Ecography

Papers
(The median citation count of Ecography 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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How far is enough? Prediction of the scale of effect for wild bees302
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Rapid recovery of boreal rove beetle (Staphylinidae) assemblages 16 years after variable retention harvest156
Aggregation of symbionts on hosts depends on interaction type and host traits143
Temporal variation in spider trophic interactions is explained by the influence of weather on prey communities, web building and prey choice74
Habitats as predictors in species distribution models: Shall we use continuous or binary data?61
Using citizen science to parse climatic and land cover influences on bird occupancy in a tropical biodiversity hotspot58
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GEE‐PICX: generating cloud‐free Sentinel‐2 and Landsat image composites and spectral indices for custom areas and time frames – a Google Earth Engine web application53
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Soil and climate‐dependent ingrowth inference: broadleaves on their slow way to conquer Swiss forests50
Direct evidence for intercontinental dispersal of a snail via a bird48
Changing species dominance patterns of Boreal‐Arctic heathlands: evidence of biotic homogenization46
Climate‐informed models benefit hindcasting but present challenges when forecasting species–habitat associations45
Neoisoptera repeatedly colonised Madagascar after the Middle Miocene climatic optimum42
Multi‐colony tracking of two pelagic seabirds with contrasting flight capability illustrates how windscapes shape migratory movements at an ocean‐basin scale41
Individual contribution to niche expansion in amphibians: a test of the niche variation hypothesis40
Improving landscape‐scale productivity estimates by integrating trait‐based models and remotely‐sensed foliar‐trait and canopy‐structural data39
The impact of empirically unverified taxonomic concepts on ecological assemblage patterns across multiple spatial scales38
Improving access and use of climate projections for ecological research through the use of a new Python tool37
From earthquakes to island area: multi‐scale effects upon local diversity36
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Defoliator outbreaks track with warming across the Pacific coastal temperate rainforest of North America34
Climatic conditions and landscape diversity predict plant–bee interactions and pollen deposition in bee‐pollinated plants32
Testing the links between bird diversity, alien species and disturbance within a human‐modified landscape32
Climatic filtering and temporal instability shape the phylogenetic diversity of European alpine floras31
canaper: Categorical analysis of neo‐ and paleo‐endemism in R31
Completeness analysis for over 3000 United States bee species identifies persistent data gap31
Latitudinal patterns and climatic drivers of Laurasian and Gondwanan angiosperm tree distributions in forests of the Americas30
A global analysis of coral bleaching patterns in association with mangrove environments under global warming29
Understanding complex spatial dynamics from mechanistic models through spatio‐temporal point processes29
Temperature sensitivity of tree recruitment at alpine treelines increases along latitudinal gradients28
Species traits drive responses of forest birds to agriculturally‐modified habitats throughout the annual cycle28
Global expansion of a solitary‐social tropical spitting spider shaped by multiple long‐distance dispersals27
Predation risk in a migratory butterfly increases southward along a latitudinal gradient26
(Sub‐)Antarctic endemic cyanobacteria from benthic mats are rare and have restricted geographic distributions26
Predicting niche overlap with model‐based ordination25
Niche differentiation within a cryptic pathogen complex: climatic drivers and hyperparasitism at multiple spatial scales25
Using computer vision to understand the global biogeography of ant color24
Disturbance drives concordant functional biodiversity shifts across regions: new evidence from river eDNA24
Demographic processes and fire regimes interact to influence plant population persistence under changing climates24
Enhancing monitoring to promote early detection and eradication of invasive species24
Genetic structure and diversity of the declining orchid Gymnadenia conopsea in Scandinavia: implications for conservation and management23
Integration of presence‐only data from several sources: a case study on dolphins' spatial distribution23
A mismatch between community assembly and abundance‐based diversity indices22
EWSmethods: an R package to forecast tipping points at the community level using early warning signals, resilience measures, and machine learning models22
A temperature‐driven model of phenological mismatch provides insights into the potential impacts of climate change on consumer–resource interactions22
How environmental drivers of spatial synchrony interact21
Extreme environments filter functionally rich communities of Atlantic Forest treefrogs along altitudinal and latitudinal gradients21
Landscape connectivity for the invisibles21
Urbanization affects oak–pathogen interactions across spatial scales21
Long‐term changes in flowering synchrony reflect climatic changes across an elevational gradient21
Complex phylogenetic origin and geographic isolation drive reef fishes response to environmental variability in oceanic islands of the southwestern Atlantic21
The Darwinian shortfall in plants: phylogenetic knowledge is driven by range size21
Estimating the extended and hidden species diversity from environmental DNA in hyper‐diverse regions20
Phylogenetic structure of liverwort assemblages along an elevational gradient in the tropical Andes: geographic patterns and climatic drivers20
Human activity drives establishment, but not invasion, of non‐native plants on islands20
The importance of history in understanding large tree mortality in African savannas20
Factors influencing transferability in species distribution models19
Multitrophic assembly influences β‐diversity across a tripartite system of flowering plants, bees, and bee‐gut microbiomes19
Global variation in ecoregion flammability thresholds19
Contrasting influence of seascape, space and marine reserves on genomic variation in multiple species19
forestexplorR: an R package for the exploration and analysis of stem‐mapped forest stand data19
Using joint species distribution modelling to identify climatic and non‐climatic drivers of Afrotropical ungulate distributions19
Species that dominate spatial turnover can be of (almost) any abundance19
Ecological scales of effect vary across space and time19
Accounting for imperfect detection in data from museums and herbaria when modeling species distributions: combining and contrasting data‐level versus model‐level bias correction19
Regional Biomes outperform broader spatial units in capturing biodiversity responses to land‐use change19
Land use change through the lens of macroecology: insights from Azorean arthropods and the maximum entropy theory of ecology19
Uncertainty matters: ascertaining where specimens in natural history collections come from and its implications for predicting species distributions19
Diversity – volume relationships: adding structural arrangement and volume to species – area relationships across forest macrosystems19
Top ten hazards to avoid when modeling species distributions: a didactic guide of assumptions, problems, and recommendations18
Niche conservation in copepods between ocean basins18
Altitudinal dispersal process drives community assembly of montane small mammals18
megaSDM: integrating dispersal and time‐step analyses into species distribution models18
Modelling species presence‐only data with random forests18
Predicting species abundance by implementing the ecological niche theory18
Abundant‐core thinking clarifies exceptions to the abundant‐center distribution pattern18
Colonization and extinction lags drive non‐linear responses to warming in mountain plant communities across the Northern Hemisphere17
RangeShifter 2.0: an extended and enhanced platform for modelling spatial eco‐evolutionary dynamics and species' responses to environmental changes17
GARPTools: R software for data preparation and model evaluation of GARP models17
Testing Bergmann's rule in marine copepods17
A general meta‐ecosystem model to predict ecosystem functions at landscape extents16
A global perspective on the functional responses of stream communities to flow intermittence16
Individual and temporal variation in movement patterns of wild alpine reindeer and implications for disease management16
Shift in habitat selection during natal dispersal in a long‐lived raptor species16
Consequences of repeated sarcoptic mange outbreaks in an endangered mammal population16
Dissecting earthworm diversity in tropical rainforests16
Complex relationships between beta diversity and dispersal in meta‐community models16
Ecological and biological indicators of the accuracy of species distribution models: lessons from European bryophytes16
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 Death16
Species–environment sorting explains latitudinal patterns in spatiotemporal β‐diversity for freshwater macroinvertebrates16
CDMetaPOP 2: a multispecies, eco‐evolutionary simulation framework for landscape demogenetics and connectivity15
Contrasting drivers of aboveground woody biomass and aboveground woody productivity in lowland forests of Colombia15
Latitudinal patterns in intertidal ecosystem structure in West Greenland suggest resilience to climate change15
Niche conservatism limits the distribution ofMedicagoin the tropics15
The functional trait distinctiveness of plant species is scale dependent15
SDM meets eDNA: optimal sampling of environmental DNA to estimate species–environment relationships in stream networks15
Afromontane understory birds increase in body size over four decades15
Characterizing energy flow in kelp forest food webs: a geochemical review and call for additional research15
Trait overdispersion in dragonflies reveals the role and drivers of competition in community assembly across space and season15
Citizen science data reveal altitudinal movement and seasonal ecosystem use by hummingbirds in the Andes Mountains15
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Plant invasion in Mediterranean Europe: current hotspots and future scenarios15
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‘RISDM‘: species distribution modelling from multiple data sources in R15
Present status, future trends, and control strategies of invasive alien plants in China affected by human activities and climate change14
Regional databases demonstrate macroecological patterns less clearly than systematically collected field data14
Colonizing polar environments: thermal niche evolution in Collembola14
Ranking ecological contingencies from high‐order factorial data demonstrate tidy control of biodiversity from facilitation cascades in estuaries on the South Island of New Zealand14
Scale dependency of community assembly differs between coastal marine bacteria and fungi14
Untangling the plant reproductive success of changing community composition and pollinator foraging choices14
The impacts of nutrient supply and imbalance on subcontinental co‐occurrence networks and metacommunity composition of stream algae14
Metapopulation‐level associations in positively interacting stream fishes14
Unique and shared effects of local and catchment predictors over distribution of hyporheic organisms: does the valley rule the stream?14
Pronounced changes of subterranean biodiversity patterns along a Late Pleistocene glaciation gradient13
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Competitive interactions modify the direct effects of climate13
Continental‐scale shifts in termite diversity and nesting and feeding strategies13
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Urbanization and artificial light at night reduce the functional connectivity of migratory aerial habitat13
Wolverine density distribution reflects past persecution and current management in Scandinavia12
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Edaphic specialization and vegetation zones define elevational range‐sizes for Mt Kinabalu regional flora12
New insight into drivers of mammalian litter size from individual‐level traits12
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Addressing uncertainty when projecting marine species' distributions under climate change12
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More than what they eat: uncoupled biophysical constraints underlie geographic patterns of herbivory12
Environmental heterogeneity, rather than stability, explains spider assemblage differences between ecosystems11
Resource selection functions based on hierarchical generalized additive models provide new insights into individual animal variation and species distributions11
Spatial replication can best advance our understanding of population responses to climate11
Determinism and stochasticity in the spatial–temporal continuum of ecological communities: the case of tropical mountains11
People or predators? Comparing habitat‐dependent effects of hunting and large carnivores on the abundance of North America's top mesocarnivore11
Contrasting long‐term trends in juvenile abundance of a widespread cold‐water salmonid along a latitudinal gradient: effects of climate, stream size and migration strategy11
Are trapping data suited for home‐range estimation?11
Big data, big problems? How to circumvent problems in biodiversity mapping and ensure meaningful results11
Competitive interactions under current climate allow temperate tree species to grow and survive in boreal mixedwood forest11
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The predictive performance of process‐explicit range change models remains largely untested10
Interspecific territoriality has facilitated recent increases in the breeding habitat overlap of North American passerines10
Integrated species distribution models fitted in INLA are sensitive to mesh parameterisation10
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Remotely sensed tree height and density explain global gliding vertebrate richness10
Vegetation cover and biodiversity reduce parasite infection in wild hosts across ecological levels and scales10
The swash zone selects functionally specialized assemblages of beach interstitial meiofauna (Platyhelminthes, Proseriata)10
Shifts in elevational distributions of montane birds in an arid ecosystem10
Informed dispersal based on prospecting impacts the rate and shape of range expansions10
Shallow coverage in shallow waters: the incompleteness of intertidal species inventories in biodiversity database records9
The value of considering demographic contributions to connectivity: a review9
Combining past and contemporary species occurrences with ordinal species distribution modeling to investigate responses to climate change9
High‐latitude marginal reefs support fewer but bigger corals than their tropical counterparts9
pastclim 1.2: an R package to easily access and use paleoclimatic reconstructions9
Making better use of tracking data can reveal the spatiotemporal and intraspecific variability of species distributions9
Integrating food webs in species distribution models can improve ecological niche estimation and predictions9
Randomising spatial patterns supports the integration of intraspecific variation in ecological niche models9
Biogeography of bird and mammal trophic structures9
A quantitative review of abundance‐based species distribution models9
Development stage‐dependent effects of biodiversity on aboveground biomass of temperate forests9
Should we exploit opportunistic databases with joint species distribution models? Artificial and real data suggest it depends on the sampling completeness9
Disentangling mechanisms that mediate soil fungal α and β diversity during forest secondary succession8
Advancing statistical models to reveal the effect of dissolved oxygen on the spatial distribution of marine taxa using thresholds and a physiologically based index8
Decomposing biodiversity change to processes of extinction, colonization, and recurrence across scales8
Environmental suitability throughout the late quaternary explains population genetic diversity8
Millennial‐scale change on a Caribbean reef system that experiences hypoxia8
Landsat‐based greening trends in alpine ecosystems are inflated by multidecadal increases in summer observations8
Projecting community trophic structures for the last 120 000 years8
Herbarium specimens provide reliable estimates of phenological responses to climate at unparalleled taxonomic and spatiotemporal scales8
Functional biogeography of coastal marine invertebrates along the south‐eastern Pacific coast reveals latitudinally divergent drivers of taxonomic versus functional diversity8
Changes in the climate suitability and growth rates of trees in eastern North America8
A large‐scale assessment of ant diversity across the Brazilian Amazon Basin: integrating geographic, ecological and morphological drivers of sampling bias8
Salix shrub encroachment along a 1000 m elevation gradient triggers a major ecosystem change in the European Alps8
RangeShiftR: an R package for individual‐based simulation of spatial eco‐evolutionary dynamics and species' responses to environmental changes8
Evaluating migration hypotheses for the extinct Glyptotherium using ecological niche modeling8
Predicting time‐at‐depth weighted biodiversity patterns for sharks of the North Pacific8
Legacy effects of drought on tree growth responses to hurricanes8
Environmental and biological drivers of white plague disease on shallow and mesophotic coral reefs7
Patterns and drivers of plant diversity across Australia7
Too hot for the devil? Did climate change cause the mid‐Holocene extinction of the Tasmanian devil Sarcophilus harrisii from mainland Australia?7
Macroecological patterns in European butterflies unveil strong interrelations between larval diet breadth, latitudinal range size and voltinism7
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SiteOpt: an open‐source R‐package for site selection and portfolio optimization7
Choice of prioritization method impacts recommendations for climate‐informed bird conservation in the United States7
A facultative mutualism facilitates European seagrass meadows7
Cross‐continental variation of herbivore resistance in a global plant invader7
Limited impact of microtopography on alpine plant distribution7
Predicting predator–prey interactions in terrestrial endotherms using random forest7
Divergent occurrences of juvenile and adult trees are explained by both environmental change and ontogenetic effects7
Diaspore traits specialized to animal adhesion and sea current dispersal are positively associated with the naturalization of European plants across the world7
Latitudinal distributions of the species richness, phylogenetic diversity, and functional diversity of fleas and their small mammalian hosts in four geographic quadrants7
Existing approaches and future directions to link macroecology, macroevolution and conservation prioritization7
Using recent baselines as benchmarks for megafauna restoration places an unfair burden on the Global South7
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An RShiny app for modelling environmental DNA data: accounting for false positive and false negative observation error7
Four steps to strengthen connectivity modeling7
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Revealing the drivers of parasite community assembly: using avian haemosporidians to model global dynamics of parasite species turnover7
Seasonality modulates habitat cover effects on avian cross‐boundary responses and spillover7
Rates of species turnover across elevation vary with vertical stratum in rainforest ant assemblages7
A guide to between‐community functional dissimilarity measures7
The environmental drivers of tree cover and forest–savanna mosaics in Southeast Asia7
The role of extreme rain events in driving tree growth across a continental‐scale climatic range in Australia6
Wildfire severity alters drivers of interaction beta‐diversity in plant–bee networks6
Assembly processes inferred from eDNA surveys of a pond metacommunity are consistent with known species ecologies6
Circum‐Arctic distribution of chemical anti‐herbivore compounds suggests biome‐wide trade‐off in defence strategies in Arctic shrubs6
Disease ecology and pathogeography: Changing the focus to better interpret and anticipate complex environment–host–pathogen interactions6
Functional divergence from ecological baselines on Caribbean coral reefs6
An invasive pathogen generally contracts species to their niche cores, not margins6
Insights into natal origins of migratory Nearctic hover flies (Diptera: Syrphidae): new evidence from stable isotope (δ2H) assignment analyses6
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First records distribution models to guide biosurveillance for non‐native species6
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Codistribution as an indicator of whole metacommunity response to environmental change6
BACKLAND: spatially explicit and high‐resolution pollen‐based BACKward LAND‐cover reconstructions6
Neutral processes related to regional bee commonness and dispersal distances are important predictors of plant–pollinator networks along gradients of climate and landscape conditions6
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Human‐mediated trophic mismatch between fire, plants and herbivores6
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Globally coordinated acoustic aquatic animal tracking reveals unexpected, ecologically important movements across oceans, lakes and rivers6
Roadside disturbance promotes plant communities with arbuscular mycorrhizal associations in mountain regions worldwide6
Origin of the central European steppe flora: insights from palaeodistribution modelling and migration simulations6
Estimating relative species abundance using fossil data identified to different taxonomic levels6
Mikrubi: a model for species distributions using region‐based records6
Unveiling the impacts of land use on the phylogeography of zoonotic New World Hantaviruses6
A meta‐analysis exploring associations between habitat degradation and Neotropical bat virus prevalence and seroprevalence6
insectDisease: programmatic access to the Ecological Database of the World's Insect Pathogens5
Plant species richness on the Tibetan Plateau: patterns and determinants5
Plant functional group interactions intensify with warming in alpine grasslands5
Invasion risk of the currently cultivated alien flora in southern Africa is predicted to decline under climate change5
Layer‐specific imprints of traits within a plant–herbivore–predator network – complementary insights from complementary methods5
Marcescence and prostrate growth in tree ferns are adaptations to cold tolerance5
Integrating physiology into correlative models can alter projections of habitat suitability under climate change for a threatened amphibian5
What controls forest litter decomposition? A coordinated distributed teabag experiment across ten mountains5
Dispersal rather than climate and local environment constrains non‐marine snail fauna in west Greenland5
Expanding Antarctic biogeography: microbial ecology of Antarctic island soils5
Measuring metrics: what diversity indicators are most appropriate for different forms of data bias?5
Synthesis ofBatrachochytrium dendrobatidisinfection in South America: amphibian species under risk and areas to focus research and disease mitigation5
CEAMEC 1.0: a ‘Shiny' application for cost‐effective animal management via environmental capacity5
Fish body size influenced by multiple drivers5
fundiversity: a modular R package to compute functional diversity indices5
Regional processes shape the structure of rumen microbial co‐occurrence networks5
Nocturnal avian migration drives high daily turnover but limited change in abundance on the ground5
Effects of evolutionary history on assembly of flowering plants in regions across Africa5
climetrics: an R package to quantify multiple dimensions of climate change5
Evaluating the influence of neighborhood connectivity and habitat effects in dynamic occupancy species distribution models5
Remotely‐sensed slowing down in spatially patterned dryland ecosystems5
Macroecological patterns of rodent population dynamics shaped by bioclimatic gradients5
Participatory scenarios for restoring European landscapes show a plurality of nature values4
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