Ecography

Papers
(The TQCC of Ecography is 10. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Enhancing monitoring to promote early detection and eradication of invasive species231
Estimating the extended and hidden species diversity from environmental DNA in hyper‐diverse regions197
Freshwater fish functional diversity shows diverse responses to human activities, but consistently declines in the tropics185
Habitats as predictors in species distribution models: Shall we use continuous or binary data?92
Contrasting influence of seascape, space and marine reserves on genomic variation in multiple species73
Twenty years of dynamic occupancy models: a review of applications and look to the future68
Disentangling the effect of the spatial scale and species spatial pattern on the abundance–suitability relationship65
(Sub‐)Antarctic endemic cyanobacteria from benthic mats are rare and have restricted geographic distributions64
Climatic filtering and temporal instability shape the phylogenetic diversity of European alpine floras56
Species traits drive responses of forest birds to agriculturally‐modified habitats throughout the annual cycle56
Direct evidence for intercontinental dispersal of a snail via a bird54
Climatic conditions and landscape diversity predict plant–bee interactions and pollen deposition in bee‐pollinated plants51
Complex relationships between beta diversity and dispersal in meta‐community models51
Uncertainty matters: ascertaining where specimens in natural history collections come from and its implications for predicting species distributions50
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Competitive interactions modify the direct effects of climate47
Spatio‐temporal Usutu virus model explains Eurasian blackbird Turdus merula population trends45
Functional and phylogenetic convergence of winter and breeding bird communities in the northeastern US44
Informed dispersal based on prospecting impacts the rate and shape of range expansions42
Dissecting earthworm diversity in tropical rainforests41
Shallow coverage in shallow waters: the incompleteness of intertidal species inventories in biodiversity database records40
Environmental heterogeneity, rather than stability, explains spider assemblage differences between ecosystems38
Predicting predator–prey interactions in terrestrial endotherms using random forest38
The what, how, and why of trait‐based analyses in ecology37
Projecting community trophic structures for the last 120 000 years35
Ranking ecological contingencies from high‐order factorial data demonstrate tidy control of biodiversity from facilitation cascades in estuaries on the South Island of New Zealand34
Herbarium specimens provide reliable estimates of phenological responses to climate at unparalleled taxonomic and spatiotemporal scales34
Untangling the plant reproductive success of changing community composition and pollinator foraging choices34
Advancing statistical models to reveal the effect of dissolved oxygen on the spatial distribution of marine taxa using thresholds and a physiologically based index33
Pronounced changes of subterranean biodiversity patterns along a Late Pleistocene glaciation gradient32
Salix shrub encroachment along a 1000 m elevation gradient triggers a major ecosystem change in the European Alps31
Can we accurately predict the distribution of soil microorganism presence and relative abundance?31
Limited impact of microtopography on alpine plant distribution31
Wildfire severity alters drivers of interaction beta‐diversity in plant–bee networks29
Synthesis ofBatrachochytrium dendrobatidisinfection in South America: amphibian species under risk and areas to focus research and disease mitigation27
The role of climate and species interactions in determining the distribution of two elevationally segregated species of small mammals through time27
Circum‐Arctic distribution of chemical anti‐herbivore compounds suggests biome‐wide trade‐off in defence strategies in Arctic shrubs27
Nocturnal avian migration drives high daily turnover but limited change in abundance on the ground26
Expanding Antarctic biogeography: microbial ecology of Antarctic island soils26
Remotely‐sensed slowing down in spatially patterned dryland ecosystems26
Neutral processes related to regional bee commonness and dispersal distances are important predictors of plant–pollinator networks along gradients of climate and landscape conditions26
The evolutionary history of Sinopoda spiders (Sparassidae: Heteropodinae): out of the Himalayas and down the mountain slopes26
Integrating physiology into correlative models can alter projections of habitat suitability under climate change for a threatened amphibian26
Climatic conditions and functional traits affect spider diets in agricultural and non‐agricultural habitats worldwide25
Plant functional group interactions intensify with warming in alpine grasslands25
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Does habitat or climate change drive species range shifts?25
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Towards an understanding of the latitudinal patterns in thermal tolerance and vulnerability of woody plants under climate warming24
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
Shared temporal increases in bill size among songbirds of the San Francisco Bay Area provide evidence for different seasonal selective pressures23
Do marine planktonic ciliates follow Bergmann's rule?23
Advancing and retreating fronts in a changing climate: a percolation model of range shifts23
Historical and contemporary climate jointly determine angiosperm plant diversity patterns across east Eurasia23
Scale‐dependent variation in leaf functional traits clarifies mechanisms of invasion23
Herbarium data accurately predict the timing and duration of population‐level flowering displays22
Lagged climate‐driven range shifts at species' leading, but not trailing, range edges revealed by multispecies seed addition experiment22
Global comparison of habitat intactness models for predicting extinction risk in terrestrial mammals22
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Calculating functional diversity metrics using neighbor‐joining trees22
Trends in functional composition of small mammal communities across millennial time scales22
Megafrugivores as fading shadows of the past: extant frugivores and the abiotic environment as the most important determinants of the distribution of palms in Madagascar22
Emerging horizons in predictive biogeography21
The latitudinal gradient of functional diversity of Miocene marine mollusks from Chile21
The effects of fragmentation per se on patch occupancy are stronger and more positive in a landscape with a higher quality and more homogeneous matrix21
divraster: an R package to calculate taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity from rasters20
Supporting the restoration of complex ecosystems requires long‐term and multi‐scale perspectives20
Flood regimes alter the role of landform and topographic constraint on functional diversity of floodplain forests20
A systematic review evaluating the performance of eDNA methods relative to conventional methods for biodiversity monitoring20
Global benthic biogeographical regions and macroecological drivers for ophiuroids20
Long‐term drought triggers severe declines in carabid beetles in a temperate forest20
wallace 2: a shiny app for modeling species niches and distributions redesigned to facilitate expansion via module contributions19
Spatially explicit models for decision‐making in animal conservation and restoration19
Cross‐validation matters in species distribution models: a case study with goatfish species19
KBAscope: key biodiversity area identification in R18
Quantifying landscape‐level biodiversity change in an island ecosystem: a 50‐year assessment of shifts in the Hawaiian avian community18
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Pollinator competition and the structure of floral resources18
Functional traits and metacommunity theory reveal that habitat filtering and competition maintain bird diversity in a human shared landscape18
Joint spatial modeling of cluster size and density for a heavily hunted primate persisting in a heterogeneous landscape17
Effects of ungulate density and sociality on landscape heterogeneity: a mechanistic modeling approach17
Tree biomass does not correlate with soil carbon stocks in forest‐tundra ecotones along a 1100 km latitudinal gradient in Norway17
Temperature as a likely driver shaping global patterns in mineralogical composition in bryozoans: implications for marine calcifiers under global change17
The differential contribution of coyotes and passerines on future biotic carbon storage through juniper seed dispersal17
Using multi‐scale spatially explicit frameworks to understand the relationship between functional diversity and species richness17
Biotic pressures and environmental heterogeneity shape beta‐diversity of seedling communities in tropical montane forests17
Invasion success and tolerance to urbanization in birds16
Variable species establishment in response to microhabitat indicates different likelihoods of climate‐driven range shifts16
‘FIESTA': a forest inventory estimation and analysis R package16
Reliability of presence‐only data for assessing plant community responses to climate warming16
Habitat suitability models reveal the spatial signal of environmental DNA in riverine networks16
Relics of beavers past: time and population density drive scale‐dependent patterns of ecosystem engineering16
Non‐reproductive dispersal: an important driver of migratory range dynamics and connectivity16
Huge spring migrations of insects from the Middle East to Europe: quantifying the migratory assemblage and ecosystem services16
Exploring mechanisms of spatial segregation between body size groups within fish populations under environmental change16
GuidosToolbox Workbench: spatial analysis of raster maps for ecological applications15
Predicting fine‐scale distributions and emergent spatiotemporal patterns from temporally dynamic step selection simulations15
Food web structure and community composition: a comparison across space and time in the North Sea15
Evolutionary trajectories of multiple defense traits across phylogenetic and geographic scales in Vitis15
Shifting fish distributions impact predation intensity in a sub‐Arctic ecosystem15
A temperature‐driven model of phenological mismatch provides insights into the potential impacts of climate change on consumer–resource interactions14
Temporal variation in spider trophic interactions is explained by the influence of weather on prey communities, web building and prey choice14
Latitudinal patterns and climatic drivers of Laurasian and Gondwanan angiosperm tree distributions in forests of the Americas14
Complex phylogenetic origin and geographic isolation drive reef fishes response to environmental variability in oceanic islands of the southwestern Atlantic14
Network‐based bioregionalization of demersal fish in continental shelf seas14
Genetic structure and diversity of the declining orchid Gymnadenia conopsea in Scandinavia: implications for conservation and management14
Soil and climate‐dependent ingrowth inference: broadleaves on their slow way to conquer Swiss forests14
Species interactions: next‐level citizen science14
GARPTools: R software for data preparation and model evaluation of GARP models14
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
The Darwinian shortfall in plants: phylogenetic knowledge is driven by range size14
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People or predators? Comparing habitat‐dependent effects of hunting and large carnivores on the abundance of North America's top mesocarnivore13
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Competitive interactions under current climate allow temperate tree species to grow and survive in boreal mixedwood forest13
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Climatic resilience after extreme drought in Mediterranean shrubland plant communities13
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Big data, big problems? How to circumvent problems in biodiversity mapping and ensure meaningful results12
High‐latitude marginal reefs support fewer but bigger corals than their tropical counterparts12
More than what they eat: uncoupled biophysical constraints underlie geographic patterns of herbivory12
Colonizing polar environments: thermal niche evolution in Collembola12
Scale‐dependent effects of biodiversity and stability on marine ecosystem dynamics12
pastclim 1.2: an R package to easily access and use paleoclimatic reconstructions12
Addressing uncertainty when projecting marine species' distributions under climate change12
Changes in the climate suitability and growth rates of trees in eastern North America12
Performance of Cerrado lizards: a test of the center–periphery hypothesis12
The swash zone selects functionally specialized assemblages of beach interstitial meiofauna (Platyhelminthes, Proseriata)12
Plant invasion in Mediterranean Europe: current hotspots and future scenarios12
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Divergent litter traits of riparian plant species between humid and drier biomes within the tropics11
Regional processes shape the structure of rumen microbial co‐occurrence networks11
Drier, more seasonal climates strengthen coordination of hydraulic, leaf economic and reproductive strategies in subtropical forest tree communities11
Environmental responses of fruiting fungal communities are phylogenetically structured11
A test of the abundant‐center hypothesis for stream fishes11
Most young leaves pale in comparison to mature leaves: delayed greening is neither binary nor tropical11
Evaluating the influence of neighborhood connectivity and habitat effects in dynamic occupancy species distribution models11
An invasive pathogen generally contracts species to their niche cores, not margins11
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Marcescence and prostrate growth in tree ferns are adaptations to cold tolerance11
Resource quantity and heterogeneity drive successional plant diversity in managed and unmanaged boreal forests11
Revealing the drivers of parasite community assembly: using avian haemosporidians to model global dynamics of parasite species turnover11
To the top or into the dark? Relationships between elevational and canopy cover distribution shifts in mountain forests10
Trade‐offs among restored ecosystem functions are context‐dependent in Mediterranean‐type regions10
Spatial patterns and life histories of Macrotermes michaelseni termite mounds reflect intraspecific competition: insights of a temporal comparison spanning 12 years10
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
Existing approaches and future directions to link macroecology, macroevolution and conservation prioritization10
Spatially‐nested hierarchical species distribution models to overcome niche truncation in national‐scale studies10
Combined effects of temperature change and natural habitat on the abundance of arthropod trait syndromes in agroecosystems10
Long‐term changes in taxonomic and functional composition of European marine fish communities10
Telomeres in a spatial context: a tool for understanding ageing pattern variation in wild populations10
Prey responses to foxes are not determined by nativeness10
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Choice of prioritization method impacts recommendations for climate‐informed bird conservation in the United States10
Beetle evolution illuminates the geological history of the World's most diverse tropical archipelago10
Macroecological patterns of functional and phylogenetic diversity vary between ground and arboreal assemblages in Neotropical savanna ants10
Climate‐competition tradeoffs shape the range limits of European beech and Norway spruce along elevational gradients across the Carpathian Mountains10
Transient amplification enhances the persistence of tropicalising coral assemblages in marginal high‐latitude environments10
Using historical catch data to evaluate predicted changes in fish relative abundance in response to a warming climate10
Living on the edge – physiological tolerance to frost and drought explains range limits of 35 European tree species10
Integrating fine‐scale behaviour and microclimate data into biophysical models highlights the risk of lethal hyperthermia and dehydration10
A meta‐analysis exploring associations between habitat degradation and Neotropical bat virus prevalence and seroprevalence10
Insights into natal origins of migratory Nearctic hover flies (Diptera: Syrphidae): new evidence from stable isotope (δ2H) assignment analyses10
Revisiting long‐distance dispersal in a coastal marine fish10
Can we model distribution of population abundance from wildlife–vehicles collision data?10
Climatic stability predicts the congruence between species abundance and genetic diversity10
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