Ecological Applications

Papers
(The median citation count of Ecological Applications is 5. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
A room with a green view: the importance of nearby nature for mental health during the COVID‐19 pandemic196
Evidence for widespread changes in the structure, composition, and fire regimes of western North American forests163
Adapting western North American forests to climate change and wildfires: 10 common questions140
Management of cover crops in temperate climates influences soil organic carbon stocks: a meta‐analysis100
Wildfire and climate change adaptation of western North American forests: a case for intentional management99
Increasing comparability among coral bleaching experiments70
Conceptual and methodological advances in habitat‐selection modeling: guidelines for ecology and evolution67
The importance of street trees to urban avifauna65
Smokey the Beaver: beaver‐dammed riparian corridors stay green during wildfire throughout the western United States53
Rapid deforestation of a coastal landscape driven by sea‐level rise and extreme events53
Landscape‐scale differences among cities alter common species’ responses to urbanization53
Worldwide border interceptions provide a window into human‐mediated global insect movement53
Mapping supply of and demand for ecosystem services to assess environmental justice in New York City45
Landscape‐scale patterns of nutrient enrichment in a coral reef ecosystem: implications for coral to algae phase shifts45
Coral cover a stronger driver of reef fish trophic biomass than fishing41
Springs ecosystem classification41
Large‐scale variation in wave attenuation of oyster reef living shorelines and the influence of inundation duration40
Network analysis can guide resilience‐based management in forest landscapes under global change39
Water storage decisions will determine the distribution and persistence of imperiled river fishes38
Residential yard management and landscape cover affect urban bird community diversity across the continental USA36
Environmental DNA metabarcoding as a useful tool for evaluating terrestrial mammal diversity in tropical forests36
Effects of postfire climate and seed availability on postfire conifer regeneration36
Cumulative stressors reduce the self‐regulating capacity of coastal ecosystems35
Direct and indirect effects of temperature and precipitation on alpine seed banks in the Tibetan Plateau35
Climate and species stress resistance modulate the higher survival of large seedlings in forest restorations worldwide34
How does increasing mast seeding frequency affect population dynamics of seed consumers? Wild boar as a case study33
Multi‐temporal assessment of grassland α‐ and β‐diversity using hyperspectral imaging33
Predicting ecosystem state changes in shallow lakes using an aquatic ecosystem model: Lake Hinge, Denmark, an example32
Transport of N and P in U.S. streams and rivers differs with land use and between dissolved and particulate forms32
Combining DNA metabarcoding and ecological networks to inform conservation biocontrol by small vertebrate predators31
Indigenous plants promote insect biodiversity in urban greenspaces30
Bridging the gap between commercial fisheries and survey data to model the spatiotemporal dynamics of marine species30
Butterfly richness and abundance along a gradient of imperviousness and the importance of matrix quality29
All is fish that comes to the net: metabarcoding for rapid fisheries catch assessment29
Habitat heterogeneity captured by 30‐m resolution satellite image texture predicts bird richness across the United States29
Impacts of COVID‐19 on ecology and evolutionary biology faculty in the United States29
Quantifying natural disturbances using a large‐scale dendrochronological reconstruction to guide forest management28
Data integration methods to account for spatial niche truncation effects in regional projections of species distribution27
Opportunities to reduce pollination deficits and address production shortfalls in an important insect‐pollinated crop27
Age‐specific survival rates, causes of death, and allowable take of golden eagles in the western United States27
Modeling an aspirational connected network of protected areas across North America27
Increasing taxonomic diversity and spatial resolution clarifies opportunities for protecting US imperiled species27
Leaf traits and canopy structure together explain canopy functional diversity: an airborne remote sensing approach27
Prediction of regional wildfire activity in the probabilistic Bayesian framework of Firelihood27
Microclimate predicts kelp forest extinction in the face of direct and indirect marine heatwave effects26
A fish tale: a century of museum specimens reveal increasing microplastic concentrations in freshwater fish26
The wildland–urban interface in the United States based on 125 million building locations26
Indigenous‐led conservation: Pathways to recovery for the nearly extirpatedKlinse‐Zamountain caribou26
Increased adoption of best practices in ecological forecasting enables comparisons of forecastability25
Developing the ecological scientist mindset among underrepresented students in ecology fields24
Microplastic leachates induce species‐specific trait strengthening in intertidal mussels24
Ensuring identifiability in hierarchical mixed effects Bayesian models24
Forest restoration treatments in a ponderosa pine forest enhance physiological activity and growth under climatic stress23
Mega‐disturbances cause rapid decline of mature conifer forest habitat in California23
Natural disturbance regimes as a guide for sustainable forest management in Europe23
Crop–weed relationships are context‐dependent and cannot fully explain the positive effects of intercropping on yield23
Landscape analyses using eDNA metabarcoding and Earth observation predict community biodiversity in California23
Organic fertility inputs synergistically increase denitrification‐derived nitrous oxide emissions in agroecosystems23
“No‐regrets” pathways for navigating climate change: planning for connectivity with land use, topography, and climate22
Optimizing bat bioacoustic surveys in human‐modified Neotropical landscapes22
Tropical tree size–frequency distributions from airborne lidar20
Multiple co‐occurrent alien invaders constrain aquatic biodiversity in rivers20
Finding the right mix: a framework for selecting seeding rates for cover crop mixtures20
Local connections and the larval competency strongly influence marine metapopulation persistence20
Application of plant–soil feedbacks in the selection of crop rotation sequences20
Crowding, climate, and the case for social distancing among trees20
Validation of presence‐only models for conservation planning and the application to whales in a multiple‐use marine park19
Restoration of biogeomorphic systems by creating windows of opportunity to support natural establishment processes19
Stand‐scale climate change impacts on forests over large areas: transient responses and projection uncertainties19
Foraging by an avian ecosystem engineer extensively modifies the litter and soil layer in forest ecosystems19
Exotic species drive patterns of plant species diversity in 93 restored tallgrass prairies19
Impacts of pollution, fishing pressure, and reef rugosity on resource fish biomass in West Hawaii19
Using Indigenous and Western knowledge systems for environmental risk assessment19
Evaluating a trait‐based approach to compare natural enemy and pest communities in agroforestry vs. arable systems19
Partial and complete dependency among data sets has minimal consequence on estimates from integrated population models19
Mapping and assessing the impact of small‐scale ephemeral water sources on wildlife in an African seasonal savannah19
Large size (>100‐μm) microplastics are not biomagnifying in coastal marine food webs of British Columbia, Canada19
Soil organic carbon is not just for soil scientists: measurement recommendations for diverse practitioners18
Evaluation of camera trap‐based abundance estimators for unmarked populations18
DNA metabarcoding effectively quantifies diatom responses to nutrients in streams18
Forecasting the legacy of offshore oil and gas platforms on fish community structure and productivity18
Managing propagule pressure to prevent invasive species establishments: propagule size, number, and risk–release curve18
Mapping potential effects of proposed roads on migratory connectivity for a highly mobile herbivore using circuit theory18
Recent bark beetle outbreaks influence wildfire severity in mixed‐conifer forests of the Sierra Nevada, California, USA18
Allocating resources for land protection using continuous optimization: biodiversity conservation in the United States18
Changes in water quality related to permafrost thaw may significantly impact zooplankton in small Arctic lakes18
A general deep learning model for bird detection in high‐resolution airborne imagery18
Land‐use drives the temporal stability and magnitude of soil microbial functions and modulates climate effects18
Improving area of occupancy estimates for parapatric species using distribution models and support vector machines17
Meta‐analysis of salt marsh vegetation impacts and recovery: a synthesis following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill17
Natural regeneration in urban forests is limited by early‐establishment dynamics: implications for management17
Tracking rates of postfire conifer regeneration vs. deciduous vegetation recovery across the western United States17
Stasis in forest regeneration following deer exclusion and understory gap creation: A 10‐year experiment17
Gains or losses? A quantitative estimation of environmental and economic effects of an ecological compensation policy17
The effect of species, size, and fire intensity on tree mortality within a catastrophic bushfire complex17
Evaluating long‐term success in grassland restoration: an ecosystem multifunctionality approach17
Multidecadal effects of fire in a grassland biodiversity hotspot: Does pyrodiversity enhance plant diversity?17
Consistent declines in aquatic biodiversity across diverse domains of life in rivers impacted by surface coal mining17
Satellite data and machine learning reveal the incidence of late frost defoliations on Iberian beech forests17
Reducing persecution is more effective for restoring large carnivores than restoring their prey17
Age structure affects population productivity in an exploited fish species16
A global review of socioeconomic and environmental impacts of ants reveals new insights for risk assessment16
Clonal functional traits favor the invasive success of alien plants into native communities16
Response of lion demography and dynamics to the loss of preferred larger prey16
Effects of dispersal‐ and niche‐based factors on tree recruitment in tropical wet forest restoration16
Tracking an invasion front with environmental DNA16
Demographic responses of nearly extirpated endangered mountain caribou to recovery actions in Central British Columbia15
Catchment‐scale urbanization diminishes effects of habitat complexity on instream macroinvertebrate assemblages15
Finding Liebig’s law of the minimum15
Model selection for the North American Breeding Bird Survey15
Predicting the population consequences of acoustic disturbance, with application to an endangered gray whale population15
High accuracy tracking reveals how small conservation areas can protect marine megafauna15
A general model of the thermal constraints on the world’s most destructive locust,Schistocerca gregaria15
Validation prediction: a flexible protocol to increase efficiency of automated acoustic processing for wildlife research15
Developing fine‐grained nationwide predictions of valuable forests using biodiversity indicator bird species15
Considering unseen arrivals in predictions of establishment risk based on border biosecurity interceptions15
Post‐restoration grassland management overrides the effects of restoration methods in propagule‐rich landscapes15
Chemical diversity rather than cultivar diversity predicts natural enemy control of herbivore pests15
Predicting the distribution of foraging seabirds during a period of heightened environmental variability14
Spring understory herbs flower later in intensively managed forests14
Forecast increase in invasive rabbit spread into ecosystems of an oceanic island (Tenerife) under climate change14
Hierarchical multi‐grain models improve descriptions of species’ environmental associations, distribution, and abundance14
Genetic data improves niche model discrimination and alters the direction and magnitude of climate change forecasts14
Disturbance‐accelerated succession increases the production of a temperate forest14
Landscape impacts of 3D‐seismic surveys in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska14
Cyanobacterial mats as benthic reservoirs and vectors for coral black band disease pathogens14
Living in the concrete jungle: carnivore spatial ecology in urban parks14
Monitoring tropical forest succession at landscape scales despite uncertainty in Landsat time series14
Assessing pesticides exposure effects on the reproductive performance of a declining aerial insectivore14
Evaluating and integrating spatial capture–recapture models with data of variable individual identifiability14
Combining photoperiod and thermal responses to predict phenological mismatch for introduced insects14
Shifts in food plant abundance for flower‐visiting insects between 1900 and 2017 in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland14
Spatially explicit removal strategies increase the efficiency of invasive plant species control14
Air temperatures over‐predict changes to stream fish assemblages with climate warming compared with water temperatures14
Woody‐plant encroachment: Precipitation, herbivory, and grass‐competition interact to affect shrub recruitment13
Identifying managerial legacies within conservation corridors using remote sensing and grasshoppers as bioindicators13
Increased reliance on insecticide applications in Canada linked to simplified agricultural landscapes13
Shifting trophic control of fishery–ecosystem dynamics following biological invasions13
A novel quantitative framework for riverscape genetics13
Successful biological control of winter moth, Operophtera brumata, in the northeastern United States13
Rapid enhancement of multiple ecosystem services following the restoration of a coastal foundation species13
Pollinator richness, pollination networks, and diet adjustment along local and landscape gradients of resource diversity13
Effects of snake fungal disease on short‐term survival, behavior, and movement in free‐ranging snakes13
Demographic modeling to fine‐tune conservation targets: importance of pre‐adults for the decline of an endangered raptor13
Tree growth response to drought partially explains regional‐scale growth and mortality patterns in Iberian forests13
Estimating individual‐level plant traits at scale13
Are stable isotope ratios suitable for describing niche partitioning and individual specialization?13
Long‐term demographic dynamics of a keystone scavenger disrupted by human‐induced shifts in food availability13
Land‐use change alters associations between personality and microhabitat selection13
Drivers of distributions and niches of North American cold‐adapted amphibians: evaluating both climate and land use13
Rapid ant community reassembly in a Neotropical forest: Recovery dynamics and land‐use legacy13
Natural enemy–herbivore networks along local management and landscape gradients in urban agroecosystems13
Disentangling landscape and local drivers of ground‐dwelling beetle community assembly in an urban ecosystem13
Canopy reflectance models illustrate varying NDVI responses to change in high latitude ecosystems13
Widespread agrochemicals differentially affect zooplankton biomass and community structure13
Context‐dependent carryover effects of hypoxia and warming in a coastal ecosystem engineer13
Are we telling the same story? Comparing inferences made from camera trap and telemetry data for wildlife monitoring12
Landscape heterogeneity filters functional traits of rice arthropods in tropical agroecosystems12
Effects of free‐ranging livestock on occurrence and interspecific interactions of a mammalian community12
Wild, tamed, and domesticated: Three fire macroregimes for global pyrogeography in the Anthropocene12
Fire‐driven vegetation type conversion in Southern California12
Demographic risk assessment for a harvested species threatened by climate change: polar bears in the Chukchi Sea12
Socio‐ecological drivers of public conservation voting: Restoring gray wolves to Colorado, USA12
A recovery network leads to the natural recolonization of an archipelago and a potential trailing edge refuge12
Limited shifts in the distribution of migratory bird breeding habitat density in response to future changes in climate12
Advancing estuarine ecological forecasts: seasonal hypoxia in Chesapeake Bay12
Satellite‐based habitat monitoring reveals long‐term dynamics of deer habitat in response to forest disturbances12
Microhabitats associated with solar energy development alter demography of two desert annuals12
Restoring function: Positive responses of carbon and nitrogen to 20 years of hydrologic restoration in montane meadows12
Early‐season plant cover supports more effective pest control than insecticide applications12
Approaches for estimating benefits and costs of interventions in plant biosecurity across invasion phases12
Using plant traits to understand the contribution of biodiversity effects to annual crop community productivity12
Resilience of reptiles to megafires12
Climate change mitigation and improvement of water quality from the restoration of a subtropical coastal wetland12
Evidence of widespread topoclimatic limitation for lower treelines of the Intermountain West, United States12
Conspecific and congeneric interactions shape increasing rates of breeding dispersal of northern spotted owls12
Ecosystem restoration and belowground multifunctionality: A network view11
A structured seabird population model reveals how alternative forage fish control rules benefit seabirds and fisheries11
Precipitation change accentuates or reverses temperature effects on aphid dispersal11
Arthropod dark taxa provide new insights into diversity responses to bark beetle infestations11
Continental‐scale dynamics of avian influenza in U.S. waterfowl are driven by demography, migration, and temperature11
The biggest bang for the buck: cost‐effective vegetation treatment outcomes across drylands of the western United States11
Species traits explain public perceptions of human–bird interactions11
Archetype models upscale understanding of natural pest control response to land‐use change11
Long‐term trends indicate that invasive plants are pervasive and increasing in eastern national parks11
Can restoration of fire‐dependent ecosystems reduce ticks and tick‐borne disease prevalence in the eastern United States?11
Long‐term restoration success of insect herbivore communities in seminatural grasslands: a functional approach11
Time‐to‐detection occupancy methods: performance and utility for improving efficiency of surveys11
Positive long‐term impacts of restoration on soils in an experimental urban forest11
Soil organic carbon in drylands: shrub encroachment and vegetation management effects dwarf those of livestock grazing11
Increasing fire frequency and severity will increase habitat loss for a boreal forest indicator species11
Latitudinal gradients in population growth do not reflect demographic responses to climate11
Predicting spatial‐temporal patterns of diet quality and large herbivore performance using satellite time series11
Inferring pesticide toxicity to honey bees from a field‐based feeding study using a colony model and Bayesian inference11
Honey bee colony performance affected by crop diversity and farmland structure: a modeling framework11
Strong impact of management regimes on rhizome biomass across Central European temperate grasslands11
Dry conifer forest restoration benefits Colorado Front Range avian communities11
Forest phenoclusters for Argentina based on vegetation phenology and climate10
Predator–prey landscapes of large sharks and game fishes in the Florida Keys10
Trophic cascade in a marine protected area with artificial reefs: spiny lobster predation mitigates urchin barrens10
Modeling impacts of drought‐induced salinity intrusion on carbon dynamics in tidal freshwater forested wetlands10
Rapidly declining body size in an insectivorous bat is associated with increased precipitation and decreased survival10
Recovered frog populations coexist with endemic Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis despite load‐dependent mortality10
Disturbance and management effects on forest soil organic carbon stocks in the Pacific Northwest10
Assessing the potential for demographic restoration and assisted evolution to build climate resilience in coral reefs10
Resistance and resilience of pelagic and littoral fishes to drought in the San Francisco Estuary10
Integrating data types to estimate spatial patterns of avian migration across the Western Hemisphere10
Fragmentation reduces community‐wide taxonomic and functional diversity of dispersed tree seeds in the Central Amazon10
The economic tradeoffs and ecological impacts associated with a potential mesopelagic fishery in the California Current10
Connectivity over a disease risk gradient enables recovery of rainforest frogs10
Near‐term phytoplankton forecasts reveal the effects of model time step and forecast horizon on predictability10
Experimental evaluation of spatial capture–recapture study design10
Extinction of biotic interactions due to habitat loss could accelerate the current biodiversity crisis10
Land use and management effects on soil carbon in U.S. Lake States, with emphasis on forestry, fire, and reforestation10
Application of modern coexistence theory to rare plant restoration provides early indication of restoration trajectories10
Snapshot Wisconsin: networking community scientists and remote sensing to improve ecological monitoring and management10
Alien insect dispersal mediated by the global movement of commodities10
Modeling the evolution of herbicide resistance in weed species with a complex life cycle10
Contrasting effects of tree origin and urbanization on invertebrate abundance and tree phenology10
Does the legacy of historical thinning treatments foster resilience to bark beetle outbreaks in subalpine forests?10
Interacting lethal and nonlethal human activities shape complex risk tolerance behaviors in a mountain herbivore10
Woody encroachment happens via intensification, not extensification, of species ranges in an African savanna10
Accounting for animal movement improves vaccination strategies against wildlife disease in heterogeneous landscapes9
Fine sediment and flow velocity impact bacterial community and functional profile more than nutrient enrichment9
Landscape‐scale restoration minimizes tree growth vulnerability to 21st century drought in a dry forest9
Disentangling direct and indirect effects of landscape structure on urban bird richness and functional diversity9
Managing ecosystems in a sea of uncertainty: invasive species management and assisted colonizations9
Classic indicators and diel dissolved oxygen versus trend analysis in assessing eutrophication of potable‐water reservoirs9
Empirically validated drought vulnerability mapping in the mixed conifer forests of the Sierra Nevada9
Distribution and transport of microplastic and fine particulate organic matter in urban streams9
Proximity between humans and a highly medically significant snake, Russell’s viper, in a tropical rural community9
Trends in land surface phenology across the conterminous United States (1982‐2016) analyzed by NEON domains9
Functional diversity of farmland bees across rural–urban landscapes in a tropical megacity9
Interacting effects of cold snaps, rain, and agriculture on the fledging success of a declining aerial insectivore9
What is the effect of poaching activity on wildlife species?9
Vegetation complexity and nesting resource availability predict bee diversity and functional traits in community gardens9
Plant effects on and response to soil microbes in native and non‐native Phragmites australis9
High summer macrophyte cover increases abundance, growth, and feeding of juvenile Atlantic salmon9
Does large dam removal restore downstream riparian vegetation diversity? Testing predictions on the Elwha River, Washington, USA9
Modeling net ecosystem carbon balance and loss in coastal wetlands exposed to sea‐level rise and saltwater intrusion9
Identifying and protecting macroalgae detritus sinks toward climate change mitigation9
Repairing recruitment processes with sound technology to accelerate habitat restoration9
Rich and abundant spider communities result from enhanced web capture breadth and reduced overlap in urban greenspaces9
Tropical forest loss impoverishes arboreal mammal assemblages by increasing tree canopy openness9
Bee diversity decreases rapidly with time since harvest in intensively managed conifer forests9
An eco‐epidemiological modeling approach to investigate dilution effect in two different tick‐borne pathosystems9
The economics of conservation debt: a natural capital approach to revealed valuation of ecological dynamics9
Development of a predation index to assess trophic stability in the Gulf of Alaska9
Short‐term effects of wildfire in boreal peatlands: Does fire mitigate the linear footprint of oil and gas exploration?9
Evaluating natural experiments in ecology: using synthetic controls in assessments of remotely sensed land treatments9
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