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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Enhancing monitoring to promote early detection and eradication of invasive species339
(Sub‐)Antarctic endemic cyanobacteria from benthic mats are rare and have restricted geographic distributions184
Disentangling the effect of the spatial scale and species spatial pattern on the abundance–suitability relationship167
Contrasting influence of seascape, space and marine reserves on genomic variation in multiple species160
Species traits drive responses of forest birds to agriculturally‐modified habitats throughout the annual cycle81
Direct evidence for intercontinental dispersal of a snail via a bird63
Estimating the extended and hidden species diversity from environmental DNA in hyper‐diverse regions63
Climatic filtering and temporal instability shape the phylogenetic diversity of European alpine floras61
Freshwater fish functional diversity shows diverse responses to human activities, but consistently declines in the tropics60
Integration of presence‐only data from several sources: a case study on dolphins' spatial distribution58
Habitats as predictors in species distribution models: Shall we use continuous or binary data?56
Climatic conditions and landscape diversity predict plant–bee interactions and pollen deposition in bee‐pollinated plants51
A global perspective on the functional responses of stream communities to flow intermittence49
Complex relationships between beta diversity and dispersal in meta‐community models48
Uncertainty matters: ascertaining where specimens in natural history collections come from and its implications for predicting species distributions47
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Environmental heterogeneity, rather than stability, explains spider assemblage differences between ecosystems46
Spatio‐temporal Usutu virus model explains Eurasian blackbird Turdus merula population trends42
Dissecting earthworm diversity in tropical rainforests41
The what, how, and why of trait‐based analyses in ecology41
Pronounced changes of subterranean biodiversity patterns along a Late Pleistocene glaciation gradient39
Ranking ecological contingencies from high‐order factorial data demonstrate tidy control of biodiversity from facilitation cascades in estuaries on the South Island of New Zealand39
Salix shrub encroachment along a 1000 m elevation gradient triggers a major ecosystem change in the European Alps38
Legacy effects of drought on tree growth responses to hurricanes38
Shallow coverage in shallow waters: the incompleteness of intertidal species inventories in biodiversity database records37
Advancing statistical models to reveal the effect of dissolved oxygen on the spatial distribution of marine taxa using thresholds and a physiologically based index35
Herbarium specimens provide reliable estimates of phenological responses to climate at unparalleled taxonomic and spatiotemporal scales34
Limited impact of microtopography on alpine plant distribution34
Projecting community trophic structures for the last 120 000 years34
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
Predicting predator–prey interactions in terrestrial endotherms using random forest32
Competitive interactions modify the direct effects of climate31
Does habitat or climate change drive species range shifts?31
The role of climate and species interactions in determining the distribution of two elevationally segregated species of small mammals through time29
Synthesis ofBatrachochytrium dendrobatidisinfection in South America: amphibian species under risk and areas to focus research and disease mitigation28
Climatic conditions and functional traits affect spider diets in agricultural and non‐agricultural habitats worldwide28
Expanding Antarctic biogeography: microbial ecology of Antarctic island soils28
Circum‐Arctic distribution of chemical anti‐herbivore compounds suggests biome‐wide trade‐off in defence strategies in Arctic shrubs28
The evolutionary history of Sinopoda spiders (Sparassidae: Heteropodinae): out of the Himalayas and down the mountain slopes27
Plant functional group interactions intensify with warming in alpine grasslands27
Nocturnal avian migration drives high daily turnover but limited change in abundance on the ground27
Neutral processes related to regional bee commonness and dispersal distances are important predictors of plant–pollinator networks along gradients of climate and landscape conditions27
Remotely‐sensed slowing down in spatially patterned dryland ecosystems27
Integrating physiology into correlative models can alter projections of habitat suitability under climate change for a threatened amphibian26
Can we accurately predict the distribution of soil microorganism presence and relative abundance?25
Wildfire severity alters drivers of interaction beta‐diversity in plant–bee networks25
Lagged climate‐driven range shifts at species' leading, but not trailing, range edges revealed by multispecies seed addition experiment24
A zoogeographic model for the evolution of diversity and endemism in Madagascar24
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comspat: an R package to analyze within‐community spatial organization using species combinations23
Do marine planktonic ciliates follow Bergmann's rule?23
Comprehensive analytical approaches reveal species‐specific search strategies in sympatric apex predatory sharks23
Advancing and retreating fronts in a changing climate: a percolation model of range shifts23
Hump‐shaped relationship between aggregation tendency and body size within fish populations22
Scale‐dependent variation in leaf functional traits clarifies mechanisms of invasion22
Historical and contemporary climate jointly determine angiosperm plant diversity patterns across east Eurasia22
Expert‐based assessment of rewilding indicates progress at site‐level, yet challenges for upscaling22
Calculating functional diversity metrics using neighbor‐joining trees22
Towards an understanding of the latitudinal patterns in thermal tolerance and vulnerability of woody plants under climate warming21
Herbarium data accurately predict the timing and duration of population‐level flowering displays21
Shared temporal increases in bill size among songbirds of the San Francisco Bay Area provide evidence for different seasonal selective pressures21
Surprising roles of climate in regulating flowering phenology in a subtropical ecosystem21
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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
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The latitudinal gradient of functional diversity of Miocene marine mollusks from Chile20
KBAscope: key biodiversity area identification in R20
The effects of fragmentation per se on patch occupancy are stronger and more positive in a landscape with a higher quality and more homogeneous matrix20
Supporting the restoration of complex ecosystems requires long‐term and multi‐scale perspectives20
Midpoint attractor models resolve the mid‐elevation peak in Himalayan plant species richness20
Trends in functional composition of small mammal communities across millennial time scales20
Flood regimes alter the role of landform and topographic constraint on functional diversity of floodplain forests20
Long‐term drought triggers severe declines in carabid beetles in a temperate forest20
Global benthic biogeographical regions and macroecological drivers for ophiuroids20
divraster: an R package to calculate taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity from rasters19
Emerging horizons in predictive biogeography19
Cross‐validation matters in species distribution models: a case study with goatfish species19
Spatially explicit models for decision‐making in animal conservation and restoration19
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wallace 2: a shiny app for modeling species niches and distributions redesigned to facilitate expansion via module contributions19
Predicting fine‐scale distributions and emergent spatiotemporal patterns from temporally dynamic step selection simulations18
Evolutionary trajectories of multiple defense traits across phylogenetic and geographic scales in Vitis18
Joint spatial modeling of cluster size and density for a heavily hunted primate persisting in a heterogeneous landscape18
‘FIESTA': a forest inventory estimation and analysis R package18
Biotic pressures and environmental heterogeneity shape beta‐diversity of seedling communities in tropical montane forests18
Tree biomass does not correlate with soil carbon stocks in forest‐tundra ecotones along a 1100 km latitudinal gradient in Norway17
Non‐reproductive dispersal: an important driver of migratory range dynamics and connectivity17
Reliability of presence‐only data for assessing plant community responses to climate warming17
Exploring mechanisms of spatial segregation between body size groups within fish populations under environmental change17
The differential contribution of coyotes and passerines on future biotic carbon storage through juniper seed dispersal17
Functional traits and metacommunity theory reveal that habitat filtering and competition maintain bird diversity in a human shared landscape17
Food web structure and community composition: a comparison across space and time in the North Sea16
Invasion success and tolerance to urbanization in birds16
Impacts of beekeeping on wild bee diversity and pollination networks in the Aegean Archipelago16
Effects of ungulate density and sociality on landscape heterogeneity: a mechanistic modeling approach16
Habitat suitability models reveal the spatial signal of environmental DNA in riverine networks16
Megaherbivore impacts on ecosystem and Earth system functioning: the current state of the science16
Shifting fish distributions impact predation intensity in a sub‐Arctic ecosystem16
Using multi‐scale spatially explicit frameworks to understand the relationship between functional diversity and species richness16
Huge spring migrations of insects from the Middle East to Europe: quantifying the migratory assemblage and ecosystem services15
Macroclimatic structuring of spatial phylogenetic turnover in liverworts15
GuidosToolbox Workbench: spatial analysis of raster maps for ecological applications15
Temperature as a likely driver shaping global patterns in mineralogical composition in bryozoans: implications for marine calcifiers under global change15
Relics of beavers past: time and population density drive scale‐dependent patterns of ecosystem engineering15
Species interactions: next‐level citizen science15
Latitudinal patterns and climatic drivers of Laurasian and Gondwanan angiosperm tree distributions in forests of the Americas15
Variable species establishment in response to microhabitat indicates different likelihoods of climate‐driven range shifts15
Pollinator competition and the structure of floral resources15
Genetic structure and diversity of the declining orchid Gymnadenia conopsea in Scandinavia: implications for conservation and management15
Temporal variation in spider trophic interactions is explained by the influence of weather on prey communities, web building and prey choice14
A temperature‐driven model of phenological mismatch provides insights into the potential impacts of climate change on consumer–resource interactions14
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Global phylogenetic and functional structure of rodent assemblages14
Improving access and use of climate projections for ecological research through the use of a new Python tool14
Niche conservation in copepods between ocean basins14
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Soil and climate‐dependent ingrowth inference: broadleaves on their slow way to conquer Swiss forests14
The Darwinian shortfall in plants: phylogenetic knowledge is driven by range size14
GARPTools: R software for data preparation and model evaluation of GARP models14
Complex phylogenetic origin and geographic isolation drive reef fishes response to environmental variability in oceanic islands of the southwestern Atlantic14
The swash zone selects functionally specialized assemblages of beach interstitial meiofauna (Platyhelminthes, Proseriata)13
More than what they eat: uncoupled biophysical constraints underlie geographic patterns of herbivory13
Plant invasion in Mediterranean Europe: current hotspots and future scenarios13
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Changes in the climate suitability and growth rates of trees in eastern North America13
Millennial‐scale change on a Caribbean reef system that experiences hypoxia13
People or predators? Comparing habitat‐dependent effects of hunting and large carnivores on the abundance of North America's top mesocarnivore13
High‐latitude marginal reefs support fewer but bigger corals than their tropical counterparts13
Big data, big problems? How to circumvent problems in biodiversity mapping and ensure meaningful results12
pastclim 1.2: an R package to easily access and use paleoclimatic reconstructions12
RangeShiftR: an R package for individual‐based simulation of spatial eco‐evolutionary dynamics and species' responses to environmental changes12
Competitive interactions under current climate allow temperate tree species to grow and survive in boreal mixedwood forest12
Addressing uncertainty when projecting marine species' distributions under climate change12
Colonizing polar environments: thermal niche evolution in Collembola12
Scale‐dependent effects of biodiversity and stability on marine ecosystem dynamics12
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Insights into natal origins of migratory Nearctic hover flies (Diptera: Syrphidae): new evidence from stable isotope (δ2H) assignment analyses11
Resource quantity and heterogeneity drive successional plant diversity in managed and unmanaged boreal forests11
Beetle evolution illuminates the geological history of the World's most diverse tropical archipelago11
Marcescence and prostrate growth in tree ferns are adaptations to cold tolerance11
SiteOpt: an open‐source R‐package for site selection and portfolio optimization11
Environmental responses of fruiting fungal communities are phylogenetically structured11
Regional processes shape the structure of rumen microbial co‐occurrence networks11
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Drier, more seasonal climates strengthen coordination of hydraulic, leaf economic and reproductive strategies in subtropical forest tree communities11
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
Existing approaches and future directions to link macroecology, macroevolution and conservation prioritization10
Choice of prioritization method impacts recommendations for climate‐informed bird conservation in the United States10
Using recent baselines as benchmarks for megafauna restoration places an unfair burden on the Global South10
Sampling biases shape our view of the natural world10
Can we model distribution of population abundance from wildlife–vehicles collision data?10
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 sizes10
Spatially‐nested hierarchical species distribution models to overcome niche truncation in national‐scale studies10
To the top or into the dark? Relationships between elevational and canopy cover distribution shifts in mountain forests10
A meta‐analysis exploring associations between habitat degradation and Neotropical bat virus prevalence and seroprevalence10
Most young leaves pale in comparison to mature leaves: delayed greening is neither binary nor tropical10
Evaluating the influence of neighborhood connectivity and habitat effects in dynamic occupancy species distribution models10
Divergent litter traits of riparian plant species between humid and drier biomes within the tropics10
A test of the abundant‐center hypothesis for stream fishes10
Rapid diversification of the Australian Amitermes group during late Cenozoic climate change9
Revisiting long‐distance dispersal in a coastal marine fish9
occCite: Tools for querying and managing large biodiversity occurrence datasets9
Telomeres in a spatial context: a tool for understanding ageing pattern variation in wild populations9
Integrating fine‐scale behaviour and microclimate data into biophysical models highlights the risk of lethal hyperthermia and dehydration9
Long‐term changes in taxonomic and functional composition of European marine fish communities9
‘Euclimatch': an R package for climate matching with Euclidean distance metrics9
Variable impacts on reproductive energetics may render oviparous squamates more vulnerable to climate warming than viviparous species9
Macroecological patterns of functional and phylogenetic diversity vary between ground and arboreal assemblages in Neotropical savanna ants9
Spatial patterns and life histories of Macrotermes michaelseni termite mounds reflect intraspecific competition: insights of a temporal comparison spanning 12 years9
Using historical catch data to evaluate predicted changes in fish relative abundance in response to a warming climate9
Prey responses to foxes are not determined by nativeness9
Living on the edge – physiological tolerance to frost and drought explains range limits of 35 European tree species9
Efficient use of harvest data: a size‐class‐structured integrated population model for exploited populations9
Norwegian lemmings, Lemmus lemmus: a case for a strong herbivore–plant interaction9
Both source‐ and recipient‐range phylogenetic community structure can predict the outcome of avian introductions9
Transient amplification enhances the persistence of tropicalising coral assemblages in marginal high‐latitude environments9
Trade‐offs among restored ecosystem functions are context‐dependent in Mediterranean‐type regions9
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Climatic stability predicts the congruence between species abundance and genetic diversity9
Identifying barriers to gene flow and hierarchical conservation units from seascape genomics: a modelling framework applied to a marine predator9
Variations in risk‐taking behaviour mediate matrix mortality's impact on biodiversity under fragmentation8
Coupling in situ and remote sensing data to assess α‐ and β‐diversity over biogeographic gradients8
Integrating data from different taxonomic resolutions to better estimate community alpha diversity8
Acaulescence promotes speciation and shapes the distribution patterns of palms in Neotropical seasonally dry habitats8
Global maps of lake surface water temperatures reveal pitfalls of air‐for‐water substitutions in ecological prediction8
Complex temporal dynamics of insect metacommunities along a tropical elevational gradient8
The role of phylogenetic relatedness on success of non‐native plants crossing the naturalization–invasion transition in North America8
Major axes of variation in tree demography across global forests8
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Trends in animal translocation research8
The use of insect life tables in optimizing invasive pest distributional models8
The role of habitat fragmentation in Pleistocene megafauna extinction in Eurasia8
Historical data reveal contrasting habitat amount relationships with plant biodiversity8
mFD: an R package to compute and illustrate the multiple facets of functional diversity8
Seed dispersal by waterbirds: a mechanistic understanding by simulating avian digestion8
Biogeography of larches in eastern Siberia – using single nucleotide polymorphisms derived by genotyping by sequencing8
Characteristics of the naturalized flora of Southern Africa largely reflect the non‐random introduction of alien species for cultivation8
Estimating a physiological threshold to oxygen and temperature from marine monitoring data reveals challenges and opportunities for forecasting distribution shifts8
Life history diversity in terrestrial animals is associated with metabolic response to seasonally fluctuating resources8
Resource redistribution mediated by hydrological connectivity modulates vegetation response to aridification in drylands8
The best of two worlds: toward large‐scale monitoring of biodiversity combining COI metabarcoding and optimized parataxonomic validation8
Climate‐competition tradeoffs shape the range limits of European beech and Norway spruce along elevational gradients across the Carpathian Mountains8
First genomic snapshots of recolonising lineages following a devastating earthquake8
Synthesising the multiple impacts of climatic variability on community responses to climate change7
Ecosystem indicators: predicting population responses to combined climate and anthropogenic changes in shallow seas7
The climate envelope of Alaska's northern treelines: implications for controlling factors and future treeline advance7
Temporal trends in the spatial bias of species occurrence records7
Urbanization affects oak–pathogen interactions across spatial scales7
Human activity drives establishment, but not invasion, of non‐native plants on islands7
Factors influencing transferability in species distribution models7
The drivers of plant turnover change across spatial scales in the Azores7
Integrating ecological feedbacks across scales and levels of organization7
Testing the assumption of environmental equilibrium in an invasive plant species over a 130 year history7
Individual contribution to niche expansion in amphibians: a test of the niche variation hypothesis7
Temperature sensitivity of tree recruitment at alpine treelines increases along latitudinal gradients7
Abundant‐core thinking clarifies exceptions to the abundant‐center distribution pattern7
Landscape connectivity for the invisibles7
Anthropogenic habitat modification causes nonlinear multiscale bird diversity declines7
Scale‐dependent effects of landscape structure on pollinator traits, species interactions and pollination success7
The time of acquisition of multispectral predictors matters: the role of seasonality in bird species distribution models7
Multi‐colony tracking of two pelagic seabirds with contrasting flight capability illustrates how windscapes shape migratory movements at an ocean‐basin scale7
Predicting niche overlap with model‐based ordination7
The importance of history in understanding large tree mortality in African savannas7
Ecological scales of effect vary across space and time7
Continental‐scale shifts in termite diversity and nesting and feeding strategies6
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
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The predictive performance of process‐explicit range change models remains largely untested6
Four steps to strengthen connectivity modeling6
Urbanization and artificial light at night reduce the functional connectivity of migratory aerial habitat6
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Interspecific territoriality has facilitated recent increases in the breeding habitat overlap of North American passerines6
Are trapping data suited for home‐range estimation?6
Modelling species presence‐only data with random forests6
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Moving towards better risk assessment for invertebrate conservation6
‘RISDM‘: species distribution modelling from multiple data sources in R6
Vegetation cover and biodiversity reduce parasite infection in wild hosts across ecological levels and scales6
The value of considering demographic contributions to connectivity: a review6
Making better use of tracking data can reveal the spatiotemporal and intraspecific variability of species distributions6
Consequences of repeated sarcoptic mange outbreaks in an endangered mammal population6
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
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CDMetaPOP 2: a multispecies, eco‐evolutionary simulation framework for landscape demogenetics and connectivity6
Determinism and stochasticity in the spatial–temporal continuum of ecological communities: the case of tropical mountains6
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