Infanticide is rare among female leopards13
Common juniper, the oldest nonclonal woody species across the tundra biome and the European continent13
Tree demographic drivers across temperate rain forests, after accounting for site‐, species‐, and stem‐level attributes13
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Reviewers of manuscripts13
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Coral assemblages at higher latitudes favor short‐term potential over long‐term performance13
Regeneration strategies and forest resilience to changing fire regimes: Insights from a Goldilocks model13
Predation risk regulates prey assortative mating by reducing the expected reproductive value of mates13
Mate‐guarding male desert locusts act as parasol for ovipositing females in an extremely hot desert environment13
The unimodal intransitivity–fertility relationship is not mediated by demographic trade‐offs in a subtropical forest13
Reconciling contrasting effects of nitrogen on host immunity and pathogen transmission using stoichiometric models13
Vulnerability of grassland seed banks to resource‐enhancing global changes13
Host plant‐mediation of viral transmission and its consequences for a native butterfly13
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Stoichiometric mismatch causes a warming‐induced regime shift in experimental plankton communities12
Growth portfolios buffer climate‐linked environmental change in marine systems12
Canopy height, rather than neighborhood effects, shapes leaf herbivory in a tropical rainforest12
Invasive shrubs differentially alter autumnal activity for three common small‐mammal species12
Functional trait database for Nova Scotian coastal barren, green roof, and ruderal flora12
Sex‐specific trade‐offs influence thermoregulation under climate change12
Broad aggressive interactions among African carnivores suggest intraguild killing is driven by more than competition12
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Why statistical innovations?12
Competition for waterborne food resources among tropical shallow‐water sponges12
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
Quantifying interspecific and intraspecific diversity effects on ecosystem functioning12
Optimal prey switching: Predator foraging costs provide a mechanism for functional responses in multi‐prey systems12
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Global warming disrupts the relative allocation between sexual and clonal reproduction in a common salt marsh plant12
Food webs coupled in space: Consumer foraging movement affects both stocks and fluxes12
Environmental context alters plant–soil feedback effects on plant coexistence12
Boring into rock and hard substrates by the midge, Axarus (Diptera; Chironomidae)12
Net primary productivity but not its remote‐sensing proxies predict mammal diversity in Andean‐Amazonian rainforests12
Temperature synchronizes temporal variation in laying dates across European hole‐nesting passerines11
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Substrate size modifies stream grazer–biofilm interactions in the presence of invertivorous fish11
Parasitism by multiple strepsipterans accelerates timing of adult parasite emergence11
A global database of butterfly species native distributions11
Kleptopharmacophagy: Milkweed butterflies scratch and imbibe from Apocynaceae‐feeding caterpillars11
Elevated temperatures shift flower head height distributions and seed dispersal patterns in two invasive thistle species11
Stronger fertilization effects on aboveground versus belowground plant properties across nine U.S. grasslands11
Overgrowth competition or facilitation from cushion plants: Implication for the role of plant–plant interactions11
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Sunken trees in the deep sea link terrestrial and marine biodiversity11
Combining observational and experimental data to estimate environmental and species drivers of fungal metacommunity dynamics11
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The effects of dispersal, herbivory, and competition on plant community assembly11
Fungivorous nematodes drive microbial diversity and carbon cycling in soil11
Why are graminoid species more dominant? Trait‐mediated plant–soil feedbacks shape community composition11
High sensitivity of tropical forest birds to deforestation at lower altitudes11
Activity density at a continental scale: What drives invertebrate biomass moving across the soil surface?11
Seasonal role of a specialist predator in rodent cycles: Ermine–lemming interactions in the High Arctic11
Specialized petal with conspicuously fringed margin influences reproductive success in Habenaria radiata (Orchidaceae)11
Evolutionary history shapes grassland productivity through opposing effects on complementarity and selection11
Effects of multiple mammalian herbivores and climate on grassland–shrubland transitions in the Chihuahuan Desert11
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Integrating metabolic scaling and coexistence theories11
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