Oikos

Papers
(The median citation count of Oikos is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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The rate of environmental change as an important driver across scales in ecology111
Community‐wide epizoochorous interactions revealed from roadkilled mammals46
Taxonomic novelty emerges more frequently and independently of functional novelty in historical coral communities43
Landscape‐scale dynamics of a threatened species respond to local‐scale conservation management43
The ameliorating influence of neighbouring plants on aboveground microclimate depends on their number, size and proximity41
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Spatially‐discrete disturbance overrides inherent environmental heterogeneity in grazed mixed‐grass prairie35
Direct effect of artificial warming on communities is stronger than its indirect effect through body mass reduction30
Unraveling how keystone niche individuals contribute disproportionately to the population niche28
Effects of tree species diversity and conspecific seedling density on insect herbivory and pathogen infection on big‐leaf mahogany seedlings28
The impact of plant diversity and vegetation composition on bumblebee colony fitness28
Intertidal mussels as ecosystem engineers: maintenance of invertebrate assemblages amid intertidal stress gradients28
Warming winters promote biodiversity through reduced mortality of a habitat‐forming species in soft‐sediment intertidal systems25
Natural range expansion promotes stress resistance as a component of dispersal syndromes in non‐native insects25
Structural complexity of hard substrates shapes shallow marine benthic communities24
Marine gastropods at higher trophic level show stronger tolerance to ocean acidification24
The distribution of distances to the edge of species coexistence24
How size and resource traits control species' biomass in monoculture and mixture and drive biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships24
Ecological boundaries and constraints on viable eco‐evolutionary pathways24
Local environment and sampling bias drive parasite prevalence estimates in freshwater fish communities24
Space resource utilization of dominant species integrates abundance‐ and functional‐based processes for better predictions of plant diversity dynamics23
A case of the blues: linking guild coloration to service quality in a marine cleaning mutualism21
Reproducing in a changing world: combined effects of thermal conditions by day and night and of water constraints during pregnancy in a cold‐adapted ectotherm20
Hosts, pathogens and hot ponds: thermal mean and variability contribute to spatial patterns of chytrid infection20
Flower‐visitor and pollen‐load data provide complementary insight into species and individual network roles19
Why sex matters in phenological research19
Reindeer grazing reduces climate‐driven vegetation changes and shifts trophic interactions in the Fennoscandian tundra19
Looking beyond Popper: how philosophy can be relevant to ecology19
Fish depth redistributions do not allow maintenance of abundance in a region of rapid change19
Functional diversity in agricultural landscapes: evidence of long‐term clustering and multi‐scale effects of land use on avian communities18
Patronus charm: a comparison of benefactor plants and climate mediation effects on diversity18
Disentangling the relative roles of biased colonization and in situ evolution in driving the island syndrome in Coprosma (Rubiaceae)18
Special issue: Ecology of information enters the Anthropocene17
Variable interspecific competition under megadrought conditions: rodent population dynamics in semiarid Chile17
Rethinking community‐weighted means: why geometric averages matter17
The origin of excavator nesting behavior and its impact on the evolution of Neotropical parrots17
A phylogenetic perspective on ecological specialisation reveals hummingbird and insect pollinators have generalist diets17
The role of functional and phylogenetic diversity in riparian tree vegetation on leaf litter breakdown in rivers16
Modelling Amazon fire regimes under climate change scenarios16
Above‐ and belowground plant pathogens along elevational gradients: patterns and potential mechanisms16
The role of fish feces for nutrient cycling on coral reefs16
Niche complementarity stabilizes grassland biomass during drought and eutrophication16
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Unique roles of functional group of submerged macrophytes on ecosystem functions16
Latitude‐specific responses of European birds' population growth rates to temperature and water availability16
The only lasting truth is change: multiple dimensions of biodiversity show historical legacy effects in community assembly processes of freshwater fish16
Climate change may alter the signal of plant facilitation in Mediterranean drylands15
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Environmental drivers of local abundance–mass scaling in soil animal communities14
Survival of the sickest: selective predation differentially modulates ecological and evolutionary disease dynamics14
Trap‐dependence in capture–recapture studies: empirical evidence in vertebrates and biological meaning14
Expert‐led priorities for a response diversity research agenda in ecology14
Europe's Nature Restoration Law has now been adopted. What comes next?14
Evidence of Holarctic distribution: common frog Rana temporaria eggs in Fennoscandia host photosymbiotic green algae (Oophila sp.)13
How sharp is the knife? Herbivore and carnivore sensitivity to resource stoichiometric quality13
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Environment‐dependent population dynamics emerging from dynamic energy budgets and individual‐scale movement behaviour13
The roles of isolation and interspecific interaction in generating the functional diversity of an insular mammal radiation13
Temporal changes in taxonomic and functional alpha and beta diversity across tree communities in subtropical Atlantic forests13
Host identity, nest quality, and parasitism strategy: influences on body size variation in parasitoid bees and wasps13
A global synthesis and meta‐analysis of the environmental heterogeneity effects on the freshwater biodiversity13
Impact of mowing frequency and temperature on the production of temperate grasslands: explanations received by an individual‐based model13
Winter wipeout? Post‐disturbance recovery of brown trout indicates strong population resilience to harsh winter conditions13
Investigating the effects of whole genome duplication on phenotypic plasticity: implications for the invasion success of giant goldenrod Solidago gigantea13
Linking intrinsic scales of ecological processes to characteristic scales of biodiversity and functioning patterns13
Heat stress can change the competitive outcome between fungi: insights from a modelling approach13
Interactions outside local patches contribute to the compound topology of plant–pollinator networks in fragmented dune slacks13
Defensive mutualists affect outcross pollen transfer and male fitness in their host plant13
Prey naiveté alters the balance of consumptive and non‐consumptive predator effects and shapes trophic cascades in freshwater plankton13
Impacts of reindeer grazing on phosphorus sorption and nutrient availability in a tundra site13
Arctic‐breeding black‐legged kittiwakes show individual variation in foraging responses to glacial conditions without consequences for reproductive output13
‘Let the concept of trait be functional'? Revisiting the individual‐level foundation of plant functional ecology12
What is the price of using the Price equation in ecology?12
Relaxation of the leaf economics spectrum within and across quaking aspen Populus tremuloides genotypes12
Floral resource diversity drives spatiotemporal variation in plant–pollinator network structure12
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Linking proximate drivers and fitness returns of vigilance in a large ungulate12
Implications of plant N/P stoichiometry influenced by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi for stability of plant species and community in response to nutrient limitation12
Recruitment probability in a large carnivore: the role of biological and human‐related factors in early‐life12
Refuge trifecta: intertidal gastropods use pits to escape heat, wave action and predation12
Multiple scales of fear: foraging behaviour of white‐naped jays in semiarid landscapes12
Effects of environmental and individual variation on time patterns of extinction in small experimental populations12
Environmental change alters nitrogen fixation rates and microbial parameters in a subarctic biological soil crust12
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Using long‐term tree diversity experiments to explore the mechanisms of temporal shifts in forest ecosystem functioning12
Interspecific variation in plant abundance can contribute to the diversity and evolutionary assembly of floral communities12
Long‐lasting effects of harsh early‐life conditions on adult survival of a long‐lived vertebrate11
The interplay between landscape change and plasticity in habitat selection determines dispersal movements and settlement in small non‐flying vertebrates11
Linking regional and global functional trait data: insights from mammal communities in a fragmented Atlantic Forest landscape11
Carnivore community reassembly provides a test of Eltonian niche conservatism11
Spatio‐temporal variation in plant–pollinator interactions: a multilayer network approach11
The underground network: facilitation in soil bacteria11
Environmental organic carbon availability determines metabolic and consumption rates in freshwater isopods11
Contrasting responses of fine root biomass and traits to large‐scale nitrogen and phosphorus addition in tropical forests in the Guiana shield11
Epichloë endophytes impair performance and preference of Rhopalosiphum padi by disrupting aphid feeding behaviour in tall fesc11
Fly pollinator foraging in boreal forests is shaped by climate, forest structure and flower resources11
Connecting the distribution and diversification of marine plants11
Effects of dominant ant species on ant community structure and ant–hemipteran interactions11
The pace and sequence of spatial learning: exploration facilitates long‐term behavioral refinement11
Elevated ozone mitigates negative impact of herbivory on the growth of invasive plant species11
Root functional traits determine the magnitude of the rhizosphere priming effect among eight tree species11
Nutritional thermal ecology: investigating the combined influence of temperature and nutrient availability on plant‐ectotherm trophic interactions11
Recent increasing homogenisation in Austrian butterfly communities over the past decades11
Integrating different facets of diversity into food web models: how adaptation among and within functional groups shape ecosystem functioning10
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Determining the optimal movement strategies in environments with heterogeneously distributed resources and toxicants10
Comparing the power of phylogenetic, trait and network structure information to predict plant–frugivore interactions10
Limited impacts of simulated soil disturbance by rewilded vertebrates on above‐ and below‐ground biodiversity10
Understandable multifunctionality measures using Hill numbers10
Generalization of a density‐dependent ecosystem function in dominant aquatic macroinvertebrates10
Beyond resource selection: emergent spatio–temporal distributions from animal movements and stigmergent interactions10
Estimated missing interactions change the structure and alter species roles in one of the world's largest seed‐dispersal networks10
Whole‐seedling trait adjustments of mountain birch under contrasting environmental conditions10
The soil bacterium Lysobacter capsici attaches to the nematode surface, and triggers induced systemic resistance in barley, impairing the invasion of root‐lesion nematodes10
Effects of experimental warming at the microhabitat scale on oak leaf traits and insect herbivory across a contrasting environmental gradient10
A single range‐expanding species reshapes alpine ecosystems and their belowground diversity10
Drivers of species richness in Amazonian amphibians and reptiles: testing diversity hypotheses across taxonomic groups9
Intraspecific trait variability is a key feature underlying the association between community‐weighted mean and abiotic gradients9
Disentangling the effects of temperature and rainfall on the population dynamics of Kalahari meerkats9
Forbs in Viking lands: the effect of disturbing dominant graminoids on recruitment in tundra grasslands9
Long‐term spatially‐replicated data show no physical cost to a benefactor species in a facilitative plant–plant interaction9
Strength of seasonality and type of migratory cue determine the fitness consequences of changing phenology for migratory animals9
Successful frugivory interactions recovery 53 years after the reintroduction of the ariel toucan Ramphastos ariel in the Atlantic forest9
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Quantifying the contribution of community trait mean and diversity to ecosystem functioning9
Optimal foraging can drive emergent initiator‐follower dynamics in social groups9
Parasite‐manipulated host dispersal: evidence from population genetics and mark–recapture experiments9
Species gain and loss per degree Celsius9
Habitat complexity promotes species richness and community stability: a case study in a marine biogenic habitat9
Defining the danger zone: critical snow properties for predator–prey interactions9
Effects of intraspecific variation in a native species' phenology on its coexistence with non‐native plants9
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The magnitude of Allee effects varies across Allee mechanisms, but not taxonomic groups9
Fungal phylogeny and plant functional traits structure plant–rhizosphere fungi networks in a subtropical forest9
The thermal sensitivity of growth and survival in a wild reptile with temperature‐dependent sex determination9
Trapped in the web: network architectures spread coevolution and shape adaptation9
Soil microbiomes drive aboveground plant–pathogen–insect interactions9
Oviposited eggs are sensitive to experimental heatwaves9
Area‐restricted search under realistic constraints9
Fine root presence and increased phosphorus availability stimulate wood decay in a central Amazonian rainforest9
Environmental stochasticity increases extinction risk to a greater degree in pollination specialists than in generalists9
Temporal changes in plant–soil feedbacks between the invasive Phytolacca americana and congeneric native and non‐invasive alien plants8
Divergence in cold tolerance promotes niche differentiation between diploid and polyploid kiwifruits along an altitudinal gradient in Southwest China8
Agrochemical effects on plankton temporal variability are buffered at larger spatial scales8
Frugivory‐mediated trophic cascades: how apex predators can shape the recruitment of a fleshy‐fruited tree8
Temporal variation of soil microarthropods in different forest types and regions of central Europe8
A timid choice: risk‐taking behavior predicts individualized niche in a varying landscape of safety8
Size matching between fruits and bill gapes differentially affects gulper and masher frugivorous birds8
Biotic and abiotic effects on tree regeneration vary by life stage in European primary forests8
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Methods for calculating coexistence mechanisms: beyond scaling factors8
Changes in land cover drove the recent range expansion of a tropical farmland bird8
Plant–mycorrhizal associations may explain the latitudinal gradient of plant community assembly8
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Multi‐omics insights into environmental adaptation and invasion potential of the ascidian Molgula manhattensis8
Intraspecific trait variability mediates the effect of nitrogen addition and warming on aboveground productivity8
Parallels and divergences in landscape genetic and metacommunity patterns in zooplankton inhabiting soda pans8
Does natural root grafting make trees better competitors?8
To disperse or compete? Coevolution of traits leads to a limited number of reproductive strategies8
Prickly postglacial pioneers: freshwater plankton community composition influences fatty acid desaturase (FADS2) copy number in southern Greenland threespine sticklebacks8
Resource availability and plant age drive defense against herbivory in salt marshes8
Diversity and assembly of the microbiome of a leguminous plant along an urbanization gradient8
Inconsistent effects of P enrichment and predator presence on food‐web dynamics in a bromeliad system8
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Aquatic insects balance growth with future supply of algal food resources8
Stable motifs delay species loss in simulated food webs8
Cotton facilitates long‐distance seed dispersal by functioning as nest material for birds8
Climatic disequilibrium of recruit communities across a drought‐induced die‐off gradient in Mediterranean shrubland8
The role of evolutionary processes in determining trophic structure8
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Cross‐scale scaling‐law analyses for the heterogeneity and diversity of animal gut microbiomes from community to landscape7
Winners and losers of reef flattening: an assessment of coral reef fish species and traits7
Ecological determinants of variation in phenotypic selection on quantitative immune defence traits7
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Evolution of dispersal and the maintenance of fragmented metapopulations7
Age ratio in groups of a social ungulate affects epizoochorous dispersal and diaspore exchanges7
From the brink of extinction to regulation: northern Europe's white‐tailed eagles now face density dependence and climate constraints after rapid population growth7
The paradox of searching efficiency or why are violent population cycles so uncommon in terrestrial ecosystem7
Measuring individual‐level trait diversity: a critical assessment of methods7
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Climate drives body mass changes in a mountain ungulate: shorter winters lead to heavier Alpine ibex7
Polyploidy confers better cold tolerance in Daphnia7
Root foraging strategies and niche segregation of three mediterranean shrub species7
Nutritional effects on the expression of cryptic pigmentation in freshwater isopods7
Patchy indirect effects of predation: predators contribute to landscape heterogeneity and ecosystem function via localized pathways7
Taylor's power law meets ecological networks: introducing TPLoN as a novel framework for heterogeneity scaling analysis7
Native tree promotes invasion when native grasses are absent7
Long‐term nutrient addition and grazing exclusion determine flower abundance, diversity and community composition in high‐latitude grasslands7
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Intraspecific variation in the landscape of fear: personality‐driven tradeoffs in habitat use7
Meta‐ecosystem dynamics drive the spatial distribution of functional groups in river networks7
Importance of accounting for imperfect detection of plants in the estimation of population growth rates7
Geographic patterns in scatterhoarding behavior of eastern gray squirrels Sciurus carolinensis7
The ecological memory of landscape complexity shapes diversity of freshwater communities7
Bamboo climatic tolerances are decoupled from leaf functional traits across an Andean elevation gradient7
Plant landscape abundance and soil fungi modulate drought effects on plant–soil feedbacks7
Fire buffers drought impacts on reproduction in a resprouting Mediterranean shrub7
Environmental influence on intraspecific trait variation in the tropical seagrass Halodule uninervis7
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Different components of biodiversity mediate two ecosystem functions derived from naturally assembled filter‐feeder communities7
Shifts and rebound in microbial community function following repeated introduction of a novel species7
Global warming confers performance advantages to a non‐native predator7
Early spring snowmelt and summer droughts strongly impair the resilience of bacterial community and N cycling functions in a subalpine grassland ecosystem7
A review and meta‐analysis of host‐plant selection by lepidopteran larvae: no evidence of diet breadth constraints on larval decision‐making6
Cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae) as overlooked hosts of pollinator pathogens: environmental context of interspecific transmission6
Time tells: plasticity and developmental asynchrony underlie trait variation in a dune‐building grass6
Interaction rewiring can buffer the reduction of long‐distance dispersal of seeds when large birds go extinct: an allometric perspective6
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Probing variation in reaction norms in wild populations: the importance of reliable environmental proxies6
Non‐native species affect the long‐term dynamics of native stream fish assemblages6
Patterns and drivers of range filling of alien mammals in Europe6
An invasive seagrass drives its own success in two invaded seas by both negatively affecting native seagrasses and benefiting from those costs6
Robust metagenomic evidence that local assemblage richness increases with latitude in ground‐active invertebrates of North America6
Reproductive skews of territorial species in heterogeneous landscapes6
Assessing the links between pollinators and the genetic and epigenetic features of plant species with contrasting distribution ranges6
Friends or foes? Polyploidy and competition in a grassland geophyte6
Demography and climate influence sex‐specific survival costs of reproduction over 60 years in a free ranging primate population6
Marine trophic architecture and hidden ecological connections in the Strait of Magellan: keystone species and ecosystem resilience6
Ecosystem functioning during biodiversity loss and recovery6
Plant–soil feedback relationships depend on nutrient availability and stoichiometry6
Dead or alive: carbon as a currency to integrate disease and ecosystem ecology theory6
Global analysis of annual survival among shorebirds reveals a negative effect of migration distance and a decline in recent decades6
Studying the genetic basis of ecological interactions with intergenomic epistasis6
Predicting ecosystem pattern across landscapes6
Are we underestimating the ecological and evolutionary effects of warming? Interactions with other environmental drivers may increase species vulnerability to high temperatures6
Intraspecific variation in seed size mediates rodent–seed interactions: combined patch‐level trait distributions to individual seed selection5
Divergence and shift in the migratory life history of a salmonid fish during the transition to a new environment5
Differentiation of rhizosphere fungal assemblages by host ploidy level in mixed‐ploidy Larrea tridentata populations5
Aromatic plants, nest bacterial diversity, and nestling condition in Corsican blue tits5
Dark diversity in temperate forests of northeastern China: drivers and implications5
Phylogenetic patterns of rarity and vulnerability in the flora of a temperate mountain range5
Density‐dependent and independent mechanisms jointly reduce species performance under nitrogen enrichment5
Evolutionary rescue in a mixed beech–fir forest: insights from a quantitative‐genetics approach in a process‐based model5
Higher facilitation for stress‐intolerant ecotypes along a metal pollution gradient are due to a decrease in performance in absence of neighbours5
Urbanization impacts short‐ but not long‐distance natal dispersal in a common orb web spider5
Trophic niche overlap decreases in related mesocarnivore species5
Shade tolerance controls the spectrum of crown sizes and its response to local competition across European and North American tree species. Implications for light interception strategies5
Community size and disturbance history jointly explain the interplay between stochastic and deterministic community variation in benthic invertebrates5
Response of specific leaf area to light: comparative study of a large species set5
Avian diversity changes in traditional agricultural landscapes of Japan over ten years5
Why adding habitat can destabilize species coexistence – consequences to restoration5
Pathogen shapes effects of host plant diversity on community productivity5
Aggregated dispersal reduces spatial synchrony but promotes instability and extinction risk5
Understanding the complex dynamics of zebra mussel invasions over several decades in European rivers: drivers, impacts and predictions5
Using integrated multispecies occupancy models to map co‐occurrence between bottlenose dolphins and fisheries in the Gulf of Lion, French Mediterranean Sea5
On multiple infections by parasites with complex life cycles5
Functional and phylogenetic beta diversity response of nocturnal moth assemblages to land‐use intensity in grasslands and forests5
Tolerance of intraspecific competition contributes to invasion success, despite drought and inbreeding5
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