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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Correction to: Hold tight or loosen up? Functional consequences of a shift in anther architecture depend substantially on bee body size43
Seedling responses to soil moisture amount versus pulse frequency in a successfully encroaching semi-arid shrub41
Using stable isotope (δ13C, δ15N) values from feces and breath to infer shorebird diets35
Human habitat modification, not apex scavenger decline, drives isotopic niche variation in a carnivore community34
Correction: Of goats and heat, the differential impact of summer temperature on habitat selection and activity patterns in mountain goats of different ecotypes34
Hotter and drier climate made the Mediterranean Europe and Northern Africa region a shrubbier landscape29
Antagonistic effects of grazers and shrubs on the emergence and establishment of seedlings in a sub-humid grassland of South America28
Temperature dependence of carbon metabolism in the leaves in sun and shade in a subtropical forest28
Correction to: Temperate forest fragments maintain aboveground carbon stocks out to the forest edge despite changes in community composition26
Cueing on distant conditions before migrating does not prevent false starts: a case study with African elephants26
The limiting factors and regulatory processes that control the environmental responses of C3, C3–C4 intermediate, and C4 photosynthesis25
Of goats and heat, the differential impact of summer temperature on habitat selection and activity patterns in mountain goats of different ecotypes24
Removal of invasive Scotch broom increases its negative effects on soil chemistry and plant communities24
Disappearance of an ecosystem engineer, the white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari), leads to density compensation and ecological release22
Colouration matters in dull toads: ultraviolet adornment for ladies and agrochemicals fading effects22
Quantifying the nature and strength of intraspecific density dependence in Arctic mosquitoes21
Plant community composition alters moisture and temperature sensitivity of soil respiration in semi-arid shrubland21
The distinctive material cycle associated with seabirds and land crabs on a pristine oceanic island: a case study of Minamiiwoto, Ogasawara Islands, subtropical Japan21
Long-term dynamics of the network structures in seed dispersal associated with fluctuations in bird migration and fruit abundance patterns21
Announcing winners of the Ehleringer and Hanski Prizes for outstanding papers published by student authors in Oecologia in 202119
Intrinsic water-use efficiency influences establishment in Encelia farinosa19
Assessing carbon and nitrogen economics in temperate forests through the relationship between foliar nutrient resorption and root production19
Food supply and individual quality influence seabird energy expenditure and reproductive success19
Trophic effects of vertebrate insectivores and carnivorous arthropods in a subtropical forest: the roles of functional redundancy and intraguild predation19
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 (Tanza18
What if the upwelling weakens? Effects of rising temperature and nutrient depletion on coastal assemblages18
Preparing for the future offspring: European perch (Perca fluviatilis) biosynthesis of physiologically required fatty acids for the gonads happens already in the autumn17
Rapid decline of a four-trophic-level system over a 15-year period17
Individual heterogeneity in ixodid tick infestation and prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in a northern community of small mammalian hosts17
Sea ice extent and phenology influence breeding of high-Arctic seabirds: 4 decades of monitoring in Nunavut, Canada17
Population genetic structure in two contrasting human-altered environments of yellow pygmy rice rat Oligoryzomys flavescens17
Inter-specific variability in demographic processes affects abundance-occupancy relationships16
Of mutualism and migration: will interactions with novel ericoid mycorrhizal communities help or hinder northward Rhododendron range shifts?16
Mating system induced lags in rates of range expansion for different simulated mating systems and dispersal strategies: a modelling study16
Environmental conditions variably affect growth across the breeding season in a subarctic seabird15
Patterns of decomposition and functional traits for flower and leaf litter in tropical woody species15
Correction: Niche partitioning and individual specialisation in resources and space use of sympatric fur seals at their range margin15
Selective effect of winter weather on a songbird’s morphology depends on individual sex and winter condition15
Correction: 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 pulp15
Application of machine learning and acoustic predation tags to classify migration fate of Atlantic salmon smolts14
Functional traits of plants and pollinators explain resource overlap between honeybees and wild pollinators14
Flock-species richness influences node importance and modularity in mixed-species flock networks14
Dispersal-based versus niche-based processes as drivers of flea species composition on small mammalian hosts: inferences from species occurrences at large and small scales13
Parasites, depredators, and limited resources as potential drivers of winter mortality of feral honeybee colonies in German forests13
Beetle diversity is higher in sunny forests due to higher microclimatic heterogeneity in deadwood13
Parasites alter food-web topology of a subarctic lake food web and its pelagic and benthic compartments13
Assessing nitrogen deposition and chemistry in mountainous regions of Olympic National Park and North Cascades National Park Service Complex, Pacific Northwest, USA13
Soil carbon and plant richness relationships differ among grassland types, disturbance history and plant functional groups13
Trade-offs between succulent and non-succulent epiphytes underlie variation in drought tolerance and avoidance13
Insect abundance patterns on vertebrate remains reveal carrion resource quality variation13
Competition for light induces metal accumulation in a metal hyperaccumulating plant12
Mesocarnivores vary in their spatiotemporal avoidance strategies at communications hubs of an apex carnivore12
Long-term consistency in susceptibility of prey species to predation by an avian predator12
Plant diversity increases spatial stability of aboveground productivity in alpine grasslands12
Flock size increases with the diversity and abundance of local predators in an avian family12
Shade affects magnitude and tactics of juvenile Chinook salmon antipredator behavior in the migration corridor12
Marked differences in foraging area use and susceptibility to predation between two closely-related tropical seabirds12
Colour-specific diet specialization is associated with differences in owlet weight in a polymorphic owl: influence of the trophic quality variation12
Multiple and contrasting pressures determine intraspecific phytochemical variation in a tropical shrub12
It is hot and cold here: the role of thermotolerance in the ability of spiders to colonize tree plantations in the southern Atlantic Forest12
Consumer pressure and supplemental pollination mediate shrub facilitation of a native annual desert plant12
Mechanisms determining the multi-diversity of carrion visiting species along a gradient of carrion body mass12
Intense browsing by sika deer (Cervus nippon) drives the genetic differentiation of hairy nettle (Urtica thunbergiana) populations11
Recent evolution of flowering time across multiple European plant species correlates with changes in aridity11
Plant induced defenses that promote cannibalism reduce herbivory as effectively as highly pathogenic herbivore pathogens11
How competition between overlapping generations can influence optimal egg-laying strategies in annual social insects11
Sr/Ca ratios indicate frugivory versus folivory in primates: a case study using handheld XRF in Kibale National Park, Uganda11
Ecological traps: evidence of a fitness cost in a cavity-nesting bird11
Do community changes persist after irruptive population dynamics? A case study from an invasive species boom and bust11
Host and parasite identity interact in scale-dependent fashion to determine parasite community structure11
Coexistence of territorial competitor ants in fragmented boreal forest landscape11
Cropland encroachment on global protected areas and its national-level drivers11
Clinal versus disruptive latitudinal variation in fruit traits of a South American mistletoe11
Shading and selection effect-mediated species mixing enhance the growth of native trees in dry tropical forests11
Sex-driven neighborhood effects on herbivory in the dioecious Mediterranean palm Chamaerops humilis L.11
Invasion alters plant and mycorrhizal communities in an alpine tussock grassland10
Geographic patterns of seed trait variation in an invasive species: how much can close populations differ?10
Environmental drivers of ground-floor bryophytes diversity in temperate forests10
Native and alien species suffer from late arrival, while negative effects of multiple alien species on natives vary10
Seed germination and seedling growth response of Leymus chinensis to the allelopathic influence of grassland plants10
Telomere dynamics in female Columbian ground squirrels: recovery after emergence and loss after reproduction10
Using isolation-by-distance to jointly estimate effective population density and dispersal distance: a practical evaluation using bumble bees10
Responses of bryosphere fauna to drought across a boreal forest chronosequence10
The relative importance of abiotic and biotic environmental conditions for taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional diversity of spiders across spatial scales10
Mechanical traits as drivers of trophic interaction between macrodetritivores and leaf litter10
Heat waves reduce variability in milkweed development, simplify arthropod communities, and suppress herbivory10
Linking omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in natural diet with brain size of wild consumers10
Niche construction and niche choice by aphids infesting wheat ears10
Predicting end-of-season timing across diverse North American grasslands10
Behavioral effects of wolf presence on moose habitat selection: testing the landscape of fear hypothesis in an anthropogenic landscape10
Adaptive divergence in diets between the sexes in a tropical snake (Stegonotus australis, Colubridae)10
Catchment scale deforestation increases the uniqueness of subtropical stream communities10
Density-dependent plant growth drives grazer stimulation of aboveground net primary production in Yellowstone grasslands10
Legume effects in a native community invaded by alien Asteraceae in a multi-species comparison10
Variability in mycorrhizal status of plant species is much larger within than between plots in grassland and coastal habitats10
Nutrient responses of vascular plants to N2-fixing tree Alnus hirsuta encroachment in a boreal peatland10
How does maternal age influence reproductive performance and offspring phenotype in the snow petrel (Pagodroma nivea)?9
Foliar ẟ15N patterns in legumes and non-N fixers across a climate gradient, Hawaiʻi Island, USA9
No statistical evidence that honey bees competitively reduced wild bee abundance in the Munich Botanic Garden—a comment on Renner et al. (2021)9
Density-dependent winter survival of immatures in an irruptive raptor with pulsed breeding9
Food quality upgrade of carbon from submerged macrophytes by flagellates via a heterotrophic pathway can stimulate growth of Daphnia magna9
Nitrogen and light regulate symbiotic nitrogen fixation by a temperate forest tree9
Global investigation of lake habitat coupling by fishes9
Plant species richness and phylogenetic diversity can favor the recovery of dung beetle communities in ecological restoration plots9
Broad-scale gradients of resource utilization by phyllostomid bats in Atlantic Forest: patterns of dietary overlap, turnover and the efficacy of ecomorphological approaches9
Consistent responses to moisture stress despite diverse growth forms within mountain fynbos communities9
High frequency of prospecting for informed dispersal and colonisation in a social species at large spatial scale9
Coral reef fish density at a tourist destination responded rapidly to COVID-19 restrictions9
Disturbance and disease: host–parasite interactions in freshwater streams remain stable following wildfire9
Do savanna trees mast? Phenological dynamics of flowering and fruiting in savanna tree species9
Estimating red fox density using non-invasive genetic sampling and spatial capture–recapture modelling9
Effects of pronounced seasonal turnover and intraspecific variation in leaf traits on specialization of insect herbivores associated with six Salicaceae hosts9
Temporal decay of similarity in bee-plant relationships throughout the day9
Assessing climate change tolerance and the niche breadth-range size hypothesis in rare and widespread alpine plants9
Ensemble evaluation of potential distribution of Procambarus clarkii using multiple species distribution models9
How predator and parasite size interact to determine consumption of infectious stages9
Correction to: Clinal versus disruptive latitudinal variation in fruit traits of a South American mistletoe9
The evolution of prey-attraction strategies in spiders: the interplay between foraging and predator avoidance8
Nitrogen pollution promotes changes in the niche space of fish communities8
Plant richness, land use and temperature differently shape invertebrate leaf-chewing herbivory on plant functional groups8
Disturbance history, neighborhood crowding and soil conditions jointly shape tree growth in temperate forests8
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 communities8
Leaf-chewing herbivores affect preference and performance of a specialist root herbivore8
The influence of landscape characteristics on breeding bird dark diversity8
Will climate warming amplify the effects of a range-expanding marine predator?8
Individual variability in the phenology of an asynchronous penguin species induces consequences on breeding and carry-over effects8
Phenotypic variation in a neotropical understory bird driven by environmental change in an urbanizing Amazonian landscape8
Wing morphology of a damselfly exhibits local variation in response to forest fragmentation8
Weather and food availability additively affect reproductive output in an expanding raptor population8
Extreme bill dimorphism leads to different but overlapping isotopic niches and similar trophic positions in sexes of the charismatic extinct huia8
Plant–pollinator interaction niche broadens in response to severe drought perturbations8
Size-dependent growth tactics of a partially migratory fish before migration8
Grazing by wild red deer can mitigate nutrient enrichment in protected semi-natural open habitats8
The impact of global change factors on the functional genes of soil nitrogen and methane cycles in grassland ecosystems: a meta-analysis8
Effects of climate change on Lepidoptera pollen loads and their pollination services in space and time8
Browning-induced changes in trophic functioning of planktonic food webs in temperate and boreal lakes: insights from fatty acids8
Impacts of invasion on a freshwater cleaning symbiosis8
Incorporation of the 15N-labeled simulated arthropod rain in the soil food web8
Influence of the nurse-protégé interaction on the frugivory pattern of the columnar cactus Pilosocereus leucocephalus8
Climate-dependent plant responses to earthworms in two land-use types8
Seasonal changes in diet, immune function, and oxidative stress in three passerines inhabiting a Mediterranean climate8
Forecasting intraspecific changes in distribution of a wide-ranging marine predator under climate change7
Wolf spatial behavior promotes encounters and kills of abundant prey7
Biotic and abiotic drivers of dispersion dynamics in a large-bodied tropical vertebrate, the Western Bornean orangutan7
Contemporary evolution rivals the effects of rhizobium presence on community and ecosystem properties in experimental mesocosms7
Diversity and assembly of lichens and bryophytes on tree trunks along a temperate to boreal elevation gradient7
Forest management affects seasonal source-sink dynamics in a territorial, group-living bird7
Can smaller predators expand their prey base through killing juveniles? The influence of prey demography and season on prey selection for cheetahs and lions7
Active breeding seabirds prospect alternative breeding colonies7
A large-scale field experiment across six rivers illustrates how the effects of resource enrichment are context dependent7
Geographical variation in pace-of-life in a long-distance migratory bird: implications for population management7
The allocation of anatomical traits determines the trade-off between fine root resource acquisition–transport function7
Dealing with disjunct populations of vascular plants: implications for assessing the effect of climate change7
Early spring onset increases carbon uptake more than late fall senescence: modeling future phenological change in a US northern deciduous forest7
Population density and vegetation resources influence demography in a hibernating herbivorous mammal7
Pathways linking nutrient enrichment, habitat structure, and parasitism to host–resource interactions7
A multiple-trait analysis of ecohydrological acclimatisation in a dryland phreatophytic shrub7
Dynamic species interactions associated with the range-shifting marine gastropod Mexacanthina lugubris7
Legacies of precipitation influence primary production in Panicum virgatum7
Reducing uncertainty with iterative model updating parses effects of competition and environment on salamander occupancy7
Synergistic effects of soil nutrient level and native species identity and diversity on biotic resistance to Sicyos angulatus, an invasive species7
Fatty acid isotopic composition in Atlantic pollock is not influenced by environmentally relevant dietary fat concentrations7
Age-specific effects of density and weather on body condition and birth rates in a large herbivore, the Przewalski’s horse7
Short- and long-term effects of nutritional state on IGF-1 levels in nestlings of a wild passerine7
Phenotypic variation in Xenopus laevis tadpoles from contrasting climatic regimes is the result of adaptation and plasticity7
Global analysis of seasonal changes in trematode infection levels reveals weak and variable link to temperature7
Invasive and native grasses exert negative plant–soil feedbacks on the woody shrub Artemisia tridentata7
Does a coexisting congener of a mixed mating species affect the genetic structure and selfing rate via reproductive interference?7
N-fertilization and disturbance exert long-lasting complex legacies on subarctic ecosystems7
Effect of symbiotic N2 fixation on leaf protein contents, protein degradation and nitrogen resorption during leaf senescence in temperate deciduous woody species7
Defensive tolerance to parasitism is correlated with sexual selection in swallows7
Warming suppresses grassland recovery in biomass but not in community composition after grazing exclusion in a Mongolian grassland7
Time changes everything: a multispecies analyses of temporal patterns in evaporative water loss7
Mismatches in thermal performance between ectothermic predators and prey alter interaction strength and top-down control7
Colonial waterbirds provide persistent subsidies to swamp forests along an estuarine island food chain7
Composition and structure of winter aphid–parasitoid food webs along a latitudinal gradient in Chile6
The role of habitat configuration in shaping animal population processes: a framework to generate quantitative predictions6
Life-history trait variation in native versus invasive asexual New Zealand mud snails6
Contrasting population manipulations reveal resource competition between two large marsupials: bare-nosed wombats and eastern grey kangaroos6
Hydraulic vulnerability difference between branches and roots increases with environmental aridity6
Cover crop species alter tallgrass prairie community assembly6
A test of trade-offs in dispersal and reproduction within and between a sister species pair of specialist insect herbivores6
Measuring foraging preferences in bumble bees: a comparison of popular laboratory methods and a test for sucrose preferences following neonicotinoid exposure6
Plant and soil nitrogen in oligotrophic boreal forest habitats with varying moss depths: does exclusion of large grazers matter?6
Correction to: Host ecology and biogeography drive parasite community composition in Atlantic killifishes6
Nitrogen addition, not heterogeneity, alters the relationship between invasion and native decline in California grasslands6
Responses in honeybee and bumblebee activity to changes in weather conditions6
Inferring condition in wild mammals: body condition indices confer no benefit over measuring body mass across ecological contexts6
Variable seed bed microsite conditions and light influence germination in Australian winter annuals6
Sexual differences in phenotypical predictors of floating status: body condition influences male but not female reproductive status in a wild passerine6
Induced drought strongly affects richness and composition of ground-dwelling ants in the eastern Amazon6
Behavioral response to heat stress of twig-nesting canopy ants6
Plants with extrafloral nectaries share indirect defenses and shape the local arboreal ant community6
Colonization of mudflat substrate by microarthropods: the role of distance, inundation frequency and body size6
A hybrid beachgrass (Ammophila arenaria × A. breviligulata) is more productive and outcompetes its non-native parent species6
Lemming winter habitat: the quest for warm and soft snow6
Impact of three co-occurring physical ecosystem engineers on soil Collembola communities6
Social context mediates the expression of a personality trait in a gregarious lizard6
The morphological allometry of four closely related and coexisting insect species reveals adaptation to the mean and variability of the resource size6
Diet effects on longevity, heat tolerance, lipid peroxidation and mitochondrial membrane potential in Daphnia6
Large tree mortality leads to major aboveground biomass decline in a tropical forest reserve6
Plant dynamics in a tropical dry forest are strongly associated with climate and fire and weakly associated with stabilizing neighborhood effects6
Physiological markers suggest energetic and nutritional adjustments in male sharks linked to reproduction6
Plant traits and seasonality shape coexistence and niche segregation patterns among spider species6
Drivers of taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversities in dominant ground-dwelling arthropods of coastal heathlands6
Nightly torpor use in response to weather conditions and individual state in an insectivorous bat6
Habitat configurations shape the trophic and energetic dynamics of reef fishes in a tropical–temperate transition zone: implications under a warming future6
Antagonistic biotic interactions mitigate the positive effects of warming on wood decomposition6
Floral scent divergence across an elevational hybrid zone with varying pollinators6
Inter- and intrapopulation resource use variation of marine subsidized western fence lizards6
The importance of patch shape at threshold occupancy: functional patch size within total habitat amount6
Forest gaps increase true bug diversity by recruiting open land species6
The role of morphological traits in predicting the functional ecology of arboreal and ground ants in the Cerrado–Amazon transition6
Herbivory legacy modifies leaf economic spectrum and drought tolerance in two tree species6
Niche lability mitigates the impact of invasion but not urbanization6
The importance of direct and indirect trophic interactions in determining the presence of a locally rare day-flying moth6
Anthropogenic subsidies influence resource use during a mange epizootic in a desert coyote population6
Correction to: Native and exotic plants play different roles in urban pollination networks across seasons6
Water balance affects foliar and soil nutrients differently5
Common fear molecules induce defensive responses in marine prey across trophic levels5
Plant susceptibility to a shared herbivore is reduced by belowground competition with neighbors5
Viral transmission and infection prevalence in a cannibalistic host–pathogen system5
Who can pass the urban filter? A multi-taxon approach to disentangle pollinator trait–environmental relationships5
Ecosystem engineering and leaf quality together affect arthropod community structure and diversity on white oak (Quercus alba L.)5
The impact of variable predation risk on stress in snowshoe hares over the cycle in North America’s boreal forest: adjusting to change5
Modeling heterothermic fitness landscapes in a marsupial hibernator using changes in body composition5
Anthropogenically driven spatial niche partitioning in a large herbivore assemblage5
Local soil temperature advances flowering phenology of Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense), with implications for climate change assessment5
Behavioural hydroregulation protects against acute effects of drought in a dry-skinned ectotherm5
How do the physiological traits of a lizard change during its invasion of an oceanic island?5
Anthropogenic sodium influences butterfly responses to nitrogen-enriched resources: implications for the nitrogen limitation hypothesis5
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 snakes5
Ectophagous folivores do not profit from rich resources on phylogenetically isolated trees5
Keeping it cool to take the heat: tropical lizards have greater thermal tolerance in less disturbed habitats5
Richness, not evenness, varies across water availability gradients in grassy biomes on five continents5
Good moms: dependent young and their mothers cope better than others with longer dry season in plains zebras5
Temperature and intraspecific variation affect host–parasite interactions5
Historic trophic decline in New England’s coastal marine ecosystem5
Imperfect diet choice reduces the performance of a predatory mite5
Season and prey identity mediate the effect of predators on parasites in rodents: a test of the healthy herds hypothesis5
Within-day dynamics of plant–pollinator networks are dominated by early flower closure: an experimental test of network plasticity5
Fires slow population declines of a long-lived prairie plant through multiple vital rates5
Autochthonous production contributes to the diet of wood-boring invertebrates in temperate shallow water5
Floral traits and density are uneven drivers of heterospecific pollen deposition in a biodiverse tropical highland community5
Food availability alters community co-occurrence patterns at fine spatiotemporal scales in a tropical masting system5
Combined effects of increased water temperature and cyanobacterial compounds exert heterogeneous effects on survival and ecological processes in key freshwater species5
Ectomycorrhizal fungi are associated with reduced nitrogen cycling rates in temperate forest soils without corresponding trends in bacterial functional groups5
The association between haemosporidian infection and non-breeding moult location in great reed warblers revisited by combining feather stable isotope profiles and geolocator data5
Competition for water and rapid exclusion of an island endemic by a pantropical species in a tropical climate5
Indirect plant-mediated interactions between heterospecific parasitoids that develop in different caterpillar species5
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