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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Food‐web dynamics of a floodplain mosaic overshadow the effects of engineered logjams for Pacific salmon and steelhead135
Novel associations among insect herbivores and trees: Patterns of occurrence and damage on pines and eucalypts87
Landscape composition drives winter bird assemblages in agriculture–savanna mosaics of western India80
Joint species distribution modeling reveals a changing prey landscape for North Pacific right whales on the Bering shelf71
Evidence to inform spatiotemporal management of a western Pacific Ocean tuna purse seine fishery55
Support for an area–heterogeneity tradeoff for biodiversity in croplands54
Evaluation of a two‐season banding program to estimate and model migratory bird survival53
Can the impact of canopy trees on soil and understory be altered using litter additions?51
Mowing increased community stability in semiarid grasslands more than either fencing or grazing50
Multidecadal vegetation transformations of a New Mexico ponderosa pine landscape after severe fires and aerial seeding49
Invasive blackberry outcompetes the endemic Galapagos tree daisy Scalesiapedunculata48
Mega‐disturbances cause rapid decline of mature conifer forest habitat in California46
Alien insect dispersal mediated by the global movement of commodities46
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Functional diversity of ground beetles improved aphid control but did not increase crop yields on European farms46
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Variation in flower morphology associated with higher bee diversity in urban green spaces38
Making outdoor field experiences more inclusive for the LGBTQ+ community37
Lakeshore residential development as a driver of aquatic habitat and littoral fish communities: A cross‐system study36
Parasites indicate trophic complexity and faunal succession in restored oyster reefs over a 22‐year period36
Using social‐ecological models to explore stream connectivity outcomes for stakeholders and Yellowstone cutthroat trout36
Tree diversity across the Minneapolis‐St. Paul Metropolitan Area in relation to climate and social vulnerability36
Flowering time advances since the 1970s in a sagebrush steppe community: Implications for management and restoration35
Nitrogen cycling in pastoral livestock systems in Sub‐Saharan Africa: knowns and unknowns34
Environment, vector, or host? Using machine learning to untangle the mechanisms driving arbovirus outbreaks34
Water availability modifies productivity response to biodiversity and nitrogen in long‐term grassland experiments31
Historical ecology identifies long‐term rewilding strategy for conservingMediterranean mountain forests in southItaly31
Vegetation complexity and nesting resource availability predict bee diversity and functional traits in community gardens30
Finding Liebig’s law of the minimum29
Predation thresholds for reintroduction of native avifauna following suppression of invasive Brown Treesnakes on Guam29
Conserving ecosystem integrity: Ecological theory as a guide for marine protected area monitoring28
Urban runoff and stream channel incision interact to influence riparian soils and understory vegetation28
Ecological success of no‐take marine protected areas: Using population dynamics theory to inform a global meta‐analysis28
Counting the Capital's cats: Estimating drivers of abundance of free‐roaming cats with a novel hierarchical model27
Indigenous‐led conservation: Pathways to recovery for the nearly extirpatedKlinse‐Zamountain caribou27
Diverging restoration pathways for overstory and understory communities in a Mediterranean‐climate riparian ecosystem27
Predicting vulnerability of forest patches to invasion by non‐native plants for landscape scale management27
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High accuracy tracking reveals how small conservation areas can protect marine megafauna26
Fragmented landscapes affect honey bee colony strength at diverse spatial scales in agroecological landscapes in Kenya26
Quantifying vulnerability to plant invasion across global ecosystems26
When a pest is not a pest: Birds indirectly increase defoliation but have no effect on yield of soybean crops26
Terrestrial land use signals on groundwater fauna beyond current protection buffers26
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Global dynamics of functional composition in CITES‐traded reptiles25
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Urban soil quality deteriorates even with low heavy metal levels: An arthropod‐based multi‐indices approach24
Crowding, climate, and the case for social distancing among trees24
Overlap between marine predators and proposed Marine Managed Areas on the Patagonian Shelf24
Tipping the balance: The role of seed density, abiotic filters, and priority effects in seed‐based wetland restoration24
Perspectives of invasive alien species management in China24
Soil animal communities demonstrate simplification without homogenization along an urban gradient24
Forest restoration treatments increased growth and did not change survival of ponderosa pines in severe drought, Arizona23
Differential impacts of grazing on grassland plant diversity, biomass, soil C, and soil N across an elevation gradient23
Addressing pollination deficits in orchard crops through habitat management for wild pollinators23
Demographic effects of sanitary policies on European vulture population dynamics: A retrospective modeling approach22
Evaluating and integrating spatial capture–recapture models with data of variable individual identifiability22
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Repairing recruitment processes with sound technology to accelerate habitat restoration22
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The identity crisis of ecological diversity22
Accounting for animal movement improves vaccination strategies against wildlife disease in heterogeneous landscapes21
Estimating the population size of a mountain galliform in the context of multi‐stakeholder adaptive management21
Nitrogen cycling and urban afforestation success inNew York City21
Stasis in forest regeneration following deer exclusion and understory gap creation: A 10‐year experiment21
Automatic selection of the number of clusters using Bayesian clustering and sparsity‐inducing priors21
Does experimental seaweed cultivation affect benthic communities and shorebirds? Applications for extensive aquaculture21
Assessing drivers of localized invasive spread to inform large‐scale management of a highly damaging insect pest21
Evaluating online and tangible interfaces for engaging stakeholders in forecasting and control of biological invasions21
Integration of aerial surveys and resource selection analysis indicates human land use supports boreal deer expansion21
Invasive predators affect community‐wide pollinator visitation20
Migratory connectivity of North American waterfowl across administrative flyways20
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Trends in land surface phenology across the conterminous United States (1982‐2016) analyzed by NEON domains20
Developing fine‐grained nationwide predictions of valuable forests using biodiversity indicator bird species20
Mapping supply of and demand for ecosystem services to assess environmental justice in New York City20
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Long‐term livestock exclusion increases plant richness and reproductive capacity in arid woodlands20
Paleoecology provides context for conserving culturally and ecologically important pine forest and barrens communities20
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Introducing desirable patches to initiate ecosystem transitions and accelerate ecosystem restoration20
Nitrification and denitrification in the Community Land Model compared with observations at Hubbard Brook Forest19
Designing a large‐scale track‐based monitoring program to detect changes in species distributions in arid Australia19
Landscape change and alien invasions drive shifts in native lady beetle communities over a century19
Linking remote sensing data to the estimation of pollination services in agroecosystems19
Opposite effects of nutrient enrichment and an invasive snail on the growth of invasive and native macrophytes19
Relative effects of sample size, detection probability, and study duration on estimation in integrated population models19
Monitoring resistance and resilience using carbon trajectories: Analysis of forest management–disturbance interactions19
Reactive persistence, spatial management, and conservation of metapopulations: An application to seagrass restoration19
The day after mowing: Time and type of mowing influence grassland arthropods18
Low‐ and moderate‐severity fire offers key insights for landscape restoration in ponderosa pine forests18
Air temperatures over‐predict changes to stream fish assemblages with climate warming compared with water temperatures18
Avian species richness and tropical urbanization gradients: Effects of woodland retention and human disturbance18
Recommendations to enhance breeding bird diversity in managed plantation forests determined using LiDAR18
Increased lead and glucocorticoid concentrations reduce reproductive success in house sparrows along an urban gradient18
Native forest cover safeguards stream water quality under a changing climate18
Broadening the ecological mindset18
Orchards and paddy differentially impact rock outcrop amphibians: Insights from community‐ and species‐level responses18
Long‐term macrophyte and snail community responses to population declines of invasive rusty crayfish (Faxonius rusticus)18
Fall and rise of a threatened raptor: Unraveling long‐term population dynamics with spatially explicit integrated models18
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An efficient method of evaluating multiple concurrent management actions on invasive populations17
A comprehensive experimental assessment of glyphosate ecological impacts in riparian forest restoration17
Unveiling the effects of landscape–fire interactions on functional diversity in a Southern European mountain17
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Similar zooplankton responses to lowpHand calcium may impair long‐term recovery from acidification17
Tidal channel meanders serve as stepping‐stones to facilitate cordgrass landward spread by creating invasion windows17
Differential recruitment drives pathogen‐mediated competition between species in an amphibian chytridiomycosis system17
Predicting the population consequences of acoustic disturbance, with application to an endangered gray whale population17
Archetype models upscale understanding of natural pest control response to land‐use change16
Evidence of absence regression: a binomial N‐mixture model for estimating fatalities at wind energy facilities16
Nucleation sites and forest recovery under high shrub competition16
Effects of free‐ranging livestock on occurrence and interspecific interactions of a mammalian community16
Towards a continent‐wide ecological site condition database using calibrated expert evaluations16
Testing a generalized leaf mass estimation method for diverse tree species and climates of the continental United States16
Native generalist natural enemies and an introduced specialist parasitoid together control an invasive forest insect16
Identifying managerial legacies within conservation corridors using remote sensing and grasshoppers as bioindicators16
Logging response alters trajectories of reorganization after loss of a foundation tree species15
Habitat fragmentation reduces survival and drives source–sink dynamics for a large carnivore15
Functional diversity regulates the effects of habitat degradation on biocrust phylogenetic and taxonomic diversities15
Disease and weather induce rapid shifts in a rangeland ecosystem mediated by a keystone species (Cynomys ludovicianus)15
Forest restoration treatments indirectly diversify pollination networks via floral‐ and temperature‐mediated effects15
Landscape analyses using eDNA metabarcoding and Earth observation predict community biodiversity in California15
Inferring population connectivity in eastern massasauga rattlesnakes (Sistruruscatenatus) using landscape genetics15
Sharing land via keystone structure: Retaining naturally regenerated trees may efficiently benefit birds in plantations15
Linking changes in landscape structure to insect herbivory in forest edges and interiors of Atlantic Forest remnants15
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An approach to defining and achieving restoration targets for a threatened plant community15
The economic tradeoffs and ecological impacts associated with a potential mesopelagic fishery in the California Current15
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Root functional traits are important predictors for plant resource acquisition strategies in subtropical forests15
Modeling cheatgrass distribution, abundance, and response to climate change as a function of soil microclimate15
Factors limiting the potential range expansion of lodgepole pine in Interior Alaska15
Cytotype and genotype predict mortality and recruitment in Colorado quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides)15
Recruitment variability and sampling design interact to influence the detectability of protected area effects15
Cyanobacterial mats as benthic reservoirs and vectors for coral black band disease pathogens15
Transgenerational plasticity in morphological characteristics and biomass of the invasive plant Xanthium strumarium15
Landscape‐scale floral resource discontinuity decreases bumble bee occurrence and alters community composition15
Centering Amah Mutsun voices in the analysis of a culturally important, fire‐managed coastal grassland15
A global review of socioeconomic and environmental impacts of ants reveals new insights for risk assessment14
Positive feedback between wind‐eroded patch size, plant recruitment failure, and desertification in semiarid sandlands14
Vegetation zones as indicators of denitrification potential in salt marshes14
The impact of plant‐derived fire management prescriptions on fire‐responsive bird species14
A metric‐based framework for climate‐smart conservation planning14
Model responses to CO2 and warming are underestimated without explicit representation of Arctic small‐mammal grazing14
Increasing taxonomic diversity and spatial resolution clarifies opportunities for protecting US imperiled species14
Finding rare species and estimating the probability that all occupied sites have been found14
The effects of herbivore aggregations at water sources on savanna plants differ across soil and climate gradients14
Post‐restoration grassland management overrides the effects of restoration methods in propagule‐rich landscapes14
Bee diversity decreases rapidly with time since harvest in intensively managed conifer forests14
Canopy reflectance models illustrate varying NDVI responses to change in high latitude ecosystems14
Transient dynamics during kelp forest recovery from fishing across multiple trophic levels14
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Long‐term frequent fire and cattle grazing alter dry forest understory vegetation14
Coastal squeeze on temperate reefs: Long‐term shifts in salinity, water quality, and oyster‐associated communities14
Bird species responses to rangeland management in relation to their traits: Rio de la Plata Grasslands as a case study14
A newly invasive species may promote dissimilarity of pest populations between organic and conventional farming systems13
Does life history mediate discharge as a driver of multi‐decadal changes in populations of freshwater fish?13
Active restoration increases tree species richness and recruitment of large‐seeded taxa after 16–18 years13
Plant community responses to grassland restoration efforts across a large‐scale precipitation gradient13
Early detection of a tree pathogen using airborne remote sensing13
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Multi‐Factor Coral Disease Risk: A new product for early warning and management13
Range‐wide sources of variation in reproductive rates of northern spotted owls13
Discrete‐space continuous‐time models of marine mammal exposure to Navy sonar13
Worldwide border interceptions provide a window into human‐mediated global insect movement13
Blending Indigenous and western science: Quantifying cultural burning impacts in Karuk Aboriginal Territory13
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White‐tailed deer population dynamics in a multipredator landscape shaped by humans13
Experimental water hyacinth invasion and destructive management increase human schistosome transmission potential13
Impacts of forest fragmentation on interactions between plants and their insect herbivores and fungal pathogens13
Forest phenoclusters for Argentina based on vegetation phenology and climate13
Are we telling the same story? Comparing inferences made from camera trap and telemetry data for wildlife monitoring13
Introduction of non‐native Douglas fir reduces leaf damage on beech saplings and mature trees in European beech forests13
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Long‐term exclusion of invasive ungulates alters tree recruitment and functional traits but not total forest carbon13
Replacing native grazers with livestock influences arthropods to have implications for ecosystem functions and disease12
Fire‐driven vegetation type conversion in Southern California12
Landscape‐wide pulse events predict trait‐based responses among wetland birds in perennial channels of a dryland wetland12
Organic fertility inputs synergistically increase denitrification‐derived nitrous oxide emissions in agroecosystems12
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Microbes in reconstructive restoration: Divergence in constructed and natural tree island soil fungi affects tree growth12
Improving coral cover using an integrated pest management framework12
Optimal surveillance against bioinvasions: a sample average approximation method applied to an agent‐based spread model12
Smaller and bolder fish enhance ecosystem‐scale primary production around artificial reefs in seagrass beds12
A new tool to quantify biodiversity change under landscape transformation12
Disentangling the role of environmental filtering and biotic resistance on alien invasions in a reservoir area12
Application of modern coexistence theory to rare plant restoration provides early indication of restoration trajectories12
Changes in reproduction mediate the effects of climate change and grassland management on plant population dynamics12
Comparing the efficacy of control strategies for infectious disease outbreaks using field and simulation studies12
Effects of ignoring survey design information for data reuse12
Ten‐year trends reveal declining quality of seeded pollinator habitat on reclaimed mines regardless of seed mix diversity12
Arthropod dark taxa provide new insights into diversity responses to bark beetle infestations12
Eastern Canadian boreal forest soil and foliar chemistry show evidence of resilience to long‐term nitrogen addition12
Wildflower plantings enhance nesting opportunities for soil‐nesting bees12
Short‐ and long‐term wildfire threat when adapting infrastructure for wildlife conservation in the boreal forest12
Independent effects of tree diversity on aboveground and soil carbon pools after six years of experimental afforestation12
Regard and protect ground‐nesting pollinators as part of soil biodiversity11
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Quantifying the impact of habitat modifications on species behavior and mortality: A case study of tropical tuna11
Changes in plant community assembly from patchy degradation of grasslands and grazing by different‐sized herbivores11
Diversifying and perennializing plants in agroecosystems alters retention of newCandNfrom crop residues11
Modeling net ecosystem carbon balance and loss in coastal wetlands exposed to sea‐level rise and saltwater intrusion11
Seafloor sediment microtopography as a surrogate for biodiversity and ecosystem functioning11
Successful recovery of native plants post‐invasive removal in forest understories is driven by native community features11
Recolonization of secondary forests by a locally extinct Caribbean anole through the lens of range expansion theory11
Soil Heating in Fire (SheFire): A model and measurement method for estimating soil heating and effects during wildland fires11
Substituting space for time: Bird responses to forest loss in space provide a general picture of responses over time11
A utilization distribution for the global population of Cape Vultures (Gypscoprotheres) to guide wind energy development11
Experimental evaluation of spatial capture–recapture study design11
The potential for synthesized invasive plant biochar with hydroxyapatite to mitigate allelopathy of Solidagocanadensis11
Opportunities to reduce pollination deficits and address production shortfalls in an important insect‐pollinated crop11
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Pathways for accidental biocontrol: The human‐mediated dispersal of insect predators and parasitoids11
Identifying and protecting macroalgae detritus sinks toward climate change mitigation11
Shortened food chain length in a fished versus unfished coral reef11
Evaluating intra‐ and inter‐life stage density‐dependent dynamics for management of perennial amphidromous fish11
Human access constrains optimal foraging and habitat availability in an avian generalist11
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Secondary production of the central rangeland region of the United States10
The potential of trait data to increase the availability of bioindicators: A case study using plant conservatism values10
Satellite greenness and solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence reveal reverse desertification in Gurbantunggut Desert10
Informing conservation decisions to target private lands of highest ecological value and risk of loss10
Effectiveness of population‐based recovery actions for threatened southern mountain caribou10
Natural disturbance regimes as a guide for sustainable forest management in Europe10
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High vulnerability of juvenileNathusius' pipistrelle bats (Pipistrellus nathusii) at wind turbines10
Ecosystem restoration and belowground multifunctionality: A network view10
The national Fire and Fire Surrogate study: Effects of fuel treatments in the Western and Eastern United States after 20 years10
Optimizing control of a freshwater invader in time and space10
Pesticide exposure enhances dominance patterns in a zooplankton community10
Contrasting effects of tree origin and urbanization on invertebrate abundance and tree phenology10
A structured seabird population model reveals how alternative forage fish control rules benefit seabirds and fisheries10
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Partial refuges from biological control due to intraspecific variation in protective host traits10
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Nutrient enrichment promotes invasion success of alien plants via increased growth and suppression of chemical defenses10
Urban landscapes with more natural greenspace support higher pollinator diversity10
Rapidly declining body size in an insectivorous bat is associated with increased precipitation and decreased survival10
Limitations to coral recovery along an environmental stress gradient10
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