Oikos

Papers
(The TQCC of Oikos is 7. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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The distribution of distances to the edge of species coexistence75
Marine gastropods at higher trophic level show stronger tolerance to ocean acidification42
Reindeer grazing reduces climate‐driven vegetation changes and shifts trophic interactions in the Fennoscandian tundra39
Ecological boundaries and constraints on viable eco‐evolutionary pathways38
The ameliorating influence of neighbouring plants on aboveground microclimate depends on their number, size and proximity37
Recreation and hunting differentially affect deer behaviour and sapling performance34
Effects of tree species diversity and conspecific seedling density on insect herbivory and pathogen infection on big‐leaf mahogany seedlings34
Intertidal mussels as ecosystem engineers: maintenance of invertebrate assemblages amid intertidal stress gradients32
Direct effect of artificial warming on communities is stronger than its indirect effect through body mass reduction30
Landscape‐scale dynamics of a threatened species respond to local‐scale conservation management28
Fish depth redistributions do not allow maintenance of abundance in a region of rapid change26
Structural complexity of hard substrates shapes shallow marine benthic communities26
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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 insects23
Looking beyond Popper: how philosophy can be relevant to ecology23
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Spatially‐discrete disturbance overrides inherent environmental heterogeneity in grazed mixed‐grass prairie22
Unraveling how keystone niche individuals contribute disproportionately to the population niche22
Plasticity and co‐variation of root traits govern differential phosphorus acquisition among 20 wheat genotypes21
How size and resource traits control species' biomass in monoculture and mixture and drive biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships21
Space resource utilization of dominant species integrates abundance‐ and functional‐based processes for better predictions of plant diversity dynamics21
Reproducing in a changing world: combined effects of thermal conditions by day and night and of water constraints during pregnancy in a cold‐adapted ectotherm21
The rate of environmental change as an important driver across scales in ecology21
Taxonomic novelty emerges more frequently and independently of functional novelty in historical coral communities21
The impact of plant diversity and vegetation composition on bumblebee colony fitness21
Flower‐visitor and pollen‐load data provide complementary insight into species and individual network roles20
Survival of the sickest: selective predation differentially modulates ecological and evolutionary disease dynamics20
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Local environment and sampling bias drive parasite prevalence estimates in freshwater fish communities20
A phylogenetic perspective on ecological specialisation reveals hummingbird and insect pollinators have generalist diets20
Special issue: Ecology of information enters the Anthropocene20
Variable interspecific competition under megadrought conditions: rodent population dynamics in semiarid Chile20
Why sex matters in phenological research20
Above‐ and belowground plant pathogens along elevational gradients: patterns and potential mechanisms20
The only lasting truth is change: multiple dimensions of biodiversity show historical legacy effects in community assembly processes of freshwater fish20
Maintenance of phenotypic plasticity is linked to oxidative stress in spadefoot toad larvae19
Climate change may alter the signal of plant facilitation in Mediterranean drylands18
The origin of excavator nesting behavior and its impact on the evolution of Neotropical parrots18
The role of fish feces for nutrient cycling on coral reefs18
Niche complementarity stabilizes grassland biomass during drought and eutrophication18
Trap‐dependence in capture–recapture studies: empirical evidence in vertebrates and biological meaning17
How sharp is the knife? Herbivore and carnivore sensitivity to resource stoichiometric quality17
Latitude‐specific responses of European birds' population growth rates to temperature and water availability17
A global synthesis and meta‐analysis of the environmental heterogeneity effects on the freshwater biodiversity17
Europe's Nature Restoration Law has now been adopted. What comes next?16
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Defensive mutualists affect outcross pollen transfer and male fitness in their host plant16
Environmental drivers of local abundance–mass scaling in soil animal communities16
Patronus charm: a comparison of benefactor plants and climate mediation effects on diversity16
Investigating the effects of whole genome duplication on phenotypic plasticity: implications for the invasion success of giant goldenrod Solidago gigantea16
Modelling Amazon fire regimes under climate change scenarios16
The role of functional and phylogenetic diversity in riparian tree vegetation on leaf litter breakdown in rivers16
Kin recognition in Drosophila: rearing environment and relatedness can modulate gut microbiota and cuticular hydrocarbon odour profiles16
Environment‐dependent population dynamics emerging from dynamic energy budgets and individual‐scale movement behaviour15
Linking intrinsic scales of ecological processes to characteristic scales of biodiversity and functioning patterns15
Heat stress can change the competitive outcome between fungi: insights from a modelling approach15
Patterns of belowground overyielding and fine‐root biomass in native and exotic angiosperms and gymnosperms15
Environmental change alters nitrogen fixation rates and microbial parameters in a subarctic biological soil crust15
Prey naiveté alters the balance of consumptive and non‐consumptive predator effects and shapes trophic cascades in freshwater plankton15
Impact of mowing frequency and temperature on the production of temperate grasslands: explanations received by an individual‐based model15
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 wasps14
Temporal changes in taxonomic and functional alpha and beta diversity across tree communities in subtropical Atlantic forests14
The roles of isolation and interspecific interaction in generating the functional diversity of an insular mammal radiation14
Evidence of Holarctic distribution: common frog Rana temporaria eggs in Fennoscandia host photosymbiotic green algae (Oophila sp.)14
Linking proximate drivers and fitness returns of vigilance in a large ungulate14
Arctic‐breeding black‐legged kittiwakes show individual variation in foraging responses to glacial conditions without consequences for reproductive output13
Interactions outside local patches contribute to the compound topology of plant–pollinator networks in fragmented dune slacks13
Winter wipeout? Post‐disturbance recovery of brown trout indicates strong population resilience to harsh winter conditions13
Long‐lasting effects of harsh early‐life conditions on adult survival of a long‐lived vertebrate12
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Why don't all species overexploit: erratum12
Interspecific variation in plant abundance can contribute to the diversity and evolutionary assembly of floral communities12
Contrasting responses of fine root biomass and traits to large‐scale nitrogen and phosphorus addition in tropical forests in the Guiana shield12
Generalization of a density‐dependent ecosystem function in dominant aquatic macroinvertebrates12
Nutritional thermal ecology: investigating the combined influence of temperature and nutrient availability on plant‐ectotherm trophic interactions12
Root functional traits determine the magnitude of the rhizosphere priming effect among eight tree species12
The pace and sequence of spatial learning: exploration facilitates long‐term behavioral refinement11
Recruitment probability in a large carnivore: the role of biological and human‐related factors in early‐life11
Relaxation of the leaf economics spectrum within and across quaking aspen Populus tremuloides genotypes11
Understandable multifunctionality measures using Hill numbers11
Carnivore community reassembly provides a test of Eltonian niche conservatism11
Refuge trifecta: intertidal gastropods use pits to escape heat, wave action and predation11
Effects of environmental and individual variation on time patterns of extinction in small experimental populations11
Effects of dominant ant species on ant community structure and ant–hemipteran interactions11
Environmental organic carbon availability determines metabolic and consumption rates in freshwater isopods11
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Climate change and biocrust disturbance synergistically decreased taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity in annual communities on gypsiferous soils11
Fly pollinator foraging in boreal forests is shaped by climate, forest structure and flower resources11
Integrating different facets of diversity into food web models: how adaptation among and within functional groups shape ecosystem functioning11
Using long‐term tree diversity experiments to explore the mechanisms of temporal shifts in forest ecosystem functioning11
The soil bacterium Lysobacter capsici attaches to the nematode surface, and triggers induced systemic resistance in barley, impairing the invasion of root‐lesion nematodes11
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The underground network: facilitation in soil bacteria10
Fine root presence and increased phosphorus availability stimulate wood decay in a central Amazonian rainforest10
The magnitude of Allee effects varies across Allee mechanisms, but not taxonomic groups10
Secondary production increases with species richness but decreases with species evenness of benthic invertebrates10
Implications of plant N/P stoichiometry influenced by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi for stability of plant species and community in response to nutrient limitation10
Spatio‐temporal variation in plant–pollinator interactions: a multilayer network approach10
Environmental stochasticity increases extinction risk to a greater degree in pollination specialists than in generalists10
Effects of temporal environmental stochasticity on species richness: a mechanistic unification spanning weak to strong temporal correlations10
Recent increasing homogenisation in Austrian butterfly communities over the past decades10
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Effects of sexual dimorphism on pollinator behaviour in a dioecious species10
A single range‐expanding species reshapes alpine ecosystems and their belowground diversity10
Optimal foraging can drive emergent initiator‐follower dynamics in social groups9
Estimated missing interactions change the structure and alter species roles in one of the world's largest seed‐dispersal networks9
Biotic homogenisation in bird communities leads to large‐scale changes in species associations9
Effects of experimental warming at the microhabitat scale on oak leaf traits and insect herbivory across a contrasting environmental gradient9
Strength of seasonality and type of migratory cue determine the fitness consequences of changing phenology for migratory animals9
Plant–mycorrhizal associations may explain the latitudinal gradient of plant community assembly9
Species gain and loss per degree Celsius9
The thermal sensitivity of growth and survival in a wild reptile with temperature‐dependent sex determination9
Determining the optimal movement strategies in environments with heterogeneously distributed resources and toxicants9
Intraspecific trait variability is a key feature underlying the association between community‐weighted mean and abiotic gradients9
Effects of intraspecific variation in a native species' phenology on its coexistence with non‐native plants9
Ontogenetic changes in root traits and root‐associated fungal community composition in a heteroblastic epiphytic bromeliad9
Defining the danger zone: critical snow properties for predator–prey interactions9
Nectar dynamics and the coexistence of two plants that share a pollinator9
Disentangling the effects of temperature and rainfall on the population dynamics of Kalahari meerkats9
Soil microbiomes drive aboveground plant–pathogen–insect interactions9
Dissecting fine root diameter distribution at the community level captures root morphological diversity9
Limited impacts of simulated soil disturbance by rewilded vertebrates on above‐ and below‐ground biodiversity9
Quantifying the contribution of community trait mean and diversity to ecosystem functioning9
Fungal phylogeny and plant functional traits structure plant–rhizosphere fungi networks in a subtropical forest9
Beyond resource selection: emergent spatio–temporal distributions from animal movements and stigmergent interactions9
Long‐term spatially‐replicated data show no physical cost to a benefactor species in a facilitative plant–plant interaction9
Changes in land cover drove the recent range expansion of a tropical farmland bird9
Habitat complexity promotes species richness and community stability: a case study in a marine biogenic habitat9
Divergence in cold tolerance promotes niche differentiation between diploid and polyploid kiwifruits along an altitudinal gradient in Southwest China9
Native tree promotes invasion when native grasses are absent8
Intraspecific trait variability mediates the effect of nitrogen addition and warming on aboveground productivity8
Climatic disequilibrium of recruit communities across a drought‐induced die‐off gradient in Mediterranean shrubland8
Prickly postglacial pioneers: freshwater plankton community composition influences fatty acid desaturase (FADS2) copy number in southern Greenland threespine sticklebacks8
A timid choice: risk‐taking behavior predicts individualized niche in a varying landscape of safety8
Aquatic insects balance growth with future supply of algal food resources8
Methods for calculating coexistence mechanisms: beyond scaling factors8
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Generational variation in nutrient regulation for an outbreaking herbivore8
Biotic and abiotic effects on tree regeneration vary by life stage in European primary forests8
Long‐term nutrient addition and grazing exclusion determine flower abundance, diversity and community composition in high‐latitude grasslands8
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Diversity and assembly of the microbiome of a leguminous plant along an urbanization gradient8
Temporal changes in plant–soil feedbacks between the invasive Phytolacca americana and congeneric native and non‐invasive alien plants8
The role of evolutionary processes in determining trophic structure8
Does natural root grafting make trees better competitors?8
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Stable motifs delay species loss in simulated food webs8
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Size matching between fruits and bill gapes differentially affects gulper and masher frugivorous birds8
Measuring individual‐level trait diversity: a critical assessment of methods8
Global warming confers performance advantages to a non‐native predator8
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Agrochemical effects on plankton temporal variability are buffered at larger spatial scales8
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Importance of accounting for imperfect detection of plants in the estimation of population growth rates8
To disperse or compete? Coevolution of traits leads to a limited number of reproductive strategies8
Temporal variation of soil microarthropods in different forest types and regions of central Europe8
Resource availability and plant age drive defense against herbivory in salt marshes8
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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 ecosystem8
Parallels and divergences in landscape genetic and metacommunity patterns in zooplankton inhabiting soda pans8
Root foraging strategies and niche segregation of three mediterranean shrub species8
The paradox of searching efficiency or why are violent population cycles so uncommon in terrestrial ecosystem8
Patchy indirect effects of predation: predators contribute to landscape heterogeneity and ecosystem function via localized pathways7
Larvae of coastal marine invertebrates enhance their settling success or benefits of planktonic development – but not both – through vertical swimming7
Meta‐ecosystem dynamics drive the spatial distribution of functional groups in river networks7
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Intraspecific variation in the landscape of fear: personality‐driven tradeoffs in habitat use7
Different components of biodiversity mediate two ecosystem functions derived from naturally assembled filter‐feeder communities7
Ecological determinants of variation in phenotypic selection on quantitative immune defence traits7
Direct and legacy‐mediated drought effects on plant performance are species‐specific and depend on soil community composition7
A review and meta‐analysis of host‐plant selection by lepidopteran larvae: no evidence of diet breadth constraints on larval decision‐making7
Bamboo climatic tolerances are decoupled from leaf functional traits across an Andean elevation gradient7
Demography and climate influence sex‐specific survival costs of reproduction over 60 years in a free ranging primate population7
Local population collapse of Ross's and lesser snow geese driven by failing recruitment and diminished philopatry7
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Urbanisation modulates the attractiveness of plant communities to pollinators by filtering for floral traits7
Evolution of dispersal and the maintenance of fragmented metapopulations7
Shifts and rebound in microbial community function following repeated introduction of a novel species7
Does fine scale spatiotemporal variation in seed rain translate into plant population structure?7
Plant landscape abundance and soil fungi modulate drought effects on plant–soil feedbacks7
Individual variation in marine larval‐fish swimming speed and the emergence of dispersal kernels7
Prey diversity constrains the adaptive potential of predator foraging traits7
Interactive effects of tree species composition and water availability on growth and direct and indirect defences in Quercus ilex7
A simple theory for the mesopredator release effect: when does an apex predator protect their shared prey from a mesopredator?7
Predicting ecosystem pattern across landscapes7
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Climate drives body mass changes in a mountain ungulate: shorter winters lead to heavier Alpine ibex7
Cross‐scale scaling‐law analyses for the heterogeneity and diversity of animal gut microbiomes from community to landscape7
The ecological memory of landscape complexity shapes diversity of freshwater communities7
Polyploidy confers better cold tolerance in Daphnia7
Non‐native species affect the long‐term dynamics of native stream fish assemblages7
Are we underestimating the ecological and evolutionary effects of warming? Interactions with other environmental drivers may increase species vulnerability to high temperatures7
Top–down effects override climate forcing on reproductive success in a declining sea duck7
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