Oikos

Papers
(The TQCC of Oikos is 6. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
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The ameliorating influence of neighbouring plants on aboveground microclimate depends on their number, size and proximity98
Effects of tree species diversity and conspecific seedling density on insect herbivory and pathogen infection on big‐leaf mahogany seedlings79
Warming winters promote biodiversity through reduced mortality of a habitat‐forming species in soft‐sediment intertidal systems44
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Looking beyond Popper: how philosophy can be relevant to ecology38
Unraveling how keystone niche individuals contribute disproportionately to the population niche34
Natural range expansion promotes stress resistance as a component of dispersal syndromes in non‐native insects34
Spatially‐discrete disturbance overrides inherent environmental heterogeneity in grazed mixed‐grass prairie33
Plasticity and co‐variation of root traits govern differential phosphorus acquisition among 20 wheat genotypes33
Direct effect of artificial warming on communities is stronger than its indirect effect through body mass reduction29
The distribution of distances to the edge of species coexistence27
Fish depth redistributions do not allow maintenance of abundance in a region of rapid change26
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
Intertidal mussels as ecosystem engineers: maintenance of invertebrate assemblages amid intertidal stress gradients25
Landscape‐scale dynamics of a threatened species respond to local‐scale conservation management25
Taxonomic novelty emerges more frequently and independently of functional novelty in historical coral communities24
How size and resource traits control species' biomass in monoculture and mixture and drive biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships23
Local environment and sampling bias drive parasite prevalence estimates in freshwater fish communities23
The impact of plant diversity and vegetation composition on bumblebee colony fitness23
Flower‐visitor and pollen‐load data provide complementary insight into species and individual network roles22
Why sex matters in phenological research22
Hosts, pathogens and hot ponds: thermal mean and variability contribute to spatial patterns of chytrid infection22
Structural complexity of hard substrates shapes shallow marine benthic communities22
Ecological boundaries and constraints on viable eco‐evolutionary pathways22
Marine gastropods at higher trophic level show stronger tolerance to ocean acidification21
Recreation and hunting differentially affect deer behaviour and sapling performance21
The rate of environmental change as an important driver across scales in ecology21
Reindeer grazing reduces climate‐driven vegetation changes and shifts trophic interactions in the Fennoscandian tundra21
Space resource utilization of dominant species integrates abundance‐ and functional‐based processes for better predictions of plant diversity dynamics21
Above‐ and belowground plant pathogens along elevational gradients: patterns and potential mechanisms21
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The role of fish feces for nutrient cycling on coral reefs20
The origin of excavator nesting behavior and its impact on the evolution of Neotropical parrots20
A phylogenetic perspective on ecological specialisation reveals hummingbird and insect pollinators have generalist diets20
Maintenance of phenotypic plasticity is linked to oxidative stress in spadefoot toad larvae20
The role of functional and phylogenetic diversity in riparian tree vegetation on leaf litter breakdown in rivers19
Special issue: Ecology of information enters the Anthropocene19
Variable interspecific competition under megadrought conditions: rodent population dynamics in semiarid Chile18
How sharp is the knife? Herbivore and carnivore sensitivity to resource stoichiometric quality18
The only lasting truth is change: multiple dimensions of biodiversity show historical legacy effects in community assembly processes of freshwater fish18
Survival of the sickest: selective predation differentially modulates ecological and evolutionary disease dynamics18
Environmental drivers of local abundance–mass scaling in soil animal communities18
Trap‐dependence in capture–recapture studies: empirical evidence in vertebrates and biological meaning17
Niche complementarity stabilizes grassland biomass during drought and eutrophication17
Patronus charm: a comparison of benefactor plants and climate mediation effects on diversity17
Latitude‐specific responses of European birds' population growth rates to temperature and water availability17
Defensive mutualists affect outcross pollen transfer and male fitness in their host plant17
Modelling Amazon fire regimes under climate change scenarios17
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Prey naiveté alters the balance of consumptive and non‐consumptive predator effects and shapes trophic cascades in freshwater plankton16
A global synthesis and meta‐analysis of the environmental heterogeneity effects on the freshwater biodiversity16
Impact of mowing frequency and temperature on the production of temperate grasslands: explanations received by an individual‐based model16
Europe's Nature Restoration Law has now been adopted. What comes next?16
Environment‐dependent population dynamics emerging from dynamic energy budgets and individual‐scale movement behaviour16
Climate change may alter the signal of plant facilitation in Mediterranean drylands16
Patterns of belowground overyielding and fine‐root biomass in native and exotic angiosperms and gymnosperms15
Linking proximate drivers and fitness returns of vigilance in a large ungulate15
Temporal changes in taxonomic and functional alpha and beta diversity across tree communities in subtropical Atlantic forests15
Kin recognition in Drosophila : rearing environment and relatedness can modulate gut microbiota and cuticular hydrocarbon odour profiles15
Investigating the effects of whole genome duplication on phenotypic plasticity: implications for the invasion success of giant goldenrod Solidago gigantea15
Interactions outside local patches contribute to the compound topology of plant–pollinator networks in fragmented dune slacks15
Linking intrinsic scales of ecological processes to characteristic scales of biodiversity and functioning patterns15
Host identity, nest quality, and parasitism strategy: influences on body size variation in parasitoid bees and wasps15
Evidence of Holarctic distribution: common frog Rana temporaria eggs in Fennoscandia host photosymbiotic green algae (Oophila sp.)15
Arctic‐breeding black‐legged kittiwakes show individual variation in foraging responses to glacial conditions without consequences for reproductive output15
Heat stress can change the competitive outcome between fungi: insights from a modelling approach15
Environmental change alters nitrogen fixation rates and microbial parameters in a subarctic biological soil crust14
What is the price of using the Price equation in ecology?14
The roles of isolation and interspecific interaction in generating the functional diversity of an insular mammal radiation14
Winter wipeout? Post‐disturbance recovery of brown trout indicates strong population resilience to harsh winter conditions14
Implications of plant N/P stoichiometry influenced by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi for stability of plant species and community in response to nutrient limitation13
The soil bacterium Lysobacter capsici attaches to the nematode surface, and triggers induced systemic resistance in barley, impairing the invasion of root‐lesion nematodes13
Integrating different facets of diversity into food web models: how adaptation among and within functional groups shape ecosystem functioning13
Environmental organic carbon availability determines metabolic and consumption rates in freshwater isopods13
Using long‐term tree diversity experiments to explore the mechanisms of temporal shifts in forest ecosystem functioning12
Spatio‐temporal variation in plant–pollinator interactions: a multilayer network approach12
The underground network: facilitation in soil bacteria12
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Effects of dominant ant species on ant community structure and ant–hemipteran interactions12
Carnivore community reassembly provides a test of Eltonian niche conservatism12
Refuge trifecta: intertidal gastropods use pits to escape heat, wave action and predation12
Long‐lasting effects of harsh early‐life conditions on adult survival of a long‐lived vertebrate12
Comparing the power of phylogenetic, trait and network structure information to predict plant–frugivore interactions11
Climate change and biocrust disturbance synergistically decreased taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity in annual communities on gypsiferous soils11
Root functional traits determine the magnitude of the rhizosphere priming effect among eight tree species11
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Whole‐seedling trait adjustments of mountain birch under contrasting environmental conditions11
Fly pollinator foraging in boreal forests is shaped by climate, forest structure and flower resources11
Contrasting responses of fine root biomass and traits to large‐scale nitrogen and phosphorus addition in tropical forests in the Guiana shield11
Recruitment probability in a large carnivore: the role of biological and human‐related factors in early‐life11
Why don't all species overexploit: erratum11
Nutritional thermal ecology: investigating the combined influence of temperature and nutrient availability on plant‐ectotherm trophic interactions11
Generalization of a density‐dependent ecosystem function in dominant aquatic macroinvertebrates11
Relaxation of the leaf economics spectrum within and across quaking aspen Populus tremuloides genotypes11
Determining the optimal movement strategies in environments with heterogeneously distributed resources and toxicants11
Interspecific variation in plant abundance can contribute to the diversity and evolutionary assembly of floral communities11
Recent increasing homogenisation in Austrian butterfly communities over the past decades11
The pace and sequence of spatial learning: exploration facilitates long‐term behavioral refinement11
Effects of environmental and individual variation on time patterns of extinction in small experimental populations11
Understandable multifunctionality measures using Hill numbers11
The magnitude of Allee effects varies across Allee mechanisms, but not taxonomic groups10
Limited impacts of simulated soil disturbance by rewilded vertebrates on above‐ and below‐ground biodiversity10
Effects of sexual dimorphism on pollinator behaviour in a dioecious species10
Biotic homogenisation in bird communities leads to large‐scale changes in species associations10
A single range‐expanding species reshapes alpine ecosystems and their belowground diversity10
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Beyond resource selection: emergent spatio–temporal distributions from animal movements and stigmergent interactions10
Fungal phylogeny and plant functional traits structure plant–rhizosphere fungi networks in a subtropical forest10
Intraspecific trait variability is a key feature underlying the association between community‐weighted mean and abiotic gradients10
Environmental stochasticity increases extinction risk to a greater degree in pollination specialists than in generalists10
Quantifying the contribution of community trait mean and diversity to ecosystem functioning10
Optimal foraging can drive emergent initiator‐follower dynamics in social groups10
Secondary production increases with species richness but decreases with species evenness of benthic invertebrates10
Effects of experimental warming at the microhabitat scale on oak leaf traits and insect herbivory across a contrasting environmental gradient10
Drivers of species richness in Amazonian amphibians and reptiles: testing diversity hypotheses across taxonomic groups9
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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
Habitat complexity promotes species richness and community stability: a case study in a marine biogenic habitat9
The thermal sensitivity of growth and survival in a wild reptile with temperature‐dependent sex determination9
Inconsistent effects of P enrichment and predator presence on food‐web dynamics in a bromeliad system9
Estimated missing interactions change the structure and alter species roles in one of the world's largest seed‐dispersal networks9
Effects of temporal environmental stochasticity on species richness: a mechanistic unification spanning weak to strong temporal correlations9
Plant–mycorrhizal associations may explain the latitudinal gradient of plant community assembly9
Oviposited eggs are sensitive to experimental heatwaves9
Dissecting fine root diameter distribution at the community level captures root morphological diversity9
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
Soil microbiomes drive aboveground plant–pathogen–insect interactions9
Effects of intraspecific variation in a native species' phenology on its coexistence with non‐native plants9
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Fine root presence and increased phosphorus availability stimulate wood decay in a central Amazonian rainforest9
Forbs in Viking lands: the effect of disturbing dominant graminoids on recruitment in tundra grasslands9
Strength of seasonality and type of migratory cue determine the fitness consequences of changing phenology for migratory animals9
Species gain and loss per degree Celsius9
Nectar dynamics and the coexistence of two plants that share a pollinator9
Different components of biodiversity mediate two ecosystem functions derived from naturally assembled filter‐feeder communities8
Aquatic insects balance growth with future supply of algal food resources8
A timid choice: risk‐taking behavior predicts individualized niche in a varying landscape of safety8
Does natural root grafting make trees better competitors?8
Resource availability and plant age drive defense against herbivory in salt marshes8
Temporal variation of soil microarthropods in different forest types and regions of central Europe8
Frugivory‐mediated trophic cascades: how apex predators can shape the recruitment of a fleshy‐fruited tree8
Importance of accounting for imperfect detection of plants in the estimation of population growth rates8
Stable motifs delay species loss in simulated food webs8
Prickly postglacial pioneers: freshwater plankton community composition influences fatty acid desaturase (FADS2) copy number in southern Greenland threespine sticklebacks8
Global warming confers performance advantages to a non‐native predator8
Intraspecific variation in the landscape of fear: personality‐driven tradeoffs in habitat use8
The role of evolutionary processes in determining trophic structure8
Intraspecific trait variability mediates the effect of nitrogen addition and warming on aboveground productivity8
Biotic and abiotic effects on tree regeneration vary by life stage in European primary forests8
Generational variation in nutrient regulation for an outbreaking herbivore8
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Parallels and divergences in landscape genetic and metacommunity patterns in zooplankton inhabiting soda pans8
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
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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
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Divergence in cold tolerance promotes niche differentiation between diploid and polyploid kiwifruits along an altitudinal gradient in Southwest China8
Methods for calculating coexistence mechanisms: beyond scaling factors8
Climatic disequilibrium of recruit communities across a drought‐induced die‐off gradient in Mediterranean shrubland8
To disperse or compete? Coevolution of traits leads to a limited number of reproductive strategies8
Size matching between fruits and bill gapes differentially affects gulper and masher frugivorous birds8
Agrochemical effects on plankton temporal variability are buffered at larger spatial scales8
Disentangling the effects of temperature and rainfall on the population dynamics of Kalahari meerkats8
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Measuring individual‐level trait diversity: a critical assessment of methods8
Cross‐scale scaling‐law analyses for the heterogeneity and diversity of animal gut microbiomes from community to landscape8
Evolution of dispersal and the maintenance of fragmented metapopulations7
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Does fine scale spatiotemporal variation in seed rain translate into plant population structure?7
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Long‐term nutrient addition and grazing exclusion determine flower abundance, diversity and community composition in high‐latitude grasslands7
A simple theory for the mesopredator release effect: when does an apex predator protect their shared prey from a mesopredator?7
Local population collapse of Ross's and lesser snow geese driven by failing recruitment and diminished philopatry7
Plant–soil feedback relationships depend on nutrient availability and stoichiometry7
The ecological memory of landscape complexity shapes diversity of freshwater communities7
Demography and climate influence sex‐specific survival costs of reproduction over 60 years in a free ranging primate population7
Meta‐ecosystem dynamics drive the spatial distribution of functional groups in river networks7
Non‐native species affect the long‐term dynamics of native stream fish assemblages7
The paradox of searching efficiency or why are violent population cycles so uncommon in terrestrial ecosystem7
Native tree promotes invasion when native grasses are absent7
Urbanisation modulates the attractiveness of plant communities to pollinators by filtering for floral traits7
Are we underestimating the ecological and evolutionary effects of warming? Interactions with other environmental drivers may increase species vulnerability to high temperatures7
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Patterns and drivers of range filling of alien mammals in Europe7
Root foraging strategies and niche segregation of three mediterranean shrub species7
Interactive effects of tree species composition and water availability on growth and direct and indirect defences in Quercus ilex7
Shifts and rebound in microbial community function following repeated introduction of a novel species7
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Polyploidy confers better cold tolerance in Daphnia7
Climate drives body mass changes in a mountain ungulate: shorter winters lead to heavier Alpine ibex7
Ecological determinants of variation in phenotypic selection on quantitative immune defence traits7
Taylor's power law meets ecological networks: introducing TPLoN as a novel framework for heterogeneity scaling analysis7
A review and meta‐analysis of host‐plant selection by lepidopteran larvae: no evidence of diet breadth constraints on larval decision‐making7
Friends or foes? Polyploidy and competition in a grassland geophyte6
Direct and legacy‐mediated drought effects on plant performance are species‐specific and depend on soil community composition6
Winners and losers of reef flattening: an assessment of coral reef fish species and traits6
Individual variation in marine larval‐fish swimming speed and the emergence of dispersal kernels6
Interaction rewiring can buffer the reduction of long‐distance dispersal of seeds when large birds go extinct: an allometric perspective6
Robust metagenomic evidence that local assemblage richness increases with latitude in ground‐active invertebrates of North America6
Studying the genetic basis of ecological interactions with intergenomic epistasis6
Using survival analysis to develop models for estimating size‐at‐detection of invasive species under surveillance6
Dead or alive: carbon as a currency to integrate disease and ecosystem ecology theory6
Special issue: Fruits, animals and seed dispersal: timely advances on a key mutualism6
Ornamentation and body condition, but not glucocorticoids, predict wild songbird cloacal microbiome community and diversity6
Bamboo climatic tolerances are decoupled from leaf functional traits across an Andean elevation gradient6
Predicting ecosystem pattern across landscapes6
Plant landscape abundance and soil fungi modulate drought effects on plant–soil feedbacks6
Thermoregulation of understory birds in lowland Amazonia6
Intraspecific variation in seed size mediates rodent–seed interactions: combined patch‐level trait distributions to individual seed selection6
Forbidden fruits? Ecosystem services from seed dispersal by fruit bats in the context of latent zoonotic risk6
Bryophytes dominate plant regulation of soil microclimate in alpine grasslands6
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Species contributions to ecosystem stability change with disturbance type6
An invasive seagrass drives its own success in two invaded seas by both negatively affecting native seagrasses and benefiting from those costs6
Not just ‘super‐predators': human behaviour shapes wildlife behavioural responses across avoidance, tolerance and attraction6
Emergence of structure in plant–pollinator networks: low floral resource constrains network specialisation6
Marine trophic architecture and hidden ecological connections in the Strait of Magellan: keystone species and ecosystem resilience6
Top–down effects override climate forcing on reproductive success in a declining sea duck6
Nutritional effects on the expression of cryptic pigmentation in freshwater isopods6
Patchy indirect effects of predation: predators contribute to landscape heterogeneity and ecosystem function via localized pathways6
Changes in prey body size differentially reduces predation risk across predator and prey abundances6
Community size and disturbance history jointly explain the interplay between stochastic and deterministic community variation in benthic invertebrates6
Assessing the links between pollinators and the genetic and epigenetic features of plant species with contrasting distribution ranges6
Biochemical traits enhance the trait concept in Sphagnum ecology6
Reproductive skews of territorial species in heterogeneous landscapes6
Probing variation in reaction norms in wild populations: the importance of reliable environmental proxies6
Ecosystem functioning during biodiversity loss and recovery6
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