Basic and Applied Ecology

Article	Citations
Reprint of: Tree-tree interactions and crown complementarity: the role of functional diversity and branch traits for canopy packing	84
Non-crop habitats concurrently drive crop colonization by the millet head miner and regulation by natural enemies	77
Using spatially-explicit plant competition models to optimise crop productivity in intercropped systems	58
The importance of blue and green landscape connectivity for biodiversity in urban ponds	49
Artificial light at night increases the nighttime feeding of monarch butterfly caterpillars without affecting host plant quality	39
Proximity to wildflower strips did not boost crop pollination on small, diversified farms harboring diverse wild bees	37
Abundance and trait-matching both shape interaction frequencies between plants and birds in seed-dispersal networks	37
Tracking sucking herbivory with nitrogen isotope labelling: Lessons from an individual trait-based approach	37
Testing standard growth substrates for establishing native dry sandy grassland species on extensive green roofs in Northern Germany	36
Short-term fate of nitrogen fixed by moss-cyanobacteria associations under different rainfall regimes	35
Nematode dynamics in an African dolomite cave: What is the role of environmental filtering in spatial and temporal distribution?	34
Facilitation by a dwarf shrub enhances plant diversity of human-valued species at high elevations in the Himalayas of Nepal	31
Social predation by ants as a mortality source for an arboreal gregarious forest pest	30
Environmental associations of abundance-weighted functional traits in Australian plant communities	30
Short-term response of ground-dwelling arthropods to storm-related disturbances is mediated by topography and dispersal	30
Moving north under the eye of the public: The dispersal ecology of the Nosferatu spider, documented by citizen scientists	26
Editorial Board	26
Semi-natural habitats are key to breeding bird diversity in intensified vineyard landscapes across Europe	26
Testimonials to reconstruct past abundances of wildlife populations	25
An observational assessment of winter human-nature interaction in urban parks	25
Non-additive effects of multiple predators alter the biological control of the coffee leaf miner (Leucoptera coffeella)	25
Are alien plant species superior to natives, and is this determined by performance measure and study design? A meta-analysis	24
Australian green roofs attract bees with similar functional traits, but species-specific responses to local attributes differ significantly	24
Biodiversity in urban blue space – increasing knowledge and species richness	24
Temporal changes of biodiversity in urban running waters – Results of a twelve-year monitoring study	24

Yellowstone Wolves: Science and Discovery in the Worlds First National Park. Edited by Douglas W. Smith, Daniel R. Stahler and Daniel R. MacNulty. 339 pages, London: University of Chicago Press [2020]	24
Improving wild bee monitoring, sampling methods, and conservation	23
Floristic composition and plant functional type diversity of the basalt cliffs of Western Ghats, India	23
Effects of perennial wildflower strips and landscape structure on birds in intensively farmed agricultural landscapes	23
Does weed suppression by high crop density depend on crop spatial pattern and soil water availability?	23
Comparing the performance of two camera trap-based methods to survey small mustelids	22
Editorial Board	21
Where do hamsters go after cereal harvest? A case study.	21
Changes in weed vegetation across transects in maize fields	21
Distance- and density-dependent recruitment of common ragwort is not driven by plant-soil feedbacks	20
Book Review	20
Editorial Board	19
Exploring relationships between time of day and pollinator activity in the context of pesticide use	19
Invasive common milkweed strongly simplifies insect flower-visiting networks	19
Editorial Board	19
Towards sustainable agricultural landscapes: Lessons from an interdisciplinary research-based framework applied to the Saint Lawrence floodplain	19
Foraging risk in scavenging ecology: A study of scavenger behavior and patterns of bacterial growth	19
Plant functional composition as an effective surrogate for biodiversity conservation	19
Simply the green: Urban refuges	19
Corrigendum to “Drought response and urban-pollinator attractiveness of ornamental plant species” [Basic and Applied Ecology Volume 78, August 2024, Pages 1–13]	18
Geographic variation in the population trends of common breeding birds across central Europe	18
Bottom-up and top-down drivers of herbivory on Arabica coffee along an environmental and management gradient	18
Extensive vegetation management and semi-natural habitats increase plant alpha and gamma diversity in European vineyards	18
Seedling recruitment of small-seeded and large-seeded species in forests and pastures in southern Ecuador	17
Soundscape for urban ecological security evaluation	17
Recent technological developments allow for passive acoustic monitoring of Orthoptera (grasshoppers and crickets) in research and conservation across a broad range of temporal and spatial scales	17
Decreasing nitrogen deposition rates: Good news for oligotrophic grassland species?	17
A review of global trends in the study types used to investigate bee nesting biology	17
The role of non-volatile chemicals of floral rewards in plant-pollinator interactions	16
Plant species diversity affects plant nutrient pools by affecting plant biomass and nutrient concentrations in high-nitrogen ecosystems	16
Contrasting effects of street light shapes and LED color temperatures on nocturnal insects and bats	16
Impacts of coastal realignment on biodiversity. A systematic review and meta-analysis	16
How cushion plant communities structure nival soil biodiversity: A metabarcoding study in the French Alps	16
Urbanisation reduced body size but potentially improved flight performance in bees and wasps	16
Towards an effective in-situ biodiversity assessment in European forests	15
WITHDRAWN: Sown wildflower areas for biodiversity conservation and multifunctional agricultural landscapes	15
Viticulture abandonment benefits the bird community of the French Mediterranean	15
Sown wildflower areas for biodiversity conservation and multifunctional agricultural landscapes	15
Dynamic trait-niche relationships shape niche partitioning across habitat transformation gradients	15
Cliffs support lichen communities unique from nearby forests	15
A meta-analysis of biocontrol potential and herbivore pressure in olive crops: Does integrated pest management make a difference?	15
Distribution, behavior and diet of the Asiatic black bear in human modified landscapes	14
Plant diversity on islands in the Anthropocene: Integrating the effects of the theory of island biogeography and human activities	14
Does crop genetic diversity support positive biodiversity effects under experimental drought?	14
Larger cities host richer bee faunas, but are no refuge for species with concerning conservation status: Empirical evidence from Western Europe	14
Temporal resource partitioning mediates vertebrate coexistence at carcasses: The role of competitive and facilitative interactions	14
Bees and pollination in grassland habitats in Helsinki (Finland) are diverse but dominated by polylectic species	14
Taxonomic and functional characteristics of field edge weed communities along a gradient of crop management intensity	14
Can novel seed mixes provide a more diverse, abundant, earlier, and longer-lasting floral resource for bees than current mixes?	14
Challenges and opportunities when studying movement ecology in science and practical conservation	13

Asynchrony between solitary bee emergence and flower availability reduces flower visitation rate and may affect offspring size	13
Editorial Board	13
Quantifying the mutualism-antagonism continuum for seed removal by a granivorous disperser	13
Bumblebee workers avoid foraging in road verges along busy roads	13
BOOK REVIEW	13
Irrigation decreases flower cover and beneficial arthropod abundances in Mediterranean vineyards	13
Crop gains induced by diversification exceed crop losses to diseases and weeds in a low-input rice cultivation system	13
What plant–pollinator network structure tells us about the mechanisms underlying the bidirectional biodiversity productivity relationship?	12
A global assessment of the species composition and effectiveness of watermelon pollinators and the management strategies to inform effective pollination service delivery	12
Proglacial slopes are protected against erosion by trait diverse and dense plant communities associated with specific microbial communities	12
Positive association between foliar silicon and extrafloral nectar in Vicia faba with application of methyl jasmonate	12
BOOK REVIEW	12
Reprint of: Drivers of within-tree leaf trait variation in a tropical planted forest varying in tree species richness	12
Warming enhances the effects of nitrogen addition on fungal but not on bacterial diversity in an alpine meadow	11
Recovery of local dragonfly diversity following restoration of an artificial lake in an urban area near Buenos Aires	11
The significance of tree-tree interactions for forest ecosystem functioning	11
Predator and pollinator? An invasive hornet alters the pollination dynamics of a native plant	11
Olive grove intensification negatively affects wintering bird communities in central Spain	11
Climate and human influence shape the interactive role of the honeybee in pollination networks beyond its native distributional range	11
Time since establishment drives bee and hoverfly diversity, abundance of crop-pollinating bees and aphidophagous hoverflies in perennial wildflower strips	11
Climate and soil factors drive the functional and phylogenetic assembly of Qinghai-Tibetan grassland communities via multiple paths	11
Pollinator supplementation mitigates pollination deficits in smallholder avocado (Persea americana Mill.) production systems in Kenya	11
Unpacking the fitness consequences of a warmer spring on an overwintering butterfly	11
Carnivores cross irrigation canals more often through overpasses than through culverts	11
Hand pollination of global crops – A systematic review	11
Ant taxonomic and functional beta-diversity respond differently to changes in forest cover and spatial distance	11
Editorial Board	10
Drought response and urban-pollinator attractiveness of ornamental plant species	10
Smelling danger: Lady beetle odors affect aphid population abundance and feeding, but not movement between plants	10
Editorial Board	10
Habitat heterogeneity promotes bird diversity in agricultural landscapes: Insights from remote sensing data	10
BOOK REVIEW	10
Functional traits mediate ant community assembly in a West African savannah-forest mosaic (Côte d'Ivoire)	10
Making the best of a hard job: A response to Nakashima (2022)	10
The multiple-mechanisms hypothesis of biodiversity–stability relationships	10
Effects of phylogenetic associations on environmental and temporal niche partitioning among sympatric mammals	10
Nectar microbes may indirectly change fruit consumption by seed-dispersing birds	9
Pollen load, pollen species diversity and conspecific pollen carried by pollinators across 24-hour cycles	9
Hoverfly assemblages in urban farms compared to urban parks in the city of Geneva	9
The extended role of carrion: Insect consumption and hair taking at fox carcasses	9
Cucurbit plant defenses against aboveground or belowground insect herbivores are distinct and shaped by eco-evolutionary factors	9
Scale-dependent effectiveness of on-field vs. off-field agri-environmental measures for wild bees	9
Environmental complexity and predator density mediate a stable earwig-woolly apple aphid interaction	9
Survival patterns and population stability of cliff plants suggest high resistance to climatic variability	9
Within-bloom shift in abundance of a wild pollinator mediates pollen deposition rates to blueberry	9
The effects of climate change on boreal plant-pollinator interactions are largely neglected by science	9
Radar remote sensing as a novel tool to assess the performance of an agri-environment scheme in coastal grasslands	9
Bumblebee pollination ensures the stability of both yield and quality of the woody oil crop Paeonia ostii ‘Fengdan’	9
Effects of land-use and climate change on grasshopper assemblages differ between protected and unprotected grasslands	9
Threats and benefits of invasive alien plant species on pollinators	9
Unravelling the multi-scale structure of vertebrate scavenger communities: The role of beta-diversity in livestock carcass consumption	9
Evaluating the potential of agri-environmental measures (AEM) in mitigating biodiversity loss due to land consolidation in China: Understanding the function of linear habitats	9
Ungulate herbivory reduces abundance and fluctuations of herbivorous insects in a boreal old-growth forest	8
Shrub anti-herbivore defenses exhibit non-linear and varied responses to increased herbivore density	8
Seasonal variability of scavenger visitations is independent of carrion predictability	8
Species ecological strategy and soil phosphorus supply interactively affect plant biomass and phosphorus concentration	8
Prescribed fire has slight influence on Roosevelt elk population dynamics	8
Hydrological dynamics, wetland morphology and vegetation structure determine riparian arthropod communities in constructed wetlands	8
Response of honeybee colony size to flower strips in agricultural landscapes depends on areal proportion, spatial distribution and plant composition	8
Abiotic and biotic drivers of strawberry productivity across a rural-urban gradient	8
The activity of a subterranean small mammal alters Afroalpine vegetation patterns and is positively affected by livestock grazing	8
Providing evidence for the conservation of a rare forest butterfly: Results from a three-year capture-mark-recapture study	8
Global patterns and mechanisms shaping dimensionality diversity in sharks	8
Prevalence of major pests and diseases in wild and cultivated coffee in Ethiopia	8
Native flower strips increase visitation by non-bee insects to avocado flowers and promote yield	7
Distance decay effects predominantly shape spider but not carabid community composition in crop fields in north-western Europe	7
Evolutionary Agroecology: Individual fitness, population yield and resource availability in wheat	7
Hedgerow structural diversity is key to promoting biodiversity and ecosystem services: A systematic review of Central European studies	7
Ecological assessment of forest management approaches to develop resilient forests in the face of global change in Central Europe	7
Genomic patterns and the evolutionary origin of an invasive fungal pathogen (Hymenoscyphus fraxineus) in Europe	7
Effects of plant functional group removal on caterpillars (Gynaephora alpherakii) performance and plant production in an alpine meadow	7
Spatial configuration and landscape context of wildflower areas determine their benefits to pollinator α- and β-diversity	7
Exogenous application of plant defense hormones alters the effects of live soils on plant performance	7
Farmland bird decline is associated with a strong population limitation of open-habitat species	7
Resource availability and competition shape pollinator trophic specialization in longleaf pine savannas	7
Nature-based solutions to increase sustainability and resilience of vineyard-dominated landscapes	6
Editorial Board	6
Comparison of the pollination efficiency of Apis cerana with wild bees in oil-seed camellia fields	6
Impact of an extreme drought event on clonal reproduction and the acclimation capacity of the succulent plant Sempervivum tectorum L.	6
Pollinators & Pollination: Nature and Society, J. Ollerton. Pelagic Publishing, Exeter, UK (2021). 286 pp., €31 (Softcover), ISBN: 978-1-78427-228-9	6

From pattern to process: Towards mechanistic design principles for pest suppressive landscapes	6
Drivers of cultivated and wild plant pollination in urban agroecosystems	6
Editorial Board	6
Glyphosate reduces the biodiversity of soil macrofauna and benefits exotic over native species in a tropical agroecosystem	6
Mycorrhizal fungi improve growth of Juniperus communis but only at sufficiently high soil element concentrations	6
An unfortunate alliance: Native shrubs increase the abundance, performance, and apparent impacts of Bromus tectorum across a regional aridity gradient	6
The risk of invasion by angiosperms peaks at intermediate levels of human influence	6
Nutrient status not secondary metabolites drives herbivory and pathogen infestation across differently mycorrhized tree monocultures and mixtures	6
BOOK REVIEW	6
A green design of city squares increases abundance and diversity of birds	6
High soil moisture promotes the emergence of ground beetles and spiders from soils in wheat fields	6
Enhanced invertebrate activity-densities and weed seed predation in an integrated cropping system	6
Experimental manipulation of biotic and abiotic parameters changes the outcome of insect-plant interactions	5
WITHDRAWN: Sown wildflower areas for biodiversity conservation and multifunctional agricultural landscapes	5
Agricultural intensification affects birds' trait diversity across Europe	5
Species and functional responses of ants to inter-row tillage and vegetation in organic Mediterranean vineyards	5
A spotlight on the phytobiome: Plant-mediated interactions in an illuminated world	5
Humid grassland fallows promote spider diversity in a traditionally managed landscape	5
Niche differentiation of arthropods and plants along small-scale gradients in temporary wetlands (kettle holes)	5
Grassland plant and invertebrate species richness increases from mowing are mediated by impacts on soil chemistry	5
The impact of maize-bean intercropping on insect biodiversity	5
More intraguild prey than pest species in arachnid diets may compromise biological control in apple orchards	5
Reconciling conservation and development in protected areas of the Global South	5
Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves. Edited by Samuel Myers and Howard Frumkin. Island Press, Washington DC (2020). 536 pages. ISBN: 978-1610919661; 37,35 €	5
Spatio-temporal modelling of the effect of environmental and land-use factors on species-rich calcareous grasslands	5
Game Theory in Biology: Concepts and Frontiers, J. M. McNamara, O. Leimar, Oxford University Press (2020). 352pp., £70.00 (Hardback), £34.99 (Paperback), ISBN: 9780198815778 (Hardback), 9780198815785	5
Positive effects of ants on host trees are critical in years of low reproduction and not influenced by liana presence	5
The influence of habitat properties on sex determination in cavity-nesting Hymenoptera	5
Floral resource distribution and fitness consequences for two solitary bee species in agricultural landscapes	5
Editorial Board	5
No changes in soil organic carbon and nitrogen following long-term prescribed burning and livestock exclusion in the Sudan-savanna woodlands of Burkina Faso	5
A call to action for inventorying and monitoring of cliff ecosystems to support conservation	5
Vegetation-based ecosystem service delivery in urban landscapes: A systematic review	4
Cross-disciplinary approaches for better research: The case of birds and bats	4
Agricultural drivers of field margin plant communities are scale-dependent	4
River dike grasslands can reconcile biodiversity and different ecosystem services to provide multifunctionality	4
New fungal core microbiome members of the ground nesting bee Andrena vaga: The key to oligolecty?	4
Island biogeography theory predicts plant species richness of remnant grassland patches in the agro-pastoral ecotone of northern China	4
Species-genetic diversity correlation in a metacommunity of urban pond invertebrates	4
Attractiveness of sown wildflower strips to flower-visiting insects depends on seed mixture and establishment success	4
Reprint of: Tree diversity promotes predatory wasps and parasitoids but not pollinator bees in a subtropical experimental forest	4
Comparing scavenging in marine and terrestrial ecosystems: a case study with fish and gull carcasses in a small Mediterranean island	4
Editorial Board	4
Cliff nesting birds provide nutrient inputs to cliff ecosystems	4
Limited honeybee hive placement balances the trade-off between biodiversity conservation and crop yield of buckwheat cultivation	4
Disentangling food-web environment relationships: A review with guidelines	4
Book Review	4
The global conservation status of plants growing on cliffs and rocky outcrops	4
Radial growth response of trees to seasonal soil humidity in a subtropical forest	4
The importance of shrubland and local agroecological practices for pumpkin production in sub-Saharan smallholdings	4
Artificial light at night reduces larval survival and constrains female body mass in a capital breeding moth	4