Oikos

Papers
(The median citation count of Oikos 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.)
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Natural range expansion promotes stress resistance as a component of dispersal syndromes in non‐native insects63
The impact of plant diversity and vegetation composition on bumblebee colony fitness63
Spatially‐discrete disturbance overrides inherent environmental heterogeneity in grazed mixed‐grass prairie54
Taxonomic novelty emerges more frequently and independently of functional novelty in historical coral communities46
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Looking beyond Popper: how philosophy can be relevant to ecology37
The distribution of distances to the edge of species coexistence35
Structural complexity of hard substrates shapes shallow marine benthic communities34
Unraveling how keystone niche individuals contribute disproportionately to the population niche34
Plasticity and co‐variation of root traits govern differential phosphorus acquisition among 20 wheat genotypes31
Why sex matters in phenological research31
Fish depth redistributions do not allow maintenance of abundance in a region of rapid change31
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Ecological boundaries and constraints on viable eco‐evolutionary pathways31
Marine gastropods at higher trophic level show stronger tolerance to ocean acidification30
Inter‐ and intraspecific spatial distributions, spatial segregation by dominants and emergent neutrality in understorey plants30
Landscape‐scale dynamics of a threatened species respond to local‐scale conservation management29
The rate of environmental change as an important driver across scales in ecology29
Reproducing in a changing world: combined effects of thermal conditions by day and night and of water constraints during pregnancy in a cold‐adapted ectotherm26
Effects of tree species diversity and conspecific seedling density on insect herbivory and pathogen infection on big‐leaf mahogany seedlings25
Intertidal mussels as ecosystem engineers: maintenance of invertebrate assemblages amid intertidal stress gradients25
Flower‐visitor and pollen‐load data provide complementary insight into species and individual network roles24
Local environment and sampling bias drive parasite prevalence estimates in freshwater fish communities23
Direct effect of artificial warming on communities is stronger than its indirect effect through body mass reduction23
Warming winters promote biodiversity through reduced mortality of a habitat‐forming species in soft‐sediment intertidal systems22
Above‐ and belowground plant pathogens along elevational gradients: patterns and potential mechanisms21
Reindeer grazing reduces climate‐driven vegetation changes and shifts trophic interactions in the Fennoscandian tundra21
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Phenotypic plasticity may mediate habitat filtering in a forest edge community21
Recreation and hunting differentially affect deer behaviour and sapling performance21
Direct and indirect effects of global change on mycorrhizal associations of savanna plant communities21
Space resource utilization of dominant species integrates abundance‐ and functional‐based processes for better predictions of plant diversity dynamics21
Survival of the sickest: selective predation differentially modulates ecological and evolutionary disease dynamics20
Europe's Nature Restoration Law has now been adopted. What comes next?20
Studying seed dispersal through the lens of movement ecology20
Maintenance of phenotypic plasticity is linked to oxidative stress in spadefoot toad larvae20
Modelling Amazon fire regimes under climate change scenarios20
The only lasting truth is change: multiple dimensions of biodiversity show historical legacy effects in community assembly processes of freshwater fish19
Special issue: Ecology of information enters the Anthropocene19
Variable interspecific competition under megadrought conditions: rodent population dynamics in semiarid Chile19
How sharp is the knife? Herbivore and carnivore sensitivity to resource stoichiometric quality19
The role of functional and phylogenetic diversity in riparian tree vegetation on leaf litter breakdown in rivers19
Environmental drivers of local abundance–mass scaling in soil animal communities19
Variation in ripe fruit hardness: a mechanical constraint?18
A phylogenetic perspective on ecological specialisation reveals hummingbird and insect pollinators have generalist diets18
Patronus charm: a comparison of benefactor plants and climate mediation effects on diversity18
The origin of excavator nesting behavior and its impact on the evolution of Neotropical parrots18
A global synthesis and meta‐analysis of the environmental heterogeneity effects on the freshwater biodiversity18
Climate change may alter the signal of plant facilitation in Mediterranean drylands18
Defensive mutualists affect outcross pollen transfer and male fitness in their host plant17
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Bird pollination syndrome is the plant's adaptation to ornithophily, but nectarivorous birds are not so selective17
Species differences drive spatial scaling of foraging patterns in herbivorous reef fishes17
The role of fish feces for nutrient cycling on coral reefs17
Heat stress can change the competitive outcome between fungi: insights from a modelling approach16
Impact of mowing frequency and temperature on the production of temperate grasslands: explanations received by an individual‐based model16
The roles of isolation and interspecific interaction in generating the functional diversity of an insular mammal radiation16
Interspecific differences in maternal support in herbaceous plants: CNP contents in seeds varies to match expected nutrient limitation of seedlings16
Prey naiveté alters the balance of consumptive and non‐consumptive predator effects and shapes trophic cascades in freshwater plankton16
Temporal changes in taxonomic and functional alpha and beta diversity across tree communities in subtropical Atlantic forests16
Linking proximate drivers and fitness returns of vigilance in a large ungulate16
Environmental change alters nitrogen fixation rates and microbial parameters in a subarctic biological soil crust16
Patterns of belowground overyielding and fine‐root biomass in native and exotic angiosperms and gymnosperms16
Evidence of Holarctic distribution: common frog Rana temporaria eggs in Fennoscandia host photosymbiotic green algae (Oophila sp.)16
Environment‐dependent population dynamics emerging from dynamic energy budgets and individual‐scale movement behaviour15
Kin recognition in Drosophila: rearing environment and relatedness can modulate gut microbiota and cuticular hydrocarbon odour profiles15
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Magnitude and timing of resource pulses interact to affect plant invasion15
Linking intrinsic scales of ecological processes to characteristic scales of biodiversity and functioning patterns15
Investigating the effects of whole genome duplication on phenotypic plasticity: implications for the invasion success of giant goldenrod Solidago gigantea15
Using long‐term tree diversity experiments to explore the mechanisms of temporal shifts in forest ecosystem functioning15
Can a complex ecosystem survive the loss of a large fraction of its species? A random matrix theory of secondary extinction15
What is the price of using the Price equation in ecology?15
Host identity, nest quality, and parasitism strategy: influences on body size variation in parasitoid bees and wasps15
The soil bacterium Lysobacter capsici attaches to the nematode surface, and triggers induced systemic resistance in barley, impairing the invasion of root‐lesion nematodes15
Contrasting responses of fine root biomass and traits to large‐scale nitrogen and phosphorus addition in tropical forests in the Guiana shield14
Effects of dominant ant species on ant community structure and ant–hemipteran interactions14
Implications of plant N/P stoichiometry influenced by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi for stability of plant species and community in response to nutrient limitation14
Frugivore diversity increases evenness in the seed rain on deforested tropical landscapes14
Integrating different facets of diversity into food web models: how adaptation among and within functional groups shape ecosystem functioning14
Interspecific variation in plant abundance can contribute to the diversity and evolutionary assembly of floral communities14
Generalization of a density‐dependent ecosystem function in dominant aquatic macroinvertebrates14
The underground network: facilitation in soil bacteria14
Nutritional thermal ecology: investigating the combined influence of temperature and nutrient availability on plant‐ectotherm trophic interactions14
Root functional traits determine the magnitude of the rhizosphere priming effect among eight tree species14
Estimated missing interactions change the structure and alter species roles in one of the world's largest seed‐dispersal networks13
Environmental organic carbon availability determines metabolic and consumption rates in freshwater isopods13
Long‐lasting effects of harsh early‐life conditions on adult survival of a long‐lived vertebrate13
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Climate change and biocrust disturbance synergistically decreased taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity in annual communities on gypsiferous soils13
Understandable multifunctionality measures using Hill numbers13
Spatio‐temporal variation in plant–pollinator interactions: a multilayer network approach13
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Why don't all species overexploit: erratum13
Carnivore community reassembly provides a test of Eltonian niche conservatism13
Recent increasing homogenisation in Austrian butterfly communities over the past decades13
A single range‐expanding species reshapes alpine ecosystems and their belowground diversity12
Fine root presence and increased phosphorus availability stimulate wood decay in a central Amazonian rainforest12
Biotic homogenisation in bird communities leads to large‐scale changes in species associations12
Effects of sexual dimorphism on pollinator behaviour in a dioecious species12
Effects of intraspecific variation in a native species' phenology on its coexistence with non‐native plants12
Effects of temporal environmental stochasticity on species richness: a mechanistic unification spanning weak to strong temporal correlations12
Secondary production increases with species richness but decreases with species evenness of benthic invertebrates12
Effects of experimental warming at the microhabitat scale on oak leaf traits and insect herbivory across a contrasting environmental gradient12
Environmental stochasticity increases extinction risk to a greater degree in pollination specialists than in generalists12
Experimental river noise alters arthropod abundance12
Fungal phylogeny and plant functional traits structure plant–rhizosphere fungi networks in a subtropical forest12
The magnitude of Allee effects varies across Allee mechanisms, but not taxonomic groups11
Strength of seasonality and type of migratory cue determine the fitness consequences of changing phenology for migratory animals11
Soil microbiomes drive aboveground plant–pathogen–insect interactions11
The thermal sensitivity of growth and survival in a wild reptile with temperature‐dependent sex determination11
Dissecting fine root diameter distribution at the community level captures root morphological diversity11
Beyond resource selection: emergent spatio–temporal distributions from animal movements and stigmergent interactions11
Understanding behavioural responses to human‐induced rapid environmental change: a meta‐analysis11
Habitat complexity promotes species richness and community stability: a case study in a marine biogenic habitat11
Nectar dynamics and the coexistence of two plants that share a pollinator11
Plant–mycorrhizal associations may explain the latitudinal gradient of plant community assembly11
Ontogenetic changes in root traits and root‐associated fungal community composition in a heteroblastic epiphytic bromeliad11
Determining the optimal movement strategies in environments with heterogeneously distributed resources and toxicants11
Size‐dependent eco‐evolutionary feedbacks in harvested systems11
Long‐term spatially‐replicated data show no physical cost to a benefactor species in a facilitative plant–plant interaction11
Changes in land cover drove the recent range expansion of a tropical farmland bird11
Parallels and divergences in landscape genetic and metacommunity patterns in zooplankton inhabiting soda pans10
Biotic and abiotic effects on tree regeneration vary by life stage in European primary forests10
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Temporal changes in plant–soil feedbacks between the invasive Phytolacca americana and congeneric native and non‐invasive alien plants10
Species gain and loss per degree Celsius10
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The role of evolutionary processes in determining trophic structure10
Size matching between fruits and bill gapes differentially affects gulper and masher frugivorous birds10
Defining the danger zone: critical snow properties for predator–prey interactions10
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Divergence in cold tolerance promotes niche differentiation between diploid and polyploid kiwifruits along an altitudinal gradient in Southwest China10
Prickly postglacial pioneers: freshwater plankton community composition influences fatty acid desaturase (FADS2) copy number in southern Greenland threespine sticklebacks10
Aquatic insects balance growth with future supply of algal food resources10
Disentangling the effects of temperature and rainfall on the population dynamics of Kalahari meerkats10
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Early spring snowmelt and summer droughts strongly impair the resilience of bacterial community and N cycling functions in a subalpine grassland ecosystem9
Many roads to success: different combinations of life‐history traits provide accurate germination timing in seasonally dry environments9
Does natural root grafting make trees better competitors?9
Importance of accounting for imperfect detection of plants in the estimation of population growth rates9
Native tree promotes invasion when native grasses are absent9
Intraspecific variation in the landscape of fear: personality‐driven tradeoffs in habitat use9
To disperse or compete? Coevolution of traits leads to a limited number of reproductive strategies9
Generational variation in nutrient regulation for an outbreaking herbivore9
Methods for calculating coexistence mechanisms: beyond scaling factors9
Temporal variation of soil microarthropods in different forest types and regions of central Europe9
Cross‐scale scaling‐law analyses for the heterogeneity and diversity of animal gut microbiomes from community to landscape9
Resource availability and plant age drive defense against herbivory in salt marshes9
Climatic disequilibrium of recruit communities across a drought‐induced die‐off gradient in Mediterranean shrubland9
Stable motifs delay species loss in simulated food webs9
Intraspecific trait variability mediates the effect of nitrogen addition and warming on aboveground productivity9
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Different components of biodiversity mediate two ecosystem functions derived from naturally assembled filter‐feeder communities8
Demography and climate influence sex‐specific survival costs of reproduction over 60 years in a free ranging primate population8
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Does fine scale spatiotemporal variation in seed rain translate into plant population structure?8
Root foraging strategies and niche segregation of three mediterranean shrub species8
Seasonality affects specialisation of a temperate forest herbivore community8
Measuring individual‐level trait diversity: a critical assessment of methods8
The paradox of searching efficiency or why are violent population cycles so uncommon in terrestrial ecosystem8
A simple theory for the mesopredator release effect: when does an apex predator protect their shared prey from a mesopredator?8
Positive species interactions shape species' range limits8
Water the odds? Spring rainfall and emergence‐related seed traits drive plant recruitment8
Shifts and rebound in microbial community function following repeated introduction of a novel species8
Resource‐to‐consumer ratio determines the functional response of an herbivorous fish in a field experiment8
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Host specificity and interaction networks of insects feeding on seeds and fruits in tropical rainforests8
Effects of population density on static allometry between horn length and body mass in mountain ungulates8
Polyploidy confers better cold tolerance in Daphnia8
Evolution of dispersal and the maintenance of fragmented metapopulations8
Meta‐ecosystem dynamics drive the spatial distribution of functional groups in river networks8
Climate drives body mass changes in a mountain ungulate: shorter winters lead to heavier Alpine ibex8
Reproductive skews of territorial species in heterogeneous landscapes7
Probing variation in reaction norms in wild populations: the importance of reliable environmental proxies7
Sex, competition and mimicry: an eco‐evolutionary model reveals unexpected impacts of ecological interactions on the evolution of phenotypes in sympatry7
Assessing the links between pollinators and the genetic and epigenetic features of plant species with contrasting distribution ranges7
Are we underestimating the ecological and evolutionary effects of warming? Interactions with other environmental drivers may increase species vulnerability to high temperatures7
Species contributions to ecosystem stability change with disturbance type7
Non‐native species affect the long‐term dynamics of native stream fish assemblages7
Biochemical traits enhance the trait concept in Sphagnum ecology7
Ecological determinants of variation in phenotypic selection on quantitative immune defence traits7
Predicting ecosystem pattern across landscapes7
Top–down effects override climate forcing on reproductive success in a declining sea duck7
Bamboo climatic tolerances are decoupled from leaf functional traits across an Andean elevation gradient7
Bryophytes dominate plant regulation of soil microclimate in alpine grasslands7
Dead or alive: carbon as a currency to integrate disease and ecosystem ecology theory7
Special issue: Fruits, animals and seed dispersal: timely advances on a key mutualism7
Robust metagenomic evidence that local assemblage richness increases with latitude in ground‐active invertebrates of North America7
A review and meta‐analysis of host‐plant selection by lepidopteran larvae: no evidence of diet breadth constraints on larval decision‐making7
Prey diversity constrains the adaptive potential of predator foraging traits7
Exploitative competition for floral resources reduces sugar intake but differently impacts the foraging behaviour of two non‐bee flower visitors7
Urbanisation modulates the attractiveness of plant communities to pollinators by filtering for floral traits7
Ornamentation and body condition, but not glucocorticoids, predict wild songbird cloacal microbiome community and diversity7
Larvae of coastal marine invertebrates enhance their settling success or benefits of planktonic development – but not both – through vertical swimming7
Local population collapse of Ross's and lesser snow geese driven by failing recruitment and diminished philopatry7
Individual variation in marine larval‐fish swimming speed and the emergence of dispersal kernels7
An invasive seagrass drives its own success in two invaded seas by both negatively affecting native seagrasses and benefiting from those costs7
Interaction rewiring can buffer the reduction of long‐distance dispersal of seeds when large birds go extinct: an allometric perspective7
Emergence of structure in plant–pollinator networks: low floral resource constrains network specialisation7
Thermoregulation of understory birds in lowland Amazonia7
Deterioration of nature's information webs in the Anthropocene7
The internal structure of metacommunities7
Janzen–Connell effects partially supported in reef‐building corals: adult presence interacts with settler density to limit establishment7
Winners and losers of reef flattening: an assessment of coral reef fish species and traits7
Do natural enemies mediate conspecific negative distance‐ and density‐dependence of trees? A meta‐analysis of exclusion experiments7
Patchy indirect effects of predation: predators contribute to landscape heterogeneity and ecosystem function via localized pathways7
Studying the genetic basis of ecological interactions with intergenomic epistasis7
Plant landscape abundance and soil fungi modulate drought effects on plant–soil feedbacks7
Interactive effects of tree species composition and water availability on growth and direct and indirect defences in Quercus ilex7
Temporal changes of local and regional processes in the assembly of herbivorous insect communities7
Direct and legacy‐mediated drought effects on plant performance are species‐specific and depend on soil community composition7
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Changes in prey body size differentially reduces predation risk across predator and prey abundances7
Forbidden fruits? Ecosystem services from seed dispersal by fruit bats in the context of latent zoonotic risk6
Threshold‐dependent gene regulation and partial assortative mating determine wing dimorphism of an insect6
Floral preferences of mountain bumble bees are constrained by functional traits but flexible through elevation and season6
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 strategies6
Metabolic rate and foraging behaviour: a mechanistic link across body size and temperature gradients6
Phytoplankton mean cell size and total biomass increase with nutrients are driven by both species composition and evolution of plasticity6
Simple attributes predict the value of plants as hosts to fungal and arthropod communities6
Local diversity in phenological responses of migratory lake sturgeon to warm winters6
Higher facilitation for stress‐intolerant ecotypes along a metal pollution gradient are due to a decrease in performance in absence of neighbours6
Size bias in the documentation of marine biodiversity6
Density‐dependent and independent mechanisms jointly reduce species performance under nitrogen enrichment6
Landscape structures and stand attributes jointly regulate forest productivity6
The species richness–productivity relationship varies among regions and productivity estimates, but not with spatial resolution6
Invasive earthworms modulate native plant trait expression and competition6
Why don't all species overexploit?6
On multiple infections by parasites with complex life cycles6
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Ecosystem functioning during biodiversity loss and recovery6
Effects of intrinsic precipitation‐predictability on root traits, allocation strategies and the selective regimes acting on them6
Aggregated dispersal reduces spatial synchrony but promotes instability and extinction risk6
Ground beetle trophic interactions alter available nitrogen in forest soil6
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Linking fine‐root architecture, vertical distribution and growth rate in temperate mountain shrubs6
Stability of rocky intertidal communities, in response to species removal, varies across spatial scales6
Using integrated multispecies occupancy models to map co‐occurrence between bottlenose dolphins and fisheries in the Gulf of Lion, French Mediterranean Sea6
Avian diversity changes in traditional agricultural landscapes of Japan over ten years6
Divergence and shift in the migratory life history of a salmonid fish during the transition to a new environment6
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Community size and disturbance history jointly explain the interplay between stochastic and deterministic community variation in benthic invertebrates6
Phylogenetic patterns of rarity and vulnerability in the flora of a temperate mountain range6
Island biogeography theory and the assembly patterns of native versus non‐native forest insects6
Exploring nutrient availability and herbivorous insect population dynamics across multiple scales6
Plant, insect, and soil microbial communities vary across brome invasion gradients in northern mixed‐grass prairies6
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