Ecography

Papers
(The TQCC of Ecography is 9. 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.)
ArticleCitations
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
Testing the links between bird diversity, alien species and disturbance within a human‐modified landscape32
Climatic conditions and landscape diversity predict plant–bee interactions and pollen deposition in bee‐pollinated plants32
Completeness analysis for over 3000 United States bee species identifies persistent data gap31
Climatic filtering and temporal instability shape the phylogenetic diversity of European alpine floras31
canaper: Categorical analysis of neo‐ and paleo‐endemism in R31
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 temperature‐driven model of phenological mismatch provides insights into the potential impacts of climate change on consumer–resource interactions22
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
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
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
The importance of history in understanding large tree mortality in African savannas20
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
Diversity – volume relationships: adding structural arrangement and volume to species – area relationships across forest macrosystems19
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
Abundant‐core thinking clarifies exceptions to the abundant‐center distribution pattern18
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
Testing Bergmann's rule in marine copepods17
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
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
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
Individual and temporal variation in movement patterns of wild alpine reindeer and implications for disease management16
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
Consequences of repeated sarcoptic mange outbreaks in an endangered mammal population16
Dissecting earthworm diversity in tropical rainforests16
Shift in habitat selection during natal dispersal in a long‐lived raptor species16
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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
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
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
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
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Urbanization and artificial light at night reduce the functional connectivity of migratory aerial habitat13
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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More than what they eat: uncoupled biophysical constraints underlie geographic patterns of herbivory12
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
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
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
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
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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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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
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
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