Ecography

Papers
(The median citation count of Ecography is 4. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Disentangling the interrelations of body mass, egg deposition site, climate and microhabitat use in frogs and salamanders80
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Twenty years of dynamic occupancy models: a review of applications and look to the future74
Freshwater fish functional diversity shows diverse responses to human activities, but consistently declines in the tropics63
Estimating the extended and hidden species diversity from environmental DNA in hyper‐diverse regions61
Climatic filtering and temporal instability shape the phylogenetic diversity of European alpine floras59
Enhancing monitoring to promote early detection and eradication of invasive species56
Contrasting influence of seascape, space and marine reserves on genomic variation in multiple species55
Multiple stressors in river networks: local and downstream effects on freshwater macroinvertebrates54
Habitats as predictors in species distribution models: Shall we use continuous or binary data?53
Disentangling the effect of the spatial scale and species spatial pattern on the abundance–suitability relationship51
(Sub‐)Antarctic endemic cyanobacteria from benthic mats are rare and have restricted geographic distributions47
Species traits drive responses of forest birds to agriculturally‐modified habitats throughout the annual cycle43
Direct evidence for intercontinental dispersal of a snail via a bird42
Uncertainty matters: ascertaining where specimens in natural history collections come from and its implications for predicting species distributions42
Climatic conditions and landscape diversity predict plant–bee interactions and pollen deposition in bee‐pollinated plants42
Naturalization of ornamental plants in the United States depends on cultivation and historical land cover context40
Herbarium specimens provide reliable estimates of phenological responses to climate at unparalleled taxonomic and spatiotemporal scales39
Limited impact of microtopography on alpine plant distribution39
Pronounced changes of subterranean biodiversity patterns along a Late Pleistocene glaciation gradient37
Ranking ecological contingencies from high‐order factorial data demonstrate tidy control of biodiversity from facilitation cascades in estuaries on the South Island of New Zealand36
Predicting predator–prey interactions in terrestrial endotherms using random forest34
Environmental heterogeneity, rather than stability, explains spider assemblage differences between ecosystems34
Dissecting earthworm diversity in tropical rainforests33
Informed dispersal based on prospecting impacts the rate and shape of range expansions33
Untangling the plant reproductive success of changing community composition and pollinator foraging choices33
Shallow coverage in shallow waters: the incompleteness of intertidal species inventories in biodiversity database records32
Functional and phylogenetic convergence of winter and breeding bird communities in the northeastern US31
Projecting community trophic structures for the last 120 000 years30
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Competitive interactions modify the direct effects of climate28
Salix shrub encroachment along a 1000 m elevation gradient triggers a major ecosystem change in the European Alps27
The what, how, and why of trait‐based analyses in ecology27
Spatio‐temporal Usutu virus model explains Eurasian blackbird Turdus merula population trends27
Advancing statistical models to reveal the effect of dissolved oxygen on the spatial distribution of marine taxa using thresholds and a physiologically based index26
Climatic conditions and functional traits affect spider diets in agricultural and non‐agricultural habitats worldwide26
Circum‐Arctic distribution of chemical anti‐herbivore compounds suggests biome‐wide trade‐off in defence strategies in Arctic shrubs26
Integrating physiology into correlative models can alter projections of habitat suitability under climate change for a threatened amphibian26
Wildfire severity alters drivers of interaction beta‐diversity in plant–bee networks25
Neutral processes related to regional bee commonness and dispersal distances are important predictors of plant–pollinator networks along gradients of climate and landscape conditions25
The evolutionary history of Sinopoda spiders (Sparassidae: Heteropodinae): out of the Himalayas and down the mountain slopes25
Can we accurately predict the distribution of soil microorganism presence and relative abundance?25
Mathematically and biologically consistent framework for presence–absence pairwise indices25
The role of climate and species interactions in determining the distribution of two elevationally segregated species of small mammals through time24
Plant functional group interactions intensify with warming in alpine grasslands24
Remotely‐sensed slowing down in spatially patterned dryland ecosystems24
Does habitat or climate change drive species range shifts?23
Expanding Antarctic biogeography: microbial ecology of Antarctic island soils23
Nocturnal avian migration drives high daily turnover but limited change in abundance on the ground23
Synthesis of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection in South America: amphibian species under risk and areas to focus research and disease mitigation23
A zoogeographic model for the evolution of diversity and endemism in Madagascar22
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Historical and contemporary climate jointly determine angiosperm plant diversity patterns across east Eurasia22
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Advancing and retreating fronts in a changing climate: a percolation model of range shifts21
Herbarium data accurately predict the timing and duration of population‐level flowering displays21
Global comparison of habitat intactness models for predicting extinction risk in terrestrial mammals21
Lagged climate‐driven range shifts at species' leading, but not trailing, range edges revealed by multispecies seed addition experiment21
Megafrugivores as fading shadows of the past: extant frugivores and the abiotic environment as the most important determinants of the distribution of palms in Madagascar21
Shared temporal increases in bill size among songbirds of the San Francisco Bay Area provide evidence for different seasonal selective pressures20
Scale‐dependent variation in leaf functional traits clarifies mechanisms of invasion20
Do marine planktonic ciliates follow Bergmann's rule?20
Flood regimes alter the role of landform and topographic constraint on functional diversity of floodplain forests19
comspat: an R package to analyze within‐community spatial organization using species combinations19
KBAscope: key biodiversity area identification in R19
Calculating functional diversity metrics using neighbor‐joining trees19
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Emerging horizons in predictive biogeography18
Global benthic biogeographical regions and macroecological drivers for ophiuroids18
Trends in functional composition of small mammal communities across millennial time scales18
The effects of fragmentation per se on patch occupancy are stronger and more positive in a landscape with a higher quality and more homogeneous matrix18
The latitudinal gradient of functional diversity of Miocene marine mollusks from Chile17
Long‐term drought triggers severe declines in carabid beetles in a temperate forest17
wallace 2: a shiny app for modeling species niches and distributions redesigned to facilitate expansion via module contributions17
divraster : an R package to calculate taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity from rasters17
Supporting the restoration of complex ecosystems requires long‐term and multi‐scale perspectives17
A systematic review evaluating the performance of eDNA methods relative to conventional methods for biodiversity monitoring17
Cross‐validation matters in species distribution models: a case study with goatfish species17
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How the small host the small: cryptogam trait‐mediated structuring of Antarctic microarthropod communities16
The differential contribution of coyotes and passerines on future biotic carbon storage through juniper seed dispersal16
Long‐term homogenization of Fennoscandian heathland and tundra vegetation is connected to the expansion of an allelopathic dwarf shrub16
Shifting fish distributions impact predation intensity in a sub‐Arctic ecosystem16
Evolutionary trajectories of multiple defense traits across phylogenetic and geographic scales in Vitis16
‘FIESTA': a forest inventory estimation and analysis R package16
Huge spring migrations of insects from the Middle East to Europe: quantifying the migratory assemblage and ecosystem services15
Quantifying landscape‐level biodiversity change in an island ecosystem: a 50‐year assessment of shifts in the Hawaiian avian community15
GuidosToolbox Workbench: spatial analysis of raster maps for ecological applications15
Reliability of presence‐only data for assessing plant community responses to climate warming15
Functional traits and metacommunity theory reveal that habitat filtering and competition maintain bird diversity in a human shared landscape15
Tree biomass does not correlate with soil carbon stocks in forest‐tundra ecotones along a 1100 km latitudinal gradient in Norway15
Joint spatial modeling of cluster size and density for a heavily hunted primate persisting in a heterogeneous landscape15
Pollinator competition and the structure of floral resources14
Temperature as a likely driver shaping global patterns in mineralogical composition in bryozoans: implications for marine calcifiers under global change14
Food web structure and community composition: a comparison across space and time in the North Sea14
Non‐reproductive dispersal: an important driver of migratory range dynamics and connectivity14
Exploring mechanisms of spatial segregation between body size groups within fish populations under environmental change14
Biotic pressures and environmental heterogeneity shape beta‐diversity of seedling communities in tropical montane forests14
Enemy release: loss of parasites in invasive freshwater bivalves Sinanodonta woodiana and Corbicula fluminea14
Variable species establishment in response to microhabitat indicates different likelihoods of climate‐driven range shifts14
Improving access and use of climate projections for ecological research through the use of a new Python tool13
Global phylogenetic and functional structure of rodent assemblages13
Temporal variation in spider trophic interactions is explained by the influence of weather on prey communities, web building and prey choice13
Scale‐dependent effects of biodiversity and stability on marine ecosystem dynamics13
The Darwinian shortfall in plants: phylogenetic knowledge is driven by range size13
Latitudinal patterns and climatic drivers of Laurasian and Gondwanan angiosperm tree distributions in forests of the Americas13
Genetic structure and diversity of the declining orchid Gymnadenia conopsea in Scandinavia: implications for conservation and management13
Network‐based bioregionalization of demersal fish in continental shelf seas13
A temperature‐driven model of phenological mismatch provides insights into the potential impacts of climate change on consumer–resource interactions13
Using multi‐scale spatially explicit frameworks to understand the relationship between functional diversity and species richness13
Predicting fine‐scale distributions and emergent spatiotemporal patterns from temporally dynamic step selection simulations13
Complex phylogenetic origin and geographic isolation drive reef fishes response to environmental variability in oceanic islands of the southwestern Atlantic13
Habitat suitability models reveal the spatial signal of environmental DNA in riverine networks13
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Soil and climate‐dependent ingrowth inference: broadleaves on their slow way to conquer Swiss forests13
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More than what they eat: uncoupled biophysical constraints underlie geographic patterns of herbivory12
Changes in the climate suitability and growth rates of trees in eastern North America12
High‐latitude marginal reefs support fewer but bigger corals than their tropical counterparts12
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Performance of Cerrado lizards: a test of the center–periphery hypothesis12
The swash zone selects functionally specialized assemblages of beach interstitial meiofauna (Platyhelminthes, Proseriata)12
Addressing uncertainty when projecting marine species' distributions under climate change12
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Colonizing polar environments: thermal niche evolution in Collembola12
People or predators? Comparing habitat‐dependent effects of hunting and large carnivores on the abundance of North America's top mesocarnivore12
Big data, big problems? How to circumvent problems in biodiversity mapping and ensure meaningful results12
Climatic resilience after extreme drought in Mediterranean shrubland plant communities12
Can we model distribution of population abundance from wildlife–vehicles collision data?11
Plant invasion in Mediterranean Europe: current hotspots and future scenarios11
Modeling the rarest of the rare: a comparison between multi‐species distribution models, ensembles of small models, and single‐species models at extremely low sample sizes11
Marcescence and prostrate growth in tree ferns are adaptations to cold tolerance11
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Revealing the drivers of parasite community assembly: using avian haemosporidians to model global dynamics of parasite species turnover11
An invasive pathogen generally contracts species to their niche cores, not margins11
Environmental responses of fruiting fungal communities are phylogenetically structured11
Competitive interactions under current climate allow temperate tree species to grow and survive in boreal mixedwood forest11
Insights into natal origins of migratory Nearctic hover flies (Diptera: Syrphidae): new evidence from stable isotope (δ 2 H) assignment analyses11
Beetle evolution illuminates the geological history of the World's most diverse tropical archipelago11
Spatially‐nested hierarchical species distribution models to overcome niche truncation in national‐scale studies11
Regional processes shape the structure of rumen microbial co‐occurrence networks11
Drier, more seasonal climates strengthen coordination of hydraulic, leaf economic and reproductive strategies in subtropical forest tree communities11
Choice of prioritization method impacts recommendations for climate‐informed bird conservation in the United States11
pastclim 1.2: an R package to easily access and use paleoclimatic reconstructions11
A meta‐analysis exploring associations between habitat degradation and Neotropical bat virus prevalence and seroprevalence11
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Evaluating the influence of neighborhood connectivity and habitat effects in dynamic occupancy species distribution models11
Resource quantity and heterogeneity drive successional plant diversity in managed and unmanaged boreal forests10
Most young leaves pale in comparison to mature leaves: delayed greening is neither binary nor tropical10
Transient amplification enhances the persistence of tropicalising coral assemblages in marginal high‐latitude environments10
Combined effects of temperature change and natural habitat on the abundance of arthropod trait syndromes in agroecosystems10
Trade‐offs among restored ecosystem functions are context‐dependent in Mediterranean‐type regions10
To the top or into the dark? Relationships between elevational and canopy cover distribution shifts in mountain forests10
Revisiting long‐distance dispersal in a coastal marine fish10
Divergent litter traits of riparian plant species between humid and drier biomes within the tropics10
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Long‐term changes in taxonomic and functional composition of European marine fish communities10
Prey responses to foxes are not determined by nativeness10
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Tree species diversity increases the temporal stability of multitrophic forest beetle communities10
Using historical catch data to evaluate predicted changes in fish relative abundance in response to a warming climate10
A test of the abundant‐center hypothesis for stream fishes10
Spatial patterns and life histories of Macrotermes michaelseni termite mounds reflect intraspecific competition: insights of a temporal comparison spanni10
Integrating fine‐scale behaviour and microclimate data into biophysical models highlights the risk of lethal hyperthermia and dehydration10
Climatic stability predicts the congruence between species abundance and genetic diversity10
Macroecological patterns of functional and phylogenetic diversity vary between ground and arboreal assemblages in Neotropical savanna ants10
Living on the edge – physiological tolerance to frost and drought explains range limits of 35 European tree species10
Data integration improves species distribution forecasts under novel ocean conditions10
Norwegian lemmings, Lemmus lemmus : a case for a strong herbivore–plant interaction9
Climate‐competition tradeoffs shape the range limits of European beech and Norway spruce along elevational gradients across the Carpathian Mountains9
Variable impacts on reproductive energetics may render oviparous squamates more vulnerable to climate warming than viviparous species9
Rapid diversification of the Australian Amitermes group during late Cenozoic climate change9
‘Euclimatch': an R package for climate matching with Euclidean distance metrics9
Seed dispersal by waterbirds: a mechanistic understanding by simulating avian digestion9
First genomic snapshots of recolonising lineages following a devastating earthquake9
Variations in risk‐taking behaviour mediate matrix mortality's impact on biodiversity under fragmentation9
The role of phylogenetic relatedness on success of non‐native plants crossing the naturalization–invasion transition in North America9
Major axes of variation in tree demography across global forests9
Integrating host condition into spatiotemporal multiscale models improves virus shedding predictions9
Biogeography of larches in eastern Siberia – using single nucleotide polymorphisms derived by genotyping by sequencing9
Scale‐dependent effects of landscape structure on pollinator traits, species interactions and pollination success8
Historical data reveal contrasting habitat amount relationships with plant biodiversity8
Effects of phytoplankton species distribution on particulate organic carbon dynamics along a coastal gradient8
Integrating data from different taxonomic resolutions to better estimate community alpha diversity8
Most mammals do not wander: few species escape continental endemism8
Divergent projections of future African biome shifts with process‐based and species distribution models8
The time of acquisition of multispectral predictors matters: the role of seasonality in bird species distribution models8
Generalised bumblebee–flower interactions demonstrate weak floral niche partitioning despite a high bee diversity8
Life history diversity in terrestrial animals is associated with metabolic response to seasonally fluctuating resources8
Complex temporal dynamics of insect metacommunities along a tropical elevational gradient8
Synthesising the multiple impacts of climatic variability on community responses to climate change8
Trends in animal translocation research8
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Macro‐ and microclimate interactively shape species diversity of multiple taxa in mountain landscapes8
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Testing the assumption of environmental equilibrium in an invasive plant species over a 130 year history8
The drivers of plant turnover change across spatial scales in the Azores8
Estimating a physiological threshold to oxygen and temperature from marine monitoring data reveals challenges and opportunities for forecasting distribution shifts8
The best of two worlds: toward large‐scale monitoring of biodiversity combining COI metabarcoding and optimized parataxonomic validation8
Resource redistribution mediated by hydrological connectivity modulates vegetation response to aridification in drylands8
Reviewing and benchmarking ecological modelling practices in the context of land use8
Identifying barriers to gene flow and hierarchical conservation units from seascape genomics: a modelling framework applied to a marine predator8
Coupling in situ and remote sensing data to assess α‐ and β‐diversity over biogeographic gradients7
Integrating ecological feedbacks across scales and levels of organization7
Non‐stationary forest responses to hotter droughts: a temporal perspective considering the role of past legacies7
Individual contribution to niche expansion in amphibians: a test of the niche variation hypothesis7
Predicting niche overlap with model‐based ordination7
Temperature sensitivity of tree recruitment at alpine treelines increases along latitudinal gradients7
Acaulescence promotes speciation and shapes the distribution patterns of palms in Neotropical seasonally dry habitats7
Anthropogenic habitat modification causes nonlinear multiscale bird diversity declines7
Temporal trends in the spatial bias of species occurrence records7
Testing the core–periphery hypothesis: a standardised multi‐phylum assessment of genetic diversity of marine coastal species7
Landscape connectivity for the invisibles7
Abundant‐core thinking clarifies exceptions to the abundant‐center distribution pattern7
Ecosystem indicators: predicting population responses to combined climate and anthropogenic changes in shallow seas7
Global maps of lake surface water temperatures reveal pitfalls of air‐for‐water substitutions in ecological prediction7
Multi‐colony tracking of two pelagic seabirds with contrasting flight capability illustrates how windscapes shape migratory movements at an ocean‐basin scale7
Ecological scales of effect vary across space and time7
Human activity drives establishment, but not invasion, of non‐native plants on islands7
European colonial empires accelerated ant invasions7
Consequences of repeated sarcoptic mange outbreaks in an endangered mammal population6
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Integrated species distribution models fitted in INLA are sensitive to mesh parameterisation6
Moving towards better risk assessment for invertebrate conservation6
Factors influencing transferability in species distribution models6
Making better use of tracking data can reveal the spatiotemporal and intraspecific variability of species distributions6
Community structure and range shifts in Arctic marine fish under climate change6
Coupling eco‐evolutionary mechanisms with deep‐time environmental dynamics to understand biodiversity patterns6
Are trapping data suited for home‐range estimation?6
Climatic variability, spatial heterogeneity and the presence of multiple hosts drive the population structure of the pathogen Phytophthora ramorum and the epidemiology of Sudden Oak Death6
The predictive performance of process‐explicit range change models remains largely untested6
Living in the edge: demographic responses driven by density‐dependence and pulsed resources in a hibernating mammal6
Remotely sensed tree height and density explain global gliding vertebrate richness6
Interspecific territoriality has facilitated recent increases in the breeding habitat overlap of North American passerines6
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Vegetation cover and biodiversity reduce parasite infection in wild hosts across ecological levels and scales6
Succession stages‐dependent shifts in grassland community stability from asynchrony to population stability mediated by nitrogen enrichment6
Trait overdispersion in dragonflies reveals the role and drivers of competition in community assembly across space and season6
‘RISDM‘: species distribution modelling from multiple data sources in R6
Four steps to strengthen connectivity modeling6
Urbanization and artificial light at night reduce the functional connectivity of migratory aerial habitat6
CDMetaPOP 2: a multispecies, eco‐evolutionary simulation framework for landscape demogenetics and connectivity6
Fish body size influenced by multiple drivers6
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Present and future situation of West Nile virus in the Afro‐Palaearctic pathogeographic system5
Studying interspecific population synchrony: current status and future perspectives5
Seasonal macro‐demography of North American bird populations revealed through participatory science5
Plant trait‐environment relationships in tundra are consistent across spatial scales5
Climate, host ontogeny and pathogen structural specificity determine forest disease distribution at a regional scale5
Evaluating the predictors of habitat use and successful reproduction in a model bird species using a large‐scale automated acoustic array5
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