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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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(Sub‐)Antarctic endemic cyanobacteria from benthic mats are rare and have restricted geographic distributions114
The macroecology of immunity: predominant influence of climate on invertebrate immune response79
Direct evidence for intercontinental dispersal of a snail via a bird78
Climatic conditions and landscape diversity predict plant–bee interactions and pollen deposition in bee‐pollinated plants75
Enhancing monitoring to promote early detection and eradication of invasive species70
Multiple stressors in river networks: local and downstream effects on freshwater macroinvertebrates69
Species distribution modeling with expert elicitation and Bayesian calibration67
Freshwater fish functional diversity shows diverse responses to human activities, but consistently declines in the tropics67
Age‐related trends in niche position and specialization in Neotropical vertebrates62
From distant shores to an emerging island: the role of surface and subsurface transport in modeling seed dispersal59
Species traits drive responses of forest birds to agriculturally‐modified habitats throughout the annual cycle56
Contrasting influence of seascape, space and marine reserves on genomic variation in multiple species48
Climatic filtering and temporal instability shape the phylogenetic diversity of European alpine floras46
Using the environmental light field method for measuring biologically relevant light characteristics at the household scale45
Disentangling the effect of the spatial scale and species spatial pattern on the abundance–suitability relationship45
Disentangling the interrelations of body mass, egg deposition site, climate and microhabitat use in frogs and salamanders42
Twenty years of dynamic occupancy models: a review of applications and look to the future42
Functional and phylogenetic convergence of winter and breeding bird communities in the northeastern US40
Dissecting earthworm diversity in tropical rainforests39
Naturalization of ornamental plants in the United States depends on cultivation and historical land cover context39
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Predicting predator–prey interactions in terrestrial endotherms using random forest35
Pronounced changes of subterranean biodiversity patterns along a Late Pleistocene glaciation gradient35
The what, how, and why of trait‐based analyses in ecology34
Untangling the plant reproductive success of changing community composition and pollinator foraging choices34
Competitive interactions modify the direct effects of climate31
Environmental heterogeneity, rather than stability, explains spider assemblage differences between ecosystems30
Shallow coverage in shallow waters: the incompleteness of intertidal species inventories in biodiversity database records30
Herbarium specimens provide reliable estimates of phenological responses to climate at unparalleled taxonomic and spatiotemporal scales29
Ranking ecological contingencies from high‐order factorial data demonstrate tidy control of biodiversity from facilitation cascades in estuaries on the South Island of New Zealand29
Projecting community trophic structures for the last 120 000 years29
Spatio‐temporal Usutu virus model explains Eurasian blackbird Turdus merula population trends28
Macroecological relationships of ant diversity with increasing aridity in Australian tropical savannas: contrasting responses of epigaeic and hypogaeic assemblages28
Limited impact of microtopography on alpine plant distribution28
From niche theory to demographic realities: the demographic niche concept for understanding range‐wide population dynamics28
Circum‐Arctic distribution of chemical anti‐herbivore compounds suggests biome‐wide trade‐off in defence strategies in Arctic shrubs27
Neutral processes related to regional bee commonness and dispersal distances are important predictors of plant–pollinator networks along gradients of climate and landscape conditions27
Plant functional group interactions intensify with warming in alpine grasslands27
The role of climate and species interactions in determining the distribution of two elevationally segregated species of small mammals through time27
Nocturnal avian migration drives high daily turnover but limited change in abundance on the ground26
Tracing the origins and evolution of nymphalid butterflies (Lepidoptera) in the Atlantic Forest26
The evolutionary history of Sinopoda spiders (Sparassidae: Heteropodinae): out of the Himalayas and down the mountain slopes26
Expanding Antarctic biogeography: microbial ecology of Antarctic island soils26
Habitat complexity and prey composition shape an apex predator's habitat use across contrasting landscapes26
Mathematically and biologically consistent framework for presence–absence pairwise indices25
Does habitat or climate change drive species range shifts?25
Can we accurately predict the distribution of soil microorganism presence and relative abundance?25
Remotely‐sensed slowing down in spatially patterned dryland ecosystems24
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A zoogeographic model for the evolution of diversity and endemism in Madagascar23
Herbarium data accurately predict the timing and duration of population‐level flowering displays22
Calculating functional diversity metrics using neighbor‐joining trees22
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Advancing and retreating fronts in a changing climate: a percolation model of range shifts22
Scale‐dependent variation in leaf functional traits clarifies mechanisms of invasion22
Shared temporal increases in bill size among songbirds of the San Francisco Bay Area provide evidence for different seasonal selective pressures22
‘biomod2' – extending presence–absence species distribution models to multiple data types21
Historical and contemporary climate jointly determine angiosperm plant diversity patterns across east Eurasia21
The latitudinal gradient of functional diversity of Miocene marine mollusks from Chile20
Lagged climate‐driven range shifts at species' leading, but not trailing, range edges revealed by multispecies seed addition experiment20
Flood regimes alter the role of landform and topographic constraint on functional diversity of floodplain forests20
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Do marine planktonic ciliates follow Bergmann's rule?20
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Global comparison of habitat intactness models for predicting extinction risk in terrestrial mammals20
Cross‐scale interactions mediate local drivers of nonnative species richness19
Predicting oxygen thresholds of marine taxa to improve ecological forecasts19
Flexible methods for species distribution modeling with small samples18
Long‐term drought triggers severe declines in carabid beetles in a temperate forest18
Emerging horizons in predictive biogeography18
‘MultiTraits': an integrated R package for analysis and visualization of multidimensional plant traits18
KBAscope: key biodiversity area identification in R18
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wallace 2: a shiny app for modeling species niches and distributions redesigned to facilitate expansion via module contributions17
Global benthic biogeographical regions and macroecological drivers for ophiuroids17
A practical guide to species trend detection with unstructured data using local frequency scaling (Frescalo)17
Evolutionary trajectories of multiple defense traits across phylogenetic and geographic scales in Vitis17
Harnessing the power of machine and deep learning for transferring joint species distribution models considering the structure of biotic interactions17
Cross‐validation matters in species distribution models: a case study with goatfish species17
A systematic review evaluating the performance of eDNA methods relative to conventional methods for biodiversity monitoring17
divraster : an R package to calculate taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity from rasters17
The effects of fragmentation per se on patch occupancy are stronger and more positive in a landscape with a higher quality and more homogeneous matrix17
Enemy release: loss of parasites in invasive freshwater bivalves Sinanodonta woodiana and Corbicula fluminea16
The differential contribution of coyotes and passerines on future biotic carbon storage through juniper seed dispersal16
Reliability of presence‐only data for assessing plant community responses to climate warming16
Tree biomass does not correlate with soil carbon stocks in forest‐tundra ecotones along a 1100 km latitudinal gradient in Norway16
Non‐reproductive dispersal: an important driver of migratory range dynamics and connectivity16
Exploring mechanisms of spatial segregation between body size groups within fish populations under environmental change16
Temperature as a likely driver shaping global patterns in mineralogical composition in bryozoans: implications for marine calcifiers under global change16
‘FIESTA': a forest inventory estimation and analysis R package16
Predicting fine‐scale distributions and emergent spatiotemporal patterns from temporally dynamic step selection simulations15
Biotic pressures and environmental heterogeneity shape beta‐diversity of seedling communities in tropical montane forests15
N‐SDM 2.0: a reengineered software with extended features for nested species distribution modelling15
Joint spatial modeling of cluster size and density for a heavily hunted primate persisting in a heterogeneous landscape15
Simulating past and future refugia for temperate trees in northern Italy15
How the small host the small: cryptogam trait‐mediated structuring of Antarctic microarthropod communities15
Pollinator competition and the structure of floral resources15
Functional traits and metacommunity theory reveal that habitat filtering and competition maintain bird diversity in a human shared landscape15
Warming summers limit reindeer grazing, weakening herbivory pressure in the mountain tundra15
Quantifying the unrecorded loss of avian phylogenetic diversity14
Quantifying landscape‐level biodiversity change in an island ecosystem: a 50‐year assessment of shifts in the Hawaiian avian community14
Improving access and use of climate projections for ecological research through the use of a new Python tool14
Huge spring migrations of insects from the Middle East to Europe: quantifying the migratory assemblage and ecosystem services14
Latitudinal patterns and climatic drivers of Laurasian and Gondwanan angiosperm tree distributions in forests of the Americas14
Variable species establishment in response to microhabitat indicates different likelihoods of climate‐driven range shifts14
Long‐term homogenization of Fennoscandian heathland and tundra vegetation is connected to the expansion of an allelopathic dwarf shrub14
Habitat suitability models reveal the spatial signal of environmental DNA in riverine networks14
Soil and climate‐dependent ingrowth inference: broadleaves on their slow way to conquer Swiss forests14
Genetic structure and diversity of the declining orchid Gymnadenia conopsea in Scandinavia: implications for conservation and management14
Vegetation on the move: elevational shifts and greening dynamics across the Himalayan alpine zone13
Climate‐driven resource availability drives medium‐ and broad‐scale temporal changes in owl–prey interactions over 24 years in a semi‐arid ecosystem13
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Global phylogenetic and functional structure of rodent assemblages13
Climate variability shapes the mutualistic interaction between truffle‐like ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi and a mycophagous mammal13
Temporal variation in spider trophic interactions is explained by the influence of weather on prey communities, web building and prey choice13
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Biogeography of intertidal invertebrates is influenced by latitude along the west coast of Australia13
Complex phylogenetic origin and geographic isolation drive reef fishes response to environmental variability in oceanic islands of the southwestern Atlantic13
Network‐based bioregionalization of demersal fish in continental shelf seas13
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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
Competitive interactions under current climate allow temperate tree species to grow and survive in boreal mixedwood forest12
Climatic resilience after extreme drought in Mediterranean shrubland plant communities12
High‐latitude marginal reefs support fewer but bigger corals than their tropical counterparts12
Addressing uncertainty when projecting marine species' distributions under climate change12
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The swash zone selects functionally specialized assemblages of beach interstitial meiofauna (Platyhelminthes, Proseriata)11
Performance of Cerrado lizards: a test of the center–periphery hypothesis11
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Scale‐dependent effects of biodiversity and stability on marine ecosystem dynamics11
Plant invasion in Mediterranean Europe: current hotspots and future scenarios11
Most young leaves pale in comparison to mature leaves: delayed greening is neither binary nor tropical11
Divergent litter traits of riparian plant species between humid and drier biomes within the tropics11
pastclim 1.2: an R package to easily access and use paleoclimatic reconstructions11
Big data, big problems? How to circumvent problems in biodiversity mapping and ensure meaningful results11
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Revealing the drivers of parasite community assembly: using avian haemosporidians to model global dynamics of parasite species turnover11
A meta‐analysis exploring associations between habitat degradation and Neotropical bat virus prevalence and seroprevalence10
Choice of prioritization method impacts recommendations for climate‐informed bird conservation in the United States10
Drier, more seasonal climates strengthen coordination of hydraulic, leaf economic and reproductive strategies in subtropical forest tree communities10
Regional processes shape the structure of rumen microbial co‐occurrence networks10
Resource quantity and heterogeneity drive successional plant diversity in managed and unmanaged boreal forests10
Insights into natal origins of migratory Nearctic hover flies (Diptera: Syrphidae): new evidence from stable isotope (δ 2 H) assignment analyses10
Marcescence and prostrate growth in tree ferns are adaptations to cold tolerance10
Environmental responses of fruiting fungal communities are phylogenetically structured10
Predicting heat mortality in freshwater communities: temperature and oxygen effects10
A test of the abundant‐center hypothesis for stream fishes10
Beetle evolution illuminates the geological history of the World's most diverse tropical archipelago10
Evaluating the influence of neighborhood connectivity and habitat effects in dynamic occupancy species distribution models10
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
Beyond birds: rethinking bird‐centered pathogen models in light of insect migration9
Trade‐offs among restored ecosystem functions are context‐dependent in Mediterranean‐type regions9
Revisiting long‐distance dispersal in a coastal marine fish9
Transient amplification enhances the persistence of tropicalising coral assemblages in marginal high‐latitude environments9
Changing patterns of colonisation and persistence during the wolf recolonisation of the human‐dominated Italian alpine region9
To the top or into the dark? Relationships between elevational and canopy cover distribution shifts in mountain forests9
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An invasive pathogen generally contracts species to their niche cores, not margins9
Using historical catch data to evaluate predicted changes in fish relative abundance in response to a warming climate9
Living on the edge – physiological tolerance to frost and drought explains range limits of 35 European tree species9
Linking species distribution models with population abundance to support adaptive fisheries management9
Relationship between home range and population density in mammals: the role of sociality, territoriality and habitat dimensionality9
Combined effects of temperature change and natural habitat on the abundance of arthropod trait syndromes in agroecosystems9
Community‐level egg and larval trait interactions with the Amazon River plume determine its role as a dispersal barrier9
Climatic stability predicts the congruence between species abundance and genetic diversity9
Prey responses to foxes are not determined by nativeness9
Long‐term changes in taxonomic and functional composition of European marine fish communities9
Data integration improves species distribution forecasts under novel ocean conditions9
Tree species diversity increases the temporal stability of multitrophic forest beetle communities9
‘Euclimatch': an R package for climate matching with Euclidean distance metrics8
Resource redistribution mediated by hydrological connectivity modulates vegetation response to aridification in drylands8
The drivers of plant turnover change across spatial scales in the Azores8
‘SiteTool': a ‘Shiny' application for field site selection and evaluation8
Integrating fine‐scale behaviour and microclimate data into biophysical models highlights the risk of lethal hyperthermia and dehydration8
The role of phylogenetic relatedness on success of non‐native plants crossing the naturalization–invasion transition in North America8
Integrating host condition into spatiotemporal multiscale models improves virus shedding predictions8
Macroecological patterns of functional and phylogenetic diversity vary between ground and arboreal assemblages in Neotropical savanna ants8
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Norwegian lemmings, Lemmus lemmus : a case for a strong herbivore–plant interaction8
Biogeography of larches in eastern Siberia – using single nucleotide polymorphisms derived by genotyping by sequencing8
Effects of phytoplankton species distribution on particulate organic carbon dynamics along a coastal gradient8
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Variations in risk‐taking behaviour mediate matrix mortality's impact on biodiversity under fragmentation8
Plant diversity estimates of Mediterranean islands differ among biodiversity databases8
Seed dispersal by waterbirds: a mechanistic understanding by simulating avian digestion8
PondNet – towards a global network of experiments on the effects of climate change on aquatic ecosystems8
Global analysis suggests nitrogen deposition as an underestimated driver of vegetation greening8
First genomic snapshots of recolonising lineages following a devastating earthquake8
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Climate‐competition tradeoffs shape the range limits of European beech and Norway spruce along elevational gradients across the Carpathian Mountains8
Integrating data from different taxonomic resolutions to better estimate community alpha diversity8
Global maps of lake surface water temperatures reveal pitfalls of air‐for‐water substitutions in ecological prediction8
Combining paleoecology and modeling to explore cascading disturbances in forest ecosystems8
Patterns of understorey bird diversity across Amazonian forests: survey effort and range maps predict local species richness8
‘ukbioprepr': an R package to support reproducible preparation of environmental data for biodiversity modelling in the UK8
Major axes of variation in tree demography across global forests8
Hot spots or hot moments? Contextualizing the spatio‐temporal scale of research on animal inputs8
Topography constrains the climatic response of treeline migration in Taiwan's subalpine forests8
Integrating ecological feedbacks across scales and levels of organization7
Generalised bumblebee–flower interactions demonstrate weak floral niche partitioning despite a high bee diversity7
Non‐stationary forest responses to hotter droughts: a temporal perspective considering the role of past legacies7
Reviewing and benchmarking ecological modelling practices in the context of land use7
Ecosystem indicators: predicting population responses to combined climate and anthropogenic changes in shallow seas7
Estimating a physiological threshold to oxygen and temperature from marine monitoring data reveals challenges and opportunities for forecasting distribution shifts7
Complex temporal dynamics of insect metacommunities along a tropical elevational gradient7
Divergent projections of future African biome shifts with process‐based and species distribution models7
Testing the assumption of environmental equilibrium in an invasive plant species over a 130 year history7
The time of acquisition of multispectral predictors matters: the role of seasonality in bird species distribution models7
Anthropogenic habitat modification causes nonlinear multiscale bird diversity declines7
Scale‐dependent effects of landscape structure on pollinator traits, species interactions and pollination success7
Historical data reveal contrasting habitat amount relationships with plant biodiversity7
Species traits mediate the abundant‐center patterns in ground‐dwelling mammal and bird species in China7
Most mammals do not wander: few species escape continental endemism7
Trends in animal translocation research7
The best of two worlds: toward large‐scale monitoring of biodiversity combining COI metabarcoding and optimized parataxonomic validation7
Predicting niche overlap with model‐based ordination6
Regeneration failure, fire, topography, and climate interact to drive temperate wet forest landscapes into fire traps6
Individual contribution to niche expansion in amphibians: a test of the niche variation hypothesis6
Macro‐ and microclimate interactively shape species diversity of multiple taxa in mountain landscapes6
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
Temporal shifts in kelp forest structure and distribution largely reflect recent ocean warming trends6
Are trapping data suited for home‐range estimation?6
Four steps to strengthen connectivity modeling6
Living in the edge: demographic responses driven by density‐dependence and pulsed resources in a hibernating mammal6
Moving towards better risk assessment for invertebrate conservation6
European colonial empires accelerated ant invasions6
Inverse sky islands: lowland river valleys drive microbial divergence while high elevations select for convergence in massive mountain ecosystems6
Coupling in situ and remote sensing data to assess α‐ and β‐diversity over biogeographic gradients6
Testing the core–periphery hypothesis: a standardised multi‐phylum assessment of genetic diversity of marine coastal species6
Consequences of repeated sarcoptic mange outbreaks in an endangered mammal population6
Co‐dominant species fail to compensate after 13‐year of dominant species removal in a Tibetan alpine grassland6
Interspecific territoriality has facilitated recent increases in the breeding habitat overlap of North American passerines6
Geodiversity is an inseparable but underutilized aspect of ecological connectivity assessments under climate change6
‘RISDM‘: species distribution modelling from multiple data sources in R6
Trait overdispersion in dragonflies reveals the role and drivers of competition in community assembly across space and season6
Succession stages‐dependent shifts in grassland community stability from asynchrony to population stability mediated by nitrogen enrichment6
Ecological scales of effect vary across space and time6
Abundant‐core thinking clarifies exceptions to the abundant‐center distribution pattern6
Multi‐colony tracking of two pelagic seabirds with contrasting flight capability illustrates how windscapes shape migratory movements at an ocean‐basin scale6
Temperature sensitivity of tree recruitment at alpine treelines increases along latitudinal gradients6
Consumer diversity drives stronger predation in tropical marine communities6
Vegetation cover and biodiversity reduce parasite infection in wild hosts across ecological levels and scales6
EcoViz: a tool for visual analysis and photorealistic rendering of forest landscape model simulations6
CDMetaPOP 2: a multispecies, eco‐evolutionary simulation framework for landscape demogenetics and connectivity6
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Climatic drivers prevail in montane and lowland Odonata latitudinal diversity gradients, but human modification erodes lowland patterns6
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