Oecologia

Papers
(The median citation count of Oecologia is 3. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Local soil temperature advances flowering phenology of Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense), with implications for climate change assessment41
Comparing long-term patterns of spread of native and invasive plants in a successional forest36
Announcing winners of the Ehleringer and Hanski Prizes for outstanding papers published by student authors in Oecologia in 202233
The effects of plant–soil feedback on invasion resistance are soil context dependent31
High grazing pressure accelerates changes in community assembly over time in a long-term grazing experiment in the desert steppe of northern China30
Individual variability in the phenology of an asynchronous penguin species induces consequences on breeding and carry-over effects28
Ectomycorrhizal fungi are associated with reduced nitrogen cycling rates in temperate forest soils without corresponding trends in bacterial functional groups28
Nonlinear spatial and temporal decomposition provides insight for climate change effects on sub-Arctic herbivore populations26
Good moms: dependent young and their mothers cope better than others with longer dry season in plains zebras26
Diversity and composition of pollen loads carried by pollinators are primarily driven by insect traits, not floral community characteristics26
Correlation between mammal track abundance and Forest Landscape Integrity Index validates actual forest ecological integrity25
Incorporation of the 15N-labeled simulated arthropod rain in the soil food web25
Prey species increase activity in refugia free of terrestrial predators23
Imperfect diet choice reduces the performance of a predatory mite22
Competition for water and rapid exclusion of an island endemic by a pantropical species in a tropical climate22
Energy expenses on prey processing are comparable, but paid at a higher metabolic scope and for a longer time in ambush vs active predators: a multispecies study on snakes21
Fire-mediated germination syndromes in Leucadendron (Proteaceae) and their functional correlates21
Plant community composition alters moisture and temperature sensitivity of soil respiration in semi-arid shrubland21
Bank vole alarm pheromone chemistry and effects in the field21
Pathogen infection influences the relationship between spring and autumn phenology at the seedling and leaf level21
Autochthonous production contributes to the diet of wood-boring invertebrates in temperate shallow water21
Symbiotic nitrogen fixation does not stimulate soil phosphatase activity under temperate and tropical trees21
Habitat isolation and the cues of three remote predators differentially modulate prey colonization dynamics in pond landscapes20
The impact of variable predation risk on stress in snowshoe hares over the cycle in North America’s boreal forest: adjusting to change20
Colonial waterbirds provide persistent subsidies to swamp forests along an estuarine island food chain20
Hotter and drier climate made the Mediterranean Europe and Northern Africa region a shrubbier landscape19
Nitrogen pollution promotes changes in the niche space of fish communities19
Drought at a coastal wetland affects refuelling and migration strategies of shorebirds18
Historic trophic decline in New England’s coastal marine ecosystem18
Structural resilience and high interaction dissimilarity of plant–pollinator interaction networks in fire-prone grasslands17
Extreme bill dimorphism leads to different but overlapping isotopic niches and similar trophic positions in sexes of the charismatic extinct huia17
Litter nitrogen concentration changes mediate effects of drought and plant species richness on litter decomposition17
Ecological niche differentiation among six annual Lythrum species in Mediterranean temporary pools17
Drivers of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection load, with evidence of infection tolerance in adult male toads (Bufo spinosus)17
Seasonal shift in diet affects female reproductive anatomy but not mating behavior17
Wing morphology of a damselfly exhibits local variation in response to forest fragmentation17
Long-term dynamics of the network structures in seed dispersal associated with fluctuations in bird migration and fruit abundance patterns16
Wild legumes maintain beneficial soil rhizobia populations despite decades of nitrogen deposition16
Removal of invasive Scotch broom increases its negative effects on soil chemistry and plant communities16
Climate variability supersedes grazing to determine the anatomy and physiology of a dominant grassland species16
Death comes for us all: relating movement-integrated habitat selection and social behavior to human-associated and disease-related mortality among gray wolves16
Selection of predictor variables for species distribution models: a case study with an invasive marine bryozoan16
Antagonistic effects of grazers and shrubs on the emergence and establishment of seedlings in a sub-humid grassland of South America16
Seasonal changes in diet, immune function, and oxidative stress in three passerines inhabiting a Mediterranean climate15
Temporal dynamics of the microbial heterogeneity–diversity relationship in microcosmic systems15
Correction to: Flock‑species richness influences node importance and modularity in mixed‑species flock networks15
Legacy effects of a multi-year extreme drought on belowground bud banks in rhizomatous vs bunchgrass-dominated grasslands15
Plant susceptibility to a shared herbivore is reduced by belowground competition with neighbors15
Distinct trophic ecologies of zooplankton size classes are maintained throughout the seasonal cycle14
Predation of boreal owl nests by pine martens in the boreal forest does not vary as predicted by the alternative prey hypothesis14
Evaluating the effects of water and food limitation on the life history of an insect using a multiple-stressor framework14
Correction to: Hold tight or loosen up? Functional consequences of a shift in anther architecture depend substantially on bee body size13
Negative density-dependence buffers against mismatch-induced population decline in the Sinai baton blue butterfly13
The association between haemosporidian infection and non-breeding moult location in great reed warblers revisited by combining feather stable isotope profiles and geolocator data13
Post-settlement demographics of reef building corals suggest prolonged recruitment bottlenecks13
Costs and benefits of “insect friendly” artificial lights are taxon specific13
Seasonal diversity dynamics of a boreal zooplankton community under climate impact13
Modeling heterothermic fitness landscapes in a marsupial hibernator using changes in body composition13
Temperature and intraspecific variation affect host–parasite interactions13
Integrating laboratory experiments and biogeographic modelling approaches to understand sensitivity to ocean warming in rare and common marine annelids13
Effects of microbial-converted ancient permafrost organic carbon on the growth and reproduction of Daphnia magna13
Cueing on distant conditions before migrating does not prevent false starts: a case study with African elephants13
Consistent individual variation in plant communication: do plants have personalities?13
Temperature dependence of carbon metabolism in the leaves in sun and shade in a subtropical forest12
Local drivers of heterogeneity in a tropical forest: epiphytic tank bromeliads affect the availability of soil resources and conditions and indirectly affect the structure of seedling communities12
Seedling responses to soil moisture amount versus pulse frequency in a successfully encroaching semi-arid shrub12
Climate-dependent plant responses to earthworms in two land-use types12
Richness, not evenness, varies across water availability gradients in grassy biomes on five continents12
Ecosystem engineering and leaf quality together affect arthropod community structure and diversity on white oak (Quercus alba L.)12
Inconsistent dilution: experimental but not field evidence for a dilution effect in Daphnia–bacteria interactions12
Human habitat modification, not apex scavenger decline, drives isotopic niche variation in a carnivore community12
Disturbance history, neighborhood crowding and soil conditions jointly shape tree growth in temperate forests11
Food availability alters community co-occurrence patterns at fine spatiotemporal scales in a tropical masting system11
Extending the CWM approach to intraspecific trait variation: how to deal with overly optimistic standard tests?11
Determinants of spring molt in bighorn sheep: life-history, plasticity and phenology11
Phenotypic plasticity as the main driver of alien plant trait variation in urban versus rural microclimate for the model species Veronica persica11
Long-term spatiotemporal variation in density of a tropical folivore: responses to a complex disturbance regime11
Effects of climate change on Lepidoptera pollen loads and their pollination services in space and time11
Using stable isotope (δ13C, δ15N) values from feces and breath to infer shorebird diets11
Multi-scale beta-diversity patterns in testate amoeba communities: species turnover and nestedness along a latitudinal gradient11
Vegetation biomass and topography are associated with seasonal habitat selection and fall translocation behavior in Arctic hares11
Winter-ground microhabitat use by differently coloured phenotypes affects return rate in a long-distance migratory bird11
Seabird guano inputs increase impacts from introduced mammals on the native plants and animals of an oceanic island11
Combined effects of fire and drought are not sufficient to slow shrub encroachment in tallgrass prairie11
Pathogens and predators: examining the separate and combined effects of natural enemies on assemblage structure11
Correction: Of goats and heat, the differential impact of summer temperature on habitat selection and activity patterns in mountain goats of different ecotypes10
Viral transmission and infection prevalence in a cannibalistic host–pathogen system10
Of goats and heat, the differential impact of summer temperature on habitat selection and activity patterns in mountain goats of different ecotypes10
Phenotypic variation in a neotropical understory bird driven by environmental change in an urbanizing Amazonian landscape10
An unusually diverse genus of Collembola in the Cape Floristic Region characterised by substantial desiccation tolerance10
Integrating demographic niches and black spruce range expansion at subarctic treelines10
Impacts of invasion on a freshwater cleaning symbiosis10
Publisher Correction: Invertebrate sounds from photic to mesophotic coral reefs reveal vertical stratification and diel diversity10
Direct effects of selection on aboveground biomass contrast with indirect structure-mediated effects of complementarity in a subtropical forest10
Anthropogenically driven spatial niche partitioning in a large herbivore assemblage10
Ant communities in disturbed subtropical landscapes: is climate more important than stochastic processes?10
Combined effects of increased water temperature and cyanobacterial compounds exert heterogeneous effects on survival and ecological processes in key freshwater species10
The impact of global change factors on the functional genes of soil nitrogen and methane cycles in grassland ecosystems: a meta-analysis10
Relative importance of tree species richness, tree functional type, and microenvironment for soil macrofauna communities in European forests10
Quantifying the nature and strength of intraspecific density dependence in Arctic mosquitoes10
Distinctive seed dispersal and seed bank patterns of invasive African grasses favour their invasion in a neotropical savanna9
Browning-induced changes in trophic functioning of planktonic food webs in temperate and boreal lakes: insights from fatty acids9
Keeping it cool to take the heat: tropical lizards have greater thermal tolerance in less disturbed habitats9
Pulses of anthropogenic food availability appear to benefit parents, but compromise nestling growth in urban red-winged starlings9
Importance of hydraulic strategy trade-offs in structuring response of canopy trees to extreme drought in central Amazon9
Trait-based responses to cessation of nutrient enrichment in a tundra plant community9
Vector-borne plant pathogens modify top-down and bottom-up effects on insect herbivores9
Dew water-uptake pathways in Negev desert plants: a study using stable isotope tracers9
Colouration matters in dull toads: ultraviolet adornment for ladies and agrochemicals fading effects9
Tibetan birds lay larger but fewer eggs in a clutch9
Who can pass the urban filter? A multi-taxon approach to disentangle pollinator trait–environmental relationships9
Altitude and latitude have different effects on population characteristics of the widespread plant Anthyllis vulneraria9
Plant richness, land use and temperature differently shape invertebrate leaf-chewing herbivory on plant functional groups9
Fires slow population declines of a long-lived prairie plant through multiple vital rates9
Common fear molecules induce defensive responses in marine prey across trophic levels9
An apex carnivore’s life history mediates a predator cascade9
Traits, strategies, and niches of liana species in a tropical seasonal rainforest9
Ectophagous folivores do not profit from rich resources on phylogenetically isolated trees9
The evolution of prey-attraction strategies in spiders: the interplay between foraging and predator avoidance9
Disappearance of an ecosystem engineer, the white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari), leads to density compensation and ecological release9
Correction to: Temperate forest fragments maintain aboveground carbon stocks out to the forest edge despite changes in community composition9
The effects of high-severity fires on the arboreal ant community of a Neotropical savanna9
Treatment effects of nitrogen and phosphorus addition on foliar traits in six northern hardwood tree species8
Soil water availability and branch age explain variability in xylem safety of European beech in Central Europe8
Large and high-altitude foraging ranges suggests importance of Wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bats (Mops plicatus) for consuming dispersing pest insects8
Elevated atmospheric CO2 alters the multi-element stoichiometry of pollen-bearing oak flowers, with possible negative effects on bees8
Ecosystem engineering in the arboreal realm: heterogeneity of wood-boring beetle cavities and their use by cavity-nesting ants8
Modelling selection, drift, dispersal and their interactions in the community assembly of Amazonian soil mites8
Dealing with disjunct populations of vascular plants: implications for assessing the effect of climate change8
Branch architecture in relation to canopy positions in three Mediterranean oaks8
Honeybees affect floral microbiome composition in a central food source for wild pollinators in boreal ecosystems8
Announcing winners of the Ehleringer and Hanski Prizes for outstanding papers published by student authors in Oecologia in 20218
Dynamic species interactions associated with the range-shifting marine gastropod Mexacanthina lugubris8
Dispersal-based versus niche-based processes as drivers of flea species composition on small mammalian hosts: inferences from species occurrences at large and small scales8
Protein expression plasticity contributes to heat and drought tolerance of date palm8
Similar regional-scale survival of tropical and southern temperate birds from the New World8
Functional and sex-specific dynamics of ectoparasite size evolution in marine isopod–fish interactions: Harrison’s rule and increasing variance8
Demographic effects of phenological variation in natural populations of two pond-breeding salamanders8
Continent-wide synthesis of the long-term population dynamics of quaking aspen in the face of accelerating human impacts8
Variable habitat use supports fine-scale population differentiation of a freshwater piscivore (northern pike, Esox lucius) along salinity gradients in brackish lagoons8
Emerging evidence of resource limitation in an Antarctic seabird metapopulation after 6 decades of sustained population growth8
Effects of land-use change and disturbance on the fine root biomass, dynamics, morphology, and related C and N fluxes to the soil of forest ecosystems at different elevations at Mt. Kilimanjaro (Tanza8
Soil microbiomes in lawns reveal land-use legacy impacts on urban landscapes8
Weather and food availability additively affect reproductive output in an expanding raptor population8
Effects and response of the Cerrado ground-layer to frost along the canopy cover gradient8
The limiting factors and regulatory processes that control the environmental responses of C3, C3–C4 intermediate, and C4 photosynthesis8
Phenotypic variation in Xenopus laevis tadpoles from contrasting climatic regimes is the result of adaptation and plasticity8
Soil carbon and plant richness relationships differ among grassland types, disturbance history and plant functional groups8
Invasive tree cover covaries with environmental factors to explain the functional composition of riparian plant communities8
Responses to predation risk cues and alarm pheromones affect plant virus transmission by an aphid vector8
Can smaller predators expand their prey base through killing juveniles? The influence of prey demography and season on prey selection for cheetahs and lions8
Vegetation influences wolf fine-scale habitat selection and movement rate in a logged coastal rainforest8
The ecological role of Fraxinus for species diversity in floodplain forests8
A large-scale field experiment across six rivers illustrates how the effects of resource enrichment are context dependent7
Environmental conditions variably affect growth across the breeding season in a subarctic seabird7
Individual-based multiple-unit dissimilarity: novel indices and null model for assessing temporal variability in community composition7
Phylogenetic distance and resource availability mediate direction and strength of plant interactions in a competition experiment7
Using high-resolution LiDAR-derived canopy structure and topography to characterise hibernaculum locations of the hazel dormouse7
The allocation of anatomical traits determines the trade-off between fine root resource acquisition–transport function7
Pollinator-mediated facilitation alleviates pollen limitation in a plant–hummingbird network7
Effects of competition and predation operating at individual and population levels: an overview of results from a long-term field experiment7
Influence of sexual dimorphism and dichromatism on reproductive success in a rare native cactus7
The legacy of predator threat shapes prey foraging behaviour7
Of mutualism and migration: will interactions with novel ericoid mycorrhizal communities help or hinder northward Rhododendron range shifts?7
Plasticity in induced resistance to sequential attack by multiple herbivores in Brassica nigra7
Inter-specific variability in demographic processes affects abundance-occupancy relationships7
Flocking in birds increases annual adult survival in a global analysis7
Influence of phylogenetic diversity of plant communities on tri-trophic interactions7
Statistical evidence that honeybees competitively reduced wild bee abundance in the Munich Botanic Garden in 2020 compared to 20197
Allocation costs of regeneration: tail regeneration constrains body growth under low food availability in juvenile lizards7
Time changes everything: a multispecies analyses of temporal patterns in evaporative water loss7
Correction to: Forecasting intraspecific changes in distribution of a wide-ranging marine predator under climate change7
Mismatches in thermal performance between ectothermic predators and prey alter interaction strength and top-down control7
Variation in reproductive investment increases body temperature amplitude in a temperate passerine7
Geographical variation in pace-of-life in a long-distance migratory bird: implications for population management7
Immune function differs among tropical environments but is not downregulated during reproduction in three year-round breeding equatorial lark populations7
Ecosystem bioelement variability is associated with freshwater animal aggregations at the aquatic-terrestrial interface7
Individual heterogeneity in ixodid tick infestation and prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in a northern community of small mammalian hosts7
More phylogenetically diverse polycultures inconsistently suppress insect herbivore populations7
Sea ice extent and phenology influence breeding of high-Arctic seabirds: 4 decades of monitoring in Nunavut, Canada7
Fatty acid isotopic composition in Atlantic pollock is not influenced by environmentally relevant dietary fat concentrations7
In defense of elemental currencies: can ecological stoichiometry stand as a framework for terrestrial herbivore nutritional ecology?6
Forecasting intraspecific changes in distribution of a wide-ranging marine predator under climate change6
Seed and seedling predation by vertebrates mediates the effects of adult trees in two temperate tree species6
Direct and indirect effects of amphidromous shrimps on nutrient mineralization in streams in Japan6
Avian responses to climate extremes: insights into abundance curves and species sensitivity using the UK Breeding Bird Survey6
The genetic regulation of avian migration timing: combining candidate genes and quantitative genetic approaches in a long-distance migrant6
Partitioning resilience of a marine foundation species into resistance and recovery trajectories6
Legacies of precipitation influence primary production in Panicum virgatum6
Selective effect of winter weather on a songbird’s morphology depends on individual sex and winter condition6
Trait-dependent importance of intraspecific variation relative to species turnover in determining community functional composition following nutrient enrichment6
Reducing uncertainty with iterative model updating parses effects of competition and environment on salamander occupancy6
Large, old trees define the vertical, horizontal, and seasonal distributions of a poison frog6
Local and large-scale spatial variation in a marine predator–prey interaction in the southwestern Atlantic6
Limited sexual segregation in a dimorphic avian scavenger, the Andean condor6
N-fertilization and disturbance exert long-lasting complex legacies on subarctic ecosystems6
The effects of diet-shifting from invertebrates towards fruit on the condition of autumn-migrant Catharus thrushes6
Liana functional assembly along the hydrological gradient in Central Amazonia6
Mating system induced lags in rates of range expansion for different simulated mating systems and dispersal strategies: a modelling study6
Legacy effects of herbivory on treeline dynamics along an elevational gradient6
Species interactions alter the selection of thermal environment in a coral reef fish6
Short- and long-term effects of nutritional state on IGF-1 levels in nestlings of a wild passerine6
Parasites alter food-web topology of a subarctic lake food web and its pelagic and benthic compartments6
Causes and consequences of differences in soil and seed microbiomes for two alpine plants6
Breeding near heterospecifics as a defence against brood parasites: can redstarts lower probability of cuckoo parasitism using neighbours?6
Intrinsic water-use efficiency influences establishment in Encelia farinosa6
IGF-1 induces sex-specific oxidative damage and mortality in a songbird6
Contrasting associations between nestling telomere length and pre and postnatal helpers’ presence in a cooperatively breeding bird6
Effects of alder- and salmon-derived nutrients on aquatic bacterial community structure and microbial community metabolism in subarctic lakes6
Contrasting shrub and grass hydraulic responses to experimental drought6
Hold tight or loosen up? Functional consequences of a shift in anther architecture depend substantially on bee body size6
Priority effects and density promote coexistence between the facultative predator Chrysomya rufifacies and its competitor Calliphora stygia6
Application of machine learning and acoustic predation tags to classify migration fate of Atlantic salmon smolts6
Host community-wide patterns of post-fledging behavior and survival of obligate brood parasitic brown-headed cowbirds6
Similar seed preferences explain trophic ecology of functionally distinct, but co-occurring and closely related harvester ants6
The functional roles of psyllid abundance and assemblage on bird-associated forest defoliation6
Patterns of decomposition and functional traits for flower and leaf litter in tropical woody species6
What if the upwelling weakens? Effects of rising temperature and nutrient depletion on coastal assemblages6
Climate and body size have differential roles on melanism evolution across workers in a worldwide ant genus6
Tree mycorrhizal type mediates conspecific negative density dependence effects on seedling herbivory, growth, and survival6
Compound-specific stable isotope analyses of fatty acids indicate feeding zones of zooplankton across the water column of a subalpine lake6
Niche partitioning and individual specialisation in resources and space use of sympatric fur seals at their range margin6
Top-down regulation of hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae) in its native range in the Pacific Northwest of North America6
Beetle diversity is higher in sunny forests due to higher microclimatic heterogeneity in deadwood5
Clinal versus disruptive latitudinal variation in fruit traits of a South American mistletoe5
The limits of stress-tolerance for zooplankton resting stages in freshwater ponds5
Effects of plant diversity on species-specific herbivory: patterns and mechanisms5
Leaf traits mediate herbivory across a nitrogen gradient differently in extirpated vs. extant prairie species5
Patterns of seasonal plasticity in evaporative water loss and preferred temperature in three geckos of the wet–dry tropics5
Age-specific effects of density and weather on body condition and birth rates in a large herbivore, the Przewalski’s horse5
Prey tells, large herbivores fear the human ‘super predator’5
Fatty acid accumulation in feeding types of a natural freshwater fish population5
Relationship between wintering site and survival in a migratory waterbird using different migration routes5
Opening a can of worms: a test of the co-infection facilitation hypothesis5
Preface: honoring the career of Russell K. Monson5
Rapid decline of a four-trophic-level system over a 15-year period5
Spatial scaling of plant and bird diversity from 50 to 10,000 ha in a lowland tropical rainforest5
Comparison of seed traits between an invasive plant and its native competitor along a latitudinal gradient5
Trade-offs between succulent and non-succulent epiphytes underlie variation in drought tolerance and avoidance5
Defoliation, trampling and nutrient return differentially influence grassland productivity by modulating trait-dependent plant community composition: insights from a simulated grazing experiment5
Functional traits of plants and pollinators explain resource overlap between honeybees and wild pollinators5
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 pulp5
Catchment-based sampling of river eDNA integrates terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity of alpine landscapes5
Evolution of competitive ability and the response to nutrient availability: a resurrection study with the calcareous grassland herb, Leontodon hispidus5
Preparing for the future offspring: European perch (Perca fluviatilis) biosynthesis of physiologically required fatty acids for the gonads happens already in the autumn5
Fire and ant interactions mediated by honeydew and extrafloral nectar in an australian tropical savanna5
Forage stoichiometry predicts the home range size of a small terrestrial herbivore5
Wolf spatial behavior promotes encounters and kills of abundant prey5
Rodent competition and fire alter patterns of mound and disk formation of western harvester ants5
Bacterial and fungal root endophytes alter survival, growth, and resistance to grazing in a foundation plant species5
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