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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
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Evidence to inform spatiotemporal management of a western Pacific Ocean tuna purse seine fishery64
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Functional diversity of ground beetles improved aphid control but did not increase crop yields on European farms57
The effect of mechanical canopy reduction on big sagebrush plant communities53
Food‐web dynamics of a floodplain mosaic overshadow the effects of engineered logjams for Pacific salmon and steelhead53
Combining co‐introduction with patch‐size optimization as a novel strategy to maximize seagrass restoration49
Novel associations among insect herbivores and trees: Patterns of occurrence and damage on pines and eucalypts48
Multidecadal vegetation transformations of a New Mexico ponderosa pine landscape after severe fires and aerial seeding48
Joint species distribution modeling reveals a changing prey landscape for North Pacific right whales on the Bering shelf45
Landscape composition drives winter bird assemblages in agriculture–savanna mosaics of western India41
Mega‐disturbances cause rapid decline of mature conifer forest habitat in California40
Invasive blackberry outcompetes the endemic Galapagos tree daisy Scalesiapedunculata40
Alien insect dispersal mediated by the global movement of commodities40
Support for an area–heterogeneity tradeoff for biodiversity in croplands37
The national Fire and Fire Surrogates study at twenty years36
Mowing increased community stability in semiarid grasslands more than either fencing or grazing36
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Diverging restoration pathways for overstory and understory communities in a Mediterranean‐climate riparian ecosystem35
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Biotic resistance across a nutrient gradient in experimental wetland mesocosms33
Parasites indicate trophic complexity and faunal succession in restored oyster reefs over a 22‐year period32
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Predicting vulnerability of forest patches to invasion by non‐native plants for landscape scale management31
Using social‐ecological models to explore stream connectivity outcomes for stakeholders and Yellowstone cutthroat trout31
Conserving ecosystem integrity: Ecological theory as a guide for marine protected area monitoring30
Biodiversity effects on seedling growth are modified by light environment across functional groups30
Ecological success of no‐take marine protected areas: Using population dynamics theory to inform a global meta‐analysis30
Aspen impedes wildfire spread in southwestern United States landscapes29
Variation in flower morphology associated with higher bee diversity in urban green spaces29
Lakeshore residential development as a driver of aquatic habitat and littoral fish communities: A cross‐system study29
Tree diversity across the Minneapolis‐St. Paul Metropolitan Area in relation to climate and social vulnerability29
Predation thresholds for reintroduction of native avifauna following suppression of invasive Brown Treesnakes on Guam29
Historical ecology identifies long‐term rewilding strategy for conservingMediterranean mountain forests in southItaly29
Making outdoor field experiences more inclusive for the LGBTQ+ community29
Urban runoff and stream channel incision interact to influence riparian soils and understory vegetation28
Vegetation complexity and nesting resource availability predict bee diversity and functional traits in community gardens28
Indigenous‐led conservation: Pathways to recovery for the nearly extirpatedKlinse‐Zamountain caribou27
Flowering time advances since the 1970s in a sagebrush steppe community: Implications for management and restoration27
Counting the Capital's cats: Estimating drivers of abundance of free‐roaming cats with a novel hierarchical model27
Terrestrial land use signals on groundwater fauna beyond current protection buffers26
Divergent responses of native predators to severe wildfire and biological invasion are mediated by life history26
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Advanced leaf emergence partially mitigated the negative effect of plant size on biomass under warming26
Forest restoration treatments increased growth and did not change survival of ponderosa pines in severe drought, Arizona26
Global dynamics of functional composition in CITES‐traded reptiles26
Noise, light pollution, and human presence predict forest habitat degradation: A key agent in biodiversity decline26
Tipping the balance: The role of seed density, abiotic filters, and priority effects in seed‐based wetland restoration25
Differential impacts of grazing on grassland plant diversity, biomass, soil C, and soil N across an elevation gradient25
Perspectives of invasive alien species management in China25
Urban soil quality deteriorates even with low heavy metal levels: An arthropod‐based multi‐indices approach25
Soil animal communities demonstrate simplification without homogenization along an urban gradient25
When a pest is not a pest: Birds indirectly increase defoliation but have no effect on yield of soybean crops25
Quantifying vulnerability to plant invasion across global ecosystems25
Assessing drivers of localized invasive spread to inform large‐scale management of a highly damaging insect pest24
Paleoecology provides context for conserving culturally and ecologically important pine forest and barrens communities24
Crowding, climate, and the case for social distancing among trees24
Seasonal asynchrony and harvest diversification contribute to demersal finfish fisheries stability in Chesapeake Bay24
Invasive predators affect community‐wide pollinator visitation24
Floodplain inundation and lateral connectivity promote productivity in a managed river ecosystem24
Linking aquatic vegetation structure with ecosystem metabolism throughout the Klamath River, California, USA24
Hydrophone placement yields high variability in detection of Epinephelus striatus calls at a spawning site24
Addressing pollination deficits in orchard crops through habitat management for wild pollinators24
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Evaluating environmental drivers and synchrony of Arctic shorebird demographic rates to inform conservation management23
Stasis in forest regeneration following deer exclusion and understory gap creation: A 10‐year experiment23
Developing fine‐grained nationwide predictions of valuable forests using biodiversity indicator bird species23
Migratory connectivity of North American waterfowl across administrative flyways22
Automatic selection of the number of clusters using Bayesian clustering and sparsity‐inducing priors22
Demographic effects of sanitary policies on European vulture population dynamics: A retrospective modeling approach22
Accounting for animal movement improves vaccination strategies against wildlife disease in heterogeneous landscapes22
Does experimental seaweed cultivation affect benthic communities and shorebirds? Applications for extensive aquaculture22
Nitrogen cycling and urban afforestation success inNew York City22
Introducing desirable patches to initiate ecosystem transitions and accelerate ecosystem restoration22
Long‐term livestock exclusion increases plant richness and reproductive capacity in arid woodlands21
Integration of aerial surveys and resource selection analysis indicates human land use supports boreal deer expansion21
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Estimating the population size of a mountain galliform in the context of multi‐stakeholder adaptive management21
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Linking remote sensing data to the estimation of pollination services in agroecosystems20
Low‐ and moderate‐severity fire offers key insights for landscape restoration in ponderosa pine forests20
Long‐term macrophyte and snail community responses to population declines of invasive rusty crayfish (Faxonius rusticus)20
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Recommendations to enhance breeding bird diversity in managed plantation forests determined using LiDAR20
Nitrification and denitrification in the Community Land Model compared with observations at Hubbard Brook Forest20
Increased lead and glucocorticoid concentrations reduce reproductive success in house sparrows along an urban gradient19
Reactive persistence, spatial management, and conservation of metapopulations: An application to seagrass restoration19
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Relative effects of sample size, detection probability, and study duration on estimation in integrated population models19
Indigenous knowledge, forest landscape modeling, and the cumulative effects of environmental changes19
Opposite effects of nutrient enrichment and an invasive snail on the growth of invasive and native macrophytes19
Tidal channel meanders serve as stepping‐stones to facilitate cordgrass landward spread by creating invasion windows19
Avian species richness and tropical urbanization gradients: Effects of woodland retention and human disturbance18
The day after mowing: Time and type of mowing influence grassland arthropods18
Virus distributions in wild bees are associated with floral communities at local to landscape scales18
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Monitoring resistance and resilience using carbon trajectories: Analysis of forest management–disturbance interactions18
Fall and rise of a threatened raptor: Unraveling long‐term population dynamics with spatially explicit integrated models18
An efficient method of evaluating multiple concurrent management actions on invasive populations18
Landscape heterogeneity and pesticide reduction favor predation, but also grape infestation by Lobesia botrana18
Investigating the demography and dynamics of a low‐density tiger population in Southeast Asia: What limits recovery?18
Inferring population connectivity in eastern massasauga rattlesnakes (Sistruruscatenatus) using landscape genetics18
Landscape change and alien invasions drive shifts in native lady beetle communities over a century18
Designing a large‐scale track‐based monitoring program to detect changes in species distributions in arid Australia18
Orchards and paddy differentially impact rock outcrop amphibians: Insights from community‐ and species‐level responses18
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Threshold responses of birds to agricultural intensification in Mediterranean olive groves18
Towards a continent‐wide ecological site condition database using calibrated expert evaluations17
Root functional traits are important predictors for plant resource acquisition strategies in subtropical forests17
Sharing land via keystone structure: Retaining naturally regenerated trees may efficiently benefit birds in plantations17
Similar zooplankton responses to lowpHand calcium may impair long‐term recovery from acidification17
Differential recruitment drives pathogen‐mediated competition between species in an amphibian chytridiomycosis system17
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Centering Amah Mutsun voices in the analysis of a culturally important, fire‐managed coastal grassland17
Factors limiting the potential range expansion of lodgepole pine in Interior Alaska17
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Native generalist natural enemies and an introduced specialist parasitoid together control an invasive forest insect17
Landscape‐scale floral resource discontinuity decreases bumble bee occurrence and alters community composition17
Nucleation sites and forest recovery under high shrub competition17
Testing a generalized leaf mass estimation method for diverse tree species and climates of the continental United States16
Logging response alters trajectories of reorganization after loss of a foundation tree species16
A comprehensive experimental assessment of glyphosate ecological impacts in riparian forest restoration16
Objective risk assessment of bark and ambrosia beetles non‐indigenous to North America16
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Linking changes in landscape structure to insect herbivory in forest edges and interiors of Atlantic Forest remnants16
Unveiling the effects of landscape–fire interactions on functional diversity in a Southern European mountain16
Identifying managerial legacies within conservation corridors using remote sensing and grasshoppers as bioindicators16
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Transgenerational plasticity in morphological characteristics and biomass of the invasive plant Xanthium strumarium16
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Archetype models upscale understanding of natural pest control response to land‐use change16
Modeling cheatgrass distribution, abundance, and response to climate change as a function of soil microclimate16
Habitat fragmentation reduces survival and drives source–sink dynamics for a large carnivore16
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Positive feedback between wind‐eroded patch size, plant recruitment failure, and desertification in semiarid sandlands16
Effects of free‐ranging livestock on occurrence and interspecific interactions of a mammalian community16
Disease and weather induce rapid shifts in a rangeland ecosystem mediated by a keystone species (Cynomys ludovicianus)15
Restoration maintains high soil carbon stocks in Asia's largest tropical grassland15
Are we telling the same story? Comparing inferences made from camera trap and telemetry data for wildlife monitoring15
Introduction of non‐native Douglas fir reduces leaf damage on beech saplings and mature trees in European beech forests15
Early detection of a tree pathogen using airborne remote sensing15
The economic tradeoffs and ecological impacts associated with a potential mesopelagic fishery in the California Current15
Forest restoration treatments indirectly diversify pollination networks via floral‐ and temperature‐mediated effects15
Recruitment variability and sampling design interact to influence the detectability of protected area effects15
Simulations of historical impacts of climate change and atmospheric chemistry on a northeastern U.S. forest ecosystem15
A global review of socioeconomic and environmental impacts of ants reveals new insights for risk assessment15
Vegetation zones as indicators of denitrification potential in salt marshes15
Impacts of forest fragmentation on interactions between plants and their insect herbivores and fungal pathogens15
Functional diversity regulates the effects of habitat degradation on biocrust phylogenetic and taxonomic diversities15
Cyanobacterial mats as benthic reservoirs and vectors for coral black band disease pathogens15
Finding rare species and estimating the probability that all occupied sites have been found15
Non‐native prey availability and over‐compensatory density dependence drive population dynamics of a native fish predator15
High densities of hatchery‐origin white sturgeon suppress somatic growth rates of an endangered wild population15
Model responses to CO2 and warming are underestimated without explicit representation of Arctic small‐mammal grazing15
Long‐term frequent fire and cattle grazing alter dry forest understory vegetation15
Food webs can deliver win–win strategies for tropical agroforestry and biodiversity conservation15
An approach to defining and achieving restoration targets for a threatened plant community15
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
The impact of plant‐derived fire management prescriptions on fire‐responsive bird species14
Blending Indigenous and western science: Quantifying cultural burning impacts in Karuk Aboriginal Territory14
Increasing taxonomic diversity and spatial resolution clarifies opportunities for protecting US imperiled species14
A metric‐based framework for climate‐smart conservation planning14
Wildflower plantings enhance nesting opportunities for soil‐nesting bees13
Landscape‐wide pulse events predict trait‐based responses among wetland birds in perennial channels of a dryland wetland13
Experimental water hyacinth invasion and destructive management increase human schistosome transmission potential13
Short‐ and long‐term wildfire threat when adapting infrastructure for wildlife conservation in the boreal forest13
Long‐term exclusion of invasive ungulates alters tree recruitment and functional traits but not total forest carbon13
Community‐ecosystem interactions control plant biodiversity change before and after mangrove restoration13
A newly invasive species may promote dissimilarity of pest populations between organic and conventional farming systems13
Multi‐Factor Coral Disease Risk: A new product for early warning and management13
Eastern Canadian boreal forest soil and foliar chemistry show evidence of resilience to long‐term nitrogen addition13
White‐tailed deer population dynamics in a multipredator landscape shaped by humans13
Bee diversity decreases rapidly with time since harvest in intensively managed conifer forests13
Disentangling the role of environmental filtering and biotic resistance on alien invasions in a reservoir area13
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Forest phenoclusters for Argentina based on vegetation phenology and climate13
Active restoration increases tree species richness and recruitment of large‐seeded taxa after 16–18 years13
Range‐wide sources of variation in reproductive rates of northern spotted owls13
The impact of urbanization on genetic connectivity of 10 mammal species in New Jersey13
Invasion timing affects multiple scales, metrics, and facets of biodiversity outcomes in ecological restoration experiments13
Comparing the efficacy of control strategies for infectious disease outbreaks using field and simulation studies12
Pathways for accidental biocontrol: The human‐mediated dispersal of insect predators and parasitoids12
Higher spatial than seasonal variation of microbial communities in long‐term reclaimed water headwater urban stream12
Influence of vessel disturbance on Pacific harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena vomerina) echolocation12
Changes in reproduction mediate the effects of climate change and grassland management on plant population dynamics12
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Quantifying the impact of habitat modifications on species behavior and mortality: A case study of tropical tuna12
Human access constrains optimal foraging and habitat availability in an avian generalist12
Application of modern coexistence theory to rare plant restoration provides early indication of restoration trajectories12
Large, prolonged flooding and pool persistence promote floodplain fish diversity in a threatened river12
Arthropod dark taxa provide new insights into diversity responses to bark beetle infestations12
A new tool to quantify biodiversity change under landscape transformation12
Regard and protect ground‐nesting pollinators as part of soil biodiversity12
Modeling net ecosystem carbon balance and loss in coastal wetlands exposed to sea‐level rise and saltwater intrusion12
Fire‐driven vegetation type conversion in Southern California12
The potential for synthesized invasive plant biochar with hydroxyapatite to mitigate allelopathy of Solidagocanadensis12
Microbes in reconstructive restoration: Divergence in constructed and natural tree island soil fungi affects tree growth12
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Successful recovery of native plants post‐invasive removal in forest understories is driven by native community features12
Smaller and bolder fish enhance ecosystem‐scale primary production around artificial reefs in seagrass beds12
Predator niche overlap predicts effects on aphid vectors and a vector‐borne virus12
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Replacing native grazers with livestock influences arthropods to have implications for ecosystem functions and disease12
Independent effects of tree diversity on aboveground and soil carbon pools after six years of experimental afforestation12
Improving coral cover using an integrated pest management framework12
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