Ecological Applications

Papers
(The TQCC of Ecological Applications is 12. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Evidence to inform spatiotemporal management of a western Pacific Ocean tuna purse seine fishery243
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Joint species distribution modeling reveals a changing prey landscape for North Pacific right whales on the Bering shelf66
Multidecadal vegetation transformations of a New Mexico ponderosa pine landscape after severe fires and aerial seeding60
Mowing increased community stability in semiarid grasslands more than either fencing or grazing59
Functional diversity of ground beetles improved aphid control but did not increase crop yields on European farms55
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Food‐web dynamics of a floodplain mosaic overshadow the effects of engineered logjams for Pacific salmon and steelhead51
The effect of mechanical canopy reduction on big sagebrush plant communities50
Can the impact of canopy trees on soil and understory be altered using litter additions?50
Landscape composition drives winter bird assemblages in agriculture–savanna mosaics of western India50
Alien insect dispersal mediated by the global movement of commodities49
Support for an area–heterogeneity tradeoff for biodiversity in croplands46
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Mega‐disturbances cause rapid decline of mature conifer forest habitat in California43
Combining co‐introduction with patch‐size optimization as a novel strategy to maximize seagrass restoration43
Novel associations among insect herbivores and trees: Patterns of occurrence and damage on pines and eucalypts42
Invasive blackberry outcompetes the endemic Galapagos tree daisy Scalesiapedunculata41
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Conserving ecosystem integrity: Ecological theory as a guide for marine protected area monitoring36
Biodiversity effects on seedling growth are modified by light environment across functional groups35
Aspen impedes wildfire spread in southwestern United States landscapes35
Vegetation complexity and nesting resource availability predict bee diversity and functional traits in community gardens34
Diverging restoration pathways for overstory and understory communities in a Mediterranean‐climate riparian ecosystem32
Urban runoff and stream channel incision interact to influence riparian soils and understory vegetation31
Predation thresholds for reintroduction of native avifauna following suppression of invasive Brown Treesnakes on Guam31
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Counting the Capital's cats: Estimating drivers of abundance of free‐roaming cats with a novel hierarchical model29
Making outdoor field experiences more inclusive for the LGBTQ+ community29
Historical ecology identifies long‐term rewilding strategy for conservingMediterranean mountain forests in southItaly29
Predicting vulnerability of forest patches to invasion by non‐native plants for landscape scale management28
Using social‐ecological models to explore stream connectivity outcomes for stakeholders and Yellowstone cutthroat trout28
Parasites indicate trophic complexity and faunal succession in restored oyster reefs over a 22‐year period28
Lakeshore residential development as a driver of aquatic habitat and littoral fish communities: A cross‐system study28
Ecological success of no‐take marine protected areas: Using population dynamics theory to inform a global meta‐analysis27
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Tree diversity across the Minneapolis‐St. Paul Metropolitan Area in relation to climate and social vulnerability27
Biotic resistance across a nutrient gradient in experimental wetland mesocosms26
Variation in flower morphology associated with higher bee diversity in urban green spaces26
Indigenous‐led conservation: Pathways to recovery for the nearly extirpatedKlinse‐Zamountain caribou26
Fragmented landscapes affect honey bee colony strength at diverse spatial scales in agroecological landscapes in Kenya25
Global dynamics of functional composition in CITES‐traded reptiles25
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Flowering time advances since the 1970s in a sagebrush steppe community: Implications for management and restoration25
Perspectives of invasive alien species management in China25
Quantifying vulnerability to plant invasion across global ecosystems25
When a pest is not a pest: Birds indirectly increase defoliation but have no effect on yield of soybean crops25
Finding Liebig’s law of the minimum25
Overlap between marine predators and proposed Marine Managed Areas on the Patagonian Shelf25
Terrestrial land use signals on groundwater fauna beyond current protection buffers25
Differential impacts of grazing on grassland plant diversity, biomass, soil C, and soil N across an elevation gradient24
Crowding, climate, and the case for social distancing among trees24
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Forest restoration treatments increased growth and did not change survival of ponderosa pines in severe drought, Arizona24
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Urban soil quality deteriorates even with low heavy metal levels: An arthropod‐based multi‐indices approach24
Soil animal communities demonstrate simplification without homogenization along an urban gradient24
Automatic selection of the number of clusters using Bayesian clustering and sparsity‐inducing priors23
Does experimental seaweed cultivation affect benthic communities and shorebirds? Applications for extensive aquaculture23
Addressing pollination deficits in orchard crops through habitat management for wild pollinators23
Tipping the balance: The role of seed density, abiotic filters, and priority effects in seed‐based wetland restoration23
Integration of aerial surveys and resource selection analysis indicates human land use supports boreal deer expansion23
Accounting for animal movement improves vaccination strategies against wildlife disease in heterogeneous landscapes23
Estimating the population size of a mountain galliform in the context of multi‐stakeholder adaptive management23
Nitrogen cycling and urban afforestation success inNew York City22
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Assessing drivers of localized invasive spread to inform large‐scale management of a highly damaging insect pest22
Evaluating environmental drivers and synchrony of Arctic shorebird demographic rates to inform conservation management22
Evaluating online and tangible interfaces for engaging stakeholders in forecasting and control of biological invasions22
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Stasis in forest regeneration following deer exclusion and understory gap creation: A 10‐year experiment21
Long‐term livestock exclusion increases plant richness and reproductive capacity in arid woodlands21
Paleoecology provides context for conserving culturally and ecologically important pine forest and barrens communities21
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Developing fine‐grained nationwide predictions of valuable forests using biodiversity indicator bird species20
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Landscape change and alien invasions drive shifts in native lady beetle communities over a century20
Introducing desirable patches to initiate ecosystem transitions and accelerate ecosystem restoration20
Demographic effects of sanitary policies on European vulture population dynamics: A retrospective modeling approach20
Long‐term macrophyte and snail community responses to population declines of invasive rusty crayfish (Faxonius rusticus)20
Orchards and paddy differentially impact rock outcrop amphibians: Insights from community‐ and species‐level responses20
Hydrophone placement yields high variability in detection of Epinephelus striatus calls at a spawning site20
Migratory connectivity of North American waterfowl across administrative flyways20
Tidal channel meanders serve as stepping‐stones to facilitate cordgrass landward spread by creating invasion windows20
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Invasive predators affect community‐wide pollinator visitation20
Nitrification and denitrification in the Community Land Model compared with observations at Hubbard Brook Forest19
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Linking remote sensing data to the estimation of pollination services in agroecosystems19
Low‐ and moderate‐severity fire offers key insights for landscape restoration in ponderosa pine forests19
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Landscape heterogeneity and pesticide reduction favor predation, but also grape infestation by Lobesia botrana19
Recommendations to enhance breeding bird diversity in managed plantation forests determined using LiDAR18
Monitoring resistance and resilience using carbon trajectories: Analysis of forest management–disturbance interactions18
The day after mowing: Time and type of mowing influence grassland arthropods18
Relative effects of sample size, detection probability, and study duration on estimation in integrated population models18
Increased lead and glucocorticoid concentrations reduce reproductive success in house sparrows along an urban gradient18
Opposite effects of nutrient enrichment and an invasive snail on the growth of invasive and native macrophytes18
An efficient method of evaluating multiple concurrent management actions on invasive populations18
Designing a large‐scale track‐based monitoring program to detect changes in species distributions in arid Australia18
Air temperatures over‐predict changes to stream fish assemblages with climate warming compared with water temperatures17
Fall and rise of a threatened raptor: Unraveling long‐term population dynamics with spatially explicit integrated models17
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A comprehensive experimental assessment of glyphosate ecological impacts in riparian forest restoration17
Reactive persistence, spatial management, and conservation of metapopulations: An application to seagrass restoration17
Avian species richness and tropical urbanization gradients: Effects of woodland retention and human disturbance17
Sharing land via keystone structure: Retaining naturally regenerated trees may efficiently benefit birds in plantations17
Inferring population connectivity in eastern massasauga rattlesnakes (Sistruruscatenatus) using landscape genetics17
Indigenous knowledge, forest landscape modeling, and the cumulative effects of environmental changes17
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Habitat fragmentation reduces survival and drives source–sink dynamics for a large carnivore17
Similar zooplankton responses to lowpHand calcium may impair long‐term recovery from acidification16
Nucleation sites and forest recovery under high shrub competition16
Evidence of absence regression: a binomial N‐mixture model for estimating fatalities at wind energy facilities16
Unveiling the effects of landscape–fire interactions on functional diversity in a Southern European mountain16
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Towards a continent‐wide ecological site condition database using calibrated expert evaluations16
Cytotype and genotype predict mortality and recruitment in Colorado quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides)16
Root functional traits are important predictors for plant resource acquisition strategies in subtropical forests16
Native generalist natural enemies and an introduced specialist parasitoid together control an invasive forest insect16
Testing a generalized leaf mass estimation method for diverse tree species and climates of the continental United States16
Differential recruitment drives pathogen‐mediated competition between species in an amphibian chytridiomycosis system16
Factors limiting the potential range expansion of lodgepole pine in Interior Alaska15
Landscape‐scale floral resource discontinuity decreases bumble bee occurrence and alters community composition15
Predicting the population consequences of acoustic disturbance, with application to an endangered gray whale population15
Modeling cheatgrass distribution, abundance, and response to climate change as a function of soil microclimate15
Positive feedback between wind‐eroded patch size, plant recruitment failure, and desertification in semiarid sandlands15
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Identifying managerial legacies within conservation corridors using remote sensing and grasshoppers as bioindicators15
Archetype models upscale understanding of natural pest control response to land‐use change15
Effects of free‐ranging livestock on occurrence and interspecific interactions of a mammalian community15
Logging response alters trajectories of reorganization after loss of a foundation tree species15
Finding rare species and estimating the probability that all occupied sites have been found15
Functional diversity regulates the effects of habitat degradation on biocrust phylogenetic and taxonomic diversities15
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Centering Amah Mutsun voices in the analysis of a culturally important, fire‐managed coastal grassland15
Threshold responses of birds to agricultural intensification in Mediterranean olive groves15
Transgenerational plasticity in morphological characteristics and biomass of the invasive plant Xanthium strumarium15
Recruitment variability and sampling design interact to influence the detectability of protected area effects15
Linking changes in landscape structure to insect herbivory in forest edges and interiors of Atlantic Forest remnants15
Increasing taxonomic diversity and spatial resolution clarifies opportunities for protecting US imperiled species14
Blending Indigenous and western science: Quantifying cultural burning impacts in Karuk Aboriginal Territory14
Bee diversity decreases rapidly with time since harvest in intensively managed conifer forests14
Vegetation zones as indicators of denitrification potential in salt marshes14
Objective risk assessment of bark and ambrosia beetles non‐indigenous to North America14
The impact of plant‐derived fire management prescriptions on fire‐responsive bird species14
Simulations of historical impacts of climate change and atmospheric chemistry on a northeastern U.S. forest ecosystem14
Model responses to CO2 and warming are underestimated without explicit representation of Arctic small‐mammal grazing14
Are we telling the same story? Comparing inferences made from camera trap and telemetry data for wildlife monitoring14
Restoration maintains high soil carbon stocks in Asia's largest tropical grassland14
Bird species responses to rangeland management in relation to their traits: Rio de la Plata Grasslands as a case study14
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Forest restoration treatments indirectly diversify pollination networks via floral‐ and temperature‐mediated effects14
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Impacts of forest fragmentation on interactions between plants and their insect herbivores and fungal pathogens14
Post‐restoration grassland management overrides the effects of restoration methods in propagule‐rich landscapes14
Coastal squeeze on temperate reefs: Long‐term shifts in salinity, water quality, and oyster‐associated communities14
Early detection of a tree pathogen using airborne remote sensing14
Long‐term frequent fire and cattle grazing alter dry forest understory vegetation14
Introduction of non‐native Douglas fir reduces leaf damage on beech saplings and mature trees in European beech forests14
Cyanobacterial mats as benthic reservoirs and vectors for coral black band disease pathogens14
Disease and weather induce rapid shifts in a rangeland ecosystem mediated by a keystone species (Cynomys ludovicianus)14
An approach to defining and achieving restoration targets for a threatened plant community14
The economic tradeoffs and ecological impacts associated with a potential mesopelagic fishery in the California Current14
White‐tailed deer population dynamics in a multipredator landscape shaped by humans13
Short‐ and long‐term wildfire threat when adapting infrastructure for wildlife conservation in the boreal forest13
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Wildflower plantings enhance nesting opportunities for soil‐nesting bees13
A global review of socioeconomic and environmental impacts of ants reveals new insights for risk assessment13
Landscape‐wide pulse events predict trait‐based responses among wetland birds in perennial channels of a dryland wetland13
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A newly invasive species may promote dissimilarity of pest populations between organic and conventional farming systems13
Discrete‐space continuous‐time models of marine mammal exposure to Navy sonar13
A metric‐based framework for climate‐smart conservation planning13
Range‐wide sources of variation in reproductive rates of northern spotted owls13
Multi‐Factor Coral Disease Risk: A new product for early warning and management13
Invasion timing affects multiple scales, metrics, and facets of biodiversity outcomes in ecological restoration experiments13
Application of modern coexistence theory to rare plant restoration provides early indication of restoration trajectories13
High densities of hatchery‐origin white sturgeon suppress somatic growth rates of an endangered wild population13
The potential for synthesized invasive plant biochar with hydroxyapatite to mitigate allelopathy of Solidagocanadensis12
Experimental water hyacinth invasion and destructive management increase human schistosome transmission potential12
Long‐term exclusion of invasive ungulates alters tree recruitment and functional traits but not total forest carbon12
Comparing the efficacy of control strategies for infectious disease outbreaks using field and simulation studies12
Independent effects of tree diversity on aboveground and soil carbon pools after six years of experimental afforestation12
Opportunities to reduce pollination deficits and address production shortfalls in an important insect‐pollinated crop12
Microbes in reconstructive restoration: Divergence in constructed and natural tree island soil fungi affects tree growth12
Human access constrains optimal foraging and habitat availability in an avian generalist12
Ten‐year trends reveal declining quality of seeded pollinator habitat on reclaimed mines regardless of seed mix diversity12
Eastern Canadian boreal forest soil and foliar chemistry show evidence of resilience to long‐term nitrogen addition12
Active restoration increases tree species richness and recruitment of large‐seeded taxa after 16–18 years12
Disentangling the role of environmental filtering and biotic resistance on alien invasions in a reservoir area12
Smaller and bolder fish enhance ecosystem‐scale primary production around artificial reefs in seagrass beds12
Regard and protect ground‐nesting pollinators as part of soil biodiversity12
Improving coral cover using an integrated pest management framework12
Changes in reproduction mediate the effects of climate change and grassland management on plant population dynamics12
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Optimal surveillance against bioinvasions: a sample average approximation method applied to an agent‐based spread model12
Arthropod dark taxa provide new insights into diversity responses to bark beetle infestations12
Forest phenoclusters for Argentina based on vegetation phenology and climate12
Replacing native grazers with livestock influences arthropods to have implications for ecosystem functions and disease12
Predator niche overlap predicts effects on aphid vectors and a vector‐borne virus12
Pathways for accidental biocontrol: The human‐mediated dispersal of insect predators and parasitoids12
A new tool to quantify biodiversity change under landscape transformation12
Successful recovery of native plants post‐invasive removal in forest understories is driven by native community features12
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